{
"books": [
{
"name": "Genesis",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:1",
"text": " In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:2",
"text": "Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:3",
"text": "And God said, \u201cLet there be light!\u201d And there was light. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:4",
"text": "And God saw the light, that it was good, and God caused there to be a separation between the light and between the darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:5",
"text": "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:6",
"text": " And God said, \u201cLet there be a vaulted dome in the midst of the waters, and \u231elet it cause a separation between the waters\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:7",
"text": "So God made the vaulted dome, and he caused a separation between the waters which were under the vaulted dome and between the waters which were over the vaulted dome. And it was so. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:8",
"text": "And God called the vaulted dome \u201cheaven.\u201d And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:9",
"text": " And God said, \u201cLet the waters under heaven be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear.\u201d And it was so. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:10",
"text": "And God called the dry ground \u201cearth,\u201d and he called the collection of the waters \u201cseas.\u201d And God saw that it was good. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:11",
"text": "And God said, \u201cLet the earth produce green plants that will bear seed\u2014fruit trees bearing fruit \u231ein which there is seed\u231f\u2014according to its kind, on the earth.\u201d And it was so. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:12",
"text": "And the earth brought forth green plants bearing seed according to its kind, and trees bearing fruit \u231ein which there was seed\u231f according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:13",
"text": "And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:14",
"text": " And God said, \u201cLet there be lights in the vaulted dome of heaven \u231eto separate day from night\u231f, and let them be as signs and for appointed times, and for days and years, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:15",
"text": "and they shall be as lights in the vaulted dome of heaven to give light on the earth.\u201d And it was so. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:16",
"text": "And God made two lights, the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:17",
"text": "And God placed them in the vaulted dome of heaven to give light on the earth "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:18",
"text": "and to rule over the day and over the night, and to \u231eseparate light from darkness\u231f. And God saw that it was good. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:19",
"text": "And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:20",
"text": " And God said, \u201cLet the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth across the face of the vaulted dome of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:21",
"text": "So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kind, and every bird with wings according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:22",
"text": "And God blessed them, saying, \u201cBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:23",
"text": "And there was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:24",
"text": " And God said, \u201cLet the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind: cattle and moving things, and wild animals according to their kind.\u201d And it was so. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:25",
"text": "So God made wild animals according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:26",
"text": " And God said, \u201cLet us make humankind in our image and according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:27",
"text": "So God created humankind in his image, in the likeness of God he created him, male and female he created them. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:28",
"text": "And God blessed them, and God said to them, \u201cBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven, and over every animal that moves upon the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:29",
"text": " And God said, \u201cLook\u2014I am giving to you every plant that bears seed which is on the face of the whole earth, and every kind of tree \u231ethat bears fruit\u231f. They shall be yours as food.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:30",
"text": "And to every kind of animal of the earth and to every bird of heaven, and to everything that moves upon the earth in which there is life I am giving every green plant as food.\u201d And it was so. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Genesis 1:31",
"text": "And God saw everything that he had made and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:1",
"text": "And heaven and earth and all their array were finished. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:2",
"text": "And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:3",
"text": "And God blessed the seventh day, and he sanctified it, because on it he rested from all his work \u231eof creating that there was to do\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:4",
"text": " These are the generations of heaven and earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:5",
"text": "\u231ebefore any plant of the field was\u231f on earth, and before \u231eany plant of the field\u231f had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:6",
"text": "but a stream would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:7",
"text": "when Yahweh God formed the man of dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:8",
"text": " And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:9",
"text": "And Yahweh God caused to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, \u231ealong with\u231f the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:10",
"text": " Now a river flowed out from Eden that watered the garden, and from there it diverged and became four branches. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:11",
"text": "The name of the first is the Pishon. It went around all the land of Havilah, where there is gold. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:12",
"text": "(The gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stones are there.) "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:13",
"text": "And the name of the second is Gihon. It went around all the land of Cush. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:14",
"text": "And the name of the third is Tigris. It flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:15",
"text": " And Yahweh God took the man and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:16",
"text": "And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, \u201cFrom every tree of the garden \u231eyou may freely eat\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:17",
"text": "but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day \u231ethat you eat\u231f from it \u231eyou shall surely die\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:18",
"text": " Then Yahweh God said, \u201cit is not good that the man is alone. I will make for him a helper \u231eas his counterpart\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:19",
"text": "And out of the ground Yahweh God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and he brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called that living creature was its name. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:20",
"text": "And the man \u231egave names\u231f to every domesticated animal and to the birds of heaven and to all the wild animals. But for the man there was not found a helper \u231eas his counterpart\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:21",
"text": "And Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man. While he slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up \u231ethe flesh where it had been\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:22",
"text": "And Yahweh God fashioned the rib which he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:23",
"text": "And the man said, \u201c\u231eShe is now\u231f bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; \u231eshe\u231f shall be called \u2018Woman,\u2019 for \u231eshe was taken\u231f from man.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:24",
"text": " Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Genesis 2:25",
"text": "And the man and his wife, both of them, were naked, and they were not ashamed. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:1",
"text": " Now the serpent was more crafty than any other \u231ewild animal\u231f which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, \u201cDid God indeed say, \u2018You shall not eat from any tree in the garden\u2019?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:2",
"text": "The woman said to the serpent, \u201cFrom the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:3",
"text": "but from the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, \u2018You shall not eat from it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die\u2019.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:4",
"text": "But the serpent said to the woman, \u201cYou shall not surely die. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:5",
"text": "For God knows that on the day you both eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you both shall be like gods, knowing good and evil.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:6",
"text": "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:7",
"text": "Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed together fig leaves and they made for themselves coverings. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:8",
"text": " Then they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden \u231eat the windy time of day\u231f. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:9",
"text": "And Yahweh God called to the man and said to him, \u201cWhere are you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:10",
"text": "And he replied, \u201cI heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked, so I hid myself.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:11",
"text": "Then he asked, \u201cWho told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from \u231ethe tree from which I forbade you to eat\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:12",
"text": "And the man replied, \u201cThe woman whom you gave to be with me\u2014she gave to me from the tree and I ate.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:13",
"text": "Then Yahweh God said to the woman, \u201cWhat is this you have done?\u201d And the woman said, \u201cThe serpent deceived me, and I ate.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:14",
"text": "Then Yahweh God said to the serpent, \u201cBecause you have done this, you will be cursed more than any domesticated animal and more than any wild animal. On your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:15",
"text": " And I will put hostility between you and between the woman, and between your offspring and between her offspring; he will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:16",
"text": " To the woman he said, \u201cI will greatly increase \u231eyour pain in childbearing\u231f; in pain you shall bear children. And to your husband shall be your desire. And he shall rule over you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:17",
"text": " And to Adam he said, \u201cBecause you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree \u231efrom which I forbade you to eat\u231f, the ground shall be cursed on your account. In pain you shall eat from it all the days of your life. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:18",
"text": " And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:19",
"text": " By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:20",
"text": " And the man \u231enamed\u231f his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:21",
"text": "And Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:22",
"text": " And Yahweh God said, \u201cLook\u2014the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. \u231eWhat if\u231f he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:23",
"text": "And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Genesis 3:24",
"text": "So he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and \u231ea flaming, turning sword\u231f to guard the way to the tree of life. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:1",
"text": " Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, \u201cI have given birth to a man with the help of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:2",
"text": "\u231eThen she bore\u231f his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:3",
"text": "And \u231ein the course of time\u231f Cain brought an offering from the fruit of the ground to Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:4",
"text": "and Abel also brought an offering from \u231ethe choicest firstlings of his flock\u231f. And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:5",
"text": "but to Cain and to his offering he did not look with favor. And Cain became very angry, and his face fell. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:6",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Cain, \u201cWhy are you angry, and why is your face fallen? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:7",
"text": "If you do well \u231ewill I not accept you\u231f? But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:8",
"text": " Then Cain said to his brother Abel, \u201cLet us go out into the field.\u201d And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:9",
"text": "Then Yahweh said to Cain, \u201cWhere is Abel your brother?\u201d And he said, \u201cI do not know; am I my brother\u2019s keeper?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:10",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWhat have you done? The voice of your brother\u2019s blood is crying out to me from the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:11",
"text": "So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:12",
"text": "When you till the ground \u231eit shall no longer yield its strength to you\u231f. You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:13",
"text": "And Cain said to Yahweh, \u201cMy punishment is greater than I can bear. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:14",
"text": "Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your face I must hide. I will be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:15",
"text": "Then Yahweh said to him, \u201cTherefore, whoever kills Cain will be avenged sevenfold.\u201d Then Yahweh put a sign on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:16",
"text": "And Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh, and he settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:17",
"text": " And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. And when he built a city \u231ehe named the city after his son, Enoch\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:18",
"text": "And to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:19",
"text": "And Lamech took to himself two wives. The name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:20",
"text": "And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and those who have livestock. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:21",
"text": "And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and wind instruments. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:22",
"text": "Then Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain who forged all kinds of tools of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:23",
"text": " Then Lamech said to his wives, \u201cAdah and Zillah, listen to my voice; O wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for injuring me. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:24",
"text": " If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech will be avenged seventy and seven times. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:25",
"text": " Then Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for she said \u201cGod has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Genesis 4:26",
"text": "And as for Seth, he also fathered a son, and he called his name Enosh. At that time he began to call on the name of Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:1",
"text": " This is the record of the generations of Adam. When God created Adam, he made him in the likeness of God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:2",
"text": "Male and female he created them. And he blessed them. And he called their name \u201cHumankind\u201d when they were created. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:3",
"text": "And when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he fathered a child in his likeness, according to his image. And he called his name Seth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:4",
"text": "And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:5",
"text": "And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:6",
"text": " When Seth had lived one hundred and five years, he fathered Enosh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:7",
"text": "And after Seth had fathered Enosh he lived eight hundred and seven years, and fathered sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:8",
"text": "And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:9",
"text": " When Enosh lived ninety years, he fathered Kenan. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:10",
"text": "And after Enosh fathered Kenan he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and fathered sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:11",
"text": "And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:12",
"text": " When Kenan had lived seventy years, he fathered Mahalalel. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:13",
"text": "And after Kenan had fathered Mahalalel, he lived eight hundred and forty years, and fathered sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:14",
"text": "And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:15",
"text": " When Mahalalel had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Jared. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:16",
"text": "And after Mahalalel had fathered Jared, he lived eight hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:17",
"text": "And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:18",
"text": " When Jared had lived one hundred and sixty-two years, he fathered Enoch. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:19",
"text": "And after Jared had fathered Enoch, he lived eight hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:20",
"text": "And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:21",
"text": " When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Methuselah. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:22",
"text": "And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:23",
"text": "And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:24",
"text": "And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more, for God took him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:25",
"text": " When Methuselah had lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, he fathered Lamech. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:26",
"text": "And after Methuselah had fathered Lamech, he lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and fathered sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:27",
"text": "And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:28",
"text": " When Lamech had lived one hundred and eighty-two years, he fathered a son. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:29",
"text": "And he called his name Noah, saying, \u201cThis one \u231eshall relieve us\u231f from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:30",
"text": "And after Lamech had fathered Noah he lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and he fathered sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:31",
"text": "All the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Genesis 5:32",
"text": " When Noah \u231ewas five hundred years old\u231f, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:1",
"text": " And it happened that, when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground, daughters were born to them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:2",
"text": "Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they were beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:3",
"text": "And Yahweh said, \u201cMy Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:4",
"text": "The Nephilim were upon the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humankind, and they bore children to them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:5",
"text": " And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind was great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was always only evil. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:6",
"text": "And Yahweh regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and \u231ehe was grieved in his heart\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:7",
"text": "And Yahweh said, \u201cI will destroy humankind whom I created from upon the face of the earth, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven, for I regret that I have made them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:8",
"text": "But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:9",
"text": " These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:10",
"text": "And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:11",
"text": "And the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with violence. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:12",
"text": "And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:13",
"text": "And God said to Noah, \u201cThe end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth was filled with violence because of them. Now, look, I am going to destroy them along with the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:14",
"text": "Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood; you must make the ark with rooms, then you must cover it with pitch, inside and outside. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:15",
"text": "And this is how you must make it: the length of the ark, three hundred cubits; its width fifty cubits; its height, thirty cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:16",
"text": "You must make a roof for the ark, and \u231efinish it to a cubit above\u231f. And as for the door of the ark, you must put it in its side. You must make it with a lower, second, and a third deck. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:17",
"text": " And I, behold, I am about to bring the flood waters over the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:18",
"text": "And I will establish my covenant with you, and you must go into the ark\u2014you, and your sons, and your wife, and the wives of your sons with you. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:19",
"text": "And of every living thing, from all flesh, you must bring two from every kind into the ark to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:20",
"text": "From the birds according to their kind, and from the animals according to their kind, from every creeping thing on the ground according to its kind\u2014two from every kind shall come to you to keep them alive. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:21",
"text": "And as for you, take for yourself from every kind of food that is eaten. And you must gather it to yourself. And it shall be for you and for them for food.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Genesis 6:22",
"text": "And Noah did according to all that God commanded him; thus he did. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:1",
"text": "Then Yahweh said to Noah, \u201cGo\u2014you and all your household\u2014into the ark, for I have seen you are righteous before me in this generation. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:2",
"text": "From all the clean animals you must take for yourself \u231eseven pairs\u231f, a male and its mate. And from the animals that are not clean you must take two, a male and its mate, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:3",
"text": "as well as from the birds of heaven \u231eseven pairs\u231f, male and female, \u231eto keep their kind alive\u231f on the face of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:4",
"text": "For \u231ewithin seven days\u231f I will send rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:5",
"text": "And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:6",
"text": " Noah \u231ewas six hundred years old\u231f when the flood waters came upon the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:7",
"text": "And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:8",
"text": "Of clean animals, and of animals which are not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:9",
"text": "\u231etwo of each\u231f went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:10",
"text": "And it happened that after seven days the waters of the flood came over the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:11",
"text": "In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month\u2014on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:12",
"text": "And the rain came upon the earth forty days and forty nights. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:13",
"text": "On this same day, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:14",
"text": "they and all the living creatures according to their kind, and all the domesticated animals according to their kind, and all the creatures that creep upon the earth according to their kind, all the birds according to their kind, every winged creature. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:15",
"text": "And they came to Noah to the ark, \u231etwo of each\u231f, from every living thing in which was the breath of life. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:16",
"text": "And those that came, male and female, of every living thing, came as God had commanded him. And Yahweh shut the door behind him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:17",
"text": "And the flood came forty days and forty nights upon the earth. And the waters increased, and lifted the ark, and it rose up from the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:18",
"text": "And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth. And the ark went upon the surface of the waters. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:19",
"text": "And the waters prevailed \u231eoverwhelmingly\u231f upon the earth, and they covered all the high mountains which were under the entire heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:20",
"text": "\u231eThe waters swelled fifteen cubits above the mountains, covering them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:21",
"text": "And every living thing that moved on the earth perished\u2014the birds, and the domesticated animals, and the wild animals, and everything that swarmed on the earth, and all humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:22",
"text": "Everything in whose nostrils was \u231ethe breath of life\u231f, among all that was on dry land, died. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:23",
"text": "And he blotted out every living thing upon the surface of the ground, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Genesis 7:24",
"text": "And the waters prevailed over the earth one hundred and fifty days. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:1",
"text": " And God remembered Noah and all the wild animals, and all the domesticated animals that were with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:2",
"text": "And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was restrained. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:3",
"text": "And the waters receded from the earth \u231egradually\u231f, and the waters abated at the end of one hundred and fifty days. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:4",
"text": "And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:5",
"text": "And the waters \u231econtinued to recede\u231f to the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:6",
"text": "And it happened that at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:7",
"text": "And he sent out a raven; \u231eit went to and fro\u231f until the waters were dried up from upon the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:8",
"text": "And \u231ehe sent out a dove\u231f to see whether the waters had subsided from upon the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:9",
"text": "But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the earth. And he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:10",
"text": "And he waited another seven days, and \u231eagain he sent out\u231f the dove from the ark. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:11",
"text": "And the dove came to him \u231ein the evening\u231f, and behold, a freshly-picked olive tree leaf was in her mouth. And Noah knew that the waters had subsided from upon the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:12",
"text": "And he waited \u231eseven more days\u231f, and he sent out the dove. But it did not return again to him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:13",
"text": "And it happened that, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters dried up from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And behold, the face of the ground was dried up. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:14",
"text": "And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:15",
"text": "And God spoke to Noah, saying: "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:16",
"text": "\u201cGo out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and your sons\u2019 wives with you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:17",
"text": "Bring out with you all the living things which are with you, from all the living creatures\u2014birds, and animals, and everything that creeps on the earth, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:18",
"text": "So Noah went out, with his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:19",
"text": "Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, and everything that moves upon the earth, according to its families, went out from the ark. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:20",
"text": "And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:21",
"text": "And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said \u231eto himself\u231f, \u201c\u231eNever again will I curse\u231f the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from his youth. \u231eNor will I ever again destroy\u231f all life as I have done. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Genesis 8:22",
"text": "\u231eAs long as the earth endures\u231f, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:1",
"text": " And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, \u201cBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:2",
"text": "And fear of you and dread of you shall be upon every animal of the earth, and on every bird of heaven, and on everything that moves upon the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they shall be given. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:3",
"text": "Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As I gave the green plants to you, I have now given you everything. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:4",
"text": "Only you shall not eat \u231eraw flesh with blood in it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:5",
"text": "And \u231eyour lifeblood\u231f I will require; from \u231eevery animal\u231f I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of each man to his brother I will require the life of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:6",
"text": " \u201cAs for the one shedding the blood of humankind, by humankind his blood shall be shed, for God made humankind in his own image. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:7",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:8",
"text": "And God said to Noah and to his sons with him, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:9",
"text": "\u201cAs for me, behold, I am establishing my covenant with you and with your seed after you, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:10",
"text": "and with every living creature that is with you\u2014the birds, the animals, and every animal of the earth with you, from all that came out of the ark to all the animals of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:11",
"text": "I am establishing my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor will there ever be a flood that destroys the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:12",
"text": "And God said, \u201cThis is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you, and between every living creature that is with you for future generations. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:13",
"text": "My bow I have set in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and between the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:14",
"text": "And when I make clouds appear over the earth the bow shall be seen in the clouds. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:15",
"text": "Then I will remember my covenant that is between me and you, and between every living creature, with all flesh. And the waters of a flood will never again \u231ecause the destruction\u231f of all flesh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:16",
"text": "The bow shall be in the clouds, and I will see it, so as to remember the everlasting covenant between God and between every living creature, with all flesh that is upon the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:17",
"text": "And God said to Noah, \u201cThis is the sign of the covenant which I am establishing between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:18",
"text": " Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:19",
"text": "These three were the sons of Noah, and from these \u231ethe whole earth was populated\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:20",
"text": "And Noah began to be a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:21",
"text": "And he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he exposed himself in the midst of his tent. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:22",
"text": "And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:23",
"text": "Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, and the two of them put it on their shoulders and, walking backward, they covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned backward, so that they did not see the nakedness of their father. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:24",
"text": "Then Noah awoke from his drunkenness, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:25",
"text": "And he said, \u201cCursed be Canaan, a slave of slaves he shall be to his brothers.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:26",
"text": " Then he said, \u201cBlessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave to them. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:27",
"text": " May God make space for Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave for him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:28",
"text": " And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Genesis 9:29",
"text": "And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:1",
"text": " These are the generations of the sons of Noah\u2014Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Children were born to them after the flood. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:2",
"text": "The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:3",
"text": "And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:4",
"text": "And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:5",
"text": "From these the coastland peoples spread out through their lands, each according to his own language by their own families, in their nations. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:6",
"text": " And the sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:7",
"text": "And the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:8",
"text": "And Cush fathered Nimrod. \u231eHe was the first on earth to be a mighty warrior\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:9",
"text": "He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it was said, \u201cLike Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:10",
"text": "Now, the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:11",
"text": "From that land he went out to Assyria, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:12",
"text": "Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:13",
"text": "And Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:14",
"text": "Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:15",
"text": " Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:16",
"text": "and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:17",
"text": "the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:18",
"text": "the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:19",
"text": "And the territory of the Canaanites was from Sidon \u231ein the direction of\u231f Gerar as far as Gaza, and \u231ein the direction of\u231f Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:20",
"text": "These are the descendants of Ham, according to their families and their languages, in their lands, and in their nations. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:21",
"text": " And to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the older brother of Japheth, children were also born. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:22",
"text": "The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:23",
"text": "And the sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:24",
"text": "And Arphaxad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:25",
"text": "And to Eber two sons were born. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother was Joktan. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:26",
"text": "And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:27",
"text": "Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:28",
"text": "Obal, Abimael, Sheba, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:29",
"text": "Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:30",
"text": "And their dwelling place \u231eextended from\u231f Mesha \u231ein the direction of\u231f Sephar to the hill country of the east. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:31",
"text": "These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, and according to their nations. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Genesis 10:32",
"text": " These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations and in their nations. And from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:1",
"text": " Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:2",
"text": "And as people migrated from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:3",
"text": "And they said \u231eto each other\u231f, \u201cCome, let us make bricks and \u231eburn them thoroughly\u231f.\u201d And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:4",
"text": "And they said, \u201cCome, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches to the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:5",
"text": " Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that \u231ehumankind\u231f was building. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:6",
"text": "And Yahweh said, \u201cBehold, \u231ethey are one people with one language\u231f, and \u231ethis is only the beginning of what they will do\u231f. So now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:7",
"text": "Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand \u231eeach other\u2019s language\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:8",
"text": "So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:9",
"text": "Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:10",
"text": " These are the generations of Shem. When Shem \u231ewas one hundred years old\u231f, he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:11",
"text": "And Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arphaxad, and he fathered other sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:12",
"text": "When Arphaxad had lived thirty-five years, he fathered Shelah. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:13",
"text": "And Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Shelah, and he fathered other sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:14",
"text": "When Shelah had lived thirty years, he fathered Eber. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:15",
"text": "And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Eber, and he fathered other sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:16",
"text": "When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he fathered Peleg. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:17",
"text": "And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he fathered Peleg, and he fathered other sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:18",
"text": "When Peleg had lived thirty years, he fathered Reu. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:19",
"text": "And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he fathered Reu, and he fathered other sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:20",
"text": "When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he fathered Serug. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:21",
"text": "And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he fathered Serug, and he fathered other sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:22",
"text": "When Serug had lived thirty years, he fathered Nahor. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:23",
"text": "And Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor, and he fathered other sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:24",
"text": "When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he fathered Terah. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:25",
"text": "And Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he fathered Terah, and he fathered other sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:26",
"text": "When Terah had lived seventy years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:27",
"text": " Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:28",
"text": "And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:29",
"text": "And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of the wife of Abram was Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:30",
"text": "And Sarai was barren; she had no child. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:31",
"text": "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, \u231ehis grandson\u231f, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. And they went to Haran, and they settled there. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Genesis 11:32",
"text": "And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:1",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Abram, \u201cGo out from your land and from your relatives, and from the house of your father, to the land that I will show you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:2",
"text": "And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:3",
"text": "And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse. And all families of the earth will be blessed in you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:4",
"text": " And Abram went out as Yahweh had told him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram \u231ewas seventy-five years old\u231f when he went out from Haran. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:5",
"text": "And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot \u231ehis nephew\u231f, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and all the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan. And they went to the land of Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:6",
"text": "And Abram traveled through the land up to the place of Shechem, to the Oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:7",
"text": "And Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, \u201cTo your offspring I will give this land.\u201d And he built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:8",
"text": "And he moved on from there to the hill country, east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent at Bethel on the west, and at Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Yahweh. And he called on the name of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:9",
"text": "\u231eAnd Abram kept moving on\u231f, toward the Negev. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:10",
"text": "And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to dwell as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:11",
"text": "And it happened that as he drew near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, \u201cLook now, I know that you are a woman beautiful of appearance, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:12",
"text": "and it shall happen that, if the Egyptians see you, then they will say, \u2018This is his wife,\u2019 then they will kill me but let you live. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:13",
"text": "Please say you are my sister so that it will go well for me on your account. \u231eThen I will live\u231f on account of you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:14",
"text": "And it happened that as Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:15",
"text": "And the officials of Pharaoh saw her, and they praised her beauty to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to the house of Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:16",
"text": "And he dealt well with Abram on account of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:17",
"text": "Then Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues on account of the matter of Sarai the wife of Abram. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:18",
"text": "Then Pharaoh called for Abram and said, \u201cWhat is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:19",
"text": "Why did you say \u2018She is my sister,\u2019 so that I took her to myself as a wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Genesis 12:20",
"text": "And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and then sent him and his wife and all that was with him away. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:1",
"text": " Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that was with him. And Lot went with him to the Negev. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:2",
"text": "Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:3",
"text": "And he went according to his journey from the Negev, then to Bethel, to the place where his tent was at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:4",
"text": "to the place where he had made an altar at the beginning. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:5",
"text": "And Lot, who went with Abram, also had herds and tents. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:6",
"text": "And the land could not \u231esupport them\u231f so as to live together, because their possessions were so many that they were not able to live together. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:7",
"text": "And there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of the livestock of Abram and the herdsmen of the livestock of Lot. Now at that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:8",
"text": "Then Abram said to Lot, \u201cPlease, let there not be quarreling between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we men are brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:9",
"text": "Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you want what is on the left, then I will go right; if you want what is on the right, I will go left.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:10",
"text": "And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered land\u2014this was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah\u2014like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt \u231ein the direction of\u231f Zoar. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:11",
"text": "So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan. And Lot journeyed from the east, and so they separated \u231efrom each other\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:12",
"text": "Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot settled in the cities of the plain. And he pitched his tent toward Sodom. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:13",
"text": "Now the men of Sodom \u231ewere extremely wicked sinners against Yahweh\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:14",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, \u201cNow, lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are to the north, and to the south, and to the east and to the west, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:15",
"text": "for all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your descendants, forever. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:16",
"text": "I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth which, if anyone were able to count the dust of the earth, your descendants would be so counted. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:17",
"text": "Arise, go through the length of the land and through its breadth, for I will give it to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Genesis 13:18",
"text": "So Abram pitched his tent, and he came and settled at the oaks of Mamre, which were at Hebron. And there he built an altar to Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:1",
"text": " And it happened that in the days of Amraphel, the king of Shinar, Arioch, the king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer, the king of Elam, and Tidal, the king of Goiim, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:2",
"text": "made war with Bera, the king of Sodom, and Birsha, the king of Gomorrah, Shinab, the king of Admah, and Shemeber, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:3",
"text": "All these joined forces at the valley of Siddim (that is, the sea of the salt). "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:4",
"text": "Twelve years they had served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:5",
"text": "In the fourteenth year Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kiriathaim, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:6",
"text": "And the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El-Paran, which is at the wilderness. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:7",
"text": "Then they turned back and came to En-Mishpat (that is, Kadesh). And they defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were living in Hazazon-Tamar. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:8",
"text": "Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and \u231ethey took up battle position\u231f in the Valley of Siddim "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:9",
"text": "with Kedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar, four kings against five. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:10",
"text": "Now the Valley of Siddim \u231ewas full of tar pits\u231f. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and \u231efell into them\u231f, but the rest fled to the mountains. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:11",
"text": "So they took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their provisions, and they left. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:12",
"text": "And they took Lot, the son of the brother of Abram, and his possessions, and left. (Now he had been living in Sodom.) "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:13",
"text": "Then one who escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. And he was living at the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. \u231eThey were allies with Abram\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:14",
"text": "When Abram heard that his \u231erelative\u231f was taken captive, he summoned his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen of them, and he went in pursuit up to Dan. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:15",
"text": "And he divided his trained men against them at night, he and his servants. And he defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, which is north of Damascus. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:16",
"text": "And he brought back all the possessions. And he also brought back Lot, his \u231erelative\u231f, and his possessions, and the women and the people as well. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:17",
"text": " After his return from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the Valley of the King). "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:18",
"text": "And Melchizedek, the king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. (He was the priest of God Most High). "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:19",
"text": "And he blessed him and said, \u201cBlessed be Abram by God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:20",
"text": " And blessed be God Most High who delivered your enemies into your hand.\u201d And he gave to him a tenth of everything. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:21",
"text": "And the king of Sodom said to Abram, \u201cGive me the people, but the possessions take for yourself.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:22",
"text": "And Abram said to the king of Sodom, \u201cI have raised my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:23",
"text": "\u231ethat neither a thread nor\u231f a thong of a sandal would I take from all that belongs to you, that you might not say, \u2018I made Abram rich.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Genesis 14:24",
"text": "\u231eNothing besides what\u231f the servants have eaten and the share of the men who went out with me will I take. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:1",
"text": " After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying: \u201cDo not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield, and your reward shall be very great.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:2",
"text": "Then Abram said, \u201cO Yahweh, my Lord, what will you give me? \u231eI continue to be\u231f childless, and \u231emy heir\u231f is Eliezer of Damascus.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:3",
"text": "And Abram said, \u201cLook, you have not given me a descendant, and here, \u231ea member of my household\u231f is \u231emy heir\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:4",
"text": "And behold, the word of Yahweh came to him saying, \u201cThis person will not \u231ebe your heir\u231f, but \u231eyour own son will be your heir\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:5",
"text": "And he brought him outside and said, \u201cLook toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count them.\u201d And he said to him, \u201cSo shall your offspring be.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:6",
"text": "And he believed in Yahweh, and he reckoned it to him as righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:7",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cI am Yahweh, who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give this land to you, to possess it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:8",
"text": "And he said, \u201cO Yahweh God, how shall I know that I will possess it?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:9",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cTake for me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove and a young pigeon.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:10",
"text": "And he took for him all these and cut them in pieces down the middle. And he put each piece opposite \u231ethe other\u231f, but the birds he did not cut. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:11",
"text": "And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:12",
"text": "And it happened, as the sun \u231ewent down\u231f, then a deep sleep fell upon Abram and, behold, a great terrifying darkness fell upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:13",
"text": "And he said to Abram, \u201c\u231eYou must surely know\u231f that your descendants shall be as aliens in a land \u231enot their own\u231f. And they shall serve them and they shall oppress them four hundred years. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:14",
"text": "And also the nation that they serve I will judge. Then afterward they shall go out with great possessions. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:15",
"text": "And as for you, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:16",
"text": "And the fourth generation shall return here, for the guilt of the Amorites \u231eis not yet complete\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:17",
"text": "And after the sun had gone down and it was dusk, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between those half pieces. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:18",
"text": "On that day Yahweh \u231emade\u231f a covenant with Abram saying, \u201cTo your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates river, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:19",
"text": "the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:20",
"text": "the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Genesis 15:21",
"text": "the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:1",
"text": " Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name was Hagar. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:2",
"text": "And Sarai said to Abram, \u201cLook, please, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my servant; perhaps \u231eI will have children by her\u231f.\u201d And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:3",
"text": "Then Sarai, the wife of Abram, took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:4",
"text": "And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:5",
"text": "And Sarai said to Abram, \u201cmay my harm be upon you. \u231eI had my servant sleep with you\u231f, and when she saw that she had conceived, \u231eshe no longer respected me\u231f. May Yahweh judge between me and you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:6",
"text": "And Abram said to Sarai, \u201cLook, your servant is \u231eunder your authority\u231f. Do to her that which is good in your eyes.\u201d And Sarai mistreated her, and she fled from her presence. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:7",
"text": " And the angel of Yahweh found her at a spring of water in the wilderness, at the spring by the road of Shur. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:8",
"text": "And he said to Hagar, the servant of Sarai, \u201c\u231eFrom where\u231f have you come, and where are you going?\u201d And she said, \u201cI am fleeing from the presence of Sarai my mistress.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:9",
"text": "Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, \u201cReturn to your mistress and submit yourself under \u231eher authority\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:10",
"text": "And the angel of Yahweh said to her, \u201c\u231eI will greatly multiply\u231f your offspring, so that they cannot be counted for their abundance.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:11",
"text": "And the angel of Yahweh said to her: \u201cBehold, you are pregnant and shall have a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, for Yahweh has listened to your suffering. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:12",
"text": " And he shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand will be against everyone, and the hand of everyone will be against him, and he will live \u231ein hostility with all his brothers\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:13",
"text": " So she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, \u201cYou are El-Roi,\u201d for she said, \u201cHere I have seen after he who sees me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:14",
"text": "Therefore the well was called Beer-Lahai-Roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:15",
"text": "And Hagar had a child for Abram, a son. And Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore to him, Ishmael. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Genesis 16:16",
"text": "And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:1",
"text": " When Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, \u201cI am El-Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:2",
"text": "so that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you \u231eexceedingly\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:3",
"text": "Then Abram fell upon his face and God spoke with him, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:4",
"text": "\u201cAs for me, behold, my covenant shall be with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:5",
"text": "Your name shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:6",
"text": "And I will make you \u231eexceedingly\u231f fruitful. I will make you a nation, and kings shall go out from you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:7",
"text": "And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and between your offspring after you, throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant to be as God for you and to your offspring after you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:8",
"text": "And I will give to you and to your offspring after you \u231ethe land in which you are living as an alien\u231f, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting property. And I will be to them as God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:9",
"text": " And God said to Abraham, \u201cNow as for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you, throughout their generations. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:10",
"text": "This is my covenant which you shall keep, between me and you, and also with your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:11",
"text": "And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:12",
"text": "And \u231eat eight days of age\u231f you shall yourselves circumcise every male belonging to your generations and \u231ethe servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner\u231f who is not from your offspring. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:13",
"text": "\u231eYou must certainly circumcise\u231f \u231ethe servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner\u231f. And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an everlasting covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:14",
"text": "And as for any uncircumcised male who has not circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:15",
"text": "And God said to Abraham, \u201cas for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:16",
"text": "And I will bless her; moreover, I give to you from her a son. And I will bless her, and \u231eshe shall give rise to nations\u231f. Kings of peoples shall come from her.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:17",
"text": "And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, \u201c\u231eCan a child be born to a man a hundred years old\u231f, or \u231ecan Sarah bear a child at ninety\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:18",
"text": "And Abraham said to God, \u201cOh that Ishmael might live before you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:19",
"text": "And God said, \u201cNo, but Sarah your wife shall bear a son for you, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant to his offspring after him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:20",
"text": "And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him \u231eexceedingly\u231f. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:21",
"text": "But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this appointed time next year.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:22",
"text": "When he finished speaking with him, God went up from Abraham. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:23",
"text": "And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all who were born of his house, and all those acquired by his money, every male among the men of Abraham\u2019s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the same day that God spoke with him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:24",
"text": "Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:25",
"text": "And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:26",
"text": "Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Genesis 17:27",
"text": "And all the men of his house, \u231ethose born in the house, and those acquired by money from a foreigner\u231f, were circumcised with him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:1",
"text": " And Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he was sitting in the doorway of the tent at the heat of the day. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:2",
"text": "And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men were standing near him. And he saw them and ran from the doorway of the tent to meet them. And he bowed down to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:3",
"text": "And he said, \u201cMy lord, if I have found favor in your eyes do not pass by your servant. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:4",
"text": "Let a little water be brought and wash your feet, and rest under the tree. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:5",
"text": "And let me bring a piece of bread, then refresh \u231eyourselves\u231f. Afterward you can pass on, \u231eonce\u231f you have passed by with your servant.\u201d Then they said, \u201cDo so as you have said.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:6",
"text": "Then Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and he said, \u201cQuickly\u2014make three seahs of fine flour for kneading and make bread cakes!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:7",
"text": "And Abraham ran to the cattle and took a \u231ecalf\u231f, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, and he made haste to prepare it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:8",
"text": "Then he took curds and milk, and the calf which he prepared, and set it before them. And he was standing by them under the tree while they ate. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:9",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cWhere is Sarah your wife?\u201d And he said, \u201cHere, in the tent.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:10",
"text": "And he said, \u201cI will certainly return to you \u231ein the spring\u231f, and look, Sarah your wife will have a son.\u201d Now Sarah was listening at the doorway of the tent, and which was behind him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:11",
"text": "Now Abraham and Sarah were old, \u231eadvanced in age\u231f; \u231ethe way of women\u231f had ceased to be for Sarah. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:12",
"text": "So Sarah laughed to herself saying, \u201cAfter I am worn out and my husband is old, shall this pleasure be to me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:13",
"text": "Then Yahweh said to Abraham, \u201cWhat is this that Sarah laughed, saying, \u2018Is it indeed true that I will bear a child, now that I have grown old?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:14",
"text": "Is anything too difficult for Yahweh? At the appointed time I will return to you \u231ein the spring\u231f and Sarah shall have a son.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:15",
"text": "But Sarah denied it, saying, \u201cI did not laugh,\u201d because she was afraid. He said, \u201cNo, but you did laugh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:16",
"text": " Then the men set out from there, and they looked down upon Sodom. And Abraham went with them \u231eto send them on their way\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:17",
"text": "Then Yahweh said, \u201cShall I conceal from Abraham what I am going to do? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:18",
"text": "Abraham will surely become a great and strong nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed on account of him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:19",
"text": "For I have chosen him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:20",
"text": "Then Yahweh said, \u201cBecause the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very \u231eserious\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:21",
"text": "I will go down and I will see. Have they done altogether according to its cry of distress which has come to me? If not, I will know.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:22",
"text": " And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom. And Abraham was still standing before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:23",
"text": "And Abraham drew near to Yahweh and said, \u201cWill you also sweep away the righteous with the wicked? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:24",
"text": "If perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city, will you also sweep them away and not forgive the place on account of the fifty righteous in her midst? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:25",
"text": "Far be it from you to do such a thing as this, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous would be as the wicked! Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:26",
"text": "And Yahweh said, \u201cIf I find fifty righteous in Sodom, in the midst of the city, then I will forgive the whole place for their sake.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:27",
"text": "Then Abraham answered and said, \u201cLook, please, I was bold to speak to my Lord, but I am dust and ashes. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:28",
"text": "Perhaps the fifty righteous are lacking five\u2014will you destroy the whole city on account of the five?\u201d And he answered, \u201cI will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:29",
"text": "And \u231eonce again he spoke\u231f to him and said, \u201cWhat if forty are found there?\u201d And he answered, \u201cI will not do it on account of the forty.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:30",
"text": "And he said, \u201cPlease, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if thirty be found there?\u201d And he answered, \u201cI will not do it if I find thirty there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:31",
"text": "And he said, \u201cPlease, now, I was bold to speak to my Lord. What if twenty be found there?\u201d And he answered, \u201cI will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:32",
"text": "And he said, \u201cPlease, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more. What if ten are found there?\u201d And he answered, \u201cI will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Genesis 18:33",
"text": "Then Yahweh left, as he finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:1",
"text": " And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening. And Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. Then Lot saw them and stood up to meet them. And he bowed down with his face to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:2",
"text": "And he said, \u201cBehold, my lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you can rise early and go on your way.\u201d And they said, \u201cNo, but we will spend the night in the square.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:3",
"text": "But \u231ehe urged them strongly\u231f, and they turned aside with him and came into his house. And he made a meal for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:4",
"text": "Before they laid down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people \u231eto the last man\u231f, surrounded the house. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:5",
"text": "And they called to Lot and said to him, \u201cWhere are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:6",
"text": "But Lot went out to them at the entrance, and he shut the door behind him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:7",
"text": "And he said, \u201cNo, my brothers, please do not do such a wrong thing. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:8",
"text": "Behold, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Please, let me bring them out to you; then do to them as it seems good in your eyes. Only to these men do not do this thing, since they came under\u231e my roof\u231f for protection.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:9",
"text": "But they said, \u201cStep aside!\u201d Then they said, \u201c\u231eThis fellow\u231f came to dwell as a foreigner and he acts as a judge! Now we shall do worse to you than them!\u201d And they pressed very hard against the man, against Lot, and they drew near to break the door. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:10",
"text": "Then the men reached out with their hands and brought Lot in to them, into the house, and they shut the door. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:11",
"text": "And the men who were at the entrance of the house they struck with blindness, both small and great, and they were unable to find the entrance. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:12",
"text": "Then the men said to Lot, \u201cWho is here with you? Bring out from the place your sons-in-law, and your sons and your daughters, and all who are with you in the city. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:13",
"text": "For we are about to destroy this place, because their cry has become great before Yahweh. Yahweh sent us to destroy it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:14",
"text": "Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were taking his daughters and said, \u201cGet up! Go out from this place, because Yahweh is going to destroy the city!\u201d But \u231eit seemed like a joke\u231f in the eyes of his sons-in-law. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:15",
"text": "And as the dawn came up the angels urged Lot saying, \u201cGet up, take your wife and your two daughters \u231ewho are staying with you\u231f, lest you be destroyed with the punishment of the city.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:16",
"text": "But when he lingered, the men seized him by his hand and his wife\u2019s hand, and his two daughters by hand, on account of the mercy of Yahweh upon him. And they brought him out and set him outside of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:17",
"text": "And after bringing them outside one said, \u201cFlee for your life; do not look behind you, and do not stand anywhere in the plain. Flee to the mountains lest you be destroyed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:18",
"text": "And Lot said to them, \u201cNo, please, my lords. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:19",
"text": "Behold, your servant has found favor in your eyes and \u231eyou have shown me great kindness\u231f in saving my life. But I cannot flee to the mountains, lest the disaster overtake me and I die. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:20",
"text": "Behold, this city is near enough to flee there, and it is a little one. Please, let me flee there. Is it not a little one? Then my life shall be saved.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:21",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cBehold, \u231eI will grant this favor as well\u231f; that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:22",
"text": "Escape there quickly, for I cannot do this thing until you get there.\u201d Therefore, there name of the city was called Zoar. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:23",
"text": " After the sun \u231ehad risen\u231f upon the earth and Lot had entered Zoar, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:24",
"text": "Yahweh rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:25",
"text": "And he overthrew those cities and the whole plain, and the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:26",
"text": "But his wife looked \u231eback\u231f, and she became a pillar of salt. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:27",
"text": "And Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:28",
"text": "And he looked down upon the surface of Sodom and Gomorrah, and upon the whole surface of the land, the plain. And he saw that, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:29",
"text": "So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:30",
"text": " And Lot went out from Zoar and settled in the hill country with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:31",
"text": "And the firstborn daughter said to the younger one, \u201cOur father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us according to the manner of all the land. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:32",
"text": "Come, let us give our father wine to drink and let us lie with him that \u231ewe may secure descendants through our father\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:33",
"text": "And they gave their father wine to drink that night, and the firstborn went and lay with her father, but he did not know when she lay down or when she got up. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:34",
"text": "And it happened that, the next day the firstborn said to the younger one, \u201cLook, I laid with my father last night. Let us give him wine to drink also tonight, then go and lie with him that \u231ewe may secure descendants through our father\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:35",
"text": "And they gave their father wine to drink again that night, and the younger got up and lay with him, but he did not know when she lay down or when she got up. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:36",
"text": "And the two daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:37",
"text": "The firstborn gave birth to a son, and she called his name Moab. He is the father of Moab until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Genesis 19:38",
"text": "And the younger, she also gave birth to a son, and she called his name Ben-Ammi. He is the father of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f until this day. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:1",
"text": " And Abraham journeyed from there to the land of the Negev, and he settled between Kadesh and Shur. And he dwelled as an alien in Gerar. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:2",
"text": "And Abraham said about Sarah his wife, \u201cShe is my sister.\u201d And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:3",
"text": "And God came to Abimelech in a dream at night. And he said to him, \u201cLook, you are a dead man on account of the woman you have taken. For she is \u231ea married woman\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:4",
"text": "Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, \u201cmy Lord, will you even kill a righteous people?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:5",
"text": "Did not he himself say to me, \u2018She is my sister\u2019? And she herself said, \u2018He is my brother.\u2019 With integrity of my heart and with cleanness of my hands I did this.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:6",
"text": "Then God said to him in the dream, \u201cYes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you did this, and I also \u231ekept you from sinning\u231f against me. Therefore, I did not allow you to touch her. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:7",
"text": "So now, return the wife of the man, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you and you will live. And \u231eif you do not return her\u231f, know that you will certainly die, and all that are yours.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:8",
"text": " So Abimelech rose early in the morning. And he called all his servants and \u231etold them all these things\u231f, and the men were very afraid. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:9",
"text": "And Abimelech called for Abraham and said to him, \u201cWhat have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you that you brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to me that should not be done.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:10",
"text": "And Abimelech said to Abraham, \u201c\u231eWhat were you thinking\u231f that you did this thing?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:11",
"text": "And Abraham said, \u201cBecause I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place; they will kill me on account of the matter of my wife. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:12",
"text": "\u231eBesides\u231f, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:13",
"text": "And it happened that as God caused me to wander from the house of my father I said to her, \u2018This is your loyal kindness that you must do for me at every place where we come: say concerning me, \u201cHe is my brother.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:14",
"text": "And Abimelech took sheep and cattle and male slaves and female slaves, and he gave them to Abraham. And he returned Sarah his wife to him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:15",
"text": "And Abimelech said, \u201cHere is my land before you; settle \u231ewhere it pleases you\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:16",
"text": "And to Sarah he said, \u201cLook, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your brother. It shall be \u231ean exoneration\u231f. \u231eYou are vindicated before all who are with you\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:17",
"text": "And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female servants so that they could bear children again. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Genesis 20:18",
"text": "For Yahweh had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of the matter of Sarah, the wife of Abraham. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:1",
"text": " And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:2",
"text": "And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:3",
"text": "And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:4",
"text": "And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:5",
"text": "And Abraham was one hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:6",
"text": "And Sarah said, \u201cGod has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh for me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:7",
"text": "And she said, \u201cWho would announce to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son to Abraham in his old age.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:8",
"text": " And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:9",
"text": "And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne Abraham, mocking. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:10",
"text": "Then she said to Abraham, \u201cDrive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, with Isaac.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:11",
"text": "And the matter \u231edispleased Abraham very much\u231f on account of his son. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:12",
"text": "Then God said to Abraham, \u201c\u231eDo not be displeased\u231f on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. \u231eListen to everything that Sarah said to you\u231f, for through Isaac your offspring will be named. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:13",
"text": "And I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation, for he is your offspring.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:14",
"text": "Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. And he sent her away with the child, and she went, wandering about in the wilderness, in Beersheba. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:15",
"text": "And when the water was finished from the skin, she put the child under one of the bushes. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:16",
"text": "And she went and \u231eshe sat a good distance away\u231f, for she said, \u201cLet me not see the child\u2019s death.\u201d So she sat away from him and lifted up her voice and wept. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:17",
"text": "And God heard the cry of the boy and the angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens and said to her, \u201c\u231eWhat is the matter\u231f Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the cry of the boy \u231efrom where he is\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:18",
"text": "Get up, take up the boy and take him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:19",
"text": "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave a drink to the boy. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:20",
"text": "And God was with the boy, and he grew and lived in the wilderness. And he became \u231ean expert with a bow\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:21",
"text": "And he lived in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:22",
"text": " And it happened that at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, \u201cGod is with you, in all that you do. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:23",
"text": "So now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal with me falsely, or with my descendants, or my posterity. According to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall pledge to do with me and with the land where you have dwelled as an alien.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:24",
"text": "And Abraham said, \u201cI swear.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:25",
"text": "Then Abraham complained to Abimelech on account of the well of water that servants of Abimelech had seized. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:26",
"text": "And Abimelech said, \u201cI do not know who did this thing, neither did you tell me, nor have I heard of it except for today.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:27",
"text": "And Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. And the two of them \u231emade\u231f a covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:28",
"text": "Then Abraham set off seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:29",
"text": "And Abimelech said to Abraham, \u201cWhat is the meaning of these seven ewe-lambs that you have set off by themselves?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:30",
"text": "And he said, \u201cYou shall take the seven ewe-lambs from my hand \u231eas proof on my behalf\u231f that I dug this well.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:31",
"text": "Therefore that place is called Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:32",
"text": "And they \u231emade\u231f a covenant at Beersheba. And Abimelech, and Phicol his army commander stood and returned to the land of the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:33",
"text": "And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, \u231ethe everlasting God\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Genesis 21:34",
"text": "And Abraham dwelled as an alien in the land of the Philistines many days. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:1",
"text": " And it happened that after these things, God tested Abraham. And he said to him, \u201cAbraham!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:2",
"text": "And he said, \u201cTake your son, your only child, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains where I will tell you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:3",
"text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. And he took two of his servants with him, and Isaac his son. And he chopped wood for a burnt offering. And he got up and went to the place which God had told him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:4",
"text": "On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and he saw the place at a distance. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:5",
"text": "And Abraham said to his servants, \u201cYou stay here with the donkey, and I and the boy will go up there. We will worship, then we will return to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:6",
"text": "And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and placed it on Isaac his son. And he took the fire in his hand and the knife, and the two of them went together. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:7",
"text": "And Isaac said to Abraham his father, \u201cMy father!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am, my son.\u201d And he said, \u201cHere is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:8",
"text": "And Abraham said, \u201c\u231eGod will provide\u231f the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.\u201d And the two of them went together. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:9",
"text": " And they came to the place that God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood. Then he bound Isaac his son and placed him on the altar atop the wood. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:10",
"text": "And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:11",
"text": "And the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, \u201cAbraham! Abraham!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:12",
"text": "And he said, \u201cDo not stretch out your hand against the boy; do not do anything to him. For now I know that you are \u231eone who fears\u231f God, since you have not withheld your son, your only child, from me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:13",
"text": "And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, a ram was caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:14",
"text": "And Abraham called the name of that place \u201cYahweh \u231ewill provide\u231f,\u201d \u231efor which reason\u231f it is said today, \u201con the mountain of Yahweh \u231eit shall be provided\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:15",
"text": "And the angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time from heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:16",
"text": "And he said, \u201cI swear by myself, declares Yahweh, that because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only child, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:17",
"text": "that I will certainly bless you and greatly multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the shore of the sea. And your offspring will take possession of the gate of his enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:18",
"text": "All the nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring, because you have listened to my voice.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:19",
"text": "And Abraham returned to his servants, and they got up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived in Beersheba. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:20",
"text": " And it happened that after these things, it was told to Abraham, \u201cLook, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor: "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:21",
"text": "Uz his firstborn and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:22",
"text": "and Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:23",
"text": "(Now, Bethuel fathered Rebekah). These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, the brother of Abraham. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Genesis 22:24",
"text": "And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:1",
"text": " And \u231eSarah lived\u231f one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:2",
"text": "And Sarah died in Kiriath Arba; that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:3",
"text": "And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from his dead, and he spoke to the Hittites and said, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:4",
"text": "\u201cI am a stranger and an alien among you; give to me \u231emy own burial site\u231f among you so that I may bury my dead from before me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:5",
"text": "And the Hittites answered Abraham and said to him, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:6",
"text": "\u201cHear us, my lord, you are a mighty prince in our midst. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial sites. None of us \u231ewill withhold his burial site\u231f from you for burying your dead.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:7",
"text": "And Abraham rose up and bowed to the people of the land, to the Hittites. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:8",
"text": "And he spoke with them, saying, \u201c\u231eIf you are willing\u231f that I bury my dead from before me, hear me and intercede for me with Ephron the son of Zohar, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:9",
"text": "that he may sell to me the cave of Machpelah which \u231ebelongs to him\u231f, which is at the end of his field. At full value let him sell it to me in your midst as \u231ea burial site\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:10",
"text": "Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites with respect to all who were entering the gate of his city, and said, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:11",
"text": "\u201cNo, my lord, hear me. I give you the field and the cave which is in it, I also give it to you in the sight of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:12",
"text": "And Abraham bowed before the people of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:13",
"text": "And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, \u201c\u231eIf only you will hear me\u231f\u2014I give the price of the field. Take it from me that I may bury my dead there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:14",
"text": "And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:15",
"text": "\u201cMy lord, hear me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver\u2014what is that between me and you? Bury your dead.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:16",
"text": "Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver \u231eat the merchants\u2019 current rate\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:17",
"text": "So the field of Ephron which was in the Machpelah, which was near Mamre\u2014the field and the cave which was in it, with all the trees that were in the field, which were within all its surrounding boundaries\u2014\u231epassed\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:18",
"text": "to Abraham as a property in the presence of the Hittites, with respect to all who were entering the gate of his city. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:19",
"text": "And thus afterward Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah near Mamre; that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Genesis 23:20",
"text": "And the field and the cave which was in it \u231epassed\u231f to Abraham as \u231ea burial site\u231f from the Hittites. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:1",
"text": " Now Abraham was old, \u231eadvanced in age\u231f, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:2",
"text": "And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all he had, \u201cPlease put your hand under my thigh "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:3",
"text": "that I may make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I am dwelling, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:4",
"text": "but that you will go to my land and to my family, and take a wife for my son, for Isaac.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:5",
"text": "And the servant said to him, \u201cPerhaps the woman will not be willing \u231eto follow\u231f me to this land\u2014must I then return your son to the land from whence you came?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:6",
"text": "Abraham said to him, \u201c\u231eYou must take care\u231f that you do not return my son there. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:7",
"text": "Yahweh, the God of heaven who took me from the house of my father and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, \u2018to your offspring I will give this land,\u2019 he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:8",
"text": "And if the woman is not willing \u231eto follow\u231f you, then you shall be released from this oath of mine\u2014only you must not return my son there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:9",
"text": "Then the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and he swore to him concerning this matter. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:10",
"text": "And the servant took ten camels from his master\u2019s camels, and he went with all kinds of his master\u2019s good things in his hand. And he arose and went to Aram-Naharaim, to the city of Nahor. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:11",
"text": "And he made the camels kneel outside the city at the well of water, at the time of evening, toward the time the women went out to draw water. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:12",
"text": "And he said, \u201cO Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show loyal love to my master Abraham. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:13",
"text": "Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are going out to draw water. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:14",
"text": "And let it be that the girl to whom I shall say, \u2018Please, offer your jar that I may drink\u2019 and who says, \u2018Drink\u2014and I will also water your camels,\u2019 she is the one you have chosen for your servant, for Isaac. By her I will know that you have shown loyal love to my master.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:15",
"text": "And it happened that before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah\u2014who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, the brother of Abraham\u2014came out, and her jar was on her shoulder. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:16",
"text": "Now the girl was very pleasing in appearance. She was a virgin; no man had known her. And she went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:17",
"text": "And the servant ran to meet her. And he said, \u201cPlease, let me drink a little of the water from your jar.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:18",
"text": "And she said, \u201cDrink, my lord.\u201d And she quickly lowered her jar in her hand and gave him a drink. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:19",
"text": "When she finished giving him a drink she said, \u201cI will also draw water for your camels until they finish drinking.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:20",
"text": "And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw water. And she drew water for all his camels. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:21",
"text": "And the man was gazing at her silently to know if Yahweh had made his journey successful or not. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:22",
"text": "And it happened that as the camels finished drinking the man took a gold ring of a half shekel in weight and two bracelets for her arms, ten shekels in weight, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:23",
"text": "and said, \u201cPlease tell me, whose daughter are you? Is there a place at the house of your father for us to spend the night?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:24",
"text": "And she said to him, \u201cI am the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:25",
"text": "Then she said to him, \u201cWe have both straw and fodder in abundance, as well as a place to spend the night.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:26",
"text": "And the man knelt down and worshiped Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:27",
"text": "And he said, \u201cBlessed be Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld his loyal love and his faithfulness from my master. I was on the way and Yahweh led me to the house of my master\u2019s brother.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:28",
"text": "Then the girl ran and reported these things to the household of her mother. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:29",
"text": " Now Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. And Laban ran out to the man toward the spring. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:30",
"text": "And when he saw the ring and the bracelets on the arms of his sister and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, who said, \u201cThus the man spoke to me,\u201d he went to the man. And behold, he was standing with the camels at the spring. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:31",
"text": "And he said, \u201cCome, O blessed one of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? Now I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:32",
"text": "And the man came to the house and unloaded the camels. And he gave straw and fodder to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:33",
"text": "\u231eAnd food was placed before him\u231f to eat. And he said, \u201cI will not eat until \u231eI have told my errand\u231f.\u201d And he said, \u201cSpeak.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:34",
"text": "And he said, \u201cI am the servant of Abraham. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:35",
"text": "Now Yahweh has blessed my master exceedingly, and he has become great. He has given to him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male slaves and female slaves, and camels and donkeys. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:36",
"text": "And Sarah, the wife of my master, has borne a son to my master after her old age. And he has given to him all that he has. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:37",
"text": "And my master made me swear, saying, \u2018Do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I am living. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:38",
"text": "But you shall go to the house of my father, and to my family, and you shall take a wife for my son.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:39",
"text": "And I said to my master, \u2018Perhaps the woman will not \u231efollow\u231f me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:40",
"text": "And he said to me, \u2018Yahweh, before whom I have walked, shall send his angel with you and will make your journey successful. And you shall take a wife for my son from my family, and from the house of my father. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:41",
"text": "Then you shall be released from my oath, when you come to my family. And if they will not give a woman to you, then you will be released from my oath.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:42",
"text": "Then today I came to the spring, and I said, \u2018O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, \u231eif you would please make my journey successful\u231f, upon which I am going. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:43",
"text": "Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it be that the young woman who comes out to draw water and to whom I say, \u201cPlease give me a little water to drink from your jar,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:44",
"text": "let her say to me, \u201cDrink; I will also draw water for your camels,\u201d she is the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for the son of my master.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:45",
"text": "I had not yet finished speaking to myself when, behold, Rebekah was coming out with her jar on her shoulder. And she went down to the spring and drew water. And I said to her, \u2018Please give me a drink.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:46",
"text": "And she hastened and let down her jar \u231efrom her shoulder\u231f and said, \u2018Drink, and I will give a drink to your camels also.\u2019 Then I drank and she gave a drink to the camels also. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:47",
"text": "Then I asked her and said, \u2018Whose daughter are you?\u2019 And she said, \u2018The daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.\u2019 And I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:48",
"text": "And I knelt down and worshiped Yahweh, and I praised Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right way, to take the daughter of the brother of my master for his son. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:49",
"text": "So now, \u231eif you are going to deal loyally and truly\u231f with my master, tell me. And if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:50",
"text": "Then Laban and Bethuel answered, and they said, \u201cThe matter has gone out from Yahweh; we are not able to speak bad or good to you. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:51",
"text": "Here is Rebekah before you. Take her and go; let her be a wife for the son of your master as Yahweh has spoken.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:52",
"text": "And it happened that when the servant of Abraham heard their words he bowed down to the ground to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:53",
"text": "And the servant brought out silver jewelry and gold jewelry, and garments, and he gave them to Rebekah. And he gave precious gifts to her brother and to her mother. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:54",
"text": "And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night. And they got up in the morning, and he said, \u201cLet me go to my master.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:55",
"text": "And her brother and her mother said, \u201cLet the girl remain with us ten days or so; after that she may go.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:56",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cDo not delay me. Now, Yahweh has made my journey successful. Let me go. I must go to my master.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:57",
"text": "And they said, \u201cLet us call the girl and ask \u231eher opinion\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:58",
"text": "And they called Rebekah and said to her, \u201cWill you go with this man?\u201d And she said, \u201cI will go.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:59",
"text": "So they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and the servant of Abraham and his men. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:60",
"text": "And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, \u201cYou are our sister; may you become countless thousands; and may your offspring take possession of the gate of his enemies.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:61",
"text": "And Rebekah and her maidservants arose, and they mounted the camels and \u231efollowed\u231f the man. And the servant took Rebekah and left. "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:62",
"text": " Now Isaac was coming from the direction of Beer-Lahai-Roi. And he was living in the land of the Negev. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:63",
"text": "And Isaac went out to meditate in the field \u231eearly in the evening\u231f, and he lifted up his eyes and saw\u2014behold, camels were coming. "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:64",
"text": "And Rebekah lifted up her eyes and saw Isaac. And she got down from the camel. "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:65",
"text": "And she said to the servant, \u201cWho is this man walking around in the field to meet us?\u201d And the servant said, \u201cThat is my master.\u201d And she took her veil and covered herself. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:66",
"text": "And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Genesis 24:67",
"text": "And Isaac brought her to the tent of Sarah his mother. And he took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after the death of his mother. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:1",
"text": " Now Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:2",
"text": "And she bore to him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:3",
"text": "And Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:4",
"text": "And the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abidah, and Eldaah. All of these were the children of Keturah. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:5",
"text": "And Abraham gave all he had to Isaac. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:6",
"text": "But to the sons of Abraham\u2019s concubines Abraham gave gifts. And while he was still living he sent them away eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the east. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:7",
"text": "Now these are the days of the years of \u231ethe life of Abraham\u231f: one hundred and seventy-five years. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:8",
"text": "And Abraham passed away and died in a good old age, old and full of years. And he was gathered to his people. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:9",
"text": "And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, son of Zohar the Hittite, that was east of Mamre, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:10",
"text": "the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried and Sarah his wife. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:11",
"text": "And it happened that after the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac settled at Beer-Lahai-Roi. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:12",
"text": " Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, that Hagar the Egyptian, the maidservant of Sarah, bore to Abraham. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:13",
"text": "And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names according to their family records. The firstborn of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:14",
"text": "Mishma, Dumah, Massa, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:15",
"text": "Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:16",
"text": "These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their villages and by their encampments\u201412 leaders according to their tribes. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:17",
"text": "Now these are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. And he passed away and died, and was gathered to his people. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:18",
"text": "They settled from Havilah to Shur, which was opposite Egypt, going toward Asshur, opposite; he \u231esettled\u231f opposite all his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:19",
"text": " Now these are the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:20",
"text": "And Isaac was \u231eforty years old\u231f when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:21",
"text": "And Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, for she was barren. And Yahweh responded to his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:22",
"text": "And the children in her womb jostled each other, and she said, \u201c\u231eIf it is going to be like this, why be pregnant\u231f?\u201d And she went to inquire of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:23",
"text": "And Yahweh said to her, \u201cTwo nations are in your womb, and two peoples \u231efrom birth\u231f shall be divided. And \u231eone people shall be stronger than the other\u231f. And the elder shall serve the younger.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:24",
"text": "And when her days to give birth were completed, then\u2014behold\u2014twins were in her womb. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:25",
"text": "And the first came out red, all \u231ehis body\u231f was like a hairy coat, so they called his name Esau. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:26",
"text": "And afterward his brother came out, and his hand grasped the heel of Esau, so his name was called Jacob. And Isaac \u231ewas sixty years old\u231f at their birth. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:27",
"text": "And the boys grew up. And Esau was a skilled hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:28",
"text": "And Isaac loved Esau because \u231ehe could eat of his game\u231f, but Rebekah loved Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:29",
"text": "Once Jacob cooked a thick stew, and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:30",
"text": "And Esau said to Jacob, \u201cGive me \u231esome of that red stuff\u231f to gulp down, for I am exhausted!\u201d (Therefore his name was called Edom). "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:31",
"text": "Then Jacob said, \u201cSell me your birthright \u231efirst\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:32",
"text": "And Esau said, \u201cLook, I am going to die; now what is this birthright to me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:33",
"text": "Then Jacob said, \u201cSwear to me \u231efirst\u231f.\u201d And he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Genesis 25:34",
"text": "Then Jacob gave Esau bread, and thick lentil stew, and he ate and drank. Then he got up and went away. So Esau despised his birthright. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:1",
"text": " And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine which was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, to Gerar. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:2",
"text": "And Yahweh appeared to him and said, \u201cDo not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land which I will show to you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:3",
"text": "Dwell as an alien in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham you father. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:4",
"text": "And I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and I will give to your descendants all these lands. And all nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:5",
"text": "because Abraham listened to my voice and kept my charge: my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:6",
"text": " So Isaac settled in Gerar. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:7",
"text": "When the men of the place asked concerning his wife, he said, \u201cShe is my sister,\u201d for he was afraid to say, \u201cmy wife,\u201d thinking \u201cthe men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for \u231eshe was beautiful\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:8",
"text": "And it happened that, \u231ewhen he had been there a long time\u231f, Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked through the window, and saw\u2014behold\u2014Isaac was fondling Rebekah his wife. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:9",
"text": "And Abimelech called Isaac and said, \u201cSurely she is your wife. Now why did you say \u2018She is my sister\u2019?\u201d And Isaac said to him, \u201cBecause I thought I would die on account of her.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:10",
"text": "And Abimelech said, \u201cWhat is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife! Then you would have brought guilt upon us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:11",
"text": "Then Abimelech instructed all the people, saying, \u201cThe one who touches this man or his wife shall certainly die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:12",
"text": " And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in that same year a hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:13",
"text": "And the man \u231ebecame wealthier and wealthier\u231f until he was exceedingly wealthy. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:14",
"text": "And he possessed sheep and cattle and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:15",
"text": "And the Philistines stopped up all the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with earth. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:16",
"text": "And Abimelech said to Isaac, \u201cGo away from us, for you have become much too powerful for us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:17",
"text": "So Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and settled there. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:18",
"text": "And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham. And he gave to them \u231ethe same names\u231f which his father had given them. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:19",
"text": "And when the servants of Isaac dug in the valley, they found a well of fresh water there. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:20",
"text": "Then the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, \u201cThe water is ours.\u201d And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:21",
"text": "And they dug another well, and they quarreled over it also. And he called its name Sitnah. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:22",
"text": "Then he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. And he called its name Rehoboth, and said, \u201cNow Yahweh has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:23",
"text": "And from there he went up to Beersheba. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:24",
"text": "And Yahweh appeared to him that night and said, \u201cI am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and I will bless you and make your descendants numerous for the sake of my servant Abraham.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:25",
"text": "And he built an altar there and called on the name of Yahweh. And he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Isaac dug a well there. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:26",
"text": "Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol his army commander. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:27",
"text": "And Isaac said to them, \u201cWhy have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:28",
"text": "And they said, \u201cWe see clearly that Yahweh has been with you, so we thought let there be an oath between us\u2014between us and you\u2014and let us \u231emake\u231f a covenant with you "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:29",
"text": "that you may not do us harm just as we have not touched you, but have only done good to you and sent you away in peace. You are now blessed by Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:30",
"text": "So he made a meal for them, and they ate and drank. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:31",
"text": "And they arose early in the morning and each one swore to the other, and Isaac sent them away. And they left him in peace. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:32",
"text": "And it happened that on that same day the servants of Isaac came and told him about the well that they had dug. And they said, \u201cWe have found water!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:33",
"text": "And he called it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:34",
"text": " And when Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Genesis 26:35",
"text": "And \u231ethey made life bitter\u231f for Isaac and Rebekah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:1",
"text": " And it happened that when Isaac was old and \u231ehis eyesight was weak\u231f, he called Esau his older son and said to him, \u201cMy son.\u201d And he said to him, \u201cHere I am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:2",
"text": "And he said, \u201cLook, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:3",
"text": "So now, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt food for me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:4",
"text": "Then make for me tasty food like I love, and bring it to me. And I will eat it so that I can bless you before I die. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:5",
"text": " Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to Esau his son, and when Esau went to the field to hunt wild game to bring back, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:6",
"text": "Rebekah said to Jacob her son, \u201cLook, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother saying, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:7",
"text": "\u2018Bring wild game to me and prepare tasty food so I can eat it and bless you before Yahweh before my death.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:8",
"text": "So now, my son, listen to my voice, to what I command you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:9",
"text": "Go to the flock and take two good young goats from it for me, and I will prepare them as tasty food for your father, just as he likes. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:10",
"text": "Then you must take it to your father and he will eat it so that he may bless you before his death.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:11",
"text": "Then Jacob said to his mother, \u201cBehold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:12",
"text": "Perhaps my father will feel me and I will be in his eyes as a mocker, and he will bring upon me a curse and not a blessing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:13",
"text": "Then his mother said to him, \u201cYour curse be upon me, my son, only listen to my voice\u2014go and get them for me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:14",
"text": "So he went and took them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared tasty food as his father liked. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:15",
"text": "Then Rebekah took some of her older son Esau\u2019s best garments that were with her in the house, and she put them on Jacob her younger son. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:16",
"text": "And she put the skins of the young goats over his hands and over the smooth part of his neck. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:17",
"text": "And she put the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob, her son. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:18",
"text": "And he went to his father and said, \u201cMy father.\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am. Who are you, my son?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:19",
"text": "And Jacob said to his father, \u201cI am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please get up, sit up and eat from my wild game so that you may bless me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:20",
"text": "Then Isaac said to his son, \u201c\u231eHow\u231f did you find it so quickly, my son?\u201d And he said, \u201cBecause Yahweh your God \u231ecaused me to find it\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:21",
"text": "Then Isaac said to Jacob, \u201cPlease, come near and let me feel you, my son. \u231eAre you really\u231f my son Esau or not?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:22",
"text": "And Jacob drew near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, \u201cThe voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:23",
"text": "And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother. And he blessed him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:24",
"text": "And he said, \u201c\u231eAre you really\u231f my son Esau?\u201d And he said, \u201cI am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:25",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cBring it near to me that I may eat from the game of my son, so that I may bless you.\u201d And he brought it to him, and he ate. And he brought wine to him, and he drank. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:26",
"text": "Then his father Isaac said to him, \u201cCome near and kiss me, my son.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:27",
"text": "And he drew near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said, \u201cLook, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed! "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:28",
"text": " May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of grain and new wine. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:29",
"text": " Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you; Be lord of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. Cursed be those cursing you, and blessed be those blessing you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:30",
"text": " And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, \u231eimmediately after\u231f Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came back from his hunting. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:31",
"text": "He too prepared tasty food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, \u201cLet my father arise and eat from the wild game of his son, that you may bless me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:32",
"text": "And Isaac his father said to him, \u201cWho are you?\u201d And he said, \u201cI am your son, your firstborn, Esau.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:33",
"text": "Then Isaac \u231etrembled violently\u231f. Then he said, \u201cWho then was he that hunted wild game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I blessed him? Moreover, he will be blessed!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:34",
"text": "When Esau heard the words of his father he cried out with a great and exceedingly bitter cry of distress. And he said to his father, \u201cBless me as well, my father!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:35",
"text": "And he said, \u201cYour brother came in deceit and took your blessing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:36",
"text": "Then he said, \u201c\u231eIsn\u2019t that why he is named Jacob\u231f? He has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright and, look, now he has taken my blessing!\u201d Then he said, \u201cHave you not reserved a blessing for me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:37",
"text": "Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, \u201cBehold, I have made him lord over you and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. Now what can I do for you, my son?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:38",
"text": "And Esau said to his father, \u201cHave you only one blessing, my father? Bless me also, my father!\u201d And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:39",
"text": "Then Isaac his father answered and said to him, \u201cYour home shall be from the fatness of the land, and from the dew of heaven above. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:40",
"text": " But by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother. But it shall be that when free yourself you shall tear off his yoke from your neck. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:41",
"text": " Then Esau held a grudge against Jacob on account of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, \u201cThe days of mourning for my father are coming, then I will kill Jacob my brother.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:42",
"text": "But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called for her younger son Jacob. And she said to him, \u201cLook, Esau your brother is consoling himself concerning you, intending to kill you. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:43",
"text": "Now then, my son, listen to my voice; arise and flee to Haran to Laban my brother. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:44",
"text": "Stay with him a few days until the wrath of your brother has turned\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:45",
"text": "until the anger of your brother turns from you and he has forgotten what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I lose the two of you in one day?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Genesis 27:46",
"text": "Then Rebekah said to Isaac, \u201cI loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite women like these, from the \u231enative women\u231f, \u231ewhat am I living for\u231f?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:1",
"text": " Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. And he instructed him and said to him, \u201cYou must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:2",
"text": "Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother\u2019s father, and take for yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban your mother\u2019s brother. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:3",
"text": "Now, may El-Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:4",
"text": "And may he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojourning, which God gave to Abraham.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:5",
"text": "Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:6",
"text": "Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-Aram, to take for himself a wife from there, and he blessed him and instructed him, saying, \u201cYou must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:7",
"text": "and that Jacob listened to his father and to his mother and went to Paddan-Aram. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:8",
"text": "Then Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of Isaac his father, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:9",
"text": "then Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, son of Abraham, sister of Nebaioth, as a wife, in addition to the wives he had. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:10",
"text": " Then Jacob went out from Beersheba and went to Haran. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:11",
"text": "And he arrived at a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head and slept at that place. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:12",
"text": "And he dreamed, and behold, a stairway was set on the earth, and its top touched the heavens. And behold, angels of God were going up and going down on it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:13",
"text": "And behold, Yahweh was standing beside him, and he said, \u201cI am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The ground on which you were sleeping I will give to you and to your descendants. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:14",
"text": "Your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, and to the east, and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and through your descendants. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:15",
"text": "Now behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you go. And I will bring you to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:16",
"text": "Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, \u201cSurely Yahweh \u231eis indeed\u231f in this place and I did not know!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:17",
"text": "Then he was afraid and said, \u201cHow awesome is this place! \u231eThis is nothing else than the house of God\u231f, and this is the gate of heaven!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:18",
"text": "And Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a stone pillar, and poured oil on top of it. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:19",
"text": "And he called the name of that place Bethel; however, the name of the city was formerly Luz. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:20",
"text": "And Jacob made a vow saying, \u201cIf God will be with me and protect me on this way that I am going, and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:21",
"text": "and if I return in peace to the house of my father, then Yahweh will become my God. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Genesis 28:22",
"text": "And this stone that I have set up as a pillar shall be the house of God, and of all that you give to me I will certainly give a tenth to you.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:1",
"text": " And Jacob \u231econtinued his journey\u231f and went to the land of the Easterners. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:2",
"text": "And he looked, and behold, there was a well in the field, and behold, there were three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. And the stone on the mouth of the well was large. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:3",
"text": "And when all the flocks were gathered there, they rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well. And they watered the sheep and returned the stone upon the mouth of the well to its place. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:4",
"text": "And Jacob said to them, \u201cMy brothers, where are you from?\u201d And they said, \u201cWe are from Haran.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:5",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cDo you know Laban, son of Nahor?\u201d And they said, \u201cWe know him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:6",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201c\u231eIs he well\u231f?\u201d And they said, \u201cHe is well. Now look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:7",
"text": "And he said, \u201cLook, it is still \u231ebroad daylight\u231f; it is not the time for the livestock to be gathered. Give water to the sheep and go, pasture them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:8",
"text": "And they said, \u201cWe are not able, until all the flocks are gathered. Then the stone is rolled away from the mouth of the well, and we water the sheep.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:9",
"text": "While he was speaking with them, Rachel came with the sheep which belonged to her father, for she was pasturing them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:10",
"text": "And it happened that, when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother\u2019s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother\u2019s brother, Jacob drew near and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother\u2019s brother. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:11",
"text": "And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:12",
"text": "And Jacob told Rachel that he was the relative of her father, and that he was the son of Rebekah. And she ran and told her father. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:13",
"text": "And it happened that when Laban heard the message about Jacob, the son of his sister, he ran to meet him. And he embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:14",
"text": "And Laban said to him, \u201cSurely you are my flesh and my bone!\u201d And he stayed with him a month. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:15",
"text": " Then Laban said to Jacob, \u201cJust because you are my brother should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wage should be.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:16",
"text": "Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:17",
"text": "Now the eyes of Leah were dull, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:18",
"text": "And Jacob loved Rachel and said, \u201cI will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:19",
"text": "Then Laban said, \u201cBetter that I give her to you than I give her to another man. Stay with me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:20",
"text": "And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:21",
"text": "And Jacob said to Laban, \u201cGive me my wife, that I may go in to her, for \u231emy time\u231f is completed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:22",
"text": "So Laban gathered all the men of the place and prepared a feast. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:23",
"text": "And it happened that in the evening he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in to her. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:24",
"text": "And Laban gave Zilpah his female servant to her, to Leah his daughter as a female servant. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:25",
"text": "And it happened that in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, \u201cWhat is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Now why did you deceive me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:26",
"text": "Then Laban said, \u201c\u231eIt is not the custom\u231f in our country to give the younger before the firstborn. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:27",
"text": "Complete the week of this one, then I will also give you the other, \u231eon the condition that you will work for me\u231f another seven years.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:28",
"text": "And Jacob did so. So he completed the week of this one, then he gave Rachel his daughter to him as a wife. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:29",
"text": "And Laban gave Bilhah his female servant to Rachel his daughter as a female servant. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:30",
"text": "Then he also went in to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:31",
"text": " When Yahweh saw that Leah was unloved he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:32",
"text": "Then Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, \u201cBecause Yahweh has noticed my misery, that I am unloved. Now my husband will love me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:33",
"text": "And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, \u201cIt is because Yahweh has heard that I am unloved that he gave me this son also.\u201d And she called his name Simeon. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:34",
"text": "And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. Then she said, \u201cNow this time my husband will be joined to me, for I have borne him three sons.\u201d Therefore, she called his name Levi. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Genesis 29:35",
"text": "And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, \u201cThis time I will praise Yahweh.\u201d Therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased bearing children. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:1",
"text": " When Rachel saw that she could not bear children to Jacob, Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Jacob, \u201cGive me children\u2014if not, I will die!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:2",
"text": "And Jacob \u231ebecame angry\u231f with Rachel. And he said, \u201cAm I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:3",
"text": "Then she said, \u201cHere is my servant girl Bilhah; go in to her that she may bear children \u231eas my surrogate\u231f. Then I will even \u231ehave children\u231f by her.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:4",
"text": "Then she gave him Bilhah, her female servant, as a wife, and Jacob went in to her "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:5",
"text": "And Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son for Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:6",
"text": "Then Rachel said, \u201cGod has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.\u201d Therefore she called his name Dan. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:7",
"text": "And Bilhah, Rachel\u2019s servant, conceived again and bore a second son to Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:8",
"text": "And Rachel said, \u201cI have struggled a mighty struggle with my sister and have prevailed.\u201d And she called his name Naphtali. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:9",
"text": "When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:10",
"text": "And Zilpah, the female slave of Leah, bore a son to Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:11",
"text": "Then Leah said, \u201cGood fortune!\u201d And she called his name Gad. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:12",
"text": "And Zilpah, Leah\u2019s female servant, bore a second son to Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:13",
"text": "Then Leah said, \u201cHow happy am I! For women have called me happy.\u201d So she called his name Asher. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:14",
"text": " And in the days of the wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and he brought them to Leah his mother. And Rachel said to Leah, \u201cPlease give me some of your son\u2019s mandrakes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:15",
"text": "And she said to her, \u201cIs your taking my husband such a small thing that you will also take the mandrakes of my son?\u201d Then Rachel said, \u201cThen he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son\u2019s mandrakes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:16",
"text": "When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him. And she said, \u201cCome in to me, for \u231eI have hired\u231f you with my son\u2019s mandrakes.\u201d And he slept with her that night. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:17",
"text": "And God listened to Leah and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:18",
"text": "Then Leah said, \u201cGod has given me my wage since I gave my servant girl to my husband.\u201d And she called his name Issachar. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:19",
"text": "And Leah conceived again and gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:20",
"text": "And Leah said, \u201cGod has endowed me with a good gift. This time my husband will acknowledge me, because I bore him six sons.\u201d And she called his name Zebulun. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:21",
"text": "And afterward she gave birth to a daughter. And she called her name Dinah. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:22",
"text": "Then God remembered Rachel and listened to her, and God opened her womb. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:23",
"text": "And she conceived and gave birth to a son. And she said, \u201cGod has taken away my disgrace.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:24",
"text": "And she called his name Joseph, saying, \u201cYahweh has added to me another son.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:25",
"text": " And it happened that as soon as Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, \u201cSend me away that I may go to my place and my land. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:26",
"text": "Give me my wives and my children for which I have served you, and let me go. For you yourself know my service that I have rendered to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:27",
"text": "But Laban said to him, \u201cPlease, if I have found favor in your eyes, I have learned by divination that Yahweh has blessed me because of you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:28",
"text": "And he said, \u201cName your wage to me and I will give it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:29",
"text": "Then he said to him, \u201cYou yourself know how I have served you and how your livestock have been with me. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:30",
"text": "For you had little before me, and it has increased abundantly. And Yahweh has blessed you \u231ewherever I turned\u231f. So then, when shall I provide for my own family also?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:31",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWhat shall I give you?\u201d And Jacob said, \u201cDo not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flocks and keep them. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:32",
"text": "Let me pass through all your flocks today, removing all the speckled and spotted sheep from them, along with every dark-colored sheep among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. That shall be my wages. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:33",
"text": "And my righteousness will answer for me \u231elater\u231f when you come concerning my wages before you. Every one that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or dark-colored among the sheep shall be stolen if it is with me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:34",
"text": "Then Laban said, \u201cLook! Very well. It shall be according to your word.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:35",
"text": "But that day he removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, all that had white on it, and every dark-colored ram, and \u231eput them in the charge of his sons\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:36",
"text": "And he put a journey of three days between him and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the remainder of Laban\u2019s flock. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:37",
"text": "Then Jacob took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled white strips on them, exposing the white which was on the branches. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:38",
"text": "And he set the branches that he had peeled in front of the flocks, in the troughs and in the water containers. And they were in heat when they came to drink. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:39",
"text": "And the flocks mated by the branches, so the flocks bore streaked, speckled, and spotted. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:40",
"text": "And Jacob separated the lambs and turned the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark-colored in Laban\u2019s flocks. And he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with the flocks of Laban. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:41",
"text": "And whenever any of the stronger of the flocks were in heat, Jacob put the branches \u231ein full view\u231f of the flock in the troughs that they might mate among the branches. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:42",
"text": "But with the more feeble of the flock he would not put them there. So the feebler were Laban\u2019s and the stronger were Jacob\u2019s. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Genesis 30:43",
"text": "And the man became \u231eexceedingly\u231f rich and had large flocks, female slaves, male slaves, camels, and donkeys. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:1",
"text": " Now he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, \u201cJacob has taken all that our father has,\u201d and \u201cFrom that which was our father\u2019s he has gained all this wealth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:2",
"text": "Then Jacob saw the face of Laban and, behold, \u231eit was not like it had been in the past\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:3",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Jacob, \u201cReturn to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:4",
"text": "So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flocks, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:5",
"text": "and he said to them, \u201cLook, I see the face of your father, that \u231eit is not like it has been toward me in the past\u231f. But the God of my father is with me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:6",
"text": "Now you yourselves know that I have served your father with all my strength, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:7",
"text": "and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:8",
"text": "If thus he said, \u2018Speckled shall be your wage,\u2019 then all the flock bore speckled. And if he said, \u2018Streaked shall be your wage,\u2019 then all the flock bore streaked. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:9",
"text": "God has taken away your father\u2019s livestock and given them to me. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:10",
"text": "Now it happened that at the time of the mating of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams mounting the flock were streaked, speckled, and dappled. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:11",
"text": "Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, \u2018Jacob,\u2019 and I said, \u2018Here I am.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:12",
"text": "And he said, \u2018Lift up your eyes and see\u2014all the rams mounting the flock are streaked, speckled, and dappled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:13",
"text": "I am the God of Bethel where you anointed a stone pillar, where you made a vow to me. Now get up, go out from this land and return to the land of your birth.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:14",
"text": "Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, \u201cIs there yet a portion for us, and an inheritance in the house of our father? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:15",
"text": "Are we not regarded as foreigners by him, because he has sold us and completely consumed our money? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:16",
"text": "For all the wealth that God has taken away from our father, it belongs to us and to our sons. So now, all that God has said to you, do.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:17",
"text": "Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on the camels. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:18",
"text": "And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:19",
"text": " Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:20",
"text": "And Jacob \u231etricked\u231f Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he intended to flee. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:21",
"text": "Then he fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphrates and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:22",
"text": "And on the third day it was told to Laban that Jacob had fled. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:23",
"text": "Then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after him, a seven-day journey, and he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:24",
"text": "And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, \u201c\u231eTake care\u231f that you not speak with Jacob, whether good or evil.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:25",
"text": "And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his kinsmen pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:26",
"text": "Then Laban said to Jacob, \u201cWhat have you done that you \u231etricked me\u231f and have carried off my daughters like captives of the sword? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:27",
"text": "Why did you hide your intention to flee and \u231etrick me\u231f, and did not tell me so that I would have sent you away with joy and song and tambourine and lyre? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:28",
"text": "And why did you not give me opportunity to kiss my grandsons and my daughters goodbye? Now you have behaved foolishly by doing this. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:29",
"text": "\u231eIt is in my power\u231f to do harm to you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night saying, \u2018\u231eTake care\u231f from speaking with Jacob, whether good or evil.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:30",
"text": "Now, you have surely gone because you desperately longed for the house of your father, but why did you steal my gods?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:31",
"text": "Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, \u201cBecause I was afraid, for I thought, \u2018Lest you take your daughters from me by force.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:32",
"text": "But with whomever you find your gods, he shall not live. In the presence of your kinsmen now identify what is with me that is yours and take it.\u201d Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:33",
"text": "Then Laban went into Jacob\u2019s tent and Leah\u2019s tent and the tent of the two female servants and did not find his gods. And he came out of Leah\u2019s tent and went into Rachel\u2019s tent. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:34",
"text": "Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them in the saddle bag of the camel and sat on them. And Jacob searched the whole tent thoroughly but did not find them. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:35",
"text": "And she said to her father, \u201cLet there not be anger in the eyes of my lord, for I am not able to rise before you, for the way of women is with me. And he searched carefully and did not find the idols. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:36",
"text": "Then Jacob became angry and quarreled with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, \u201cWhat is my offense? What is my sin that you pursued after me? "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:37",
"text": "For you have searched all my possessions and what did you find among all the possessions of my household? Set it before my kinsmen and your kinsmen that they may decide between the two of us! "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:38",
"text": "These twenty years I was with you; your ewes and your female goats did not miscarry, and the rams of your flocks I did not eat. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:39",
"text": "I brought no mangled carcass to you\u2014I bore its loss. From my hand you sought it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:40",
"text": "There I was, during the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:41",
"text": "These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:42",
"text": "If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, indeed now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my misery and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:43",
"text": "Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, \u201cThe daughters are my daughters and the grandsons are my grandsons, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see, it is mine. Now, what can I do for these my daughters today, or for their children whom they have borne? "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:44",
"text": "So now, come, let us \u231emake\u231f a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:45",
"text": "And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a stone pillar. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:46",
"text": "And Jacob said to his kinsmen, \u201cGather stones.\u201d And they took stones and made a pile of stones, and they ate there by the pile of stones. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:47",
"text": "And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:48",
"text": "Then Laban said, \u201cThis pile of stones is a witness between me and you today.\u201d Therefore its name is called Galeed, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:49",
"text": "and Mizpah, because he said, \u201cYahweh watch between me and you when \u231ewe are out of sight of each other\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:50",
"text": "If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, when there is no man with us, see\u2014God is a witness between me and you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:51",
"text": "And Laban said to Jacob, \u201cSee, this pile of stones, and see the pillar that I have set up between me and you. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:52",
"text": "This pile of stones is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile of stones to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile of stones and this pillar to me intending harm. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:53",
"text": "May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father judge between us.\u201d Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:54",
"text": "And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the hill, and he called his kinsmen to eat the meal. And they ate the meal and spent the night on the hill. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Genesis 31:55",
"text": " And Laban arose early in the morning and kissed his grandsons and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his homeland. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:1",
"text": " And Jacob went on his way, and angels of God met him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:2",
"text": "And when he saw them, Jacob said, \u201cThis is the camp of God!\u201d And he called the name of that place Mahanaim. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:3",
"text": " Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the territory of Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:4",
"text": "And he instructed them, saying, \u201cThus you must say to my lord, to Esau, \u2018Thus says your servant Jacob, I have dwelled as an alien with Laban, and I have remained there until now. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:5",
"text": "And I have acquired cattle, male donkeys, flocks, and male and female slaves, and I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:6",
"text": "And the messengers returned to Jacob and said, \u201cWe came to your brother, to Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:7",
"text": "Then Jacob was very frightened and distressed. So he divided the people, flocks, cattle, and camels that were with him into two companies. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:8",
"text": "And he thought, \u201cIf Esau comes to one company and destroys it, the remaining company will be able to escape.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:9",
"text": "Then Jacob said, \u201cO God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, \u2018Return to your land and to your family, and I will deal well with you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:10",
"text": "\u231eI am not worthy\u231f of all the loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:11",
"text": "Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children alike. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:12",
"text": "Now you yourself said, \u2018I will surely deal well with you and make your offspring as the sand of the sea that cannot be counted for abundance.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:13",
"text": " And he lodged there that night. Then he took \u231efrom what he had with him\u231f a gift for Esau his brother: "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:14",
"text": "two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, twenty rams, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:15",
"text": "thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:16",
"text": "And he put them under the hand of his servants, \u231eherd by herd\u231f, and said to his servants, \u201cCross on ahead before me, and put some distance \u231ebetween herds\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:17",
"text": "And he instructed the foremost, saying, \u201cWhen Esau my brother comes upon you and asks you, saying, \u2018Whose are you and where are you going? To whom do these animals belong ahead of you?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:18",
"text": "Then you must say, \u2018To your servant, to Jacob. It is a gift sent to my lord, to Esau. Now behold, he is also coming after us.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:19",
"text": "And he also instructed the second servant and the third, and everyone else who was behind the herds, saying, \u201cYou must speak to Esau according to this word when you find him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:20",
"text": "And moreover, you shall say, \u2018Look, your servant Jacob is behind us.\u2019\u00a0\u201d For he thought, \u201c\u231eLet me appease him\u231f with the gift going before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will \u231eshow me favor\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:21",
"text": "So the gift passed on before him, but he himself spent that night in the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:22",
"text": " That night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:23",
"text": "And he took them and sent them across the stream. Then he sent across all his possessions. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:24",
"text": "And Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the dawn. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:25",
"text": "And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck his hip socket, so that Jacob\u2019s hip socket was sprained as he wrestled with him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:26",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cLet me go, for dawn is breaking.\u201d But he answered, \u201cI will not let you go unless you bless me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:27",
"text": "Then he said to him, \u201cWhat is your name?\u201d And he said, \u201cJacob.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:28",
"text": "And he said, \u201cYour name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:29",
"text": "Then Jacob asked and said, \u201cPlease tell me your name.\u201d And he said, \u201cWhy do you ask this\u2014for my name?\u201d And he blessed him there. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:30",
"text": "Then Jacob called the name of the place Peniel which means \u201cI have seen God face to face and my life was spared.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:31",
"text": "Then the sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Genesis 32:32",
"text": "Therefore the \u231eIsraelites\u231f do not eat the sinew of the sciatic nerve that is upon the socket of the hip unto this day, because he struck the socket of the thigh of Jacob at the sinew of the sciatic nerve. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:1",
"text": " And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, Esau was coming and four hundred men were with him. And he divided the children among Leah and among Rachel, and among the two of his female servants. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:2",
"text": "And he put the female slaves and their children first, then Leah and her children next, then Rachel with Joseph last. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:3",
"text": "And he himself passed on before them and bowed down to the ground seven times until he came to his brother. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:4",
"text": "But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell upon his neck and kissed him, and they wept. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:5",
"text": "Then Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, \u201cWho are these with you?\u201d And he said, \u201cThe children whom God has graciously given your servant.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:6",
"text": "Then the female servants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed down. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:7",
"text": "Then Leah and her children drew near and bowed down, and afterward Joseph and Rachel drew near and they bowed down. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:8",
"text": "And he said, \u201c\u231eWhat do you mean by\u231f all this company that I have met?\u201d Then he said, \u201cTo find favor in the eyes of my lord.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:9",
"text": "Then Esau said, \u201c\u231eI have enough\u231f my brother; \u231ekeep what you have\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:10",
"text": "And Jacob said, \u201cNo, please, if I have found favor in your eyes, you must take my gift from my hand, for then I have seen your face which is like seeing the face of God, and you have received me. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:11",
"text": "Please take my gift which has been brought to you, for God has dealt graciously with me, and because \u231eI have enough\u231f.\u201d And he urged him, so he took it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:12",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cLet us journey and go on, and I will go ahead of you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:13",
"text": "But he said to him, \u201cMy lord knows that the children are frail, and the flocks and the cattle which are nursing are a concern to me. Now if they drove them hard for a day all the flocks would die. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:14",
"text": "Let my lord pass on before his servant and I will move along slowly at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me, and at the pace of the children until I come to my lord in Seir.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:15",
"text": "And Esau said, \u201cLet me leave some of my people with you.\u201d But he said, \u201c\u231eWhat need is there\u231f? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:16",
"text": "So Esau turned that day on his way to Seir. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:17",
"text": "But Jacob traveled on to Succoth, and he built for himself a house, and he made shelters for his livestock. Therefore he called the name of the place Succoth. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:18",
"text": "And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem which is in the land of Canaan, \u231eon his way\u231f from Paddan-Aram. And he camped before the city. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:19",
"text": "And he bought a piece of land where he pitched his tent for one hundred pieces of money from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Genesis 33:20",
"text": "And there he erected an altar and called it \u201cEl Elohe Israel.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:1",
"text": " Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:2",
"text": "And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. And he took her and lay with her and raped her. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:3",
"text": "And his soul clung to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke \u231etenderly\u231f to the girl. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:4",
"text": "So Shechem said to Hamor his father, saying, \u201cGet this girl for me as a wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:5",
"text": " And Jacob heard that Dinah his daughter had been defiled, but his sons were with his flocks in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they came. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:6",
"text": "And Hamor, father of Shechem, went out to Jacob to speak with him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:7",
"text": "And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were distressed and very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by having sexual relations with the daughter of Jacob\u2014\u231esomething that\u231f should not be done. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:8",
"text": "And Hamor spoke with them saying, \u201cShechem my son \u231eis in love with\u231f your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:9",
"text": "Make marriages with us. Give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:10",
"text": "You shall dwell with us and the land shall be before you; settle and trade in it, and acquire property in it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:11",
"text": "Then Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, \u201cLet me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will do. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:12",
"text": "\u231eMake the bride price and gift as high as you like\u231f; I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:13",
"text": "Then the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor speaking deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:14",
"text": "And they said to them, \u201cWe cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a disgrace for us. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:15",
"text": "Only on this condition will we give consent to you; if you will become like us\u2014every male among you to be circumcised. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:16",
"text": "Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take for ourselves your daughters, and we will live with you and become one family. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:17",
"text": "But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughters and we will go.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:18",
"text": "And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem, the son of Hamor. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:19",
"text": "And the young man did not delay to do the thing, for he wanted the daughter of Jacob. Now he was the most honored of his father\u2019s house. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:20",
"text": "Then Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:21",
"text": "\u201cThese men are at peace with us. Let them dwell in the land and let them trade in it. Now, behold, the land is \u231ebroad enough for them\u231f. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give our daughters to them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:22",
"text": "Only on this condition will they give consent to us, to live with us and to become one family\u2014when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:23",
"text": "Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us give consent to them so they will live among us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:24",
"text": "And all those who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and Shechem. Every male was circumcised, all those who went out of the gate of his city. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:25",
"text": "And it happened that on the third day, while they were in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, each took his sword and came against the unsuspecting city and killed all the males. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:26",
"text": "They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem and went out. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:27",
"text": "The other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:28",
"text": "They took their flocks and their cattle and their donkeys, and whatever was in the field. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:29",
"text": "They captured and plundered all that was in the houses\u2014all their wealth, their little ones, and their women. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:30",
"text": "Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, \u201cYou have brought trouble on me, making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites! I am few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed\u2014I and my household!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Genesis 34:31",
"text": "But they said, \u201cShall he treat our sister like a prostitute?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:1",
"text": " And God said to Jacob, \u201cArise, go up to Bethel and dwell there, and make an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from before Esau your brother.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:2",
"text": "Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, \u201cGet rid of the foreign gods that are in your midst and purify yourselves and change your garments. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:3",
"text": "Then let us make ready and let us go up to Bethel, so that I can make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my trouble, and who has been with me on the way that I have gone.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:4",
"text": "So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands, and the ornamental rings that were in their ears. And Jacob buried them under the oak which was near Shechem. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:5",
"text": "Then they set out on their journey, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, so that they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:6",
"text": "And Jacob came to Luz which was in the land of Canaan (that is Bethel), he and all the people that were with him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:7",
"text": "And he built an altar there and called the place El-Bethel, for there God had appeared to him when he fled before his brother. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:8",
"text": "And Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died. And she was buried below Bethel, under the oak. And its name was called Allon-Bacuth. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:9",
"text": "And God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-Aram, and he blessed him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:10",
"text": "And God said to him, \u201cYour name is Jacob. Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.\u201d Then his name was called Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:11",
"text": "And God said to him, \u201cI am El-Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assemblage of nations shall be from you, and kings shall go out from your loins. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:12",
"text": "And as for the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, I will give it to you. And to your descendants after you I will give the land. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:13",
"text": "And God went up from him at the place where he spoke with him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:14",
"text": "And Jacob set up a pillar at the place where God had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. And he poured out a drink offering upon it, and poured oil on it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:15",
"text": "And Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:16",
"text": " Then they journeyed from Bethel. And \u231ewhen they were still some distance\u231f from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. And she had hard labor. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:17",
"text": "And \u231ewhen her labor was the most difficult\u231f the midwife said to her, \u201cDo not be afraid \u231efor you have another son\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:18",
"text": "And it happened that when her life was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-Oni. But his father called him Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:19",
"text": "And Rachel died and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:20",
"text": "And Jacob erected a pillar at her burial site. That is the pillar of the burial site of Rachel unto this day. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:21",
"text": "And Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:22",
"text": "And while Israel was living in that land Reuben went and had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father\u2019s concubine. And Israel heard about it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:23",
"text": "The sons of Leah: The firstborn of Jacob was Reuben. Then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:24",
"text": "The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:25",
"text": "The sons of Bilhah, the female servant of Rachel: Dan and Naphtali. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:26",
"text": "The sons of Zilpah, the female servant of Leah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-Aram. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:27",
"text": " And Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre, or Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac dwelled as aliens. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:28",
"text": "Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Genesis 35:29",
"text": "And Isaac passed away and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:1",
"text": " Now these are the descendants of Esau (that is, Edom). "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:2",
"text": "Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah, daughter of Elon, the Hittite, and Oholibamah, daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:3",
"text": "and Basemath, the daughter of Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:4",
"text": "And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:5",
"text": "and Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:6",
"text": "And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the persons of his household, and his sheep and goats, and all his cattle, and all the goods that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to a land away from his brother Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:7",
"text": "For their possessions were \u231etoo many to live together\u231f, so that the land of their sojourning was not able to support them on account of their livestock. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:8",
"text": "So Esau dwelled in the hill country of Seir (Esau, that is Edom). "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:9",
"text": " Now these are the descendants of Esau, the father of Edom, in the hill country of Seir. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:10",
"text": "These are the names of the sons of Esau: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:11",
"text": "The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:12",
"text": "(Now Timnah was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau. And she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, the wife of Esau. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:13",
"text": "Now these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:14",
"text": "Now these are the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, the wife of Esau: She bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:15",
"text": "These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: the chiefs of Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:16",
"text": "Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:17",
"text": "Now these are the sons Reuel, the son of Esau: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:18",
"text": "Now these are the sons of Oholibamah, the wife of Esau: the chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the chiefs born of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the wife of Esau. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:19",
"text": "These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs (that is, Edom). "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:20",
"text": "These are the sons of Seir, the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:21",
"text": "Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:22",
"text": "And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam. And Lotan\u2019s sister was Timna. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:23",
"text": "Now these are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:24",
"text": "Now these are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah\u2014he is Anah who found the hot springs in the desert while he pastured the donkeys of Zibeon his father. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:25",
"text": "Now these are the sons of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:26",
"text": "Now these are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:27",
"text": "These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:28",
"text": "These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:29",
"text": "These are the chiefs of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:30",
"text": "Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:31",
"text": " Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:32",
"text": "Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom. And the name of his city was Dinhabah. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:33",
"text": "And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah from Bozrah, reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:34",
"text": "And Jobab died, and Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:35",
"text": "And Husham died, and Hadad, son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the field of Moab reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:36",
"text": "And Hadad died, and Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:37",
"text": "And Samlah died, and Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:38",
"text": "And Shaul died, and Baal-Hanan, the son of Acbor, reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:39",
"text": "And Baal-Hanan the son of Acbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Pau, and the name of his wife was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:40",
"text": "Now these are the names of the chiefs of Esau according to their families, according to their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:41",
"text": "Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:42",
"text": "Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Genesis 36:43",
"text": "Magdiel, and Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of Edom) according to their settlements in the land of their possession. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:1",
"text": " And Jacob settled in the land of the sojourning of his father, in the land of Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:2",
"text": "These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers. Now he was a helper with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:3",
"text": "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, for he was a son of his old age. And he made a robe with long sleeves for him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:4",
"text": "When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and were not able to speak peaceably to him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:5",
"text": " And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers. And \u231ethey hated him even more\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:6",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cListen now to this dream that I dreamed. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:7",
"text": "Now behold, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field and, behold, my sheaf stood up and it remained standing. Then behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:8",
"text": "Then his brothers said to him, \u201cWill you really rule over us?\u201d And \u231ethey hated him even more\u231f on account of his dream and because of his words. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:9",
"text": "Then he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers. And he said, \u201cBehold, I dreamed a dream again, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:10",
"text": "And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, \u201cWhat is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:11",
"text": "And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:12",
"text": " Now his brothers went to pasture the flock of their father in Shechem. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:13",
"text": "And Israel said to Joseph, \u201cAre not your brothers pasturing in Shechem? Come, let me send you to them.\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:14",
"text": "Then he said to him, \u201cGo now, see \u231eif it goes well for your brothers and for the flock\u231f, then return word to me.\u201d And he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he arrived at Shechem. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:15",
"text": "And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering about in a field. And the man asked him, \u201cWhat do you seek?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:16",
"text": "And he said, \u201cI am seeking my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are pasturing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:17",
"text": "And the man said, \u201cThey have moved on from here, for I heard them saying, \u2018Let us go to Dothan.\u2019\u00a0\u201d Then Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:18",
"text": "And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:19",
"text": "And each said to his brothers, \u201cLook, this master of dreams is coming. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:20",
"text": "Now then, come, let us kill him and throw him in one of the pits. Then we will say a wild animal devoured him. Then we will see what his dreams become.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:21",
"text": "And Reuben heard it and delivered him from their hand and said, \u201cWe must not take his life.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:22",
"text": "And Reuben said to them, \u201cYou must not shed blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him\u201d\u2014so that he might rescue him from their hand to return him to his father. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:23",
"text": "And it happened that as Joseph came to his brothers they stripped Joseph of his robe, the robe with long sleeves, that was upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:24",
"text": "And they took him and threw him into the pit (the pit was empty; there was no water in it). "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:25",
"text": "Then they sat down to eat some food. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead. And their camels were carrying aromatic gum and balm and spices \u231eon the way\u231f to Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:26",
"text": "Then Judah said to his brothers, \u201cWhat profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:27",
"text": "Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, but our hand shall not be against him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.\u201d And his brothers agreed. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:28",
"text": "Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and brought him up from the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:29",
"text": "Then Reuben returned to the pit and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:30",
"text": "And he returned to his brothers and said, \u201cThe boy \u231eis gone\u231f! Now I, \u231ewhat can I do\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:31",
"text": "Then they took the robe of Joseph and slaughtered a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:32",
"text": "Then they sent the robe with long sleeves and they brought it to their father and said, \u201cWe found this; please examine it. Is it the robe of your son or not?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:33",
"text": "And he recognized it and said, \u201cThe robe of my son! A wild animal has devoured him! Joseph is surely torn to pieces!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:34",
"text": "And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:35",
"text": "And all his sons and daughters tried to console him, but he refused to be consoled. And he said, \u201cNo, I shall go down to my son, to Sheol, mourning.\u201d And his father wept for him. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Genesis 37:36",
"text": "And the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, a commander of the imperial guard. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:1",
"text": " And it happened that at that time Judah went down from his brothers and pitched his tent near a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:2",
"text": "And Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite there whose name was Shua. And he took her and went in to her. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:3",
"text": "And she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:4",
"text": "And she conceived again and bore a son, and he called his name Onan. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:5",
"text": "And once again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. And he was in Chezib when she bore him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:6",
"text": "And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:7",
"text": "And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh killed him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:8",
"text": "Then Judah said to Onan, \u201cGo in to the wife of your brother and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:9",
"text": "But Onan knew that the offspring would not be for him, so whenever he went in to the wife of his brother he would waste it on the ground so as not to give offspring to his brother. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:10",
"text": "And what he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, so he killed him also. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:11",
"text": "Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, \u201cStay a widow in your father\u2019s house until Shelah my son grows up,\u201d for \u231ehe feared he would also die\u231f like his brother. So Tamar went and stayed in the house of her father. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:12",
"text": "\u231eAnd in the course of time\u231f the daughter of Shua, the wife of Judah, died. When Judah was consoled he went up to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite, to Timnah. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:13",
"text": "And it was told to Tamar, saying, \u201cLook, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:14",
"text": "So she removed the clothes of her widowhood and covered herself with the veil and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance to Eynayim, which is on the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown but she had not been given to him as a wife. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:15",
"text": "And Judah saw her and reckoned her to be a prostitute, for she had covered her face. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:16",
"text": "And he turned aside to her at the roadside and said, \u201cPlease come, let me come in to you,\u201d for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, \u201cWhat will you give to me that you may come in to me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:17",
"text": "And he said, \u201cI will send a kid from the goats of the flock.\u201d And she said, \u201cOnly if you give a pledge until you send it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:18",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWhat is the pledge that I must give to you?\u201d And she said, \u201cyour seal, your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.\u201d And he gave them to her and went in to her. And she conceived by him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:19",
"text": "And she arose and left, and she removed her veil from herself and put on the garments of her widowhood. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:20",
"text": "And Judah sent the kid from the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the hand of the woman, but he could not find her. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:21",
"text": "So he asked the men of her place, saying, \u201cWhere is that cult prostitute that was at Eynayim by the roadside?\u201d And they said, \u201cThere is no cult prostitute here.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:22",
"text": "Then he returned to Judah and said, \u201cI could not find her. Morever, the men of the place said, \u2018There is no cult prostitute here.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:23",
"text": "And Judah said, \u201cLet her take them for herself, lest we be \u231elaughed at\u231f. Behold, I sent this kid, but you could not find her.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:24",
"text": "And \u231eabout three months later\u231f it was told to Judah, \u201cTamar your daughter-in-law has played the whore, and now, behold, she has conceived by prostitution.\u201d And Judah said, \u201cBring her out and let her be burned.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:25",
"text": "She was brought out, but she sent to her father-in-law saying, \u201cBy the man to whom these belong I have conceived.\u201d And she said, \u201cNow discern to whom these belong: the seal and cord and the staff.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:26",
"text": "Then Judah recognized them and said, \u201cShe is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.\u201d And he did not know her again. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:27",
"text": "And it happened that at the time she gave birth that, behold, twins were in her womb. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:28",
"text": "And it happened that at her labor one child put out a hand. And the midwife took it and tied a crimson thread on his hand saying, \u201cThis one came out first.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:29",
"text": "Then his hand drew back and, behold, his brother came out, and she said, \u201cWhat a breach you have made for yourself!\u201d And she called his name Perez. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Genesis 38:30",
"text": "And afterward his brother who had the crimson thread on his hand came out. And his name was called Zerah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:1",
"text": " Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, commander of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:2",
"text": "And Yahweh was with Joseph, and he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:3",
"text": "And his master observed that Yahweh was with him, and everything that was in his hand to do Yahweh made successful. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:4",
"text": "And Joseph found favor in his eyes and he served him. Then he appointed him over his house and all that he owned he put into his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:5",
"text": "And it happened that from the time he appointed him over his house and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the house of the Egyptian on account of Joseph. And the blessing of Yahweh was upon all that he had in the house and in the field. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:6",
"text": "And he left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and \u231ehe did not worry about anything\u231f except the food that he ate. Now Joseph was \u231ewell built and handsome\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:7",
"text": "And it happened that after these things his master\u2019s wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and she said, \u201cLie with me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:8",
"text": "But he refused and said to his master\u2019s wife, \u201cLook, my master \u231edoes not worry about\u231f what is in the house, and everything he owns he has put in my hand. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:9",
"text": "He has no greater authority in this house than me, and he has not withheld anything from me except you, since you are his wife. Now how could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:10",
"text": "And it happened that as she spoke to Joseph \u231eday after day\u231f, he did not heed her to lie beside her or to be with her. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:11",
"text": "\u231eBut one particular day\u231f he came into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house were there in the house, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:12",
"text": "she seized him by his garment and said, \u201cLie with me!\u201d And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and he went outside. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:13",
"text": "And it happened that when she saw that he left his garment in her hand and fled outside, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:14",
"text": "she called to the men of her house and said to them, \u201cLook! He brought a Hebrew man to us to mock us! He came to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:15",
"text": "And when he heard me, that I raised my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me and fled, and he went outside.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:16",
"text": "Then she put his garment beside her until his master came to his house. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:17",
"text": "Then she spoke to him according to these words, saying, \u201cThe Hebrew slave that you brought to us came to me to make fun of me. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:18",
"text": "And it happened that as I raised my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:19",
"text": "And when his master heard the words of his wife that she spoke to him, \u201c\u231eThis is what your servant did to me\u231f,\u201d \u231ehe became very angry\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:20",
"text": "And Joseph\u2019s master took him and put him into prison, the place that the king\u2019s prisoners were confined. And he was there in prison. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:21",
"text": "And Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed loyal love to him, and gave him favor in the eyes of the chief of the prison. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:22",
"text": "And the chief of the prison put all the prisoners that were in the prison into the hand of Joseph. And everything that was done there, he was the one who did it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Genesis 39:23",
"text": "The chief of the prison \u231edid not worry about\u231f anything in his hand, since Yahweh was with him. And whatever he did Yahweh made it successful. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:1",
"text": " And it happened that after these things the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker did wrong against their lord, against the king of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:2",
"text": "And Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief cupbearer and chief baker. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:3",
"text": "And he put them in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, into the prison where Joseph was confined. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:4",
"text": "And the chief of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. And they were in custody \u231emany days\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:5",
"text": "And the two of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, each his own dream, with its own interpretation. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:6",
"text": "When Joseph came to them in the morning he looked at them, and behold, they were troubled. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:7",
"text": "And he asked the court officials of Pharaoh that were with him in the custody of his master\u2019s house, \u201cWhy are your faces sad today?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:8",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cWe each dreamed a dream, but there is no one to interpret it.\u201d And Joseph said to them, \u201cDo not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:9",
"text": "Then the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and he said to him, \u201cIn my dream, now behold, there was a vine before me, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:10",
"text": "and on the vine were three branches. And as it budded, its blossoms came up, and its clusters of grapes grew ripe. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:11",
"text": "And the cup of Pharaoh was in my hand, and I took the grapes and squeezed them into the cup of Pharaoh. Then I placed the cup into the hand of Pharaoh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:12",
"text": "Then Joseph said to him, \u201cThis is its interpretation: The three branches, they are three days. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:13",
"text": "In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and will restore you to your office. And you shall put the cup of Pharaoh into his hand as was formerly the custom, when you were his cupbearer. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:14",
"text": "But remember me when it goes well with you, and please may you show kindness with respect to me, and mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:15",
"text": "For I was surely kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me in this pit.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:16",
"text": "And when the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good he said to Joseph, \u201cI also dreamed. In my dream, now behold, there were three baskets of bread upon my head. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:17",
"text": "And in the upper basket were all sorts of baked foods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket upon my head.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:18",
"text": "Then Joseph answered and said, \u201cThis is its interpretation: The three baskets, they are three days. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:19",
"text": "In three days Pharaoh will lift your head from you and hang you on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh from you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:20",
"text": "And it happened that on the third day, which was Pharaoh\u2019s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:21",
"text": "And he restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing position. And he placed the cup in the hand of Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:22",
"text": "But the chief baker he hanged as Joseph had interpreted to them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Genesis 40:23",
"text": "But the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:1",
"text": " And it happened that after \u231etwo full years\u231f Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he was standing by the Nile. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:2",
"text": "And behold, seven cows, \u231ewell built and fat\u231f, were coming up from the Nile, and they grazed among the reeds. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:3",
"text": "And behold, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, \u231eugly and gaunt\u231f, and they stood beside those cows on the bank of the Nile. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:4",
"text": "And the \u231eugly and gaunt\u231f cows ate the seven \u231ewell built and fat\u231f cows. Then Pharaoh awoke. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:5",
"text": "And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time, and behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were coming out of one stalk. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:6",
"text": "And behold, seven thin ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:7",
"text": "And the thin ears of grain swallowed up the seven plump and full ears of grain. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:8",
"text": "And it happened that in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called all of the magicians of Egypt, and all its wise men, and Pharaoh told his dream to them. But \u231ethey had no interpretation\u231f for Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:9",
"text": "Then the chief of the cupbearers spoke with Pharaoh, saying, \u201cI remember my sins today. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:10",
"text": "Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the house of the chief of the guard. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:11",
"text": "And we dreamed a dream one night, I and he, \u231eeach with a dream that had a meaning\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:12",
"text": "And there with us was a young man, a Hebrew servant of the chief of the guard, and we told him the dream, and he interpreted our dreams for us, each according to his dream he interpreted. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:13",
"text": "And it happened just as he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and him he hanged.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:14",
"text": "Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they brought him quickly from the prison. And he shaved and changed his clothing, and came to Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:15",
"text": "Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, \u201cI dreamed a dream, but there is none to interpret it. Now, I have heard concerning you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:16",
"text": "Then Joseph answered Pharaoh saying, \u201c\u231eIt is not in my power\u231f; God will answer concerning the well-being of Pharaoh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:17",
"text": "And Pharaoh said to Joseph, \u201cNow in my dream, behold, I was standing on the bank of the Nile, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:18",
"text": "and behold, seven cows, \u231ewell built and fat\u231f, were coming up from the Nile, and they grazed among the reeds. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:19",
"text": "And behold, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, very \u231eugly and gaunt\u231f\u2014never have I seen any as them in all the land of Egypt for ugliness. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:20",
"text": "And the thin and ugly cows ate the former seven healthy cows. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:21",
"text": "But when they went into their bellies it could not be known that they went into their bellies, for their appearance was as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:22",
"text": "Then I saw in my dream and behold, seven ears of grain were coming out of one stalk, full and good. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:23",
"text": "And behold, seven withered ears of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:24",
"text": "And the thin ears of grain swallowed up the seven good ears of grain. And I told the magicians, but there was none to explain it to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:25",
"text": "Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, \u201cThe dreams of Pharaoh are one. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:26",
"text": "The seven good cows, they are seven years, and the seven good ears of grain, they are seven years. The dreams are one. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:27",
"text": "And the seven thin and ugly cows coming up after them, they are seven years, and the seven empty ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, they are also seven years of famine. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:28",
"text": "This is the word that I have spoken to Pharaoh; God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:29",
"text": "Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:30",
"text": "Then seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will consume the land. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:31",
"text": "Abundance in the land will not be known because of the famine \u231ethat follows\u231f, for it will be very heavy. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:32",
"text": "Now concerning the repetition of the dream twice to Pharaoh, it is because the matter is established by God, and God will do it quickly. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:33",
"text": "Now then, let Pharaoh select a man who is discerning and wise, and let him set him over the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:34",
"text": "Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint supervisors over the land, and let him take one-fifth from the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:35",
"text": "Then let them gather all the food of these coming good years and let them pile up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:36",
"text": "Then the food shall be as a deposit for the land for the seven years of the famine that will be in the land of Egypt, that the land will not perish on account of the famine.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:37",
"text": " And the plan was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:38",
"text": "Then Pharaoh said to his servants, \u201cCan we find a man like this in whom is the spirit of God?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:39",
"text": "Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, \u201cSince God has made all of this known to you there is no one as discerning and wise as you. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:40",
"text": "You shall be over my house, and to your word all my people shall submit. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:41",
"text": "Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, \u201cSee, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:42",
"text": "Then Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his finger and put it on the finger of Joseph. And he clothed him with garments of fine linen, and he put a chain of gold around his neck. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:43",
"text": "And he had him ride in his second chariot. And they cried out before him, \u201cKneel!\u201d And Pharaoh set him over all the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:44",
"text": "Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, \u201cI am Pharaoh, but without your consent no one will lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:45",
"text": "And Pharaoh called the name of Joseph Zaphenath-paneah and gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:46",
"text": "Now Joseph \u231ewas thirty years old\u231f when he stood before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and traveled through the whole land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:47",
"text": "And the land produced a plenty in the seven years of abundance. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:48",
"text": "And he gathered all the food of the seven years which occurred in the land of Egypt. And he stored the food in the cities. The food of the field that surrounded each city he stored in its midst. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:49",
"text": "And Joseph piled up grain like the sand of the sea in great abundance until he stopped counting it, for \u231eit could not be counted\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:50",
"text": "Before the years of famine came, Asenath, daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore two sons to him. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:51",
"text": "And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for he said, \u201cGod has caused me to forget all my hardship and all my father\u2019s house.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:52",
"text": "And the name of the second he called Ephraim, for he said, \u201cGod has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortune.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:53",
"text": "And the seven years of abundance which were in the land of Egypt came to an end. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:54",
"text": "And the seven years of famine began to come as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all of the countries, but in the land of Egypt there was food. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:55",
"text": "And when all the land of Egypt was hungry the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. And Pharaoh said to all the land of Egypt, \u201cGo to Joseph; what he says to you, you must do.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:56",
"text": "And the famine was over the whole land, and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold food to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Genesis 41:57",
"text": "And every land came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, for the famine was severe in every land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:1",
"text": " When Jacob realized that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, \u201cWhy do you look at one another?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:2",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cLook, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us there that we may live and not die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:3",
"text": "And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:4",
"text": "But Jacob did not send Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, for \u231ehe feared harm would come to him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:5",
"text": "Then the sons of Israel went to buy grain amid those other people who went as well, for there was famine in the land of Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:6",
"text": "Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold food to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:7",
"text": "And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them. And he spoke with them harshly and said to them, \u201cFrom where have you come?\u201d And they said, \u201cFrom the land of Canaan to buy food.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:8",
"text": "And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:9",
"text": "And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed concerning them, and he said to them, \u201cYou are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:10",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cNo, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:11",
"text": "We all are sons of one man. We are honest men. We, your servants, are not spies.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:12",
"text": "Then he said to them, \u201cNo, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:13",
"text": "Then they said, \u201cWe, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, but behold, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:14",
"text": "But Joseph said to them, \u201cIt is what I said to you\u2014you are spies. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:15",
"text": "By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh you will not go out from here unless your youngest brother comes here. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:16",
"text": "Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, but you will be kept in prison so that your words might be tested to see if there is truth with you. And if not, by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:17",
"text": "Then he gathered them into the prison for three days. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:18",
"text": "On the third day Joseph said to them, \u201cDo this and you will live; I fear God. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:19",
"text": "If you are honest, let one of your brothers be kept in prison \u231ewhere you are now being kept\u231f, but the rest of you go, carry grain for the famine for your households. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:20",
"text": "You must bring your youngest brother to me, and then your words will be confirmed and you will not die.\u201d And they did so. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:21",
"text": "Then each said to his brother, \u201cSurely we are guilty on account of our brother when we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded for mercy to us and we would not listen. Therefore this trouble has come to us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:22",
"text": "Then Reuben answered them, saying, \u201cDid I not say to you, do not sin against the boy? But you did not listen, and now, behold, his blood has been sought.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:23",
"text": "Now they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:24",
"text": "And he turned away from them and wept. Then he returned to them and spoke to them, and took Simeon from them and tied him up in front of them. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:25",
"text": "Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to return their money to each sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. Thus he did for them. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:26",
"text": "Then they loaded their grain upon their donkeys and went away from there. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:27",
"text": "And one of them later opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at the lodging place and saw his money\u2014behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:28",
"text": "And he said to his brothers, \u201cMy money was returned and moreover, behold, it is in my sack!\u201d Then \u231etheir hearts failed them\u231f and each of them trembled and said, \u201cWhat is this God has done to us?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:29",
"text": " And when they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan they told him everything that had happened to them, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:30",
"text": "\u201cThe man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying out the land. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:31",
"text": "But we said to him, \u2018We are honest; we are not spies. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:32",
"text": "We are twelve brothers, the sons of our father. One is no more and the youngest is with our father now in the land of Canaan.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:33",
"text": "Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, \u2018By this I will know that you are honest. Leave one brother with me, and take food for the famine in your households and go. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:34",
"text": "And bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies but you are honest. And I will give your brother back to you, and you will trade in the land.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:35",
"text": "And it happened that when they emptied their sacks, behold, each one\u2019s pouch of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw the pouches of their money, they were greatly distressed. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:36",
"text": "And Jacob their father said to them, \u201cYou have bereaved me\u2014Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and Benjamin you would take! All of this is against me! "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:37",
"text": "Then Reuben said to his father, \u201cYou may kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hand and I myself will return him to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Genesis 42:38",
"text": "But he said, \u201cMy son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone remains. If harm meets him on the journey that you would take, you would bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:1",
"text": " Now the famine in the land was severe. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:2",
"text": "And it happened that as they finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt their father said to them, \u201cReturn and buy a little food for us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:3",
"text": "Then Judah said to him, \u201cThe man solemnly admonished us, saying, \u2018You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:4",
"text": "\u231eIf you will send\u231f our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:5",
"text": "but \u231eif you will not send\u231f him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, \u2018You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:6",
"text": "Then Israel said, \u201cWhy did you bring trouble to me by telling the man you still had a brother?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:7",
"text": "And they said, \u201cThe man asked explicitly about us and about our family, saying, \u2018Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?\u2019 And we answered him according to these words. How could we know that he would say, \u2018Bring down your brother\u2019?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:8",
"text": "Then Judah said to his father Israel, \u201cSend the boy with me, and let us arise and go, so that we will live and not die\u2014you, we, and our children. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:9",
"text": "I myself will be surety for him. You may seek him from my hand. If I do not bring him back to you and present him before you, then I will stand guilty before you forever. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:10",
"text": "Surely if we had not hesitated by this time we would have returned twice.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:11",
"text": "Then their father Israel said to them, \u201cIf it must be so then do this. Take some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift\u2014a little balm and honey, aromatic gum and myrrh, and pistachios and almonds. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:12",
"text": "And take double the money in your hands. Take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:13",
"text": "And take your brother. Now arise and return to the man. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:14",
"text": "And may El-Shaddai grant you compassion before the man that he may release your other brother to you and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:15",
"text": " So the men took this gift, and they took double money in their hands, and Benjamin, and they rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:16",
"text": "When Joseph saw Benjamin with them he said to the one who was over his household, \u201cBring the men into the house and slaughter and prepare an animal, for the men shall eat with me at noon.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:17",
"text": "And the man did as Joseph had said, and the man brought the men into the house of Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:18",
"text": "And the men were afraid when they were brought into the house of Joseph. And they said \u201cWe were brought here on account of the money that was returned to our sacks the first time, that he might attack us and fall upon us to take us as slaves with our donkeys.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:19",
"text": "So they approached the man who was over Joseph\u2019s house and spoke to him at the doorway of the house. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:20",
"text": "And they said, \u201cPlease, my lord, we surely came down once before to buy food, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:21",
"text": "but when we came to the place of lodging and we opened our sacks, then behold, each one\u2019s money was in the mouth of his sack\u2014our money in its full weight\u2014so we have returned with it in our hands. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:22",
"text": "Now, other money we have brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:23",
"text": "And he said, \u201cPeace to you; do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father must have given you a treasure in your sacks; your money came to me.\u201d And he brought Simeon out to them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:24",
"text": "Then the man brought the men into Joseph\u2019s house and he gave them water and washed their feet, and gave fodder to their donkeys. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:25",
"text": "Then they laid out the gift until Joseph came at noon, for they had heard that they were to eat food there. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:26",
"text": "And when Joseph came into the house they brought the gift that was in their hand into the house to him, and they bowed down before him to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:27",
"text": "And \u231ehe greeted them\u231f and said, \u201cIs your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:28",
"text": "And they said, \u201cYour servant our father is well; he is still alive.\u201d And they knelt and bowed down. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:29",
"text": "Then he lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, the son of his mother, and said, \u201cIs this your youngest brother of whom you told me?\u201d And he continued, \u201cGod be gracious to you, my son.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:30",
"text": "Then Joseph \u231ehurried away\u231f, \u231ebeing overcome with emotion\u231f toward his brother, and sought for a place to cry. Then he went into a room and wept there. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:31",
"text": "Then he washed his face and went out, now controlling himself, and said, \u201cServe the food.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:32",
"text": "And they served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, for Egyptians \u231ecould not dine\u231f with Hebrews, because that was a detestable thing to Egyptians. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:33",
"text": "And they were seated before him from the firstborn according to his birthright to the youngest according to his youth. And the men \u231elooked at one another\u231f amazed. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Genesis 43:34",
"text": "And portions were served to them from \u231ehis table\u231f, and the portion of Benjamin was five times greater than the portion of any of them. And they drank and became drunk with him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:1",
"text": " Then he commanded the one who was over his household, saying, \u201cFill the sacks of the men with food as much as they are able to carry, and put each one\u2019s money in the mouth of his sack. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:2",
"text": "And my cup\u2014the cup of silver\u2014you shall put into the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and the money for his grain. And he did according to the word of Joseph that he had commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:3",
"text": "When the morning light came the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:4",
"text": "They went out of the city, and had not gone far when Joseph said to the one who was over his house, \u201cArise! Pursue after the men and overtake them. Then you shall say to them, \u2018Why have you repaid evil for good? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:5",
"text": "Is this not that from which my master drinks? Now he himself certainly practices divination with it. You have done evil in what you have done.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:6",
"text": "When he overtook them he spoke these words to them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:7",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cWhy has my lord spoken according to these words? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:8",
"text": "Behold, the money that we found in the mouth of our sacks we returned to you from the land of Canaan. Now why would we steal silver or gold from the house of my lord? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:9",
"text": "Whoever is found with it from among your servants shall die. And moreover, we will become slaves to my lord.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:10",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cNow also according to your words, thus will it be. He who is found with it shall be my slave, but you shall be innocent.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:11",
"text": "Then each man quickly brought down his sack to the ground, and each one opened his sack. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:12",
"text": "And he searched, beginning with the oldest and finishing with the youngest. And the cup was found in the sack of Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:13",
"text": "Then they tore their clothes, and each one loaded his donkey and they returned to the city. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:14",
"text": " And Judah and his brothers came to the house of Joseph\u2014now he was still there\u2014they fell before him to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:15",
"text": "Then Joseph said to them, \u201cWhat is this deed that you have done? Did you not know that a man who is like me surely practices divination?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:16",
"text": "And Judah said, \u201cWhat can we say to my lord? What can we speak? Now how can we show ourselves innocent? God has found the guilt of your servants! Behold, we are slaves to my lord, both we and also he in whose hand the cup was found.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:17",
"text": "But he said, \u201cFar be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found, he will become my slave. But as for you, go up in peace to your father.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:18",
"text": "But Judah drew near to him and said, \u201cPlease my lord, let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and \u231elet not your anger burn\u231f against your servant, for \u231eyou are like Pharaoh himself\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:19",
"text": "My lord had asked his servants, saying, \u2018Do you have a father or a brother?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:20",
"text": "And we said to my lord, \u2018We have an aged father, and a younger brother, the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:21",
"text": "Then you said to your servants, \u2018Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes upon him.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:22",
"text": "Then we said to my lord, \u2018The boy cannot leave his father; if he should leave his father, then he would die.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:23",
"text": "Then you said to your servants, \u2018Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not again see my face.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:24",
"text": "And it happened that we went up to your servant, my father, and told him the words of my lord. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:25",
"text": "And when our father said, \u2018Buy a little food for us,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:26",
"text": "then we said, \u2018We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we shall go down. For we will not be able to see the face of the man unless our youngest brother is with us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:27",
"text": "Then your servant, my father, said to us, \u2018You yourselves know that my wife bore two sons to me. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:28",
"text": "One went out from me, and I said, \u201cSurely he must have been torn to pieces,\u201d and I have never seen him since. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:29",
"text": "And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:30",
"text": "So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us\u2014now his life is bound up with his life\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:31",
"text": "it shall happen that when he sees that the boy is gone, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray head of your servant, our father, to Sheol with sorrow. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:32",
"text": "For your servant is pledged as surety for the boy by my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, then I shall be culpable to my father forever. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:33",
"text": "So then, please let your servant remain in place of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Genesis 44:34",
"text": "For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? \u231eI do not want to see\u231f the misery which will find my father.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:1",
"text": " Then Joseph was not able to control himself before all who were standing by him. And he cried out, \u201cMake every man go out from me!\u201d So no one stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:2",
"text": "And \u231ehe wept loudly\u231f, so that the Egyptians heard it and the household of Pharaoh heard it. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:3",
"text": "Then Joseph said to his brothers, \u201cI am Joseph! Is my father still alive?\u201d And his brothers were unable to answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:4",
"text": "So Joseph said to his brothers, \u201cCome near to me, please.\u201d And they drew near. And he said, \u201cI am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:5",
"text": "So now, do not be distressed and do not be angry \u231ewith yourselves\u231f that you sold me here, for God sent me as deliverance before you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:6",
"text": "For these two years the famine has been in the midst of the land, but there will be five more years where there is no plowing or harvest. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:7",
"text": "And God sent me before you all to preserve for you a remnant in the land and to keep alive among you many survivors. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:8",
"text": "So now, you yourselves did not send me here, but God put me here as father to Pharaoh and as master of all his household, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:9",
"text": "Hurry, and go up to my father and say to him, \u2018Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me and do not delay. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:10",
"text": "You shall settle in the land of Goshen so that you will be near me, you and your children and your grandchildren, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:11",
"text": "And I will provide for you there, because there are still five years of famine\u2014lest you and your household and all that you have become destitute.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:12",
"text": "Now behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that \u231eit is I\u231f who am speaking to you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:13",
"text": "And you must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt and all that you have seen. Now hurry and bring my father here.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:14",
"text": "Then he fell upon the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:15",
"text": "And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And afterward his brothers spoke with him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:16",
"text": "Then the report was heard in the house of Pharaoh, saying, \u201cJoseph\u2019s brothers have come.\u201d And it pleased Pharaoh and his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:17",
"text": "Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, \u201cSay to your brothers: \u2018Do this\u2014load your donkeys and go back to the land of Canaan, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:18",
"text": "and take your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:19",
"text": "And you Joseph, are commanded to say this: \u2018Do this! Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives, and bring your father and come! "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:20",
"text": "\u231eDo not worry\u231f about your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:21",
"text": " And the sons of Israel did so. And Joseph gave them wagons at the word of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:22",
"text": "To each and to all of them he gave sets of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothing. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:23",
"text": "And to his father he sent \u231eas follows\u231f: ten donkeys carrying the best of Egypt, and ten donkeys carrying grain and food and provisions for his father for the journey. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:24",
"text": "Then he sent his brothers away, and when they departed he said to them, \u201cDo not be agitated on the journey.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:25",
"text": "So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob their father. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:26",
"text": "And they spoke to him, saying, \u201cJoseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.\u201d And his heart \u231ewent numb\u231f, because he did not believe him. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:27",
"text": "Then they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them. And when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of Jacob their father revived. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Genesis 45:28",
"text": "And Israel said, \u201cIt is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:1",
"text": " So Israel journeyed with all that he had, and he came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:2",
"text": "And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, \u201cJacob, Jacob.\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:3",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cI am the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:4",
"text": "I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you up. And Joseph will place his hand over your eyes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:5",
"text": "So Jacob arose from Beersheba. And the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, and their little ones and their wives in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to transport him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:6",
"text": "And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan. And they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:7",
"text": "his sons and his sons\u2019 sons with him, his daughters and his daughters\u2019 daughters with him, into Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:8",
"text": " Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:9",
"text": "and the sons of Reuben: Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:10",
"text": "The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:11",
"text": "The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:12",
"text": "The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:13",
"text": "The sons of Issachar: Tolah, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:14",
"text": "The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:15",
"text": "These are the sons of Leah that she bore to Jacob in Paddan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters were thirty-three persons in all. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:16",
"text": "The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:17",
"text": "The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:18",
"text": "There are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob\u2014sixteen persons. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:19",
"text": "The sons of Rachel, Jacob\u2019s wife: Joseph and Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:20",
"text": "And Ephraim and Manasseh, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On bore to him, were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:21",
"text": "The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:22",
"text": "These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob\u2014fourteen persons in all. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:23",
"text": "The sons of Dan: Hushim. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:24",
"text": "The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:25",
"text": "These are the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob\u2014seven persons in all. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:26",
"text": "All the persons belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt \u231ewho were his descendants\u231f, not including the wives of the sons of Jacob were sixty-six persons in all. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:27",
"text": "And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:28",
"text": " He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to appear before him in Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:29",
"text": "Then Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell upon his neck and wept upon his neck a long time. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:30",
"text": "Then Israel said to Joseph, \u201cNow let me die since I have seen your face, for you are still alive.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:31",
"text": "Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father\u2019s household, \u201cI will go up and report to Pharaoh, and I will say to him, \u2018My brothers and my father\u2019s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:32",
"text": "And the men are shepherds, for they are men of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their cattle and all that they have.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:33",
"text": "And it shall be that when Pharaoh calls you he will say, \u2018What is your occupation?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Genesis 46:34",
"text": "Then you must say, \u2018You servants are men of livestock from our childhood until now, both we and also our ancestors,\u2019 so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is a detestable thing to Egyptians.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:1",
"text": " So Joseph went and reported to Pharaoh. And he said, \u201cMy father and my brothers, with their flocks and their herds, and all that they have, have come from the land of Canaan. Now they are here in the land of Goshen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:2",
"text": "And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them before Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:3",
"text": "And Pharaoh said to his brothers, \u201cWhat is your occupation?\u201d And they said to Pharaoh, \u201cYour servants are keepers of sheep, both we and also our ancestors.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:4",
"text": "And they said to Pharaoh, \u201cWe have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servant\u2019s flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:5",
"text": "Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, \u201cYour father and your brothers have come to you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:6",
"text": "The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen, and if you know there is among them men of ability, then appoint them overseers of my own livestock.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:7",
"text": "Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:8",
"text": "Then Pharaoh said to Jacob, \u201c\u231eHow old are you\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:9",
"text": "And Jacob said to Pharaoh, \u201cThe days of the years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:10",
"text": "And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and he went out from the presence of Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:11",
"text": "And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and he gave them property in the land of Egypt in the best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had instructed. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:12",
"text": "And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all the household of his father with food, according to the number of their children. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:13",
"text": " Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe. And the land of Egypt languished, with the land of Canaan, on account of the famine. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:14",
"text": "And Joseph collected all the money found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain that they were buying. And Joseph brought the money into the house of Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:15",
"text": "And when the money was spent in the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all of Egypt came to Joseph, saying, \u201cGive us food! Why should we die before you? For the money is used up.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:16",
"text": "And Joseph said, \u201cGive your livestock and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock if your money is used up.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:17",
"text": "So they brought their herds to Joseph, and Joseph gave food to them in exchange for horses, their flocks, and their cattle and donkeys. And he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:18",
"text": "When that year ended, they came to him in the following year and said to him, \u201cWe cannot hide from my lord that our money and livestock belong to my lord. Nothing remains before my lord except our bodies and our land. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:19",
"text": "Why should we die in front of you, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, then we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Then give us seed and we shall live and not die, and the land will not become desolate.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:20",
"text": "So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for each Egyptian sold his field, for the famine was severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh\u2019s. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:21",
"text": "As for the people, he transferred them to the cities, from one end of the territory of Egypt to the other. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:22",
"text": "Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for there was an allotment for the priests from Pharaoh, and they \u231elived on\u231f the allotment that Pharaoh gave to them. Therefore they did not sell their land. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:23",
"text": "And Joseph said to the people, \u201cLook, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you so you can sow the land. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:24",
"text": "And it shall happen that at the harvest, you must give a fifth to Pharaoh and four-fifths shall be yours, as seed for the field and for your food and for those who are in your households, and as food for your little ones.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:25",
"text": "And they said, \u201cYou have saved our lives. If we have found favor in the eyes of my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:26",
"text": "So Joseph made it a statute unto this day concerning the land of Egypt: one fifth to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests alone did not belong to Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:27",
"text": "So Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they acquired possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied greatly. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:28",
"text": "And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred and forty-seven years. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:29",
"text": "When \u231ethe time of Israel\u2019s death drew near\u231f, he called to his son, to Joseph. And he said to him, \u201cIf I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, that you might vow to deal kindly and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:30",
"text": "but let me lie with my ancestors. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial site.\u201d And he said, \u201cI will do according to your word.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Genesis 47:31",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cSwear to me.\u201d And he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:1",
"text": " And it happened that after these things, it was said to Joseph, \u201cBehold, your father is ill.\u201d And he took his two sons with him, Ephraim and Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:2",
"text": "And it was told to Jacob, \u201cBehold, your son Joseph has come to you.\u201d Then Israel strengthened himself and he sat up in the bed. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:3",
"text": "Then Jacob said to Joseph, \u201cEl-Shaddai appeared to me in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:4",
"text": "and said to me, \u2018Behold, I will make you fruitful and make you numerous, and will make you a company of nations. And I will give this land to your offspring after you as an everlasting possession.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:5",
"text": "And now, your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt before my coming to you in Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon are. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:6",
"text": "And your children whom you father after them shall be yours. By the name of their brothers they shall be called, with respect to their inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:7",
"text": "As for me, when I came to Paddan-Aram Rachel died \u231eto my sorrow\u231f in the land of Canaan on the way when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:8",
"text": "When Israel saw the sons of Joseph he said, \u201cWho are these?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:9",
"text": "Then Joseph said to his father, \u201cThey are my sons whom God has given me here.\u201d And he said, \u201cPlease bring them to me that I may bless them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:10",
"text": "Now the eyes of Israel were dim on account of old age; he was not able to see. So he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:11",
"text": "And Israel said to Joseph, \u201cI did not expect to see your face and behold, God has also shown me your offspring.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:12",
"text": "Then Joseph removed them from his knees and bowed down with his face to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:13",
"text": "And Joseph took the two of them, Ephraim at his right to the left of Israel, and Manasseh at his left to the right of Israel. And he brought them near to him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:14",
"text": "And Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim (now he was the younger), and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:15",
"text": "And he blessed Joseph and said, \u201cThe God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, walked, The God who shepherded me \u231eall my life\u231f unto this day, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:16",
"text": " The angel who redeemed me from all evil, may he bless the boys. And through them let my name be perpetuated, and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac. And let them multiply into many in the midst of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:17",
"text": " When Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, he was displeased. And he took hold of his father\u2019s hand to remove it from the head of Ephraim over to the head of Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:18",
"text": "And Joseph said to his father, \u201cNot so, my father; because this one is the firstborn. Put your right hand upon his head.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:19",
"text": "But his father refused and said, \u201cI know, my son; I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but his younger brother shall be greater than him, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:20",
"text": "So he blessed them that day, saying, Through you Israel shall pronounce blessing, saying, \u2018May God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d So he put Ephraim before Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:21",
"text": "And Israel said to Joseph, \u201cBehold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Genesis 48:22",
"text": "And I have given to you one slope of land rather than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorites by my sword and with my bow.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:1",
"text": " Then Jacob called his sons and said, \u201cGather together so that I can tell you what will happen with you in \u231edays to come\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:2",
"text": " Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob! Listen to Israel your father! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:3",
"text": " Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength, and the firstfruit of my vigor, excelling in rank and excelling in power. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:4",
"text": " Unstable as water, you shall not excel any longer, for you went up upon the bed of your father, then defiled it. You went up upon my couch! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:5",
"text": " Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. Let me not come into their council. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:6",
"text": " Let not my person be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and at their pleasure they hamstrung cattle. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:7",
"text": " Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:8",
"text": " Judah, as for you, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies. The sons of your father shall bow down to you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:9",
"text": " Judah is a lion\u2019s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bowed down; he crouched like a lion and as a lioness. Who shall rouse him? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:10",
"text": " The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler\u2019s staff between his feet, until Shiloh comes. And to him shall be the obedience of nations. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:11",
"text": " Binding his donkey to the vine and his donkey\u2019s colt to the choice vine, he washes his clothing in the wine and his garment in the blood of grapes. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:12",
"text": " The eyes are darker than wine, and the teeth whiter than milk. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:13",
"text": " Zebulun shall settle by the shore of the sea. He shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:14",
"text": " Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:15",
"text": " He saw a resting place that was good, and land that was pleasant. So he bowed his shoulder to the burden and became a servant of forced labor. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:16",
"text": " Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:17",
"text": " Dan shall be a serpent on the way, a viper on the road that bites the heels of a horse, so that its rider falls backward. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:18",
"text": " I wait for your salvation, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:19",
"text": " Bandits shall attack Gad, but he shall attack their heels. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:20",
"text": " Asher\u2019s food is delicious, and he shall provide from the king\u2019s delicacies. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:21",
"text": " Naphtali is a doe running free that puts forth beautiful words. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:22",
"text": " Joseph is the bough of a fruitful vine, a fruitful bough by a spring. His branches climb over the wall. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:23",
"text": " \u231eThe archers\u231f fiercely attacked him. They shot arrows at him and were hostile to him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:24",
"text": " But his bow remained in a steady position; \u231ehis arms\u231f were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From there is the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:25",
"text": " Because of the God of your father he will help you and by Shaddai he will bless you with the blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and the womb. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:26",
"text": " The blessings of your father are superior to the blessings of my ancestors, to the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the forehead of the prince of his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:27",
"text": " Benjamin is a devouring wolf, devouring the prey in the morning, and dividing the plunder in the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:28",
"text": " All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, each according to their blessing. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:29",
"text": "Then he instructed them and said to them, \u201cI am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me among my ancestors in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:30",
"text": "in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah that is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:31",
"text": "There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there I buried Leah\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:32",
"text": "the purchase of the field and the cave which was in it from the Hittites.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Genesis 49:33",
"text": "When Jacob finished instructing his sons he drew his feet up to the bed. Then he took his last breath and was gathered to his people. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:1",
"text": " Then Joseph fell on the face of his father and wept upon him and kissed him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:2",
"text": "And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:3",
"text": "Forty days \u231ewere required for it\u231f, for thus are the days \u231erequired for\u231f embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:4",
"text": "When the days of his weeping had passed, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, \u201cIf I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:5",
"text": "\u2018My father made me swear, saying, \u201cBehold, I am about to die. In the tomb that I have hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan\u2014there you must bury me.\u201d So then, please let me go up and let me bury my father; then I will return.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:6",
"text": "Then Pharaoh said, \u201cGo up and bury your father as he made you swear.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:7",
"text": "So Joseph went up to bury his father. And all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, went up with him, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:8",
"text": "with all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and the household of his father. They left only their little children and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:9",
"text": "And there also went up with him chariots and horsemen. The company was very great. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:10",
"text": "When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which was beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful wailing. And he made a mourning ceremony for his father seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:11",
"text": "And when the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, saw the mourning ceremony at the threshing floor of Atad they said, \u201cThis is a severe mourning for the Egyptians.\u201d Therefore its name was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:12",
"text": "Thus his sons did to him just as he had instructed them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:13",
"text": "And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which field Abraham had bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite before Mamre. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:14",
"text": "And after burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:15",
"text": " And when the brothers of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said, \u201cIt may be that Joseph will hold a grudge against us and pay us back dearly for all the evil that we did to him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:16",
"text": "So they sent word to Joseph saying, \u201cYour father commanded us before his death, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:17",
"text": "\u201cThus you must say to Joseph, \u2018O, please now forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.\u2019 So now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.\u201d And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:18",
"text": "Then his brothers went also and fell before him and said, \u201cBehold, we are your servants.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:19",
"text": "Then Joseph said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:20",
"text": "As for you, you planned evil against me, but God planned it for good, in order to do this\u2014to keep many people alive\u2014as it is today. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:21",
"text": "So then, do not be afraid. I myself will provide for you and your little ones. And he consoled them and \u231espoke kindly\u231f to them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:22",
"text": " So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and the house of his father. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:23",
"text": "And Joseph saw Ephraim\u2019s children to the third generation. Moreover, the children of Makir, son of Manasseh, were born on the knees of Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:24",
"text": "And Joseph said to his brothers, \u201cI am about to die, but God will certainly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:25",
"text": "Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, \u201cGod will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Genesis 50:26",
"text": "So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Exodus",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:1",
"text": " And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt; with Jacob, they each came with his \u231efamily\u231f: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:2",
"text": "Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:3",
"text": "Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:4",
"text": "Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:5",
"text": "And \u231eall those who descended from Jacob\u231f were seventy individuals, and Joseph was in Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:6",
"text": "And Joseph died and all of his brothers and all of that generation. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:7",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f were fruitful and multiplied and were many and were very, very numerous, and the land was filled with them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:8",
"text": " And a new king rose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:9",
"text": "And he said to his people, \u201cLook, the people of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f are greater and more numerous than us. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:10",
"text": "Come, we must deal shrewdly with them, lest they become many, and when war happens, they also will join our enemies and will fight against us and go up from the land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:11",
"text": "And they appointed commanders of forced labor over them in order to oppress them with their \u231eforced labor\u231f, and they built storage cities for Pharaoh\u2014Pithom and Rameses. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:12",
"text": "And as he oppressed them, so they became many, and so they spread out, and the Egyptians were afraid because of the presence of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:13",
"text": "And the Egyptians ruthlessly compelled the \u231eIsraelites\u231f to work. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:14",
"text": "And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all sorts of work in the field\u2014with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:15",
"text": " And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives\u2014of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the second was Puah\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:16",
"text": "and he said, \u201cWhen you help the Hebrews give birth, you will look upon the pairs of testicles; if he is a son, you will put him to death, and if she is a daughter, she will live.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:17",
"text": "But the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had said to them. They let the boys live. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:18",
"text": "And the king of Egypt summoned the midwives, and he said to them, \u201cWhy have you done this thing and let the boys live?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:19",
"text": "And the midwives said to Pharaoh, \u201cBecause the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, because they are vigorous; before the midwife comes to them, they have given birth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:20",
"text": "And God did the midwives good, and the Israelite people became many and were very numerous. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:21",
"text": "\u231eAnd so\u231f because the midwives feared God, he gave them \u231efamilies\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Exodus 1:22",
"text": "And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, \u201cEvery son who is born you will throw into the Nile, and every daughter you will let live.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:1",
"text": " And a man from the \u231efamily\u231f of Levi went, and he took \u231ea descendent of Levi\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:2",
"text": "And the woman conceived, and she gave birth to a son, and she saw him, that he was a fine baby, and she hid him three months. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:3",
"text": "But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and she coated it with tar and with pitch, and she placed the boy in it, and she placed it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:4",
"text": "And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:5",
"text": "And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to wash at the Nile, while her maidservants were walking alongside the Nile, and she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and she sent her slave woman for it and took it "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:6",
"text": "and opened it and saw him\u2014the boy\u2014and it was a lad weeping, and she had compassion for him and said, \u201cThis must be from the boys of the Hebrews.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:7",
"text": "And his sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh, \u201cShall I go and call for you a woman from the Hebrews who is nursing so that she will nurse the boy for you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:8",
"text": "And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, \u201cGo.\u201d And the girl went, and she called the mother of the boy. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:9",
"text": "And the daughter of Pharaoh said, \u201cTake this boy and nurse him for me, and I myself will give you wages, and the woman took the boy, and she nursed him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:10",
"text": "And the boy grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he became her son, and she called his name Moses, and she said, \u201cBecause I drew him out from the water.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:11",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f in those days when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers, and he saw their \u231eforced labor\u231f, and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, one of his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:12",
"text": "And he turned here and there, and he saw no one, and he struck the Egyptian, and he hid him in the sand. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:13",
"text": "And he went out on the second day, and there were two Hebrew men fighting, and he said to the guilty one, \u201cWhy do you strike your neighbor?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:14",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWho \u231eappointed you as a commander\u231f and a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?\u201d And Moses was afraid, and he said, \u201cSurely the matter has become known.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:15",
"text": "And Pharaoh heard this matter, and he sought to kill Moses, and Moses fled from Pharaoh, and he lived in the land of Midian, and he lived at \u231ea certain well\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:16",
"text": " Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father\u2019s flock. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:17",
"text": "And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and came to their rescue and watered their flock. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:18",
"text": "And they came to Reuel, their father, and he said, \u201c\u231eWhy have you come so quickly\u231f today?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:19",
"text": "And they said, \u201cAn Egyptian man delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew water for us and watered the flock.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:20",
"text": "And he said to his daughters, \u201cWhere is he? \u231eWhy then\u231f have you left the man? \u231eCall him so that he can eat some food\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:21",
"text": "And Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:22",
"text": "And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom because he said, \u201cI am an alien in a foreign land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:23",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:24",
"text": "And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Exodus 2:25",
"text": "and God saw the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and God took notice. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:1",
"text": " And Moses was a shepherd with the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west of the desert, and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:2",
"text": "And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush, and he looked, and there was the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not being consumed. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:3",
"text": "And Moses said, \u201cLet me turn aside and see this great sight. Why does the bush not burn up?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:4",
"text": "And Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him from the midst of the bush, and he said, \u201cMoses, Moses.\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:5",
"text": "And he said, \u201cYou must not come near to here. Take off your sandals from on your feet, because the place on which you are standing, it is holy ground.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:6",
"text": "And he said, \u201cI am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.\u201d And Moses hid his face because he was afraid of looking at God. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:7",
"text": " And Yahweh said, \u201cSurely I have seen the misery of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:8",
"text": "And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from this land to a good and wide land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:9",
"text": "And now, look, the cry of distress of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f has come to me, and also I see the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:10",
"text": "And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and you must bring my people, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, out from Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:11",
"text": " But Moses said to God, \u201cWho am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the \u231eIsraelites\u231f out from Egypt?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:12",
"text": "And he said, \u201cBecause I am with you, and this will be the sign for you that I myself have sent you: When you bring the people out from Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:13",
"text": "But Moses said to God, \u201cLook, if I go to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and I say to them, \u2018The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,\u2019 and they say to me, \u2018What is his name?\u2019 then what shall I say to them?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:14",
"text": "And God said to Moses, \u201cI am that I am.\u201d And he said, \u201cSo you must say to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u2018I am sent me to you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:15",
"text": " And God said again to Moses, \u201cSo you must say to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u2018Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my remembrance from generation to generation.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:16",
"text": "Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, \u2018Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, \u201cI have carefully attended to you and what has been done to you in Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:17",
"text": "And I said, \u201cI will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:18",
"text": "And they will listen to your voice, and you will go, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you will say to him, \u2018Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews has met with us, and now let us please go on a journey of three days into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:19",
"text": " But I myself know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go \u231eunless compelled by a strong hand\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:20",
"text": "And I will stretch out my hand, and I will strike Egypt with all of my wonders that I will do in its midst, and \u231eafterward\u231f he will release you. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:21",
"text": "And I will give this people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, \u231eand then\u231f when you go, you will not go empty-handed. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Exodus 3:22",
"text": "And a woman will ask from her neighbor and from the woman dwelling as an alien in her house for objects of silver and objects of gold and garments, and you will put them on your sons and on your daughters; and you will plunder Egypt.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:1",
"text": " And Moses answered, and he said, \u201cAnd if they do not believe me and they do not listen to my voice, but they say, \u2018Yahweh did not appear to you?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:2",
"text": "And Yahweh said to him, \u201cWhat is this in your hand?\u201d And he said, \u201cA staff.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:3",
"text": "And he said, \u201cThrow it onto the ground.\u201d And he threw it onto the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses fled from it. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:4",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cReach out your hand and grasp it by its tail\u201d\u2014\u201d (And he reached out his hand and grabbed it, and it became a staff in his palm.)\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:5",
"text": "\u201cso that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, appeared to you, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:6",
"text": " And Yahweh said to him again, \u201cPut your hand into the fold of your garment.\u201d And he put his hand into the fold of his garment, and he took it out, and, \u231eto his surprise\u231f, his hand was afflicted with a skin disease, like snow. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:7",
"text": "And he said, \u201cReturn your hand to the fold of your garment.\u201d And he returned his hand to the fold of his garment, and he took it out from the fold of his garment, and, \u231eto his surprise\u231f, it was restored like the rest of his body. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:8",
"text": "\u201c\u231eAnd\u231f if they do not believe you and they will not listen to the voice of the former sign, then they will believe the voice of the latter sign. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:9",
"text": "\u231eAnd\u231f if they also do not believe the second of these signs and they will not listen to your voice, then you must take water from the Nile and pour it onto the dry ground, and the water that you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:10",
"text": " And Moses said to Yahweh, \u201cPlease, Lord, I am not a man of words, \u231eneither recently nor in the past nor since your speaking\u231f to your servant, because I am heavy of mouth and of tongue.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:11",
"text": "And Yahweh said to him, \u201cWho gave a mouth to humankind, or who makes mute or deaf or sighted or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:12",
"text": "So then go, and I myself will be with your mouth, and I will teach you what you must speak.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:13",
"text": "And he said, \u201cPlease, Lord, do send \u231eanyone else whom you wish to send\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:14",
"text": "\u231eAnd Yahweh was angry with\u231f Moses and said, \u201cIs there not Aaron your brother the Levite? I know that he certainly can speak, and also there he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will rejoice in his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:15",
"text": "And you will speak to him, and you will put words in his mouth, and I myself will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you must do. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:16",
"text": "And he will speak for you to the people, \u231eand then\u231f he will be to you as a mouth, and you will be to him as a god. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:17",
"text": "And you must take this staff in your hand, with which you will do the signs.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:18",
"text": " And Moses went, and he returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and he said to him, \u201cPlease let me go, and let me return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and let me see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, \u201cGo in peace.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:19",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, \u201cGo, return to Egypt because all the men have died who were seeking your life.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:20",
"text": " And Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on the donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:21",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cWhen you go to return to Egypt, see all of the wonders that I have put in your hand, and do them before Pharaoh, and I myself will harden his heart, and he will not release the people. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:22",
"text": "And you must say to Pharaoh, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cIsrael is my son, my firstborn.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:23",
"text": "And I said to you, \u201cRelease my son and let him serve me,\u201d but you refused to release him. Look, I am about to kill your son, your firstborn.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:24",
"text": " \u231eAnd\u231f on the way, at the place of overnight lodging, Yahweh encountered him and sought to kill him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:25",
"text": "But Zipporah took a flint knife, and she cut off the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, \u201cYes, you are a bridegroom of blood to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:26",
"text": "And he left him alone. At that time she said, \u201cA bridegroom of blood,\u201d because of the circumcision. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:27",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Aaron, \u201cGo to the desert to meet Moses.\u201d And he went and encountered him at the mountain of God and kissed him. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:28",
"text": "And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh, who had sent him\u2014and all the signs that he had commanded him. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:29",
"text": " And Moses and Aaron went, and they gathered all of the elders of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:30",
"text": "And Aaron spoke all the words that Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and he did the signs before the eyes of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Exodus 4:31",
"text": "And the people believed when they heard that Yahweh had attended to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and that he had seen their misery, and they knelt down and they worshiped. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:1",
"text": " And afterward, Moses and Aaron went, and they said to Pharaoh, \u201cThus says Yahweh the God of Israel, \u2018Release my people so that they may hold a festival for me in the desert.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:2",
"text": "And Pharaoh said, \u201cWho is Yahweh that I should listen to his voice to release Israel? I do not know Yahweh, and also I will not release Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:3",
"text": " And they said, \u201cThe God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day journey into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God, lest he strike us with plague or with sword.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:4",
"text": "And the king of Egypt said, \u201cWhy, Moses and Aaron, do you take the people from their work? Go to your \u231eforced labor\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:5",
"text": "And Pharaoh said, \u201cLook, the people of the land are now many, and you want to stop them from their \u231eforced labor\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:6",
"text": " And on that day Pharaoh commanded the slave drivers over the people and his foremen, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:7",
"text": "\u201cYou must no longer give straw to the people to make the bricks like \u231ebefore\u231f. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:8",
"text": "But the quota of the bricks that they were making \u231ebefore\u231f \u231eyou must require of them\u231f. You must not reduce from it, because they are lazy. Therefore they are crying out, saying, \u2018Let us go and sacrifice to our God.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:9",
"text": "Let the work be heavier on the men so that they will do it and not pay attention to words of deception.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:10",
"text": " And the slave drivers of the people and their foremen went out, and they spoke to the people, saying, \u201cThus says Pharaoh, \u2018I am not giving you straw. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:11",
"text": "You go, get straw for yourselves from whatever you find because not a thing is being reduced from your work.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:12",
"text": "And the people spread out in all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for the straw. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:13",
"text": "And the slave drivers were insisting, saying, \u201cFinish your work \u231efor each day\u231f on its day, as \u231ewhen there was straw\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:14",
"text": "And the foremen of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, whom Pharaoh\u2019s slave drivers had appointed over them, were beaten by men who were saying, \u201cWhy have you not completed your portion of brickmaking \u231eas before, both yesterday and today\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:15",
"text": " And the foremen of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, \u201cWhy do you treat your servants like this? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:16",
"text": "Straw is not being given to your servants, but they are saying to us, \u2018Make bricks!\u2019 and, look, your servants are being beaten, but it is the fault of your people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:17",
"text": "And he said, \u201cYou are lazy, lazy! Therefore you are saying, \u2018Let us go; let us sacrifice to Yahweh.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:18",
"text": "And now go, work, but straw will not be given to you, and you must give the full quota of bricks.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:19",
"text": " And the foremen of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f saw they were in trouble \u231ewith the saying\u231f, \u201cYou will not reduce from your bricks \u231efor each day\u231f on its day.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:20",
"text": "And they met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting to meet them when they were going out from Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:21",
"text": "And they said to them, \u201cMay Yahweh look upon you and judge because you have caused our fragrance to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants so as to put a sword into their hand to kill us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:22",
"text": "And Moses returned to Yahweh and said, \u201cLord, why have you brought trouble to this people? Why ever did you send me? "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Exodus 5:23",
"text": "And from the time I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble to this people, and you have certainly not delivered your people.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:1",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cNow you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, because with a strong hand he will release them, and with a strong hand he will drive them out from his land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:2",
"text": " And God spoke to Moses, and he said to him, \u201cI am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:3",
"text": "And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Shaddai, but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:4",
"text": "And I not only established my covenant with them to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they dwelt as aliens, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:5",
"text": "but also I myself heard the groaning of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, whom the Egyptians are making to work, and I remembered my covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:6",
"text": "Therefore say to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u2018I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the \u231eforced labor\u231f of Egypt, and I will deliver you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great punishments. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:7",
"text": "And I will take you \u231eas my people\u231f, and I will be \u231eyour God\u231f, and you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the \u231eforced labor\u231f of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:8",
"text": "And I will bring you to the land \u231ethat I swore\u231f to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:9",
"text": " And Moses spoke thus to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, but they did not listen to Moses, because of \u231ediscouragement\u231f and because of hard work. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:10",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:11",
"text": "\u201cGo, speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and let him release the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from his land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:12",
"text": "And Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, \u201cLook, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f do not listen to me, and how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am \u231ea poor speaker\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:13",
"text": "And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and he commanded them to go to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring the \u231eIsraelites\u231f out from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:14",
"text": " These are the heads of \u231etheir families\u231f. The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, are Enoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These are the clans of Reuben. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:15",
"text": " And the sons of Simeon are Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar and Shaul the son of the Canaanitess. These are the clans of Simeon. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:16",
"text": " And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogies: Gershon and Kohath and Merari, and the years of the life of Levi were \u231eone hundred and thirty-seven years\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:17",
"text": " The sons of Gershon are Libni and Shimei according to their clans. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:18",
"text": " And the sons of Kohath are Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel, and the years of the life of Kohath were \u231eone hundred and thirty-three years\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:19",
"text": " And the sons of Merari are Mahli and Mushi. These are clans of the Levites according to their genealogies. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:20",
"text": " And Amram took Jochebed his aunt for himself as a wife, and she bore for him Aaron and Moses, and the years of the life of Amram were \u231eone hundred and thirty-seven years\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:21",
"text": " And the sons of Izhar are Korah and Nepheg and Zikri. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:22",
"text": " And the sons of Uzziel are Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:23",
"text": " And Aaron took Elisheba the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, for himself as a wife, and she bore for him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:24",
"text": " And the sons of Korah are Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph. These are the clans of the Korahites. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:25",
"text": " And Eleazar the son of Aaron took for himself one from the daughters of Putiel as a wife, and she bore for him Phinehas. These are the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of the Levites according to their clans. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:26",
"text": " It was that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, \u201cBring the \u231eIsraelites\u231f out from the land of Egypt according to their divisions.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:27",
"text": "They were those who spoke to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, in order to bring the \u231eIsraelites\u231f out from Egypt. It was that Moses and Aaron. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:28",
"text": " \u231eAnd so it was on a certain day\u231f Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:29",
"text": "And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, \u201cI am Yahweh. Speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, all that I am speaking to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Exodus 6:30",
"text": "And Moses said before Yahweh, \u201cLook, I am \u231ea poor speaker\u231f. And how will Pharaoh listen to me?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:1",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cSee, I have made you as a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:2",
"text": "You will speak all that I will command you, and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, and he will release the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from his land. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:3",
"text": "And I myself will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will make my signs and my wonders numerous in the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:4",
"text": "And Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will put my hand into Egypt and bring out my divisions, my people, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, from the land of Egypt with great punishments. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:5",
"text": "And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring the \u231eIsraelites\u231f out from their midst.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:6",
"text": " And Moses and Aaron did it; as Yahweh commanded them, so they did. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:7",
"text": "(And Moses was \u231eeighty years old\u231f, and Aaron was \u231eeighty-three years old\u231f when they spoke to Pharaoh.) "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:8",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:9",
"text": "\u201cWhen Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, \u2018Do a wonder for yourselves,\u2019 you will say to Aaron, \u2018Take your staff and throw it before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:10",
"text": "And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded. And Aaron threw his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a snake. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:11",
"text": " And Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did likewise with their secret arts. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:12",
"text": "Each threw down his staff, and they became snakes, and Aaron\u2019s staff swallowed up their staffs. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:13",
"text": "And Pharaoh\u2019s heart was hard, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had said. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:14",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cPharaoh\u2019s heart is \u231einsensitive\u231f; he refuses to release the people. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:15",
"text": "Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Look, he is going out to the water, and you must wait to meet him on the bank of the Nile, and you must take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:16",
"text": "And you must say to him, \u2018Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, \u201cRelease my people that they may serve me in the desert, and, look, you have not listened until now.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:17",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh, \u201cBy this you will know that I am Yahweh. Look, I am about to strike with the staff that is in my hand the water that is in the Nile, and it will be changed to blood. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:18",
"text": "And the fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:19",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cSay to Aaron, \u2018Take your staff and stretch your hand out over the waters of Egypt and over their rivers, over their canals, and over their pools and over all of their reservoirs of water, so that they become blood,\u2019 and blood will be in all the land of Egypt and in vessels of wood and of stone.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:20",
"text": " And Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh had commanded, and he raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and before the eyes of his servants, and all of the water that was in the Nile was changed to blood. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:21",
"text": "And the fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, and the Egyptians were not able to drink water from the Nile, and the blood was in all the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:22",
"text": " And the magicians of Egypt did likewise with their secret arts, and Pharaoh\u2019s heart was hard, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:23",
"text": "And Pharaoh turned and went to his house, and \u231ehe did not take also this to heart\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:24",
"text": "And all of the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they were unable to drink from the water of the Nile. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Exodus 7:25",
"text": " And seven days passed after Yahweh struck the Nile. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:1",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cGo to Pharaoh, and say to him, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cRelease my people so that they may serve me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:2",
"text": "And if you are refusing to release, look, I am going to plague all of your territory with frogs. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:3",
"text": "And the Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will go up and come into your house and into your \u231ebedroom\u231f and onto your bed and into the house of your servants and among your people and into your ovens and into your kneading troughs. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:4",
"text": "And the frogs will go up against you and against your people and against all of your servants.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:5",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cSay to Aaron, \u2018Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and bring up the frogs on the land of Egypt.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:6",
"text": "And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs went up and covered the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:7",
"text": "And the magicians did likewise with their secret arts, and they brought up frogs over the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:8",
"text": " And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, \u201cPray to Yahweh, and let him remove the frogs from me and from my people, and let me release the people so that they can sacrifice to Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:9",
"text": "And Moses said to Pharaoh, \u201c\u231eI leave to you the honor\u231f over me. When shall I pray for you and for your servants and for your people to cut off the frogs from you and from your houses? They will be left only in the Nile.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:10",
"text": "And he said, \u201cTomorrow.\u201d And he said, \u201cLet it be according to your word so that you will know that there is no one like Yahweh our God. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:11",
"text": "And the frogs will depart from you and from your house and from your servants. They will be left only in the Nile.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:12",
"text": " And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to Yahweh over the matter of the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:13",
"text": "And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died from the houses, from the courtyards, and from the fields. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:14",
"text": "And they piled them in countless heaps, and the land stank. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:15",
"text": "And Pharaoh saw that there was relief, and he made his heart \u231einsensitive\u231f, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:16",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cSay to Aaron, \u2018Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the land, and it will become gnats in all the land of Egypt.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:17",
"text": "And he did so, and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and he struck the dust of the land, and it became gnats on the humans and on the animals; all of the dust of the land became gnats in all the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:18",
"text": "And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring out the gnats, but they were not able, and the gnats were on the humans and on the animals. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:19",
"text": "And the magicians said to Pharaoh, \u201cIt is the finger of God.\u201d But the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:20",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cStart early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Look, he is going out to the water, and you must say to him, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cRelease my people so that they may serve me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:21",
"text": "But if you are not about to release my people, look, I am about to send out flies among you and among your servants and among your people and in your houses; and the houses of Egypt will fill up with the flies and also the ground that they are on. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:22",
"text": "But on that day I will distinguish the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, by there not being flies there, so that you will know that I am Yahweh in the midst of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:23",
"text": "And I will put a distinction between my people and your people; this sign will be tomorrow.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:24",
"text": " And Yahweh did so, and a \u231esevere\u231f swarm of flies came to the house of Pharaoh and the house of his servants and in all the land of Egypt; the land was ruined because of the flies. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:25",
"text": "And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and he said, \u201cGo, sacrifice to your God in the land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:26",
"text": "And Moses said, \u201cTo do so is not right, because we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God a thing detestable to the Egyptians. Look, if we sacrifice before their eyes the thing detestable to the Egyptians, will they not stone us? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:27",
"text": "We will go a journey of three days into the desert, and we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God according to what he says to us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:28",
"text": " And Pharaoh said, \u201cI myself will release you, and you will sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the desert. Only surely you must not go far. Pray for me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:29",
"text": "And Moses said, \u201cLook, I am going out from you, and I will pray to Yahweh so that the flies depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only let not Pharaoh again deceive us by not releasing the people to sacrifice to Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:30",
"text": " And Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:31",
"text": "And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses and removed the flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one was left. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Exodus 8:32",
"text": "And Pharaoh made his heart \u231einsensitive\u231f also this time, and he did not release the people. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:1",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cGo to Pharaoh and say to him, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, \u201cRelease my people so that they may serve me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:2",
"text": "But if you are refusing to release and you still are keeping hold of them, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:3",
"text": "look, the hand of Yahweh is about to be present with a very \u231esevere\u231f plague on your livestock that are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the cattle, and on the sheep and goats. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:4",
"text": "But Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and not a thing will die from all that belongs to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:5",
"text": "And Yahweh set an appointed time, saying, \u201cTomorrow Yahweh will do this thing in the land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:6",
"text": " And Yahweh did this thing the next day; all the livestock of Egypt died, but from the livestock of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f not one died. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:7",
"text": "And Pharaoh sent to check, and \u231eit turned out\u231f not even one from the livestock of Israel had died, but Pharaoh\u2019s heart was \u231einsensitive\u231f, and he did not release the people. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:8",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, \u201cTake for yourselves full handfuls of soot from a smelting furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heavens before the eyes of Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:9",
"text": "And it will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and it will become on humans and on animals a skin sore sprouting blisters in all the land of Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:10",
"text": "And they took the soot of the smelting furnace, and they stood before Pharaoh, and Moses sprinkled it toward the heavens, and it became skin sores sprouting blisters on humans and on animals. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:11",
"text": "And the magicians were not able to stand before Moses because of the skin sores, for the skin sores were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:12",
"text": "And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh\u2019s heart, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:13",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cStart early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Look, he is going out to the water, and you must say to him, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, \u201cRelease my people so that they may serve me. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:14",
"text": "For at this time I am sending all of my plagues \u231eto you personally\u231f and among your servants and among your people so that you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:15",
"text": "For now I could have stretched out my hand, and I could have struck you and your people with the plague, and you would have perished from the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:16",
"text": "But for the sake of this I have caused you to stand\u2014for the sake of showing you my strength and in order to proclaim my name in all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:17",
"text": "Still you are behaving haughtily to my people by not releasing them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:18",
"text": "Look, about this time tomorrow, I am going to cause very severe hail to rain, the like of which has not been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:19",
"text": "And now send word; bring into safety your livestock and all that belongs to you in the field. The hail will come down on every human and animal that is found in the field and not gathered into the house, and they will die.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:20",
"text": " Anyone from the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of Yahweh caused his servants and livestock to flee to the houses. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:21",
"text": "But whoever did not \u231egive regard to\u231f the word of Yahweh abandoned his servants and his livestock in the field. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:22",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cStretch out your hand to the heavens, and let there be hail in all the land of Egypt, on human and on animal and on all the vegetation of the field in the land of Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:23",
"text": "And Moses stretched out his staff to the heavens, and Yahweh gave thunder and hail, and fire went to the earth, and Yahweh caused hail to rain on the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:24",
"text": "And there was hail, and fire was flashing back and forth in the midst of the very severe hail, the like of which was not in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:25",
"text": "And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, from human to animal, and the hail struck all the vegetation of the field and smashed every tree of the field. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:26",
"text": "Only in the land of Goshen, where the \u231eIsraelites\u231f were, there was no hail. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:27",
"text": " And Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, \u201cI have sinned this time. Yahweh is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:28",
"text": "Pray to Yahweh. The thunder of God and hail \u231eare enough\u231f, and I will release you, and \u231eyou will no longer have to stay\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:29",
"text": "And Moses said to him, \u201cAt my leaving the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will stop, and the hail will be no more, so that you will know that the earth belongs to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:30",
"text": "But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the presence of Yahweh God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:31",
"text": " And the flax and the barley were struck, because the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:32",
"text": "But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, because they are late-ripening. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:33",
"text": " And Moses went from Pharaoh out of the city, and he spread his hands to Yahweh, and the thunder and the hail stopped, and rain did not pour on the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:34",
"text": "And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder stopped, and \u231ehe again sinned\u231f and made his heart \u231einsensitive\u231f, he and his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Exodus 9:35",
"text": "And Pharaoh\u2019s heart was hard, and he did not release the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, as Yahweh had said \u231eby the agency of Moses\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:1",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cGo to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart \u231einsensitive\u231f and the heart of his servants in order to put these signs of mine in his midst, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:2",
"text": "so that you will tell in the ears of your child and \u231eyour grandchild\u231f that I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and so that you will tell about my signs that I have done among them, and so you will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:3",
"text": " And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they said to him, \u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, \u2018Until when will you refuse to submit before me? Release my people so that they may serve me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:4",
"text": "But if you are refusing to release my people, look, I am about to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:5",
"text": "And they will cover the surface of the land, and no one will be able to see the land, and they will eat the remainder of what is left\u2014what is left over for you from the hail\u2014and they will eat every sprouting tree belonging to you from the field. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:6",
"text": "And your houses will be full, and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all Egypt, something that your fathers and \u231eyour grandfathers\u231f never saw from the day they were on the earth until this day.\u2019\u00a0\u201d And he turned and went out from Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:7",
"text": " And the servants of Pharaoh said to him, \u201cUntil when will this be a snare for us? Release the men so that they may serve Yahweh their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:8",
"text": "And Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, \u201cServe Yahweh your God. \u231eWho are the ones going\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:9",
"text": "And Moses said, \u201cWith our young and with our old we will go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and goats and with our cattle we will go because it is the feast of Yahweh for us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:10",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cLet Yahweh be thus with you as soon as I release you and your dependents. See that evil is before your faces. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:11",
"text": "\u231eNo indeed\u231f; just the men go and serve Yahweh, since this is what you are seeking.\u201d And he drove them out from the presence of Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:12",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cStretch out your hand over the land of Egypt with the locusts so that they may come up over the land of Egypt, and let them eat all the vegetation of the land, all that the hail left behind.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:13",
"text": "And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh drove an east wind into the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought the locusts. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:14",
"text": "And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and they settled in all the territory of Egypt, very \u231esevere\u231f. Before it there were not locusts like them, nor will there be after it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:15",
"text": "And they covered the surface of all the land, and the land was dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left, and no green was left in the trees nor in the vegetation of the field in all the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:16",
"text": " And Pharaoh hurried to call Moses and Aaron, and he said, \u201cI have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:17",
"text": "And now forgive my sin surely this time, and pray to Yahweh your God so that he may only remove from me this death.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:18",
"text": "And he went out from Pharaoh, and he prayed to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:19",
"text": "And Yahweh turned a very strong \u231ewest wind\u231f and lifted up the locusts and thrust them into the \u231eRed Sea\u231f, and not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:20",
"text": "And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh\u2019s heart, and he did not release the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:21",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cStretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that a person can feel darkness.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:22",
"text": "And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt for three days. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:23",
"text": "No one could see his brother, and \u231ebecause of it no one could move from where they were\u231f for three days, but there was light for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f in their dwellings. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:24",
"text": " And Pharaoh called Moses and said, \u201cGo, serve Yahweh. Only your sheep and goats and your cattle must be left behind. Your dependents may also go with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:25",
"text": "And Moses said, \u201cEven if you yourself put into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings and we offer them to Yahweh our God, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:26",
"text": "our livestock must also go with us. Not a hoof can be left because we must take from them to serve Yahweh our God. And we will not know with what we are to serve Yahweh until we come there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:27",
"text": "And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh\u2019s heart, and he was not willing to release them. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:28",
"text": "And Pharaoh said to him, \u201cGo from me. \u231eBe careful\u231f not to see my face again, because on the day of your seeing my face you will die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Exodus 10:29",
"text": "And Moses said, \u201c\u231eThat is right\u231f. \u231eI will not again see your face\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Exodus 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Exodus 11:1",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cStill one plague I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterward he will release you from here. At the moment of his releasing, he will certainly drive you completely out from here. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Exodus 11:2",
"text": "Speak in the ears of the people, and let them ask, a man from his neighbor and a woman from her neighbor, for objects of silver and objects of gold.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Exodus 11:3",
"text": "And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of Egypt. Also the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh and in the eyes of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Exodus 11:4",
"text": " And Moses said, \u201cThus says Yahweh, \u2018About the middle of the night I will go out through the midst of Egypt, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Exodus 11:5",
"text": "and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave woman who is behind the pair of millstones and every firstborn animal. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Exodus 11:6",
"text": "And there will be a great cry of distress in all the land of Egypt, the like of which has not been nor will be again. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Exodus 11:7",
"text": "But against all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, from a man to an animal, a dog will not even \u231ebark\u231f, so that you will know that Yahweh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Exodus 11:8",
"text": "And all of these your servants will come down to me and bow to me, saying, \u2018Go out, you and all the people who are at your feet.\u2019 And afterward I will go out.\u201d And he went out from Pharaoh \u231ein great anger\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Exodus 11:9",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cPharaoh will not listen to you, \u231eso that my wonders may multiply\u231f in the land of Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Exodus 11:10",
"text": "And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh\u2019s heart, and he did not release the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from his land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:1",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:2",
"text": "\u201cThis month will be the beginning of months; it will be for you the first of the months of the year. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:3",
"text": "Speak to all the community of Israel, saying, \u2018On the tenth of this month, they will each take for themselves \u231ea lamb for the family\u231f, a lamb for the household. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:4",
"text": "And if the household is too small for a lamb, he and the neighbor nearest to his house will take one according to the number of persons; you will count out portions of the lamb \u231eaccording to how much each one can eat\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:5",
"text": "The lamb for you must be a male, without defect, in its first year; you will take it from the sheep or from the goats. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:6",
"text": " \u201c\u231eYou will keep it\u231f until the fourteenth day of this month, and all the assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it \u231eat twilight\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:7",
"text": "And they will take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel on the houses in which they eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:8",
"text": "And they will eat the meat on this night; they will eat it fire-roasted and with unleavened bread on \u231ebitter herbs\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:9",
"text": "You must not eat any of it raw or boiled, boiled in the water, but rather roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with its inner parts. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:10",
"text": "And you must not leave any of it until morning; anything left from it until morning you must burn in the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:11",
"text": "And this is how you will eat it\u2014with your waists fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you will eat it in haste. It is Yahweh\u2019s Passover. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:12",
"text": " \u201cAnd I will go through the land of Egypt during this night, and I will strike all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human to animal, and I will do punishments among all of the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:13",
"text": "And the blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there will not be a destructive plague among you when I strike the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:14",
"text": " \u201cAnd this day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a religious feast for Yahweh throughout your generations; you will celebrate it as a lasting statute. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:15",
"text": "You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. Surely on the first day you shall remove yeast from your houses, because anyone who eats food with yeast from the first day until the seventh day\u2014that person will be cut off from Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:16",
"text": "It will be for you on the first day a holy assembly and on the seventh day a holy assembly; no work will be done on them; only what is eaten by every person, it alone will be prepared for you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:17",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought out your divisions from the land of Egypt, and you will keep this day for your generations as a lasting statute. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:18",
"text": "On the first day, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat unleavened bread until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:19",
"text": "For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, because \u231eanyone eating food with yeast\u231f will be cut off from the community of Israel\u2014whether an alien or a native of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:20",
"text": "You will eat no food with yeast; in all of your dwellings you will eat unleavened bread.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:21",
"text": " And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and he said to them, \u201cSelect and take for yourselves sheep for your clans and slaughter the Passover sacrifice. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:22",
"text": "And take a bunch of hyssop and dip it into the blood that is in the basin and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. And you will not go out, anyone from the doorway of his house, until morning. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:23",
"text": "And Yahweh will go through to strike Egypt, and he will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come to your houses to strike you. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:24",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will keep this event as a rule for you and for your children forever. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:25",
"text": "\u231eAnd\u231f when you come into the land that Yahweh will give to you, as he said, you will keep this \u231ereligious custom\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:26",
"text": "\u231eAnd\u231f when your children say to you, \u2018What is this \u231ereligious custom\u231f for you?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:27",
"text": "you will say, \u2018It is a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.\u2019\u00a0\u201d And the people knelt down and they worshiped. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:28",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:29",
"text": " \u231eAnd\u231f in the middle of the night, Yahweh struck all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison house and every firstborn of an animal. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:30",
"text": "And Pharaoh got up at night, he and all his servants and all Egypt, and a great cry of distress was in Egypt because there was not a house where there was no one dead. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:31",
"text": "And he called Moses and Aaron at night, and he said, \u201cGet up, go out from the midst of my people, both you as well as the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:32",
"text": "Take both your sheep and goats as well as your cattle, and go, and bless also me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:33",
"text": " And the Egyptians urged the people in order to hurry their release from the land, because they said, \u201cAll of us will die!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:34",
"text": "And the people lifted up their dough before it had yeast; their kneading troughs were wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulder. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:35",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did according to the word of Moses, and they asked from the Egyptians for objects of silver and objects of gold and for clothing. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:36",
"text": "And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they granted their requests, and they plundered the Egyptians. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:37",
"text": " And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f set out from Rameses to Succoth; the men were about six hundred thousand on foot, besides dependents. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:38",
"text": "And also a \u231emixed multitude\u231f went up with them and sheep and goats and cattle, very numerous livestock. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:39",
"text": "And they baked the dough that they had brought out from Egypt as cakes, unleavened bread, because it had no yeast when they were driven out from Egypt, and they were not able to delay, and also they had not made provisions for themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:40",
"text": " And the period of dwelling of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f that they dwelled in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:41",
"text": "And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, on this exact day, all of Yahweh\u2019s divisions went out from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:42",
"text": "It is a night of vigils belonging to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; it is this night belonging to Yahweh with vigils for all of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f throughout their generations. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:43",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, \u201cThis is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner may eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:44",
"text": "But any slave of a man, an acquisition by money, and you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:45",
"text": "A temporary resident and a hired worker may not eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:46",
"text": "It will be eaten in one house; you will not bring part of the meat out from the house to the outside; and you will not break a bone of it. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:47",
"text": "All of the community of Israel will prepare it. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:48",
"text": "And when an alien dwells with you and he wants to prepare the Passover for Yahweh, every male belonging to him must be circumcised, and then he may come near to prepare it, and he will be as the native of the land, but any uncircumcised man may not eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:49",
"text": "One law will be for the native and for the alien who is dwelling in your midst.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:50",
"text": " And all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Exodus 12:51",
"text": "And it was on exactly this day Yahweh brought the \u231eIsraelites\u231f out from the land of Egypt by their divisions. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:1",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:2",
"text": "\u201cConsecrate to me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, among humans and among domestic animals; \u231eit belongs to me\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:3",
"text": "And Moses said to the people, \u201cRemember this day when you went out from Egypt, from a house of slaves, because with strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from here, and food with yeast will not be eaten. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:4",
"text": "Today you are going out in the month of Abib. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:5",
"text": "And when Yahweh brings you to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites\u2014which he swore to your ancestors to give to you, a land flowing with milk and honey\u2014you will perform this service in this month. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:6",
"text": "Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day will be a feast for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:7",
"text": "Unleavened bread will be eaten the seven days; food with yeast will not be seen for you; and yeast will not be seen for you in all your territory. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:8",
"text": "And you shall tell your son on that day, saying, \u2018This is because of what Yahweh did for me when I came out from Egypt.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:9",
"text": "And it will be as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes so that the law of Yahweh will be in your mouth, that with a strong hand Yahweh brought you out from Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:10",
"text": "And you will keep this statute at its appointed time \u231efrom year to year\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:11",
"text": " \u201cAnd when Yahweh brings you to the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your ancestors, and he gives it to you, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:12",
"text": "you will hand over every first offspring of a womb to Yahweh, and every first offspring dropped by a domestic animal that will belong to you, the males will be for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:13",
"text": "And every first offspring of a donkey you will redeem with small livestock, and if you will not redeem it, then you will break its neck, and every firstborn human among your sons you will redeem. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:14",
"text": "And when your son asks you \u231ein the future\u231f, saying, \u2018What is this?\u2019 you will say to him, \u2018With strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from a house of slaves. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:15",
"text": "And when Pharaoh was stubborn to release us, Yahweh killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from firstborn human to firstborn domestic animal. Therefore I am sacrificing to Yahweh every first offspring of a womb, the males, and every firstborn of my sons I redeem.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:16",
"text": "And it will be as a sign on your hand and as symbolic ornaments between your eyes that with strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:17",
"text": " And when Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them the way of the land of the Philistines, though it was nearer, because God said, \u201cLest the people change their mind when they see war and return to Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:18",
"text": "So God led the people around by the way of the desert to the \u231eRed Sea\u231f, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went up in battle array from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:19",
"text": "And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the \u231eIsraelites\u231f solemnly swear an oath, saying, \u201cGod will surely attend to you, and you will take up my bones from here with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:20",
"text": "And they set out from Succoth, and they encamped at Etham on the edge of the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:21",
"text": "And Yahweh was going before them by day in a column of cloud to lead them on the way and by night in a column of fire to give light to them to go by day and night. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Exodus 13:22",
"text": "The column of cloud by day and the column of fire by night did not depart from before the people. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:1",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f so that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol \u231eand the sea\u231f; before Baal Zephon, which is opposite it, you will camp by the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:3",
"text": "And Pharaoh will say of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u2018They are wandering around in the land. The desert has closed in on them.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:4",
"text": "And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and he will chase after them, and I will be glorified through Pharaoh and through all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d And they did so. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:5",
"text": " And it was told to the king of Egypt that the people fled, and the heart of Pharaoh was changed and that of his servants toward the people, and they said, \u201cWhat is this we have done, that we have released Israel from serving us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:6",
"text": "And he harnessed his chariot and took with him his people. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:7",
"text": "And he took six hundred select chariots and all the chariots of Egypt and officers over all of them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:8",
"text": "And Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and he chased after the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. (Now the \u231eIsraelites\u231f were going out \u231eboldly\u231f.) "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:9",
"text": "And the Egyptians chased after them, and they overtook them encamped at the sea\u2014all the horses of the chariots of Pharaoh and his charioteers and his army\u2014at Pi-hahiroth before Baal Zephon. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:10",
"text": " And Pharaoh approached, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f lifted their eyes, and there were the Egyptians traveling after them! And they were very afraid, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f cried out to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:11",
"text": "And they said to Moses, \u201cBecause there are no graves in Egypt? Is that why you have taken us to die in the desert? What is this you have done to us by bringing us out from Egypt! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:12",
"text": "Isn\u2019t this the word we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, \u2018Leave us alone so that we can serve Egypt!\u2019 because serving Egypt is better for us than our dying in the desert.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:13",
"text": "And Moses said to the people, \u201cYou must not be afraid. Stand still and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will accomplish for you today, because the Egyptians whom you see today you will see never again. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:14",
"text": "Yahweh will fight for you, and you must be quiet.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:15",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cWhy do you cry out to me? Speak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f so that they set out. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:16",
"text": "And you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it so that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f can go in the middle of the sea on the dry land. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:17",
"text": "And as for me, look, I am about to harden the heart of the Egyptians so that they come after them, and I will display my glory through Pharaoh and through all of his army, through his chariots and through his charioteers. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:18",
"text": "And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I display my glory through Pharaoh, through his chariots, and through his charioteers.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:19",
"text": " And the angel of God who was going before the camp of Israel set out and went behind them. And the column of cloud set out ahead of them, and it stood still behind them, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:20",
"text": "so that it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. And \u231eit was a dark cloud\u231f, but it gave light to the night, so that \u231eneither approached the other\u231f all night. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:21",
"text": " And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh moved the sea with a strong east wind all night, and he made the sea become dry ground, and the waters were divided. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:22",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f entered the middle of the sea on the dry land. The waters were a wall for them on their right and on their left. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:23",
"text": "And the Egyptians gave chase and entered after them\u2014all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his charioteers\u2014into the middle of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:24",
"text": "And during the morning watch, Yahweh looked down to the Egyptian camp from in the column of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into a panic. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:25",
"text": "And he removed the wheels of their chariots so that they drove them with difficulty, and the Egyptians said, \u201cWe must flee away from Israel because Yahweh is fighting for them against Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:26",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cStretch out your hand over the sea, and let the waters return over the Egyptians, over their chariots, and over their charioteers.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:27",
"text": "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned \u231eat daybreak\u231f to its normal level, and the Egyptians were fleeing \u231ebecause of it\u231f, and Yahweh swept the Egyptians into the middle of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:28",
"text": "And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the charioteers\u2014all the army of Pharaoh coming after them into the sea. Not \u231eeven\u231f one survived among them. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:29",
"text": "But the \u231eIsraelites\u231f walked on the dry land in the middle of the sea. The waters were a wall for them on their right and on their left. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:30",
"text": "And Yahweh saved Israel on that day from the hand of Egypt, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Exodus 14:31",
"text": "And Israel saw the great hand that Yahweh displayed against Egypt, and the people feared Yahweh, and they believed in Yahweh and in Moses his servant. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:1",
"text": " Then Moses and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f sang this song to Yahweh, \u231eand they said\u231f, \u201cLet me sing to Yahweh because he is highly exalted; the horse and its rider he hurled into the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:2",
"text": " Yah is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him\u2014the God of my father\u2014and I will exalt him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:3",
"text": " Yahweh is a man of war; Yahweh is his name. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:4",
"text": " The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he cast into the sea, and his choice adjutants were sunk in the \u231eRed Sea\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:5",
"text": " The deep waters covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:6",
"text": " Yahweh, your right hand is glorious in power; Yahweh, your right hand destroyed the enemy. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:7",
"text": " And in the greatness of your majesty you overthrew those standing up to you; you released your fierce anger, and it consumed them like stubble. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:8",
"text": " And by the breath of your nostrils waters were piled up; waves stood like a heap; deep waters in the middle of the sea congealed. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:9",
"text": " The enemy said, \u2018I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide plunder, my desire will be full of them, I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:10",
"text": " You blew with your breath; the sea covered them; they dropped like lead in the mighty waters. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:11",
"text": " Who is like you among the gods, Yahweh? Who is like you\u2014glorious in holiness, awesome in praiseworthy actions, doing wonders? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:12",
"text": " You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:13",
"text": " In your loyal love you led the people whom you redeemed; in your strength you guided them to the abode of your holiness. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:14",
"text": " Peoples heard; they trembled; anguish seized the inhabitants of Philistia. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:15",
"text": " Then the chiefs of Edom were horrified; great distress seized the leaders of Moab; all of the inhabitants of Canaan melted away. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:16",
"text": " Terror and dread fell on them; at the greatness of your arm they became silent like the stone, until your people passed by, Yahweh, until the people whom you bought passed by. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:17",
"text": " You brought them and planted them on the mountain of your inheritance, a place you made for yourself to inhabit, Yahweh, a sanctuary, Lord, that your hands established. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:18",
"text": " Yahweh will reign as king forever and ever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:19",
"text": " When the horses of Pharaoh came into the sea with his chariots and with his charioteers, Yahweh brought back upon them the waters of the sea, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f traveled on dry ground through the middle of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:20",
"text": "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took her tambourine in her hand, and all of the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:21",
"text": "And Miriam answered, \u201cSing to Yahweh because he is highly exalted; the horse and its rider he hurled into the sea.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:22",
"text": " And Moses caused Israel to set out from the \u231eRed Sea\u231f, and they went out into the desert of Shur, and they traveled three days in the desert, and they did not find water. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:23",
"text": "And they came to Marah, and they were not able to drink water from Marah because it was bitter. Therefore \u231eit was named\u231f Marah. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:24",
"text": "And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, \u201cWhat shall we drink?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:25",
"text": "And he cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a piece of wood, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he made a rule and regulation for them, and there he tested them. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:26",
"text": "And he said, \u201cIf you carefully listen to the voice of Yahweh your God and you do what is right in his eyes and give heed to his commands and you keep all his rules, then I will not bring about on you any of the diseases that I brought about on Egypt, because I am Yahweh your healer. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Exodus 15:27",
"text": " And they came to Elim, and twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees were there, and they encamped there at the water. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:1",
"text": " And they set out from Elim, and all the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f came to the desert of Sin, which is between Elim \u231eand Sinai\u231f, in the fifteenth day of the second month of their going out from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:2",
"text": "And all the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:3",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f said to them, \u201c\u231eIf only we had died\u231f by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread \u231euntil we were full\u231f, because you have brought us out to this desert to kill all of this assembly with hunger.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:4",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cLook, I am going to rain down for you bread from the heavens, and the people will go out and gather enough for the day on its day; in that way I will test them: Will they go according to my law or not? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:5",
"text": "And then on the sixth day, they will prepare what they bring, and it will be twice over what they will gather every other day.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:6",
"text": " And Moses and Aaron said to all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u201cIn the evening, you will know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:7",
"text": "and in the morning, you will see the glory of Yahweh, \u231efor he hears\u231f your grumblings against Yahweh, and what are we that you grumble against us?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:8",
"text": "And Moses said, \u201cWhen in the evening Yahweh gives you meat to eat and bread in the morning \u231eto fill up on\u231f, \u231efor he hears\u231f your grumblings that you grumble against him\u2014and what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:9",
"text": "And Moses said to Aaron, \u201cSay to all the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u2018Come near before Yahweh because he has heard your grumblings.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:10",
"text": " And at the moment of Aaron\u2019s speaking to all the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, they turned to the desert, \u231eand just then\u231f the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:11",
"text": "And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:12",
"text": "\u201cI have heard the grumblings of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. Speak to them, saying, \u2018\u231eAt twilight\u231f you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be full with bread, and you will know that I am Yahweh your God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:13",
"text": " And so it was, in the evening, the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning, a layer of dew was all around the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:14",
"text": "And the layer of dew came up, \u231eand there\u231f on the face of the desert was a fine granular substance, fine like frost on the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:15",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f saw, and they said \u231eto each other\u231f, \u201cWhat is this?\u201d because they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, \u201cThat is the bread that Yahweh has given to you as food. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:16",
"text": "This is the word that Yahweh commanded, \u2018Gather from it, \u231eeach according to what he can eat\u231f, an omer per person according to the number of you. You each shall take enough for whoever is in his tent.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:17",
"text": " And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did so, and they gathered, some more and some less. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:18",
"text": "And when they measured with the omer, the one gathering more had no surplus, and the one gathering less had no lack; they gathered \u231eeach according to what he could eat\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:19",
"text": "And Moses said to them, \u201cLet no one leave any of it until morning.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:20",
"text": "But they did not listen to Moses. Some people left some of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:21",
"text": "And they gathered it morning by morning, \u231eeach according to what he could eat\u231f, and it melted when the sun was hot. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:22",
"text": " And when it was the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one person, and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:23",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cThis is what Yahweh has said. Tomorrow is a rest period, a holy Sabbath for Yahweh. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Put aside all the surplus for yourselves for safekeeping until the morning.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:24",
"text": "And they put it aside until the morning, as Moses had commanded, and it did not make a stench, and not a maggot was in it. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:25",
"text": "And Moses said, \u201cEat it today, because today is a Sabbath for Yahweh. Today you will not find it in the field. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:26",
"text": "Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be present on it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:27",
"text": " And on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they did not find any. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:28",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cHow long do you refuse to keep my commands and my laws? "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:29",
"text": "See, because Yahweh has given to you the Sabbath, therefore he is giving to you on the sixth day bread for two days. Stay, \u231eeach in his location\u231f; let no one go from his place on the seventh day.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:30",
"text": "And the people rested on the seventh day. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:31",
"text": " And the house of Israel called its name \u201cmanna.\u201d And it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like a wafer with honey. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:32",
"text": "And Moses said, \u201cThis is the word that Yahweh has commanded. \u2018A full omer of it is for safekeeping for your generations so that they will see the bread that I fed you in the desert when I brought you from the land of Egypt.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:33",
"text": "And Moses said to Aaron, \u201cTake one jar and put there a full omer of manna. Leave it before Yahweh for safekeeping for your generations.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:34",
"text": "As Yahweh had commanded Moses, so Aaron left it before the testimony for safekeeping. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:35",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f ate the manna forty years, until their coming to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until their coming to the border of the land of Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Exodus 16:36",
"text": "(And an omer is a tenth of an ephah.) "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:1",
"text": " And all the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f set out from the desert of Sin for their journeys according to the command of Yahweh, and they camped in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:2",
"text": "And the people quarreled with Moses, and they said, \u201cGive us water so that we can drink.\u201d And Moses said to them, \u201cWhy do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:3",
"text": "And the people thirsted for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, \u201cWhy \u231eever\u231f did you bring us up from Egypt to kill me and my sons and my cattle with thirst?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:4",
"text": " And Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, \u201cWhat will I do with this people? A little longer and they will stone me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:5",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cGo on before the people and take with you some from the elders of Israel, and the staff with which you struck the Nile take in your hand, and go. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:6",
"text": "Look, I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out from it, and the people will drink.\u201d And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:7",
"text": "And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and because of their testing Yahweh by saying, \u201cIs Yahweh in our midst or not?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:8",
"text": " And Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:9",
"text": "And Moses said to Joshua, \u201cChoose men for us, and go out, fight against Amalek tomorrow. I will be standing on the top of the hill, and the staff of God will be in my hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:10",
"text": " And Joshua did as Moses had said to him to fight with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:11",
"text": "And when Moses raised his hand, Israel would prevail, but when he rested his hand, Amalek would prevail. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:12",
"text": "But the hands of Moses were heavy, and they took a stone and placed it under him, and he sat on it; Aaron and Hur supported his hands, \u231eone on each side\u231f, and his hands were steady until \u231esundown\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:13",
"text": "And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the \u231eedge of the sword\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:14",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cWrite this as a memorial in the scroll and \u231erecite it in the hearing of\u231f Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:15",
"text": " And Moses built an altar, and he called its name Yahweh Is My Banner. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Exodus 17:16",
"text": "And he said, \u201cBecause a hand was against the throne of Yah, a war will be for Yahweh with Amalek from generation to generation.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:1",
"text": " And Jethro, the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, his people, that Yahweh had brought Israel out from Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:2",
"text": "And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah the wife of Moses after her sending away, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:3",
"text": "and her two sons\u2014the one whose name was Gershom, for he had said, \u201cI have been an alien in a foreign land,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:4",
"text": "and the one whose name was Eliezer, for \u201cthe God of my father was my help, and he delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:5",
"text": "And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, came and his sons and his wife to Moses, to the desert where he was camping there at the mountain of God. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:6",
"text": "And he said to Moses, \u201cI, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you and your wife and her two sons with her.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:7",
"text": "And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed, and he kissed him, and \u231ethey each asked about the other\u2019s welfare\u231f, and they came into the tent. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:8",
"text": " And Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the hardship that had found them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:9",
"text": "And Jethro rejoiced over all the good that Yahweh had done for Israel when he delivered them from the hand of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:10",
"text": "And Jethro said, \u201cBlessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of Pharaoh\u2014who has delivered the people from under the hand of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:11",
"text": "Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods, \u231eeven in the matter where they the Egyptians dealt arrogantly against the Israelites\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:12",
"text": "And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:13",
"text": " \u231eAnd\u231f the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood before Moses from the morning until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:14",
"text": "And the father-in-law of Moses saw all that he was doing for the people, and he said, \u201cWhat is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting alone and all the people are standing by you from morning until evening?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:15",
"text": "And Moses said to his father-in-law, \u201cBecause the people come to me to seek God. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:16",
"text": "When \u231ethey have an issue\u231f, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make known God\u2019s rule and his instructions.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:17",
"text": " And the father-in-law of Moses said to him, \u201cThe thing that you are doing is not good. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:18",
"text": "Surely you will wear out, both you and this people who are with you, because the thing is too \u231edifficult\u231f for you. You are not able to do it alone. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:19",
"text": "Now listen to my voice; I will advise you, and may God be with you. You be for the people before God, and you bring the issues to God. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:20",
"text": "And you warn them of the rules and the instructions, and you make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work that they must do. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:21",
"text": "And you will select from all the people men of ability, fearers of God, trustworthy men, haters of dishonest gain, and you will appoint such men over them as commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, and commanders of tens. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:22",
"text": "And let them judge the people all the time, \u231eand\u231f every major issue they will bring to you, and every minor issue they will judge themselves. And so lighten it for yourself, and they will bear it with you. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:23",
"text": "If you will do this thing and God will command you, then you will be able to endure, and also each of the people will go to his home in peace.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:24",
"text": " And Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and he did all that he had said. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:25",
"text": "And Moses chose men of ability from all Israel, and he appointed them as heads over the people, as commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, and commanders of tens. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:26",
"text": "And they judged the people all the time; the difficult issues they would bring to Moses, and every minor issue they would judge themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Exodus 18:27",
"text": "And Moses let his father-in-law go, and he went to his land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:1",
"text": " In the third month after the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went out from the land of Egypt, on this day they came to the Sinai desert. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:2",
"text": "They set out from Rephidim, and they came to the desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:3",
"text": " And Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him from the mountain, saying, \u201cThus you will say to the house of Jacob and you will tell the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:4",
"text": "\u2018You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I bore you on eagles\u2019 wings and I brought you to me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:5",
"text": "And now if you will carefully listen to my voice and keep my covenant, you will be a treasured possession for me out of all the peoples, \u231efor all the earth is mine\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:6",
"text": "but you, you will belong to me as a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.\u2019 These are the words that you will speak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:7",
"text": " And Moses came and called the elders of the people, and he placed before them all these words that Yahweh had commanded him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:8",
"text": "And all the people together answered and said, \u201cAll that Yahweh has spoken we will do.\u201d And Moses brought back the words of the people to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:9",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cLook, I am going to come to you in \u231ea thick cloud\u231f in order that the people will hear when I speak with you and will also trust in you forever.\u201d And Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:10",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cGo to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:11",
"text": "and they must be prepared for the third day, because on the third day, Yahweh will go down on Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:12",
"text": "And you must set limits for the people all around, saying, \u2018Guard yourselves \u231eagainst\u231f going up to the mountain and touching its edge. Anyone touching the mountain will certainly be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:13",
"text": "Not a hand will touch it, because he will certainly be stoned or certainly be shot; whether an animal or a man, he will not live.\u2019 At the blowing of the ram\u2019s horn they may go up to the mountain.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:14",
"text": " And Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and he consecrated the people, and they washed their clothes. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:15",
"text": "And he said to the people, \u201cBe ready \u231efor the third day\u231f. Do not go near to a woman.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:16",
"text": " \u231eAnd\u231f on the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning, and a heavy cloud over the mountain and a very loud ram\u2019s horn sound, and all the people who were in the camp trembled. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:17",
"text": "And Moses brought the people out from the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:18",
"text": "And Mount Sinai was all wrapped in smoke because Yahweh went down on it in the fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace, and the whole mountain trembled greatly. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:19",
"text": "And the sound of the ram\u2019s horn became \u231elouder and louder\u231f, and Moses would speak, and God would answer him with a voice. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:20",
"text": " And Yahweh went down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:21",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cGo down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to see and many from them fall. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:22",
"text": "And even the priests who come near Yahweh must consecrate themselves, lest Yahweh break out against them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:23",
"text": "And Moses said to Yahweh, \u201cThe people are not able to go up to Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, saying, \u2018Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:24",
"text": "And Yahweh said to him, \u201cGo, go down, and come up, you and Aaron with you and the priests, but the people must not break through to go up to Yahweh, lest he break out against them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Exodus 19:25",
"text": "And Moses went down to the people, and he told them. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:1",
"text": " And God spoke all these words, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:2",
"text": "\u201cI am Yahweh, your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:3",
"text": " \u201cThere shall be for you no other gods before me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:4",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not make for yourself a divine image with any form that is in the heavens above or that is in the earth below or that is in the water below the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:5",
"text": "You will not bow down to them, and you will not serve them, because I am Yahweh your God, a jealous God, punishing the guilt of the parents on the children on the third and on the fourth generations of those hating me, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:6",
"text": "and showing loyal love to thousands of generations of those loving me and of those keeping my commandments. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:7",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not \u231emisuse the name of Yahweh your God\u231f, because Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who \u231emisuses his name\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:8",
"text": " \u201cRemember the day of the Sabbath, to consecrate it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:9",
"text": "Six days you will work, and you will do all your work. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:10",
"text": "But the seventh day is a Sabbath for Yahweh your God; you will not do any work\u2014you or your son or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your animal, or your alien who is in your gates\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:11",
"text": "because in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and on the seventh day he rested. Therefore Yahweh blessed the seventh day and consecrated it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:12",
"text": " \u201cHonor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God is giving you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:13",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not murder. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:14",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not commit adultery. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:15",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not steal. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:16",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not testify against your neighbor with a false witness. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:17",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not covet the house of your neighbor; you will not covet the wife of your neighbor or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that is your neighbor\u2019s.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:18",
"text": " And all the people were seeing the thunder and the lightning and the sound of the ram\u2019s horn and the mountain smoking, and the people saw, and they trembled, and they stood at a distance. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:19",
"text": "And they said to Moses, \u201cYou speak with us, and we will listen, but let not God speak with us, lest we die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:20",
"text": "And Moses said to the people, \u201cDo not be afraid. God has come to test you so that his fear will be before you so that you do not sin.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:21",
"text": "And the people stood at a distance, and Moses approached the very thick cloud where God was. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:22",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cThus you will say to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u2018You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:23",
"text": "You will not make alongside me gods of silver, and gods of gold you will not make for yourselves. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:24",
"text": "An altar of earth you will make for me, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered, I will come to you, and I will bless you. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:25",
"text": "And if you make an altar of stones for me, you will not build them as hewn stone, because if you use your chisel on it, you have defiled it. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Exodus 20:26",
"text": "You will not go up with steps onto my altar, that your nakedness not be exposed on it.\u2019 "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:1",
"text": " \u201cAnd these are the regulations that you will set before them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:2",
"text": " \u2018If you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve six years, and in the seventh he will go out as free for nothing. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:3",
"text": "If he comes in single, he will go out single. If he is the husband of a wife, his wife will go out with him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:4",
"text": "If his master gives him a wife and she bears for him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master, and the slave will go out single. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:5",
"text": "But if the slave explicitly says, \u201cI love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:6",
"text": "his master will present him to God and bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve him forever. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:7",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if a man sells his daughter as a slave woman, she will not go out as male slaves go out. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:8",
"text": "If \u231eshe does not please her master\u231f who selected her, he will allow her to be redeemed; he has no authority to sell her to foreign people, since he has dealt treacherously with her. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:9",
"text": "And if he selects her for his son, he shall do for her according to the regulations for daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:10",
"text": "If he takes for himself another, he will not reduce her food, her clothing, or her right of cohabitation. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:11",
"text": "And if he does not do for her these three, she shall go out for nothing; there will not be silver paid for her. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:12",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018\u231eWhoever strikes someone\u231f and he dies will surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:13",
"text": "But if he did not lie in wait \u231eand it was an accident\u231f, I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:14",
"text": "But if a man schemes against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you will take him from my altar to die. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:15",
"text": "And \u231ewhoever strikes\u231f his father or his mother will surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:16",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And \u231ewhoever kidnaps someone\u231f and sells him, or he is found in his possession, he will surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:17",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And one who curses his father or his mother will surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:18",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if men quarrel and a man strikes his neighbor with a stone or with a fist and he does not die, but \u231ehe is confined to bed\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:19",
"text": "if he stands and walks about in the outside on his staff, the striker will be unpunished; he will only pay for his inactivity \u231etoward his full recovery\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:20",
"text": "And if a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be avenged. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:21",
"text": "Yet if he survives a day or two days, he will not be avenged, because he is his money. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:22",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if men fight and they injure a pregnant woman, and her children go out and there is not serious injury, he will surely be fined as the woman\u2019s husband demands concerning him \u231eand as the judges determine\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:23",
"text": "And if there is serious injury, you will give life in place of life, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:24",
"text": "eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth, hand in place of hand, foot in place of foot, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:25",
"text": "burn in place of burn, wound in place of wound, bruise in place of bruise. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:26",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if a man strikes the eye of his male slave or the eye of his female slave and destroys it, he shall release him as free in place of his eye. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:27",
"text": "And if he causes the tooth of his male slave or the tooth of his female slave to fall out, he will release him as free in place of his tooth. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:28",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if an ox gores a man or a woman and he dies, the ox will surely be stoned, and its meat will not be eaten, and the owner of the ox is innocent. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:29",
"text": "But if it was a goring ox \u231ebefore\u231f and its owner was warned and did not restrain it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox will be stoned, and the owner also will be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:30",
"text": "If a ransom is set on him, he will pay the redemption money for his life according to all that is set on him. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:31",
"text": "If it gores a son or it gores a daughter, according to this regulation it shall be done to him. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:32",
"text": "If the ox gores a male slave or a female slave, he will give thirty shekels of silver to his master, and the ox will be stoned. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:33",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and he does not cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:34",
"text": "the owner of the pit will pay restitution; he will pay silver to its owner, but the dead animal will be for him. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:35",
"text": "And if a man\u2019s ox injures the ox of his neighbor and it dies, they will sell the living ox and divide the \u231emoney\u231f, and they will also divide the dead one. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Exodus 21:36",
"text": "Or if it was known that it was a goring ox \u231ebefore\u231f and its owner did not restrain it, he will surely make restitution, an ox in place of the ox, and the dead one will be for him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:1",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If a man steals an ox or small livestock and slaughters it or sells it, he will make restitution with five cattle in place of the ox and with four sheep or goats in place of the small livestock. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:2",
"text": "\u201c\u00a0\u2018If a thief is found in the act of breaking in and he is struck and he dies, there is not bloodguilt for him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:3",
"text": "(If the sun has risen over him, there is bloodguilt for him. He will make full restitution. If \u231ehe does not have enough\u231f, he will be sold for his theft. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:4",
"text": "If indeed the stolen item is found \u231ein his possession\u231f alive, from ox to donkey to small livestock, he will make double restitution. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:5",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard and he releases his livestock and it grazes in the field of another, he will make restitution from the best of his field and the best of his vineyard. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:6",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If a fire is started and finds thorn bushes and a stack of sheaves or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who started the fire will surely make restitution. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:7",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If a man gives to his neighbor money or objects to watch over and it is stolen from the house of the man, if the thief is found, he will make double restitution. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:8",
"text": "If the thief is not found, the owner of the house will be brought \u231eto the sanctuary\u231f to learn whether or not he reached out his hand to his neighbor\u2019s possession. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:9",
"text": "Concerning every account of transgression\u2014concerning an ox, concerning a donkey, concerning small livestock, concerning clothing, concerning all lost property\u2014where someone says, \u201cThis belongs to me,\u201d the matter of the two of them will come to God; whomever God declares guilty will make double restitution to his neighbor. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:10",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or small livestock or any beast to watch over and it dies or is injured or is captured when there is no one who sees, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:11",
"text": "the oath of Yahweh will be between the two of them concerning whether or not he has reached out his hand to his neighbor\u2019s possession, and its owner will accept this, and he will not make restitution. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:12",
"text": "But if indeed it was stolen from him, he will make restitution to its owner. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:13",
"text": "If indeed it was torn to pieces, he will bring it as evidence\u2014the mangled carcass; he will not make restitution. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:14",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If a man borrows from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he will make restitution. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:15",
"text": "If its owner was with it, he will not make restitution; if it was hired, it came with its hiring fee. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:16",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and he lies with her, he surely will give her bride price \u231eto have her as his wife\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:17",
"text": "If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he will weigh out money according to the bride price for the virgin. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:18",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will not let a witch live. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:19",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Anyone lying with an animal will surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:20",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Whoever sacrifices to the gods\u2014not to Yahweh, to him alone\u2014will be destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:21",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will not mistreat an alien, and you will not oppress him, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:22",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will not afflict any widow or orphan. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:23",
"text": "If you indeed afflict him, yes, if he cries out at all to me, I will certainly hear his cry of distress. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:24",
"text": "And \u231eI will become angry\u231f, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children orphans. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:25",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If you lend money to my people, to the needy with you, you will not be to him as a creditor; you will not \u231echarge him interest\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:26",
"text": "If indeed you require the cloak of your neighbor as a pledge, you will return it to him at sundown, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:27",
"text": "because it is his only garment; it is his cloak for his skin. In what will he sleep? \u231eAnd\u231f when he cries out to me, I will hear, because I am gracious. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:28",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will not curse God, and you will not curse a leader among your people. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:29",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will not delay the fullness of your harvest and the juice from your press; you will give me the firstborn of your sons. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:30",
"text": "You will do likewise for your ox and for your sheep and goats; seven days it will be with its mother; on the eighth, you will give it to me. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Exodus 22:31",
"text": "And you will be men of holiness for me; and you will not eat meat from a carcass mangled in the field; you will throw it to the dog. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:1",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will not \u231espread\u231f a false report. Do not lift your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:2",
"text": "You will not \u231efollow\u231f a majority for evil, and you will not testify concerning a legal dispute to turn aside after a majority to pervert justice. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:3",
"text": "You will not be partial to a powerless person in his legal dispute. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:4",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If you come upon the ox of your enemy or his donkey going astray, you will certainly bring it back to him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:5",
"text": "If you see the donkey of your enemy lying down under its burden, you will refrain from abandoning him. You will surely arrange it with him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:6",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will not pervert the justice of your poor in his legal dispute. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:7",
"text": "You will stay far from a \u231efalse charge\u231f, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, because I will not declare the wicked righteous. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:8",
"text": "And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes the sighted blind and ruins the words of the righteous. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:9",
"text": "And you will not oppress an alien; you yourselves know the feelings of the alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:10",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And six years you will sow your land and gather its yield. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:11",
"text": "But the seventh you will let it rest and leave it fallow, and the poor of your people will eat, and their remainder the animals of the field will eat. You will do likewise for your vineyard and for your olive trees. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:12",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you will stop so that your ox and your donkey will rest and the son of your slave woman and the alien will be refreshed. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And you will be attentive to all that I have said to you, and you will not \u231eprofess\u231f the name of other gods; it will not be heard in your mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:14",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Three times in the year you will hold a festival for me. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:15",
"text": "You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you at the appointed time, the month of Abib, because in it you came out from Egypt, and \u231eno one will\u231f appear before me empty-handed. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:16",
"text": "And you will keep the Feast of Harvest, with the firstfruits of your work, what you sow in the field. And you will keep the Feast of Harvest Gathering when the year goes out, when you gather your work from the field. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:17",
"text": "Three times in the year all your men will appear before the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:18",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will not sacrifice the blood of my sacrifice together with food with yeast, and you will not leave the fat of my feast overnight until morning. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:19",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018The best of the firstfruits of your land you will bring to the house of Yahweh your God. \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will not boil a young goat in its mother\u2019s milk. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:20",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Look, I am about to send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:21",
"text": "Be attentive to him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, because he will not forgive your transgression, for my name is in him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:22",
"text": "But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:23",
"text": "When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, I will wipe them out. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:24",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will not bow to their gods, and you will not serve them, and you will not act according to their actions, because you will utterly demolish them, and you will utterly break their stone pillars. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:25",
"text": "And you will serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from among you. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:26",
"text": "There will be no one suffering miscarriage or infertile in your land. I will make full the number of your days. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:27",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018I will release my terror before you, and I will throw into confusion all the people against whom you come, and I will \u231emake all your enemies turn their back to you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:28",
"text": "And I will send the hornet before you, and it will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:29",
"text": "I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a desolation and \u231ethe wild animals\u231f multiply against you. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:30",
"text": "Little by little I will drive them out from before you until you are fruitful and take possession of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:31",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And I will set your boundary from the \u231eRed Sea\u231f and up to the sea of the Philistines and from the desert up to the river, because I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out from before you. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:32",
"text": "You will not make a covenant with them and with their gods. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Exodus 23:33",
"text": "They will not live in your land, lest they cause you to sin against me when you serve their gods, for it will be a snare to you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:1",
"text": " And to Moses he said, \u201cGo up to Yahweh\u2014you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy from the elders of Israel\u2014and you will worship at a distance. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:2",
"text": "And Moses \u231ealone\u231f will come near to Yahweh, and they will not come near, and the people will not go up with him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:3",
"text": " And Moses came, and he told the people all the words of Yahweh and all the regulations. And all the people answered with one voice, and they said, \u201cAll the words that Yahweh has spoken we will do.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:4",
"text": " And Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and he rose early in the morning, and he built an altar at the base of the mountain and set up twelve memorial stones for the twelve tribes of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:5",
"text": "And he sent young men from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and they offered burnt offerings, and they sacrificed sacrifices as fellowship offerings to Yahweh using bulls. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:6",
"text": "And Moses took half of the blood, and he put it in bowls, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:7",
"text": "And he took the scroll of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, \u201cAll that Yahweh has spoken we will do, and we will listen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:8",
"text": "And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and he said, \u201cLook, the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all these words.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:9",
"text": " And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy from the elders of Israel went up. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:10",
"text": "And they saw the God of Israel, and what was under his feet was like sapphire tile work and like the very heavens for clearness. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:11",
"text": "And toward the leaders of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f he did not stretch out his hand, and they beheld God, and they ate, and they drank. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:12",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cCome up to me on the mountain, and be there, and I will give you the tablets of stone and the law and the commandments that I have written to instruct them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:13",
"text": "And Moses got up, and Joshua, his assistant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:14",
"text": " And to the elders he said, \u201cWait for us here until we return to you. And look, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever \u231ehas a dispute\u231f will bring it to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:15",
"text": " And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:16",
"text": "And the glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days, and he called to Moses on the seventh day from the midst of the cloud. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:17",
"text": "And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain to the eyes of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Exodus 24:18",
"text": "And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:1",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and let them bring to me a contribution. You will receive my contribution from every man whose heart prompts him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:3",
"text": "And this is the contribution that you will receive from them\u2014gold and silver and bronze, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:4",
"text": "blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine linen and goat hair, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:5",
"text": "and red-dyed ram skins, and fine leather, and acacia wood, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:6",
"text": "oil for the lamp, balsam oils for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:7",
"text": "onyx stones and stones for mountings on the ephod and the breast piece. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:8",
"text": "And make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell in the midst of them, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:9",
"text": "according to all that I show you\u2014the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its equipment\u2014and so you will do. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd they will make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width and a cubit and a half its height. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:11",
"text": "And you will overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside you will overlay it, and you will make on it a gold molding all around. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:12",
"text": "And you will cast for it four gold rings, and you will put them on its four feet, with two rings on its one side and two rings on its second side. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:13",
"text": "And you will make poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:14",
"text": "And you will put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark with them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:15",
"text": "In the rings of the ark will be the poles; they will not be removed from it. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:16",
"text": "And you will put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:17",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:18",
"text": "And you will make two cherubim of gold; you will make them of hammered work at the two ends of the atonement cover. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:19",
"text": "And make one cherub \u231eat one end\u231f and one cherub \u231eat the other end\u231f of the atonement cover; you will make the cherubim on its two ends. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:20",
"text": "And the cherubim will be with outspread wings above, covering with their wings over the atonement cover \u231eand facing each other\u231f; the faces of the cherubim will be toward the atonement cover. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:21",
"text": "And you will put the atonement cover above onto the ark, and into the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:22",
"text": "And I will meet you there, and I will speak with you from over the atonement cover, from between the two cherubim that are to be on the ark of the testimony\u2014all that I will command you to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:23",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make a table of acacia wood, two cubits its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:24",
"text": "And you will overlay it with pure gold, and you will make for it a gold molding all around. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:25",
"text": "And you will make for it a handbreadth rim all around, and you will make a gold molding for its rim all around. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:26",
"text": "And you will make four gold rings for it, and you will put the rings on the four corners where its four \u231elegs\u231f are. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:27",
"text": "The rings will be near the rim as \u231eholders\u231f for poles to carry the table. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:28",
"text": "And you will make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table will be carried with them. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:29",
"text": "And you will make its plates and its ladles and its pitchers and its bowls with which libations will be poured; of pure gold you will make them. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:30",
"text": "And you will put on the table the bread of presence to be before me continually. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:31",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand will be made of hammered work\u2014its base and its branch, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms will be from it. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:32",
"text": "And six branches will be going out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its second side. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:33",
"text": "Three almond-flower cups will be on the one branch with a bud and a blossom, and three almond-flower cups will be on the one branch with a bud and a blossom\u2014likewise for the six branches going out from the lampstand. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:34",
"text": "And on the lampstand will be four almond-flower cups, with its buds and its blossoms. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:35",
"text": "And a bud will be under the two branches that come from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, likewise for the six branches coming out from the lampstand. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:36",
"text": "Their buds and their branches will be from it, all of it one piece of pure gold hammered work. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:37",
"text": "And you will make its seven lamps, and its lamps will be set up, and it will give light \u231ein the space in front of it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:38",
"text": "And its snuffers and its fire pans will be pure gold. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:39",
"text": "It will be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these pieces of equipment. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Exodus 25:40",
"text": "And see and make all according to their pattern, which you were shown in the mountain. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:1",
"text": " \u201cAnd the tabernacle you will make with ten curtains; you will make them of finely twisted linen and blue and purple and crimson yarns, with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:2",
"text": "The length of the one curtain will be twenty-eight cubits, and the width will be four cubits for the one curtain; one measure will be for all the curtains. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:3",
"text": "Five curtains will be joined \u231eto one another\u231f, and five curtains joined \u231eto one another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:4",
"text": "And you will make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, at the end in the set; and you will do so on the edge of the end curtain in the second set. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:5",
"text": "You will make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you will make fifty loops on the end of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops are to be opposite \u231eto one another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:6",
"text": "And you will make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains \u231eto one another\u231f with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be one. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:7",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you will make them eleven curtains. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:8",
"text": "The length of the one curtain will be thirty cubits, and the width will be four cubits for the one curtain; one measure will be for the eleven curtains. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:9",
"text": "And you will join five curtains together and six curtains together, and you will fold double the sixth curtain at the front of the tent. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:10",
"text": "And you will make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain at the end of the first set and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:11",
"text": "And you will make fifty bronze clasps, and you will put the clasps in the loops and join the tent, so that it will be one. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:12",
"text": " \u201cAnd the surplus in the curtains of the tent will be an overhang; the surplus half curtain will hang over the back of the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:13",
"text": "And a cubit \u231efrom one side\u231f and a cubit \u231efrom the other side\u231f in the surplus in the length of the curtains of the tent will be hung over the sides of the tabernacle \u231eequally\u231f to cover it. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:14",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make a covering for the tent of red-dyed ram skins and a covering of fine leather to go above. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:15",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:16",
"text": "The length of the frame will be ten cubits, and the width of the one frame will be one and a half cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:17",
"text": "You will make two \u231epegs\u231f for the one frame for joining \u231eeach to another\u231f and likewise for all the frames of the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:18",
"text": "And you will make the frames for the tabernacle with twenty frames for the \u231esouth\u231f side. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:19",
"text": "And you will make forty silver bases under the twenty frames, with two bases under the one frame for its two \u231epegs\u231f and two bases under the \u231enext\u231f frame for its two \u231epegs\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:20",
"text": "And for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, there will be twenty frames "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:21",
"text": "and their forty silver bases, with two bases under the one frame and two bases under the \u231enext\u231f frame. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:22",
"text": " \u201cAnd for the rear of the tabernacle \u231eon the west\u231f you will make six frames. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:23",
"text": "And you will make two frames for the tabernacle corners at the rear. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:24",
"text": "They will be double at the bottom, and they will be completely together on its top to the one ring; it will be likewise for the two of them; they will be for the two corners. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:25",
"text": "And there will be eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, with two bases under the one frame and two bases under the \u231enext\u231f frame. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:26",
"text": " \u201cYou will make five bars of acacia wood for the frames on the one side of the tabernacle, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:27",
"text": "and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames on the side of the tabernacle at the rear \u231eon the west\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:28",
"text": "And the bar in the middle, in the midst of the frames will run from end to end. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:29",
"text": "And you will overlay the frames with gold, and you will make their rings of gold as \u231eholders\u231f for the bars, and you will overlay the bars with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:30",
"text": "And you will erect the tabernacle according to its plan, which you have been shown on the mountain. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:31",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make a curtain of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman; he will make it with cherubim. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:32",
"text": "And you will put it on four acacia pillars overlaid with gold with their gold hooks on four silver bases. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:33",
"text": "And you will put the curtain under the clasps, and you will bring the ark of the testimony there inside the curtain, and the curtain will separate for you between the holy and the \u231emost holy place\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:34",
"text": "And you will put the atonement cover on the ark of the testimony in the \u231emost holy place\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:35",
"text": "And you will place the table outside the curtain and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, and you will put the table on the north side. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:36",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make for the entrance of the tent a screen of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Exodus 26:37",
"text": "And you will make for the screen five acacia pillars, and you will overlay them with gold with their gold hooks, and you will cast for them five bronze bases. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:1",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar will be square, and its height will be three cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:2",
"text": "And you will make its horns on its four corners; its horns will be \u231eof one piece with it\u231f, and you will overlay it with bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:3",
"text": "And you will make its pots for removing its fat-soaked ashes and its shovels and its sprinkling bowls and its forks and its fire pans; you will make all its equipment with bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:4",
"text": "And you will make for it a grating, a work of bronze network, and you will make on the network four bronze rings on its four ends. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:5",
"text": "And you will put it under the ledge of the altar, below, and the network will be up to the middle of the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:6",
"text": "And you will make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them with bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:7",
"text": "And the poles will be put into the rings, and the poles will be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:8",
"text": "You will make it hollow with boards. As it was shown you on the mountain, so they will do. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:9",
"text": " \u201cYou will make the courtyard of the tabernacle; for the \u231esouth\u231f side will be hangings for the courtyard of finely twisted linen, one hundred cubits long for the one side. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:10",
"text": "And its twenty pillars and their twenty bases will be bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands will be silver. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:11",
"text": "And likewise for the north side along the length will be hangings one hundred cubits long; and its twenty pillars and their bases will be bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands will be silver. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:12",
"text": "And the width of the courtyard for the west side will be hangings of fifty cubits, their ten pillars and their ten bases. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:13",
"text": "And the width of the courtyard for the east side, toward sunrise, will be fifty cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:14",
"text": "And hangings for the shoulder will be fifteen cubits with their three pillars and their three bases. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:15",
"text": "And fifteen cubits of hangings will be for the second shoulder with their three pillars and their three bases. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:16",
"text": "And for the gate of the courtyard there will be a screen of twenty cubits of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer; with their four pillars and their four bases. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:17",
"text": " \u201cAll the pillars of the courtyard all around will be banded with silver, and their hooks will be silver, and their bases will be bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:18",
"text": "The length of the courtyard will be one hundred cubits and the width fifty cubits and the height five cubits, of finely twisted linen, with their bronze bases. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:19",
"text": "Bronze will be for all the equipment of the tabernacle in all its service and all its \u231epegs\u231f and all the \u231epegs\u231f of the courtyard. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:20",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will command the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and they will bring to you pure, beaten olive oil for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Exodus 27:21",
"text": "In the tent of assembly outside the curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons will arrange it, from evening until morning, before Yahweh as a lasting statute throughout their generations from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:1",
"text": " \u201cAnd bring near to you Aaron, your brother, and his sons with him from the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f to serve as priests for me\u2014Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:2",
"text": "And you will make holy garments for Aaron, your brother, for glory and for splendor. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:3",
"text": "And you will speak to all the skilled of heart, whom I have given \u231ea gift of skill\u231f, and they will make the garments of Aaron to consecrate him for his serving as my priest. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:4",
"text": "And these are the garments that they will make: A breast piece and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of specially woven fabric, a turban and a sash. And they will make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and for his sons to serve as priests for me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:5",
"text": " \u201cAnd they will take the gold and the blue and the purple and the crimson yarns and the fine linen, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:6",
"text": "and they will make the ephod of gold, blue and purple, and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:7",
"text": "It will have two joining shoulder pieces at its two edges, so that it can be fastened. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:8",
"text": "And the waistband of his ephod, which is on it, will be of like work to it\u2014gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:9",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:10",
"text": "with six of their names on the one stone and the remaining six on the second, according to their genealogies. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:11",
"text": "As the work of a skilled stone craftsman, with seal engravings you will engrave on the two stones the names of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; you will make them mounted in gold filigree settings. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:12",
"text": "And you will set the two stones on the ephod\u2019s shoulder pieces as stones of remembrance for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and Aaron will bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulder pieces for remembrance. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:13",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make gold filigree settings. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:14",
"text": "And you will make two braided chains of pure gold ornamental cord work, and you will put the chains of the ornamental cords on the filigree settings. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:15",
"text": "And you will make a breast piece of judgment, a work of a skilled craftsman; you will make it like the work of the ephod; you will make it of gold, blue and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:16",
"text": "It will be squared, doubled, a span its length and a span its width. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:17",
"text": "And you will fill it with stone mounting, four rows of stone, a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald is the first row; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:18",
"text": "and the second row is a malachite, a sapphire, and a moonstone; "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:19",
"text": "and the third row is a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:20",
"text": "and the fourth row is a turquoise and an onyx and a jasper. Their settings will be woven with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:21",
"text": "The stones will be according to the names of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, twelve according to their names, with seal engravings, each according to its name they will be for the twelve tribes. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:22",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make on the breast piece braided chains, a work of pure gold ornamental cord. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:23",
"text": "And you will make on the breast piece two gold rings, and you will put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:24",
"text": "And you will put the two gold ornamental cords on the two rings on the edges of the breast piece. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:25",
"text": "And you will put the two ends of the two ornamental cords on the two filigree settings, and you will put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:26",
"text": "And you will make two gold rings, and you will place them on the two ends of the breast piece, on its edge that is \u231eon the other side\u231f of the ephod, \u231eto the inside\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:27",
"text": "And you will make two rings and put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod below at its front near its seam above the waistband of the ephod. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:28",
"text": "And they will tie the breast piece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord to be on the waistband of the ephod, and the breast piece will not come loose from the ephod. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:29",
"text": "And Aaron will bear the names of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f in the breast piece of judgment on his heart, when he comes to the sanctuary, for a remembrance before Yahweh continually. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:30",
"text": "And you will put the Urim and the Thummim on the breast piece of judgment, and they will be on the heart of Aaron when he comes before Yahweh, and Aaron will bear the judgment of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f on his heart before Yahweh continually. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:31",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make the robe of the ephod totally of blue yarn. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:32",
"text": "And the opening for his head will be in the middle of it; its opening will have an edge all around, the work of a weaver; it will be like the opening of a sturdy garment for it, so that it will not be torn. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:33",
"text": "And you will make on its hem pomegranates of blue and purple and crimson yarns on its hem all around and bells of gold in the midst of them all around, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:34",
"text": "a gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:35",
"text": "And it will be on Aaron for serving, and its sound will be heard at his coming into the sanctuary before Yahweh and at his going out, so that he will not die. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:36",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make a pure gold rosette, and you will engrave on it with seal engravings: \u201cA holy object for Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:37",
"text": "And you will place it on a blue cord, and it will be on the turban, at the front of the turban it will be. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:38",
"text": "And it will be on the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron will bear the guilt of the holy objects that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f will consecrate for all their holy gifts, and it will be on his forehead continually for acceptance for them before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:39",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will weave the tunic of fine linen, and you will make a turban of fine linen, and you will make a sash, the work of an embroiderer. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:40",
"text": "And for the sons of Aaron you will make tunics, and you will make for them sashes and headdresses; you will make them for glory and for splendor. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:41",
"text": "And you will clothe them\u2014Aaron, your brother, and his sons with him\u2014and you will anoint them and \u231eordain them\u231f and consecrate them, and they will serve as priests for me. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:42",
"text": "And make for them undergarments of linen to cover naked flesh; they will be from loins to thigh. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Exodus 28:43",
"text": "And they will be on Aaron and on his sons when they come to the tent of assembly or when they approach the altar to serve in the sanctuary, so that they will not bear guilt and die. It is a lasting statute for him and for his offspring after him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:1",
"text": " \u201cAnd this is the thing that you will do for them to consecrate them to serve as a priest for me: Take \u231eone young bull\u231f and two rams without defect "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:2",
"text": "and unleavened bread and unleavened, ring-shaped bread cakes mixed with oil, and wafers of unleavened breads smeared with oil. You will make them with finely milled wheat flour, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:3",
"text": "and you will put them on one basket, and you will bring them on the basket and bring the bull and the two rams. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:4",
"text": "And you will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of assembly, and you will wash them with water. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:5",
"text": "And you will take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic and the robe of the ephod, and you will fasten to him the ephod and the breast piece with the waistband of the ephod. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:6",
"text": "And you will set the turban on his head, and you will put the holy diadem on the turban. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:7",
"text": "And you will take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:8",
"text": "And you will bring his sons and clothe them with tunics. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:9",
"text": "And you will gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and wrap headdresses on them. And priesthood will be theirs as a lasting rule, and \u231eyou will ordain Aaron and his sons.\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will bring the bull before the tent of assembly, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the bull. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:11",
"text": "And you will slaughter the bull before Yahweh at the entrance of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:12",
"text": "And you will take some of the blood of the bull and with your finger put it on the horns of the altar, and you will pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:13",
"text": "And you will take and turn into smoke on the altar all the fat covering the inner parts and the lobe on the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:14",
"text": "And the flesh of the bull and its skin and its offal you will burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:15",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:16",
"text": "And you will slaughter the ram and take its blood and sprinkle it on the altar all around. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:17",
"text": "And you will cut the ram into pieces and wash its inner parts, and you will put its legs with its pieces and with its head. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:18",
"text": "And you will turn into smoke on the altar all of the ram; it is a burnt offering for Yahweh; it is a smell of appeasement, an offering by fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:19",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:20",
"text": "And you will slaughter the ram and take some of its blood and put it on Aaron\u2019s right earlobe and on the right earlobe of his sons and on the thumb of their right hand and on \u231ethe big toe\u231f of their right foot, and you will sprinkle the blood at the base of the altar all around. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:21",
"text": "And you will take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and you will spatter it on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons and on his sons\u2019 garments with him, and he will be sacred, and his garments and his sons and his sons\u2019 garments with him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:22",
"text": "And you will take from the ram the fat and the fat tail and the fat covering the inner parts and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them and the right thigh, because it is the ram of ordination. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:23",
"text": " \u201cAnd one loaf of bread and one ring-shaped bread cake of oiled bread and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:24",
"text": "you will put them all on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and you will wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:25",
"text": "And you will take them from their hand and turn them to smoke on the altar beside the burnt offering as a fragrance of appeasement before Yahweh; it is an offering made by fire before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:26",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will take the breast section from the ram of ordination that is for Aaron, and you will wave it as a wave offering before Yahweh. It will be your portion. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:27",
"text": "And you will consecrate the wave offering breast section and the thigh of the contribution that was waved and that was presented from the ram of the ordination that is for Aaron and for his sons. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:28",
"text": "And it will be for Aaron and for his sons as a lasting rule from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, because it is a contribution, and it will be a contribution from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from their sacrifices of fellowship, their contribution to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:29",
"text": " \u201cAnd the holy garments that are for Aaron will be for his sons after him in which to anoint them and \u231eto ordain them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:30",
"text": "Seven days the priest who replaces him from among his sons will wear them, who comes to the tent of assembly to serve in the sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:31",
"text": "And you will take the ram of ordination and boil its meat in a holy place. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:32",
"text": "And Aaron and his sons will eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:33",
"text": "And they will eat them\u2014the things by which atonement was made for them to ordain them to consecrate them\u2014and a stranger will not eat them because they are holy objects. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:34",
"text": "If any remains until morning from the ordination meat or from the bread, you will burn the remainder in fire; it will not be eaten, because it is a holy object. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:35",
"text": "And you will do so for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; seven days you will ordain them. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:36",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will offer a bull for a sin offering every day for the atonement; and you will offer a sin offering on the altar when you make atonement for it, and you will anoint it to consecrate it. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:37",
"text": "Seven days you will make atonement for the altar, and you will consecrate it, and the altar will be \u231ea most holy thing\u231f. \u231eAnyone who\u231f touches the altar will be holy. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:38",
"text": " \u201cAnd this is what you shall offer on the altar: Two \u231eone-year-old\u231f male lambs \u231eevery day\u231f continually. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:39",
"text": "The first lamb you will offer in the morning, and the second lamb you will offer \u231eat twilight\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:40",
"text": "And a tenth of finely milled flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine as a libation with the first lamb. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:41",
"text": "And the second lamb you will offer \u231eat twilight\u231f; you will offer a grain offering and its libation like that of the morning for a fragrance of appeasement, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:42",
"text": "It will be a burnt offering of continuity throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of assembly before Yahweh, where I will meet with you to speak to you there. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:43",
"text": " \u201cAnd I will meet with the \u231eIsraelites\u231f there, and it will be consecrated by my glory. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:44",
"text": "And I will consecrate the tent of assembly and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I will consecrate to serve as priests for me. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:45",
"text": "And I will dwell in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and I will be their God. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Exodus 29:46",
"text": "And they will know that I am Yahweh, their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt in order to dwell in their midst. I am Yahweh their God. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:1",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will make an altar for burning incense; you will make it of acacia wood, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:2",
"text": "a cubit its length and a cubit its width\u2014it will be square\u2014and two cubits its height, its horns \u231eof one piece with it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:3",
"text": "And you will overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around and its horns, and you will make for it a gold molding all around. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:4",
"text": "And you will make two gold rings for it; under its molding \u231eon two opposite sides\u231f you will make them as \u231eholders\u231f for poles to carry it with them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:5",
"text": "You will make the poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:6",
"text": "And you will put it before the curtain that is upon the ark of the testimony, before the atonement cover, which is on the testimony, there where I will meet with you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:7",
"text": " \u201cAnd on it Aaron will turn fragrant incense into smoke; \u231eeach morning\u231f when he tends the lamps, he will turn it into smoke. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:8",
"text": "And when Aaron sets up the lamps \u231eat twilight\u231f, he will turn it into smoke\u2014incense of continuity\u2014before Yahweh throughout your generations. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:9",
"text": "You will not offer on it strange incense or a burnt offering or a grain offering, and you will not pour a libation on it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:10",
"text": "And Aaron will make atonement on its horns one time in the year from the blood of the sin offering of the atonement; one time in the year he will make atonement on it throughout your generations; it is a most holy thing for Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:11",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:12",
"text": "\u201c\u231eWhen you take a census of\u231f the \u231eIsraelites\u231f to count them, they will each give the ransom of his life for Yahweh when counting them, and a plague will not be among them when counting them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:13",
"text": "This they will give, \u231eeveryone who is counted\u231f, the half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs per shekel. The half shekel is a contribution for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:14",
"text": "\u231eEveryone who is counted\u231f from \u231etwenty years old\u231f and above will give the contribution of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:15",
"text": "The rich will not give more, and the poor will not give less than the half shekel to give the contribution of Yahweh to make atonement for their lives. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:16",
"text": "And you will take the atonement money from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and give it to the service of the tent of assembly, and it will be as a memorial for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f before Yahweh to make atonement for your lives.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:17",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:18",
"text": "\u201cAnd you will make a basin of bronze and its bronze stand for washing, and you will put it between the tent of assembly and the altar, and you will put water there. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:19",
"text": "And Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet with it. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:20",
"text": "When they come to the tent of assembly, they will wash with water so that they do not die, or when they approach the altar to serve by turning to smoke an offering made by fire to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:21",
"text": "And they will wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die, and it will be a lasting rule for them\u2014to him and to his offspring throughout their generations. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:22",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:23",
"text": "\u201cAnd take for yourself top quality balsam oils, five hundred shekels of flowing myrrh, half as much\u2014two hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant reed, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:24",
"text": "and five hundred shekels of cassia, according to the sanctuary shekel, and a hin of olive oil. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:25",
"text": "And you will make it into holy anointing oil, a spice blend of a fragrant ointment the work of a perfumer; it will be holy anointing oil. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:26",
"text": "And you will anoint with it the tent of assembly and the ark of the testimony, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:27",
"text": "and the table and all its equipment and the lampstand and its equipment and the incense altar, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:28",
"text": "and the altar of burnt offering and all its equipment and the basin and its stand. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:29",
"text": "And you will consecrate them, and they will be most holy things; \u231eanyone who\u231f touches them will be holy. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:30",
"text": "And you will anoint Aaron and his sons, and you will consecrate them to serve as priests for me. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:31",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will speak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018This will be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:32",
"text": "It will not be poured on human flesh, and with its measurements you will not make any like it; it is holy; it will be holy to you. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:33",
"text": "Anyone who compounds perfume like it and who puts it on a stranger will be cut off from his people.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:34",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cTake for yourself fragrant perfumes\u2014stacte resin and onycha and galbanum\u2014fragrant perfumes and pure frankincense, \u231ean equal part of each\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:35",
"text": "and make it into a compound of incense, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, holy. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:36",
"text": "And you will grind part of it to powder, and you will put part of it before the testimony in the tent of assembly where I will meet with you; it will be a most holy thing to you. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:37",
"text": "And the incense that you will make with its measurements you will not make for yourselves; it will be holy to you for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Exodus 30:38",
"text": "Anyone who makes any like it to smell it will be cut off from his people.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:1",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:2",
"text": "\u201cSee, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri the son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:3",
"text": "And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with skill and with knowledge and with every kind of craftsmanship, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:4",
"text": "to devise designs, to work with gold and with silver and with bronze, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:5",
"text": "and in stonecutting for setting and in cutting wood, for doing every kind of craftsmanship. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:6",
"text": "And, look, I have given with him Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, and I have put skill in the heart of all the skilled of heart, and they will make all that I have commanded you\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:7",
"text": "the tent of assembly and the ark of the testimony and the atonement cover that is on it and all the equipment of the tent, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:8",
"text": "and the table and all its equipment, and the pure gold lampstand and all its equipment, and the incense altar, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:9",
"text": "and the altar of burnt offering and all its equipment, and the basin and its stand, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:10",
"text": "and the garments of woven material, and \u231ethe garments of the sanctuary\u231f for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to serve as priests, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:11",
"text": "and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the sanctuary. According to all that I have commanded you, they will make it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:12",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:13",
"text": "\u201cAnd you, speak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, because it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, in order to know that I am Yahweh, who consecrates you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:14",
"text": "And you must keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you; defilers of it will surely be put to death, because anyone who does work on it\u2014that person will be cut off from among his people. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:15",
"text": "On six days work can be done, and on the seventh \u231eis a Sabbath of complete rest\u231f, \u231ea holy day\u231f for Yahweh; anyone doing work on the Sabbath day will surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:16",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f will pay attention to the Sabbath in order to fulfill the Sabbath throughout their generations as a lasting covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:17",
"text": "It is a sign between me and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f forever, because in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh he ceased and recovered.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Exodus 31:18",
"text": " And when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with the finger of God. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:1",
"text": " And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, and the people gathered opposite Aaron, and they said to him, \u201cCome, make for us gods who will go before us, because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:2",
"text": " And Aaron said to them, \u201cTake off the rings of gold that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring it to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:3",
"text": "And all the people took off the rings of gold that were on their ears and brought it to Aaron. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:4",
"text": "And he took from their hand, and he shaped it with a tool, and he made it a cast-image bull calf, and they said, \u201cThese are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:5",
"text": " And Aaron saw, and he built an altar before it, and Aaron called, and he said, \u201cA feast for Yahweh tomorrow.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:6",
"text": "And they started early the next day, and they offered burnt offerings, and they presented fellowship offerings, and the people sat to eat and drink, and they rose up to revel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:7",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, \u201cGo, go down because your people behave corruptly, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:8",
"text": "They have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a cast-image bull calf, and they bowed to it, and they sacrificed to it, and they said, \u2018These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:9",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cI have seen this people, and, indeed, they are a stiff-necked people. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:10",
"text": "And now leave me alone so that \u231emy anger may blaze\u231f against them, and let me destroy them, and I will make you into a great nation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:11",
"text": " And Moses \u231eimplored Yahweh\u231f his God, and he said, \u201cWhy, Yahweh, should \u231eyour anger blaze\u231f against your people whom you brought up from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:12",
"text": "Why should the Egyptians \u231esay\u231f, \u2018With evil intent he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth\u2019? Turn from \u231eyour fierce anger\u231f and relent concerning the disaster for your people. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:13",
"text": "Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by yourself, and you told them, \u2018I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit it forever.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:14",
"text": " And Yahweh relented concerning the disaster that he had \u231ethreatened\u231f to do to his people. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:15",
"text": "And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the testimony were in his hand, tablets written on their two sides; \u231eon the front and on the back\u231f they were written. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:16",
"text": "And the tablets, they were the work of God; and the writing, it was the writing of God engraved on the tablets. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:17",
"text": " And Joshua heard the sound of the people in their shouting, and he said to Moses, \u201cA sound of war is in the camp.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:18",
"text": " But he said, \u201cThere is not a sound of shouting of victory, and there is not a sound of shouting of defeat. I hear a sound of singing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:19",
"text": " \u231eAnd\u231f as he came near to the camp, he saw the bull calf and dancing, and \u231eMoses became angry\u231f, and he threw the tablets from his hand, and he broke them under the mountain. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:20",
"text": "And he took the bull calf that they had made, and he burned it with the fire, and he crushed it until it became fine, and he scattered it on the surface of the water, and he made the \u231eIsraelites\u231f drink. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:21",
"text": " And Moses said to Aaron, \u201cWhat did this people do to you that you brought on them such a great sin?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:22",
"text": "And Aaron said, \u201c\u231eLet not my lord become angry\u231f. You yourself know the people, that \u231ethey are intent on evil\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:23",
"text": "And they said to me, \u2018Make for us gods who will go before us, because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:24",
"text": "And I said to them, \u2018Whoever has gold, take it off.\u2019 And they gave it to me, and I threw it in the fire, and out came this bull calf.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:25",
"text": " And Moses saw the people, that they were running wild because Aaron had allowed them to run wild, for a laughingstock among \u231etheir enemies\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:26",
"text": "And Moses stood at the entrance of the camp, and he said, \u201cWhoever is for Yahweh, to me.\u201d And all the sons of Levi were gathered to him. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:27",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, \u2018Put each his sword on his side. Go \u231eback and forth\u231f from gate to gate in the camp, and kill, each his brother and each his friend and each his close relative.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:28",
"text": "And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and from the people on that day about three thousand persons fell. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:29",
"text": "And Moses said, \u201c\u231eYou are ordained\u231f today for Yahweh, because each has been against his son and against his brother and so bringing on you today a blessing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:30",
"text": " \u231eAnd\u231f the next day Moses said to the people, \u201cYou have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:31",
"text": " And Moses returned to Yahweh, and he said, \u201cAlas, this people has sinned a great sin and made for themselves gods of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:32",
"text": "And now if you will forgive their sin\u2014and if not, please blot me from your scroll that you have written.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:33",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cWhoever has sinned against me I will blot him from my scroll. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:34",
"text": "And now go, lead the people to where I spoke to you. Look, my angel will go before you, and on the day when I punish I will punish them for their sin.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Exodus 32:35",
"text": "And Yahweh afflicted the people because they had made the bull calf that Aaron had made. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:1",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, \u201cGo, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land that I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, \u2018I will give it to your offspring.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:2",
"text": "And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, and the Hittites and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:3",
"text": "Go to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up among you, because you are a stiff-necked people, lest I destroy you on the way.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:4",
"text": "And the people heard this troubling word, and they mourned, and they each did not put their ornaments on themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:5",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cSay to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u2018You are a stiff-necked people; if one moment I were to go up among you, I would destroy you. And now take down your ornaments from on you, and I will \u231edecide\u231f what I will do to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:6",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f stripped themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:7",
"text": " And Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp far from the camp, and he called it the tent of assembly, \u231eand\u231f all seeking Yahweh would go out to the tent of assembly, which was outside the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:8",
"text": "\u231eAnd\u231f at the going out of Moses to the tent, all the people would rise and stand, each at the opening of his tent, and gaze after Moses until his entering the tent. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:9",
"text": "\u231eAnd\u231f at the entering of Moses into the tent the column of cloud would descend and stand at the opening of the tent, and he would speak with Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:10",
"text": "And all the people would see the column of cloud standing at the opening of the tent, and all the people would rise and bow in worship, each at the opening of his tent. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:11",
"text": "And Yahweh would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his neighbor. And he would return to the camp, and his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the middle of the tent. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:12",
"text": " And Moses said to Yahweh, \u201cSee, you are saying to me, \u2018Take this people up.\u2019 But you have not let me know whom you will send with me, and you yourself have said, \u2018I know you by name, and you also have found favor in my eyes.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:13",
"text": "And now if I have found favor in your eyes, make known to me, please, your way, and so I may know you so that I can find favor in your eyes. And see that this nation is your people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:14",
"text": "And he said, \u201cMy presence will go, and I will give you rest.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:15",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cIf your presence is not going, do not bring us up from here. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:16",
"text": "And by what will it be known then that I have found favor in your eyes, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us? And so we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the ground.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:17",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cAlso I will do this thing that you have spoken, because you have found favor in my eyes and I have known you by name.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:18",
"text": " And he said, \u201cPlease show me your glory.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:19",
"text": " And he said, \u201cI myself will cause all my goodness to pass over before you, and I will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:20",
"text": "But he said, \u201cYou are not able to see my face, because a human will not see me and live.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:21",
"text": "And Yahweh said, \u201cThere is a place with me, and you will stand on the rock. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:22",
"text": "\u231eAnd\u231f when my glory passes over, I will put you in the rock\u2019s crevice, and I will cover you with my hand until I pass over. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Exodus 33:23",
"text": "And I will remove my hand, and you will see my back, but my face will not be visible.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:1",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cCut for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:2",
"text": "And be ready for the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:3",
"text": "And no one will go up with you, and neither let anyone be seen on all the mountain, nor let the sheep and goats and the cattle graze \u231eopposite\u231f that mountain.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:4",
"text": " And Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and he started early in the morning, and he went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two stone tablets. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:5",
"text": "And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and he stood with him there, and he proclaimed the name of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:6",
"text": "And Yahweh passed over before him, and he proclaimed, \u201cYahweh, Yahweh, God, who is compassionate and gracious, \u231eslow to anger\u231f, and abounding with loyal love and faithfulness, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:7",
"text": "keeping loyal love to the thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and he does not leave utterly unpunished, punishing the guilt of fathers on sons and on sons of sons on third and fourth generations.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:8",
"text": " And Moses hurried and knelt down to the earth and worshiped. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:9",
"text": "And he said, \u201cPlease, if I have found favor in your eyes, Lord, let my Lord, please, go among us\u2014indeed it is a stiff-necked people\u2014and forgive our iniquity and our sin and \u231etake us as your possession\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:10",
"text": " And he said, \u201cLook, I am about to make a covenant. In front of all your people I will do wonders that have not been created on all the earth and among all the nations, and all the people among whom you are will see Yahweh\u2019s work, because what I am about to do with you will be awesome. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:11",
"text": " \u201cKeep for yourself what I myself have commanded you today. Look, I am about to drive from before you the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:12",
"text": "Be careful for yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, lest it be a snare among you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:13",
"text": "Rather, you will tear down their altars, and you will break their stone pillars, and you will cut off their Asherah poles. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:14",
"text": "For you will not bow in worship to another god, for \u2018Yahweh Is Jealous\u2019 is his name, he is a jealous God, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:15",
"text": "lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they prostitute themselves after their gods, and they sacrifice to their gods, and they invite you, and you eat their sacrifice, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:16",
"text": "and you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves after their gods, and they cause your sons to prostitute themselves after their gods. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:17",
"text": "You will not make gods of cast metal for yourself. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:18",
"text": " \u201cYou will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, which I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:19",
"text": "Every first offspring of a womb is for me\u2014all of your male livestock, the first offspring of cattle and small livestock. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:20",
"text": "But the first offspring of a donkey you will redeem with small livestock, and if you will not redeem it, you will break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you will redeem, and you will not appear before me empty-handed. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:21",
"text": "Six days you will work, and on the seventh day you will rest; in the time of plowing and in the time of harvest you will rest. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:22",
"text": "And \u231eyou yourself\u231f will observe the Feast of Weeks\u2014the firstfruits of the wheat harvest\u2014and the Feast of Harvest Gathering at the turn of the year. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:23",
"text": "Three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:24",
"text": "because I will evict nations before you, and I will enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh your God three times in the year. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:25",
"text": " \u201cYou will not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice on food with yeast, and the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover will not stay overnight to the morning. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:26",
"text": "The beginning of the firstfruits of your land you will bring to the house of Yahweh your God. You will not boil a young goat in its mother\u2019s milk.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:27",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cWrite for yourself these words, because \u231eaccording to\u231f these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:28",
"text": " And he was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights. He ate no food and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:29",
"text": "\u231eAnd\u231f when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony were in the hand of Moses at his coming down from the mountain; and Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with him. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:30",
"text": "And Aaron and all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f saw Moses, and, \u231eto their amazement\u231f, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid of coming near to him. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:31",
"text": "And Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the community returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:32",
"text": "And afterward all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f came near, and he commanded them all that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:33",
"text": "And Moses finished speaking with them, and he put a veil on his face. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:34",
"text": "And when Moses came before Yahweh to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he went out, and he would go out and would speak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f what he had been commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Exodus 34:35",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f would see the face of Moses, that the skin of the face of Moses shone, and Moses would put back the veil on his face until his coming to speak with him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:1",
"text": " And Moses assembled all the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and he said to them, \u201cThese are the words that Yahweh has commanded for us to do them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:2",
"text": "On six days work can be done, and on the seventh there will be for you a holy day, a \u231eSabbath of complete rest\u231f, for Yahweh; anyone doing work on it will be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:3",
"text": "You will not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the day of the Sabbath.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:4",
"text": " And Moses said to all the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u201cThis is the word that Yahweh has commanded, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:5",
"text": "\u2018Take from among you a contribution for Yahweh, anyone willing of heart, let him bring Yahweh\u2019s contribution\u2014gold and silver and bronze, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:6",
"text": "and blue and purple and crimson yarns, and fine linen and goat hair, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:7",
"text": "and red-dyed ram skins, and fine leather, and acacia wood, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:8",
"text": "and oil for the lamp, balsam oils for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:9",
"text": "onyx stones and stones for mountings on the ephod and the breast piece. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd let all the skilled of heart among you come and make all that Yahweh has commanded: "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:11",
"text": "The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering; its clasps and its frames; its bars, its pillars, and its bases; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:12",
"text": "the ark and its poles; the atonement cover and the curtain of the screen; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:13",
"text": "the table and its poles and all its equipment; and the bread of the presence; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:14",
"text": "and lampstand of the light and its equipment and its lamps and the oil for the light; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:15",
"text": "and the altar of incense and its poles; and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense and the entrance curtain for the entrance of the tabernacle; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:16",
"text": "the altar of the burnt offering and the bronze grating that is for it, its poles and all its equipment; the basin and its stand; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:17",
"text": "the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the courtyard gate; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:18",
"text": "the \u231epegs\u231f of the tabernacle and the \u231epegs\u231f of the courtyard and their cords; "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:19",
"text": "the woven garments for serving in the sanctuary\u2014the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to serve as priests.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:20",
"text": " And all the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went out from before Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:21",
"text": "And they came\u2014every man whose heart lifted him and every man whose spirit impelled him\u2014they brought Yahweh\u2019s contribution for the work of the tent of assembly and for all its service and for the holy garments. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:22",
"text": "And they came, the men in addition to the women, all who were willing of heart; they brought brooches and jewelry rings and signet rings and ornaments\u2014every variety of gold object\u2014every man who waved a wave offering of gold for Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:23",
"text": "and every man with whom was found blue and purple and crimson yarns and fine linen and goat hair and red-dyed ram skins and fine leather brought it. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:24",
"text": "All who were presenting a contribution of silver and bronze brought Yahweh\u2019s contribution, and all with whom was found acacia wood for all the work of service brought it. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:25",
"text": "And every woman who was skilled of heart with her hands they spun, and they brought yarn\u2014the blue and the purple, the crimson and the fine linen. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:26",
"text": "And all the women whose heart lifted them with skill spun the goat hair. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:27",
"text": "And the leaders brought the onyx stones and stones for mountings for the ephod and for the breast piece "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:28",
"text": "and the balsam oils and the oil for light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:29",
"text": "Every man and woman whose heart impelled them to bring for all the work to be done that Yahweh had commanded \u231eby the agency of\u231f Moses\u2014the \u231eIsraelites\u231f brought freely to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:30",
"text": " And Moses said to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u201cSee, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri the son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:31",
"text": "And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with skill and with knowledge and with every kind of craftsmanship, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:32",
"text": "and to devise designs, to work with the gold and with the silver and with the bronze, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:33",
"text": "and in stonecutting for setting and in cutting wood, for doing every kind of design craftsmanship. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:34",
"text": "And he has put it in his heart to teach\u2014he and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Exodus 35:35",
"text": "He has filled them with skill of heart to do every work of a craftsman and a designer and an embroiderer with the blue and with the purple, with the crimson yarns and with the fine linen and a weaver; they are doers of every kind of craftsmanship and devisers of designs. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:1",
"text": "And Bezalel and Oholiab and everyone who is skilled of heart in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and skill to know and to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary\u2014they will do it, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:2",
"text": " And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and everyone skilled of heart, in whose heart Yahweh had put skill, all whose heart lifted him to come near to the work in order to do it. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:3",
"text": "And they took from Moses all the contributions that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f had brought for the work of the service for the sanctuary in order to do it, and they still brought to him voluntary offerings \u231eevery morning\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:4",
"text": "And all the skilled workers who were doing all the work for the sanctuary came, \u231eeach\u231f from his work that they were doing. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:5",
"text": "And they said to Moses, saying, \u201cThe people are \u231ebringing more\u231f than enough for the service of the work that Yahweh has commanded \u231eto be done\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:6",
"text": "And Moses commanded, and they \u231eproclaimed the message\u231f in the camp, saying, \u201cLet no man or woman again make anything for the sanctuary contribution.\u201d And so the people were restrained from bringing. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:7",
"text": "And the material was enough for doing all the work, and it was left over. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:8",
"text": " And all who were skilled of heart among the doers of the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue and purple and crimson yarns, with cherubim; he made them, the work of a skilled craftsman. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:9",
"text": "The length of the one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width was four cubits for the one curtain; one measurement was for all the curtains. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:10",
"text": "And he joined five of the curtains \u231eone to another\u231f, and five curtains he joined \u231eone to another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:11",
"text": "And he made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, at the end in the set; so he did on the edge of the end curtain in the second set. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:12",
"text": "He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the end of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite \u231eone to another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:13",
"text": "And he made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains \u231eone to another\u231f with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was one. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:14",
"text": " And he made curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made them eleven curtains. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:15",
"text": "The length of the one curtain was thirty cubits, and the width was four cubits for the one curtain; one measure was for the eleven curtains. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:16",
"text": "And he joined five curtains together and six curtains together. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:17",
"text": "And he made fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in the set, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:18",
"text": "And he made fifty bronze clasps for joining the tent to become one. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:19",
"text": " And he made a covering for the tent of red-dyed ram skin and a covering of fine leather to go above. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:20",
"text": " And he made the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:21",
"text": "The length of the frame was ten cubits, and the width of the one frame was one and a half cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:22",
"text": "He made two \u231epegs\u231f for the one frame for joining \u231eone to another\u231f and likewise for all the frames of the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:23",
"text": "And he made the frames for the tabernacle with twenty frames for the south side. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:24",
"text": "And he made forty silver bases under the twenty frames, with two bases under the one frame for its two \u231epegs\u231f and two bases under the \u231enext\u231f frame for its two \u231epegs\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:25",
"text": "And for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:26",
"text": "and their forty silver bases, with two bases under the one frame and two bases under the \u231enext\u231f frame. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:27",
"text": " And for the rear of the tabernacle \u231eon the west\u231f he made six frames. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:28",
"text": "And he made two frames for the tabernacle corners at the rear. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:29",
"text": "And they were double at the bottom, and they were completely together on its top to the one ring; he did likewise for the two of them, for the two corners. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:30",
"text": "And there were eight frames and their sixteen silver bases, two bases, two bases under the one frame. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:31",
"text": " And he made five bars of acacia wood for the frames on the one side of the tabernacle, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:32",
"text": "and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames at the rear \u231eon the west\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:33",
"text": "And he made the middle bar to run in the midst of the frames from end to end. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:34",
"text": "And he overlaid the frames with gold, and he made their rings of gold as \u231eholders\u231f for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:35",
"text": "And he made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of a craftsman; he made it with cherubim. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:36",
"text": "And he made for it four acacia pillars, and he overlaid them with gold, with their gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:37",
"text": " And he made for the entrance of the tent a screen of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Exodus 36:38",
"text": "and the five pillars and their hooks, and he overlaid their tops and their connections with gold, and their five bases were bronze. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:1",
"text": " And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width and a cubit and a half its height. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:2",
"text": "And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and he made for it a gold molding all around. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:3",
"text": "And he cast for it four gold rings on its four feet; and two rings were on its one side, and two rings were on its second side. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:4",
"text": "And he made poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:5",
"text": "And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:6",
"text": " And he made an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:7",
"text": "And he made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the atonement cover. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:8",
"text": "One cherub was \u231eat one end\u231f, and one cherub was \u231eat the other end\u231f of the atonement cover; he made the cherubim at its two ends. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:9",
"text": "And the cherubim were with outspread wings above, covering with their wings over the atonement cover \u231eand facing each other\u231f; the faces of the cherubim were toward the atonement cover. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:10",
"text": " And he made the table of acacia wood, two cubits its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:11",
"text": "And he overlaid it with pure gold, and he made for it a gold molding all around. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:12",
"text": "And he made for it a handbreadth rim all around, and he made a gold molding for its rim all around. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:13",
"text": "And he cast for it four gold rings, and he put the rings on the four corners where its four \u231elegs\u231f were. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:14",
"text": "The rings were near the rim as \u231eholders\u231f for the poles to carry the table. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:15",
"text": "And he made the poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold to carry the table. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:16",
"text": "And he made the vessels that were on the table\u2014its plates and its ladles, and its bowls and its pitchers with which libations were poured\u2014of pure gold. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:17",
"text": " And he made the lampstand of pure gold; he made the lampstand of hammered work\u2014its base and its branch, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were \u231eall part of it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:18",
"text": "And six branches were going out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its second side. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:19",
"text": "Three almond-flower cups were on the one branch with a bud and a blossom, and three almond-flower cups were on the one branch with a bud and a blossom\u2014likewise for the six branches going out from the lampstand. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:20",
"text": "And on the lampstand were four almond-flower cups, with its buds and its blossoms. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:21",
"text": "And a bud was under the two branches that came from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, likewise for the six branches coming out from the lampstand. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:22",
"text": "Their buds and their branches were from it, all of it one piece of pure gold, hammered work. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:23",
"text": "And he made its seven lamps and its snuffers and its fire pans of pure gold. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:24",
"text": "He made it from a talent of pure gold and all its pieces of equipment. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:25",
"text": " And he made the incense altar of acacia wood, a cubit its length and a cubit its width\u2014a square\u2014and two cubits its height; its horns were \u231eof one piece with it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:26",
"text": "And he overlaid it with pure gold\u2014its top and its sides all around and its horns\u2014and he made for it a gold molding all around. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:27",
"text": "And he made for it two gold rings under its molding \u231eon two opposite sides\u231f as \u231eholders\u231f for poles to carry it with them. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:28",
"text": "And he made the poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Exodus 37:29",
"text": "And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense\u2014work of a perfumer. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:1",
"text": " And he made the burnt-offering altar of acacia wood; its length was five cubits, and its width was five cubits\u2014it was square\u2014and its height was three cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:2",
"text": "And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were \u231eof one piece with it\u231f; and he overlaid it with bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:3",
"text": "And he made all the equipment of the altar\u2014the pots and the shovels and the sprinkling bowls and the forks and the fire pans\u2014all its equipment he made with bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:4",
"text": "And he made for the altar a grating, a work of bronze network under its ledge, below, up to its middle. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:5",
"text": "And he cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as \u231eholders\u231f for the poles. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:6",
"text": "And he made the poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:7",
"text": "And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar to carry it with them. He made it hollow with boards. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:8",
"text": " And he made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the entrance of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:9",
"text": " And he made the courtyard; for the south side were the hangings of the court of finely twisted linen, one hundred cubits, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:10",
"text": "with their twenty pillars and their twenty bases of bronze and with the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:11",
"text": "And for the north side the hangings were one hundred cubits with their twenty pillars and their twenty bases of bronze and with the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:12",
"text": "And for the \u231ewest\u231f side fifty cubits of hangings with their ten pillars and their ten bases and with the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:13",
"text": "And for the eastward side, toward sunrise, fifty cubits; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:14",
"text": "fifteen cubits of hangings were to the shoulder, with their three pillars and their three bases, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:15",
"text": "and for the second shoulder \u231eon each side\u231f of the gate of the courtyard were fifteen cubits of hangings, with their three pillars and their three bases. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:16",
"text": "All the hangings of the courtyard all around were finely twisted linen, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:17",
"text": "and the bases for the pillars were bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver, and the overlay of their tops was silver, and all the pillars of the courtyard were banded with silver. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:18",
"text": " And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, with blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits \u231ehigh\u231f, like the hangings of the courtyard, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:19",
"text": "and with their four pillars and their four bases of bronze, with their silver hooks and with their tops and their bands of silver. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:20",
"text": "And all the \u231epegs\u231f for the tabernacle and for the courtyard all around were bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:21",
"text": " These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which were recorded at the \u231ecommand of\u231f Moses, the work of the Levites, in the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:22",
"text": "And Bezalel the son of Uri the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, did all that Yahweh commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:23",
"text": "And with him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, a skilled craftsman and a designer and an embroiderer with the blue and with the purple and with the crimson yarns and with the linen. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:24",
"text": " And all the gold used for the work, in the work of the sanctuary, it was the gold of the wave offering\u2014twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:25",
"text": " And the silver recorded from the community was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:26",
"text": "It was a bekah for the individual, the half shekel according to the sanctuary shekel, for \u231eeveryone who was counted\u231f, from \u231etwenty years old\u231f and above, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:27",
"text": "And it was one hundred talents of the silver to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the curtain\u2014one hundred bases for one hundred talents of silver, a talent for each base. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:28",
"text": "And from the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and he overlaid their tops, and he made bands for them. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:29",
"text": " And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:30",
"text": "And he made with it the bases of the entrance of the tent of assembly and the bronze altar and the bronze grating that belonged to it and all the equipment of the altar "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Exodus 38:31",
"text": "and the bases of the courtyard all around and the bases of the gate of the courtyard and all the \u231epegs\u231f of the tabernacle and all the \u231epegs\u231f of the courtyard all around. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:1",
"text": " And from the blue and the purple and the crimson yarns they made woven garments for serving in the sanctuary, and they made the holy garments that were for Aaron, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:2",
"text": "And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:3",
"text": "And he hammered out the leaves of gold, and he cut off cords to weave in the midst of the blue and in the midst of the purple and in the midst of the crimson and in the midst of the linen\u2014the work of a skilled craftsman. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:4",
"text": "They made joined shoulder pieces for it; it was joined on its two edges. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:5",
"text": "And the waistband of his ephod, which \u231ewas of one piece with it\u231f, was of like work, gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:6",
"text": "And they made onyx stones mounted in gold filigree settings, engraved with seal engravings according to the names of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:7",
"text": "And he set them on the ephod\u2019s shoulder pieces as stones of remembrance for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:8",
"text": " And he made the breast piece, the work of a skilled craftsman, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:9",
"text": "It was squared; they made the breast piece doubled; its length was a span, and its width was a span when doubled. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:10",
"text": "And they filled it with four rows of stone; a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald was the first row; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:11",
"text": "and the second row was a malachite, a sapphire, and a moonstone; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:12",
"text": "and the third row was a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:13",
"text": "and the fourth row was a turquoise, an onyx, and a jasper. They were set with gold filigree settings in their mountings. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:14",
"text": "And the stones were according to the names of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; they were twelve according to their names, with seal engravings, each according to its name for the twelve tribes. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:15",
"text": " And they made on the breast piece braided chains, a work of pure gold ornamental cord. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:16",
"text": "And they made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and they put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:17",
"text": "And they put the two gold ornamental cords on the two rings on the edges of the breast piece. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:18",
"text": "And they put the two ends of the two ornamental cords on the two filigree settings, and they put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:19",
"text": "And they made two gold rings, and they placed them on the two edges of the breast piece, on its lip that is on \u231ethe other side\u231f of the ephod, \u231eto the inside\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:20",
"text": "And they made two gold rings and put them on the ephod\u2019s two shoulder pieces below, at its front near its seam above the waistband of the ephod. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:21",
"text": "And they tied the breast piece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord so that the breast piece would be on the waistband of the ephod and not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:22",
"text": " And he made the robe of the ephod, weaver\u2019s work, totally of blue yarn. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:23",
"text": "And the opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a sturdy garment, with an edge for its opening all around so that it would not be torn. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:24",
"text": "And they made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of finely twisted blue and purple and crimson. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:25",
"text": "And they made pure gold bells and put the bells in the midst of the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around in the midst of the pomegranates, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:26",
"text": "a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate on the hem of the robe all around for serving, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:27",
"text": " And they made the tunics of fine linen, a weaver\u2019s work, for Aaron and for his sons, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:28",
"text": "and the turban of fine linen and the headdresses of the headbands of fine linen and undergarments of the linen cloth, finely twisted, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:29",
"text": "and the sash of finely twisted linen and blue and purple and crimson yarns, the work of an embroiderer, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:30",
"text": " And they made the rosette of the holy diadem of pure gold, and they wrote on it with the writing of seal engravings: \u201cA holy object for Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:31",
"text": "And they put a blue cord on it to put it above on the turban, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:32",
"text": " And all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of assembly was finished, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f had done according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses; so they did. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:33",
"text": "And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its equipment, its hooks, its frames, its bars, and its pillars and its bases; "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:34",
"text": "and the covering of the red-dyed ram skins and the covering of fine leather and the curtain of the screen; "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:35",
"text": "the ark of the testimony and its poles and the atonement cover; "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:36",
"text": "the table, all its equipment, and the bread of the presence; "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:37",
"text": "the pure gold lampstand, its lamps\u2014the lamps of the row\u2014and all its equipment and the oil of the light; "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:38",
"text": "the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the screen of the entrance of the tent; "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:39",
"text": "the bronze altar, and the bronze grating that is for it, its poles, and all its equipment, the basin and its stand, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:40",
"text": "the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars, and its bases; and the screen for the courtyard gate, its tent cords and its \u231epegs\u231f; and all the equipment of the service of the tabernacle for the tent of assembly, "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:41",
"text": "the woven garments for serving in the sanctuary\u2014the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:42",
"text": "According to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did all the work. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Exodus 39:43",
"text": "And Moses saw all the work, and, indeed, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded; so they did, and Moses blessed them. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:1",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:2",
"text": "\u201cOn the first day of the month, you will set up the tabernacle of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:3",
"text": "And you will put there the ark of the testimony, and you will cover over the ark with the curtain. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:4",
"text": "And you will bring the table, and you will arrange its setting, and you will bring the lampstand, and you will set up its lamps. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:5",
"text": "And you will put the gold altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and you will set up the entrance screen for the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:6",
"text": "And you will put the altar of the burnt offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:7",
"text": "And you will put the basin between the tent of assembly and the altar, and you will put water \u231ein it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:8",
"text": "And you will set up the courtyard all around, and you will put up the screen of the gate of the courtyard. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:9",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will take the anointing oil, and you will anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and you will consecrate all of its equipment, and it will be holy. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:10",
"text": "And you will anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all of its equipment, and you will consecrate the altar, and the altar will be a most holy thing. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:11",
"text": "And you will anoint the basin and its stand, and you will consecrate it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:12",
"text": "And you will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of assembly, and you will wash them with the water. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:13",
"text": "And you will clothe Aaron with the holy garments, and you will anoint him, and you will consecrate him, and he will serve as a priest for me. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:14",
"text": "And you will bring his sons, and you will clothe them with tunics. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:15",
"text": "And you will anoint them as you anointed their father, and they will serve as priests for me. And their anointing will be for them to be a lasting priesthood throughout their generations.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:16",
"text": "And Moses did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him; so he did. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:17",
"text": " \u231eIn\u231f the first month of the second year, on the first of the month, the tabernacle was set up. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:18",
"text": "And Moses raised the tabernacle, and he placed its bases, and he set up its frames, and he placed its bars, and he raised its pillars. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:19",
"text": "And he spread the tent over the tabernacle; he placed the covering of the tent over it, above it, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:20",
"text": "And he took and he put the testimony into the ark, and he placed the poles on the ark, and he put the atonement cover on the ark, above it. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:21",
"text": "And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and he set up the curtain of the screening, and he shielded the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:22",
"text": " And he put the table in the tent of assembly on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:23",
"text": "And he arranged on it an arrangement of bread before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:24",
"text": "And he placed the lampstand in the tent of assembly opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:25",
"text": "And he set up the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:26",
"text": "And he placed the gold altar in the tent of assembly before the curtain. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:27",
"text": "And he turned fragrant incense into smoke on it, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:28",
"text": " And he set up the entrance screen for the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:29",
"text": "And the altar of burnt offering he placed at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of assembly, and he offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:30",
"text": "And he placed the basin between the tent of assembly and the altar, and he put there water for washing. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:31",
"text": "And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet from it. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:32",
"text": "At their going into the tent of assembly and at their approaching the altar, they washed, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:33",
"text": " And he set up the courtyard all around the tabernacle and the altar, and he put up the screen of the gate of the courtyard, and Moses completed the work. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:34",
"text": "And the cloud covered the tent of assembly, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:35",
"text": "And Moses was unable to go into the tent of assembly because the cloud settled on it and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:36",
"text": "And when the cloud was lifted from the tabernacle, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f set out on all their journeys. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:37",
"text": "But if the cloud was not lifted, they did not set out until the day of its being lifted. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Exodus 40:38",
"text": "For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night before the eyes of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Leviticus",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of assembly, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and say to them, \u2018When a person from you presents an offering to Yahweh, you shall present your offering from domestic animals, from the cattle or from the flock. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:3",
"text": "If his offering is a burnt offering from the cattle, then he must present an unblemished male; he must present it at the door of the tent of assembly for his acceptance \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:4",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering and it will be accepted for him in order to make atonement for him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:5",
"text": "He must slaughter \u231ethe young bull\u231f \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, then Aaron\u2019s sons, the priests, will present the blood and sprinkle the blood all around the altar that is at the door of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:6",
"text": "Then he must remove the skin of the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:7",
"text": "The sons of Aaron the priest will put fire on the altar and arrange the wood on the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:8",
"text": "Then Aaron\u2019s sons, the priests, will arrange the pieces of meat, the head, and the suet on the wood that is on the fire that is on the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:9",
"text": "Then he must wash its inner parts and its lower leg bones with water, and the priest will turn into smoke the whole animal on the altar as a burnt offering by fire, as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:10",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But if his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats for a burnt offering, he must present an unblemished male. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:11",
"text": "He must slaughter it on the north side of the altar \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh; then Aaron\u2019s sons, the priests, will sprinkle its blood all around the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:12",
"text": "Then he must cut it into pieces along with its head and its suet; and the priest will arrange them on the wood that is on the fire that is on the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:13",
"text": "Then he must wash the inner parts and the lower leg bones with water and the priest shall present the whole animal and will turn it into smoke on the altar; it is a burnt offering by fire as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:14",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But if his offering for Yahweh is a burnt offering from the birds, then he must present his offering from the turtledoves or from \u231ethe young doves\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:15",
"text": "The priest will present it at the altar and must wring off its head and turn it into smoke on the altar, and its blood will be drained out on the wall of the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:16",
"text": "He must remove its crop with its plumage and throw it to the east beside the altar on the place of the fatty ashes. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Leviticus 1:17",
"text": "Then he must tear it apart by its wings but must not sever it; then the priest will turn it into smoke on the altar. It is a burnt offering by fire as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:1",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018When a person brings a grain offering to Yahweh, his offering must be finely milled flour, and he must pour out oil on it and place frankincense on it. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:2",
"text": "And he shall bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and he shall take \u231ehis handful from its finely milled flour\u231f and from its oil in addition to all its frankincense. The priest shall turn its token portion into smoke on the altar as an offering made by fire, as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:3",
"text": "The remainder of the grain offering \u231ebelongs to\u231f Aaron and to his sons\u2014\u231eit is a most holy thing\u231f from the offerings made by fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:4",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But if you bring a grain offering of something oven-baked, it must be of finely milled flour as ring-shaped unleavened bread mixed with oil or wafers of unleavened bread smeared with oil. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:5",
"text": "If your offering is a grain offering baked on a flat baking pan, it must be finely milled flour, unleavened bread mixed with oil; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:6",
"text": "break it into pieces and pour out oil on it; it is a grain offering. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:7",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If your offering is a grain offering prepared in a cooking pan, it must be with finely milled flour in oil. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:8",
"text": "And you shall bring the grain offering that is made from these things to Yahweh, and the offerer shall bring it to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:9",
"text": "And the priest shall take away from the grain offering its token portion, and he shall turn it into smoke on the altar as an offering made by fire, as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:10",
"text": "And the remainder of the grain offering \u231ebelongs to\u231f Aaron and to his sons\u2014\u231eit is a most holy thing\u231f from the offerings made by fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:11",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Every grain offering you bring to Yahweh must not be made of yeasted food, because you must not turn into smoke any yeast or any honey from an offering made by fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:12",
"text": "As an offering of the choicest portion, you may bring them to Yahweh, but they must not be offered on the altar as an appeasing fragrance. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:13",
"text": "Also all of your grain offerings you must season with salt; you must not omit the salt of your God\u2019s covenant from your offering. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:14",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if you bring to Yahweh a grain offering of firstfruits, you must bring an ear of new grain roasted by fire, coarsely crushed ripe grain, as the grain offering of your firstfruits. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:15",
"text": "And you shall put oil on it and place frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Leviticus 2:16",
"text": "The priest shall turn into smoke its token portion from its coarsely crushed grain together with all of its frankincense\u2014it is an offering made by fire for Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:1",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Now if his offering is a sacrifice of fellowship offering, if he brings it from the cattle, whether male or female, he must bring it without defect before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:2",
"text": "He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the tent of assembly, and Aaron\u2019s sons shall sprinkle the blood on the altar all around. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:3",
"text": "He shall present from the sacrifice of the fellowship offering an offering made by fire for Yahweh consisting of the fat covering the inner parts and all the fat that is on the inner parts, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:4",
"text": "the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and he must remove the lobe on the liver in addition to the kidneys. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:5",
"text": "Aaron\u2019s sons shall turn it to smoke on the altar in addition to the burnt offering that is on the wood, which is on the fire; it is an offering made by fire as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:6",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But if his offering for a sacrifice of fellowship offering for Yahweh is from the flock, he must bring a male or a female without defect. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:7",
"text": "If he brings a sheep as his offering, then he shall present it before Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:8",
"text": "and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and he shall slaughter it before the tent of assembly, and Aaron\u2019s sons shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:9",
"text": "He shall present from the sacrifice of the fellowship offering an offering made by fire for Yahweh: he must remove its fat, the entire fat tail near the tailbone, and the fat covering the inner parts and all the fat that is on the inner parts, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:10",
"text": "the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and he must remove the lobe on the liver in addition to the kidneys. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:11",
"text": "The priest shall turn it into smoke on the altar as a food offering made by fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:12",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if his offering is a goat, then he shall bring it before Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:13",
"text": "and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and he shall slaughter it before the tent of assembly, and Aaron\u2019s sons shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:14",
"text": "He shall present his offering from it as an offering made by fire for Yahweh: the fat covering the inner parts and all the fat that is on the inner parts, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:15",
"text": "the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and he must remove the lobe on the liver in addition to the kidneys. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:16",
"text": "The priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar as a food offering; all the fat is an offering made by fire as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Leviticus 3:17",
"text": "This is a lasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings: you must not eat any fat or any blood.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018If a person sins by an unintentional wrong from any of Yahweh\u2019s commands that should not be \u231eviolated\u231f, and he \u231eviolates\u231f \u231eany of them\u231f\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:3",
"text": "if the anointed priest sins, \u231ebringing guilt on the people\u231f, then, concerning the sin that he has \u231ecommitted\u231f, he shall bring \u231ea young bull\u231f without defect for Yahweh as a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:4",
"text": "He shall bring the bull to the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance before Yahweh, place his hand on the bull\u2019s head, and slaughter the bull before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:5",
"text": "The anointed priest shall take \u231esome of\u231f the bull\u2019s blood and shall bring it to the tent of assembly, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:6",
"text": "and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and shall spatter \u231esome of\u231f the blood seven times before Yahweh in front of the sanctuary\u2019s curtain. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:7",
"text": "The priest shall put \u231esome of\u231f the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of assembly, and all the rest of the bull\u2019s blood he must pour out on the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the entrance of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:8",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018He must remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering: the fat that covers the inner parts and all of the fat that is on the inner parts, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:9",
"text": "the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the liver\u2019s lobe that he must remove in addition to the kidneys\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:10",
"text": "just as it is removed from the ox of the fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifice\u2014and the priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar of the burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:11",
"text": "But the bull\u2019s skin and its meat, in addition to its head, \u231eits lower leg bones\u231f, its inner parts, and its offal\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:12",
"text": "he shall carry all of the bull \u231eoutside the camp\u231f to a ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ashes\u2019 dump, and he shall burn it on wood in the fire; it must be burned up on the fatty ashes\u2019 dump. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If Israel\u2019s whole assembly did wrong unintentionally and the matter was concealed from the assembly\u2019s eyes, and they acted against \u231eany of\u231f Yahweh\u2019s commands that should not be \u231eviolated\u231f, so that they incur guilt, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:14",
"text": "when the sin that they have \u231ecommitted\u231f against that command becomes known, the assembly shall present \u231ea young bull\u231f as a sin offering, and they shall bring it before the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:15",
"text": "And the elders of the community shall place their hands on the bull\u2019s head before Yahweh, and he shall slaughter the bull before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:16",
"text": "Then the anointed priest shall bring \u231esome of\u231f the bull\u2019s blood to the tent of assembly, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:17",
"text": "and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and shall spatter it seven times before Yahweh in front of the curtain. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:18",
"text": "He must put \u231esome of\u231f the blood on the altar\u2019s horns before Yahweh \u231ein the tent of assembly\u231f, and all the rest of the blood he must pour out on the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:19",
"text": "He must remove all its fat from it, and he shall turn it into smoke on the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:20",
"text": "He shall do to the bull \u231ejust as\u231f he did to the sin offering\u2019s bull, so he must do to it. The priest shall make atonement for them, and \u231ethey will be forgiven\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:21",
"text": "He shall bring the rest of the bull \u231eoutside the camp\u231f, and he shall burn it \u231ejust as\u231f he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:22",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018When a leader sins and commits an unintentional wrong against \u231eany of\u231f the commands of Yahweh his God that should not be \u231eviolated\u231f, so that he incurs guilt, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:23",
"text": "or his sin he has \u231ecommitted\u231f is made known to him, he shall bring \u231ea male goat\u231f without defect as his offering. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:24",
"text": "He shall place his hand on the he-goat\u2019s head and slaughter it in the place where he slaughtered the burnt offering before Yahweh; it is a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:25",
"text": "The priest shall take \u231esome of\u231f the sin offering\u2019s blood with his finger, and he shall put it on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, and he must pour out the rest of its blood on the base of the altar of the burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:26",
"text": "He must turn all of its fat into smoke on the altar like the fat of the fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifice, and the priest shall make atonement for him \u231ebecause of\u231f his sin, and \u231ehe will be forgiven\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:27",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If \u231eanyone\u231f of the people of the land sins by an unintentional wrong by \u231eviolating\u231f one of Yahweh\u2019s commands that should not be \u231eviolated\u231f, so that he incurs guilt, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:28",
"text": "or his sin he has \u231ecommitted\u231f is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering \u231ea female goat without defect\u231f as his offering for his sin that he \u231ecommitted\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:29",
"text": "He shall place his hand on the sin offering\u2019s head and slaughter the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:30",
"text": "The priest shall take \u231esome of\u231f its blood with his finger, and he shall put it on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, and he must pour out all the rest of its blood on the altar\u2019s base. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:31",
"text": "He must remove all of its fat \u231ejust as\u231f the fat was removed from the fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifice, and the priest shall turn it into smoke on the altar as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. The priest shall make atonement for him, and \u231ehe will be forgiven\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:32",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But if he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he must bring a female without defect. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:33",
"text": "He shall place his hand on the sin offering\u2019s head, and he shall slaughter it as a sin offering in the place where he slaughtered the burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:34",
"text": "The priest shall take \u231esome of\u231f the sin offering\u2019s blood with his finger, and he shall put it on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, and he must pour out all the rest of its blood on the altar\u2019s base. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Leviticus 4:35",
"text": "He must remove all of its fat \u231ejust as\u231f the lamb\u2019s fat from the fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifice was removed, and the priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar upon Yahweh\u2019s offerings made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him because of his sin that he \u231ecommitted\u231f, and \u231ehe will be forgiven\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:1",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018When a person sins in that he hears the utterance of a curse and he is a witness or he sees or he knows, if he does not make it known, then he shall bear his guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:2",
"text": "Or if a person touches anything unclean, \u231ewhether\u231f an unclean wild animal\u2019s dead body or an unclean domestic animal\u2019s dead body or an unclean swarmer\u2019s dead body, but \u231ehe is unaware of it\u231f, he is unclean and he is guilty. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:3",
"text": "Or when he touches human uncleanness, \u231enamely\u231f any uncleanness of his by which he might become unclean, but \u231ehe is unaware of it\u231f, and he himself finds out, then he will be guilty. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:4",
"text": "Or when a person swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, to do evil or to do good \u231ewith regard to\u231f anything that \u231ethe person\u231f in a sworn oath speaks thoughtlessly, but \u231ehe is unaware of it\u231f, he will be guilty \u231ein any of\u231f these. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:5",
"text": "When he becomes guilty \u231ein any of\u231f these, he shall confess what he has sinned \u231eregarding\u231f it, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:6",
"text": "and he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh for his sin that he has \u231ecommitted\u231f: a female from the flock, a ewe-lamb or \u231ea she-goat\u231f, as a sin offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:7",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If \u231ehe cannot afford a sheep\u231f, he shall bring as his guilt offering for what he sinned two turtledoves or two \u231eyoung doves\u231f for Yahweh, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:8",
"text": "He shall bring them to the priest, and he shall present that which is for the sin offering first, and the priest shall wring its head off \u231eat the back of its neck\u231f, but he must not sever it, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:9",
"text": "and he shall spatter \u231esome of\u231f the sin offering\u2019s blood on the altar\u2019s side, and the leftover blood must be drained out on the altar\u2019s base; it is a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:10",
"text": "The second bird he must prepare as a burnt offering according to the regulation, and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin that he has \u231ecommitted\u231f, and he shall be forgiven. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:11",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But if \u231ehe cannot afford\u231f two turtledoves or two \u231eyoung doves\u231f, then, because he has sinned, he shall bring as his offering a tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour as a sin offering. He must not put oil on it, nor should he put frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:12",
"text": "He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest \u231eshall take a handful of it\u231f for its token portion, and he shall turn it to smoke on the altar \u231ein addition to\u231f the offerings made by fire to Yahweh; it is a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:13",
"text": "Thus the priest shall make atonement for him because of the sin that he has \u231ecommitted\u231f \u231ein any of these\u231f, and he shall be forgiven. It shall be for the priest, like the grain offering.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:14",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:15",
"text": "\u201cWhen a person \u231edisplays infidelity\u231f and he sins in an unintentional wrong \u231ein any of\u231f Yahweh\u2019s holy things, then he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock as a guilt offering by your valuation in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:16",
"text": "And he shall make restitution for what he sinned \u231ebecause of\u231f a holy thing and shall add one-fifth of \u231eits value\u231f onto it and shall give it to the priest. The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:17",
"text": " \u201cIf a person when he sins \u231eviolates\u231f one from all of Yahweh\u2019s commands that should not \u231ebe violated\u231f, but he did not know, then he is guilty and he shall bear his guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:18",
"text": "He shall bring to the priest a ram without defect from the flock as a guilt offering by your valuation, and the priest shall make atonement for him because of his unintentional wrong (although he himself did not know), and he will be forgiven. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Leviticus 5:19",
"text": "It is a guilt offering; he certainly was guilty before Yahweh.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:1",
"text": " \u00a0Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:2",
"text": "\u201cWhen a person \u231edisplays infidelity\u231f against Yahweh and he deceives his fellow citizen regarding something entrusted or \u231ea pledge\u231f or stealing or he exploits his fellow citizen, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:3",
"text": "or he finds lost property and lies about it and swears \u231efalsely\u231f \u231ein regard to\u231f any one of these things by which \u231ea person\u231f might commit sin, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:4",
"text": "\u231eand when\u231f he sins and is guilty, then he shall bring back \u231ethe things he had stolen\u231f or \u231ewhat he had extorted\u231f or \u231esomething with which he had been entrusted\u231f or the lost property that he had found, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:5",
"text": "or \u231eregarding\u231f anything about which he has sworn \u231efalsely\u231f, then he shall repay it \u231eaccording to\u231f its value and shall add one-fifth of its value to it\u2014he must give it \u231eto whom it belongs\u231f on the day of his guilt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:6",
"text": "And he must bring as his guilt offering to Yahweh a ram without defect from the flock by your valuation as a guilt offering to the priest, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:7",
"text": "and the priest shall make atonement for him \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, and he shall be forgiven \u231eanything\u231f from all that he might do \u231eby which he might incur guilt\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:8",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:9",
"text": "\u201cCommand Aaron and his sons, saying, \u2018This is the regulation of the burnt offering: \u231eThe burnt offering must remain on the hearth\u231f on the altar all night until the morning, and the altar\u2019s fire must be kept burning on it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:10",
"text": "And the priest shall put on his linen robe, and he must put his linen undergarments on his body, and he shall take away the fatty ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall place them beside the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:11",
"text": "And he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and he shall bring out the fatty ashes \u231eoutside the camp\u231f to a ceremonially clean place, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:12",
"text": "but the fire on the altar must be kept burning on it; it must not be quenched. And the priest must burn wood \u231eevery morning\u231f on it, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it, and he shall turn into smoke the fat portions of the fellowship offerings on it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:13",
"text": "A perpetual fire must be kept burning on the altar; it must not be quenched. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:14",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And this is the regulation of the grain offering. Aaron\u2019s sons shall present it \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh \u231ein front of\u231f the altar, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:15",
"text": "and he in his fist shall take away from it \u231esome of\u231f the grain offering\u2019s finely milled flour, and \u231esome of\u231f its oil and all of the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and he shall turn into smoke its token portion on the altar as an appeasing fragrance to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:16",
"text": "And Aaron and his sons must eat the remainder of it; they must eat it as unleavened bread in a holy place\u2014in the tent of assembly\u2019s courtyard they must eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:17",
"text": "It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their share from my offerings made by fire. It is \u231ea most holy thing\u231f, like the sin offering and like the guilt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:18",
"text": "Every male among Aaron\u2019s sons may eat it as a lasting rule among your generations from the offerings made by fire \u231ebelonging to\u231f Yahweh. Anything that touches them will become holy.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:19",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:20",
"text": "\u201cThis is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to Yahweh on the day of his being anointed: a tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour as a perpetual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:21",
"text": "It must be made in oil on a flat baking pan; you must bring it well-mixed; you must present pieces of a grain offering\u2019s baked goods as an appeasing fragrance to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:22",
"text": "And the anointed priest taking his place from among his sons must do it. As a lasting rule, it must be turned into smoke totally for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:23",
"text": "And every grain offering of a priest must be a whole burnt offering; it must not be eaten.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:24",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:25",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to Aaron and his sons, saying, \u2018This is the regulation of the sin offering: In the place where the sin offering is slaughtered, the sin offering must be slaughtered \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh; it is \u231ea most holy thing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:26",
"text": "The priest \u231ewho offers the sin offering\u231f must eat it in a holy place\u2014in the tent of assembly\u2019s courtyard. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:27",
"text": "Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and when \u231esome of\u231f its blood spatters on a garment, what was spattered on it you shall wash in a holy place. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:28",
"text": "And a clay vessel in which it was boiled must be broken, but if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be thoroughly scoured and rinsed with water. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:29",
"text": "Any male among the priests may eat it; it is \u231ea most holy thing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Leviticus 6:30",
"text": "But any sin offering from which \u231esome of\u231f its blood is brought to the tent of assembly to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten; it must be burned in the fire.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:1",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And this is the regulation of the guilt offering; it is \u231ea most holy thing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:2",
"text": "In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering, they must slaughter the guilt offering, and he must sprinkle its blood upon the altar all around. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:3",
"text": "And he must present all of its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the inner parts, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:4",
"text": "and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and he must remove the lobe on the liver in addition to the kidneys. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:5",
"text": "And the priest shall turn it into smoke it on the altar as a food offering made by fire for Yahweh; it is a guilt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:6",
"text": "Every male among the priests may eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place; it is \u231ea most holy thing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:7",
"text": "The instruction is \u231ethe same for the guilt offering as for the sin offering\u231f; \u231eit belongs to\u231f the priest, who makes atonement with it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:8",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And the priest who presents \u231ea person\u2019s\u231f burnt offering, to that priest \u231ebelongs\u231f the skin of the burnt offering that he presented. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:9",
"text": "And every grain offering that is baked in the oven and all that is prepared in a cooking pan or on a flat baking pan \u231ebelongs to\u231f the priest who presented it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:10",
"text": "And every grain offering, whether mixed with oil or dry, shall be for all of Aaron\u2019s sons \u231eequally\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:11",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And this is the regulation of the fellowship offerings that he must present to Yahweh: "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:12",
"text": "If he presents it for thanksgiving, in addition to the thanksgiving sacrifice he shall present ring-shaped unleavened bread mixed with oil and unleavened bread wafers smeared with oil and well-mixed ring-shaped bread cakes of finely milled flour mixed with oil. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:13",
"text": "In addition to ring-shaped cakes of bread with yeast, he must present his grain offering together with his sacrifice of thanksgiving peace offerings. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:14",
"text": "And he shall present one of each kind of grain offering as a contribution for Yahweh; \u231eit belongs to\u231f the priest who sprinkles the fellowship offerings\u2019 blood. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:15",
"text": "And the meat of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving fellowship offerings must be eaten on the day of his offering; he must not leave it until morning. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:16",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But if his sacrifice is for a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be eaten on the day of his presenting his sacrifice, and on the next day the remainder from it may be eaten, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:17",
"text": "but the remainder from the sacrifice\u2019s meat must be burned up in the fire on the third day. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:18",
"text": "And if indeed some of the meat of his fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted; it will not be considered of benefit for the one who presented it\u2014it shall be unclean meat, and the person who eats it shall bear his guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:19",
"text": "And the meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned with fire, and as for the clean meat, anyone who is clean may eat the meat. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:20",
"text": "And the person who eats meat from the fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifice, which is for Yahweh, and whose uncleanness is upon him\u2014that person shall be cut off from his people. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:21",
"text": "And when a person touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean detestable thing, and he eats from the meat of the fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifice, which is for Yahweh, then that person shall be cut off from his people.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:22",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:23",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018You must not eat any fat of ox, or sheep, or goat; "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:24",
"text": "and a dead body\u2019s fat or mangled carcass\u2019s fat may be used for any \u231epurpose\u231f, but you certainly must not eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:25",
"text": "When anyone eats fat from the domestic animal from which he presented an offering made by fire for Yahweh, then that person who ate shall be cut off from his people. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:26",
"text": "And in any of your dwellings, you must not eat any blood \u231ebelonging to\u231f birds or domestic animals. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:27",
"text": "Any person who eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:28",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:29",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018The one who presents his fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifice for Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh from his fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifice. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:30",
"text": "His own hands must bring Yahweh\u2019s offerings made by fire. He must bring the fat in addition to the breast section to wave the breast section as a wave offering before Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:31",
"text": "and the priest shall turn the fat into smoke on the altar, and the breast section shall be for Aaron and his sons. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:32",
"text": "And the right upper thigh you must give as a contribution for the priest from your fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifice. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:33",
"text": "As for the one from Aaron\u2019s sons who presents the blood of the fellowship offerings and the fat, the right upper thigh \u231eshall belong to him\u231f as his share, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:34",
"text": "because I have taken the wave offering\u2019s breast section and the contribution offering\u2019s upper thigh from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f out of their fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifices, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f as a lasting rule.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:35",
"text": " This is Aaron\u2019s allotted portion and his sons\u2019 allotted portion from Yahweh\u2019s offerings made by fire \u231ewhen\u231f he brought them forward to serve as priests for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:36",
"text": "This is what Yahweh commanded to give them from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f on the day of his anointing them; it is a lasting statute for their generations. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:37",
"text": " This is the regulation for the burnt offering, for the grain offering and for the sin offering and for the guilt offering and for the consecration offering and for the fellowship offerings\u2019 sacrifice, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Leviticus 7:38",
"text": "which Yahweh commanded Moses on \u231eMount Sinai\u231f on the day of his commanding the \u231eIsraelites\u231f to present their offerings to Yahweh in the desert of Sinai. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:2",
"text": "\u201cTake Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of the unleavened bread, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:3",
"text": "and summon all of the community to the entrance to the tent of assembly.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:4",
"text": "So Moses did just as Yahweh commanded him, and the community gathered by the entrance to the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:5",
"text": " Then Moses said to the community, \u201cThis is the word that Yahweh has commanded to be done.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:6",
"text": " So Moses brought Aaron and his sons near, and he washed them with water. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:7",
"text": "Then he put the tunic on him and tied the sash around him; then he clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him; then he tied the ephod\u2019s waistband around him and fastened the ephod to him with it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:8",
"text": "Then he placed the breastpiece on him and put the Urim and the Thummim into the breastpiece; "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:9",
"text": "and he placed the turban on his head, and on \u231ethe front of\u231f the turban he placed the gold rosette, the holy diadem, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:10",
"text": " Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and he consecrated them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:11",
"text": "And he spattered \u231epart of\u231f it on the altar seven times\u2014thus he anointed the altar and all of its utensils, and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:12",
"text": "Then he poured out \u231epart of\u231f the anointing oil on Aaron\u2019s head\u2014thus he anointed him in order to consecrate him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:13",
"text": "Then Moses brought Aaron\u2019s sons near and clothed them with tunics and tied a sash around \u231eeach one\u231f, and he bound headbands on them, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:14",
"text": " Then he brought forth the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons placed their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:15",
"text": "and he slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood and put it with his finger on the altar\u2019s horns all around and purified the altar; then he poured the blood out on the altar\u2019s base\u2014thus he consecrated it in order to make atonement for it. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:16",
"text": "Then he took all the fat that was on the inner parts and the lobe on the liver and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses turned them into smoke on the altar, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:17",
"text": "but he burned the bull and its skin and its meat and its offal in the fire \u231eoutside the camp\u231f, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:18",
"text": " Then he brought the ram of the burnt offering near, and Aaron and his sons placed their hands on the ram\u2019s head, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:19",
"text": "and he slaughtered it. Then Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar all around. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:20",
"text": "Then he cut the ram into pieces, and Moses turned into smoke the head and the pieces and the suet, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:21",
"text": "but he washed the inner parts and the lower leg bones with water, and Moses turned into smoke all of the ram on the altar; it was a burnt offering as an appeasing fragrance, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:22",
"text": " Then he brought the second ram near, the ram of the consecration, and Aaron and his sons placed their hands on the ram\u2019s head, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:23",
"text": "and he slaughtered it. Then Moses took \u231esome of\u231f its blood and put it on Aaron\u2019s right ear lobe and on his right hand\u2019s thumb and on his right foot\u2019s big toe. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:24",
"text": "Then he brought Aaron\u2019s sons near, and Moses put \u231esome of\u231f the blood on their right ear lobe and on their right hand\u2019s thumb and on their right foot\u2019s big toe, and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar all around. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:25",
"text": " Then he took the fat and the fat tail and all of the fat that was on the inner parts and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right upper thigh; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:26",
"text": "and from the basket of the unleavened bread that was before Yahweh he took one ring-shaped unleavened bread and one ring-shaped bread with oil and one wafer, and he placed them on the \u231efat parts\u231f and on the right upper thigh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:27",
"text": "Then he put \u231eall of these\u231f on Aaron\u2019s palms and on his sons\u2019 palms, and he waved them as a wave offering \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:28",
"text": "Then Moses took them from upon their palms, and he turned them into smoke upon the burnt offering on the altar; they were a consecration offering as an appeasing fragrance\u2014it was an offering made by fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:29",
"text": "Then Moses took the breast section, and he waved it as a wave offering \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh from the ram of the consecration offering; it was Moses\u2019 share, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:30",
"text": " Then Moses took \u231esome of\u231f the anointing oil and \u231esome of\u231f the blood that was on the altar, and he spattered them on Aaron, on his garments, and on Aaron\u2019s sons and on his sons\u2019 garments with him\u2014thus he consecrated Aaron, his garments, and his sons and his sons\u2019 garments with him. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:31",
"text": " Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, \u201cBoil the meat in the entrance to the tent of assembly, and there you must eat it and the bread that is in the basket of the consecration offering, just as I have commanded, saying, \u2018Aaron and his sons must eat it,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:32",
"text": "but the remainder of the meat and the bread you must burn in the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:33",
"text": "And you must not go out from the entrance to the tent of assembly for seven days, until the day of fulfilling the days of your consecration, because \u231eit will take seven days to ordain you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:34",
"text": "Just as was done on this day, Yahweh commanded to be done in order to make atonement for you. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:35",
"text": "And you must stay at the entrance to the tent of assembly day and night for seven days, and you shall keep the obligation from Yahweh, so you might not die, for thus I have been commanded.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Leviticus 8:36",
"text": "So Aaron and his sons did all the things that Yahweh had commanded \u231ethrough\u231f Moses. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:1",
"text": " Then on the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and Israel\u2019s elders, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:2",
"text": "and he said to Aaron, \u201cTake for yourself \u231ea bull calf\u231f as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, without defect, and present them \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:3",
"text": "Then you must speak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018Take \u231ea he-goat\u231f as a sin offering and a bull calf and a male sheep, \u231eyearlings\u231f without defect, as a burnt offering, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:4",
"text": "and an ox and a ram as fellowship offerings to sacrifice \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, and a grain offering mixed with oil, because today Yahweh will appear to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:5",
"text": "So they took what Moses had commanded to the \u231efront of\u231f the tent of assembly, and the whole community presented themselves, and they stood \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:6",
"text": " Then Moses said, \u201cThis is the word that Yahweh commanded you to do \u231eso that\u231f the glory of Yahweh might appear to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:7",
"text": "Then Moses said to Aaron, \u201cApproach the altar and \u231esacrifice\u231f your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people. And \u231esacrifice\u231f the people\u2019s offering and make atonement for them, just as Yahweh has commanded.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:8",
"text": " Then Aaron approached the altar, and he slaughtered the bull calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:9",
"text": "Then Aaron\u2019s sons presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood, and he put it on the altar\u2019s horns, and he poured out the blood on the altar\u2019s base. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:10",
"text": "And the fat and the kidneys and the lobe \u231efrom the sin offering\u2019s liver\u231f he turned into smoke on the altar, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:11",
"text": "but the meat and the skin he burned \u231ewith fire\u231f \u231eoutside the camp\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:12",
"text": " Then he slaughtered the burnt offering, and Aaron\u2019s sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on the altar all around; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:13",
"text": "and they brought the burnt offering to him by its pieces, as well as the head, and he turned them into smoke on the altar; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:14",
"text": "and he washed the inner parts and the lower leg bones, then he turned them into smoke upon the burnt offering on the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:15",
"text": " Then he presented the people\u2019s offering, and he took the goat of the sin offering, which was for the people, and he slaughtered it and offered it as a sin offering like the first one. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:16",
"text": "Then he presented the burnt offering, and he \u231esacrificed\u231f it according to the regulation. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:17",
"text": "Then he presented the grain offering, and he filled his palm \u231ewith some of\u231f it, and he turned it into smoke on the altar besides the morning\u2019s burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:18",
"text": "Then he slaughtered the ox and the ram, the fellowship offerings that are for the people, and Aaron\u2019s sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on the altar all around. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:19",
"text": "And as for the fat portions from the ox and from the ram (the fat tail and the layer of fat and the kidneys and the lobe of the liver), "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:20",
"text": "they placed the fat portions on the breast sections, and he turned the fat portions into smoke on the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:21",
"text": "Then Aaron waved the breast sections and the right upper thigh as a wave offering \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, just as Moses had commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:22",
"text": " Then Aaron lifted his hand toward the people, and he blessed them, and he came down \u231eafter\u231f \u231esacrificing\u231f the sin offering and the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:23",
"text": "Then Moses and Aaron entered the tent of assembly. When they came out, they blessed the people, and Yahweh\u2019s glory appeared to all the people. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Leviticus 9:24",
"text": "Then a fire went out \u231efrom before\u231f Yahweh, and it consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And all the people saw it, so they shouted for joy, and they fell on their faces. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:1",
"text": " And Aaron\u2019s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his censer, and they put fire in them and placed incense on it; then they presented \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh illegitimate fire, which he had not commanded them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:2",
"text": "So fire went out \u231efrom before\u231f Yahweh, and it consumed them so that they died \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:3",
"text": "Therefore Moses said to Aaron, \u201cThis is what Yahweh spoke, saying, \u2018Among those who are close to me I will show myself holy, and \u231ein the presence of\u231f all the people I will display my glory.\u2019\u00a0\u201d So Aaron was silent. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:4",
"text": " Then Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan the sons of Uzziel, Aaron\u2019s uncle, and he said to them, \u201cCome forward. Carry your brothers from \u231ethe front of\u231f the sanctuary to \u231eoutside the camp\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:5",
"text": "So they came forward, and they carried them \u231eoutside the camp\u231f in their tunics, just as Moses had ordered. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:6",
"text": " Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, \u201cYou must not let your hair hang loosely, and you must not tear your garments, so that you will not die and he will be angry with all the community. But your brothers, all the house of Israel, may weep because of \u231ethe burning that Yahweh caused\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:7",
"text": "but you must not go out from the entrance to the tent of assembly lest you die, because Yahweh\u2019s anointing oil is on you.\u201d So they did according to Moses\u2019 word. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:8",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:9",
"text": "\u201cYou and your sons with you may not drink wine or strong drink when you come to the tent of assembly, so that you will not die\u2014it is a lasting statute for your generations\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:10",
"text": "and to distinguish between the holy and the unholy, as well as between the unclean and the clean, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:11",
"text": "and to teach the \u231eIsraelites\u231f all the rules that Yahweh has spoken to them \u231ethrough\u231f Moses.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:12",
"text": " Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, \u201cAs for the remaining parts, take the remainder of the grain offering from Yahweh\u2019s offerings made by fire and eat it, the unleavened bread, beside the altar, because it is \u231ea most holy thing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:13",
"text": "And you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from Yahweh\u2019s offerings made by fire, for so I have been commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:14",
"text": "And the wave offering\u2019s breast section and the upper thigh of the contribution offering you must eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, because they are given as your allotted portion and your sons\u2019 allotted portion from the sacrifices of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f\u2019 fellowship offerings. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:15",
"text": "They must bring the thigh of the contribution offering and the breast section of the wave offering in addition to the offerings made by fire, consisting of the fat portions, to wave as a wave offering \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh; and it will be for you and for your sons with you as a lasting rule, just as Yahweh had commanded.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:16",
"text": " Then Moses sought all over for the goat of the sin offering and behold, it was burned up. So he was angry with Aaron\u2019s remaining sons Eleazar and Ithamar, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:17",
"text": "\u201cWhy did you not eat the sin offering on the sanctuary\u2019s site, because it is \u231ea most holy thing\u231f? And he gave it to you to remove the community\u2019s guilt, to make atonement for them \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:18",
"text": "Look, its blood was not brought \u231einside the sanctuary\u231f. Certainly you should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:19",
"text": " So Aaron said to Moses, \u201cLook, today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, and things such as these have happened to me, and if I were to eat a sin offering today, would it have been good in Yahweh\u2019s eyes?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Leviticus 10:20",
"text": "When Moses heard, it was good in his eyes. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018These are the animals that you may eat from all the animals that are on the land: "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:3",
"text": "Any among the animals that has a divided hoof and has a split cleft in the hoof, such you may eat. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:4",
"text": "However, these you may not eat from those that chew the cud and from those that have a divided hoof: the camel, because it is a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided\u2014it is unclean for you; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:5",
"text": "and the coney, because it is a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided\u2014it is unclean for you; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:6",
"text": "and the hare, because it is a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided\u2014it is unclean for you; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:7",
"text": "and the pig, because it has a divided hoof and has a split cleft in the hoof but it does not chew cud\u2014it is unclean for you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:8",
"text": "You must not eat from their meat, and you must not touch their dead body\u2014they are unclean for you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:9",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018These you may eat from all that are in the water: any in the water that has a fin and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams\u2014such you may eat. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:10",
"text": "But any that does not have a fin and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, \u231eamong\u231f all the water\u2019s swarmers among all the living creatures that are in the water\u2014they are a detestable thing to you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:11",
"text": "And they shall be detestable to you; you must not eat from their meat, and you must detest their dead body. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:12",
"text": "Any that does not have a fin and scales in the water\u2014it is a detestable thing to you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And these you must detest from the birds; they must not be eaten\u2014they are detestable: the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:14",
"text": "and the red kite and the black kite according to its kind, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:15",
"text": "every crow according to its kind, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:16",
"text": "and \u231ethe ostrich\u231f and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:17",
"text": "and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:18",
"text": "and the barn owl and the desert owl and the carrion vulture, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:19",
"text": "and the stork, the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:20",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Any \u231ewinged insect\u231f that walks on all fours is detestable to you. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:21",
"text": "Only this may you eat from any of \u231ethe winged insects\u231f that walk on all fours\u2014that which has jointed legs above its feet for leaping upon the land. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:22",
"text": "\u231eFrom these\u231f you may eat the locust according to its kind and the bald locust according to its kind and the cricket according to its kind and the grasshopper according to its kind. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:23",
"text": "But any other \u231ewinged insect\u231f that has four legs is detestable to you. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:24",
"text": "And by these you shall become unclean\u2014anyone who touches their dead body shall become unclean until the evening, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:25",
"text": "and anyone who carries their dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:26",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018With regard to any animal that has a divided hoof but does not split the hoof, or does not have a cud for chewing\u2014they are unclean for you; anyone who touches them shall become unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:27",
"text": "And anything that walks upon its paws among any of the animals that walks on all fours\u2014they are unclean for you; anyone who touches their dead body shall become unclean until the evening, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:28",
"text": "and the one who carries their dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening\u2014they are unclean for you. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:29",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And these are the unclean for you among the swarmers that swarm on the land: the weasel and the mouse and the thorn-tailed lizard according to its kind, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:30",
"text": "and the gecko and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand lizard and the chameleon. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:31",
"text": "These are the unclean for you among all the swarmers; anyone who touches them at their death shall become unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:32",
"text": "And anything on which \u231eone of them\u231f falls at their death shall become unclean: any object of wood or garment or skin or sackcloth\u2014any object that has performed work\u2014must be placed in water, and it shall be unclean until the evening, and then it shall be clean. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:33",
"text": "And any clay vessel into which it falls shall become unclean, and you must break it. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:34",
"text": "Any of the food that could be eaten on which water from such a vessel comes shall become unclean, and any liquid that could be drunk in any such vessel shall become unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:35",
"text": "And anything on which \u231eone of their dead bodies\u231f falls shall become unclean: an oven or a stove must be broken\u2014they are unclean and shall be unclean for you. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:36",
"text": "Surely a spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean, but that which touches their dead body shall become unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:37",
"text": "And when \u231eone of their dead bodies\u231f falls on any \u231eseed for sowing\u231f, it is clean. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:38",
"text": "But when water is put on the seed and \u231eone of their dead bodies\u231f falls on it, it is unclean for you. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:39",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And when \u231eone of the animals\u231f dies that is for you to eat, the one who touches its dead body shall become unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:40",
"text": "And the one who eats \u231esome of\u231f its dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening; and the one who carries its dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:41",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And any swarmer that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:42",
"text": "You must not eat anything that moves upon its belly or that walks on all fours, even any with numerous feet belonging to any swarmer that swarms on the land, because they are detestable. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:43",
"text": "You must not defile yourselves with any swarmer that swarms, and you must not make yourselves unclean by them and so be made unclean by them, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:44",
"text": "because I am Yahweh your God, and you must keep yourselves sanctified, so that you shall be holy, because I am holy. And you must not make yourselves unclean with any swarmer that moves along on the land, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:45",
"text": "because I am Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be for you as God. Thus you shall be holy, because I am holy. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:46",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018This is the regulation of the animals and the birds and all living creatures that move along in the water and \u231econcerning\u231f all the creatures that swarm on the land, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Leviticus 11:47",
"text": "to distinguish between the unclean and the clean and between the animal that is to be eaten and the animal that must not be eaten.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Leviticus 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Leviticus 12:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Leviticus 12:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018When a woman becomes pregnant and she gives birth to a male, then she shall be unclean seven days\u2014as in the time of her menstrual bleeding, she shall become unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Leviticus 12:3",
"text": "And on the eighth day his foreskin\u2019s flesh shall be circumcised. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Leviticus 12:4",
"text": "And for thirty-three days she shall stay in the blood of her cleansing; she must not touch any holy object, and she may not come to the sanctuary until the fulfilling of the days of her cleansing. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Leviticus 12:5",
"text": "But if she gives birth to a female, then she shall be unclean for two weeks as in her menstruation, and for sixty-six days she shall stay \u231ethrough\u231f the blood of her cleansing. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Leviticus 12:6",
"text": "And at the fulfilling of the days of her cleansing, whether for a son or for a daughter, she must bring to the priest at the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance a \u231eyearling\u231f male lamb as a burnt offering and \u231eyoung dove\u231f or a turtledove as a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Leviticus 12:7",
"text": "And the priest shall present it \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, and he shall make atonement for her, so that she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the regulation of childbearing for the male or for the female. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Leviticus 12:8",
"text": "And if \u231eshe cannot afford\u231f a sheep, then she shall take two turtledoves or two \u231eyoung doves\u231f\u2014one as a burnt offering and one as a sin offering\u2014and the priest shall make atonement for her, so that she shall be clean.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:2",
"text": "\u201cWhen a \u231eperson\u231f has on his body\u2019s skin a swelling or an epidermal eruption or a spot and it becomes an infectious skin disease on his body\u2019s skin, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:3",
"text": "And the priest shall examine the infection on his body\u2019s skin, and if the hair in the infection turns white and the appearance of the infection is deeper than his body\u2019s skin, it is an infectious skin disease, and the priest shall examine it, and he shall declare him unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:4",
"text": "But if a spot is white on his body\u2019s skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin and its hair does not turn white, then the priest shall confine the afflicted person for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:5",
"text": "And the priest shall examine it on the seventh day, and \u231eif\u231f, in his eyes, the infection has stayed unchanged, the infection has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall confine him for seven days a second time. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:6",
"text": "And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day for a second time, and \u231eif\u231f the infection has faded and the infection has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall declare him clean\u2014it is an epidermal eruption; and he shall wash his garments, and so he shall be clean. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:7",
"text": "But if the epidermal eruption spreads further on the skin after showing himself to the priest for his cleansing, then he shall appear a second time to the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:8",
"text": "And the priest shall examine it, and \u231eif\u231f the epidermal eruption has spread on the skin, then the priest shall declare him unclean\u2014it is an infectious skin disease. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:9",
"text": " \u201cWhen an infectious skin disease is on a person and he is brought to the priest, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:10",
"text": "the priest shall examine it, and \u231eif\u231f a white swelling is on the skin and it turns the hair white and \u231eraw flesh\u231f is in the swelling, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:11",
"text": "it is a chronic infectious skin disease on his body\u2019s skin, and the priest shall declare him unclean; he shall not confine him, because he is unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:12",
"text": "And if the infectious skin disease breaks out all over on the skin and the infectious skin disease covers all of the afflicted person\u2019s skin from his head to his feed, \u231eso far as the priest can see\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:13",
"text": "then the priest shall examine it, and \u231eif\u231f the infectious skin disease covers his whole body, then he shall pronounce the afflicted person clean\u2014all of it has turned white; he is clean. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:14",
"text": "But \u231ewhenever\u231f \u231eraw flesh\u231f appears on him, he shall become unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:15",
"text": "And the priest shall examine the \u231eraw flesh\u231f, and he shall pronounce him unclean\u2014the \u231eraw flesh\u231f is unclean; it is an infectious skin disease. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:16",
"text": "Or, when the \u231eraw flesh\u231f returns and it has changed to white, then he shall come to the priest, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:17",
"text": "and the priest shall examine him, and \u231eif\u231f the infection has changed to white, then the priest shall pronounce the afflicted person clean\u2014he is clean. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:18",
"text": " \u201cAnd when someone\u2019s body \u231ehas\u231f a skin sore on his skin and it is healed "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:19",
"text": "and a white swelling or a \u231epinkish\u231f spot appears in the skin sore\u2019s place, then he shall show himself to the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:20",
"text": "And the priest shall examine it, and \u231eif\u231f its appearance is deeper than the skin and its hair has changed to white, then the priest shall declare him unclean\u2014it is an infectious skin disease; it has broken out in the skin sore. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:21",
"text": "And if the priest examines it and \u231eif\u231f there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin and it is faded, then the priest shall confine him for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:22",
"text": "But if it has spread further on the skin, then the priest shall declare him unclean\u2014it is an infection. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:23",
"text": "But if the spot has stayed unchanged, it has not spread, it is the skin sore\u2019s scar, so the priest shall declare him clean. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:24",
"text": " \u201cOr when a body \u231ehas\u231f a burn-spot \u231efrom\u231f fire on its skin and the \u231eraw flesh\u231f of the burn-spot is \u231epinkish\u231f or white, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:25",
"text": "then the priest shall examine it, and \u231eif\u231f the hair turns white in the spot and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is an infectious skin disease\u2014it has broken out in the burn-spot; so the priest shall declare him unclean\u2014it is an infectious skin disease. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:26",
"text": "But if the priest examines it and \u231eif\u231f there is not white hair in the spot and it is not deeper than the skin and it is faded, then the priest shall confine him for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:27",
"text": "And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; if it has spread further on the skin, then the priest shall declare him unclean\u2014it is an infectious skin disease. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:28",
"text": "But if it the spot has stayed unchanged in its place, it has not spread on the skin and it is faded, then it is the burn-spot\u2019s swelling, so the priest shall declare him clean, because it is the burn-spot\u2019s scar. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:29",
"text": " \u201cAnd when a man or a woman \u231ehas\u231f an infection on the head or in the beard, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:30",
"text": "then the priest shall examine the infection, and \u231eif\u231f its appearance is deeper than the skin and in it is thin bright red hair, then the priest shall declare it unclean\u2014it is a diseased area of skin; it is an infectious skin disease of the head or the beard. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:31",
"text": "But if the priest examines the diseased area of the skin\u2019s infection and \u231eif\u231f its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall confine the afflicted person with the diseased area of skin for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:32",
"text": "And the priest shall examine the infection on the seventh day, and \u231eif\u231f the diseased area of skin has not spread and it does not have bright red hair in it and the diseased area of the skin\u2019s appearance is not deeper than the skin, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:33",
"text": "then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the diseased area of skin, and the priest shall confine the person with the diseased area of skin a second time for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:34",
"text": "And the priest shall examine the diseased area of skin on the seventh day, and \u231eif\u231f the diseased area has not spread on the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean, and he shall wash his garments, and he shall be clean. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:35",
"text": "But if the diseased area of skin has not spread further on the skin after his cleansing, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:36",
"text": "then the priest shall examine him, and \u231eif\u231f the diseased area of skin has spread on the skin, the priest shall not inspect for bright red hair\u2014he is unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:37",
"text": "But if, in his eyes, the diseased area of skin has stayed unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the diseased area of skin is healed\u2014he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:38",
"text": " \u201cAnd when a man or a woman \u231ehas\u231f spots on their body\u2019s skin, white spots, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:39",
"text": "then the priest shall examine them, and \u231eif\u231f the spots on their body\u2019s skin are a faded white, it is a skin rash; it has broken out on the skin\u2014it is clean. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:40",
"text": " \u201cAnd if a man becomes bald, his head is bald, he is clean. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:41",
"text": "And if he becomes bald \u231efrom his forehead\u231f, his head is bald, he is clean. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:42",
"text": "But if a \u231epinkish\u231f infection occurs on the bald spot or on the bald forehead, it is an infectious skin disease that sprouts on his bald spot or on his bald forehead. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:43",
"text": "So the priest shall examine him, and \u231eif\u231f the infection\u2019s swelling is \u231epinkish\u231f on his bald spot or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of an infectious skin disease on the body, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:44",
"text": "he is a man afflicted with a skin disease\u2014he is unclean; the priest certainly shall declare him unclean\u2014his infection is on his head. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:45",
"text": " \u201cAs for the person who is afflicted with a skin disease, his garments must be torn and his \u231ehair\u231f must be allowed to hang loosely, and he must cover his upper lip, and he must call out, \u2018Unclean! Unclean!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:46",
"text": "For all the days during which the infection is on him, he shall be unclean; he must live alone; his dwelling must be \u231eoutside the camp\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:47",
"text": " \u201cAnd when the garment \u231ehas\u231f an infectious skin disease on it, on a wool garment or on a linen garment, "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:48",
"text": "or on woven material or on a linen fabric, or on wool or on leather or on any work of leather, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:49",
"text": "and if the infection is yellowish green or reddish on the garment or on the leather or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object, it is an infectious skin disease and it shall be shown to the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:50",
"text": "And the priest shall examine the infection, and he shall confine the infected article for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:51",
"text": "And he shall examine the infection on the seventh day; if the infection has spread on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on the leather, for any work for which the leather is used, the infection is a destructive skin disease\u2014it is unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:52",
"text": "And he shall burn the garment or the woven material or the fabric, \u231ewhether wool or linen\u231f, or any leather object that \u231ehas\u231f the infection, because it is an infectious skin disease, which is destructive\u2014it must be burned in the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:53",
"text": " \u201cBut if the priest examines it and \u231eif\u231f the infection has not spread on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object, "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:54",
"text": "then the priest shall command, and \u231esomeone\u231f shall wash that on which the infection is, and he shall confine it a second time for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:55",
"text": "And the priest shall examine it after the infection has been washed off, and \u231eif\u231f the infection has not changed its outward appearance and the infection has not spread, it is unclean; he must burn it in the fire; it is a fungus on its back or on its front. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:56",
"text": "But if the priest examines it and \u231eif\u231f the infection is faded after it has been washed off, then he shall tear it from the garment or from the leather or from the woven material or from the fabric. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:57",
"text": "And if it appears again on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object, it is spreading; you must burn in the fire that which has the infection in it. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:58",
"text": "And the garment or the woven material or the fabric or any leather object that he might wash and the infection is removed from them then shall be washed a second time, and it shall be clean.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Leviticus 13:59",
"text": " This is the regulation of the infectious skin disease in the wool garment or the linen or the woven material or the fabric or any leather object to declare it clean or to declare it unclean. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:2",
"text": "\u201cThis is the regulation of the person afflicted with a skin disease \u231eat the time of\u231f his cleansing. And he shall be brought to the priest, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:3",
"text": "and the priest shall go \u231eoutside the camp\u231f, and the priest shall examine him, and \u231eif\u231f the skin disease\u2019s infection is healed on the afflicted person, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:4",
"text": "then the priest shall command, and he shall take two living, clean birds and \u231ecedar wood\u231f and \u231ea crimson thread\u231f and hyssop for the one who presents himself for cleansing. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:5",
"text": "Then the priest shall command someone to slaughter one bird over fresh water in a clay vessel. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:6",
"text": "He must take the living bird and the \u231ecedar wood\u231f and \u231ethe crimson thread\u231f and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird in the bird\u2019s blood slaughtered over the fresh water. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:7",
"text": "And he shall spatter the blood seven times on the one who presents himself for cleansing from the infectious skin disease, and he shall declare him clean, and he shall send the living bird \u231einto the open field\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:8",
"text": "Then the one who presents himself for cleansing shall wash his garments, and he shall shave off all his hair, and he shall wash himself in the water; thus he shall be clean, and afterward he shall enter the camp, but he shall stay \u231eoutside his tent\u231f for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:9",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f on the seventh day he must shave off all his hair\u2014he must shave his head and his beard and \u231ehis eyebrows\u231f and all the rest of his hair\u2014and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body in the water; thus he shall be clean. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd on the eighth day he must take two male lambs without defect and one ewe-lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f without defect and three-tenths of an ephah of finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering and one log of oil. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:11",
"text": "And the priest who cleanses him shall present the man who presents himself for cleansing and \u231ethese things\u231f \u231ebefore\u231f the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:12",
"text": "Then the priest shall take the one male lamb, and he shall present it as a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and he shall wave them as a wave offering \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:13",
"text": "And he shall slaughter the male lamb in the place where he slaughters the sin offering and the burnt offering in the sanctuary\u2019s space, because as the sin offering belongs to the priest, so also the guilt offering\u2014\u231eit is a most holy thing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:14",
"text": "And the priest shall take \u231esome of\u231f the guilt offering\u2019s blood, and the priest shall put it on the right ear\u2019s lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand\u2019s thumb and on his right foot\u2019s big toe. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:15",
"text": "And the priest shall take \u231esome of\u231f the log of oil, and he shall pour it on his left palm; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:16",
"text": "and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is on his left palm, and he shall spatter \u231esome of\u231f the oil with his finger seven times \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:17",
"text": "Then the priest shall put \u231esome of\u231f the remaining oil, which is on his palm, on the right ear\u2019s lobe of the one to be cleansed and on his right hand\u2019s thumb and on his right foot\u2019s big toe, on top of the guilt offering\u2019s blood. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:18",
"text": "And the remaining oil that is on the priest\u2019s palm he shall put on the head of the one who presents himself for cleansing, and the priest shall make atonement for him \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:19",
"text": "Thus the priest shall \u231esacrifice\u231f the sin offering, and he shall make atonement for the one who presents himself for cleansing from his uncleanness, and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:20",
"text": "Then the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar, and the priest shall make atonement for him, and so he shall be clean. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:21",
"text": " \u201cBut if he is poor and \u231ehe cannot afford\u231f it, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering as a wave offering to make atonement for himself and one-tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:22",
"text": "and two turtledoves or two \u231eyoung doves\u231f that \u231ehe can afford\u231f, and one shall be a sin offering and the \u231eother\u231f a burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:23",
"text": "And he shall bring them to the priest at the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh on the eighth day for his cleansing. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:24",
"text": "And the priest shall take the male lamb for the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:25",
"text": "and he shall slaughter the male lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest shall take \u231esome of\u231f the guilt offering\u2019s blood, and he shall put it on the right ear\u2019s lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand\u2019s thumb and on his right foot\u2019s big toe. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:26",
"text": "Then the priest shall pour out \u231esome of\u231f the oil on his own left palm, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:27",
"text": "and with his right finger the priest shall spatter \u231esome of\u231f the oil that is on his left palm seven times \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:28",
"text": "Then the priest shall put \u231esome of\u231f the oil that is on his palm on the right ear\u2019s lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand\u2019s thumb and on his right foot\u2019s big toe on the place of the guilt offering\u2019s blood. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:29",
"text": "And the remaining oil that is on the priest\u2019s palm he shall put on the head of the one who presents himself for cleansing to make atonement for him \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:30",
"text": "And he shall \u231esacrifice\u231f one of the turtledoves or the \u231eyoung doves\u231f that \u231ehe can afford\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:31",
"text": "even what \u231ehe can afford\u231f, the one as a sin offering and the \u231eother\u231f as a burnt offering in addition to the grain offering, and the priest shall make atonement for the one who presents himself for cleansing \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:32",
"text": "This is the regulation of the one on whom is an infectious skin disease who \u231ecannot afford\u231f the cost for his cleansing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:33",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:34",
"text": "\u201cWhen you come into the land of Canaan, which I am about to give to you as your possession, and I put \u231emildew\u231f in a house in the land of your possession, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:35",
"text": "then the one who \u231eowns the house\u231f shall come and tell the priest, saying, \u2018It appears to me that an infection is in the house.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:36",
"text": "And the priest shall issue a command, and they shall clear out the house before the priest comes to examine the infection, so that all that is in the house might not become unclean; and \u231eafterward\u231f the priest shall go to examine the house. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:37",
"text": "And he shall examine the infection, and \u231eif\u231f the infection on the house\u2019s wall has yellowish-green or reddish spots and its appearance is deeper than the surface of the wall, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:38",
"text": "then the priest shall go out from the house to the house\u2019s entrance, and he shall confine the house for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:39",
"text": "And the priest shall return on the seventh day, and he shall examine the infection, and \u231eif\u231f the infection has spread on the house\u2019s wall, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:40",
"text": "the priest shall issue a command and they shall remove the stones on which is the infection, and they shall throw them \u231eoutside the city\u231f on an unclean place. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:41",
"text": "Then they shall scrape off the plaster from all around the house, and they shall pour out the plaster, which they scraped off, \u231eoutside the city\u231f on an unclean place. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:42",
"text": "And they shall take other stones, and they shall \u231eput\u231f them in place of those stones, and they shall take other plaster, and they shall replaster the house. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:43",
"text": " \u201cBut if the infection should return and it breaks out in the house after they have removed the stones and after scraping off the plaster of the house and after it has been replastered, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:44",
"text": "then the priest shall come, and he shall examine the infection, and \u231eif\u231f the infection has spread in the house, it is a destructive \u231emildew\u231f in the house\u2014it is unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:45",
"text": "So he shall break down the house, its stones and its wood and all of the house\u2019s plaster, and he shall bring it all \u231eoutside the city\u231f to an unclean place. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:46",
"text": "And the person who enters into the house during all the days that he confined it shall become unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:47",
"text": "And the person who sleeps in the house must wash his garments, and the person who eats in the house shall wash his garments. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:48",
"text": " \u201cAnd if the priest comes again and examines the house and \u231eif\u231f the infection has not spread in the house after being replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the infection is healed. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:49",
"text": "And he shall take two birds and \u231ecedar wood\u231f and a \u231ecrimson thread\u231f and hyssop to cleanse the house; "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:50",
"text": "and he shall slaughter the first bird over fresh water on a clay vessel. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:51",
"text": "Then he shall take the \u231ecedar wood\u231f and the hyssop and \u231ethe crimson thread\u231f and the living bird, and he shall dip them in the slaughtered bird\u2019s blood and in the fresh water, and he shall spatter them on the house seven times. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:52",
"text": "Thus he shall purify the house with the bird\u2019s blood and with the fresh water and with the living bird and with the \u231ecedar wood\u231f and with the hyssop and with \u231ethe crimson thread\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:53",
"text": "And he shall send the living bird \u231eoutside the city\u231f \u231einto the open field\u231f; and so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:54",
"text": " \u201cThis is the instruction for any infectious skin disease and for the diseased area of skin, "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:55",
"text": "and for a \u231emildew\u231f of the garment and for the house, "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:56",
"text": "and for the swelling and for the epidermal eruption and for the spot, "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Leviticus 14:57",
"text": "to teach \u231ewhen something is unclean and when something is clean\u231f. This is the regulation of the infectious skin disease.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and you shall say to them, \u2018\u231eAny man\u231f when a fluid discharge occurs from his body, his fluid discharge is unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:3",
"text": "And this becomes his uncleanness in his fluid discharge: whether his body secretes his fluid discharge or his body blocks his fluid discharge, it is his uncleanness. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:4",
"text": "Any bed upon which the person who discharges lies down becomes unclean, and any object upon which he sits becomes unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:5",
"text": "And anyone who touches his bed must wash his garments and shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until evening. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:6",
"text": "And the person who sits on the object upon which the person who discharges has sat must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:7",
"text": "And the person who touches the body of the person who discharges must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:8",
"text": "And if the person who discharges spits on one who is clean, then that one shall wash is garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:9",
"text": "And any saddle upon which the person who discharges rides becomes unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:10",
"text": "And any person who touches anything that happened to be under him becomes unclean until the evening, and the person who carries them must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:11",
"text": "And anyone whom the person who discharges might touch \u231ewithout\u231f rinsing off his hands with water shall wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:12",
"text": "But a clay vessel that the person who discharges touches must be broken, and any \u231ewood object\u231f must be rinsed with water. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And when the person who discharges becomes clean from his body fluid discharge, he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing; then he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body with \u231efresh\u231f water, and he shall be clean. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:14",
"text": "Then on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two \u231eyoung doves\u231f, and he shall come \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh at the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance, and he shall give them to the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:15",
"text": "And the priest shall \u231esacrifice\u231f one as a sin offering and \u231ethe other\u231f as a burnt offering, and so the priest shall make atonement for him \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh from his body fluid discharge. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:16",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if an emission of semen goes out from anyone, then he shall wash all of his body with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:17",
"text": "And any garment and anything leather on which is an emission of semen shall be washed with water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:18",
"text": "If there is a woman with whom a man lies down and there is an emission of semen, then they shall wash themselves with water, and they shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:19",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And when a woman \u231eis menstruating\u231f, her body fluid discharge occurs in her body; for seven days she shall be in her menstruation, and any person who touches her shall become unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:20",
"text": "And anything upon which she lies down during her menstruation shall become unclean, and anything upon which she sits shall become unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:21",
"text": "And any person who touches her bed must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:22",
"text": "And any person who touches any object on which she sat must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:23",
"text": "And if it is on the bed or on the object on which she sits, at his touching it he becomes unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:24",
"text": "And if a man indeed lies with her and her menstruation occurs on him, then he shall be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies down becomes unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:25",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And when a woman discharges a body fluid consisting of her blood for many days, but not at the time of her menstruation, or when she discharges in addition to her menstruation, all the days of her unclean body fluid discharge she shall become unclean as in the days of her menstruation. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:26",
"text": "Any bed on which she lies during all the days of her body fluid discharge shall become for her as her bed of menstruation, and any object on which she sits becomes unclean as her menstruation\u2019s uncleanness. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:27",
"text": "And any person who touches them becomes unclean, and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:28",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if she is clean from her body fluid discharge, then she shall count for herself seven days, and afterward she becomes clean. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:29",
"text": "And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two \u231eyoung doves\u231f, and she shall bring them to the priest at the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:30",
"text": "And the priest shall \u231esacrifice\u231f the one as a sin offering and the \u231eother\u231f as a burnt offering, and so the priest shall make atonement for her \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh from her unclean body fluid discharge.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:31",
"text": " \u201cAnd you shall keep the \u231eIsraelites\u231f separate from their uncleanness so that they might not die because of their uncleanness by their making my tabernacle, which is in their midst, unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:32",
"text": " \u201cThis is the regulation of the one with the body fluid discharge and the one from whom an emission of semen goes out so that he becomes unclean by it "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Leviticus 15:33",
"text": "and \u231econcerning\u231f the menstruating woman in her bleeding and the person who discharges his body fluid, for the male and for the female and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron\u2019s two sons, when they had come near \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh and they died. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:2",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cTell your brother Aaron that he should not enter at any time into the sanctuary \u231ebehind\u231f the curtain \u231ein front of\u231f the atonement cover that is on the ark, so that he might not die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement cover. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:3",
"text": " \u201cAaron must enter the sanctuary with this: \u231ea young bull\u231f as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:4",
"text": "He must put on \u231ea holy linen tunic\u231f, and linen undergarments must be on his body, and he must fasten himself with a linen sash, and he must wrap a linen turban around his head\u2014they are holy garments, and he shall wash his body with water, then he shall put them on. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:5",
"text": "And he must take from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f\u2019 community two he-goats as a sin offering and one ram as a burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:6",
"text": " \u201cAnd Aaron shall present the sin offering\u2019s bull, which is for himself, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:7",
"text": "And he shall take the two goats, and he shall present them \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh at the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:8",
"text": "Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for Yahweh and one for Azazel. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:9",
"text": "And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot for Yahweh fell, and he shall \u231esacrifice\u231f it as a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:10",
"text": "But he must present alive \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell to make atonement for himself, to send it away into the desert to Azazel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:11",
"text": " \u201cAnd Aaron shall present the sin offering\u2019s bull, which is for himself, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family; then he shall slaughter the sin offering\u2019s bull, which is for himself. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:12",
"text": "And he shall take a censer full of \u231eburning charcoal\u231f from upon the altar from \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh and \u231etwo handfuls\u231f of incense of powdered fragrant perfumes, and he shall bring it \u231efrom behind\u231f the curtain, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:13",
"text": "and he shall put the incense on the fire \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh so that the cloud of incense might cover the atonement cover, which is on the \u231ecovenant text\u231f, so that he might not die. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:14",
"text": "And he shall take \u231esome of\u231f the bull\u2019s blood, and he shall spatter it with his finger on the atonement cover\u2019s surface on the eastern side, and \u231ebefore\u231f the atonement cover he shall spatter \u231esome of\u231f the blood with his finger seven times. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:15",
"text": " \u201cAnd he shall slaughter the sin offering\u2019s goat, which is for the people, and he shall bring its blood \u231efrom behind\u231f the curtain, and he shall do with its blood as that which he did with the bull\u2019s blood, and he shall spatter it on the atonement cover and \u231ebefore\u231f the atonement cover. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:16",
"text": "Thus he shall make atonement for the sanctuary from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f\u2019 impurities and from their transgressions for all their sins; and so he must do for the tent of assembly, which dwells with them in the midst of their impurities. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:17",
"text": "And \u231eno person\u231f shall be in the tent of assembly when he enters to make atonement in the sanctuary until he comes out, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family and for all of Israel\u2019s assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:18",
"text": " \u201cThen he shall go out to the altar that is \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, and he shall make atonement for it; and he shall take \u231esome of\u231f the bull\u2019s blood and \u231esome of\u231f the goat\u2019s blood, and he shall put it all around on the altar\u2019s horns. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:19",
"text": "And he shall spatter \u231esome of\u231f the blood on it seven times with his finger, and he shall cleanse it and consecrate it from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f\u2019 impurities. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:20",
"text": " \u201cAnd he shall finish making atonement for the sanctuary and the tent of assembly and the altar; then he shall present the living goat. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:21",
"text": "And Aaron shall place his two hands on the living goat\u2019s head, and he shall confess over it all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f\u2019 iniquities and all their transgressions for all their sins, and he shall put them on the goat\u2019s head, and he shall send it away into the desert \u231ewith\u231f a man standing ready. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:22",
"text": "Thus the goat shall bear on it to \u231ea barren region\u231f all their guilt, and he shall send the goat away into the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:23",
"text": " \u201cAnd Aaron shall enter the tent of assembly, and he shall take off the linen garments that he put on at his coming to the sanctuary, and he shall leave them there. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:24",
"text": "And he shall wash his body with water in a holy place, and he shall put on his garments and go out and \u231esacrifice\u231f his burnt offering and the people\u2019s burnt offering, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for people. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:25",
"text": "And he must turn into smoke the sin offering\u2019s fat on the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:26",
"text": " \u201cAnd the person who sends out the goat for Azazel shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body with water, and \u231eafterward\u231f he shall come to the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:27",
"text": "And the sin offering\u2019s bull and the sin offering\u2019s goat, whose blood was brought to make atonement in the sanctuary, shall be brought \u231eoutside the camp\u231f, and they shall burn their hide and their flesh and their offal in the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:28",
"text": "And the person who burns them shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body with water, and \u231eafterward\u231f he must come to the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:29",
"text": " \u201cAnd this shall be \u231ea lasting statute\u231f for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you must deny yourselves and you must not do any work, whether the native or the alien who is dwelling in your midst, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:30",
"text": "because on this day he shall make atonement for you to cleanse you; you must be clean from all your sins \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:31",
"text": "It is \u231ea Sabbath of complete rest\u231f for you, and you shall deny yourselves\u2014it is \u231ea lasting statute\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:32",
"text": "And the priest who is anointed and who is \u231eordained\u231f to serve as a priest in place of his father shall make atonement; thus he shall put on the linen garments, the holy garments, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:33",
"text": "and he shall make atonement for the sanctuary\u2019s holy place, and he shall make atonement for the tent of assembly and the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all of the assembly\u2019s people. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Leviticus 16:34",
"text": "And this shall be \u231ea lasting statute\u231f for you to make atonement for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f one time in a year from all their sins.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and you shall say to them, \u2018This is the word that Yahweh has commanded, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:3",
"text": "\u201c\u231eAny man\u231f from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a sheep or a goat in the camp or who slaughters it \u231eoutside the camp\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:4",
"text": "and he does not bring it to the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance to present an offering to Yahweh \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh\u2019s tabernacle, then that man shall be accounted bloodguilty\u2014he has poured out blood, and that man shall be cut off from the midst of his people. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:5",
"text": "This is so that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f may bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing \u231ein the open field\u231f and bring them for Yahweh to the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance to the priest, and they shall sacrifice fellowship offerings for Yahweh with them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:6",
"text": "And the priest shall sprinkle the blood on Yahweh\u2019s altar at the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance, and he shall \u231eburn\u231f the fat as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:7",
"text": "And \u231ethey may no longer sacrifice\u231f their sacrifices to the goat-idols after which they were prostituting. This is \u231ea lasting statute\u231f for them \u231ethroughout\u231f their generations.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:8",
"text": " \u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018if there is \u231eanyone\u231f from the house of Israel or from the alien who dwells in their midst who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:9",
"text": "and he does not bring it to the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance to \u231esacrifice\u231f it for Yahweh, then that man shall be cut off from his people. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:10",
"text": "And if there is \u231eanyone\u231f from the house of Israel or from the alien who is dwelling in their midst who eats any blood, then I will set my face against the person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:11",
"text": "Indeed the flesh\u2019s life is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, because it is the blood with the life that makes atonement. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:12",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f I said to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u2018\u231eNone of you\u231f may eat blood, nor may the alien who is dwelling in your midst eat blood.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:13",
"text": " \u201cAnd if there is \u231eanyone\u231f from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f or from the alien who is dwelling in their midst who hunts a wild game animal or a bird that may be eaten, then he shall pour out its blood, and he shall cover it with the soil. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:14",
"text": "Indeed, the life of all flesh, its blood, is in its life, so I said to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u2018You may not eat the blood of any flesh, because the life of all flesh is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:15",
"text": " \u201cAnd if there is any person who eats a dead body or a mangled carcass, whether among the native or among the alien, then he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall be clean. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Leviticus 17:16",
"text": "But if he does not wash his garments and he does not wash his body, then he shall bear his guilt.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and say to them, \u2018I am Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:3",
"text": "You must not \u231ecarry out\u231f the practices of the land of Egypt, in which you lived, and you must not \u231ecarry out\u231f the practices of the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you; and you must not follow their statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:4",
"text": "You must \u231ecarry out\u231f my regulations, and you must observe my statutes by following them; I am Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:5",
"text": "And you shall observe my statutes and my regulations \u231eby which the person doing them shall live\u231f; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:6",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018\u231eNone\u231f of you shall approach anyone who is \u231ehis close relative\u231f to expose nakedness; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:7",
"text": "You must not expose your father\u2019s nakedness or your mother\u2019s nakedness\u2014she is your mother; you must not expose her nakedness. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:8",
"text": "You must not expose the nakedness of your father\u2019s wife\u2014it is your father\u2019s nakedness. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:9",
"text": "As for your sister\u2019s nakedness, whether your father\u2019s daughter or your mother\u2019s daughter, whether \u231eborn at home\u231f or \u231eborn abroad\u231f, you must not expose their nakedness. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:10",
"text": "As for the nakedness of your son\u2019s daughter or your daughter\u2019s daughter, you must not expose their nakedness, because they are your nakedness. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:11",
"text": "As for the nakedness of the daughter of your father\u2019s wife, she is your sister, a relative of your father; you must not expose her nakedness. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:12",
"text": "You must not expose the nakedness of your father\u2019s sister; she is \u231eyour father\u2019s close relative\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:13",
"text": "You must not expose the nakedness of your mother\u2019s sister, because she is \u231eyour mother\u2019s close relative\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:14",
"text": "You must not expose the nakedness of your father\u2019s brother; you must not \u231ehave sex with\u231f his wife\u2014she is your aunt. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:15",
"text": "You must not expose your daughter-in-law\u2019s nakedness; she is your son\u2019s wife; you must not expose her nakedness. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:16",
"text": "You must not expose the nakedness of your brother\u2019s wife; she is your brother\u2019s nakedness. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:17",
"text": "You must not expose the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, or her son\u2019s daughter, or her daughter\u2019s daughter; you must not take her as wife to expose her nakedness; they are \u231eclose relatives\u231f\u2014that is wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:18",
"text": "And you must not take as wife a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her \u231eduring\u231f her life. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:19",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And you must not \u231ehave sex with\u231f a woman to expose her nakedness \u231eduring\u231f her menstrual uncleanness. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:20",
"text": "And \u231eyou must not have sex\u231f with your fellow citizen\u2019s wife, becoming unclean with her. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:21",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And you shall not give \u231eany of\u231f your offspring in order to sacrifice them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:22",
"text": "And you shall not lie with a male as lying \u231ewith\u231f a woman; that is a detestable thing. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:23",
"text": "And you shall not \u231ehave sexual relations\u231f with any animal, becoming unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand \u231ebefore\u231f an animal to copulate with it\u2014that is a perversion. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:24",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You must not make yourself unclean in any of these things, because the nations whom I am driving out from your presence were made unclean by all of these. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:25",
"text": "So the land became unclean, and \u231eI have brought the punishment of\u231f its guilt upon it, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:26",
"text": "But you (neither the native nor the alien who is dwelling in your midst) shall keep my statutes and my regulations, and you shall not \u231epractice\u231f any of these detestable things "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:27",
"text": "(because the people of the land, who were \u231ebefore you\u231f, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean), "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:28",
"text": "so that the land will not vomit you out when you make it unclean just as it vomited out the nation that was \u231ebefore you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:29",
"text": "Indeed, anyone who does any of these detestable things, even those persons who do so shall be cut off from the midst of their people. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Leviticus 18:30",
"text": "Thus you shall keep my obligation to not do any of the statutes \u231eregarding\u231f the detestable things that they did \u231ebefore you\u231f, so that you will not make yourselves unclean by them; I am Yahweh your God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to all the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and say to them, \u2018You must be holy, because I, Yahweh your God, am holy. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:3",
"text": "Each of you must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:4",
"text": "You must not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal; I am Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:5",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahweh, you must sacrifice it for your acceptance. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:6",
"text": "It must be eaten on the day of your sacrifice and the next day; but the remainder must be burned up in the fire by the third day. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:7",
"text": "And if it is indeed eaten on the third day, it is unclean meat; it shall not be regarded as accepted. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:8",
"text": "And the one who eats it shall bear his guilt, because he has profaned Yahweh\u2019s holiness, and that person shall be cut off from his people. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:9",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And at your reaping the harvest of your land you must not finish reaping the edge of your field, and you must not glean the remnants of your harvest. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:10",
"text": "And you must not glean your vineyard, and you must not gather your vineyard\u2019s fallen grapes; you must leave them behind for the needy and for the alien; I am Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:11",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You shall not steal, and you shall not deceive, and you shall not lie \u231eto one another\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:12",
"text": "and you shall not swear \u231efalsely\u231f in my name, and so one of you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You shall not exploit your neighbor, and you shall not rob him; a hired worker\u2019s wage you shall not \u231ewithhold\u231f overnight until morning. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:14",
"text": "You shall not curse the deaf, and you shall not put a stumbling block \u231ebefore\u231f a blind person, but you shall revere your God; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:15",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You shall not do injustice in judgment; \u231eyou shall not show partiality to the powerless\u231f; you shall not give preference \u231eto the powerful\u231f; you shall judge your fellow citizen with justice. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:16",
"text": "You shall not go about with slander among your people; \u231eyou shall not endanger your neighbor\u2019s life\u231f; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:17",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your fellow citizen, so that you do not incur sin \u231ealong with\u231f him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:18",
"text": "You shall not seek vengeance, and you shall not harbor a grudge against \u231eyour fellow citizens\u231f; and you shall love your neighbor like yourself; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:19",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You must keep my statutes: as for your domestic animals, you shall not cause two differing kinds to breed; as for your field, you shall not sow two differing kinds of seed; and, a garment of two differing kinds of woven material should not be worn on you. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:20",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And when a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen and she is a female slave promised to a man, but she indeed has not been ransomed or freedom has not be given to her, there shall be an obligation to compensate; they shall not be put to death, because she has not been freed. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:21",
"text": "And he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh at the tent of assembly\u2019s entrance: a ram for a guilt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:22",
"text": "And the priest shall make atonement for him \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh with the ram of the guilt offering for his sin that he \u231ecommitted\u231f, and so his sin that he \u231ecommitted\u231f shall be forgiven him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:23",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And when you have come into the land and you plant any tree for food, \u231eyou shall regard its fruit as unharvestable\u231f; for three years it shall be forbidden for you; it shall not be eaten. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:24",
"text": "But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, offerings of praise for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:25",
"text": "And in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit to increase its yield for you; I am Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:26",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You must not eat anything with the blood; you shall not practice divination, nor shall you interpret signs. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:27",
"text": "You shall not round off the corner hair of your head, and you shall not trim the corner of your beard. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:28",
"text": "And you shall not make a slash in your body for a dead person, nor shall you make on yourselves a tattoo\u2019s mark; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:29",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You shall not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, \u231elest the land be prostituted and the land fill up with depravity\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:30",
"text": "You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:31",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You shall not turn to the mediums and to the soothsayers; you shall not seek them to become unclean with them; I am Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:32",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018\u231eBefore\u231f old age you shall get up, and you shall show respect for an old person; and you shall revere your God; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:33",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And when an alien dwells with you in your land, you shall not oppress him. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:34",
"text": "The alien who is dwelling with you shall be like a native among you, and you shall love him like yourself, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:35",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You shall not commit injustice in regulation, in measurement, in weight, or volume. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:36",
"text": "You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I am Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Leviticus 19:37",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Thus you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you shall do them; I am Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:2",
"text": "\u201cAnd to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f you shall say, \u2018If there is \u231eanyone\u231f from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f or from the alien who is dwelling in Israel, who gives \u231eany of\u231f his offspring to Molech, he must surely be put to death; the people of the land must stone him with stones. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:3",
"text": "And I myself will set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given \u231esome of\u231f his offspring to Molech, so that \u231ehe makes my sanctuary unclean\u231f and profanes \u231emy holy name\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:4",
"text": "And if the people of the land ever shut their eyes from that man at his giving \u231esome of\u231f his offspring to Molech, not putting him to death, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:5",
"text": "then I myself will set my face against that man and against his clan, and I will cut him off and all those from the midst of their people who prostitute after Molech. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:6",
"text": "As for the person who turns to the mediums and the soothsayers to prostitute after them, I will set my face against that person, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:7",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And you shall consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy, because I am Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:8",
"text": "And you shall keep my statutes, and you shall do them; I am Yahweh who consecrates you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:9",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If there is \u231eanyone\u231f who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother\u2014his blood is upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:10",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018As for a man who commits adultery with a man\u2019s wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor\u2019s wife, both the man who commits adultery and the woman who commits adultery shall surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:11",
"text": "As for a man who lies with his father\u2019s wife, he has exposed his father\u2019s nakedness; both of them shall be put to death\u2014their blood is on them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:12",
"text": "As for a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed a perversion\u2014their blood is on them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018As for the man who lies with a male as lying with a woman, they have committed a detestable thing; they shall surely be put to death\u2014their blood is on them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:14",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018As for a man who marries a woman and her mother, that is depravity; they shall burn him and them, so that it shall not become depravity in the midst of you all. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:15",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018As for a man who \u231ehas sexual relations\u231f with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:16",
"text": "As for a woman who approaches any animal to copulate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death\u2014their blood is on them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:17",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018As for a man who takes his sister, his father\u2019s daughter or his mother\u2019s daughter, and he sees her nakedness and she herself sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off \u231ebefore\u231f the eyes of \u231etheir people\u231f; he has exposed his sister\u2019s nakedness\u2014he must bear his guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:18",
"text": "As for a man who lies with a menstruating woman, he exposes her nakedness\u2014her source he exposes and she herself reveals her blood\u2019s source\u2014both of them shall be cut off from the midst of their people. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:19",
"text": "And you shall not expose the nakedness of your mother\u2019s sister, and you shall not expose your father\u2019s sister, because such a person has dishonored his close relative\u2014they must bear their guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:20",
"text": "As for a man who lies with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle\u2019s nakedness\u2014they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:21",
"text": "As for a man who marries his brother\u2019s wife, it is an abomination; he has exposed his brother\u2019s nakedness\u2014they shall be childless. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:22",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you shall do them, so that the land, to which I am bringing you to inhabit it, shall not vomit you out. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:23",
"text": "And you shall not follow the statutes of the nation that I am driving out \u231efrom before you\u231f, because they did all these things, and I detested them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:24",
"text": "So I said to you, \u201cYou yourselves shall take possession of their land, and I myself shall give it to you to possess it\u2014a land flowing with milk and honey\u201d; I am Yahweh your God, who \u231ehas set you apart\u231f from the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:25",
"text": "And you shall distinguish between the clean and the unclean animal and between the unclean and the clean bird; and you shall not defile yourselves with the animal or with the bird or with anything that moves along the ground that I have set apart for you \u231eas unclean\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:26",
"text": "And you shall be holy for me, because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have singled you out from the nations to be mine. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Leviticus 20:27",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And a man or a woman, if a spirit of the dead or a spirit of divination is in them, they shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones\u2014their blood is on them.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cSpeak to the priests, Aaron\u2019s sons, and say to them, \u2018One must not make himself unclean for a dead person among his own people, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:2",
"text": "except for his direct relative closest to him: his mother and his father, and his son and his daughter, and his brother, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:3",
"text": "and for his sister, a virgin, who is closest to him, \u231ewho has not had a husband\u231f\u2014for her he may defile himself. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:4",
"text": "He must not make himself unclean as \u231ea kinsman by marriage\u231f, defiling himself. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:5",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And they shall not shave bald patches on their head, and they shall not shave off the corner of their beard, and they shall not make a cut in their body. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:6",
"text": "They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, because they are bringing near the offerings made by fire to Yahweh\u2014their God\u2019s food\u2014and they shall be holy. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:7",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018They shall not \u231emarry\u231f a woman who is a prostitute and defiled, nor shall they \u231emarry\u231f a woman divorced from her husband, because each priest is holy for his God. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:8",
"text": "And you shall consecrate him, because he is bringing near your God\u2019s food; he shall be holy to you, since I, Yahweh, who consecrates you, am holy. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:9",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018As for the daughter of any priest, if she is defiled by prostituting, she is disgracing her father\u2014she shall be burned in the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:10",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018As for the priest who is higher than his brothers, on whose head the oil of anointment is poured and \u231ehe was ordained\u231f to wear the garments, he shall not dishevel his head, and he shall not tear his garments. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:11",
"text": "And he shall not go near any dead person, nor shall he make himself unclean for his father or for his mother. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:12",
"text": "And he shall not go out from the sanctuary, and he shall not profane his God\u2019s sanctuary, because the dedication of his God\u2019s oil of anointment is on him; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And he himself must take a wife in her virginity. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:14",
"text": "A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman, a prostitute\u2014these he must not take; he shall take only a virgin from his people as wife. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:15",
"text": "And he shall not profane his offspring among his people, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates him.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:16",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:17",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to Aaron, saying, \u2018A man from your offspring throughout their generations, in whom is a physical defect, shall not come near to present your God\u2019s food. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:18",
"text": "Indeed, any man in whom is a physical defect shall not come near: a blind man or lame or disfigured or deformed, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:19",
"text": "or a man in whom is a broken foot or a broken hand, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:20",
"text": "or a hunchback or a dwarf, or a spot in his eye or a skin disorder or a skin eruption or a crushed testicle. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:21",
"text": "Any man from Aaron the priest\u2019s offspring in whom is a physical defect shall not come near to present offerings made by fire to Yahweh; a physical defect is in him; he shall not come near to present his God\u2019s food. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:22",
"text": "He may eat his God\u2019s food, from \u231ethe most holy things\u231f and from the holy things. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:23",
"text": "But he must not enter the curtain, and he must not come near to the altar, because a physical defect is in him, and he must not profane my sanctuary, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates them.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Leviticus 21:24",
"text": " Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:2",
"text": "\u201cTell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the \u231eIsraelites\u231f\u2019 votive offerings, and they must not profane my holy name, which they are consecrating to me; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:3",
"text": " \u201cSay to them, \u2018Throughout your generations, any man from any of your offspring who comes near the votive offerings that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f consecrate to Yahweh with his uncleanness on him, that person shall be cut off from \u231ebefore me\u231f; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:4",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018\u231eAnyone\u231f from Aaron\u2019s offspring, if he is afflicted with a skin disease or a fluid discharge, shall not eat in the sanctuary \u231euntil\u231f he is clean; and the one who touches any unclean person or a man from whom an emission of semen goes out, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:5",
"text": "or a man who touches any swarmer that is unclean for him or who touches a person who is unclean for him \u231edue to\u231f whatever his uncleanness, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:6",
"text": "a person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall not eat from the votive offerings, except when he washes his body with water "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:7",
"text": "and \u231ethe sun sets\u231f, and he shall be clean; then afterward he may eat from the votive offerings, because it is his food. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:8",
"text": "He shall not eat a naturally dead body or a mangled carcass, \u231eso that he becomes unclean\u231f by it; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:9",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And they shall keep my obligation, and they shall not incur guilt because of it, so that they die through it, because they have profaned it; I am Yahweh who consecrates them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:10",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018\u231eNo stranger shall eat\u231f the votive offering; nor shall a temporary resident with a priest or a hired worker eat the votive offering. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:11",
"text": "But a priest, if with his money he buys a person as \u231ehis possession\u231f, that one may eat it, and the descendants of his house themselves may eat his food. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:12",
"text": "And a priest\u2019s daughter, when \u231eshe marries a layman\u231f, she herself may not eat \u231ethe votive offering\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:13",
"text": "But a priest\u2019s daughter, when she becomes a widow or divorced or there is no offspring for her, and she returns to her father\u2019s house as in her childhood, she may eat from her father\u2019s food, but \u231eno layman may eat it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:14",
"text": "And if a man eats the votive offering unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it, and he shall give the votive offering to the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:15",
"text": "And they shall not profane the \u231eIsraelites\u231f\u2019 votive offerings that they present to Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:16",
"text": "and so cause them, by their eating their votive offerings, to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates them.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:17",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:18",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and say to them, \u2018Anyone from the house of Israel or from the alien in Israel who presents his offering for any of their vows or for any of their freewill offerings that they present to Yahweh as a burnt offering, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:19",
"text": "it must be without defect \u231eto be acceptable for you\u231f: a male among the cattle, among the sheep, or among the goats. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:20",
"text": "You shall not present any animal in which is a physical defect, because it shall not be \u231eacceptable\u231f for you. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:21",
"text": "And if anyone brings a sacrifice of fellowship offerings for Yahweh to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the cattle or from the flock, it must be without defect \u231eto be acceptable\u231f; there must not be any physical defect in it. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:22",
"text": "The blind or the injured or the maimed or the seeping or one with a skin disorder or one with a skin eruption\u2014these you shall not present to Yahweh, nor shall you give from them an offering made by fire on the altar for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:23",
"text": "As for an ox or sheep that is deformed or that is stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but for a vow it will not be accepted. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:24",
"text": "And you shall not present anything for Yahweh with bruised or shattered or torn or cut-off testicles, and you shall not \u231esacrifice\u231f such in your land. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:25",
"text": "And you shall not present your God\u2019s food from any of these by the hand of \u231ea foreigner\u231f, because their deformity is in them; a physical defect is in them; they shall not be accepted for you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:26",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:27",
"text": "\u201cWhen an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, then it shall be under its mother for seven days, and from the eighth day and beyond it is acceptable as an offering made by fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:28",
"text": "And you shall not slaughter an ox or a sheep and \u231eits young\u231f on \u231ethe same day\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:29",
"text": "And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, you must sacrifice it to be acceptable for you. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:30",
"text": "It must be eaten on that day; you must not leave over anything from it until morning; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:31",
"text": " \u201cThus you shall keep my commands, and you shall do them; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:32",
"text": " \u201cAnd you shall not profane my holy name, so that I may be consecrated in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; I am Yahweh, who consecrates you, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Leviticus 22:33",
"text": "the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be as God for you; I am Yahweh.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and say to them, \u2018The festivals of Yahweh that you shall proclaim are holy assemblies; these are my appointed times. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:3",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018For six days work is to be done, and on the seventh day shall be \u231ea Sabbath of complete rest\u231f, a holy assembly; you shall not do any work; it shall be a Sabbath for Yahweh in all your dwellings. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:4",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018These are Yahweh\u2019s appointed times, holy assemblies, which you shall proclaim at their appointed time. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:5",
"text": "In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month at the evening is Yahweh\u2019s Passover. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:6",
"text": "And on the fifteenth day of this month is Yahweh\u2019s Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:7",
"text": "On the first day there shall be a holy assembly for you; you shall not do \u231eany regular work\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:8",
"text": "And you shall present an offering for Yahweh made by fire for seven days; on the seventh day there shall be a holy assembly; you shall not do \u231eany regular work\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:9",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:10",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and say to them, \u2018When you come to the land that I am about to give to you and you reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruit of your harvest to the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:11",
"text": "And he shall wave the sheaf \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh for your acceptance; the priest shall wave it \u231eon the day after\u231f the Sabbath. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:12",
"text": "And on the day of your waving the sheaf you shall \u231eoffer\u231f a \u231eyearling\u231f male lamb without defect as a burnt offering to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:13",
"text": "And its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of finely milled flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, an appeasing fragrance; and its libation shall be a fourth of a hin of wine. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:14",
"text": "And you shall not eat bread or roasted grain or ripe grain until \u231ethis very same day\u231f, until you present your God\u2019s offering. This must be \u231ea lasting statute\u231f for your generations in all your dwellings. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:15",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And you shall count for yourselves \u231efrom the day after\u231f the Sabbath, from the day of your bringing the wave offering\u2019s sheaf\u2014there shall be seven full weeks. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:16",
"text": "Until \u231ethe day after\u231f the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; then you shall present a new grain offering for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:17",
"text": "You shall bring from your dwellings for a wave offering two loaves of bread \u231emade with\u231f two-tenths of an ephah of finely milled flour; they must be baked with leaven\u2014the firstfruits \u231ebelonging to\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:18",
"text": "And, in addition to the bread, you shall present seven \u231eyearling\u231f male lambs without defects and one \u231eyoung bull\u231f and two rams\u2014they shall be a burnt offering for Yahweh with their grain offering and their libations, an offering made by fire, an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:19",
"text": "And you shall \u231eoffer\u231f one he-goat as a sin offering and two \u231eyearling\u231f male lambs as a sacrifice of fellowship offerings. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:20",
"text": "And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh; in addition to the two male lambs, they shall be holy for Yahweh for the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:21",
"text": "And \u231eyou shall make a proclamation\u231f on \u231ethis very same day\u231f; it shall be a holy assembly for you; you shall not do \u231eany regular work\u231f; this is a \u231elasting statute\u231f in all your dwellings throughout your generations. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:22",
"text": "And when you reap the harvest of your land, you must not finish the edge of your field at your reaping, and you must not glean the remnants of your harvest\u2014you shall leave them behind for the needy and for the alien; I am Yahweh your God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:23",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:24",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, \u231eyou must have\u231f a rest period, a remembrance of the trumpet blast, a holy assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:25",
"text": "You must not do \u231eany regular work\u231f, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:26",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:27",
"text": "\u201cSurely the Day of Atonement is on the tenth day of the seventh month; it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall deny yourselves, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:28",
"text": "And you must not do \u231eany regular work\u231f on \u231ethis very same day\u231f, because it is the Day of Atonement to make atonement for you \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:29",
"text": "If there is any person who does not deny himself on \u231ethis very same day\u231f, then he shall be cut off from his people. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:30",
"text": "As for any person who does any work on \u231ethis very same day\u231f, I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:31",
"text": "You must not do any work; it is a \u231elasting statute\u231f throughout your generations in all your dwellings. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:32",
"text": "It is \u231ea Sabbath of complete rest\u231f for you, and you shall deny yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening\u2014from evening to evening you must observe your extraordinary Sabbath.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:33",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:34",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, this shall be the Feast of Booths for seven days for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:35",
"text": "On the first day there shall be a holy assembly; you must not do any \u231eregular work\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:36",
"text": "For seven days you must present an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh; it is a celebration; you must not do \u231eany regular work\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:37",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018These are Yahweh\u2019s festivals, which you must proclaim, holy assemblies to present an offering made by fire to Yahweh\u2014burnt offering and grain offering, sacrifice and libations, \u231eeach on its proper day\u231f\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:38",
"text": "\u231ebesides\u231f Yahweh\u2019s Sabbaths and \u231ebesides\u231f your gifts and \u231ebesides\u231f your vows and \u231ebesides\u231f all your freewill offerings that you give to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:39",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Surely on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, at your gathering the land\u2019s produce, you shall hold Yahweh\u2019s festival for seven days; on the first day there shall be a rest period and on the eighth day a rest period. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:40",
"text": "And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the first fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees and branches of a leafy tree and of a brook\u2019s poplar trees, and you shall rejoice \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:41",
"text": "And you must hold it as a festival for Yahweh for seven days in the year; it shall be a \u231elasting statute\u231f throughout your generations; in the seventh month you must hold it. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:42",
"text": "You must live in the booths for seven days; all the natives in Israel must live in the booths, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:43",
"text": "so that your generations shall know that I made the \u231eIsraelites\u231f live in booths when I brought them from the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Leviticus 23:44",
"text": " Thus Moses announced to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f Yahweh\u2019s appointed times. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:2",
"text": "\u201cCommand the \u231eIsraelites\u231f that they should bring pure olive oil from beaten olives for the light to \u231epresent\u231f a lamp continually. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:3",
"text": "Aaron shall arrange for it \u231eoutside\u231f the curtain of the testimony in the tent of assembly from evening until morning \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh continually; it shall be a \u231elasting statute\u231f throughout your generations. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:4",
"text": "On the pure golden lampstand he shall arrange for the lamps \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh continually. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:5",
"text": " \u201cAnd you shall take finely milled flour, and you shall bake with it twelve ring-shaped bread cakes: each one shall be two-tenths of an ephah. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:6",
"text": "And you shall place them in two rows, six to the row, on the pure gold table \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:7",
"text": "And you shall put pure frankincense on each row so that it shall be for the bread as a memorial offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:8",
"text": "\u231eOn every Sabbath\u231f he shall arrange it in rows \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh continually; they are from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f as an everlasting covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:9",
"text": "And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because it is \u231ea most holy thing\u231f for him from Yahweh\u2019s offerings made by fire\u2014a \u231elasting rule\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:10",
"text": " And an Israelite woman\u2019s son, and he was an Egyptian man\u2019s son, went out in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; and the Israelite woman\u2019s son and an Israelite man fought in the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:11",
"text": "Then the Israelite woman\u2019s son blasphemed the name, and he cursed, so they brought him to Moses\u2014and the name of his mother was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:12",
"text": "Then they put him in custody \u231eso that\u231f the matter might be made clear to them in accordance with the mouth of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:13",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:14",
"text": "\u201cBring the curser \u231eoutside the camp\u231f, and all the hearers shall place their hands on his head, and the whole community shall stone him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:15",
"text": "And you shall speak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018\u231eAny man\u231f when he curses his God shall bear his sin. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:16",
"text": "And he who blasphemes Yahweh\u2019s name certainly shall be put to death; the whole community certainly shall stone him. As the alien, so the native shall be put to death at blaspheming his name. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:17",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And when a man kills any human being, he certainly shall be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:18",
"text": "And \u231ehe who kills\u231f a domestic animal must repay for it life in place of life. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:19",
"text": "And when a man \u231ecauses\u231f a physical defect in his fellow citizen \u231eaccording to\u231f what he has done, so it shall be done to him: "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:20",
"text": "fracture in place of fracture, eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth\u2014\u231eaccording to\u231f the physical defect he \u231ecauses\u231f to the person, likewise it shall be \u231ecaused\u231f to him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:21",
"text": "And a killer of a domestic animal must repay for it, and a killer of a human shall be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:22",
"text": "\u231eYou must have\u231f one norm; as for the alien, so it must be for the native, because I am Yahweh your God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Leviticus 24:23",
"text": " Thus Moses spoke to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and they brought the curser \u231eoutside the camp\u231f, and they stoned him with stones, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses on \u231eMount Sinai\u231f, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and say to them, \u2018When you come into the land that I am about to give to you, then the land shall observe a Sabbath for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:3",
"text": "Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and you shall gather its yield. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:4",
"text": "But in the seventh year it shall be \u231ea Sabbath of complete rest\u231f for the land\u2014a Sabbath for Yahweh; you must not sow your field, and you must not prune your vineyard. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:5",
"text": "You must not reap your harvest\u2019s aftergrowth, and you must not harvest the grapes of your unpruned vines\u2014it shall be \u231ea year of complete rest\u231f for the land. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:6",
"text": "And a Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you: for you and for your slave and for your slave woman and for your hired worker and for your temporary residents who are dwelling as aliens with you; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:7",
"text": "and all its yield shall be for your domestic animal and for the wild animal, which are in your land to eat. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:8",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And you shall count for yourself seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years, and they shall be for you \u231etime periods of\u231f years: \u231eforty-nine\u231f years. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:9",
"text": "And you shall cause \u231ea loud horn blast\u231f to be heard on the seventh month on the tenth of the month; on the Day of Atonement you shall cause a ram\u2019s horn to be heard in all your land. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:10",
"text": "And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. It is a Jubilee; it shall be for you, and you shall return. You must return\u2014everyone to his property and everyone to his clan. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:11",
"text": "\u231eYou shall have the fiftieth year as a Jubilee\u231f; you must not reap its aftergrowth, and you must not harvest its unpruned vines. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:12",
"text": "Because it is a Jubilee, it shall be holy to you. You must eat its produce from the field. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018In this Year of Jubilee \u231eeach of you shall return\u231f to his property. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:14",
"text": "And when you sell something to your fellow citizen or you buy from your neighbor\u2019s hand, you must not oppress \u231eone another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:15",
"text": "You must buy from your fellow citizen according to the number of years after the Jubilee; he must sell to you according to the number of years of yield. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:16",
"text": "You must increase its price \u231eaccording to a greater number of years\u231f, but you must decrease its price \u231eaccording to a lesser number of years\u231f, because he is selling its yields to you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:17",
"text": "And you must not oppress \u231eone another\u231f, but you shall revere your God, because I am Yahweh, your God. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:18",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And you shall do my statutes, and you must keep my regulations, and you shall do them, so that you shall live \u231esecurely\u231f on the land. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:19",
"text": "And the land shall give its fruit, and you shall eat \u231eyour fill\u231f, and you shall live \u231esecurely\u231f on it. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:20",
"text": "And if you should say, \u201cWhat shall we eat in the seventh year, \u231eif\u231f we do not sow and we do not gather its yield?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:21",
"text": "then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will make the yield for three years. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:22",
"text": "And you will sow in the eighth year, and you shall eat from the old yield; until the ninth year, until the coming of its yield, you shall eat the old yield. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:23",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But the land must not be sold in perpetuity, because the land is mine, because you are aliens and temporary residents with me. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:24",
"text": "And in all your property\u2019s land you must provide redemption for the land. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:25",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018When your brother becomes poor and he sells part of his property, then \u231ehis nearest redeemer\u231f shall come, and he shall redeem the thing sold by his brother. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:26",
"text": "But if a man \u231edoes not have\u231f a redeemer, then \u231ehe prospers\u231f and he finds enough for his redemption, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:27",
"text": "then he shall calculate the years of its selling, and he shall refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his property. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:28",
"text": "But if his hand does not find enough to refund to him, then \u231ewhat he has sold\u231f shall be in the buyer\u2019s hand until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall go out of the buyer\u2019s hand in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his property. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:29",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if a man sells \u231ea residential house in a walled city\u231f, then it shall be his redemption until completing \u231ea year after his selling\u231f; its redemption \u231eshall last\u231f \u231ea year\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:30",
"text": "But if it is not redeemed \u231ebefore a full year has passed\u231f, then the house that is \u231ein the walled city\u231f shall belong to the buyer in perpetuity throughout his generations; it shall not go out of the buyer\u2019s hand in the Jubilee. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:31",
"text": "However, village houses that have no surrounding wall shall be considered \u231eopen country\u231f; there is redemption for it, and in the Jubilee it shall go out of the buyer\u2019s hand. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:32",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018As for the cities of the Levites, that is, the houses in their property\u2019s cities, it shall be \u231ea lasting redemption\u231f for the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:33",
"text": "And whatever anyone redeems from the Levites then must go out of the buyer\u2019s hand in the Jubilee, including a house\u2019s selling \u231ein his city\u2019s property\u231f, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:34",
"text": "But a field of their cities\u2019 pastureland must not be sold, because \u231eit is their property for all time\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:35",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if your countryman becomes poor and \u231eif he becomes dependent on you\u231f, then you shall support him like an alien and like a temporary resident, and he shall live with you. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:36",
"text": "You must not take interest or usury from him, but you shall revere your God, and your countryman shall live with you. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:37",
"text": "You must not give your money to him with interest or give your food for profit. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:38",
"text": "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give \u231eyou\u231f the land of Canaan, to be as God for you. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:39",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if your countryman who is with you becomes poor, and he is sold to you, \u231eyou shall not treat him as a slave\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:40",
"text": "He shall be with you like a hired worker, like a temporary resident; he shall work with you until the Year of Jubilee. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:41",
"text": "And he and his sons with him shall go out from you, and he shall return to his clan, and to the property of his ancestors he shall return. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:42",
"text": "Because they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they shall not be sold \u231eas a slave\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:43",
"text": "You shall not rule over him with ruthlessness, but you shall revere your God. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:44",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018As for your slave and your slave woman who are yours, from the nations that are all around you, from them you may buy a slave or a slave woman. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:45",
"text": "And you may buy also from the children of the temporary residents who are dwelling with you as aliens and from their clan who are with you, who have children in your land; indeed, they may be as property for you. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:46",
"text": "And you may pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you to take possession of as property \u231efor all time\u231f\u2014you may let them work. But as for your countrymen, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, you shall not rule with ruthlessness over \u231eone another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:47",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if the alien or the temporary resident who are with you \u231eprosper\u231f, but your countryman who is with him becomes poor and he is sold to an alien, a temporary resident who is with you, or to a descendant of an alien\u2019s clan, "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:48",
"text": "after he is sold redemption shall be for him; one of his brothers may redeem him, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:49",
"text": "or his uncle or his uncle\u2019s son may redeem him, or \u231eone of\u231f \u231ehis close relatives\u231f from his clan may redeem him; or if \u231ehe prospers\u231f, he may redeem himself. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:50",
"text": "And he shall calculate with his buyer from the year of \u231ehis selling himself\u231f until the Jubilee; and the value of his selling shall be according to the number of years\u2014it shall be with him like a hired worker\u2019s days. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:51",
"text": "If there are still many years, \u231ein keeping with them\u231f he shall restore his redemption \u231ein proportion to his purchase price\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:52",
"text": "And if there are a few years left until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall calculate for himself; he shall restore his redemption \u231eaccording to the number of his years\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:53",
"text": "He shall be with him \u231eas a yearly hired worker\u231f; he shall not rule over him with ruthlessness \u231ein your sight\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:54",
"text": "And if he is not redeemed by any of these ways, then he and his sons with him shall go out in the Year of Jubilee. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Leviticus 25:55",
"text": "Indeed, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f are servants for me; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:1",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to worship before it, because I am Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:2",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:3",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If you walk in my statutes and you keep my commands and you do them, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:4",
"text": "then I will give you rains in their time, and the land shall give its produce, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:5",
"text": "And for you the threshing season shall overtake the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall overtake the sowing, and you shall eat your food \u231eto your fill\u231f and you shall live \u231esecurely\u231f in your land. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:6",
"text": "And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and there shall not be \u231eanybody who makes you afraid\u231f, and I will remove harmful animals from the land, and \u231eno sword shall pass through your land\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:7",
"text": "And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword \u231ebefore you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:8",
"text": "And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you shall pursue a myriad; and your enemies shall fall by the sword \u231ebefore you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:9",
"text": "And I will turn to you, and I will make you fruitful, and I will make you numerous; and I will keep my covenant with you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:10",
"text": "And you shall eat \u231eold grain\u231f, and \u231eyou shall clear away the old before the new\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:11",
"text": "And I will put my dwelling place in your midst, and my inner self shall not abhor you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:12",
"text": "And I will walk about in your midst, and I shall be your God, and you shall be my people. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:13",
"text": "I am Yahweh, your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves; and I broke the bars of your yoke, and I caused you to walk erectly. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:14",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out all these commands, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:15",
"text": "and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self abhors my regulations, to not carry out all my commands by your breaking my covenant, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:16",
"text": "I \u231ein turn\u231f will do this to you: then I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed \u231ein vain\u231f, and your enemies shall eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:17",
"text": "And I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated \u231ebefore\u231f your enemies; and your haters shall rule over you, and you shall flee away, but there shall not be \u231eanybody who is pursuing\u231f you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:18",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if in spite of these things you do not listen to me, then I will continue to discipline you seven times for your sins. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:19",
"text": "And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron and your land like copper. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:20",
"text": "And your strength shall be consumed \u231ein vain\u231f; and your land shall not give its produce, and the land\u2019s trees shall not give their fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:21",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if you go against me in hostility and you are not willing to listen to me, then I will add a plague onto you seven times according to your sins. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:22",
"text": "And I will send \u231ewild animals\u231f out among you, and they shall make you childless, and they shall cut down your domestic animals, and they shall make you fewer; and your roads shall be desolate. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:23",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if you do not accept correction from me through these things, but you go against me in hostility, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:24",
"text": "then I myself will also go against you in hostility, and I myself also will strike you seven times for your sins. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:25",
"text": "And I will bring upon you a sword that seeks vengeance for the covenant, and you shall be gathered to your cities; and I will send a plague in your midst, and you shall be given into the hand of an enemy. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:26",
"text": "At my breaking the \u231esupply\u231f of bread for you, then ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return your bread by weight; and you shall eat it, and you shall not be satisfied. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:27",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if through this you do not listen to me and you go against me in hostility, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:28",
"text": "then I will go against you in hostile anger, and also I myself will discipline you seven times for your sins. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:29",
"text": "And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:30",
"text": "And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols\u2019 corpses; and my inner self shall abhor you. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:31",
"text": "And I will lay your cities in ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your sacrifices\u2019 appeasing fragrance. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:32",
"text": "And I myself will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:33",
"text": "And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:34",
"text": "Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its lying desolate, and you shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:35",
"text": "All the days of its lying desolate it shall rest for the time that it had not rested during your Sabbaths while you were living on it. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:36",
"text": "As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring fearfulness in their hearts in the land of their enemies; and a sound of a windblown leaf shall pursue them, and they shall flee like flight \u231ebefore\u231f a sword, and they shall fall, but there shall not be a pursuer. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:37",
"text": "And they shall stumble over \u231eone another\u231f as \u231efrom before\u231f a sword, but there shall not be a pursuer; and \u231eyou shall have no resistance\u231f \u231ebefore\u231f your enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:38",
"text": "And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:39",
"text": "And because of their guilt, the ones among you who remain shall decay in the land of their enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors, they shall decay with them. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:40",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:41",
"text": "I myself also went against them in hostility, and I brought them into the land of their enemies\u2014or if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and then they pay for their guilt, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:42",
"text": "I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:43",
"text": "And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves must pay for their guilt, \u231esimply because\u231f they rejected my regulations, and their inner self abhorred my statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:44",
"text": "And \u231ein spite of\u231f this, \u231ewhen they are\u231f in the land of their enemies I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to destroy them, to break my covenant with them, because I am Yahweh their God. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:45",
"text": "And I will remember the first covenant for them\u2014whom I brought out from the land of Egypt \u231ein the sight of\u231f the nations \u231eto be their God\u231f. I am Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Leviticus 26:46",
"text": " These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that Yahweh gave between himself and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f on \u231eMount Sinai\u231f \u231ethrough\u231f Moses. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and say to them, \u2018When a man makes a vow according to your proper value of persons to Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:3",
"text": "if your proper value is for a male from \u231etwenty years of age\u231f up to \u231esixty years of age\u231f, then your proper value shall be fifty shekels of money according to the sanctuary\u2019s shekel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:4",
"text": "But if it is for a female, then your proper value shall be thirty shekels. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:5",
"text": "And if from \u231efive years of age\u231f up to \u231etwenty years of age\u231f, then your proper value shall be twenty shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:6",
"text": "And if from \u231ea month of age\u231f up to \u231efive years of age\u231f, then your proper value shall be five shekels of money for the male, and your proper value for the female shall be three shekels of money. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:7",
"text": "And if from \u231esixty years of age\u231f and above: if a male, then your proper value shall be fifteen shekels; and for the female, ten shekels. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:8",
"text": "But if he is poorer than your proper value, then he shall present himself \u231ebefore\u231f the priest, and the priest shall set a value on him; the priest shall value him \u231eaccording to\u231f what the person who made a vow \u231ecan afford\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:9",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if it is a domestic animal from which they present an offering for Yahweh, all that he gives from it for Yahweh shall be a holy object. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:10",
"text": "He shall not replace it, nor shall he exchange it, either good with bad or bad with good; and if he indeed exchanges a domestic animal with a domestic animal, then \u231eit and its substitution shall be a holy object\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:11",
"text": "But if it is any unclean animal from which they may not present an offering for Yahweh, then he shall present the animal \u231ebefore\u231f the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:12",
"text": "And the priest shall set a value on it, \u231eeither good or bad\u231f; as the priest sets your proper value, so it shall be. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:13",
"text": "And if he indeed wants to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it onto your proper value. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:14",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if a man consecrates his house as a holy object for Yahweh, then the priest shall set a value on it, \u231eeither good or bad\u231f; just as the priest sets a value on it, so it shall remain. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:15",
"text": "But if the one who consecrates it wants to redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of your proper value\u2019s money onto it, and it shall be his. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:16",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if a man consecrates \u231esome of\u231f his property\u2019s fields for Yahweh, then your proper value shall be \u231ein accordance with its seed requirements\u231f: a homer of barley seed for fifty shekels of money. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:17",
"text": "If he consecrates his field from the Year of Jubilee, it shall stand as your proper value. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:18",
"text": "But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the money for him \u231eaccording to the number of years\u231f that are left over until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your proper value. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:19",
"text": "And if he indeed redeems the field that is consecrated, then he shall add a fifth of your proper value\u2019s money onto it, and it shall stand for him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:20",
"text": "And if he does not redeem the field and if he sells the field to another man, it may not be redeemed again, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:21",
"text": "and the field shall be a holy object for Yahweh when it goes out in the Jubilee, like a devoted field; \u231eit shall be the priest\u2019s property\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:22",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And if he consecrates for Yahweh his acquired field that is not the field of his inherited possession, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:23",
"text": "then the priest shall calculate for him the \u231eamount\u231f of your proper value until the year of the Jubilee, and he shall give your proper value on that day as a holy object for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:24",
"text": "In the Year of the Jubilee the field shall return to the one who bought it from him, to the one whose property the land is. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:25",
"text": "And every proper value of yours shall be in the sanctuary\u2019s shekel\u2014the shekel shall be twenty gerahs. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:26",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018However, a man shall not consecrate a firstborn among livestock, which belongs as firstborn to Yahweh; whether an ox \u231eor\u231f small livestock, it is for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:27",
"text": "And if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall ransom it according to your proper value, and he shall add a fifth of its value onto it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your proper value. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:28",
"text": "However, anything devoted that a man has devoted to Yahweh \u231efrom all that he has\u231f, from human or animal, or from the field of his property, may not be sold, and it may not be redeemed; anything devoted is \u231ea most holy thing\u231f for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:29",
"text": "Anyone devoted who is devoted from \u231ehuman beings\u231f cannot be ransomed\u2014he shall surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:30",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And any tithe of the land from the land\u2019s seed or from the fruit of the trees is for Yahweh; it is a holy object for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:31",
"text": "And if a man indeed redeems from his tithe, he shall add a fifth of its value onto it. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:32",
"text": "As for every tithe of cattle or of the flock, all which crosses under the rod, the tenth shall be a holy object for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:33",
"text": "He shall not inspect between the good and the bad, and he shall not exchange it; but if he indeed exchanges it, then \u231eit and its substitution shall be\u231f a holy object\u2014it shall not be redeemed.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Leviticus 27:34",
"text": " These are the commands that Yahweh commanded Moses for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f on \u231eMount Sinai\u231f. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Numbers",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the tent of assembly, on the first of the month, in the second year \u231eafter they came out\u231f of the land of Egypt, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:2",
"text": "\u201c\u231eTake a census of\u231f the entire community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f according to their clans and \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, every male individually "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:3",
"text": "from \u231etwenty years old\u231f and above, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war. You and Aaron must muster them for their wars. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:4",
"text": "A man from each tribe will be with you, each man the head of \u231ehis family\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:5",
"text": "And these are the names of the men who will \u231eassist you\u231f: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:6",
"text": "from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:7",
"text": "from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:8",
"text": "from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar; "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:9",
"text": "from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:10",
"text": "From the descendants of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:11",
"text": "From Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:12",
"text": "from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:13",
"text": "from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:14",
"text": "from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:15",
"text": "and from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:16",
"text": "These are the ones summoned from the community, the leaders of their ancestors\u2019 tribes; they are the heads of Israel\u2019s clans. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:17",
"text": " So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:18",
"text": "and they summoned the entire community on the first day of the second month. And they registered themselves among their clans according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above individually, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:19",
"text": "just as Yahweh commanded Moses. And he counted them in the desert of Sinai. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:20",
"text": " The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, every male individually from \u231etwenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:21",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:22",
"text": " From the descendants of Simeon, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, those who were counted according to the number of their names, every individual male from \u231etwenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:23",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:24",
"text": " From the descendants of Gad, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:25",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:26",
"text": " From the descendants of Judah, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:27",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:28",
"text": " From the descendants of Issachar, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:29",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:30",
"text": " From the descendants of Zebulun, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:31",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:32",
"text": " From the descendants of Joseph: from the descendants of Ephraim, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:33",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:34",
"text": " From the descendants of Manasseh, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:35",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:36",
"text": " From the descendants of Benjamin, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:37",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:38",
"text": " From the descendants of Dan, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:39",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:40",
"text": " From the descendants of Asher, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:41",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:42",
"text": " From the descendants of Naphtali, their genealogies according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to the number of names, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, everyone who is able to go to war: "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:43",
"text": "those who were counted from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:44",
"text": " These are the ones counted whom Moses and Aaron mustered, with the twelve leaders of Israel, each one from \u231ehis family\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:45",
"text": "So all those who were counted from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f according to \u231etheir families\u231f, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:46",
"text": "All of the ones counted were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:47",
"text": "The Levites from their ancestors\u2019 tribe were not mustered in their midst. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:48",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:49",
"text": "\u201cYou will not muster the tribe of Levi, and you will not \u231etake a census of\u231f them in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:50",
"text": "You will \u231eappoint\u231f them over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its vessels, and over all that belongs to it. They will carry the tabernacle and all its vessels, and they will care for it; and they will camp around the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:51",
"text": "And when the tabernacle is set out, the Levites will \u231etake it down\u231f, and when encamping the tabernacle the Levites will set it up; the stranger that approaches it will be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:52",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f will encamp, each in their own camp, and each by their own banner according to their divisions. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:53",
"text": "But the Levites will encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony, and there will not be wrath on the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; and the Levites will keep the requirements of the tabernacle of the testimony.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Numbers 1:54",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did thus; they did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:2",
"text": "\u201cThe \u231eIsraelites\u231f will encamp each with his standard, with a banner according to \u231etheir families\u231f; they will encamp around the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:3",
"text": "The ones who encamp on the eastern side, toward the sunrise, will be of the standard of the camp of Judah according to their divisions; and the leader of the descendants of Judah will be Nahshon son of Amminadab, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:4",
"text": "and his division and \u231ethe ones counted\u231f are seventy-four thousand six hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:5",
"text": "And the ones who encamp next to him will be the tribe of Issachar. And the leader of the descendants of Issachar will be Nethanel son of Zuar, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:6",
"text": "and his division are fifty-four thousand four hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:7",
"text": "For the tribe of Zebulun: the leader of the descendants of Zebulun will be Eliab son of Helon, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:8",
"text": "and his division and the \u231eones counted\u231f are fifty-seven thousand four hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:9",
"text": "All those counted from the camp of Judah are one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. They will set out first according to their divisions. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:10",
"text": " \u201cThe standard of the camp of Reuben will be to the south according to their divisions. The leader of the descendants will be Elizur son of Shedeur. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:11",
"text": "And his division and the \u231eones counted\u231f are forty-six thousand five hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:12",
"text": "Those encamped next to him will be the tribe of Simeon. The leader of the descendants of Simeon will be Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:13",
"text": "And his division and the \u231eones counted\u231f are fifty-nine thousand three hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:14",
"text": "For the tribe of Gad: the leader of the descendants of Gad will be Eliasaph son of Reuel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:15",
"text": "And his division and the \u231eones counted\u231f are forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:16",
"text": "All \u231ethose counted\u231f from the camp of Reuben are one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty. They will set out second according to their divisions. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:17",
"text": " \u201cThe tent of assembly the camp of the Levites will set out in the midst of the camps; they will set out just as they encamped, \u231eeach according to their standards\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:18",
"text": " \u201cThe standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions will be to the west. The leader of the descendants of Ephraim will be Elishama son of Ammihud. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:19",
"text": "And his division and the \u231eones counted\u231f are forty thousand five hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:20",
"text": "The tribe of Manasseh will be next to him. The leader of the descendants of the tribe of Manasseh will be Camaliel son of Pedahzur. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:21",
"text": "And his division and the \u231eones counted\u231f are thirty-two thousand two hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:22",
"text": "For the tribe of Benjamin: the leader of the descendants of Benjamin will be Abidan son of Gideoni. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:23",
"text": "And his division and the \u231eones counted\u231f are thirty-five thousand four hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:24",
"text": "All \u231ethose counted\u231f from the camp of Ephraim are one hundred and eighty thousand one hundred. They will set out third according to their divisions. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:25",
"text": " \u201cThe standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions will be to the west. The leader of the descendants of Dan will be Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:26",
"text": "And his division and the \u231eones counted\u231f are sixty-two thousand seven hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:27",
"text": "Those encamped next to him will be the tribe of Asher. The leader of the descendants of Asher will be Pagiel son of Ocran. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:28",
"text": "And his division and the \u231eones counted\u231f are forty-one thousand five hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:29",
"text": "For the tribe of Naphtali: the leader of the descendants of Naphtali will be Ahira son of Enan. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:30",
"text": "And his division and the \u231eones counted\u231f are fifty-three thousand four hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:31",
"text": "All the \u231eones counted\u231f from the camp of Dan are one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They will set out \u231elast\u231f according to their divisions.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:32",
"text": " These were the ones counted of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f according to \u231etheir families\u231f; all those counted from the camps according to their divisions were six hundred and three thousand five hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:33",
"text": "The Levites were not counted in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Numbers 2:34",
"text": " And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses. They encamped according to their standards, and they set out each one according to their clans among \u231etheir families\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:1",
"text": " These are the genealogies of Aaron and Moses \u231eat the time\u231f when Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:2",
"text": "These are the names of the descendants of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:3",
"text": "These are the names of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, the anointed ones whom \u231ehe consecrated as priests\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:4",
"text": "Nadab and Abihu died \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f when they presented a strange fire \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f in the desert of Sinai, and \u231ethey had no children\u231f. Eleazar and Ithamar served as priest during the presence of Aaron their father. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:5",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:6",
"text": "\u201cBring near the tribe of Levi, and \u231eset the tribe\u231f \u231ebefore Aaron\u231f the priest, and they will minister to him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:7",
"text": "They shall observe his duties and the duties of the entire community before the tent of assembly, to do the work of the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:8",
"text": "And they will keep all the vessels of the tent of assembly and the responsibilities of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, to do the work of the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:9",
"text": "You will give the Levites to Aaron and to his descendants; they are surely assigned to him from among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:10",
"text": "But you will count Aaron and his descendants; they will keep their priesthood, and the stranger who approaches will be put to death.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:11",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:12",
"text": "\u201cI myself receive the Levites from the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f in the place of all the firstborn of the offspring of the womb from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. The Levites will be mine "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:13",
"text": "because all the firstborn are mine; on the day of my killing all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for myself all the firstborn in Israel, \u231eboth humankind and animal\u231f; they will be mine. I am Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:14",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:15",
"text": "\u201cMuster the descendants of Levi according to \u231etheir families\u231f, according to their clans. You will count every male from \u231eone month\u231f and above.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:16",
"text": "So Moses mustered them according to the \u231ecommand of Yahweh\u231f, just as he commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:17",
"text": "These were the sons of Levi according to their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:18",
"text": "And these are the names of the sons of Gershon according to their clans: Libni and Shimei. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:19",
"text": "And the sons of Kohath according to their clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:20",
"text": "The sons of Merari according to their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to \u231etheir families\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:21",
"text": " \u231eTo Gershon belonged\u231f the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these are the clans of the Gershonites. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:22",
"text": "The \u231eones counted\u231f according to the number of every male from \u231eone month\u231f and above were seven thousand five hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:23",
"text": "The clans of the Gershonites will camp behind the tabernacle to the west, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:24",
"text": "and the leader of \u231ethe family\u231f of the Gershonites is Eliasaph son of Lael. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:25",
"text": "And the responsibility of the descendants of Gershon in the tent of assembly is the tabernacle, and the tent covering it and the curtain of the doorway of the tent of the assembly, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:26",
"text": "and the hangings of the courtyard and the curtain of the doorway of the courtyard that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its ten cords, all of its use. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:27",
"text": " \u231eTo Kohath belonged\u231f the clan of Amramites, the clan of the Izharites, the clan of the Hebronites, and the clan of the Uzzielites; these were the clans of the Kohathites. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:28",
"text": "According to the number of every male from \u231eone month\u231f and above there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the responsibility of the sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:29",
"text": "The clan of the descendants of Kohath will encamp on the side of the tabernacle to the south. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:30",
"text": "The leader of \u231ehis family\u231f according to the clans of the Kohathites is Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:31",
"text": "Their responsibility was the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altar, and the vessels of the sanctuary, with which they ministered, and the curtain, and all of its use. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:32",
"text": "The \u231echief of the leaders\u231f of the Levites was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest who had oversight of those keeping the responsibility of the sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:33",
"text": " \u231eTo Merari belonged\u231f the clan of Mahlites and the clan of the Mushites: these are the clans of Merari. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:34",
"text": "The \u231eones counted\u231f according to the number of every male from \u231eone month\u231f and above were six thousand two hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:35",
"text": "The leader of \u231ethe family\u231f according to the clans of Merari is Zuriel son of Abihail; they will encamp of the side of the tabernacle to the north. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:36",
"text": "The responsibility of the sons of Merari was the supervision of the frames of the tabernacle, its bars, pillars, bases, and all its vessels and all its service, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:37",
"text": "and the pillars around the courtyard, and their bases, pegs, and cords. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:38",
"text": " Those encamped before the tabernacle to the east\u2014before the tent of assembly to the east\u2014were Moses and Aaron and his sons; they will keep the responsibility of the sanctuary \u231efor the Israelites\u231f; and the stranger who approaches will be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:39",
"text": "All those counted from the Levites whom Moses and Aaron mustered according to \u231ethe word of Yahweh\u231f, according to their clans, every male from \u231eone month\u231f and above were twenty-two thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:40",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cMuster every firstborn male from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from \u231eone month\u231f and above and \u231ecount\u231f their names. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:41",
"text": "And you will receive the Levites for me\u2014I am Yahweh\u2014in the place of all the firstborn among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and the animals of the Levites in the place of all the firstborn among the animals among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:42",
"text": "So Moses mustered all the firstborn among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f just as Yahweh commanded him. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:43",
"text": "And all the firstborn males among the number of names from \u231eone month\u231f and above, the \u231eones counted\u231f, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:44",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:45",
"text": "\u201cReceive the Levites in the place of all the firstborn among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and the animals of the Levites in the place of their animals; the Levites will be mine. I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:46",
"text": "And the ransom of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f who are excessive over the Levites, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:47",
"text": "you will receive five shekels a person, in the sanctuary shekel; you will collect twenty gerahs per shekel. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:48",
"text": "You will give the money to Aaron, and to his sons the ransom of the ones who are excessive among them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:49",
"text": "And Moses received the money of the redemption from the ones who were excessive from those redeemed of the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:50",
"text": "From the firstborn of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f he took the money, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, in the sanctuary shekel. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Numbers 3:51",
"text": "And Moses gave the money of the ransom to Aaron and to his sons according to the \u231eword\u231f of Yahweh just as Yahweh commanded Moses. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:2",
"text": "\u201c\u231eTake a census\u231f of the descendants of Kohath from the midst of the descendants of Levi, according to their clans and \u231etheir families\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:3",
"text": "from \u231ethirty years old\u231f and above, up to \u231efifty years old\u231f, everyone who comes to the service to do the work in the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:4",
"text": "This is the work of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of assembly, concerning the holiness of the sanctuary: "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:5",
"text": "When setting out the camp, Aaron and his sons will go and lower the curtain of the covering and cover with it the ark of the testimony. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:6",
"text": "They will put on it a covering of \u231efine leather\u231f, and they will spread a cloth of perfect blue over it, and they will place its poles. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:7",
"text": "And over the table of the presence they will spread out a blue cloth and put on it the plates, dishes, and libation bowls, and the pitchers of the libation; and the bread of continuity will be on it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:8",
"text": "They will spread over it a scarlet cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of \u231efine leather\u231f, and they will place its poles. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:9",
"text": "They will take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand for the light source, its lamps, a pair of its tongs, its small pans, and all the vessels of its oil with which they attend to it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:10",
"text": "They will put it and all its vessels inside a covering of \u231efine leather\u231f and put it on the carrying frame. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:11",
"text": "Over the altar of gold they will spread a blue cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of \u231efine leather\u231f and place its poles. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:12",
"text": "They will take all the vessels of the cultic service with which they serve in the sanctuary and put them on a blue cloth, and they will cover them with a covering of \u231efine leather\u231f; and they will put them on the carrying frame. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:13",
"text": "They will remove the fat-soaked ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:14",
"text": "they will put on it all the vessels with which they serve, the fire pans, forks, shovels, and bowls\u2014all the vessels of the altar. They will spread on it a covering of \u231efine leather\u231f; and they will place its poles. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:15",
"text": "And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the vessels of the sanctuary when the camp sets out, the descendants of Kohath will come after to carry these, but they must not touch the sanctuary, or they will die. These are the load of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:16",
"text": " \u201cEleazar son of Aaron the priest is to supervise the oil of the light source, the incense, \u231ethe regular grain offering\u231f, the oil of anointment, the supervision of all the tabernacle and all that is in it, in the sanctuary and in its vessels.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:17",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:18",
"text": "\u201cYou must not cut off the tribe of the clan of the Kohathites from the midst of the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:19",
"text": "Do this to them and they will live and not die when they come near the most holy things. Aaron and his sons will go and appoint them, each one to his task and burden. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:20",
"text": "But they must not go and look \u231efor a moment\u231f at the holy objects.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:21",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:22",
"text": "\u201c\u231eTake a census\u231f of the descendants of Gershon also, according to \u231etheir families\u231f and clans, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:23",
"text": "from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above until \u231efifty years old\u231f; you will muster them, all who come to help to do the work of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:24",
"text": "This is the work of the clans of the Gershonites: to serve and to carry. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:25",
"text": "They will carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of assembly and its covering and the covering of \u231efine leather\u231f, which \u231eis on top of it\u231f, and the curtain of the doorway of the tent of assembly, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:26",
"text": "and the curtains of the courtyard, and the covering for the doorway of the gate of the courtyard, which is all around on the tabernacle and altar, and their cords and all the vessels of their work; and all that is done to them they will do. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:27",
"text": "And all the work of the descendants of the Gershonites will be at \u231ethe command\u231f of Aaron and his sons, for all they are to carry and for all their work, and you will appoint to them responsibility for all they are to carry. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:28",
"text": "This is the work of the clan of the descendants of the Gershonites in the tent of assembly, and their responsibility lies \u231eunder the direction\u231f of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:29",
"text": " \u201cFor the descendants of Merari according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, you will muster them; "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:30",
"text": "from \u231ethose thirty years old\u231f and above until \u231efifty years old\u231f; you will muster them, all who come to do the work of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:31",
"text": "And this is the responsibility of \u231ethose who are to carry\u231f, all their work in the tent of assembly: the frames of the tabernacle and its bars, pillars, and bases, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:32",
"text": "and the pillars of the courtyard all around, and their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their vessels and for all their work. You will appoint by name the vessels that they are responsible to carry. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:33",
"text": "This is the work of the clan of the descendants of Merari, for all their work in the tent of assembly \u231eunder the direction\u231f of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:34",
"text": " And Moses and Aaron mustered the leaders of the community according to the house of \u231etheir families\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:35",
"text": "from \u231ethose thirty years old\u231f and above until \u231efifty years old\u231f; everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:36",
"text": "the \u231eones counted\u231f were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:37",
"text": "These were those counted of the clans of the Kohathites, everyone who served in the tent of assembly whom Moses and Aaron mustered according to \u231ethe command\u231f of Yahweh by the hand of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:38",
"text": " And the descendants of Gershon counted according to their clans and according to \u231etheir families\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:39",
"text": "from \u231ethose thirty years old\u231f and above until \u231efifty years old\u231f, everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly; "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:40",
"text": "the \u231eones counted\u231f, according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, were two thousand six hundred and thirty. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:41",
"text": "These were those counted of the clans of the descendants of Gershon, everyone who serves in the tent of assembly whom Moses and Aaron mustered according to \u231ethe command\u231f of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:42",
"text": " Those counted of the clans of the descendants of Merari according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:43",
"text": "from \u231ethose thirty years old\u231f and above until \u231efifty years old\u231f, everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:44",
"text": "the \u231eones counted\u231f, according to their clans, were three thousand two hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:45",
"text": "These were those counted of the clans of the descendants of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron mustered according to \u231ethe command\u231f of Yahweh by the hand of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:46",
"text": " All those counted of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron and all the leaders of Israel mustered according to their clans, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:47",
"text": "from \u231ethose thirty years old\u231f and above until \u231efifty years old\u231f, everyone who comes to the service to do the work of the service carrying in the tent of assembly, "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:48",
"text": "the \u231eones counted\u231f were eighty thousand five hundred and eighty. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Numbers 4:49",
"text": "According to \u231ethe command\u231f of Yahweh by the hand of Moses \u231ethey were mustered\u231f, each man according to his service and according to their service and according to their burden; and so they were counted by him just as Yahweh commanded Moses. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:2",
"text": "\u201cCommand the \u231eIsraelites\u231f: they must send everyone from the camp who is afflicted with a rash, everyone with a fluid discharge, and everyone unclean through contact with a corpse. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:3",
"text": "You will send away \u231eboth male and female\u231f; you will send them \u231eoutside the camp\u231f. They must not make unclean their camps where I am dwelling in their midst.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:4",
"text": "So the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did so. They sent them away \u231eoutside the camp\u231f; just as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:5",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:6",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f: \u2018When a man or woman \u231ecommits\u231f any of the sins of humankind by acting unfaithfully, it is a sin against Yahweh, and that person will be guilty; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:7",
"text": "they will confess their sin that they did and will make restitution for their guilt by adding a fifth \u231eto it\u231f and giving it \u231eto whomever was wronged\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:8",
"text": "But if the man does not have a redeemer to make restitution to him for the reparation, the reparation is to be given to Yahweh for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:9",
"text": "And every contribution of all the holy objects of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f that they bring to the priest for him will be his. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:10",
"text": "The holy objects of a man will be for him; whatever he gives to the priest will be for him.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:11",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:12",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and say to them, \u2018If any man\u2019s wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully to him, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:13",
"text": "and a man sleeps with her and ejaculates and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is concealed, although she is defiled, and there is no witness against her and she was not caught, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:14",
"text": "if a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife but she is not defiled, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:15",
"text": "he will bring his wife to the priest. And he will bring her offering for her, one-tenth of an ephah of flour. He will not pour oil on it, and he will not put frankincense on it because it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembering, a reminding of guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:16",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Then the priest will bring her near and present her \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:17",
"text": "the priest will take holy waters in a clay vessel, and from the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and the priest will put it into the waters. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:18",
"text": "And the priest will present the woman \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, and he will uncover the head of the woman; he will then put in her hands the grain offering of the remembering\u2014which is the grain offering of jealousy\u2014and in the hand of the priest will be the waters of bitterness that brings a curse. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:19",
"text": "Then the priest will make her swear an oath, and he will say to the woman, \u201cIf a man has not slept with you, and if you have not had an impurity affair under your husband, go unpunished from the waters of bitterness that brings this curse. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:20",
"text": "But if you have had an affair under your husband, and if you are defiled and a man other than your husband had intercourse with you,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:21",
"text": "the priest will make the woman swear an oath of the sworn oath of the curse, the priest will say to the woman, \u201cMay Yahweh give you a curse and a sworn oath in the midst of your people with Yahweh making your hip fall away and your stomach swollen; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:22",
"text": "and these waters that bring a curse will go into your intestines to cause your womb to swell and to make your hip fall away.\u201d And the women will say, \u201cAmen. Amen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:23",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And the priests will write these curses on the scroll, and he will wipe them off into the waters of the bitterness. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:24",
"text": "He will make the woman drink the waters of the bitterness that brings a curse, and the waters of bitterness that bring a curse will go into her. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:25",
"text": "The priest will take the grain offering of jealousy from the hand of the woman, and he will wave the grain offering \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f, and he will present it to the altar; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:26",
"text": "the priest will grasp her memorial offering from the grain offering, and he will turn it into smoke on the altar, and afterward he will make the woman drink the waters. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:27",
"text": "When he has made her drink the waters, it will come about, if she has defiled herself and acted unfaithfully to her husband and the waters of bitterness that bring a curse go into her and her stomach swells and her hip falls away, the woman will be as a curse in the midst of her people. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:28",
"text": "And if the woman is not defiled, and she is pure, she will go unpunished and be able to conceive children. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:29",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018This is the regulation of jealousy, when a woman has an affair under her husband and she is defiled, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:30",
"text": "or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he will present the woman \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f,and the priest will do to her all of this law. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Numbers 5:31",
"text": "The man will go unpunished from guilt, and the woman, she will bear her guilt.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and say to them, \u2018When a man or a woman takes a special vow, a vow of a \u231eNazirite\u231f, to keep separate for Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:3",
"text": "he will abstain from wine and fermented drink; he will not drink wine vinegar or vinegar of fermented drink; he will not drink the fruit juice of grapes or eat fresh or dry grapes. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:4",
"text": "All the days of his separation you will not eat from anything that is made from the grapevine, from sour grapes to the skin of grapes. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:5",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018All the days of the vow of his separation a razor will not pass over his head. Until fulfilling the days that he separated himself to Yahweh he will be holy and grow long the locks of the hair of his head. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:6",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018All the days of keeping himself separated for Yahweh he will not go to a person who is dead; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:7",
"text": "for even his father, mother, brother, or sister he will not make himself unclean \u231eby their death\u231f, because the separation to his God is on his head. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:8",
"text": "He will be holy for Yahweh all the days of his separation. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:9",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If someone dies suddenly and makes the head of his separation unclean, he will shave off the hair of his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he will shave it off. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:10",
"text": "On the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves or two \u231eyoung pigeons\u231f to the priest by the doorway of the tent of assembly, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:11",
"text": "and the priest will offer one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering, and he will make atonement for him because he sinned concerning the corpse. He will consecrate his head on that day. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:12",
"text": "He will rededicate to Yahweh the days of his separation and bring a ram-lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a guilt offering. The former days of his vow will fall away because his separation was defiled. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018This is the regulation of the Nazirite for the day of the fulfilling of the days of his separation: one will bring him to the doorway of the tent of the assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:14",
"text": "He will present his offering to Yahweh, one ram-lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f without defect as a burnt offering, and one ewe-lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f without defect as a sin offering, and one ram without defect as a fellowship offering; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:15",
"text": "and a basket of unleavened bread, finely milled flour of ring-shaped bread cakes mixed with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their libations. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:16",
"text": "The priest will present \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f and offer his sin offering, his burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:17",
"text": "he will offer a ram as a sacrifice of a fellowship offering to Yahweh, in addition to the basket of the unleavened bread; the priest will offer his grain offering and his libation. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:18",
"text": "The Nazirite will shave off the hair of \u231ehis consecrated head\u231f at the doorway of the tent of assembly, and he will take the hair of \u231ehis consecrated head\u231f, and he will put it on the fire that is beneath the sacrifice of the fellowship offering. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:19",
"text": "The priest will take the shoulder from the ram that is boiled, and one ring-shaped bread cake of unleavened bread from the basket, and one wafer of unleavened bread, and he will put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved \u231ehis consecrated head\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:20",
"text": "The priest will wave them as a wave offering \u231ebefore the presence of\u231f Yahweh; they are a holy object to the priest, in addition to the breast section of the wave offering, and in addition to the upper thigh of the contribution; and afterward the Nazirite may drink wine. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:21",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018This is the regulation of the Nazirite who has made a vow of his offering to Yahweh according to his separation, \u231ein addition to what he can afford\u231f. In accordance to the word of his vow that he vowed, he will do, concerning the instruction of his separation.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:22",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:23",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to Aaron and his sons, saying, \u2018You will bless the \u231eIsraelites\u231f: You will say to them: "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:24",
"text": " Yahweh will bless you and keep you; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:25",
"text": " Yahweh will make shine his face on you and be gracious to you; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:26",
"text": " Yahweh will lift up his face upon you, and he will give you peace.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Numbers 6:27",
"text": " And they will put my name on the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and I will bless them.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:1",
"text": " On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle and appointed and consecrated it and all its vessels, and the altar and its vessels, and he appointed them and consecrated them, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:2",
"text": "the leaders of Israel, the heads of \u231ethe families\u231f, presented an offering; they were the leaders of the tribes and were the ones in charge of the counting. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:3",
"text": "They brought their offering before the presence of Yahweh, six covered utility carts and twelve cattle, a utility cart for two of the leaders, and a bull for each; and they presented them \u231ebefore\u231f the tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:4",
"text": "Yahweh said to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:5",
"text": "\u201c\u231eTake them\u231f, and they will be used to do the work of the tent of the assembly; and you will give them to the Levites, each \u231eaccording to his required service\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:6",
"text": "So Moses took the utility carts and the cattle, and he gave them to the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:7",
"text": "Two utility carts and four cattle he gave to the descendants of Gershon \u231eaccording to their required service\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:8",
"text": "and four utility carts and eight cattle he gave to the descendants of Merari \u231eaccording to their required service\u231f, \u231eunder the authority of\u231f Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:9",
"text": "But to the descendants of Kohath he did not give anything because the work of the sanctuary they carried upon them on their shoulders. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:10",
"text": " The leaders presented offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day of its anointing, and the leaders presented their offerings \u231ebefore\u231f the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:11",
"text": "Yahweh said to Moses, \u201c\u231eOne leader for each day\u231f will present their offering for the dedication of the altar.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:12",
"text": " And it happened, the one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:13",
"text": "His offering was one plate of silver\u2014its weight was one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:14",
"text": "one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:15",
"text": "\u231eone young bull\u231f, one ram, one male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:16",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:17",
"text": "and as a sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ea year old\u231f. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:18",
"text": " On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented an offering. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:19",
"text": "He presented as his offering one silver plate\u2014its weight one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl for drinking wine weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:20",
"text": "One dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:21",
"text": "one \u231eyoung \u231f bull, one ram, a male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:22",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:23",
"text": "and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:24",
"text": " On the third day Eliab son of Helon, leader of the descendants of Zebulun: "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:25",
"text": "his offering was one silver plate\u2014its weight one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl for drinking wine weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:26",
"text": "\u231eone golden dish weighing ten shekels\u231f filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:27",
"text": "one \u231eyoung\u231f bull, one ram, a male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:28",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:29",
"text": "and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. This was the offering of Eliab son of Helon. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:30",
"text": " On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, leader of the descendants of Reuben: "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:31",
"text": "his offering was one silver plate\u2014its weight one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:32",
"text": "\u231eone golden dish weighing ten shekels\u231f filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:33",
"text": "one \u231eyoung\u231f bull, one ram, a male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:34",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:35",
"text": "and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:36",
"text": " On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, leader of the descendants of Simeon: "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:37",
"text": "his offering was one silver plate\u2014its weight one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:38",
"text": "\u231eone golden dish weighing ten shekels\u231f filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:39",
"text": "one \u231eyoung\u231f bull, one ram, a male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:40",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:41",
"text": "and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. This was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:42",
"text": " On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, leader of the descendants of Gad: "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:43",
"text": "his offering was one silver plate\u2014its weight one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:44",
"text": "\u231eone golden dish weighing ten shekels\u231f filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:45",
"text": "one \u231eyoung\u231f bull, one ram, a male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:46",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:47",
"text": "and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:48",
"text": " On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, leader of the descendants of Ephraim: "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:49",
"text": "his offering was one silver plate\u2014its weight one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:50",
"text": "\u231eone golden dish weighing ten shekels\u231f filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:51",
"text": "one \u231eyoung\u231f bull, one ram, a male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:52",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:53",
"text": "and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. This was the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:54",
"text": " On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, leader of the descendants of Manasseh: "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:55",
"text": "his offering was one silver plate\u2014its weight one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:56",
"text": "\u231eone golden dish weighing ten shekels\u231f filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:57",
"text": "one \u231eyoung\u231f bull, one ram, a male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:58",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:59",
"text": "and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. This was the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:60",
"text": " On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, leader of the descendants of Benjamin: "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:61",
"text": "his offering was one silver plate\u2014its weight one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:62",
"text": "\u231eone golden dish weighing ten shekels\u231f filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:63",
"text": "one \u231eyoung\u231f bull, one ram, a male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:64",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:65",
"text": "and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:66",
"text": " On the tenth day Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, leader of the descendants of Dan: "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:67",
"text": "his offering was one silver plate\u2014its weight one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; "
},
{
"verse": 68,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:68",
"text": "\u231eone golden dish weighing ten shekels\u231f filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 69,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:69",
"text": "one \u231eyoung\u231f bull, one ram, a male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 70,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:70",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 71,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:71",
"text": "and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. This was the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. "
},
{
"verse": 72,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:72",
"text": " On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, leader of the descendants of Asher: "
},
{
"verse": 73,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:73",
"text": "his offering was one silver plate\u2014its weight one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; "
},
{
"verse": 74,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:74",
"text": "\u231eone golden dish weighing ten shekels\u231f filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 75,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:75",
"text": "one \u231eyoung\u231f bull, one ram, a male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 76,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:76",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 77,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:77",
"text": "and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran. "
},
{
"verse": 78,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:78",
"text": " On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, leader of the descendants of Naphtali: "
},
{
"verse": 79,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:79",
"text": "his offering was one silver plate\u2014its weight one hundred and thirty shekels\u2014and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, \u231eboth of them\u231f filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; "
},
{
"verse": 80,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:80",
"text": "\u231eone golden dish weighing ten shekels\u231f filled with incense; "
},
{
"verse": 81,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:81",
"text": "one \u231eyoung\u231f bull, one ram, a male lamb \u231ein its first year\u231f as a burnt offering; "
},
{
"verse": 82,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:82",
"text": "one he-goat as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 83,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:83",
"text": "and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan. "
},
{
"verse": 84,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:84",
"text": " This was the dedication of the altar on the day of anointing it, from the leaders of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver bowls for drinking wine, twelve golden dishes; "
},
{
"verse": 85,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:85",
"text": "each plate of silver weighed one hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl for drinking seventy, all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel; "
},
{
"verse": 86,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:86",
"text": "the twelve golden dishes filled with incense, each dish weighing ten shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, all the gold of the dishes one hundred and twenty; "
},
{
"verse": 87,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:87",
"text": "all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f, and their grain offering; and twelve he-goats as a sin offering; "
},
{
"verse": 88,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:88",
"text": "and all the cattle of the sacrifice of the fellowship offering twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty he-goats, sixty male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f. These were the dedication of the altar after its anointing. "
},
{
"verse": 89,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Numbers 7:89",
"text": " And when Moses came to the tent of assembly to speak with him, he would hear the voice speaking to him from the atonement cover, which is on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, and he would speak to him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to Aaron, and say to him: \u2018When you are setting up the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the face of the lampstand.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:3",
"text": "And Aaron did so; he set up the lampstand in front of the face of its lamps, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:4",
"text": "And this is \u231ehow the lampstand was made\u231f, a hammered-work of gold; from its base up to its blossom, it was hammered-work according to the pattern that Yahweh showed Moses; so he made the lampstand. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:5",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:6",
"text": "\u201cTake the Levites from the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and purify them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:7",
"text": "So you will do to them, to purify them: sprinkle on them waters of purification, and \u231ethey will shave their whole body\u231f and wash their garments. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:8",
"text": "And they will take a \u231eyoung bull\u231f and its grain offering of finely milled flour mixed with oil, and you will take a second \u231eyoung bull\u231f as a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:9",
"text": "You will bring the Levites \u231ebefore\u231f the tent of assembly, and you will summon the entire community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:10",
"text": "And you will bring the Levites \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f will lay their hands on the Levites, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:11",
"text": "and \u231eAaron will offer\u231f the Levites as a wave offering \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and they will do the work of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:12",
"text": "And the Levites will lay their hands on the head of the one bull and offer it as a sin offering and the other one as a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:13",
"text": "And you will present the Levites \u231ebefore\u231f Aaron and \u231ebefore\u231f his sons, and he \u231ewill offer\u231f them as a wave offering to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:14",
"text": " \u201cAnd you will separate the Levites from the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and the Levites will be for me. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:15",
"text": "And after this the Levites will come to serve at the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you \u231ewill offer\u231f them as a wave offering. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:16",
"text": "For they are given to me exclusively from the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. I have taken them for myself in place of the firstborn of every womb, every firstborn from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:17",
"text": "For every firstborn among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f is mine, both humankind and animal. On the day I destroyed every firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to me, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:18",
"text": "and I have taken the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:19",
"text": "And I have given the Levites; they are given to Aaron and his sons from the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f to do the work of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f in the tent of the assembly and to make atonement for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, so a plague will not be among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f when the \u231eIsraelites\u231f come near the sanctuary.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:20",
"text": " And Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did to the Levites; everything that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did to them. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:21",
"text": "And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their garments, and \u231eAaron offered them\u231f as a wave offering \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f; and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:22",
"text": "After this the Levites came to do their work in the tent of assembly before Aaron and his sons. Just as Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levities, so they did to them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:23",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:24",
"text": "\u201cThis is what is for the Levites: \u231ethose twenty-five years old\u231f and above will come to help with the service in the work of the tent of assembly; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:25",
"text": "and \u231ethose fifty years old\u231f will return from the service of the work and will serve no longer. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Numbers 8:26",
"text": "They can attend their brothers in the tent of assembly to keep their responsibilities, but they will not do work. This is what you will do concerning the Levities and their responsibilities.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the second year after they came out from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:2",
"text": "\u201cLet the \u231eIsraelites\u231f observe the Passover at its appointed time. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:3",
"text": "On the fourteenth day of this month \u231eat twilight\u231f you will perform it at its appointed time according to all its decrees; and according to all its stipulations you will observe it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:4",
"text": "So Moses spoke to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f to observe the Passover. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:5",
"text": "And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month \u231eat twilight\u231f in the desert of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, thus the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:6",
"text": " And it happened, men who were unclean \u231eby a dead person\u231f were not able to perform the Passover on that day. And they came \u231ebefore\u231f Moses and Aaron on that day. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:7",
"text": "And those men said to him, \u201cAlthough we are unclean \u231eby a dead person\u231f, why are we hindered from presenting the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:8",
"text": "Moses said to them, \u201cStay. I will hear what Yahweh commands to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:9",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:10",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018Each man that is unclean \u231eby a dead person\u231f or is on a far journey, you or your \u231edescendants\u231f, he will observe the Passover of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:11",
"text": "On the second month on the fourteenth day \u231eat twilight\u231f they will observe it; they will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter plants. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:12",
"text": "They will leave none of it until morning, and they will not break a bone in it; they will observe it according to every decree of the Passover. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:13",
"text": "But the man who is clean and not on a journey, and he fails to observe the Passover, that person will be cut off from the people because he did not present the offering of Yahweh on its appointed time. That man will bear his guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:14",
"text": "If an alien dwells with you he will observe the Passover of Yahweh according to the decree of the Passover and according to its stipulation; thus you will have one decree for you, for the alien and for the native of the land.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:15",
"text": " And on a day setting up the tabernacle, the cloud covered the tent of the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; in the evening it was on the tabernacle as an appearance of fire until morning. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:16",
"text": "So it was continually; the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire by night. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:17",
"text": "Whenever the cloud lifted up from on the tent, after that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f would set out, and in the place where the cloud dwelled, there the \u231eIsraelites\u231f camped. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:18",
"text": "On the \u231ecommand of Yahweh\u231f the \u231eIsraelites\u231f would set out, and on the \u231ecommand of Yahweh\u231f they encamped; all the days that the cloud dwelled on the tabernacle they encamped. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:19",
"text": "And when the cloud prolonged on the tabernacle many days the \u231eIsraelites\u231f kept the kept requirement of Yahweh and did not set out. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:20",
"text": "When the cloud \u231eremained\u231f a number of days on the tabernacle, on the \u231ecommand of Yahweh\u231f they encamped; and on the \u231ecommand of Yahweh\u231f they set out. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:21",
"text": "When the cloud \u231eremained\u231f from evening until morning, and the cloud lifted up in the morning, they would set out, or if it remained in the daytime and at night, when the cloud lifted up they set out. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:22",
"text": "When it was two days, a month, \u231eor a year\u231f that the cloud prolonged to dwell on the tabernacle, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f encamped, and they did not set out; when it lifted up they set out. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Numbers 9:23",
"text": "On the \u231ecommand of Yahweh\u231f they encamped, and on the \u231ecommand of Yahweh\u231f they set out. They kept the requirement of Yahweh, on the \u231ecommand of Yahweh\u231f in the hand of Moses. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:2",
"text": "\u201cMake yourself two silver trumpets; make them of hammered-work. \u231eYou will use them\u231f for calling the community and for breaking the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:3",
"text": "You will blow them, and all the community will assemble to the doorway of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:4",
"text": "But if they blow only one, the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, will assemble to you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:5",
"text": "When you will blow a blast, the camps that are camping on the east will set out; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:6",
"text": "when you blow a second blast, the camps that are camping on the south will set out; they will blow a blast for their journeys. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:7",
"text": "But when summoning the assembly, you will blow, but you will not signal with a loud noise. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:8",
"text": "The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow on the trumpets; this will be an eternal decree for your generations. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:9",
"text": "If you go to war in your land against the enemy who attacks you, you will signal with a loud noise on the trumpets. You will be remembered \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God, and you will be rescued from your enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd on the day of your joy and in your appointed times, at the beginning of your months, you will blow on the trumpets in addition to your burnt offerings and in addition to the sacrifices of your fellowship offerings. And they will be as a memorial for you \u231ebefore\u231f your God; I am Yahweh your God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:11",
"text": " And it happened, in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month the cloud was lifted from upon the tabernacle of the testimony. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:12",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f set out for their journey from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud dwelled in the desert of Paran. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:13",
"text": "They set out \u231efor the first time\u231f on the command of Yahweh in the hand of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:14",
"text": "The standard of the camp of the descendants of Judah set out for the first time according to their divisions, with Nahshon son of Amminadab over its division. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:15",
"text": "And Nathanel son of Zuar was over the division of the descendants of Issachar; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:16",
"text": "Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Zebulun. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:17",
"text": " The tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, the bearers of the tabernacle, set out. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:18",
"text": "And the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions; Elizur son of Shedeur was over their division. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:19",
"text": "Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the sons of the tribe of Simeon. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:20",
"text": "Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Gad. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:21",
"text": " The Kohathites, the bearers of the sanctuary, set out, and they set up the tabernacle before they arrived. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:22",
"text": "And the stand of the camp of the descendants of Ephraim set out according to their divisions; Elishama son of Ammihud was over its division. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:23",
"text": "Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:24",
"text": "Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:25",
"text": " Then the standard of the camp of the descendants of Dan, who formed a rear guard for all the camps, set out according to their divisions; Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was over its division. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:26",
"text": "Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Asher. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:27",
"text": "Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Naphtali. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:28",
"text": "These were the departures of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f according to their divisions; and so they set out. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:29",
"text": " Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Moses, \u201cWe are setting out to the place that Yahweh said, \u2018I will give it to you\u2019; go with us, and we will \u231etreat you well\u231f because \u231eYahweh promised\u231f good concerning Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:30",
"text": "But he said to him, \u201cI will not go. I will only go to my land and to my family.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:31",
"text": "He said, \u201cPlease, do not abandon us because you know our encampment in the desert, and \u231eyou should be our guide\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:32",
"text": "Moreover, if you go with us, the good that Yahweh will do to us we will do to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:33",
"text": " And so they set out from the mountain of Yahweh a journey of three days, with the ark of the covenant of Yahweh setting out ahead of them three days\u2019 journey to search out a resting place for them; "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:34",
"text": "and the cloud of Yahweh was over them by day when they set out from the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:35",
"text": " And whenever the ark was setting out Moses would say, \u201cRise up, Yahweh! May your enemies be scattered; may the ones that hate you flee from your presence.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Numbers 10:36",
"text": " And when it rested he would say, \u201cReturn, Yahweh, to the countless thousands of Israel.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:1",
"text": " And it happened, the people were like those who \u231ecomplain of hardship\u231f \u231ein the hearing\u231f of Yahweh, and Yahweh \u231ebecame angry\u231f, and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and it consumed the edge of the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:2",
"text": "Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire died down. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:3",
"text": "And he called the name of that place Taberah because the fire of Yahweh burned among them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:4",
"text": " The riff-raff that were in their midst \u231ehad a strong desire\u231f; and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f turned back and also wept, and they said, \u201cWho will feed us meat? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:5",
"text": "We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumber, melon, leek, the onions, and the garlic. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:6",
"text": "But now \u231eour strength is dried up\u231f; there is nothing whatsoever except \u231efor the manna before us\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:7",
"text": " Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its outward appearance was like that of bdellium-gum. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:8",
"text": "The people went about and gathered it, and they ground it with mills or crushed it with mortar. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into bread-cakes; and it tasted like olive oil cakes. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:9",
"text": "When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna came down with it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:10",
"text": " Moses heard the people weeping according to their clans, each at the doorway of their tents. Then \u231eYahweh became very angry\u231f, and in the eyes of Moses it was bad. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:11",
"text": "And Moses said to Yahweh, \u201cWhy have you brought trouble to your servant? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that the burdens of all these people have been placed on me? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:12",
"text": "Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them, that you could say to me, \u2018Carry them in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:13",
"text": "From where do I have meat to give all these people? They weep before me, saying, \u2018Give us meat and let us eat!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:14",
"text": "I am not able to carry all these people along alone; they are too heavy for me. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:15",
"text": "If this is how you are going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:16",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cGather for me seventy men from the elders of Israel whom you know are elders of the people and their officials; take them to the tent of assembly, and they will stand there with you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:17",
"text": "I will come down and speak with you there; I will take away from the spirit that is on you, and I will place it on them; and they will bear the burdens of the people with you; you will not bear it alone. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:18",
"text": "And you will say to the people, \u2018Sanctify yourselves tomorrow, for you will eat meat because you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, \u201cWho will feed us good meat? It was good for us in Egypt.\u201d Yahweh will give to you meat, and you will eat. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:19",
"text": "You will eat, not one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:20",
"text": "\u231ebut for a whole month\u231f, until it comes out from your nose and becomes as nausea to you; because you have rejected Yahweh, who is in your midst, and you wept before \u231ehis presence\u231f, saying, \u201cWhy did we ever leave Egypt?\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:21",
"text": "But Moses said, \u201cThere are six hundred thousand on foot, among whom I am in the midst, and you yourself said, \u2018I will give meat to them, and they will eat for a whole month.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:22",
"text": "Should flocks and cattle be slaughtered for them? Should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be enough for them?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:23",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201c\u231eIs Yahweh\u2019s power limited\u231f? Now you will see if my word will happen or not.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:24",
"text": " So Moses went out, and he spoke the words of Yahweh to the people, and he gathered together seventy men from the elders of the people, and he \u231emade them stand\u231f all around the tent. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:25",
"text": "Then Yahweh went down in the cloud and spoke to him, and he took away the spirit that was on him, and he \u231eput it\u231f on the seventy elders. And as soon as the spirit was resting on them they prophesied, but they did not do it again. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:26",
"text": " But two men were left in the camp; the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the second was Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those who were written down, but they did not go out to the tent, so they prophesied in the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:27",
"text": "So a boy ran and told Moses and said, \u201cEldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:28",
"text": "And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from time of his youth, answered, \u201cMoses, my lord, stop them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:29",
"text": "But Moses said to him, \u201cAre you jealous for my sake? Would that he give all Yahweh\u2019s people prophets, that Yahweh put his spirit on them!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:30",
"text": "Then Moses and the elders of Israel were gathered to the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:31",
"text": " Then a wind set out from Yahweh, and it drove quails from the west, and he spread them out on the camp about a day\u2019s journey on one side and about a day\u2019s journey on the other, all around the camp, about two cubits on the surface of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:32",
"text": "And so the people \u231eworked\u231f all day and all night and all the next day, and they gathered the quail (the least of the ones collecting gathered ten homers). "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:33",
"text": "While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, Yahweh was angry with the people, and Yahweh struck a very great plague among the people. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:34",
"text": "And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah because they buried the people that \u231ewere greedy\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Numbers 11:35",
"text": "From Kibroth Hattaavah the people set out to Hazeroth; and they stayed in Hazeroth. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:1",
"text": " And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he took (because he took a Cushite wife); "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:2",
"text": "and they said, \u201cHas Yahweh spoken only through Moses? Has not Yahweh also spoken through us?\u201d And Yahweh heard it. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:3",
"text": "Now the man, Moses, was more humble than any other person on the face of the earth, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:4",
"text": "and Yahweh said suddenly to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, \u201cGo out, you three, to the tent of assembly.\u201d So the three of them when out. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:5",
"text": "And Yahweh went down in a column of cloud and stood at the doorway of the tent, and he called Aaron and Miriam, and the two of them went, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:6",
"text": "and he said, \u201cPlease hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak to him in a dream. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:7",
"text": " Not so with my servant Moses; in all my house he is faithful. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:8",
"text": " I will speak to him mouth to mouth, in clearness, not in riddles; and he will look at the form of Yahweh. Why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:9",
"text": " \u231eAnd Yahweh became very angry\u231f with them, and he went away. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:10",
"text": "And the cloud departed from on the tent, and behold, Miriam was infected with \u231ea skin disease\u231f white like snow; when Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was afflicted with a skin disease. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:11",
"text": "So Aaron said to Moses, \u201cPlease, my lord, please do not put on us this sin in which we were foolish and in which we have sinned. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:12",
"text": "Please do not let her be like the dead, whose flesh is half consumed when coming out from the womb of its mother.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:13",
"text": "And Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, \u201cGod, \u231eplease heal her\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:14",
"text": "But Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cIf her father had surely spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be confined for seven days to an outside place of the camp, and afterward she may be gathered.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:15",
"text": "So Miriam was confined to the outside place of the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was gathered. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Numbers 12:16",
"text": "And afterward the people set out from Hazeroth, and they encamped in the desert of Paran. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:1",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:2",
"text": "\u201cSend for yourself men, and let them explore the land of Canaan, which I am about to give to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; \u231efrom each tribe of his father send one man\u231f, everyone a leader among them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:3",
"text": "So Moses sent them from the desert of Paran on the command of Yahweh; all of the men were \u231eleaders\u231f of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:4",
"text": "And these are their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:5",
"text": "from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:6",
"text": "from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:7",
"text": "from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:8",
"text": "from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun; "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:9",
"text": "from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu; "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:10",
"text": "from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:11",
"text": "from the tribe of Joseph, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:12",
"text": "from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:13",
"text": "from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:14",
"text": "from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:15",
"text": "from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:16",
"text": "These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun Joshua. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:17",
"text": " Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan, and he said to them, \u201cGo up like this to the Negev, and go up into the hill country, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:18",
"text": "and you will see what the land is like and if the people who inhabit it are strong or weak, or whether they are few or many, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:19",
"text": "and whether the land that they are inhabiting is good or bad, and whether the cities they are inhabiting are camps or fortifications, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:20",
"text": "and whether the land is fertile or lean, and whether there are trees on it or not. You will show yourself courageous, and you will take some of the fruit of the land.\u201d It was the time of first ripe grapes. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:21",
"text": " So they went up and explored the land from the desert of Zin until Rehob, at Lebo Hamath. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:22",
"text": "They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai the descendants of the Anakites were. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:23",
"text": "And they came up to the valley of Eshcol, and they cut off a vine branch and one cluster of grapes from there; they carried it on a pole between two men, with pomegranates and figs. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:24",
"text": "That place he called the valley of Eshcol on account of the cluster of grapes that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f cut off from there. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:25",
"text": " They returned from exploring the land at the end of forty days. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:26",
"text": "And they came to Moses and Aaron and to the entire community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f in the desert of Paran at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the community, and they showed them the fruit of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:27",
"text": "And they told him, \u201cWe came to the land that you sent us, and it is flowing of milk and honey; this is its fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:28",
"text": "Yet the people who are inhabiting it are strong and the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of the Anakites there. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:29",
"text": "The Amalekites are living in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and the Amorites are living in the hill country; and the Canaanites are living at the sea and on the banks of the Jordan.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:30",
"text": " And Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, \u201cSurely, let us go up and let us take possession of it because surely we will be able to prevail over it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:31",
"text": "And the men who went up with him said, \u201cWe are not able to go up to the people because they are stronger than us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:32",
"text": "And they presented the report of the land that they explored to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u201cThe land that we went through to explore is a land that eats its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in its midst are \u231emen of great size\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Numbers 13:33",
"text": "There we saw the Nephilim (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their eyes.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:1",
"text": " Then all the community \u231elifted up their voices\u231f, and the people wept during that night. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:2",
"text": "And all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and all the community said to them, \u201cIf only we had died in the land of Egypt or in this desert! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:3",
"text": "Why did Yahweh bring us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little children will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:4",
"text": "\u231eThey said to each other\u231f, \u201cLet us appoint a leader, and we will return to Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:5",
"text": " Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces \u231ebefore\u231f the assembly of the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:6",
"text": "Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, from the explorers of the land, tore their garments. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:7",
"text": "And they said to all the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u201cThe land that we went through to explore is an \u231eexceptionally good land\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:8",
"text": "If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and he will give it to us, a land that is flowing with milk and honey. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:9",
"text": "Only do not rebel against Yahweh, and you will not fear the people of the land, because they will be our food. \u231eTheir protection\u231f has been turned from them; Yahweh is with us. You should not fear them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:10",
"text": "And all the community said to stone them with stones, but the glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of assembly among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:11",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cHow long until this people will despise me, and how long until they will not believe in me, and in all the signs that I have done in their midst? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:12",
"text": "I will strike them with disease, and I will dispossess them; I will make you into a greater and stronger nation than them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:13",
"text": " And Moses said to Yahweh, \u201cThen the Egyptians will hear that you brought up this people from their midst in your power, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:14",
"text": "and they will \u231etell it\u231f to the inhabitants of this land. They heard that you, Yahweh, are in the midst of this people, that you are seen eye to eye, and your cloud is standing over them, and in a column of cloud you go before them by day and in a column of fire at night. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:15",
"text": "But if you destroy this people \u231eall at once\u231f, the nations that will have heard your message will say, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:16",
"text": "\u2018Yahweh was unable to bring this people in the land that he swore by an oath, and he slaughtered them in the desert.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:17",
"text": "But now, please, let the power of my Lord be great, just has you spoke, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:18",
"text": " \u2018Yahweh is \u231eslow to anger\u231f and great of loyal love, \u231eforgiving\u231f sin and rebellion; but surely he leaves nothing unpunished, visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generations.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:19",
"text": " Please forgive the sin of this people according to the greatness of your loyal love, just as you \u231eforgave\u231f this people, from Egypt until now.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:20",
"text": " Yahweh said, \u201cI have forgiven them according to your word; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:21",
"text": "but as I am alive, the glory of Yahweh will fill all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:22",
"text": "But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:23",
"text": "they will not see the land that I swore by oath to their ancestors, and all those who despised me will not see it. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:24",
"text": "But my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, he remained true after me, and I will bring him into the land that \u231ehe entered\u231f, and his offspring will take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:25",
"text": "And the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; tomorrow turn and set out for the desert by way of the \u231eRed Sea\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:26",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:27",
"text": "\u201cHow long will I bear this evil community who are grumbling against me? I have heard the grumbling of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f which \u231ethey are making\u231f against me. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:28",
"text": "Say to them, \u2018Surely as I live,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018just as you spoke \u231ein my hearing\u231f, so I will do to you; "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:29",
"text": "in this desert your corpses will fall, and all your counted ones, according to all your number, from \u231etwenty years old\u231f and above who grumbled against me. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:30",
"text": "You yourselves will not come into the land that \u231eI swore by oath\u231f to make you to dwell in it, but Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:31",
"text": "But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:32",
"text": "But for you, all your corpses will fall in this desert. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:33",
"text": "And your children will be shepherds in the desert forty years, and you will bear your unfaithfulness until \u231eall your corpses have fallen\u231f in the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:34",
"text": "According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, \u231ea day for each year\u231f, you will bear your sins forty years, and you will know my opposition.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:35",
"text": "I, Yahweh, have spoken; I will surely do this to all this evil community who has banded together against me. In this desert they will come to an end, and there they will die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:36",
"text": " As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made the community grumble against him by spreading a report over the land, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:37",
"text": "the men who spread the evil report of the land died by the plague \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:38",
"text": "But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh lived from among the men who went to explore the land. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:39",
"text": " And Moses spoke words to all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and the people mourned greatly. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:40",
"text": "They rose early in the morning and went to the top of the mount, saying, \u201cHere we are. We will go up to the place that Yahweh said, because we have sinned.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:41",
"text": "But Moses said, \u201cWhy are you going against the command of Yahweh? It will not succeed. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:42",
"text": "You should not go up because Yahweh is not in your midst; do not let yourselves be defeated in the presence of your enemies, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:43",
"text": "because the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there \u231ebefore you\u231f, and you will fall by the sword; because you have turned back from Yahweh, and Yahweh will not be with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:44",
"text": "But they dared to go to the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and Moses did not depart from the midst of the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Numbers 14:45",
"text": "So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were living on the mountain descended, and they beat them down, up to Hormah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and say to them, \u2018When you come into the land of your dwellings that I am about to give to you, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:3",
"text": "you will make an offering by fire for Yahweh from the cattle or from the flock, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a freewill offering or at your feasts, to make a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:4",
"text": "And the one who presents an offering for Yahweh, he will present a grain offering of finely milled flour; a tenth will be mixed with a fourth of the liquid measure of oil; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:5",
"text": "and you will add a fourth of wine for the libation upon the burnt offering, or to the sacrifice for each ram-lamb. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:6",
"text": "Or for the ram you will make a grain offering of two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed into a third of a liquid measure of oil. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:7",
"text": "You will present a third of the liquid measure of wine for the libation, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:8",
"text": "When you prepare \u231ea bull\u231f as a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or a fellowship offering for Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:9",
"text": "you will present with \u231ethe bull\u231f a grain offering of three-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with half a liquid measure of oil, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:10",
"text": "and you will present half a liquid measure of wine as a libation, as an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:11",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018This is how it should be done for each bull, or for the each ram, or for the small four-footed mammal, or ram-lambs, or goats. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:12",
"text": "According to the number that you prepare, so should you do to each according to their number. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:13",
"text": "Every native must do these things to present an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:14",
"text": "If an alien dwells among you, or whoever is in your midst throughout your generations, and prepares an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, he should do as you do. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:15",
"text": "For the assembly, there will be one decree for you and for the alien who dwells among you; it is an eternal decree for all your generations. \u231eYou as well as the alien\u231f will be \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:16",
"text": "There will be one law and one stipulation for you and for the alien dwelling among you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:17",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:18",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and say to them, \u2018When you come into the land to which I am about to bring you, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:19",
"text": "whenever you eat from the food of the land, you will lift up a contribution to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:20",
"text": "You must lift up a contribution of the first batch of your ring-shaped dough bread; you must lift it up as a contribution of the threshing floor. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:21",
"text": "You will give to Yahweh a contribution from the first of your dough throughout your generations. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:22",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But if you go astray and you do not follow all these commandments that Yahweh commanded to Moses, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:23",
"text": "all that Yahweh commanded you by the hand of Moses from the day that Yahweh commanded and beyond, throughout your generations, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:24",
"text": "and if it was done unintentionally \u231ewithout the knowledge\u231f of the community, then the entire community must prepare one \u231eyoung bull\u231f as a burnt offering, as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, and its grain offering and its libation, according to the stipulation, and one male goat as a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:25",
"text": "The priest will make atonement for all of the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and \u231ethey will be forgiven\u231f because it was unintentional; they will bring their offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, their sin offering \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f for their unintentional sin. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:26",
"text": "All of the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f will be forgiven, as well as the alien that dwells in their midst, because the whole community was involved in the unintentional wrong. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:27",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If one person sins unintentionally, that person will present a female goat \u231ein its first year\u231f as a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:28",
"text": "And the priest will make atonement for the person who \u231esinned unintentionally\u231f \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f, to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:29",
"text": "For the native among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and the alien that dwells in their midst, there will be one law for anyone who commits an unintentional wrong. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:30",
"text": "But the one \u231ewho acts presumptuously\u231f from among the native or alien blasphemes against Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from the midst of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:31",
"text": "Because he despised the word of Yahweh and broke his command, that person will be surely cut off and bear the guilt.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:32",
"text": " When the \u231eIsraelites\u231f were in the desert, they found a man who was gathering wood on the day of the Sabbath. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:33",
"text": "The ones who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and to all the community. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:34",
"text": "And they put him under watch because it was not made clear what should be done to him. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:35",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cSurely the man must be put to death by stoning him; all the community must stone him with stones from outside the camp.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:36",
"text": "So the entire community brought him out to a place outside the camp, and \u231ethey stoned him to death\u231f just as Yahweh commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:37",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:38",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and tell them to make for themselves tassels on the hems of their garments throughout their generations and to put a blue cord on the tassel of the hem. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:39",
"text": "You will have a tassel \u231efor you to look at\u231f and remember all the commands of Yahweh and do them, and not follow \u231eafter the unfaithfulness of your own heart and eyes\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:40",
"text": "so that you will remember and do all my commandments, and you will be holy for your God. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Numbers 15:41",
"text": "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:1",
"text": " Now Korah son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, the descendants of Reuben, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:2",
"text": "took two hundred and fifty men from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, leaders of the community summoned from the assembly, \u231erenowned men\u231f, and \u231ethey confronted\u231f Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:3",
"text": "They were assembled in front of Moses and Aaron, and they said to them, \u201c\u231eYou take too much upon yourselves\u231f! All of the community is holy, every one of them, and Yahweh is in their midst, so why do you raise yourselves over the assembly of Yahweh?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:4",
"text": " When Moses heard this, he fell on his face. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:5",
"text": "And he said to Korah and to his entire company, saying, \u201cTomorrow morning Yahweh will make known who is his and who is holy, and he will bring him near to him, whomever he chooses he will bring near to him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:6",
"text": "Do this: take for yourselves censers, Korah and all of your company; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:7",
"text": "tomorrow put fire in them and place incense on them \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh; the man whom Yahweh chooses will be the holy one. You take too much upon yourselves, sons of Levi!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:8",
"text": " And Moses said to Korah, \u201cPlease listen, sons of Levi! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:9",
"text": "Is it too little for you that the God of Israel set you apart from the community of Israel \u231eto allow you to approach him\u231f to do the work of the tabernacle of Yahweh, to stand \u231ebefore\u231f the community to serve them? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:10",
"text": "\u231eHe has allowed you to approach him\u231f, you with all your brothers, the descendants of Levi, but yet you also seek the priesthood. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:11",
"text": "Therefore you and your company that has banded together against Yahweh. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:12",
"text": " Moses sent to call for Dathan and Abiram son of Eliab, but they said, \u201cWe will not come! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:13",
"text": "Is it too little that you have brought us from a land that flows with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, and that you also appoint yourself as a ruler over us? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:14",
"text": "Surely, you have not brought us to a land that flows with milk and honey, and you have not given us the inheritance of fields and a vineyard. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:15",
"text": " Then Moses became angry, and he said to Yahweh, \u201cDo not notice their grain offering. I have not offered one donkey from them, and I have not mistreated one of them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:16",
"text": "And Moses said to Korah, \u201cYou and your entire company will be \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh tomorrow, you and they and Aaron. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:17",
"text": "Each one take his censer, and put incense on it and you will present it \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, and each of you bring his censer, two hundred and fifty censers, you and Aaron, each his censer.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:18",
"text": "So each of them took his censer, and they put fire on them, and they placed incense on them; they stood at the doorway of the tent of the assembly of Moses and Aaron. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:19",
"text": "And Korah summoned them, the entire community, by the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the community. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:20",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:21",
"text": "\u201cSeparate yourselves from the midst of this community, that I can destroy them in a moment.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:22",
"text": "And they fell on their faces, and they said, \u201cGod, God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and you become angry toward the entire community?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:23",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:24",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the community, saying, \u2018Move away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:25",
"text": "So Moses stood up and went to Dathan and Abiram; the elders of Israel followed after him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:26",
"text": "He said to the community, saying, \u201cPlease turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything \u231ethat belongs to them\u231f, or you will be destroyed with all their sins.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:27",
"text": "And so they moved away from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out standing at the doorway of their tents, with their wives, sons, and little children. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:28",
"text": "And Moses said, \u201cIn this you will know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; it is not from my heart. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:29",
"text": "\u231eIf they die a natural death\u231f or \u231eif a natural fate is visited upon them\u231f, Yahweh has not sent me. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:30",
"text": "But if Yahweh creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up and \u231eall that belongs to them\u231f, and they go down alive to Sheol, and you will know that these men have despised Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:31",
"text": " And it happened, as soon as he finished \u231espeaking\u231f all these words, the ground that was under them split open. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:32",
"text": "The land opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their houses and every person \u231ethat belonged to Korah\u231f and all the property. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:33",
"text": "They went down alive to Sheol, they and all that belonged to them, and the land covered over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:34",
"text": "All Israel who were around them fled at their cry, because they said, \u201cLest the land swallow us up!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:35",
"text": "And fire went out from Yahweh, and it consumed the two hundred and fifty men presenting the incense. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:36",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:37",
"text": "\u201cSay to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, \u2018\u231eTake out\u231f the censers from among the place of burning because they are sacred, and scatter the fire outside. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:38",
"text": "The censers of these \u231ewho have sinned\u231f at the cost of their lives, let them be made into gilded leafing plating for the altar; because they presented them \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f, they are holy; and they will be a sign for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:39",
"text": "Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that the ones who were burned presented, and they hammered them out thinly as plating for the altar; "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:40",
"text": "it was a memorial for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, so that \u231eno strange man\u231f who is not from \u231ethe offspring\u231f of Aaron should approach the presence of Yahweh to burn a smoke offering; he will not be like Korah and his company, just as Yahweh had spoken to him by the hand of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:41",
"text": " The next day all the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, \u201cYou have killed the people of Yahweh!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:42",
"text": "Then, when the community had gathered against Moses and Aaron, they turned to the tent of assembly, and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:43",
"text": "And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of assembly, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:44",
"text": "and Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:45",
"text": "\u201cGet away from the midst of this community, and I will finish them in an instant,\u201d but they fell on their faces. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:46",
"text": "And Moses and Aaron said, \u201cTake the censer, and put fire on it from the altar. Place incense on it, and bring it quickly to the community, and make atonement for them, because wrath went out from the presence of Yahweh, and a plague has begun.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:47",
"text": "And so Aaron took it just as Moses had spoken, and he ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people; so he gave the incense and made atonement for the people. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:48",
"text": "He stood between the dead and between the living, and the plague was stopped. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:49",
"text": "Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on account of Korah. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Numbers 16:50",
"text": "Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the plague was stopped. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and take from among them twelve staffs, \u231ea staff from each family\u231f from among all their leaders according to their families\u2019 households. Write the name of each man on his staff, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:3",
"text": "and the name of Aaron on the staff of Levi, because one staff is for the head of each of \u231etheir families\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:4",
"text": "You must then put them in the tent of assembly \u231ebefore\u231f the testimony where I meet with you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:5",
"text": "And it will happen, the man whom I will choose, his staff will blossom, and so I will rid from upon myself the grumblings of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, who are grumbling against you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:6",
"text": "Moses spoke to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and all their leaders gave him a staff for each leader, one from \u231eeach of their families\u231f, twelve staffs, and the staff of Aaron was in the midst of their tribes. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:7",
"text": "And Moses put the staffs before Yahweh in the tent of testimony. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:8",
"text": " Then the next day, Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed and put forth a flower and produced blossoms, and it produced almonds. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:9",
"text": "Then Moses brought out to all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f all the staffs before the presence of Yahweh, and they saw, and each man took his staff. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:10",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cBring back the staff of Aaron before the testimony as a guard and sign for the children of rebellion, and let them finish their grumblings before me and not die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:11",
"text": "So Moses did; just as Yahweh commanded him, so he did. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:12",
"text": " And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f said to Moses, saying, \u201cLook! We will die! We will be destroyed! All of us will perish! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Numbers 17:13",
"text": "Anyone who approaches the tabernacle of Yahweh will die. \u231eWill we all die\u231f?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:1",
"text": " Yahweh said to Aaron, \u201cYou, your sons, and your family with you will bear the guilt of the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you will bear the guilt of your priesthood. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:2",
"text": "Moreover, bring your brothers with you, the tribe of Levi the tribe of your father, that they may be joined to you and minister to you, you and your sons with you before the tent of testimony. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:3",
"text": "They will keep your responsibility and the responsibility of all the tent, only they may not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, so both you and they will not die. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:4",
"text": "They will be joined to you, and they will keep the responsibility of the tent of assembly for the entire service of the tent; a stranger may not come near you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:5",
"text": "You will keep the responsibility of the sanctuary and the responsibility of the altar, and there will no longer be wrath on the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:6",
"text": "Look, I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from the midst of the children. They are a gift to you given from Yahweh to perform the work of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:7",
"text": "But you with your sons will keep your priesthood to perform your priestly duties for everything at the altar and for \u231ethe area behind the curtain\u231f. I give you the priesthood as a gift, but the stranger who approaches will be put to death.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:8",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Aaron, \u201cBehold, I myself have given to you the responsibility of my contributions for all the holy objects of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; I have given them as a portion to you and your sons as an eternal decree. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:9",
"text": "This will be for you from the sanctuary of the holy things from the fire; all of their offerings, from every grain offering, from every sin offering, and from every guilt offering which they will bring to me is \u231ea most holy thing\u231f for you and your sons. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:10",
"text": "You will eat it in the most holy place; every male will eat it. It will be a holy object to you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:11",
"text": "This is also for you: the contribution of their gift of the wave offerings of the children Israel. I have given them to you and your sons and your daughters with you as an eternal decree; whoever is clean in your house may eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:12",
"text": "All the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and their best grain that they have given to Yahweh, I have given them to you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:13",
"text": "The firstfruits of all that is in their land that they present to Yahweh will be for you; whoever is clean in your house may eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:14",
"text": "All consecrated possessions in Israel will be for you. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:15",
"text": "All the first offspring of a womb of any creature that they offer to Yahweh, whether human or animal, will be yours; you will surely redeem the firstborn of the human and the unclean firstborn of the animal. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:16",
"text": "As to their price of redemption, from \u231ea one-month-old\u231f you will redeem them according to your proper value, five shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:17",
"text": "Only the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat you will not redeem; they are holy. Their blood you will sprinkle over the altar, and their fat you will turn into smoke as an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:18",
"text": "But their flesh will be for you like the breast section of the wave offering, and it will be for you like the right upper thigh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:19",
"text": "All the contributions of holiness that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f offer to Yahweh I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you as an eternal decree; it is an eternal covenant of salt \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh to you and your offspring with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:20",
"text": "Then Yahweh said to Aaron, \u201cYou will not receive an inheritance in their land, and there will not be a plot of ground for you in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:21",
"text": " \u201cBehold, I have given to the descendants of Levi every tithe in Israel as an inheritance in return for their service, which they are doing, the work of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:22",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f will not come near again to the tent of assembly, or \u231ethey will bear sin\u231f and die. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:23",
"text": "The Levites will perform the service of the tent of assembly, and they will bear their guilt, an eternal decree for all your generations. But they will not receive an inheritance in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:24",
"text": "because the tithes of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f that are \u231eoffered\u231f to Yahweh as a contribution, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I said to them, \u2018They will not receive an inheritance in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:25",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:26",
"text": "\u201cYou will speak to the Levites and say to them, \u2018When you receive the tithe from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f that I have given to you from them for your inheritance, \u231eyou will present\u231f a contribution from it to Yahweh, a tithe from a tithe. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:27",
"text": "Your contribution will be credited to you like the grain from the threshing floor and like the produce from the press. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:28",
"text": "So \u231eyou will present\u231f your own contribution to Yahweh from all your tithes that you receive from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; from it you will give the contribution of Yahweh to Aaron the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:29",
"text": "From all your gifts \u231eyou will present\u231f every contribution of Yahweh, from all its fat, the part that is sacred.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:30",
"text": "You will say to them, \u2018When \u231eyou are presenting\u231f its fat, the rest will be credited to the Levites like a yield of the threshing floor and like a yield from the press. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:31",
"text": "You may eat it anywhere, you and your household, because it is a wage in return for your service in the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Numbers 18:32",
"text": "You will not bear any sin because \u231eyou have presented\u231f its fat; you will not defile the holy objects of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, or you will die.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:1",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:2",
"text": "\u201cThis is the decree of the law that Yahweh has commanded, saying, \u2018Speak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and let them take to you a red heifer without a physical defect, on which a yoke \u231ehas not been placed\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:3",
"text": "And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be brought out to a place outside the camp, and it will be slaughtered in his presence. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:4",
"text": "Then Eleazar the priest will take some of its blood on his finger and spatter it toward the mouth of the tent of assembly seven times. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:5",
"text": "The heifer will be burned in his sight; its skin, its meat, and its blood, in addition to its offal, will burn. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:6",
"text": "The priest will take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson thread, and he will throw them in the midst of \u231ethe burning heifer\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:7",
"text": "The priest will wash his garments and his body in the water, and afterward he will come to the camp; the priest will be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:8",
"text": "The one who burns it will wash his garments and his body in water; he will be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:9",
"text": "A clean man will gather the ashes of the heifer, and he will put them in a clean \u231eplace outside the camp\u231f; it will be for the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f as a requirement for waters of impurity; it is a purification offering. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:10",
"text": "The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his garments; he will be unclean until evening. It will be an eternal decree for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and for one who dwells as an alien in their midst. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:11",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018The one who touches a corpse of \u231eany person\u231f will be unclean for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:12",
"text": "He will purify himself on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be clean. If he does not purify himself on the third day, he will not be clean on the seventh day. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:13",
"text": "Anyone who touches a corpse, the person of a human being who died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh, and that person will be cut off from Israel because the waters of impurity were not sprinkled on him. He will still be unclean, and uncleanness is on him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:14",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018This is the law of a person who dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be unclean seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:15",
"text": "Every container that is opened that does not have a lid cord on it is unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:16",
"text": "Anyone \u231ein the open field\u231f who touches \u231eone who has been slain\u231f, or a corpse, or a bone of a person, or a burial site, he will be unclean for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:17",
"text": "For the unclean person they will take from the powder of the \u231eburnt purification offering\u231f, and they will put running water into a container. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:18",
"text": "A clean person will take hyssop and dip it into the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the objects and persons who were there, and on one who touched the bone, or the one slain, or the dead, or the burial site. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:19",
"text": "The clean person will spatter the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he will purify him, and he will wash his garments; he will bathe in the waters, and in the evening he will be clean. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:20",
"text": "But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from the midst of the assembly because he defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh; the water of impurity was not sprinkled on him; he is unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:21",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018It will be an eternal decree for them. The one who spatters the waters of impurity will wash his garments, and the one who touches the waters of impurity will be unclean until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Numbers 19:22",
"text": "Anything that the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until the evening.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:1",
"text": " Then the entire community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f came to the desert of Zin on the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; Miriam died and was buried there. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:2",
"text": " There was no water for the community, and they were gathered before Moses and Aaron. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:3",
"text": "And the people quarreled with Moses and spoke, saying, \u201cIf only we died when our brothers were dying \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:4",
"text": "Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh, us and our livestock, into this desert to die here? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:5",
"text": "Why have you brought us from Egypt to bring us to this bad place? It is not a place of seed or figs or vines or pomegranate trees, and there is not water to drink.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:6",
"text": "And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of assembly. They fell on their faces, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:7",
"text": "Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:8",
"text": "\u201cTake the staff and summon the community, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will give water. Bring out for them water from the rock, and let the community and their livestock drink.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:9",
"text": " So Moses took the staff from \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh just as he command him, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:10",
"text": "and Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly to the presence of the rock, and he said to them, \u201cPlease listen, you rebels; can we bring out water for you from this rock?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:11",
"text": "Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice. And abundant water went out, and the community and their livestock drank. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:12",
"text": "But Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, \u201cBecause you have not trusted in me, to regard me as holy \u231ein the sight of\u231f the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given to them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:13",
"text": "Those were the waters of Meribah, where the \u231eIsraelites\u231f quarreled with Yahweh, and he showed himself holy among them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:14",
"text": " From Kadesh Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom: \u201cThus your brother Israel has said, \u2018You know all the hardship that has found us; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:15",
"text": "our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt \u231ea long time\u231f, and the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:16",
"text": "Then we cried to Yahweh, and he heard our voice; he sent an angel and brought us out from Egypt. And look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:17",
"text": "Please let us go through your land. We will not go through a field or vineyard, and we will not drink water from a well. We will go along the road of the king; we will not turn aside right or left until we have gone through your territory.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:18",
"text": " Then Edom said to him, \u201cYou will not pass through us lest \u231ewe will go out\u231f to meet you with the sword.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:19",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f said to him, \u201cWe will go up on the main road, and if we and our livestock drink your water, we will pay for it. It is only a small matter; let us pass through on our feet.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:20",
"text": "But he said, \u201cYou will not go through.\u201d And Edom went out to meet \u231ethem\u231f with a large army and a strong hand. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:21",
"text": "So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, and Israel turned aside from him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:22",
"text": " And they set out from Kadesh. The \u231eIsraelites\u231f, the whole community, came to Mount Hor. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:23",
"text": "Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron on Mount Hor, on the boundary of the land of Edom, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:24",
"text": "\u201cLet Aaron be gathered to his people; he will not come into the land that I have given to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f because you rebelled against \u231emy word\u231f at the waters of Meribah. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:25",
"text": "Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and take them up Mount Hor. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:26",
"text": "Strip off Aaron\u2019s garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; Aaron will be gathered to his people, and he will die there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:27",
"text": "So Moses did just as Yahweh commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor before the eyes of all the community. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:28",
"text": "And Moses stripped off Aaron\u2019s garments and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain; and Moses and Eleazar went down from the mountain. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Numbers 20:29",
"text": "All the community saw that Aaron died; so all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:1",
"text": " The Canaanite king of Arad, who was dwelling in the Negev, heard that Israel came along the way of Atharim; he fought against Israel and took some of them captive. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:2",
"text": "Israel made a vow to Yahweh, and they said, \u201cIf you will surely give this people into our hand, then we \u231ewill destroy\u231f their cities.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:3",
"text": "Yahweh heard the voice of Israel; he gave to them the Canaanites, and \u231ethey destroyed them\u231f and their cities. They called the name of the place Hormah. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:4",
"text": " They set out from Mount Hor by the way of the \u231eRed Sea\u231f to go around the land of Edom; but \u231ethe people became impatient\u231f along the way. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:5",
"text": "The people spoke against God and against Moses, \u201cWhy have you brought us from Egypt to die in the desert? There is no food and no water, and our hearts detest this miserable food.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:6",
"text": " And Yahweh sent among the people poisonous snakes; they bit the people, and many people from Israel died. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:7",
"text": "The people came to Moses and said, \u201cWe have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and let him remove the snakes from among us.\u201d So Moses prayed for the people. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:8",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cMake for yourself a snake and place it on a pole. When anyone is bitten and looks at it, that person will live.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:9",
"text": "So Moses made a snake of bronze, and he placed it on the pole; whenever a snake bit someone, and that person looked at the snake of bronze, he lived. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:10",
"text": " The \u231eIsraelites\u231f set out and encamped at Oboth. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:11",
"text": "They set out from Oboth and encamped at Iye Abarim in the desert, which was in front of Moab \u231etoward the sunrise\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:12",
"text": "From there they set out and encamped at the valley of Zered. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:13",
"text": "From there they set out and encamped beyond Arnon, which is in the desert that goes out from the boundary of the Amorites, because Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:14",
"text": "Therefore thus it is said in the scroll of the Wars of Yahweh, \u201cWaheb in Suphah, and the wadis of Arnon, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:15",
"text": " and the slope of the wadis that spreads out to the dwelling of Ar and lies at the boundary of Moab.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:16",
"text": " From there they went to Beer, which is the water well where Yahweh spoke to Moses, \u201cGather the people, that I may give them water.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:17",
"text": "Then Israel sang this song, \u201cArise, well water! Sing to it! "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:18",
"text": "Well water that the princes dug, that the leaders of the people dug, with a staff and with their rods.\u201d And from the desert they continued to Mattanah, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:19",
"text": "and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:20",
"text": "and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the territory of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the surface of the wasteland. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:21",
"text": " Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:22",
"text": "\u201cLet us go through your land; we will not turn aside into a field or vineyard; we will not drink well water along the way of the king until we have gone through your territory.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:23",
"text": "But Sihon did not allow Israel to go through his territory. Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel; he came to the desert, to Jahaz, and he fought against Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:24",
"text": "But Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and they took possession of his land from Arnon to Jabbok, until the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, because the boundary of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f was strong. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:25",
"text": "Israel took all these cities, and Israel inhabited all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its environs. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:26",
"text": "Because Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land from his hand until Arnon. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:27",
"text": "Thus the ones who quote proverbs say, \u201cCome to Heshbon! Let it be built! And let the city of Sihon be established. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:28",
"text": " Because fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:29",
"text": " Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh. He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to the king of the Amorites, Sihon. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:30",
"text": " We destroyed them; Heshbon has perished up to Dibon; we laid waste up to Nophah, which \u231ereaches\u231f Medeba.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:31",
"text": " Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:32",
"text": "Moses sent to explore Jaazer; they captured \u231eits environs\u231f and dispossessed the Amorites who were there. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:33",
"text": " Then they turned and went up by the way of the Bashan, and Og king of the Bashan and all his people went out to meet them for battle at Edrei. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:34",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cDo not fear him because I will give him and all his people and all his land into your hand. You will do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who was living in Heshbon.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Numbers 21:35",
"text": "And so they destroyed him and his sons, and all his people until they had not spared a survivor; and they took possession of his land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:1",
"text": " The \u231eIsraelites\u231f set out, and they encamped on the desert-plateau of Moab, across from Jericho beyond the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:2",
"text": "Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel did to the Amorites, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:3",
"text": "and Moab was very terrified in the presence of the people because \u231ethey\u231f were numerous; and Moab dreaded the presence of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:4",
"text": "And Moab said to the elders of Midian, \u201cNow the crowd will lick up all around us, like a bull devours the grass of the field.\u201d And Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:5",
"text": "He sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the river, in the land of the children of his people, to summon him, saying, \u201cLook! A people went out from Egypt. Look! They cover \u231ethe surface of the land\u231f; they are about to dwell opposite me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:6",
"text": "Now, please go, curse this people for me because they are stronger than me; perhaps I will be able to strike them and drive them out from the land because I know whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you cursed is cursed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:7",
"text": " So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian went with a fee for divination in their hand; they came to Balaam and spoke the words of Balak to him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:8",
"text": "He said to them, \u201cSpend the night here, and I will return, and I will return word to you, just as Yahweh speaks to me.\u201d So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:9",
"text": "And God came to Balaam and said, \u201cWho are these men with you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:10",
"text": "And Balaam said to God, \u201cBalak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent word to me, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:11",
"text": "\u2018Look! A people went out from Egypt. Look! They cover \u231ethe surface of the land\u231f. Now, go, curse them for me. Perhaps I will be able to attack them and drive them out.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:12",
"text": "God said to Balaam, \u201cYou will not go with them; you will not curse the people, because they are blessed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:13",
"text": "Balaam got up in the morning, and he said to the princes of Balak, \u201cGo to your land, because Yahweh refused to allow me to go with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:14",
"text": "The princes of Moab got up and went to Balak, and they said, \u201cBalaam refused to come with us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:15",
"text": " Balak again sent many princes, who were more honored \u231ethan the former\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:16",
"text": "They came to Balaam and said to him, \u201cThus says Balak son of Zippor, \u2018Please, let nothing keep you from coming to me "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:17",
"text": "because I will surely honor you greatly, and all that you say to me I will do. Please, come; curse this people for me.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:18",
"text": "Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, \u201cEven though Balak gives to me his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond \u231ethe command of Yahweh\u231f my God to do a little or a lot. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:19",
"text": "And now please, \u231eyou also stay here\u231f the night, and \u231elet me find out\u231f again what Yahweh will say with me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:20",
"text": "And God came to Balaam at night, and he said to him, \u201cIf the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but only the word that I will speak to you, you will do.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:21",
"text": "So Balaam got up in the morning and saddled his donkey, and he went with the princes of Moab. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:22",
"text": " But \u231eGod became angry\u231f because he was going, and the angel of Yahweh stood in the road as an adversary to him; he was riding on his donkey, and two servants were with him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:23",
"text": "The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, and the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back to the road. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:24",
"text": "The angel of Yahweh stood in the narrow path of the vineyards, with \u231ea wall on either side\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:25",
"text": "When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she pressed herself into the wall, and she pressed the foot of Balaam into the wall, so he struck her again. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:26",
"text": "Then the angel of Yahweh went further ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was not a way to turn aside to the right or left. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:27",
"text": "When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she lay down under Balaam, so \u231eBalaam became angry\u231f, and he struck the donkey with his staff. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:28",
"text": "Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, \u201cWhat did I do to you that you struck me these three times?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:29",
"text": "Balaam said to the donkey, \u201cBecause you made a mockery of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:30",
"text": "The donkey said to Balaam, \u201cAm I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life until this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?\u201d He said, \u201cNo.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:31",
"text": " Then Yahweh exposed the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, and he bowed down and worshiped to his face. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:32",
"text": "The angel of Yahweh said to him, \u201cWhy have you struck this donkey three times? Look, I have come out as an adversary because your conduct is perverse before me. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:33",
"text": "The donkey saw me and turned aside from me these three times. If she had not turned aside from my face, then I would have killed you and kept her alive.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:34",
"text": "Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, \u201cI have sinned because I did not know that you were standing to meet me in the road. Now, \u231eif it is displeasing to you\u231f, I will turn back.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:35",
"text": "The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, \u201cGo with the men, but speak only the word that I will speak to you.\u201d So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:36",
"text": " When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him by the city of Moab, which was on the boundary of Aaron at the end of the territory. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:37",
"text": "And Balak said to Balaam, \u201cDid I not urgently send to meet with you? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to honor you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:38",
"text": "Balaam said to Balak, \u201cLook, I came to you now. Am I really able to speak anything at all? I speak the word that God puts in my mouth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:39",
"text": "Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-Huzoth. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:40",
"text": "And Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and he sent them to Balaam and to the princes who were with him. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Numbers 22:41",
"text": "And it happened, in the morning Balak took Balaam and took him up to Bamoth-Baal, and he saw from there the end of the nation. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:1",
"text": " Balaam said to Balak, \u201cBuild for me this: seven altars. And prepare for me this: seven bulls and seven rams.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:2",
"text": "And Balak did just as Balaam spoke, and Balak offered Balaam a bull and a ram on the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:3",
"text": "And Balaam said to Balak, \u201cStation yourself at your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell to you.\u201d So he went to a barren height. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:4",
"text": " And God met with Balaam, and he said to him, \u201cI have arranged seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on the altar.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:5",
"text": "Yahweh put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, \u201cReturn to Balak, and you must speak thus.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:6",
"text": "So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:7",
"text": "And he lifted up his oracle and said, \u201cFrom Aram Balak lead me, from the mountains of the east the king of Moab, \u2018Go for me, curse Jacob, and go, denounce Israel.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:8",
"text": " How can I curse whom God has not cursed, and how can I denounce whom Yahweh has not denounced? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:9",
"text": " Because from the top of the rocks I see him, from hilltops I watch him. Behold, a people who dwell alone, they do not consider themselves among the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:10",
"text": " Who can count the dust of Jacob, or as a number the fourth part of Israel? Let my life die the death of an upright person, and let my end be like his!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:11",
"text": " And Balak said to Balaam, \u201cWhat have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have surely blessed them!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:12",
"text": "He answered and said, \u201c\u231eShould I not speak\u231f what Yahweh puts in my mouth?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:13",
"text": " Then Balak said, \u201cPlease walk with me to another place where you will see them, but you will only see part of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:14",
"text": "So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:15",
"text": "Balaam said to Balak, \u201cStation yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with Yahweh there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:16",
"text": "Then Yahweh met with Balaam, and he put a word in his mouth, and he said, \u201cReturn to Balak, and you must speak thus.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:17",
"text": "He came to him, and behold, he was standing at his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, \u201cWhat has Yahweh spoken?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:18",
"text": "Then \u231ehe uttered\u231f his oracle, and said, \u201cStand up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:19",
"text": " God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of humankind, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:20",
"text": " Behold, I have received a command to bless; when he has blessed, I cannot cause it to return. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:21",
"text": " He has no regard for evil in Jacob, and he does not see trouble in Israel; Yahweh his God is with him, and a shout of a king is among them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:22",
"text": " God, who brings them out from Egypt, is like the strength of a wild ox for them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:23",
"text": " Because there is no sorcery against Jacob, and there is no divination against Israel. Now it will be said to Jacob and Israel, what God has done! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:24",
"text": " Look! the people will rise like the lion; he raises himself and will not lie down until he eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:25",
"text": " Then Balak said to Balaam, \u201cDo not curse them at all, nor bless them at all!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:26",
"text": "But Balaam answered and said to Balak, \u201cDid I not speak to you, saying, \u2018Whatever Yahweh speaks I will do\u2019?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:27",
"text": " Then Balak said to Balaam, \u201cPlease, come, I will take you to another place; perhaps \u231eit will be acceptable to\u231f God, and you will curse for me from there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:28",
"text": "So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks down on the face of the Jeshimon. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:29",
"text": "And Balaam said to Balak, \u201cBuild for me these seven altars, and prepare for me these seven bulls and seven rams.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Numbers 23:30",
"text": "Balak did just as Balaam said, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:1",
"text": " And Balaam saw that \u231eit pleased\u231f Yahweh to bless Israel, and he did not go \u231eas other times\u231f \u231eto seek out\u231f sorcery; instead, he set his face toward the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:2",
"text": "Balaam lift up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to its tribes, and the spirit of God was upon it. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:3",
"text": "He \u231euttered\u231f his oracle and said, \u201cThe declaration of Balaam son Beor, the declaration of the man whose eyes are closed, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:4",
"text": " the declaration of the hearer of God\u2019s words, who sees the revelation of Shaddai, falling down but whose eyes are uncovered. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:5",
"text": " How good are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:6",
"text": " They are spread out like valleys, like gardens on a river, like aloes planted by Yahweh, like cedars at the waters. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:7",
"text": " He will pour water from his buckets, and his offspring will be like many waters; his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:8",
"text": " God, who brings him out from Egypt, is like the strength of a wild ox for him. He will devour the nations who are his enemies; he will break their bones; he will pierce them with his arrows. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:9",
"text": " He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness, who will rouse him? They who bless you will be blessed, and they who curse you will be cursed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:10",
"text": " Then \u231eBalak became angry with\u231f Balaam, and he clapped his hands and said to Balaam, \u201cI called you to curse my enemies, but look, you have surely blessed them these three times. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:11",
"text": "\u231eFlee\u231f to your place now. I said I would richly honor you, but look, Yahweh has withheld honor from you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:12",
"text": "Balaam said to Balak, \u201cDid I not speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:13",
"text": "\u2018If Balak gave to me the fullness of his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond \u231ethe command of Yahweh\u231f to do good or evil, from my heart; what Yahweh speaks, I will speak\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:14",
"text": "And now, look, I am about to go to my people; I will advise you what this people will do to your people \u231ein the following days\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:15",
"text": " And he \u231euttered\u231f his oracle and said, \u201cThe declaration of Balaam son of Beor, and the declaration of the man whose eye is closed, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:16",
"text": " the declaration of the hearer of God\u2019s words, and the knower of the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of Shaddai, who is falling, and his eyes are revealed. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:17",
"text": " I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near; a star will go out from Jacob, and a scepter will rise from Israel; it will crush the foreheads of Moab and destroy all the children of Seth. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:18",
"text": " Edom will be a captive; Seir, its enemies, will be a captive, and Israel will be acting \u231ecourageously\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:19",
"text": " Someone from Jacob will rule and will destroy a remnant from the city.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:20",
"text": " And he looked at Amalek, \u231euttered\u231f his oracle, and said, \u201cAmalek is first of the nations, but his future will be forever ruin.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:21",
"text": " And he looked at the Kenites, \u231euttered\u231f his oracle, and said, \u201cSteady is your dwelling place; in the rock is your nest. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:22",
"text": " Nevertheless, the Kenite will be burned; how long will Asshur keep you captive?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:23",
"text": " Again he \u231euttered\u231f his oracle and said, \u201cWoe, who will live when God establishes this? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:24",
"text": " The ships will come from the hand of the Kittim, and they will afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber; also he will be forever ruin.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Numbers 24:25",
"text": " Then Balaam got up and went and returned to his place, and Balak also went on his way. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:1",
"text": " When Israel dwelled in Shittim, the people began to prostitute themselves with the daughters of Moab. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:2",
"text": "And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and worshiped their gods. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:3",
"text": "So Israel was joined together to Baal Peor, and \u231eYahweh became angry\u231f with Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:4",
"text": "Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cTake all \u231ethe leaders\u231f of the people and kill them before the sun, so the fierce anger of Yahweh will turn from Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:5",
"text": "So Moses said to the judges of Israel, \u201cEach of you kill his men who are joined together with Baal Peor.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:6",
"text": " And behold, a man from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of all of the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:7",
"text": "When Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest saw, he got up from the midst of the community and took a spear in his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:8",
"text": "He went after the man of Israel into the woman\u2019s section of the tent, and he drove the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, into her belly. And the plague among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f stopped. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:9",
"text": "The ones who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:10",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:11",
"text": "\u201cPhinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, turned away my anger from among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f when he was jealous with my jealousy in their midst, and I did not destroy the \u231eIsraelites\u231f with my jealousy. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:12",
"text": "Therefore say, \u2018Behold, I am giving to him my covenant of peace, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:13",
"text": "and it will be for him and his \u231eoffspring\u231f after him a covenant of an eternal priesthood because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:14",
"text": " The name of the man of Israel who was struck with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of \u231ethe family\u231f of the Simeonites. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:15",
"text": "The name of the Midianite woman who was struck was Cozbi daughter of Zur, \u231ea leader\u231f of a tribe of \u231ethe family\u231f in Midian. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:16",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:17",
"text": "\u201cAttack the Midianites and strike them "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Numbers 25:18",
"text": "because they were attacking you with their deception, with which they have deceived you on the matter of Peor and on the matter of Cozbi the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was struck on the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:1",
"text": " And it happened after the plague,Yahweh said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:2",
"text": "\u201c\u231eTake a census\u231f of the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, according to \u231etheir families\u231f, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:3",
"text": "So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:4",
"text": "\u201cTake a census of the community from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.\u201d The Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt were: "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:5",
"text": " Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, the descendants of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:6",
"text": "of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the clan of the Carmites. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:7",
"text": "These are the clans of the Reubenites, and the ones counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:8",
"text": "The children of Pallu: Eliab. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:9",
"text": "The children of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who were appointed of the community, who rebelled against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they rebelled against Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:10",
"text": "and the land opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when that company died, when the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they were a sign. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:11",
"text": "The children of Korah, however, did not die. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:12",
"text": " The descendants of Simeon, according to their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites; of Jakin, the clan of the Jakinites; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:13",
"text": "of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the clan of the Shaulites. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:14",
"text": "These were the clans of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:15",
"text": " The descendants of Gad according to their clans: of Zephon, the clan of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the clan of the Haggites; of Shuni, the clan of the Shunites; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:16",
"text": "of Ozni, the clan of the Oznites; of Eri, the clan of the Erites; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:17",
"text": "of Arod, the clan of the Arodites; of Areli, the clan of the Arelites; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:18",
"text": "These were the clans of the descendants of Gad according to the ones counted of them, forty thousand five hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:19",
"text": " The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:20",
"text": "The descendants of Judah according to their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:21",
"text": "The children of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:22",
"text": "These were the clans of Judah according to the ones counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:23",
"text": " The descendants of Issachar according to their clans: of Tola, the clan of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the clan of the Punites; "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:24",
"text": "of Jashub, the clans of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the clan of the Shimronites. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:25",
"text": "These were the clans of Issachar according to the ones counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:26",
"text": " The descendants of Zebulun according to their clans: of Sered, the clan of the Seredites; of Elon, the clan of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the clan of the Jahleelites. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:27",
"text": "These were the clans of the Zebulunites according to the ones counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:28",
"text": " The descendants of Joseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:29",
"text": "The descendants of Manasseh: of Makir, the clan of the Makirites. And Makir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:30",
"text": "These were the descendants of Gilead: of Iezer, the clan of the Iezerites; of Helek, the clan of the Helekites; "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:31",
"text": "and of Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites; "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:32",
"text": "and of Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:33",
"text": "Zelophehad son of Hepher did not have sons, but only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:34",
"text": "These were the clans of Manasseh, and the ones counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:35",
"text": " These were the descendants of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites; of Beker, the clan of the Bekerites; of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:36",
"text": "And these were the descendants of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:37",
"text": "These were the clans of the descendants of Ephraim according to the ones counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These were the descendants of Joseph according to their clans. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:38",
"text": " The descendants of Benjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites; "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:39",
"text": "of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the clan of the Huphamites. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:40",
"text": "The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites; of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:41",
"text": "These were the descendants of Benjamin according to their clans. And the ones counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:42",
"text": " These were the descendants of Dan according to their clans: of Shuham, the clan of the Shuhamites. These were the clans of Dan according to their clans. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:43",
"text": "All the clans of the Shuhamites, according to the ones counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:44",
"text": " The descendants of Asher according to their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Imnahites; of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the clan of the Beriahites. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:45",
"text": "The descendants of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites; of Malkiel, the clan of the Malkielites. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:46",
"text": "The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:47",
"text": "These were the clans of the descendants of Asher according to the ones counted of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:48",
"text": " The descendants of Naphtali according to their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the clan of the Gunites; "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:49",
"text": "of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:50",
"text": "These were the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, the ones counted of them, forty-five thousand four hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:51",
"text": " These were the ones counted of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:52",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:53",
"text": "\u201cFor these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of names. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:54",
"text": "For the larger group you must increase their inheritance, and for the smaller group you must make smaller their inheritance; each must be given \u231etheir\u231f inheritance according to the number of the ones counted of them. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:55",
"text": "Surely the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:56",
"text": "\u231eTheir\u231f inheritance must be divided according to the lot between the larger and smaller groups.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:57",
"text": " These are the ones counted of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:58",
"text": "These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites, the clan of the Hebronites, the clan of the Mahlites, the clan of the Mushites, the clan of the Korahites. Kohath fathered Amram. "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:59",
"text": "The name of the wife of Amram was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whose mother bore her for Levi in Egypt; she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:60",
"text": "To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:61",
"text": "But Nadab and Abihu died when they presented strange fire \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:62",
"text": "The ones counted were twenty-three thousand, every male from \u231ea month old\u231f and above, because they were not counted in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f since no inheritance was given to them in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:63",
"text": " These were the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the \u231eIsraelites\u231f on the desert-plateau of Moab on the Jordan across Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:64",
"text": "And among these there was not a man of those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the \u231eIsraelites\u231f in the desert of Sinai. "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Numbers 26:65",
"text": "For Yahweh said to them, \u201cThey will surely die in the desert.\u201d And not a man was left over from them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:1",
"text": " Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clan of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near; and these were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, and Tirzah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:2",
"text": "They stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the leaders of the entire community at the doorway of the tent of assembly, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:3",
"text": "\u201cOur father died in the desert; he was not in the midst of the company of those who banded together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:4",
"text": "Why should the name of our father disappear from the midst of his clan because he does not have a son? Give us property in the midst of the brothers of our father.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:5",
"text": "So Moses brought their case before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:6",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:7",
"text": "\u201c\u231eThe statements of the daughters of Zelophehad are right\u231f. You must surely give them the property of an inheritance in the midst of their father\u2019s brothers, and you must transfer the inheritance of their father to them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:8",
"text": "And you must speak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018If a man dies and has no son, you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:9",
"text": "And if he has no daughter, you must give his inheritance to his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:10",
"text": "If he has no brothers, then you must give his inheritance to his father\u2019s brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:11",
"text": "If his father has no brothers, then you must give his inheritance to his nearest relative from his own clan, and he will take possession of it. It will be as a decree of stipulation for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:12",
"text": " Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cGo up to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land that I have given to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:13",
"text": "When you see it, you will be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother was gathered, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:14",
"text": "because you rebelled against my word in the desert of Zin when the community quarreled regarding my holiness at the waters.\u201d (These are the waters of Meribah-Kadesh in the desert of Zin.) "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:15",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:16",
"text": "\u201cLet Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:17",
"text": "who will go out before them and will come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so the community of Yahweh will not be like a flock that does not have a shepherd.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:18",
"text": "Then Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cTake Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and place your hand on him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:19",
"text": "Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and before the entire community, and \u231ecommission him\u231f \u231ein their sight\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:20",
"text": "You will give to him from your authority so that the entire community of Israel will \u231eobey him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:21",
"text": "He will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will ask for him by the decision of the Urim before Yahweh. On \u231ehis command\u231f they will go out, and at \u231ehis command\u231f they will come in, both he and all of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f with him, the entire community.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:22",
"text": "Moses did just as Yahweh commanded him, and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before the entire community. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Numbers 27:23",
"text": "And he placed his hands on him and \u231ecommissioned him\u231f just as Yahweh spoke by the hand of Moses. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:2",
"text": "\u201cCommand the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and say to them, \u2018\u231eYou will be careful to present\u231f my offering, my food of my offerings made by fire, of a fragrance of appeasement to me, at its appointed time.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:3",
"text": "You will say to them, \u2018This is the offering made by fire that you will offer to Yahweh: two male lambs without defect \u231ein their first year\u231f as a continual burnt offering each day. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:4",
"text": "You will offer one male lamb in the morning, and the second male lamb you will offer \u231eat twilight\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:5",
"text": "and a tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour as a grain offering, mixed with a fourth of a measure of beaten oil. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:6",
"text": "It is a continual burnt offering that was \u231eordained\u231f on Mount Sinai as a fragrance of appeasement, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:7",
"text": "The libation with it will be a fourth of a liquid measure for each male lamb; in the sanctuary you will pour out the libation of fermented drink for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:8",
"text": "And the second male lamb you will offer \u231eat twilight\u231f; as the grain offering of the morning and as its libation you will offer it, an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:9",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018On the day of the Sabbath, two male lambs without defect \u231ein their first year\u231f, and two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering and its libation. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:10",
"text": "This is the burnt offering every Sabbath in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:11",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And at the beginning of each of your months, you will present a burnt offering for Yahweh: two bulls and one ram, seven male lambs without defect \u231ein their first year\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:12",
"text": "and three-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, for each bull; and two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering for the one ram; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:13",
"text": "and a tenth of finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each male lamb, for a burnt offering of a fragrance of appeasement, an offering of fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:14",
"text": "Their libations will be half a liquid measure of wine for the bull and a third of a liquid measure of wine for the ram and a fourth of a liquid measure of wine for the male lamb; this is the burnt offering for every month for the months of the year. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:15",
"text": "And one male goat as a sin offering for Yahweh; it will be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:16",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:17",
"text": "On the fifteenth day of this month is a religious feast, unleavened bread must be eaten for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:18",
"text": "On the first day there will be a holy convocation; \u231eyou will not do any regular work\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:19",
"text": "You will present an offering by fire, a burnt offering for Yahweh: two bulls and one ram and seven male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f; they will be for you without defect. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:20",
"text": "For their grain offering, you will offer finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull and two-tenths for the ram. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:21",
"text": "You will offer a tenth for each of the seven male lambs; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:22",
"text": "and a goat for one sin offering to make atonement for you. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:23",
"text": "You will offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for the continual burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:24",
"text": "Like this you will offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh; it will be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:25",
"text": "On the seventh day you will have a holy convocation; \u231eyou will not do any regular work\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:26",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And on the day of firstfruits, when you are presenting a new offering for Yahweh during your Festival of Weeks, you will have a holy convocation; \u231eyou will not do any regular work\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:27",
"text": "You will present a burnt offering for a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: two bulls, one ram, seven male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:28",
"text": "and their grain offering will be finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for each bull, two-tenths for one ram, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:29",
"text": "a tenth for each of the male lambs; "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:30",
"text": "and one male goat to make atonement for you. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Numbers 28:31",
"text": "In addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, you will offer them without defect with their libation. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:1",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018On the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you will have a holy convocation; \u231eyou will not do any regular work\u231f. It will be a day for you of blowing trumpets. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:2",
"text": "You will offer a burnt offering as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f; they will be without defect. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:3",
"text": "Their grain offering will be finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the ram; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:4",
"text": "and one-tenth for each of the seven male lambs; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:5",
"text": "with one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:6",
"text": "in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations, according to their stipulations, as a fragrance of appeasement by fire for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:7",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And on the tenth of this seventh month you will have a holy convocation, and \u231eyou will afflict yourselves\u231f; you will not do any work. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:8",
"text": "You will present a burnt offering for Yahweh, a fragrance of appeasement: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f; they will be without defect. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:9",
"text": "And their grain offering will be of finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:10",
"text": "one-tenth for each of the seven male lambs; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:11",
"text": "one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:12",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will have a holy convocation; \u231eyou will not do any regular work\u231f, and you will hold a religious feast for Yahweh for seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:13",
"text": "You will present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: thirteen bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f; they will be without defect. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:14",
"text": "And their grain offering will be of finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:15",
"text": "one-tenth for each of the seven male lambs; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:16",
"text": "and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:17",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018On the second day: twelve bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs \u231ein their first year\u231f; they will be without defect; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:18",
"text": "and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs, by their number according to the stipulation; "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:19",
"text": "and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:20",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect \u231ein their first year\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:21",
"text": "and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs, by their number according to the stipulation; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:22",
"text": "and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:23",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018On the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect \u231ein their first year\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:24",
"text": "and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:25",
"text": "and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:26",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect \u231ein their first year\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:27",
"text": "and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:28",
"text": "and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:29",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect \u231ein their first year\u231f; and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:30",
"text": "and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:31",
"text": "and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:32",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect \u231ein their first year\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:33",
"text": "and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:34",
"text": "and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:35",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018On the eighth day you will have an assembly; \u231eyou will not do any regular work\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:36",
"text": "You will present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs without defect \u231ein their first year\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:37",
"text": "and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:38",
"text": "and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:39",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will present these to Yahweh at your appointed time, in addition to your vows and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings and for you grain offerings and for your libations and for your fellowship offerings.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Numbers 29:40",
"text": " So Moses said to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f in accordance with all that Yahweh commanded Moses. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:1",
"text": " Then Moses spoke to \u231ethe leaders\u231f of the tribes concerning the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u201cThis is the word that Yahweh commanded: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:2",
"text": "if a man makes a vow for Yahweh or swears an oath with a binding pledge on himself, he must not render his word invalid; he must do all that went out from his mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:3",
"text": " \u201cIf a woman makes a vow to Yahweh, and she binds a pledge on herself in her father\u2019s house in your childhood, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:4",
"text": "but if her father hears her vow or her pledge that she bound on herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge that she binds on her life will stand. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:5",
"text": "If her father forbids her on the day he hears of it, all her vows or her pledges that she bound on herself will not stand, and Yahweh will forgive her because her father has forgiven her. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:6",
"text": " \u201cIf \u231eshe has a husband\u231f while bound by her vows or a rash promise of her lips, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:7",
"text": "and her husband hears of it and is silent on the day he hears it, her vows will stand, and her pledge that she bound upon herself will stand. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:8",
"text": "But if on the day her husband hears of it, he forbids her, then he will nullify her vow that she is under, and the rash promise of her lips that she bound on herself; and Yahweh will forgive her. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:9",
"text": " \u201cBut the vow of a widow or a woman who is divorced, all that she binds on herself will stand on her. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:10",
"text": "But if she made a vow in her husband\u2019s house, or bound herself on a pledge with a sworn oath, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:11",
"text": "and her husband heard it but was silent to her, and he did not forbid her, all her vows will stand and every pledge that she bound on herself will stand. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:12",
"text": "But if her husband nullified them on the day he hears them, all her vows going out of her lips concerning her vows or the pledge on herself will not stand; her husband has nullified them, and Yahweh will forgive her. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:13",
"text": " \u201cAny vow and any sworn oath of a pledge to inflict on herself, her husband can confirm it or her husband can nullify it. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:14",
"text": "But if her husband is completely silent from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all her pledges that are on her; he confirms them because he was silent to her on the day he heard them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:15",
"text": "But if he indeed nullifies them after he hears them, then he will bear her guilt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Numbers 30:16",
"text": " These are the decrees that Yahweh commanded Moses, as between a husband and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, while her childhood is in her father\u2019s house. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:2",
"text": "\u201cSeek vengeance for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:3",
"text": "Moses spoke to the people, saying, \u201cArm yourself from among your men for the battle, so that they will \u231ego\u231f against Midian to mete out the vengeance of Yahweh on Midian. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:4",
"text": "A thousand from each tribe of every tribe of Israel you will send to battle.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:5",
"text": "So theywere assigned from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand equipped for battle. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:6",
"text": "Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the battle, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the battle with them, and the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets of the blast were in his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:7",
"text": "And they fought against Midian just as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they killed every male. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:8",
"text": "They killed the kings of Midian in addition to the ones they had slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam son of Beor by the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:9",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f took captive the women of Midian and their children, and they plundered all their domestic animals and all their livestock and all their wealth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:10",
"text": "They burned all their cities where they dwelled and all their camps with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:11",
"text": "They took all the plunder and all the war-booty with the humans and domestic animals. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:12",
"text": "They brought the captives, the war-booty, and the plunder to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the community of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, to the camp to the desert-plateau of Moab, which was on the Jordan across Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:13",
"text": " And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:14",
"text": "But Moses was angry toward the leaders of the troops, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, who came from the battle of the war. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:15",
"text": "And Moses said to them, \u201cYou have kept alive every female? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:16",
"text": "Behold, these women \u231ecaused\u231f the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, by the word of Balaam, to be in apostasy against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so that the plague was among the community of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:17",
"text": "Now kill every male among the little children, and kill every woman who has \u231ehad sexual intercourse with a man\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:18",
"text": "But all the females who have not \u231ehad sexual intercourse with a man\u231f, keep alive for yourselves. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:19",
"text": "And you, camp outside the camp seven days; all who killed a person and all who touched the slain purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:20",
"text": "You will purify yourselves and every garment and every object of hide and all the work of goats\u2019 hair, and every object of wood.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:21",
"text": " Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of the battle who came from the war, \u201cThis is the decree of the law that Yahweh commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:22",
"text": "Only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:23",
"text": "everything that will go through the fire\u2014you will pass through the fire, and it will be clean, and only in waters of impurity will it be purified. Whatever does not go into the fire you will pass through the waters. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:24",
"text": "And you will wash your garments on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you will come into the camp.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:25",
"text": " Yahweh said to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:26",
"text": "\u201cYou and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the \u231efamilies\u231f of the community, \u231etake count\u231f of the war-booty that was captured, both humans and the domestic animals; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:27",
"text": "divide the war-booty between those who engaged in the war, who went out to the battle, and all the community. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:28",
"text": "Exact a tribute for Yahweh from the men of the war, those who went out to the battle, one from five hundred persons, and from the cattle and from the male donkeys and from the flock; "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:29",
"text": "take from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:30",
"text": "From half of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, take one share drawn by lot from the fifty from the humans, from the cattle, from the male donkeys, from the flock, from all the domestic animals, and give them to the Levities who keep the responsibilities of the tabernacle of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:31",
"text": "Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as Yahweh commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:32",
"text": " Thus the war-booty that remained of the plunder that the people of the battle plundered was six hundred and seventy-five thousand flocks of sheep, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:33",
"text": "seventy-two thousand cattle, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:34",
"text": "sixty-one thousand male donkeys, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:35",
"text": "and the life of humankind, from the women who did not \u231ehave sexual intercourse with a man\u231f, all the persons were thirty-two thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:36",
"text": " The half of the share that was going out to the battle: the number of the flock of sheep was thee hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred; "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:37",
"text": "the tribute to Yahweh from the flock was six hundred and seventy-five; "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:38",
"text": "and the cattle were thirty-six thousand; and the tribute to Yahweh was seventy-two. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:39",
"text": "Of the male donkeys there were thirty thousand five hundred, and the tribute to Yahweh was sixty-one; "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:40",
"text": "the humans were sixteen thousand, and the tribute to Yahweh was thirty-two persons. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:41",
"text": "And Moses gave away the tribute of the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:42",
"text": " From the half of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, which Moses divided from the men who were fighting, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:43",
"text": "the half that belonged to the community was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred from the flock, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:44",
"text": "and thirty-six thousand cattle, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:45",
"text": "and thirty thousand five hundred male donkeys, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:46",
"text": "and sixteen thousand humans. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:47",
"text": "From the half that belonged to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, Moses took one share drawn by lot out of every fifty humans and domestic animals, and he gave them to the Levites, who keep the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:48",
"text": " Then the leaders of the thousands of the army, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, approached Moses, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:49",
"text": "and they said to Moses, \u201cYour servants have \u231etaken count\u231f of the men of war who were \u231ein our charge\u231f, and no man is missing from us. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:50",
"text": "So we brought the offering of Yahweh, what each man found, objects of gold, bangles, bracelets, rings, earrings, and female ornaments, to make atonement for ourselves \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:51",
"text": "Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all objects of work. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:52",
"text": "All the gold of the contribution that they raised up to Yahweh, from the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:53",
"text": "The men of battle plundered each for himself. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Numbers 31:54",
"text": "So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of the thousands and hundreds, and they brought it to the tent of the assembly as a memorial for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f before Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:1",
"text": " The descendants of Reuben and the descendants of Gad had a very large number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold it was a place for livestock. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:2",
"text": "The descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben came, and they said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:3",
"text": "\u201cAtaroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:4",
"text": "the land that Yahweh struck before the community of Israel, is a land of livestock, and your servants have livestock.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:5",
"text": "They said, \u201cIf we have found favor in \u231eyour sight\u231f, let this land be given to your servants as property; do not lead us across the Jordan.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:6",
"text": " But Moses said to the descendants of Gad and to the descendants of Reuben, \u201cWill your brothers go to war while you yourselves live here? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:7",
"text": "Why are you discouraging the hearts of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from crossing into the land that Yahweh gave to them? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:8",
"text": "This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:9",
"text": "When they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f so that they did not come to the land that Yahweh gave to them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:10",
"text": "So \u231eYahweh\u2019s anger burned\u231f on that day, and he swore an oath, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:11",
"text": "\u2018The men who went up from Egypt, from \u231ethose twenty years old\u231f and above, will not see the land that I swore with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because they have not wholly followed me, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:12",
"text": "except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, because they followed Yahweh wholly.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:13",
"text": "And \u231eYahweh became angry\u231f, and he made them wander in the desert forty years until the entire generation who did evil in the \u231esight of Yahweh\u231f \u231ehad died\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:14",
"text": "Behold, you stand in the place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more \u231eYahweh\u2019s fierce anger\u231f against Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:15",
"text": "If you turn from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you would have destroyed all these people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:16",
"text": " They came near to him and said, \u201cWe will build sheep pens here for the flock of our livestock and cities for our little children; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:17",
"text": "but we ourselves will become armed and ready before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f until we have brought them to their place, and our little children will live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:18",
"text": "We will not return to our houses until the \u231eIsraelites\u231f each obtain their inheritance for themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:19",
"text": "For we will not take possession with them from across the Jordan and beyond because our inheritance has come to us from across the Jordan to the east.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:20",
"text": " So Moses said to them, \u201cIf you do this thing, if you arm yourselves \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh for the war, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:21",
"text": "and everyone of you armed cross the Jordan \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:22",
"text": "and the land is subdued \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, then afterward you will return and be free of obligation from Yahweh and from Israel, and this land will be your property \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:23",
"text": "But if you do not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh, and know that your sin will find you. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:24",
"text": "Build for yourselves cities for your little children and sheep pens for your flocks; what has gone out from your mouth you will do.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:25",
"text": " So the descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben said to Moses, saying, \u201cYour servants will do just as my lord commands. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:26",
"text": "Our little children, our wives, our livestock, and all of our animals \u231ewill remain\u231f in the cities of Gilead, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:27",
"text": "but your servants, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross over \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh to the war, just as my lord says.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:28",
"text": " So Moses commanded them, Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of the tribes of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:29",
"text": "Moses said to them, \u201cIf the descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben, everyone who is armed for the war, cross over the Jordan \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, you will give them the land of Gilead as property. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:30",
"text": "But if they will not cross over with you armed, they will acquire land in your midst in Canaan.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:31",
"text": "The descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben answered and said, \u201cWhat Yahweh has commanded your servants, we will do. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:32",
"text": "We ourselves will cross over armed \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh to the land of Canaan, and the property of our inheritance will remain with us beyond the Jordan.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:33",
"text": " So Moses gave to them, to the descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben, and to half of the tribe of Joseph\u2019s son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon the king of Amorites and the kingdom of Og the king of the Bashan, the land with its cities and their territories, the cities of the surrounding land. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:34",
"text": "The descendants of Gad rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, and Aroer, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:35",
"text": "and Atroth Shophan, Jazer, and Jogbehah, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:36",
"text": "and Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, the cities of Mibzar, and the sheep pens for flocks. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:37",
"text": "The descendants of Reuben rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:38",
"text": "and Nebo, Baal Meon (their names were changed), and Sibmah, and \u231ethey renamed\u231f the cities that they rebuilt. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:39",
"text": "The descendants of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and they captured it and drove out the Amorites who were in it. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:40",
"text": "So Moses gave Gilead to Makir son of Manasseh, and he lived in it. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:41",
"text": "And Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their unwalled villages, and he called them Havvoth Jair. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Numbers 32:42",
"text": "Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and he called it Nobah after his own name. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:1",
"text": " These were the journeys of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, who went out from the land of Egypt according to their divisions, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:2",
"text": "Moses wrote down their movements according to their journeys on the command of Yahweh, and these are their journeys according to their movements. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:3",
"text": "They set out from Rameses on the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went out \u231eboldly\u231f \u231ein the sight\u231f of all the Egyptians "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:4",
"text": "while the Egyptians were burying all the firstborn among them whom Yahweh struck. Yahweh also executed punishments among their gods. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:5",
"text": " Then the \u231eIsraelites\u231f set out from Rameses, and they camped in Succoth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:6",
"text": "They journeyed from Succoth and camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:7",
"text": "Then they set out from Etham and returned to Pi-Hahiroth, which faces Baal Zephon, and they camped before Migdol. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:8",
"text": "They set out from Pi-Hahiroth and went through the midst of the sea into the desert; and they went a journey of three days into the desert of Etham and camped at Marah. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:9",
"text": "They set out from Marah and came to Elim, and in Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:10",
"text": "They set out from Elim, and they camped at the \u231eRed Sea\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:11",
"text": "They set out from the \u231eRed Sea\u231f and camped at the desert of Sin. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:12",
"text": "They set out from the desert of Sin and camped at Dophkah. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:13",
"text": "They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:14",
"text": "They set out from Alush and encamped at Rephidim; and it was there that the people had no water to drink. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:15",
"text": "They set out from Rephidim and camped in the desert of Sinai. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:16",
"text": "The set out from the desert of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:17",
"text": " They set out from Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:18",
"text": "They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:19",
"text": "They set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:20",
"text": "They set out from Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:21",
"text": "They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:22",
"text": "They set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:23",
"text": "They set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shapher. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:24",
"text": "They set out from Mount Shapher and camped at Haradah. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:25",
"text": "They set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:26",
"text": "They set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:27",
"text": "They set out from Tahath and camped at Terah. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:28",
"text": "They set out from Terah and camped at Mithcah. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:29",
"text": "They set out from Mithcah and camped at Hashmonah. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:30",
"text": "They set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moserah. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:31",
"text": "They set out from Moserah and camped at Bene-Jaakan. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:32",
"text": "They set out from Bene-Jaakan and camped at Hor Haggidgad. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:33",
"text": "They set out from Hor Haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:34",
"text": "They set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:35",
"text": "They set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:36",
"text": "They set out from Ezion Geber and camped in the desert of Zin, that is, Kadesh. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:37",
"text": "They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:38",
"text": " Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the \u231ecommand\u231f of Yahweh, and he died there in the fortieth year after the \u231eIsraelites\u231f had gone out from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month on the first day of the month. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:39",
"text": "Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:40",
"text": " Now the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who was living in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:41",
"text": " Then they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:42",
"text": "They set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:43",
"text": "They set out from Punon and camped at Oboth. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:44",
"text": "They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, the boundary of Moab. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:45",
"text": "They set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon Gad. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:46",
"text": "They set out from Dibon Gad and camped at Almon-Diblatayim. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:47",
"text": "They set out from Almon-Diblatayim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:48",
"text": "They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:49",
"text": "They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-Jeshimoth up to Abel Shittim, on the desert-plateau of Moab. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:50",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:51",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and say to them, \u2018When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:52",
"text": "you will drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, and you will destroy all their idols and all the images of their molten idols, and you will demolish all their high places; "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:53",
"text": "you will dispossess the land and live in it because I have given the land to you to possess it. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:54",
"text": "You will distribute the land by lot according to your clans; to the larger group you will give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller group you will give less inheritance. However the lot falls for him, there the lot will be. You will distribute it according to the tribes of your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:55",
"text": "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, then it will happen that whomever you let remain of them will be like irritants in your eyes and like thorns in your sides; they will be your enemies in the land in which you live. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Numbers 33:56",
"text": "And just as I planned to do to them, I will do to you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:2",
"text": "\u201cCommand the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and say to them, \u2018When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that was allotted to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to its boundaries. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:3",
"text": "Your southern edge will be from the desert of Zin toward the side of Edom, and your southern border will be from the end of the Salt Sea to the east; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:4",
"text": "your boundary will turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim and will pass over to Zin, and its limits will be from the south of Kadesh Barnea; it will continue to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:5",
"text": "The boundary will turn from Azmon to the valley of Egypt, and its limits will be to the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:6",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Your western boundary will be the Great Sea; this will be your western boundary. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:7",
"text": "Your northern border will be from the Great Sea; you will make a boundary from the Great Sea to Mount Hor. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:8",
"text": "From Mount Hor you will make a boundary to reach Hamath; the limits of the territory will be at Zedad. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:9",
"text": "The boundary will go out to Ziphron, and its limits will be at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary to the north. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:10",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018You will mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar Enan to Shepham; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:11",
"text": "the boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah from the east side of Ain, and the boundary will go down and border on the eastern side of the Sea of Kinnereth. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:12",
"text": "The boundary will go down to the Jordan, and its limits will be at the Salt Sea. This will be your land according to its boundaries all around.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:13",
"text": " So Moses commanded the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u201cThis is the land that you will obtain as an inheritance for yourself by lot, which Yahweh commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:14",
"text": "For the tribe of the children of the Reubenites, the children of the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh took their inheritance according to the house of their families. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:15",
"text": "The two and a half tribes have taken their inheritance from beyond the Jordan across Jericho, east toward the sunrise.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:16",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:17",
"text": "\u201cThese are the names of the men who divide up the land for your inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:18",
"text": "You will take one leader from every tribe to divide up the land for inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:19",
"text": "These are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:20",
"text": "of the tribe of the descendants of Simeon, Samuel son of Ammihud; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:21",
"text": "of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:22",
"text": "of the tribe of the descendants of Dan, the leader Bukki son of Jogli; "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:23",
"text": "of the descendants of Joseph, the tribe of the descendants of Manasseh, the leader Hanniel son of Ephod. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:24",
"text": "Of the tribe of the descendants of Ephraim, the leader Kemuel son of Shiphtan; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:25",
"text": "of the tribe of the descendants of Zebulum, the leader Elizaphan son of Parnach; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:26",
"text": "of the tribe of the descendants of Issachar, the leader Paltiel son of Azzan; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:27",
"text": "of the tribe of the descendants of Asher, the leader Ahihud son of Shelomi; "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:28",
"text": "of the tribe of the descendants of Naphtali, the leader Pedahel son of Ammihud.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Numbers 34:29",
"text": "These are those whom Yahweh commanded to allot to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f the land of Canaan. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:1",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses on the desert plains of Moab beyond the Jordan across Jericho, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:2",
"text": "\u201cCommand the \u231eIsraelites\u231f that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their property cities to live in; and you will give to the Levites pastureland all around the cities. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:3",
"text": "The cities will be theirs to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their domestic animals, for their possessions, and their animals. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:4",
"text": " \u201cThe pasturelands of the cities that you will give to the Levites will extend from the wall of the city to a distance of a thousand cubits all around. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:5",
"text": "You will measure outside the city the eastern edge two thousand cubits, for the southern edge two thousand cubits, for the western edge two thousand cubits, and for the northern edge two thousand cubits, with the city in the middle; this will be for them the pasturelands of the cities. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:6",
"text": " \u201cAll the cities that you will give the Levites will be six cities of refuge, to which the killer can flee; in addition to them you will give forty-two cities. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:7",
"text": "All the cities that you will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, them with their pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:8",
"text": "And the cities that you will give from the property of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, you will take more from the larger group and less from the smaller group; each of them will give according to the portion of their inheritance according to the portion that he inherits.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:9",
"text": " Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:10",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and say to them, \u2018When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:11",
"text": "you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:12",
"text": "The cities will be to you a refuge from a redeemer, so that the killer will not die until he stands before the community for judgment. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:13",
"text": "The cities that you are to give will be your six cities of refuge. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:14",
"text": "You will give three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan; they will be cities of refuge. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:15",
"text": "To the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, to the alien, and to the temporary resident in their midst there will be these six cities as a refuge to which anyone who unintentionally kills a person may flee. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:16",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018But if he hit him with an object of iron, so that he dies, the killer must surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:17",
"text": "And if he hit him with a stone in the hand, by which he will die, and he does die, he is a killer; the killer must surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:18",
"text": "Or if he hit him with a wooden object, by which he will die, and he does die, he is a killer; the killer must surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:19",
"text": "The blood avenger himself will put the killer to death; he must put him to death when meeting him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:20",
"text": "If he shoves him in hatred, or he throws something at him with intention, and he dies, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:21",
"text": "or if he hits him in hostility with his hand, and he dies, the one that struck him will put to death the killer when meeting him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:22",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Or if in an instant he shoved him, not in hostility, or threw something at him without intention, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:23",
"text": "or with any stone, without seeing it dropped on him so that he dies, while he was not seeking his injury, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:24",
"text": "then the community will judge between the striker and between the blood avenger according to these ordinances. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:25",
"text": "The community will deliver the killer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the community will restore him to the city of his refuge to which he fled; and he will live there in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with holy oil. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:26",
"text": "But if the killer surely goes out of the territory of the city of his refuge to which he fled, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:27",
"text": "and the blood avenger finds him outside the territory of the city of his refuge, and the blood avenger kills the killer, \u231ehe will not be guilty of blood\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:28",
"text": "because he must live in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the killer will return to the land of his property. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:29",
"text": "These things will be as a decree of justice for you for your generations in all your dwellings. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:30",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018If anyone kills a person, the killer will be put to death \u231eaccording to the testimony\u231f of witnesses, but someone cannot die on testimony of one person. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:31",
"text": "Also, you will not take a ransom payment for the life of a killer who is guilty of death; indeed, he must surely be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:32",
"text": "You will not take a ransom payment for the one that flees to the city of his refuge, so that he may return to live in the land before the death of the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:33",
"text": "So you will not pollute the land in which you are; because blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is poured out on it except with the blood of the one who poured it out. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Numbers 35:34",
"text": "You will not defile the land on which you are living because I am living in the midst of it; I am Yahweh; I am living in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:1",
"text": " \u231eThe leaders\u231f of the families of the clans of descendants of Gilead the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clans of the descendants of Joseph came near and spoke \u231ebefore\u231f Moses and \u231ebefore\u231f \u231ethe leaders\u231f of the families of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:2",
"text": "And they said, \u201cYahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:3",
"text": "But if they become wives to one of the sons from another tribe of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, their inheritance will disappear from the inheritance of our ancestors, and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; the lot of our inheritance would disappear. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:4",
"text": "When the Jubilee of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f \u231ecomes\u231f, it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and their inheritance will disappear from the tribe of our father.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:5",
"text": " Then Moses commanded the \u231eIsraelites\u231f by the command of Yahweh, saying, \u201cThe tribe of the descendants of Joseph is right regarding what they are speaking. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:6",
"text": "This is the word that Yahweh commanded the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, \u2018\u231eLet them marry\u231f \u231ewhomever they like\u231f; only \u231ethey must marry\u231f from within the clan of the tribe of their father. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:7",
"text": "Thus an inheritance of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f will not go around from tribe to tribe. Rather, the inheritance of each tribe of his father will remain with the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:8",
"text": "Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from the tribes of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f will \u231emarry\u231f one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f will possess the inheritance of his ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:9",
"text": "Therefore an inheritance will not go around from one tribe to another tribe because the tribes of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f will each hold to their own inheritance.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:10",
"text": " Just as Yahweh commanded to Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did: "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:11",
"text": "Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, \u231emarried\u231f the sons of their uncles. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:12",
"text": "\u231eThey married\u231f those from the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance \u231eremained\u231f among the tribe of the clan of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Numbers 36:13",
"text": " These were the commands and the stipulations that Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f on the desert-plateaus of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Deuteronomy",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:1",
"text": " These are the words that Moses spoke to all of Israel \u231eon the other side of\u231f the Jordan in the desert, in the desert plateau opposite Suph, between Paran and between Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:2",
"text": "It is a journey of \u231eeleven days\u231f from Herob \u231eby the way of Mount Seir\u231f up to Kadesh Barnea. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:3",
"text": " \u231eAnd it was\u231f in the fortieth year, on the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f according to all that Yahweh had instructed him to speak to them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:4",
"text": "This happened \u231eafter defeating\u231f Sihon king of the Amorites, who was reigning in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who was reigning in Ashtaroth in Edrei. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:5",
"text": "On the other side of the Jordan in the land of Moab Moses began to explain this law, \u231esaying\u231f: "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:6",
"text": " \u201cYahweh our God spoke to us at Horeb, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018You have stayed \u231elong enough\u231f at this mountain. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:7",
"text": "Turn now and \u231emove on\u231f, and go into the hill of the Amorites and to all of the neighboring regions in the Jordan \u231eValley\u231f in the hill country and in the Negev and in the coastal area along the sea, into the land of the Canaanites and into the Lebanon, as far as the great river Euphrates. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:8",
"text": "Look, I have set the land \u231ebefore you\u231f; go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them and to their offspring after them.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:9",
"text": " \u201cAnd I spoke to them at that time, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018I am not able to bear you alone. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:10",
"text": "Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you are today as the stars of the heaven \u231ein number\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:11",
"text": "Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, may he add to you as you are now a thousand times, and may he bless you just as he \u231epromised you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:12",
"text": "How can I bear you \u231eby myself\u231f, your burden and your load and your strife? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:13",
"text": "Choose for yourselves \u231ewise and discerning and knowledgeable men\u231f for each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:14",
"text": " \u201cAnd you answered me, and you said, \u2018The thing you have said to do is good.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:15",
"text": "And so I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and then I appointed them as leaders over you as commanders of groups of thousands and commanders of groups of hundreds and commanders of groups of fifties and commanders of groups of tens as officials for your tribes. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:16",
"text": "And at that time I instructed your judges, saying, \u2018\u231ehear out your fellow men\u231f, and then judge fairly between a man and between his brother and between \u231ehis opponent who is a resident alien\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:17",
"text": "You must not \u231ebe partial\u231f \u231ein your judgment\u231f; hear out the small person as also the great person; \u231edo not be intimidated by any person\u231f, because the judgment is God\u2019s; and the case that is too difficult for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it out.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:18",
"text": "And so I instructed you at that time concerning all of the things that you should do. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:19",
"text": " \u201cThen we set out from Horeb, and we went through the whole of that great and terrible desert that you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites as Yahweh our God had commanded us, and so we came up to Kadesh Barnea. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:20",
"text": "I said to you, \u2018\u231eYou have reached\u231f the hill country of the Amorites that Yahweh our God is giving to us. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:21",
"text": "See, Yahweh your God has set before you the land; go up and possess it as Yahweh the God of your ancestors said to you; do not fear and do not be dismayed.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:22",
"text": " \u201cThen all of you approached me, and you said, \u2018Let us send men \u231ebefore us\u231f, and let them explore the land for us, and let them bring back \u231ea report\u231f to us concerning the way that \u231ewe should take\u231f and concerning the cities that we shall come to.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:23",
"text": "The plan was good \u231ein my opinion\u231f, and so I took from among you twelve men, \u231eone from each tribe\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:24",
"text": "And they \u231eset out\u231f and \u231ewent up into the hill country\u231f, and they went up to the wadi of Eschol, and they spied out the land. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:25",
"text": "They took in their hands \u231esome of the fruit\u231f of the land, and they brought it down to us, and they brought to us back \u231ea report\u231f, and they said, \u2018The land that Yahweh our God is giving to us is good.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:26",
"text": "But you were not willing to go up, and you rebelled against the \u231ecommand\u231f of Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:27",
"text": "And you grumbled in your tents, and you said, \u2018Because of the hatred of Yahweh toward us he has brought us out from the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:28",
"text": "Where can we go up? Our brothers have \u231emade our hearts melt\u231f, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cThe people are greater and taller than we are, and there are great fortified cities reaching up to heaven, and we saw the sons of the Anakites living there.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:29",
"text": " \u201cAnd so I said to you, \u2018Do not be terrified, and do not fear them. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:30",
"text": "Yahweh your God, who is going \u231ebefore you\u231f, will himself fight for you, \u231ejust as\u231f he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:31",
"text": "and just as he did in the wilderness when you saw that Yahweh your God carried you, just as someone carries his son, all along the way that you traveled until \u231eyou reached\u231f this place.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:32",
"text": "But through all of this you did not trust in Yahweh your God, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:33",
"text": "\u231ewho goes\u231f \u231ebefore you\u231f on your way, seeking a place for your encampment, in fire at night and in a cloud by day, to show you the way that \u231eyou should go\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:34",
"text": " \u201cThen Yahweh heard the sound of your words, and he was angry, and he swore, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:35",
"text": "\u2018No one of these men of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your ancestors, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:36",
"text": "except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh; he himself shall see it, and to him I will give the land upon which he has trodden and to his sons because \u231ehe followed Yahweh unreservedly\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:37",
"text": "Even with me Yahweh was angry because of you, saying, \u2018Not even you shall enter there. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:38",
"text": "Joshua, the son of Nun, \u231eyour assistant\u231f, will go there; encourage him because he will cause Israel to inherit it. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:39",
"text": "And your little children, who you thought shall become plunder, and your sons, who do not today know good or bad, shall themselves go there, and I will give it to them, and they shall take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:40",
"text": "But you turn and set out in the direction of the wilderness by way of the \u231eRed Sea\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:41",
"text": " \u201cYou replied and said to me, \u2018We have sinned against Yahweh, and now we will go up and fight according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us\u2019; and so each man fastened on \u231ehis battle gear\u231f, and you regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:42",
"text": "So Yahweh said to me, \u2018Say to them, \u201cYou shall not go up, and you shall not fight because I am not in your midst; you will be defeated \u231ebefore\u231f your enemies.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:43",
"text": "So I spoke to you, but you did not listen; you rebelled against the \u231ecommand of Yahweh\u231f; you behaved presumptuously, and you went up into the hill country. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:44",
"text": "The Amorites living in the hill country went out \u231eto oppose you\u231f and chased you as a swarm of wild honey bees do; and so they \u231ebeat\u231f you down in Seir as far as Hormah. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:45",
"text": "So you returned and wept \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f; but Yahweh did not listen to your voice and did not pay any attention to you. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Deuteronomy 1:46",
"text": "You stayed in Kadesh many days; such were the days that you stayed there. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:1",
"text": "\u201cThen we turned and set out toward the wilderness in the direction of the \u231eRed Sea\u231f, as Yahweh told me, and we went around Mount Seir for many days. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:2",
"text": "Yahweh spoke to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:3",
"text": "\u2018Long enough you have been skirting this mountain; turn yourselves north, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:4",
"text": "and instruct the people, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cYou are about to cross through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who are living in Seir; they will be afraid of you, and so be very careful. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:5",
"text": "Do not get involved in battle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even \u231ea foot\u2019s breadth\u231f of it; since I have given Mount Seir as a possession for Esau. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:6",
"text": "You shall buy food from them so that you may eat; and also you shall purchase water from them with money so that you may drink. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:7",
"text": "The fact of the matter is, Yahweh your God has blessed you in \u231eall the work you have done\u231f; he knows \u231eyour travels\u231f with respect to this great wilderness; forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:8",
"text": "And so we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, past the road of the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion Geber, and we turned and traveled along the route of the desert of Moab. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:9",
"text": " And Yahweh said to me, \u2018You shall not attack Moab, and you shall not engage in war with them, for I will not give you any of his land as a possession; I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:10",
"text": "(The Emim previously lived in it, a people large, numerous, and tall, like the Anakites. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:11",
"text": "They were reckoned also as Rephaim as the Anakites were; but the Moabites called them Emim. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:12",
"text": "The Horites previously lived in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them \u231efrom among themselves\u231f, as Israel did with respect to the land of their possession that Yahweh gave to them.) "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:13",
"text": "So now arise and cross over the wadi of Zered yourselves; and so we crossed the wadi of Zered. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:14",
"text": "Now the \u231elength of time\u231f that we had traveled from Kadesh Barnea until the time when we crossed the wadi of Zered was thirty-eight years, until the perishing of all of that generation; that is, the men of war from the midst of the camp as Yahweh had sworn to them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:15",
"text": "The hand of Yahweh was against them to root them out from the midst of the camp until they perished completely. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:16",
"text": " \u201c\u231eAnd then\u231f when all the men of war \u231ehad died\u231f from among the people, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:17",
"text": "Yahweh spoke to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:18",
"text": "\u2018You are about to cross over the boundary of Moab \u231etoday\u231f at Ar. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:19",
"text": "When you approach \u231ethe border of\u231f the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, you shall not harass them, and you shall not get involved in battle with them, for I have not given the land of \u231ethe Ammonites\u231f to you as a possession; because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:20",
"text": "(It is also considered the land of Rephaim; Rephaim lived in it \u231epreviously\u231f, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummim, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:21",
"text": "a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakites; Yahweh destroyed them from before them, and they dispossessed them and settled in place of them, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:22",
"text": "just as he did for the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from \u231ebefore them\u231f and dispossessed them, and then they settled in their place up to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:23",
"text": "And also the Avvites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and the Caphtorim, who came out from Caphtor, destroyed them and then settled in their place. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:24",
"text": "Arise, set out and cross over the wadi of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, the king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession of it, and engage with him in battle. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:25",
"text": "This day I will begin to place \u231ethe dread of you\u231f and the fear of you \u231ebefore\u231f the peoples under all the heavens. They will hear \u231ethe report about you\u231f, and so they will shake and tremble \u231ebecause of you\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:26",
"text": " \u201cSo I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon; I sent terms of peace, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:27",
"text": "\u2018Let me cross through your land and \u231eonly along the road\u231f I will go; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:28",
"text": "Food for money you shall sell me, so that I may eat, and water for money you will give to me, so that I may drink; just let me cross on foot. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:29",
"text": "Just as the descendants of Esau did for me, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, until I cross the Jordan into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:30",
"text": "But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us cross through his territory because Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and \u231emade him obstinate\u231f \u231ein order to give him\u231f into your hand, \u231ejust as he has now done\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:31",
"text": "Yahweh said to me, \u2018Look! I have begun to give \u231eover to you\u231f Sihon and his land; begin \u231eto take possession of his land\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:32",
"text": "Then Sihon and all his people came out to meet us for battle at Jahaz. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:33",
"text": "And so Yahweh our God gave him over \u231eto us\u231f, and we struck him down, and his sons and all of his people. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:34",
"text": "So we captured all of his cities at that time, and we destroyed each town of males and the women and the children; we did not leave behind a survivor. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:35",
"text": "We took only the livestock as spoil for ourselves, and also the booty of the cities that we had captured. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:36",
"text": "From Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi of Arnon and the city that was in the wadi on up to Gilead, there was not a city that was inaccessible to us; Yahweh our God gave \u231eeverything\u231f \u231eto us\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Deuteronomy 2:37",
"text": "Only the land of \u231ethe Ammonites\u231f you did not approach, all along the whole upper region of the Jabbok \u231eRiver\u231f and the towns of the hill country, according to all that Yahweh our God had instructed. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:1",
"text": "\u201cThen we turned, and we went up the road to Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us, he and all of his army for the battle at Edrei. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:2",
"text": "And Yahweh said to me, \u2018You should not fear him, for I have given him and all of his army and his land into your hand. And so you will do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who was reigning in Heshbon.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:3",
"text": "And so Yahweh our God also gave Og the king of Bashan, and all of his army into our hand, and we struck him down until not a survivor remained to him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:4",
"text": "And we captured all of his towns at that time; there was not a city that we did not take from them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:5",
"text": "All of these were fortified towns with high walls, gates, and bars, \u231eapart from\u231f very many of the villages of the open country. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:6",
"text": "And so we destroyed them just as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon; we destroyed utterly each town of males, the women, and the little children. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:7",
"text": "But all of the livestock and the booty of the towns we kept as spoil for ourselves. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:8",
"text": " \u201cAnd so we took at that time the land from \u231ethe control of\u231f the two kings of the Amorites who were \u231eon the other side of the Jordan\u231f, from the wadi of Arnon up to \u231eMount Hermon\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:9",
"text": "(The Sidonians called Hermon \u2018Sirion,\u2019 and the Amorites called it \u2018Senir.\u2019) "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:10",
"text": "All of the towns of the plateau and the whole of Gilead and all of Bashan up to Salecah and Edrei, the towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:11",
"text": "(For only Og, king of Bashan, was left from the remnant of the Rephaim. Indeed, his bedstead\u2014it was a bedstead of iron. It is in Rabbah of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. Nine cubits is its length, and four cubits is its width according to the cubit of a man.) "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:12",
"text": " And so we took possession of this land at that time, from Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi of Arnon, and also half of the hill country of Gilead and its towns I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:13",
"text": "And the remainder of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the whole region of Argo. All of that area of Bashan was called the land of the Rephaim. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:14",
"text": "Jair the descendant of Manasseh acquired the whole region of Argob, up to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and he called it, that is Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, \u231eas it still is today\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:15",
"text": "And also I gave Gilead to Makir. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:16",
"text": "And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave, from Gilead up to the wadi of Arnon, the middle of the wadi as a boundary and up to the Jabbok \u231eRiver\u231f, the boundary of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:17",
"text": "And the \u231eJordan Valley\u231f with the Jordan River as its boundary, from Kinnereth up to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, with the slopes of Pisgah toward the east. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:18",
"text": " \u201cAnd I charged you all at that time when I said, \u201cYahweh has given you\u2014to all of you\u2014this land to possess. All the \u231ewarriors\u231f shall cross over, ready to fight, before your brothers, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:19",
"text": "Only your wives and your little children and your livestock (I know that \u231eyou have much livestock\u231f) must stay in your towns that I have given you, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:20",
"text": "until Yahweh shall give rest to your brothers as he did to you, and also they take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving to them beyond the Jordan; then they may return, each one to his possession that I have given to them. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:21",
"text": "And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, \u2018Your eyes see all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings; so Yahweh will do to all of the kingdoms where you are about to cross over to. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:22",
"text": "You shall not fear them, for Yahweh your God is the one fighting for you. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:23",
"text": " \u201cAnd I pleaded with Yahweh at that time, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:24",
"text": "\u2018Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand, for what god is there in the heaven or on the earth who can do according to your works and according to your mighty deeds? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:25",
"text": "Let me cross over, please, and let me see the good land \u231ethat is beyond the Jordan\u231f, this good hill country and Lebanon.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:26",
"text": "But Yahweh was very angry with me because of you, and he would not listen to me, and Yahweh said, \u2018\u231eEnough of that from you\u231f! You shall not speak to me any longer about this matter! "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:27",
"text": "Go up to the top of Pisgah and \u231elook around you\u231f toward the west, toward the north, and toward the east, and \u231eview\u231f the land with your eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:28",
"text": "Now instruct Joshua and support him and encourage him because he himself will cross over before this people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Deuteronomy 3:29",
"text": "So we remained in the valley opposite Beth Peor. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:1",
"text": " \u201cNow, Israel, listen to the rules and to the regulations that I am teaching you to do, in order that you may live and you may go in and you may take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, is giving to you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:2",
"text": "You must not add to the word that I am commanding you, and you shall not take away from it in order to keep the commands of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you to observe. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:3",
"text": "Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did with the case of Baal Peor, for \u231eeach\u231f man that followed after Baal Peor Yahweh your God destroyed from your midst. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:4",
"text": "But you, the ones holding fast to Yahweh your God, are all alive \u231etoday\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:5",
"text": " See, I now teach you rules and regulations just as Yahweh my God has commanded me, to observe them just so in the midst of the land where you are going, to take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:6",
"text": "And \u231eyou must observe them diligently\u231f, for that is your wisdom and your insight before the eyes of the people, who will hear all of these rules, and they will say, \u2018Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:7",
"text": "For what great nation has for it a god near to it as Yahweh our God, whenever we call upon him? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:8",
"text": "And what other great nation has for it just rules and regulations just like \u231ethis whole\u231f law that I am setting \u231ebefore\u231f you \u231etoday\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:9",
"text": " \u201cHowever, \u231etake care\u231f for yourself and watch your inner self closely, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not slip from your mind all the days of your life; and you shall make them known to your children and to \u231eyour grandchildren\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:10",
"text": "Remember the day that you stood \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God at Horeb \u231ewhen Yahweh said to me\u231f, \u2018Summon for me the people so that I can tell them my words, that they may learn to fear me all of the days they are alive on the earth and so that they may teach their children.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:11",
"text": "And so you came near, and you stood under the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire up to the heart of the heaven, \u231edark with a very thick cloud\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:12",
"text": "And Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; \u231eyou heard\u231f a sound of words, but \u231eyou did not see\u231f a form\u2014only a voice. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:13",
"text": "And he declared to you his covenant, \u231ethe Ten Commandments\u231f, which he charged you \u231eto observe\u231f, and he wrote them on the two tablets of stone. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:14",
"text": "And Yahweh charged me at that time to teach you rules and regulations \u231efor your observation of them\u231f in the land that you are \u231eabout to cross into\u231f to take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:15",
"text": " \u201cSo \u231eyou must be very careful for yourselves\u231f, because you did not see any form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:16",
"text": "so that you do not \u231eruin yourselves\u231f and make for yourselves a divine image in a form of any image, a replica of male or female, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:17",
"text": "a replica of any animal that is upon the earth, a replica of any winged bird that flies in the air, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:18",
"text": "a replica of any creeping thing on the ground, a replica of any fish that is in the water \u231ebelow\u231f the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:19",
"text": "\u231eAnd do this so that you do not lift\u231f your eyes toward heaven and \u231eobserve\u231f the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of the heaven, and be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that Yahweh your God has allotted to all of the peoples under all of the heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:20",
"text": "But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out from the furnace of iron, from Egypt, to be a people of inheritance to him, \u231eas it is this day\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:21",
"text": " \u201cAnd Yahweh was angry with me \u231ebecause of you\u231f, and he swore \u231ethat I would not cross the Jordan\u231f and \u231ethat I would not go to the good land\u231f that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:22",
"text": "For I am going to die in this land; I am not going to cross the Jordan, but you are going to cross, and you are going to take possession of this good land. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:23",
"text": "Watch out for yourselves so that you do not forget the covenant of Yahweh your God that he had \u231emade\u231f with you and make for yourselves a divine image of the form of anything that Yahweh your God \u231ehas forbidden\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:24",
"text": "for Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:25",
"text": " \u201cWhen you have had children and \u231egrandchildren\u231f and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image of the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, thus provoking him to anger, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:26",
"text": "I call to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you are crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; \u231eyou will not live long on it\u231f, but you will be completely destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:27",
"text": "And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left \u231efew in number\u231f among the nations \u231eto where Yahweh will lead you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:28",
"text": "And you will there serve gods \u231emade by human hands\u231f, of wood and stone, gods that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:29",
"text": "But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:30",
"text": "\u231eIn your distress\u231f when all these things have found you in the \u231elatter days\u231f, then you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:31",
"text": "For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he \u231ewill not abandon you\u231f, and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors that he swore to them. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:32",
"text": " \u201cYes, ask, please, about former days that \u231epreceded you\u231f from the day that God created humankind on the earth; ask even from one end of the heaven up to the other end of heaven \u231ewhether anything ever happened\u231f like this great thing or \u231ewhether anything like it was ever heard\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:33",
"text": "Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, just as you heard it, and lived? "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:34",
"text": "Or has a god ever attempted to go to take for himself a nation from the midst of a nation, using trials and signs and wonders and war, with an outstretched arm and with great and awesome deeds, like all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:35",
"text": "You yourselves were shown this wonder in order for you to acknowledge that Yahweh is the God; there is no other God \u231ebesides him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:36",
"text": "From heaven he made you hear his voice to teach you, and on the earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from the midst of the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:37",
"text": "And because he loved your ancestors he chose their \u231edescendants\u231f after them. And he brought you forth from Egypt \u231ewith his own presence\u231f, by his great strength, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:38",
"text": "to drive out nations greater and more numerous than you \u231efrom before you\u231f, to bring you and to give to you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:39",
"text": "So you shall acknowledge \u231etoday\u231f, and \u231eyou must call to mind\u231f that Yahweh is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no other God. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:40",
"text": "And you shall keep his rules and his commandments that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f, so that \u231eit may go well\u231f for you and for your children after you, and so that \u231eyou may remain a long time\u231f on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you during all of those days.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:41",
"text": " Then Moses set apart three cities \u231eon the other side of the Jordan\u231f, \u231etoward the east\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:42",
"text": "in order for \u231ea manslayer\u231f to flee there who has killed his neighbor \u231ewithout intent\u231f and was not hating him \u231epreviously\u231f, and so he could flee to one of these cities \u231eand be safe\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:43",
"text": "He set apart Bezer in the wilderness in the land of the plateau of the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan of the Manassites. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:44",
"text": " Now this is the law that Moses set \u231ebefore\u231f the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:45",
"text": "these are the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Moses spoke to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f \u231ewhen they left Egypt\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:46",
"text": "beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth Peor in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who was reigning in Heshbon and whom Moses and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f defeated \u231ewhen they came out of Egypt\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:47",
"text": "And so they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, \u231eeastward\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:48",
"text": "from Aroer, which is on the bank of the wadi of Arnon and as far as Mount Sirion; that is, Hermon, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Deuteronomy 4:49",
"text": "and all of the Arabah beyond the Jordan, eastward, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah under the slopes of Pisgah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:1",
"text": " And then Moses summoned all of Israel and said to them, \u201cHear, Israel, the rules and the regulations that I am speaking in your ears \u231etoday\u231f, and you shall learn them, and \u231eyou must observe them diligently\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:2",
"text": "Yahweh our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:3",
"text": "It was not with our ancestors that Yahweh made this covenant, but with these of us who are here alive today. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:4",
"text": "\u231eFace to face\u231f Yahweh spoke with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:5",
"text": "I was standing \u231ebetween Yahweh and you\u231f at that time to report to you the word of Yahweh, for you were afraid because of \u231ethe presence of\u231f the fire, and so you did not go up the mountain. \u231eHe said\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:6",
"text": " \u2018I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:7",
"text": "There shall not be for you other gods \u231ebesides me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:8",
"text": " \u2018You shall not make for yourself a divine image of any type of form that is in the heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:9",
"text": " \u2018You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, punishing the guilt of fathers upon their children and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those hating me, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:10",
"text": "but showing loyal love to thousands of those who love me and of those who keep my commandments. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:11",
"text": " \u2018You shall not take up the name of Yahweh your God for a worthless purpose, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who uses his name for a worthless purpose. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:12",
"text": " \u2018Observe the \u231eSabbath day\u231f to make it holy, just as Yahweh your God has commanded you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:13",
"text": "Six days you shall work, and you shall do all of your work, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:14",
"text": "but the seventh day is a Sabbath unto Yahweh your God; you shall not do any work, or your son, or your daughter, or your slave, or your slave woman, or your ox, or your donkey, or any of your domestic animals, or your resident alien who is in your \u231etowns\u231f, so that your slave and your slave woman may rest as you rest. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:15",
"text": "And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore, Yahweh your God commanded you to keep \u231ethe Sabbath\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:16",
"text": " \u2018Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you, so that it will be good for you \u231ein the land\u231f that Yahweh your God is giving to you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:17",
"text": " \u2018You shall not murder. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:18",
"text": " \u2018And you shall not commit adultery. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:19",
"text": " \u2018And you shall not steal. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:20",
"text": " \u2018And you shall not falsely bear evidence against your neighbor. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:21",
"text": " \u2018And you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, and you shall not crave the house of your neighbor, his field or his slave or his slave woman or his ox and his donkey or anything \u231ethat belongs to your neighbor\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:22",
"text": " \u201cThese words Yahweh spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire and the very thick cloud with a loud voice, and \u231ehe did not add anything\u231f, and then he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:23",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f \u231ewhen you heard\u231f the voice from the midst of the darkness, and as the mountain was burning with fire, and and all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:24",
"text": "you said, \u2018Look, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire; this day we have seen that God can speak with a human being, \u231eyet he remains alive\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:25",
"text": "And so then why shall we die, for this great fire will consume us if \u231ewe continue\u231f to hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, and so we shall die? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:26",
"text": "For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire as we have heard it \u231eand remained alive\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:27",
"text": "You go near and hear \u231eeverything\u231f that Yahweh our God will say; and then you tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you, and we will listen, and we will do it.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:28",
"text": " \u201cAnd Yahweh heard the sound of your words \u231ewhen you spoke to me\u231f, and Yahweh said to me, \u2018I have heard the sound of the words of this people that they have spoken to you; they are right with respect to all that they have spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:29",
"text": "\u231eIf only\u231f \u231ethey had such a mind\u231f\u2019; that is, to fear me and to keep all my commandments \u231eat all times\u231f, so that \u231eit will go well\u231f for them and for their children \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:30",
"text": "Go! Say to them, \u201cReturn to your tents.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:31",
"text": "But you stand here with me, and let me tell you all of the commandments and the rules and the regulations that you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land that I am giving to them to take possession of it.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:32",
"text": " \u201cSo you must be careful to do just as Yahweh your God commanded you; you shall not turn to the right or to the left. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Deuteronomy 5:33",
"text": "\u231eIn exactly the path\u231f that Yahweh your God has commanded, you must go, so that you may live and \u231eit will go well\u231f for you and \u231eyou may live long\u231f in the land that you will take possession of.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:1",
"text": " \u201cNow this is the commandment, the rules and the regulations, that Yahweh your God charged to teach to you for you \u231eto observe\u231f in the land that you are about to cross over into to take possession of it, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:2",
"text": "so that you may revere Yahweh your God by keeping all his statutes and his commandments that I am commanding you, you and your children and \u231egrandchildren\u231f, all the days of your life and so you may live long lives. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:3",
"text": "And you shall hear, Israel, and be careful to observe these instructions, so that \u231eit may go well for you\u231f and that you may multiply greatly, just as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, \u231epromised\u231f you, in a land with milk and honey. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:4",
"text": " \u201cHear, Israel, Yahweh our God, Yahweh is unique. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:5",
"text": "And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of your might. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:6",
"text": "And these words that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f shall be on your heart. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:7",
"text": "And you shall recite them to your children, and you shall talk about them at the time of your living in your house and at the time of your going on the road and at the time of your lying down and at the time of your rising up. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:8",
"text": "And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as an emblem between your eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:9",
"text": "And you shall write them on the doorframe of your house and on your gates. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd then it will happen that when Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you large and fine cities that you did not build, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:11",
"text": "and houses full of all sorts of good things that you did not fill, and hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant, and \u231eyou have eaten your fill\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:12",
"text": "then take care for yourself, so that you do not forget Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt from the house of slavery. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:13",
"text": " \u201cYou shall fear Yahweh your God, and you shall serve him, and by his name you shall swear. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:14",
"text": "You shall not go after other gods from the gods of the peoples who are all around you, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:15",
"text": "for Yahweh your God is a jealous god in your midst, \u231eso that the anger of Yahweh your God would be kindled\u231f, and he would destroy you from the face of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:16",
"text": "You shall not put Yahweh your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:17",
"text": "You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and his legal provisions and his rules that he has commanded you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:18",
"text": "And you shall do what is right and good in the eyes of Yahweh, so that \u231eit shall go well\u231f for you and so that you may go and you may take possession of the good land that Yahweh swore for your ancestors, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:19",
"text": "by driving out all of your enemies \u231ebefore you\u231f, just as Yahweh \u231ehas promised\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:20",
"text": " \u201cWhen your child asks you in the future, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018What is the meaning of the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Yahweh our God commanded for you?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:21",
"text": "Then you shall say to your child, \u2018We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:22",
"text": "And Yahweh gave great and awesome signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and against his entire household \u231ein our presence\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:23",
"text": "But he brought us out from there in order to bring us here to give us the land that he swore to our ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:24",
"text": "And so Yahweh commanded us to observe all of these rules and to revere Yahweh our God \u231efor our benefit\u231f \u231eall the days that we live\u231f, \u231eas it is today\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Deuteronomy 6:25",
"text": "And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe and do all of this commandment \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.\u2019 "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:1",
"text": "\u201cWhen Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter \u231einto it\u231f to take possession of it, and he drives out many nations \u231ebefore you\u231f, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations mightier and more numerous than you, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:2",
"text": "and Yahweh your God will give them \u231eover to you\u231f and you defeat them, you must \u231eutterly destroy them\u231f; you shall not make a covenant with them, and you shall not show mercy to them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:3",
"text": "And you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to their son; and you shall not take his daughter for your son. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:4",
"text": "For their sons and daughters will cause your son to turn away \u231efrom following me\u231f, and so they will serve other gods, and \u231ethe anger of Yahweh would be kindled\u231f against you, and he would quickly destroy you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:5",
"text": "But this is what you must do to them: you shall break down their altars, and their stone pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall hew down, and you shall burn their idols with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:6",
"text": "For you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be for him a people, a treasured possession from among all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:7",
"text": " \u201cYahweh loved you and chose you not \u231ebecause of your great number\u231f exceeding all other peoples, for you are fewer than all of the peoples, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:8",
"text": "but \u231ebecause of\u231f the love of Yahweh for you and because of his keeping of the sworn oath that he swore to your ancestors, Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:9",
"text": "So know that Yahweh your God, he is God, the trustworthy God, maintaining his covenant and his loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments to a thousand generations, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:10",
"text": "but repaying those who hate him \u231ein their own person\u231f to destroy them; he is not slow with those who hate him \u231ein their own person\u231f; he repays them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:11",
"text": "And so you shall keep the commandment and the rules and the regulations that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f to observe them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:12",
"text": " \u201c\u231eAnd then\u231f because you listen to these regulations and you diligently keep and you do them, then Yahweh your God will maintain his covenant and his loyal love that he swore to your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:13",
"text": "And he will love you, and he will bless you, and he will multiply you, and he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your soil, your grain, your wine, and your olive oil, and newborn calves of your cattle, and the newborn lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:14",
"text": "You shall be blessed more than all of the peoples; among you there shall not be sterility and bareness, even among domestic animals. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:15",
"text": "And Yahweh will turn away from you all the illness and all the harmful diseases of Egypt that you experienced; he will not lay them on you, but he will lay them on all of those who hate you. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:16",
"text": "And you shall devour all of the peoples that Yahweh your God is giving to you; \u231eyou shall not pity them\u231f, and you shall not serve their gods, which will be a snare for you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:17",
"text": " \u201cIf you think in your heart, \u2018These nations are more numerous than I, so how can I dispossess them?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:18",
"text": "then remember you must not be afraid of them; you must well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt: "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:19",
"text": "the great trials that your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the workings of the strong hand and the outstretched arm by which Yahweh your God brought you out; so Yahweh your God will do to all of the peoples \u231ebecause of whom\u231f you are in fear \u231ebefore them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:20",
"text": "And, moreover, Yahweh your God will send the hornets among them until both the survivors and the fugitives \u231eare destroyed\u231f \u231ebefore you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:21",
"text": "You must not be in dread from the presence of them, because Yahweh your God, who is in your midst, is a great and awesome God. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:22",
"text": "And Yahweh your God will clear away these nations \u231efrom before you\u231f little by little; you will not be able to finish them off quickly, \u231elest\u231f the \u231ewild animals\u231f \u231emultiply\u231f \u231eagainst you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:23",
"text": "But Yahweh your God will \u231egive them to you\u231f, and he will throw them into great panic \u231euntil they are destroyed\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:24",
"text": "And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall blot out their names from under the heaven; anyone will not be able to stand \u231eagainst you\u231f \u231euntil you destroy them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:25",
"text": "You shall burn the images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, and so you take it for yourself, so that you are not ensnared by it, for it is a detestable thing to Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Deuteronomy 7:26",
"text": "And you must not bring a detestable thing into your house, or you will become a thing devoted to destruction like it; you must utterly detest it, and you must utterly abhor it, for it is an object devoted to destruction. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:1",
"text": "\u201cAll of the commandments that I am commanding you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and multiply, and you may go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:2",
"text": "And you shall remember all of the way that Yahweh your God led you during these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what is in your heart, whether you would diligently keep his commandments or not. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:3",
"text": "And he humbled you and let you go hungry, and then he fed you with that which you did not know nor did your ancestors know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone but by all that goes out of the mouth of Yahweh humankind shall live. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:4",
"text": "Your clothing did not wear out \u231eon you\u231f, and your feet did not swell during these forty years. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:5",
"text": "And you should know with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God is disciplining you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:6",
"text": "So you must keep the commandments of Yahweh your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:7",
"text": "For Yahweh your God is bringing you to a good land with streams of water, springs and underground water, welling up in the valleys and in the hills, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:8",
"text": "to a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranate trees, a land of olive trees, olive oil and honey; "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:9",
"text": "to a land where you may eat food in it \u231ewithout scarcity\u231f; you will not find anything lacking in it, a land where its stones are iron and from its mountains you can mine copper. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:10",
"text": "And you will eat, and \u231eyou will be satisfied\u231f, and you will bless Yahweh your God because of the good land that he has given to you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:11",
"text": " \u201cTake care for yourself so that you not forget Yahweh your God by not keeping his commandments and his regulations and his statutes that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:12",
"text": "lest when you have eaten and you are satisfied and you have built good houses and you live in them, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:13",
"text": "and your herds and your flocks have multiplied, and \u231eyou have accumulated silver and gold\u231f, and all that \u231eyou have\u231f has multiplied, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:14",
"text": "then your heart \u231ebecomes proud\u231f and you forget Yahweh your God, \u231ethe one who brought you out\u231f from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:15",
"text": "the one leading you in the great and terrible desert infested with \u231edangerous\u231f snakes and scorpions and parched ground, where there is no water, and the one bringing out water for you from flint rock, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:16",
"text": "the one \u231efeeding you\u231f manna in the desert, food that your ancestors did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you so that he could do good to you \u231ein the future\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:17",
"text": "And you may think in your heart, \u2018My strength and the might of my hand \u231eacquired this wealth for\u231f me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:18",
"text": "But you must remember Yahweh your God, for he is the one giving you strength to acquire wealth in order to confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors \u231eas it is today\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:19",
"text": "And it will happen that if you indeed forget Yahweh your God and you go after other gods and you serve them and you bow down before them, I warn you today that you will surely perish. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Deuteronomy 8:20",
"text": "As with the nations that Yahweh is destroying \u231ebefore you\u231f, so you shall perish because you would not obey the voice of Yahweh your God. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:1",
"text": "\u201cHear, Israel, you are about to cross the Jordan today to go to dispossess nations larger and more numerous than you, great cities fortified \u231ewith high walls\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:2",
"text": "a great and tall people, the sons of the Anakites, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, \u2018Who could stand before the sons of Anak?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:3",
"text": "You should know \u231etoday\u231f that Yahweh your God is the one crossing \u231eahead of you\u231f as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so you will dispossess them, and you will destroy them quickly, \u231ejust as\u231f Yahweh \u231epromised\u231f you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:4",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not say \u231eto yourself\u231f \u231ewhen Yahweh your God is driving them out\u231f \u231ebefore you\u231f, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Because of my righteousness Yahweh brought me to take possession of this land\u2019; but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh is driving them out \u231ebefore you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:5",
"text": "It is not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart that you are coming to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God is driving them \u231ebefore you\u231f, and in order to confirm the \u231epromise\u231f that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:6",
"text": " \u201cSo you should understand that it is not because of your righteousness that Yahweh your God is giving you this good land to take possession of it, because \u231eyou are a stubborn people\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:7",
"text": "Remember, \u231edo not forget\u231f, that you provoked Yahweh your God in the desert, and from the day that you went out from the land of Egypt until \u231eyou came to this place\u231f you were rebelling against Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:8",
"text": " \u201cAnd remember at Horeb you provoked Yahweh, and Yahweh became angry enough to destroy you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:9",
"text": "\u231eWhen I went up the mountain\u231f to receive \u231ethe stone tablets\u231f, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh \u231emade\u231f with you, and remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights, I did not eat food and I did not drink water. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:10",
"text": "And Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them was writing according to all the words that Yahweh spoke with you at the mountain, from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:11",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f at the end of forty days and forty nights, Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:12",
"text": "And Yahweh said to me, \u2018Come now, go down quickly from this mountain because your people behave corruptly whom you brought out from Egypt, for they turned quickly from the way that I commanded them to follow; they have made for themselves a cast image.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:13",
"text": "And Yahweh spoke to me, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018I have seen this people, and look! \u231eThey are a stubborn people\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:14",
"text": "Leave me alone, and let me destroy them, and let me blot out their name from under heaven, and let me make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:15",
"text": " \u201cAnd I turned, and I went down the mountain, as the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:16",
"text": "And I looked, and indeed you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made for yourselves an image of a calf of cast metal; you had turned quickly from the way that Yahweh had commanded for you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:17",
"text": "And I took hold of the two tablets, and I threw them out \u231eof\u231f my two hands and smashed them before your eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:18",
"text": "And then I lay prostrate \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, as earlier, forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food and I did not drink water because of all your sins that you committed, by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh and so provoking him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:19",
"text": "For \u231eI was in dread\u231f from being in the presence of the anger and the wrath with which Yahweh was angry with you so as to destroy you, but Yahweh listened to me also \u231eat that time\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:20",
"text": "And with Aaron Yahweh was \u231eangry enough\u231f to destroy him, and I prayed also for Aaron at that time. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:21",
"text": "And your sinful thing that you had made, the molten calf, I took and I burned it with fire, and I crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was crushed to dust, and I threw its dust into \u231ethe stream that flowed down the mountain\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:22",
"text": " \u201cAnd also at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to anger. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:23",
"text": "And when Yahweh sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,\u2019 you rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe him, and you did not listen to his voice. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:24",
"text": "You have been rebellious toward Yahweh \u231efrom the day I have known you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:25",
"text": " \u201cAnd I lay prostrate before Yahweh through forty days, and through forty nights I prostrated myself, because Yahweh intended to kill you. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:26",
"text": "And I prayed to Yahweh, and I said, \u2018Lord Yahweh, you must not destroy your people and your inheritance whom you redeemed in your greatness, whom you brought out from Egypt with a strong hand. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:27",
"text": "Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; you must not \u231epay attention to\u231f the stubbornness of this people, to their wickedness and to their sin, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:28",
"text": "lest the people of the land from which you brought us out from there say, \u201cBecause Yahweh was not able to bring them to the land that he \u231epromised\u231f to them and because of his hatred toward them, he has brought them out to kill them in the desert.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Deuteronomy 9:29",
"text": "For they are your people and your inheritance whom you brought with your great power and with your outstretched arm.\u2019 "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:1",
"text": "\u201cAt that time Yahweh said to me, \u2018Carve for yourself two tablets of stone just as the former ones, and come up the mountain to me, and you shall make for yourself an ark of wood. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:2",
"text": "And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you smashed, and you must put them in the ark.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:3",
"text": "And so I made an ark \u231eof acacia wood\u231f, and I carved two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:4",
"text": "And he wrote upon the tablets \u231eaccording to the first writing\u231f, the ten words that Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly, and Yahweh gave them to me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:5",
"text": "And I turned, and I came down from the mountain, and I put the tablets in the ark that I had made, and they are there, just as Yahweh commanded me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:6",
"text": " \u201cAnd the \u231eIsraelites\u231f journeyed from the wells of Bene-Yaqan to Moserah; there Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar, his son, served as a priest in place of him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:7",
"text": "From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land flowing with streams of water. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:8",
"text": "At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to stand \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, to serve him and to bless the people in his name until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:9",
"text": "Therefore \u231ethere was not\u231f for Levi an allotment or an inheritance along with his brothers; rather Yahweh is his inheritance just as Yahweh your God \u231epromised\u231f to him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:10",
"text": " And I stayed on the mountain just as during the former forty days and forty nights, and Yahweh listened to me also on that occasion; Yahweh was not willing to destroy you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:11",
"text": "And Yahweh said to me, \u2018\u231eCome, continue\u231f your journey \u231ebefore the people\u231f, so that you may go and take possession of the land that I swore to their ancestors to give to them.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:12",
"text": " And now, Israel, what is Yahweh your God asking from you, except to revere Yahweh your God, to go in all his ways and to love him and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:13",
"text": "to keep the commandments of Yahweh and his statutes that I am commanding you today \u231efor your own good\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:14",
"text": "Look! For to Yahweh your God \u231ebelong\u231f heaven and the \u231ehighest heavens\u231f, the earth and all that is in it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:15",
"text": "\u231eYet\u231f to your ancestors Yahweh was very attached, so as to love them, and so he chose their offspring after them, namely you, from all the peoples, as it is \u231etoday\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:16",
"text": "So you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and \u231edo not be stubborn\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:17",
"text": "For Yahweh your God, he is God of the gods and Lord of the lords, the great and mighty God, the awesome one who \u231eis not partial\u231f, and he does not take bribes. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:18",
"text": "And he executes justice for the orphan and widow, and he is one who loves the alien, to give to them food and clothing. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:19",
"text": "And you shall love the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:20",
"text": "Yahweh your God, you shall revere him, you shall serve him, and to him you shall cling, and by his name you shall swear. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:21",
"text": "He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done with you these great and awesome things that your eyes have seen. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Deuteronomy 10:22",
"text": "With only seventy persons your ancestors went down to Egypt, but now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the heaven \u231ewith respect to multitude\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:1",
"text": "\u201cAnd you shall love Yahweh your God, and you shall keep his obligations and his statutes and his regulations and his commandments \u231ealways\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:2",
"text": "And you shall realize \u231etoday\u231f that it is not with your children who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of Yahweh your God\u2014his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:3",
"text": "and his signs and his deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all of his land, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:4",
"text": "and what he did to the army of Egypt and to their horses and to their chariots, and how he made the water of the \u231eRed Sea\u231f flow over them, \u231ewhen they pursued after them\u231f, and so Yahweh has destroyed them, \u231eas is the case today\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:5",
"text": "and what he did to you in the desert until you came up to this place, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:6",
"text": "and what he did to Dathan and to Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth wide and swallowed them, their households and their tents, and all of the living creatures that were in their possession and that were \u231efollowing along with them\u231f in the midst of all of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:7",
"text": "The fact of the matter is, \u231eyour own eyes have seen\u231f all of the great deeds of Yahweh that he did. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:8",
"text": " \u201cAnd you must keep all of the commandments that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f, so that you may have strength and you may go and you may take possession of that land \u231eto which you are crossing\u231f to take possession of it, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:9",
"text": "so that \u231eyou may live long\u231f on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to give it to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:10",
"text": "For the fact is that the land \u231ethat you are about to go into\u231f to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have \u231ecome out of\u231f, where you sow your seed and you give water by your foot, \u231eas in a vegetable garden\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:11",
"text": "But the land that you are about to cross into to take possession of it is a land of hills and valleys, and by the rain of the heaven it drinks water, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:12",
"text": "a land that Yahweh your God is caring for it; continually the eyes of Yahweh your God are on it, from the beginning of the year up to the end of the year. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:13",
"text": " \u201cAnd it will happen that if you listen carefully to my commandments that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all of your heart and with all of your soul, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:14",
"text": "then \u2018I will send the rain for your land in its season, early rain and later rain, and you will gather your grain and your wine and your olive oil. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:15",
"text": "And I will give vegetation in your field for your livestock, and \u231eyou will eat your fill\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:16",
"text": "\u231eTake care\u231f so that your heart is not easily deceived, and you turn away, and you serve other gods, and you bow down to them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:17",
"text": "And then \u231ethe anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you\u231f, and he will shut up the heavens, and there shall not be rain, and so the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land that Yahweh is giving to you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:18",
"text": " \u201cAnd you shall put these, my words, on your heart and on your inner self, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be as an emblem between your eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:19",
"text": "And you shall teach them to your children by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:20",
"text": "And you shall write them on the doorframes of your house and on your gates, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:21",
"text": "so that they may multiply your days and the days of your children on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors to give it to them \u231eas long as heaven endures over the earth\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:22",
"text": "Yes, if you diligently keep all this commandment that I am commanding you \u231eto observe it\u231f, by loving Yahweh your God \u231eby walking in\u231f all his ways and by holding fast to him, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:23",
"text": "then Yahweh will drive out all of these nations \u231ebefore you\u231f, and you will dispossess nations larger and more numerous than you. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:24",
"text": "Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, it shall be yours; your boundary shall be from the desert and Lebanon from the river, the river Euphrates, on up to the western sea. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:25",
"text": "No one can take a stand \u231eagainst you\u231f; your dread and your fear Yahweh your God will put on the \u231esurface\u231f of all the land \u231ewhere you tread\u231f, just as he \u231epromised\u231f to you. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:26",
"text": " \u201cSee, I am setting \u231ebefore you\u231f \u231etoday\u231f a blessing and a curse: "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:27",
"text": "the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:28",
"text": "and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but rather you turn from the way that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f to go after other gods that you have not known. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:29",
"text": " \u201cAnd it will happen that when Yahweh your God has brought you to \u231ethe land that you are going to\u231f, to take possession of it, then you shall pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:30",
"text": "(Are they not beyond the Jordan, \u231etoward the west\u231f, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Jordan Valley, opposite Gilgal beside the terebinth of Moreh?) "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:31",
"text": "For you are now about to cross the Jordan to go to take possession of the land that Yahweh, your God, is giving to you, and you will take possession of it and live in it, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Deuteronomy 11:32",
"text": "and you must diligently \u231eobserve\u231f all the rules and the regulations that I am setting \u231ebefore you\u231f \u231etoday\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:1",
"text": " \u201cThese are the rules and the regulations \u231ethat you must diligently observe\u231f in the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, has given to you to take possession of it, during all the days that you are living on the land. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:2",
"text": " You must completely demolish all of the places there where they served their gods, that is, the nations whom you are about to dispossess, on the high mountains, and on the hills and under each leafy green tree. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:3",
"text": "And you shall break down their altars, and you shall smash their stone pillars, and their Asherah poles you must burn with fire, and the images of their gods you shall hew down, and you shall blot out their names from that place. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:4",
"text": "You shall not worship Yahweh your God like this. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:5",
"text": "\u231eBut only\u231f to the place that Yahweh your God will choose from all of your tribes to place his name there as his dwelling shall you seek, and there you shall go. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:6",
"text": "And you shall bring there your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and \u231eyour donations\u231f and your votive gifts and your freewill offerings and the firstling of your herd and your flock. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:7",
"text": "And you shall eat there \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice \u231ein all your endeavors\u231f, you and your family in which Yahweh your God has blessed you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:8",
"text": " \u201cYou must not do just as we are doing here \u231etoday\u231f, \u231eeach according to all that is right in his eyes\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:9",
"text": "For you have not come up to now to the resting place and to the inheritance that Yahweh your God is giving to you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:10",
"text": "But you will cross the Jordan, and you will settle in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give rest to you from all your enemies from all around, and you will live securely, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:11",
"text": "\u231eand then\u231f at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there, there you shall bring all the things I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and \u231eyour donations\u231f, and all of the choice things, your votive gifts that you vow to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:12",
"text": "And you shall rejoice \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God, you and your sons and your daughters and your slaves and your slave women and the Levite who is in your \u231etowns\u231f, because there is not for him a plot of ground and an inheritance with you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:13",
"text": " \u201cTake care for yourself so that you do not offer your burnt offerings at just any place that you happen to see, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:14",
"text": "\u231ebut only\u231f at the place that Yahweh will choose among one of your tribes; there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all the things that I am commanding you. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:15",
"text": " \u201cBut \u231ewhenever you desire\u231f you may slaughter, and you may eat meat according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you in all of your \u231etowns\u231f; the unclean and the clean may eat it just as they would the gazelle and as the deer. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:16",
"text": "Only the blood you must not eat, but on the ground you must pour it like water. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:17",
"text": "You are not allowed to eat in your \u231etowns\u231f the tithe of your grain and your wine and your olive oil and the firstborn of your herd and your flock and all of your votive gifts that you vowed and your freewill offering and \u231eyour donations\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:18",
"text": "But only \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God you shall eat it, at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite who is in your \u231etowns\u231f, and you must rejoice \u231ebefore\u231f your God \u231ein all your undertakings\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:19",
"text": "\u231eTake care\u231f so that you do not neglect the Levite all of your days on your land. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:20",
"text": " \u201cWhen Yahweh your God enlarges your territory just as he has \u231epromised\u231f to you, and you say \u2018I want to eat some meat,\u2019 \u231ebecause you want it\u231f, \u231ewhenever you desire\u231f you may eat meat. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:21",
"text": "If the place that Yahweh your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, and you slaughter any of your herd and any of your flock that Yahweh has given to you just as I have commanded you, then you may eat whenever you desire in your \u231etowns\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:22",
"text": "Surely just as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so both the unclean and the clean together may eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:23",
"text": "Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:24",
"text": "You shall not eat it, but on the ground you shall pour it out like water. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:25",
"text": "You shall not eat it, so that \u231eit will go well\u231f for you and your children after you, because then you will be doing what is right in the eyes of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:26",
"text": "Only your holy objects \u231ethat are yours\u231f and your votive gifts you must carry and you must bring to the place that Yahweh will choose. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:27",
"text": "And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood on the altar of Yahweh your God, and the blood of your sacrifices you shall pour out on the altar of Yahweh your God, but the meat you may eat. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:28",
"text": "\u231eBe careful to obey\u231f all these things that I am commanding you, so that \u231eit will go well\u231f for you and for your children after you \u231eforever\u231f, because then you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:29",
"text": " \u201cWhen Yahweh your God has cut off the nations whom you are \u231eabout to go to\u231f, to dispossess them \u231ebefore you\u231f, and you have dispossessed them, and you live in their land, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:30",
"text": "\u231etake care\u231f so that you are not ensnared \u231einto imitating them\u231f after their being destroyed from \u231ebefore you\u231f, and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018How did these nations serve their gods, and thus \u231eI myself\u231f want to do also.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:31",
"text": "You must not do so toward Yahweh your God, because of every detestable thing they have done for their gods Yahweh hates, for even their sons and their daughters they would burn in the fire to their gods. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Deuteronomy 12:32",
"text": " All of the things that I am commanding you, \u231eyou must diligently observe\u231f; you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:1",
"text": "\u201cIf a prophet stands up in your midst or a dreamer of dreams and he gives to you a sign or wonder, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:2",
"text": "and the sign or the wonder comes about that he spoke to you, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Let us go after other gods (those whom you have not known), and let us serve them,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:3",
"text": "you must not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer, for Yahweh your God \u231eis testing you to know whether you love\u231f Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your inner self. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:4",
"text": "You shall go after Yahweh your God, and him you shall revere, and his commandment you shall keep, and to his voice you shall listen, and him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:5",
"text": "But that prophet or the dreamer of that dream shall be executed, for he spoke falsely about Yahweh your God, the one bringing you out from the land of Egypt and the one redeeming you from the house of slavery, in order to seduce you from the way that Yahweh your God commanded you to go in it; so in this way you shall purge the evil from your midst. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:6",
"text": " \u201cIf your brother, the son of your mother or your son or your daughter \u231eor your wife whom you embrace\u231f or \u231eyour intimate friend\u231f in secrecy \u231esays\u231f, \u2018Let us go and let us serve other gods!\u2019 gods that you and your ancestors have not known, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:7",
"text": "from among the gods of the people who are around you, \u231ethose near you or those far from you\u231f, from one end of the earth and up to the other end of the earth, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:8",
"text": "you must not give in to him, and you shall not listen to him, and your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall not have compassion, and you shall not cover up for him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:9",
"text": "But you shall certainly kill him; your hand shall be first against him to kill him and next the hand of all of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:10",
"text": "And you shall stone him with stones and let him die, for he tried to seduce you from Yahweh your God, the one bringing you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:11",
"text": "And all of Israel shall hear, and they shall fear, and \u231ethey shall not continue to act\u231f according to this evil thing in your midst. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:12",
"text": " \u201cIf you hear in one of your towns which Yahweh your God is giving to you to live in, someone \u231esaying that\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:13",
"text": "\u231eworthless men\u231f have gone out from your midst and have seduced the inhabitants of their town, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Let us go and serve other gods!\u2019 whom you have not known, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:14",
"text": "then you shall inquire and examine and interrogate thoroughly, and, look! It is true; the thing has actually been done, this detestable thing in your midst, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:15",
"text": "then you shall certainly strike down the inhabitants of that town with the \u231eedge\u231f of the sword; you shall destroy it and everything in it, its domestic animals with the \u231eedge\u231f of the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:16",
"text": "And then you shall gather all of its booty into the middle of its public square, and you shall burn the town and all of its war-booty totally for Yahweh your God, and it shall be \u231ea pile of rubble forever\u231f; it shall not be built again. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:17",
"text": "And let not something cling to your hand from the things devoted to destruction, so that Yahweh may turn back \u231efrom his burning anger\u231f, and he may show compassion to you and he may continue to show compassion and so multiply you \u231ejust as he swore\u231f to your ancestors, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Deuteronomy 13:18",
"text": "if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all of his commandments that I am commanding to you \u231etoday\u231f so as to do the right thing in the eyes of Yahweh your God.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:1",
"text": "\u201cYou are children of Yahweh your God; therefore you must not gash yourself, and \u231eyou must not make your forehead bald\u231f for the dead. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:2",
"text": "For you are a people holy to Yahweh your God, and you Yahweh has chosen to be a treasured possession from among all of the peoples that are on the surface of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:3",
"text": " You shall not eat any detestable thing. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:4",
"text": "These are the animals you may eat: ox, \u231esheep, goats\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:5",
"text": "deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:6",
"text": "And any animal having a split hoof and so \u231ea dividing of the hoof into two parts\u231f \u231eand that chews the cud\u231f among the animals\u2014that animal you may eat. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:7",
"text": "Only these you may not eat from \u231ethose chewing the cud\u231f and from \u231ethose having a division of the hoof\u231f: the camel and the hare and the coney, because \u231ethey chew the cud\u231f, but they do not divide the hoof; they are therefore unclean for you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:8",
"text": "And also the pig \u231ebecause it has a division of the hoof\u231f \u231ebut does not chew the cud\u231f; it is unclean for you; from their meat you shall not eat, and you shall not touch their \u231ecarcasses\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:9",
"text": " \u201cThis is what you shall eat from all that is in the water: \u231eeverything\u231f \u231ethat has fins and scales\u231f you may eat. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:10",
"text": "But \u231eanything that does not have\u231f fins and scales, you may not eat, for it is unclean for you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:11",
"text": " \u201cAll of the birds that are clean you may eat. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:12",
"text": "Now these are the ones you shall not eat \u231eany of them\u231f: the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:13",
"text": "and the red kite and the black kite or \u231eany kind of falcon\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:14",
"text": "and any kind of crow according to its kind, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:15",
"text": "and the \u231eostrich\u231f and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:16",
"text": "the little owl and the great owl and the barn owl, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:17",
"text": "and the desert owl and the carrion vulture and the cormorant, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:18",
"text": "and the stork and the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:19",
"text": "And also all of \u231ethe winged insects\u231f; they are unclean for you; you shall not eat them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:20",
"text": "You may eat any clean bird. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:21",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not eat any carcass; you may give it to the alien who is in your \u231etowns\u231f, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; you may not boil a kid in its mother\u2019s milk. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:22",
"text": " \u201cCertainly you must give a tithe of all the yield of your seed, \u231ewhich comes forth from your field year after year\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:23",
"text": "And you shall eat \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God in the place that he will choose to make to dwell his name there the tithe of your grain, your wine and your olive oil and the firstling of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to revere Yahweh your God \u231ealways\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:24",
"text": "But if \u231ethe distance is too great for you\u231f, so that you are not able to transport it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose to set his name there, it is too far from you, when Yahweh your God will bless you, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:25",
"text": "then in that case \u231eyou may exchange for money\u231f, and you shall take the money to your hand and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:26",
"text": "You may spend the money for anything \u231ethat you desire\u231f, for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for anything \u231ethat you desire\u231f, and you shall eat it there \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:27",
"text": "And as to the Levite who is in your \u231etowns\u231f, you shall not neglect him, because there is not a plot of ground for him and an inheritance along with you. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:28",
"text": " \u201cAt the end of three years you shall bring out all of the tithe of your yield for that year, and you shall store it in your \u231etowns\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Deuteronomy 14:29",
"text": "And so the Levite may come, because there is no plot of ground for him or an inheritance with you, and the alien also may come and the orphan and the widow that are in your \u231etowns\u231f, and \u231ethey may eat their fill\u231f, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all of the work of your hand that you undertake.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:1",
"text": "\u201cAt the end of seven years you shall grant a remission of debt. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:2",
"text": "And this is the manner of the remission of debt: every \u231ecreditor\u231f shall remit his claim that he holds against his neighbor, and he shall not exact payment from his brother because there a remission of debt has been proclaimed unto Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:3",
"text": "With respect to the foreigner you may exact payment, but \u231eyou must remit\u231f what shall be owed to you with respect to your brother. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:4",
"text": "Nevertheless, there shall not be among you a poor person, because Yahweh will certainly bless you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, to take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:5",
"text": "If only you listen well to the voice of Yahweh your God \u231eby observing diligently\u231f all of these commandments that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:6",
"text": "When Yahweh your God has blessed you, just as he \u231epromised\u231f to you, then you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow from them, and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:7",
"text": "If there is a poor person among you from among one of your brothers in one of your \u231etowns\u231f that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, and you shall not shut your hand toward \u231eyour brother who is poor\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:8",
"text": "But you shall certainly open your hand for him, and \u231eyou shall willingly lend\u231f to him enough to meet his need, \u231ewhatever it is\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:9",
"text": "\u231eTake care\u231f so that there will not be \u231ea thought of wickedness\u231f in your heart, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,\u2019 \u231eand you view your needy neighbor with hostility\u231f, and so you do not give to him, and he might cry out against you to Yahweh, and \u231eyou would incur guilt against yourself\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:10",
"text": "By all means you must give to him, and \u231eyou must not be discontented\u231f at your giving to him, because on account of this very thing, Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and \u231ein all that you undertake\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:11",
"text": "For the poor will not cease to be \u231eamong you\u231f in the land; therefore I am commanding you, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018You shall willingly open your hand to your brother, to your needy and to your poor that are in your land.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:12",
"text": " If your relative who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you, and he or she has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall send that person out \u231efree\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:13",
"text": "And when you send him out free from you, you shall not send him away empty-handed. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:14",
"text": "You shall generously supply him from among your flocks and from your threshing floor and from your press; according to that with which Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:15",
"text": "And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you thus \u231etoday\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:16",
"text": "And then if it will happen that he says to you, \u2018\u231eI do not want to go out\u231f from you,\u2019 because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him to be with you; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:17",
"text": "then you shall take an awl, and you shall thrust it through his earlobe and into the door, and he shall be to you \u231ea slave forever\u231f; and you shall also do likewise for your slave woman. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:18",
"text": "It shall not be hard in your eyes \u231ewhen you send him forth free\u231f, because for six years he has served you worth twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you \u231ein whatever you will do\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:19",
"text": " \u201cEvery firstling male that is born of your herd and of your flock you shall consecrate to Yahweh your God; you shall not do work with the firstling of your ox, and you shall not shear the firstling of your flock. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:20",
"text": "Rather \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f your God you shall eat it year by year at the place Yahweh will choose, you and your household. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:21",
"text": "But if there is a physical defect in it, such as lameness or blindness, any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:22",
"text": "In your \u231etowns\u231f you shall eat it, the unclean and the clean together may eat it, just as they eat the gazelle and as they eat the deer. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Deuteronomy 15:23",
"text": "But you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:1",
"text": "\u201cObserve the month of Abib, and you shall keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out from Egypt by night. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:2",
"text": "And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to Yahweh your God from among your flock and herd at the place that Yahweh will choose, to let his name dwell there. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:3",
"text": "You shall not eat \u231ewith it\u231f anything leavened; seven days you shall eat \u231ewith it\u231f unleavened bread of affliction, because in haste you went out from the land of Egypt, so that you will remember the day of your going out from the land of Egypt all the days of your life. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:4",
"text": "And leaven shall not be seen with you in any of your territory for seven days, and none of the meat that you will slaughter on the evening on the first day shall remain overnight until morning. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:5",
"text": "You are not allowed to offer the Passover sacrifice in one of your \u231etowns\u231f that Yahweh your God is giving to you, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:6",
"text": "but only at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there; you shall offer the Passover sacrifice \u231ein the evening at sunset\u231f, at the designated time of your going out from Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:7",
"text": "And you shall cook, and you shall eat it at the place that Yahweh your God will choose; and you may turn in the morning and go to your tents. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:8",
"text": "Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be an assembly for Yahweh your God; you shall not do work. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:9",
"text": " \u201cYou shall count off seven weeks for you; \u231efrom the time you begin to harvest the standing grain\u231f you shall begin to count seven weeks. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:10",
"text": "And then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the measure of the freewill offering of your hand that you shall give just as Yahweh your God has blessed you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:11",
"text": "And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite that is in your \u231etowns\u231f and the alien and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst in the place that Yahweh your God will choose to let his name dwell there. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:12",
"text": "And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so \u231eyou shall diligently observe\u231f these rules. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:13",
"text": " \u201cYou shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for yourselves seven days \u231eat the gathering in of the produce\u231f from your threshing floor and from your press; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:14",
"text": "and you shall rejoice at your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite and the orphan and the widow that are in your \u231etowns\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:15",
"text": "Seven days you shall celebrate your feast to Yahweh your God at the place Yahweh will choose, for Yahweh your God shall bless you in all of your produce and in all of the work of your hand, and you shall surely be rejoicing. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:16",
"text": "Three times in the year all of your males shall appear \u231ebefore \u231f Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f empty-handed. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:17",
"text": "Each person \u231eshall give as he is able\u231f, that is, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:18",
"text": " \u201cYou shall appoint judges and officials for you in all your \u231etowns\u231f that Yahweh your God is giving to you throughout your tribes, and you shall render for the people \u231erighteous judgments\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:19",
"text": "You shall not subvert justice; you shall not \u231eshow partiality\u231f; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind the eyes of the wise and misrepresents the words of the righteous. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:20",
"text": "\u231eJustice, only justice\u231f you shall pursue, so that you may live, and you shall take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:21",
"text": "You shall not plant for yourselves \u231ean Asherah pole\u231f beside the altar of Yahweh your God that you make for yourselves. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Deuteronomy 16:22",
"text": "And you shall not set up for yourselves a stone pillar, a thing that Yahweh your God hates. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:1",
"text": "\u201cYou shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or sheep \u231ethat has a physical defect\u231f \u231eof anything seriously wrong\u231f, for that is a detestable thing to Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:2",
"text": "If there is found in one of your \u231etowns\u231f that Yahweh your God is giving to you a man or a woman that does evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God to transgress his covenant "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:3",
"text": "and by going and serving other gods and so he bows down to them and to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of heaven \u231ewhich I have forbidden\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:4",
"text": "and it is reported to you or you hear about it and you enquire about it thoroughly and, indeed, the trustworthiness of the deed has been established, it \u231ehas occurred\u231f, this detestable thing, in Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:5",
"text": "then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates; that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them with stones \u231eto death\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:6",
"text": "\u231eOn the evidence of\u231f two or three witnesses \u231ethe person shall be put to death\u231f. The person shall not be put to death by the mouth of one witness. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:7",
"text": "The hand of the witnesses shall be first against the person to kill the person, and afterward the hands of all the people, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:8",
"text": " \u201c\u231eIf a matter is too difficult for you\u231f, for example disputes between blood and blood, between legal claim and legal claim and between assault and assault and between matters of discernment in your \u231etowns\u231f, then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose; "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:9",
"text": "then you shall go to the priests and the Levites and to the judge who will be in office in those days, and you shall enquire, and they shall announce to you \u231ethe verdict\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd \u231eyou shall carry out exactly the decision\u231f that they announced to you from that place that Yahweh will choose, and \u231eyou shall diligently observe\u231f according to all that they instruct you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:11",
"text": "And so according to \u231ethe instruction of the law\u231f that they teach you and according to the decisions that they say to you, you shall do; you shall not turn from the word that they tell you to the right or to the left. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:12",
"text": "And the man who treats with contempt so as not to listen to the priest who is standing to minister on behalf of Yahweh your God or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:13",
"text": "And all the people will hear and will be afraid, and they will not behave presumptuously again. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:14",
"text": " \u201cWhen you have come to that land that Yahweh your God is giving to you and you have taken possession of it and you have settled in it, and you say, \u2018I will set over me a king like all the nations that are around me,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:15",
"text": "indeed, you may set a king over you whom Yahweh your God will choose, from the midst of your countrymen you must set a king over you; you are not allowed to appoint over you a man, a foreigner, who is not your countryman. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:16",
"text": "Except, he may \u231enot make numerous\u231f for himself horses, and he may not allow the people to to go to Egypt \u231ein order to increase horses\u231f, for Yahweh has said to you that \u231eyou may never return\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:17",
"text": "And he must not \u231eacquire many\u231f wives for himself, so that his heart would turn aside; and \u231ehe must not accumulate silver and gold for himself excessively\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:18",
"text": " \u201c\u231eAnd then\u231f \u231ewhen he is sitting\u231f on the throne of his kingdom, then he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll \u231ebefore\u231f the Levitical priests. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:19",
"text": "And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to revere Yahweh your God by \u231ediligently observing\u231f all the word of this law and these rules, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Deuteronomy 17:20",
"text": "so as not to exalt his heart above his countrymen and not to turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left, so that \u231ehe may reign long over his kingdom\u231f, he and his children in the midst of Israel.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:1",
"text": "\u201cAnd there shall not be for the Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, a plot of ground and an inheritance with Israel, rather they may eat an offering made by fire as their inheritance, for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:2",
"text": "And there shall not be for them an inheritance of land in the midst of his brothers; rather Yahweh is his inheritance, just as he \u231epromised\u231f to them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:3",
"text": " Now this shall be the share of the priest from the people, from \u231ethose who sacrifice the sacrifice\u231f, whether it is an ox, sheep, or goat, and they shall give the priest the shoulder and the jawbones and the stomach. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:4",
"text": "The firstfruits of your grain, your wine, and your olive oil and the firstfruits of the fleece of your sheep you shall give to him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:5",
"text": "For Yahweh your God has chosen him from among all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, he and his sons \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:6",
"text": " And if a Levite comes from one of your \u231etowns\u231f from \u231eanywhere in Israel\u231f where he is residing, \u231ehe may come whenever he desires\u231f, to the place that Yahweh will choose, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:7",
"text": "and he may minister in the name of Yahweh his God, just like all his brothers, \u231ethe Levites who stand there\u231f \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:8",
"text": "They shall eat \u231eequal portions\u231f, apart from what he may receive from the sale of his patrimony. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:9",
"text": " \u201cWhen you come to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:10",
"text": "There shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or \u231eone who practices divination\u231f, or an interpreter of signs, or an augur, or sorcerer, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:11",
"text": "or one who casts magic spells, or one who consults a spirit of the dead, or spiritist, or one who inquires of the dead. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:12",
"text": "For everyone doing these things is detestable to Yahweh, and because of these detestable things Yahweh your God is driving them out from \u231ebefore you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:13",
"text": "You must be blameless before Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:14",
"text": "For these nations that you are about to dispossess listen to interpreters of signs and to diviners, but Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do the same. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:15",
"text": " \u201cYahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from your countrymen, and to him you shall listen. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:16",
"text": "This is \u231eaccording to all that you asked\u231f from Yahweh your God at Horeb, on the day of the assembly, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018\u231eI do not want again to hear\u231f the voice of Yahweh my God, and I do not want to see again this great fire, so that I may not die!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:17",
"text": "And Yahweh said to me, \u2018They are right in what they have said. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:18",
"text": "I will raise up a prophet for them \u231efrom among their countrymen\u231f like you, and I will place my words into his mouth, and he shall speak to them \u231eeverything that I command him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:19",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f the man that will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I will hold accountable. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:20",
"text": "However, the prophet that behaves presumptuously by speaking a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, and who speaks in the name of other gods, then that prophet shall die.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:21",
"text": "And if you say \u231eto yourself\u231f, \u2018How can we know the word that Yahweh has not spoken to him?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Deuteronomy 18:22",
"text": "Whenever what the prophet spoke in the name of Yahweh, the thing does not take place and does not come about, that is the thing that Yahweh has not spoken to him. Presumptuously the prophet spoke it; you shall not fear that prophet.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:1",
"text": "\u201cWhen Yahweh your God has \u231eexterminated\u231f the nations concerning whom Yahweh your God is giving to you their land, and you have dispossessed them, and you have settled in their towns and in their houses, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:2",
"text": "you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:3",
"text": "You shall prepare the roads for yourselves, and you shall divide the regions of your land into thirds that Yahweh your God gives you as a possession, so that \u231eit will be available for any manslayer to flee there\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:4",
"text": " \u201cNow this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live there who has killed his neighbor \u231eunintentionally\u231f, and he did not hate him \u231epreviously\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:5",
"text": "\u231eFor example\u231f, when somebody goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and the iron head slips from the handle of the tool and strikes his neighbor and he dies, then he may flee to one of these cities, and so he may live. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:6",
"text": "He does this lest the avenger of blood might pursue after the killer, because \u231ehe is hot with anger\u231f and he overtakes him, because it is a long distance to the city of refuge, and so \u231ehe kills him\u231f, but \u231ehe did not deserve a death sentence\u231f, because he was not hating him \u231ebefore\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:7",
"text": "Therefore I am commanding you, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018You shall set apart three cities.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:8",
"text": "Then if Yahweh your God enlarges your territory just as he swore to your ancestors and gives to you all the land that he \u231epromised\u231f to give to your ancestors, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:9",
"text": "then \u231eif you diligently observe this entire commandment\u231f that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f by loving Yahweh your God and by going in his ways \u231eat all times\u231f, then you shall add three more cities for yourselves to these three. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:10",
"text": "Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance and thereby bloodguilt would be on you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:11",
"text": " But if someone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him \u231eand murders him\u231f, and the murderer flees to one of these cities, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:12",
"text": "then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and they shall give him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall be put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:13",
"text": "Your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, \u231eso that good will be directed toward you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:14",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not move the boundary marker of your neighbor that \u231eformer generations\u231f set up on your property in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:15",
"text": "\u231eThe testimony of a single witness may not be used to convict\u231f with respect to any crime and for any wrongdoing in any offense that a person committed; on the \u231eevidence\u231f of two witnesses or on the \u231eevidence\u231f of three witnesses \u231ea charge shall be sustained\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:16",
"text": "If \u231ea malicious witness\u231f gets up \u231eto accuse\u231f anyone to testify against him falsely, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:17",
"text": "then the two men \u231eto whom the legal dispute pertains\u231f shall stand \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, \u231ebefore\u231f the priests and the judges who are in office in those days. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:18",
"text": "Then judges shall make a thorough inquiry, and if it turns out that the witness is a false witness and he testified falsely against his brother, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:19",
"text": "then you shall do to him as he meant to do to his brother, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:20",
"text": "\u231eAnd the rest\u231f shall hear and shall fear, and \u231ethey shall not continue to do such a thing again\u231f as this evil thing in your midst. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Deuteronomy 19:21",
"text": "\u231eYou must show no pity\u231f: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:1",
"text": "\u201cIf you go out to war against your enemies and you see a horse and a chariot, \u231ean army\u231f larger that you, you shall not be afraid because of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, the one who brought you from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:2",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f when you approach the battle, then the priest shall come near and speak to the troops. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:3",
"text": "And he shall say to them, \u2018Hear, Israel, you are near \u231etoday\u231f to the battle against your enemies; \u231edo not lose heart\u231f; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not panic, and you shall not be terrified \u231ebecause of them\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:4",
"text": "for Yahweh your God is going with you to fight for you against your enemies to help you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:5",
"text": "And the officials shall speak to the troops, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to this house, so that he does not die in battle and \u231eanother man\u231f dedicates it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:6",
"text": "And who is the man that has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed it? Let him go and let him return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and \u231eanother man\u231f enjoys it. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:7",
"text": "And who is the man who got engaged to a woman and has not married her? Let him go and let him return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and \u231eanother man\u231f marries her.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:8",
"text": "And the officials shall continue to speak to the troops, and they shall say, \u2018\u231eWhat man\u231f is afraid \u231eand disheartened\u231f? Let him go, and let him return to his house, and let him not cause the heart of his brothers to melt like his.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:9",
"text": "And \u231ewhen the officials have finished speaking\u231f to the army troops, then they shall appoint commanders of divisions at the head of the troops. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:10",
"text": " \u201cWhen you approach a city to fight against it, \u231eyou must offer it peace\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:11",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f if \u231ethey accept your terms of peace\u231f and \u231ethey surrender to you\u231f, \u231eand then\u231f all the people \u231einhabiting it\u231f shall be forced labor for you, and they shall serve you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:12",
"text": "But if they \u231edo not accept your terms of peace\u231f and they want to make war with you, then you shall lay siege against it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:13",
"text": "And Yahweh your God will give it into your hand, and you shall kill all its males with the \u231eedge\u231f of the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:14",
"text": "Only the women and the little children and the domestic animals and all that shall be in the city, all of its spoil you may loot for yourselves, and you may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that Yahweh you God has given to you. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:15",
"text": "Thus you shall do to all the far cities from you, which are not from the cities of these nations located \u231enearby\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:16",
"text": " But from the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, you shall not let anything live that breathes. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:17",
"text": "Rather, you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, just as Yahweh your God has commanded you, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:18",
"text": "so that they may not teach you to do like all their detestable things that they do for their gods and thereby you sin against Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:19",
"text": " \u201cIf you besiege a town for many days to make war against it in order to seize it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them, for you may eat from them, and so you must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field humans that they should come in siege \u231eagainst you\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Deuteronomy 20:20",
"text": "Only the trees that you know \u231eare not fruit trees\u231f you may destroy and you may cut down, and you may build siege works against that city that is making war with you \u231euntil it falls\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:1",
"text": "\u201cIf someone slain is found in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to take possession of it and is lying in the field, and it is not known who \u231ekilled him\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:2",
"text": "then your elders and your judges shall go out and shall measure the distance to the cities that are around the slain one. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:3",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f the nearest city to the slain one, the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked with in the field, that has not pulled a yoke, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:4",
"text": "and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a \u231ewadi that flows with water all year\u231f and that has not been plowed and has not been sown; then \u231ethere they shall break the neck of the heifer in the wadi\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:5",
"text": "Then the priests, the descendants of Levi, shall come near, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to bless in the name of Yahweh, and every legal dispute and every case of assault will be \u231esubject to their ruling\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:6",
"text": "And all of the elders of that city nearest to the slain person shall wash their hands over the heifer with the broken neck in the wadi. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:7",
"text": "And they shall declare, and they shall say, \u2018Our hands did not shed this blood, and our eyes did not see what was done. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:8",
"text": "Forgive your people, Israel, whom you redeemed, Yahweh, and do not \u231eallow\u231f the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, and let them be forgiven with regard to blood.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:9",
"text": "And so you shall purge the innocent blood from your midst, because you must do the right thing in the eyes of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:10",
"text": " \u201cWhen you go out for battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God gives them into your hand, and you lead the captives away, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:11",
"text": "and you see among the captives a woman beautiful in appearance, and you become attached to her and you want to take her as a wife, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:12",
"text": "then you shall bring her into your household, and she shall shave her head, and she shall trim her nails. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:13",
"text": "And she shall remove the clothing of her captivity from her, and she shall remain in your house, and she shall mourn her father and her mother \u231ea full month\u231f, and after this \u231eyou may have sex with her\u231f, and you may marry her, and she may \u231ebecome your wife\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:14",
"text": "And then if you do not take delight in her, then you shall let her go \u231eto do whatever she wants\u231f, but you shall not treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:15",
"text": " \u201cIf a man has two wives, and the one is loved and the other one is disliked and the one loved and the one that is disliked have borne for him sons, if it happens that the firstborn son \u231ebelongs to the one that is disliked\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:16",
"text": "nevertheless \u231eit will be the case that\u231f on the day of bestowing his inheritance upon his sons, he will not be allowed to treat as the firstborn son the son of the beloved wife \u231ein preference to\u231f the son of the disliked wife, who is the firstborn son. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:17",
"text": "But he shall acknowledge the firstborn son of the disliked wife \u231eby giving\u231f him a double portion of \u231eall that he has\u231f, for he is the firstfruit of his vigor; to him is the legal claim of the birthright. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:18",
"text": " \u201c\u231eIf a man has a stubborn and rebellious son\u231f who \u231edoes not listen to\u231f the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, and he does not obey them, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:19",
"text": "then his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and they shall bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his \u231etown\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:20",
"text": "and they shall say to the elders of his city, \u2018This our son is stubborn and rebellious; \u231ehe does not obey us\u231f, and he is a glutton and a drunkard.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:21",
"text": "Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones and let him die; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all of Israel will hear, and they will fear. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:22",
"text": " \u201cAnd \u231eif a man commits a sin punishable by death\u231f, and so he is put to death and you hang him on a tree, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Deuteronomy 21:23",
"text": "his dead body shall not hang on the tree, but certainly you shall bury him on that day, for cursed by God is one that is being hung; so you shall not defile your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:1",
"text": "\u201cYou shall not watch the ox of your neighbor or his sheep or goat straying and ignore them; certainly you shall return them to your neighbor. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:2",
"text": "And if your countryman is not near you or you do not know \u231ewho he is\u231f, then you shall bring it \u231eto your household\u231f, and it shall be with you \u231euntil your countryman seeks after it\u231f, and you shall return it to him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:3",
"text": "And thus also you shall do regarding his donkey, and thus you shall do concerning his garment, and so you shall do with respect to all of the lost property of your countryman that is lost from him and you find it; you are not allowed to withhold help. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:4",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not see the donkey of your neighbor or his ox fallen on the road and you ignore them; certainly you must help them get up along with him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:5",
"text": " \u201cThe apparel of a man shall not be put on a woman, and a man shall not wear the clothing of a woman, because everyone who does these things is detestable to Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:6",
"text": " \u201cIf a bird\u2019s nest is found \u231ebefore you\u231f on the road in any tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs, and the mother is lying down on the chicks or the eggs, you shall not take the mother along with the young; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:7",
"text": "you shall certainly let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourselves; do this \u231eso that it may go well\u231f for you and \u231eyou may live long in the land\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:8",
"text": " \u201cWhen you build a new house then you shall make a parapet wall for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house \u231eif anyone should fall from it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:9",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not sow your vineyard with differing kinds of seed, so that you shall not forfeit \u231ethe whole harvest\u231f, both the seed that you sowed and the yield of the vineyard. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:10",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not plow with an ox and with a donkey yoked together. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:11",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not wear woven material made of wool and linen mixed together. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:12",
"text": " \u201cYou shall make tassels for yourselves on the four corners of your clothing with which you cover yourself. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:13",
"text": " \u201cIf a man takes a woman and \u231ehe has sex with her\u231f, but he then \u231edislikes her\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:14",
"text": "and \u231ehe accuses her falsely\u231f, and \u231ehe defames her\u231f, and he says \u2018This woman I took and I lay with her and \u231eI discovered that she was not a virgin\u231f,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:15",
"text": "then in defense the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and together they must bring out the evidence of the virginity of the young woman to display it to the elders of the city \u231eat the city gate\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:16",
"text": "And then the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, \u2018I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he now \u231edislikes\u231f her, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:17",
"text": "and now look \u231ehe has accused her falsely\u231f, saying, \u201cI did not find \u231eyour daughter a virgin\u231f,\u201d but here is evidence of the virginity of my daughter\u2019; and they shall spread the cloth out \u231ebefore\u231f the elders of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:18",
"text": "Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:19",
"text": "Then they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and they shall give them to the father of the young woman, for \u231ehe defamed an Israelite young woman\u231f, and \u231eshe shall become his wife\u231f; he will not be allowed \u231eto divorce her\u231f all his days. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:20",
"text": " \u201cBut if \u231ethis charge\u231f was true, \u231eand the signs of virginity were not found\u231f for the young woman, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:21",
"text": "and then they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel \u231eby playing the harlot\u231f in the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:22",
"text": " \u201cIf a man is found lying \u231ewith a married woman\u231f, then they shall both die; \u231eboth of them\u231f, the man who lay with the woman and the woman also, so you shall purge the evil from Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:23",
"text": " \u201cIf it happens that a young woman, a virgin, is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the town and lies with her, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:24",
"text": "then you shall bring out \u231eboth of them\u231f to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man because he violated his neighbor\u2019s wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:25",
"text": " \u201cBut if the man finds the young engaged woman in the field and the man overpowers her and \u231ehe has sex with her\u231f, then the man only must die who lay with her. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:26",
"text": "But you shall not do anything to the young woman, for there is not reckoned against the young woman \u231ea sin deserving death\u231f; \u231eit is similar to when\u231f a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, \u231ea fellow human being\u231f, just so is this \u231ecase\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:27",
"text": "for he found her in the field, the engaged young woman cried out, but there was no rescuer \u231eto help her\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:28",
"text": " \u201cIf a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and he seizes her and \u231ehe has sex with her\u231f and they are caught, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:29",
"text": "then \u231ethe man who lay with her\u231f shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become \u231ehis wife\u231f \u231ebecause\u231f he violated her, and he is not allowed to divorce her \u231eduring his lifetime\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Deuteronomy 22:30",
"text": " A man may not take the wife of his father, and so \u231ehe may not dishonor his father\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:1",
"text": "\u201cNo man \u231ewith crushed testicles\u231f or whose \u231emale organ is cut off\u231f may come into the assembly of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:2",
"text": " An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none \u231eof his descendants\u231f may come into the assembly of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:3",
"text": " An Ammonite or a Moabite may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none \u231eof his descendants\u231f may come into the assembly of Yahweh \u231eforever\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:4",
"text": "\u231ebecause\u231f they did not come to meet you with food and with water \u231ewhen you came out of Egypt\u231f, and also \u231ebecause\u231f they hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor, in Aram Naharaim to act against you to curse you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:5",
"text": "But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:6",
"text": "You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:7",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not abhor an Edomite, because he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian because you were an alien in his land. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:8",
"text": "The children that are born to them in the third generation may come \u231erepresenting them\u231f in the assembly of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:9",
"text": " \u201cIf you go out to encamp against your enemies, then you shall guard against doing anything evil. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:10",
"text": " \u201cIf there is among you a man that is not clean because of a seminal emission \u231eduring the night\u231f, he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:11",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f toward the \u231ecoming\u231f of the evening, he shall bathe with water, and at the going down of the sun, he may come to the midst of the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:12",
"text": " \u201cAnd there shall be for you a designated place outside the camp; \u231eand you shall go there to relieve yourself\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:13",
"text": "and a digging tool shall be included in addition to your other utensils for yourself; \u231eand then\u231f \u231ewhen you relieve yourself\u231f outside the camp you shall dig with it, and then you shall turn, and you shall cover your excrement. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:14",
"text": "For Yahweh your God is walking about in the midst of your camp to deliver you and \u231eto hand your enemies over to you before you\u231f, and so let your camp be holy, so that he shall not see in it \u231eanything indecent\u231f, and he shall turn away \u231efrom going with you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:15",
"text": " \u201cAnd you shall not hand over a slave to his master who has escaped and fled to you from his master. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:16",
"text": "He shall reside with you in your midst in the place that he chooses in one of \u231eyour towns wherever he pleases\u231f; you shall not oppress him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:17",
"text": " \u201cNo woman \u231eof Israel\u231f shall be a temple prostitute, and no man \u231eof Israel\u231f shall be a male shrine prostitute. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:18",
"text": "You may not bring the \u231ehire\u231f of a prostitute or \u231ethe earnings of a male prostitute\u231f into the house of Yahweh your God, for any vow offerings, because \u231eboth\u231f are a detestable thing to Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:19",
"text": " \u201c\u231eYou shall not charge your brother interest on money\u231f, interest on food, or interest on anything that one could lend on interest. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:20",
"text": "You may lend on interest to the foreigner, but to your countryman you may not lend on interest, so that Yahweh your God may bless you \u231ein all your undertakings\u231f in \u231ethe land where you are going\u231f, \u231ein order to take possession of it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:21",
"text": " \u201c\u231eWhen you make a vow\u231f to Yahweh your God, you shall not postpone \u231efulfillment of it\u231f, for certainly Yahweh your God shall require it from you and if postponed \u231eyou will incur guilt\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:22",
"text": "And \u231eif you refrain from vowing\u231f, \u231eyou shall not incur guilt\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:23",
"text": "The utterance of your lips \u231eyou must perform diligently\u231f just as you have vowed freely to Yahweh your God whatever it was that you promised with your mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:24",
"text": " \u201cWhen you come into the vineyard of your neighbor, then you may eat grapes \u231eas you please\u231f and \u231euntil you are full\u231f, but you shall not put any into your container. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Deuteronomy 23:25",
"text": " \u201cWhen you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck ears with your hand, but you may not \u231eswing\u231f a sickle among the standing grain of your neighbor.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:1",
"text": "\u201cWhen a man takes a wife and he marries her \u231eand then\u231f \u231eshe does not please him\u231f, because he found \u231esomething objectionable\u231f and writes her a letter of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:2",
"text": "and she goes from his house, and she goes out and becomes a wife \u231efor another man\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:3",
"text": "and then the second man dislikes her and he writes her a letter of divorce and places it into her hand and sends her from his house, or if the second man dies who took her \u231eto himself\u231f as a wife, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:4",
"text": "her first husband who sent her away is not allowed \u231eto take her again\u231f to become a wife to him after she has \u231ebeen defiled\u231f, for that is a detestable thing \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, and so you shall not mislead into sin the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:5",
"text": " \u201cWhen a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and \u231ehe shall not be obligated with anything\u231f; he shall be free from obligation, \u231eto stay at home\u231f for one year, and he shall bring joy to his wife that he took. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:6",
"text": " \u201cA person shall not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for \u231ehe is taking necessities of life as a pledge\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:7",
"text": " \u201cIf a man is \u231ecaught\u231f kidnapping somebody from among his countrymen, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and he treats him as a slave or he sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and so you shall purge the evil \u231efrom among you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:8",
"text": " Be watchful \u231ewith respect to\u231f an outbreak of any infectious skin disease, by being very careful and by acting according to all that the priests and the Levites have instructed you, just as I have commanded them, \u231eso you shall diligently observe\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:9",
"text": "So remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam on the journey \u231ewhen you went out from Egypt\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:10",
"text": " \u201cWhen you make a loan to your neighbor, a loan of any kind, you shall not go into his house \u231eto take his pledge\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:11",
"text": "You shall wait outside, and the man to whom you are lending, he shall bring the pledge outside to you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:12",
"text": "And if he is a needy man, you shall not sleep in his pledge. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:13",
"text": "You shall certainly return the pledge to him \u231eas the sun sets\u231f, so that he may sleep in his cloak and may bless you, and it shall be considered righteousness \u231eon your behalf\u231f \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:14",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not exploit a hired worker, who is needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from among your aliens who are in your land and in your \u231etowns\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:15",
"text": "On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go \u231edown\u231f, because he is poor and \u231ehis life depends on it\u231f; do this so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, \u231eand you incur guilt\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:16",
"text": " \u201cFathers shall not be put to death because of their children, and children shall not be put to death because of their fathers; each one shall be put to death for his own sin. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:17",
"text": "You shall not subvert the rights of an alien or an orphan, and you shall not take as pledge the garment of a widow. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:18",
"text": "And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that Yahweh your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this commandment. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:19",
"text": " \u201cWhen you reap your harvest in your field and you forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not return to get it, for it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:20",
"text": "When you beat off the fruit of your olive trees you shall not search through the branches afterward, for it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:21",
"text": " When you harvest grapes, you shall not glean your vineyards \u231eagain\u231f; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Deuteronomy 24:22",
"text": "And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:1",
"text": "\u201cWhen a legal dispute \u231etakes place\u231f between men and they come near to the court, and the judges judge with respect to them, then they shall declare the righteous to be in the right and they shall condemn the wicked, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:2",
"text": "then it will happen if the guilty one \u231edeserves beating\u231f, then the judge shall make him lie, and he shall beat him \u231ebefore him\u231f, \u231eaccording to\u231f \u231ethe prescribed number of lashes proportionate to the offense\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:3",
"text": "He may beat him with forty lashes, and he shall not do more than these, so that he will not beat more in addition to these many blows, and your countryman would be degraded before your eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:4",
"text": " \u201cYou shall not muzzle an ox \u231ewhen he is threshing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:5",
"text": " \u201cWhen brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a \u231eman of another family\u231f; her brother-in-law \u231eshall have sex with her\u231f, and he shall take her \u231eto himself\u231f as a wife, and he shall perform his duty as a brother-in-law with respect to her. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:6",
"text": "And then the firstborn that she bears \u231eshall represent his dead brother\u231f, so that his name is not blotted out from Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:7",
"text": "But if the man does not want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and she shall say, \u2018My brother-in-law refused \u231eto perpetuate his brother\u2019s name\u231f in Israel, for he is not willing \u231eto marry me\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:8",
"text": "Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him, and if he persists and says, \u2018\u231eI do not desire to\u231f marry her\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:9",
"text": "then his sister-in-law shall go near him before the eyes of the elders, and she shall pull off his sandal from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall \u231edeclare\u231f and she shall say, \u2018This is how it is done to the man who does not build the house of his brother.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:10",
"text": "And his \u231efamily\u231f shall be called in Israel, \u2018The house where the sandal was pulled off.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:11",
"text": " \u201cIf a man and his brother fight each other and the wife of the one man comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of his attacker and she stretches out her hand and she seizes his genitals, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:12",
"text": "then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not take pity. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:13",
"text": " \u201cThere shall not be \u231efor your use\u231f in your bag \u231etwo kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:14",
"text": "There shall not be in your house \u231efor your use\u231f \u231etwo kinds of measures\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:15",
"text": "Rather a full and honest weight shall be \u231efor your use\u231f; there shall be for you a full and honest \u231emeasure\u231f, so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you may be long. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:16",
"text": "For detestable to Yahweh your God is everyone who is doing such things, everyone who is acting dishonestly. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:17",
"text": " \u201cRemember what Amalek did to you on the journey when you went out from Egypt, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:18",
"text": "that he met you on the journey and attacked you, all those lagging behind you and when you were weary and worn out, and he did not fear God. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Deuteronomy 25:19",
"text": "\u231eAnd when\u231f Yahweh your God gives rest to you from all your enemies from around about you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance to take possession of it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you shall not forget!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:1",
"text": "\u201c\u231eAnd then\u231f when you come to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and you settle in it, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:2",
"text": "then you shall take from the firstfruit of all the fruit of the ground that you harvest from your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose to make his name to dwell there. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:3",
"text": "And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days, and you shall say, \u2018I declare \u231etoday\u231f to Yahweh your God that I have come into the land that Yahweh swore to our ancestors to give to us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:4",
"text": "Then the priest takes the basket from your hand and places it \u231ebefore\u231f the altar of Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:5",
"text": "And \u231eyou shall declare\u231f and you shall say \u231ebefore\u231f your God, \u2018My ancestor was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, and there he dwelt as an alien \u231efew in number\u231f, and there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:6",
"text": "And the Egyptians treated us badly, and they oppressed us and imposed on us hard labor. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:7",
"text": "And we cried to Yahweh, the God of our ancestors, and Yahweh heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:8",
"text": "And Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and with wonders. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:9",
"text": "And he brought us to this place and gave to us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:10",
"text": "And now, look, I am bringing the firstfruit of the fruit of the ground that you gave to me, Yahweh,\u2019 and you shall place it \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God, and you shall bow down \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:11",
"text": "And you shall celebrate with all of the bounty that Yahweh your God gave to you and to your family, you and the Levite and the alien who is in your midst. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:12",
"text": " \u201cWhen you are finished \u231egiving a tithe\u231f, all of the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, then you shall give to the Levite, to the alien, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and they may be satisfied. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:13",
"text": "And you shall say \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God, \u2018I have removed the sacred portion from the house and, moreover, I have given it to the Levite and to the alien and to the orphan and to the widow according to all your commandment that you commanded me; I have not transgressed any of your commandments, and I have not forgotten any of them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:14",
"text": "I have not eaten during my time of mourning, and I have not removed anything from it while being unclean, and I have not offered \u231eany of it\u231f to someone who has died. I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done all that you commanded me to do. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:15",
"text": "Look down from the dwelling place of your holiness, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land that you have given to us, as you swore to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:16",
"text": " \u201cThis day Yahweh your God is commanding you to do these rules and regulations, \u231eand you must observe them diligently\u231f with all your heart and with all your soul. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:17",
"text": "Yahweh you have declared \u231etoday\u231f to be for you as your God, and to go in his ways and to observe his rules and his commandments and his regulations and to listen to his voice. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:18",
"text": "And Yahweh has declared you \u231etoday\u231f to be for him as a people, a treasured possession, as he \u231epromised\u231f to you, and that you are to observe all his commandments, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Deuteronomy 26:19",
"text": "\u231eand that he then will set you\u231f high above all the nations that he has made for his praise and \u231efor fame\u231f and for honor and \u231efor you to be a holy people\u231f to Yahweh your God, as he \u231epromised\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:1",
"text": " Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cKeep all of the commandment that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:2",
"text": "And then on the day that you cross the Jordan to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, then you shall set up \u231efor yourselves\u231f large stones, and you shall paint them with lime, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:3",
"text": "and you shall write on them all the words of this law at your crossing, so that you may come into the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, \u231epromised\u231f to you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:4",
"text": "And \u231ewhen you cross the Jordan\u231f, you shall set up these stones that I am commanding you about \u231etoday\u231f on Mount Ebal, and you shall paint them with lime. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:5",
"text": "And you shall build an altar there for Yahweh your God, an altar of stone, but \u231eyou shall not use an iron tool to shape the stones\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:6",
"text": "You must build the altar of your God with unhewn stones, and you shall sacrifice on it burnt offerings to Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:7",
"text": "And you shall sacrifice fellowship offerings, and you shall eat them there, and you shall rejoice \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:8",
"text": "You shall write on the stone all of the words of this law very clearly.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:9",
"text": " Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, \u201cBe silent and hear, Israel, for this day you have become \u231ea people\u231f for Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:10",
"text": "And listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and observe his commandments and his rules that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:11",
"text": " And Moses charged the people on that day, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:12",
"text": "\u201cThese tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people \u231ewhen you cross\u231f the Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:13",
"text": "And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for delivering the curse: Reuben, Gad and Asher and Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:14",
"text": "And \u231ethe Levites shall declare\u231f, and they shall say to each man of Israel with a loud voice, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:15",
"text": "\u2018Cursed be the man that makes a divine image or a cast image, which is a detestable thing for Yahweh, the work of the hand of a skilled craftsman, and then sets it in a hiding place.\u2019 And \u231eall the people shall respond\u231f, \u2018Amen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:16",
"text": " \u2018Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.\u2019 And all of the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:17",
"text": " \u2018Cursed be the one who moves the boundary marker of his neighbor.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:18",
"text": " \u2018Cursed be the one who misleads a blind person on the road.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:19",
"text": " \u2018Cursed be the one who deprives the alien, the orphan, and the widow of justice.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:20",
"text": " \u2018Cursed be the one who lies with the wife of his father, because \u231ehe has dishonored his father\u2019s bed\u231f.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:21",
"text": " \u2018Cursed be the one who lies with any kind of animal.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:22",
"text": " \u2018Cursed be the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:23",
"text": " \u2018Cursed be the one who lies with his mother-in-law.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:24",
"text": " \u2018Cursed be the one who strikes down his neighbor in secret.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:25",
"text": " \u2018Cursed be the one who takes a bribe \u231eto murder an innocent person\u231f.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Deuteronomy 27:26",
"text": " \u2018Cursed be the one \u231ewho does not keep\u231f the words of this law, to observe them.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:1",
"text": "\u201cAnd it will happen that if you indeed listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, \u231eto diligently observe\u231f all his commandments that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f, then Yahweh your God will set you above all the nations of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:2",
"text": "And all of these blessings shall come upon you, and \u231ethey shall have an effect on you\u231f if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God: "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:3",
"text": " \u201cYou will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed in the field. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:4",
"text": " \u201cBlessed will be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock, \u231ethe calf of your cattle and the lambs of your flock\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:5",
"text": " \u201cBlessed will be your basket and your kneading trough. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:6",
"text": " \u201cBlessed will you be \u231ewhen you come in and blessed will you be when you go out\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:7",
"text": " \u201cYahweh will cause your enemies \u231ewho rise up against you to be defeated before you\u231f; on one road they shall come out against you, but on seven roads they shall flee \u231ebefore you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:8",
"text": "Yahweh will command \u231econcerning you\u231f the blessing to be in your barns and \u231ein all your endeavors\u231f; and he will bless you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:9",
"text": "Yahweh will establish you for \u231ehimself\u231f as a holy people as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and you walk in his ways. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:10",
"text": "And all of the peoples of the earth shall see that \u231eby the name of Yahweh you are called\u231f, and \u231ethey shall fear you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:11",
"text": "And \u231eYahweh will make you successful and prosperous\u231f, in the fruit of your womb and on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors to give to you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:12",
"text": "Yahweh shall open for you his \u231erich\u231f storehouse, even the heavens, to give the rain for your land in its time and to bless all of the work of your hand, and you will lend to many nations; you will not borrow from them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:13",
"text": "And Yahweh shall make you as head and not the tail, and you shall be only at the top of the nations, and you shall not be at the bottom, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f \u231eand diligently observe them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:14",
"text": "And you shall not turn aside from \u231eany of\u231f the words that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f to the right or left by going after other gods to serve them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:15",
"text": " \u201c\u231eAnd then\u231f if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God \u231eby diligently observing\u231f all of his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f, then all of these curses shall come upon you, and they shall overtake you: "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:16",
"text": " \u201cYou shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:17",
"text": " \u201cYour basket shall be cursed and your kneading trough. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:18",
"text": " \u201cThe fruit of your womb shall be cursed and the fruit of you ground, the calves of your cattle and the lambs of your flock. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:19",
"text": " \u201cYou shall be cursed \u231ewhen you come in\u231f, and you shall be cursed \u231ewhen you go out\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:20",
"text": " \u201cYahweh will send upon you the curse, the panic, and the threat \u231ein everything that you undertake\u231f, \u231euntil you are destroyed and until you perish quickly\u231f \u231ebecause of\u231f the evil of your deeds in that you have forsaken me. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:21",
"text": "Yahweh will cause the plague to cling to you \u231euntil it consumes you\u231f from the land that you are going to, to take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:22",
"text": "Yahweh will afflict you with the wasting diseases and with the fever and with the inflammation and with the scorching heat and with the sword and with the blight and with the mildew, and they shall pursue you \u231euntil you perish\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:23",
"text": "And your heavens that are over your heads shall be like bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be like iron. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:24",
"text": "Yahweh will change the rain of your land to fine dust and to sand; from the heaven it shall come down upon you \u231euntil you are destroyed\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:25",
"text": " \u201cYahweh shall cause you to be defeated \u231ebefore\u231f your enemies; on one road you shall go \u231eagainst\u231f them, but you will flee on seven roads \u231ebefore\u231f them, and you shall become a thing of horror to all of the kingdoms of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:26",
"text": "And your dead bodies shall be as food for all of the birds of the heaven and to the animals of the earth, and there shall not be \u231eanyone to frighten them away\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:27",
"text": " \u201cYahweh shall afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scurvy and with \u231ethe skin rash that cannot be healed\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:28",
"text": "Yahweh shall afflict you with madness and with blindness and with confusion of heart. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:29",
"text": "And you shall be groping at noon just as the blind person gropes in the dark, and you shall not succeed in finding your way, and you shall only be abused and robbed \u231eall the time\u231f, and there will not be \u231eanyone who will rescue you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:30",
"text": "You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall sleep with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not live in it; a vineyard you shall plant, but you shall not enjoy it. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:31",
"text": "Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, and you shall not eat it; your donkey shall be stolen right \u231ebefore you\u231f, and it shall not be returned to you; your sheep and your goats shall be given to your enemies, and \u231ethere shall not be anyone who rescues you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:32",
"text": "Your sons and your daughters shall be given to other people, and \u231eyou will be looking on\u231f \u231elongingly\u231f for them all day, \u231ebut you will be powerless to do anything\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:33",
"text": "A people that you do not know shall consume the harvest of your land and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed \u231efor the rest of your lives\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:34",
"text": "You shall become mad \u231ebecause of what your eyes shall see\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:35",
"text": "Yahweh shall strike you with grievous boils on the knees and on the upper thighs from which \u231eyou will not be able to be healed\u231f, from the sole of your foot and up to your crown. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:36",
"text": "Yahweh will bring you and your king whom you set up over you to a nation that you or your ancestors have not known, and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:37",
"text": "And you will become a horror and a proverb and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahweh drives you there. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:38",
"text": " \u201cYou shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little produce, for the locust shall devour it. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:39",
"text": "You shall plant vineyards and you shall dress them, but you shall not drink wine and you shall not gather grapes, for the worm shall eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:40",
"text": "There shall be olive trees for you in all of your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself, for your olives shall drop off. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:41",
"text": "You shall bear sons and daughters, but they shall not be \u231eyours\u231f, for they shall go into captivity. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:42",
"text": "The cricket shall take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:43",
"text": "The alien that is in your midst shall ascend over you, higher and higher, but you shall go down lower and lower. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:44",
"text": "He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, but you shall be the tail. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:45",
"text": " \u201cAnd all of these curses shall come over you, and they shall pursue you, and they shall overtake you \u231euntil you are destroyed\u231f, because \u231eyou did not listen\u231f to the voice of Yahweh your God, \u231eby observing\u231f his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:46",
"text": "And they shall be among you as a sign and as a wonder and among your offspring \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:47",
"text": " \u201c\u231eBecause\u231f of the fact that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything, "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:48",
"text": "then you shall serve your enemies, whom Yahweh will send against you under conditions of famine, in thirst, in nakedness, and in a lack of everything; and he shall place a yoke of iron on your neck \u231euntil he has destroyed you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:49",
"text": "Yahweh will raise up against you a nation from far off, from the end of the earth, attacking as the eagle swoops down, \u231ea nation whose language you will not understand\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:50",
"text": "\u231ea grim-faced nation\u231f \u231ewho does not show respect\u231f to the old and the young and does not show pity. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:51",
"text": "And it shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground \u231euntil you are destroyed\u231f, and who will not leave for you any grain, wine, and olive oil, \u231ecalves of your herds\u231f, and \u231elambs of\u231f your flock \u231euntil it has destroyed you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:52",
"text": "And it shall besiege you in all your towns \u231euntil your high and fortified walls fall\u231f, which you are trusting in \u231ethroughout your land\u231f; and it shall besiege you in all of your towns in all of your land that Yahweh your God has given to you. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:53",
"text": "And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave to you, \u231eduring the siege and during the distress\u231f your enemy inflicts upon you. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:54",
"text": "The most refined and the very sensitive man among you \u231eshall be mean with his brother\u231f and \u231eagainst his beloved wife\u231f and against the rest of his children that he has left over, "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:55",
"text": "\u231eby refraining from giving\u231f to even one of them any of the meat of his children that he eats, because there is not anything that is left over for him \u231eduring the siege and distress\u231f that your enemy inflicts upon you. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:56",
"text": "The most refined and the most delicate woman among you, who shall not venture to put the sole of her foot on the ground from being so delicate and from such gentleness, \u231eshall be mean to her beloved husband\u231f and against her son and against her daughter, "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:57",
"text": "and even concerning her afterbirth \u231ethat goes out\u231f from between her feet and also concerning her children that she bears, because she eats them for lack of anything in secret \u231eduring the siege and during the distress\u231f that your enemy inflicts upon her in your \u231etowns\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:58",
"text": " \u201cIf \u231eyou do not diligently observe\u231f all the words of this law written in this scroll by revering this glorious and awesome name, Yahweh your God, "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:59",
"text": "then Yahweh shall overwhelm you with your plagues and the plagues of your offspring, severe plagues and lasting illnesses, grievous and enduring. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:60",
"text": "And he shall bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt concerning which \u231eyou were in dread\u231f \u231ebecause of them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:61",
"text": "Also any illness and any plague that is not written in the scroll of this law, he shall bring them, Yahweh, upon you until you are destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:62",
"text": "And you shall remain \u231eonly a few people\u231f in place of the fact you were formerly as the stars of heaven as far as number is concerned, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:63",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f as Yahweh delighted over you \u231eto make you prosperous\u231f to make you numerous, so Yahweh shall delight over you to exterminate you and to destroy you, and so you shall be plucked from the land that you are going there to take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:64",
"text": "And Yahweh shall scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth up to the other end of the earth, and there you shall serve other gods that you have not known nor your ancestors, gods of wood and stone. "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:65",
"text": "And among these nations you shall not find rest, and there shall not be a resting place for the sole of your foot, and Yahweh shall give you there an anxious heart and a weakening of eyes and a languishing of your inner self. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:66",
"text": "And \u231eyour life shall hang in doubt before you\u231f, and you shall be startled night and day, and you shall not be confident of your life. "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:67",
"text": "In the morning you shall say, \u2018\u231eIf only it was evening\u231f!\u2019 and in the evening you shall say \u2018\u231eIf only it was morning\u231f!\u2019 because of the dread of your heart that you shall feel, and because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see. "
},
{
"verse": 68,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Deuteronomy 28:68",
"text": "And Yahweh shall bring you back to Egypt in ships by the route that I \u231epromised\u231f to you that \u2018\u231eYou shall not see it again\u231f!\u2019 And you shall sell yourself there to your enemies as slaves and as female slaves, but there will not be a buyer.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:1",
"text": " These are the words of the covenant that Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the \u231eIsraelites\u231f in the land of Moab \u231ebesides\u231f the covenant that he made with them at Horeb. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:2",
"text": " And Moses summoned all of Israel and said to them, \u201cYou saw all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt and to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land; "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:3",
"text": "that is, the great trials that your eyes saw, and those great signs and wonders. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:4",
"text": "But Yahweh has not given to you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear, even \u231eto this day\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:5",
"text": "And I have led you forty years in the desert; your clothes have not worn out \u231eon you\u231f, and your sandal has not worn out \u231eon your foot\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:6",
"text": "You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:7",
"text": "And when you came to this place then Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out to meet you for battle, and we defeated them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:8",
"text": "And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:9",
"text": "And \u231eyou must diligently observe the words of this covenant\u231f, so that you may succeed in all that you do. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:10",
"text": " \u201cYou are standing \u231etoday\u231f, all of you, \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh your God, your leaders, your tribes, your elders, and your officials, all the men of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:11",
"text": "your little children, your women and your aliens who are in the midst of your camp, from the choppers of your wood to the drawers of your water, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:12",
"text": "\u231ein order for you to enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God\u231f, and into his oath that Yahweh your God is \u231emaking with you\u231f \u231etoday\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:13",
"text": "in order to establish you \u231etoday\u231f \u231eto himself\u231f as a people and so that he may be for you as God, just as he \u231epromised\u231f to you and \u231ejust as\u231f he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:14",
"text": " \u201cNow I am not \u231emaking this covenant\u231f and this oath \u231ewith you alone\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:15",
"text": "But with \u231ewhoever is standing here\u231f with us \u231etoday\u231f \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh our God, and with \u231ewhoever is not standing here\u231f with us \u231etoday\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:16",
"text": "For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we traveled through the midst of the nations that you traveled through. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:17",
"text": "And you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood and stone, silver, and gold that were among them, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:18",
"text": "so that \u231ethere is not\u231f among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe \u231ewhose heart\u231f turns \u231etoday\u231f from being with Yahweh our God to go to serve the gods of these nations, so that there is not among you a root sprouting poison and wormwood. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:19",
"text": "And then when he hears the words of this oath, then \u231ehe will assure himself\u231f in his heart, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018\u231eSafety shall be mine even though I go in the stubbornness of my heart\u231f,\u2019 thereby destroying the well-watered land along with the parched. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:20",
"text": "Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for by then the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:21",
"text": "And Yahweh will single him out for calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in the scroll of this law. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:22",
"text": " \u201cAnd the next generation, that is, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, when they will see the plagues of that land and its diseases that Yahweh has inflicted upon it, will say, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:23",
"text": "\u2018All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, \u231enone of its land will be sown\u231f, and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; it is as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:24",
"text": "And all the nations will say, \u2018\u231eWhy\u231f has Yahweh done \u231esuch a thing\u231f to this land? What caused the fierceness of this great anger?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:25",
"text": "And they will say, \u2018It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, which he \u231emade\u231f with them \u231ewhen he brought them out\u231f from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:26",
"text": "And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know them and he had not allotted to them. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:27",
"text": "So \u231ethe anger of Yahweh was kindled\u231f against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:28",
"text": "and Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great fury, and he cast them into another land, \u231ejust as it is today\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Deuteronomy 29:29",
"text": " \u201cThe hidden things \u231ebelong to Yahweh\u231f our God, but the revealed things \u231ebelong to us\u231f to know and to our children \u231eforever\u231f, in order to do all the words of this law.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:1",
"text": "\u201cAnd then when all of these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse that I have set \u231ebefore you\u231f \u231eand you call them to mind\u231f among the nations there where Yahweh your God has scattered you, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:2",
"text": "and you return to Yahweh and you listen to his voice according to all that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f, both you and your children, with all your heart and with all your inner self, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:3",
"text": "and Yahweh your God will restore your fortunes, and he will have compassion upon you, and \u231ehe will again gather you together\u231f from all the peoples where Yahweh your God scattered you there. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:4",
"text": " \u201cEven if \u231eyou are outcasts\u231f at the end of the heavens, even from there Yahweh your God shall gather you, and from there \u231ehe shall bring you back\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:5",
"text": "And Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that your ancestors had taken possession of, and he will make you successful, and he will make you more numerous than your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:6",
"text": " \u201cAnd Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self \u231eso that you may live\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:7",
"text": "And Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and \u231eon those who hate you\u231f, on \u231ethose who harassed you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:8",
"text": "And \u231eyou will again listen\u231f to the voice of Yahweh, and you will do all his commandments that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:9",
"text": "And Yahweh your God will make you prosperous \u231ein all your undertakings\u231f, and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground \u231eabundantly\u231f, for Yahweh \u231ewill again rejoice\u231f over you, just as he rejoiced over your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:10",
"text": "He will do this if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God by keeping his commandment and his statutes written in the scroll of this law and if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:11",
"text": " \u201cFor this commandment that I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f is \u231enot too wonderful for you\u231f, and it is not too far from you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:12",
"text": "It is not in the heavens \u231eso that you might say\u231f, \u2018Who will go up for us to the heavens and get it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:13",
"text": "And it is \u231enot beyond the sea\u231f, \u231eso that you might say\u231f, \u2018Who will cross for us to the other side of the sea and take it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:14",
"text": "But the word is very near you, even in your mouth and in your heart, \u231eso that you may do it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:15",
"text": " \u201cSee, I am setting \u231ebefore you\u231f \u231etoday\u231f life and prosperity and death and disaster; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:16",
"text": "what I am commanding you \u231etoday\u231f is to love Yahweh your God by going in his ways and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his regulations, and then you will live, and you will become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the \u231eland where you are going\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:17",
"text": "However, if your heart turns aside and you do not listen and you are lured away and you bow down to other gods and you serve them, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:18",
"text": "I declare to you \u231etoday\u231f that you will certainly perish; \u231eyou will not extend your time\u231f on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there to take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:19",
"text": "I invoke as a witness against you \u231etoday\u231f the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set \u231ebefore you\u231f, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Deuteronomy 30:20",
"text": "by loving Yahweh your God by listening to his voice and by clinging to him, for he is your life and the length of your days in order for you to live on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:1",
"text": " And Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:2",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cI am a hundred and twenty years old \u231etoday\u231f; I am not able to go out and to come in any longer, and Yahweh said to me, \u2018You may not cross this Jordan.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:3",
"text": "Yahweh your God is about to cross \u231ebefore you\u231f; he will destroy these nations \u231ebefore you\u231f, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will be crossing \u231ebefore you\u231f, just as Yahweh \u231epromised\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:4",
"text": "And Yahweh will do to them just as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which he destroyed with them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:5",
"text": "And Yahweh \u231ewill deliver them to you before you\u231f, and you shall do to them according to every commandment that I have commanded you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:6",
"text": "Be strong and be courageous; you should not be afraid, and you \u231eshould not be in dread from their presence\u231f, for Yahweh your God is the one going with you; he will not leave you alone and he will not forsake you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:7",
"text": " Then Moses summoned Joshua, and he said to him \u231ein the presence of all Israel\u231f, \u201cBe strong and be courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that Yahweh swore to their ancestors to give to them, and you will give it to them as an inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:8",
"text": "Yahweh is the one going \u231ebefore you\u231f; he will be with you, and he will not leave you alone, and he will not forsake you; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not be discouraged.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:9",
"text": "So Moses wrote this law, and he gave it to the priests, the descendants of Levi, the ones carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:10",
"text": " Then Moses commanded them, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cAt the end of seven years, in the time of the year for canceling debts during the Feast of Booths, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:11",
"text": "\u231ewhen all Israel comes to appear before\u231f Yahweh their God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel \u231ein their hearing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:12",
"text": "Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little children and your aliens that are in your \u231etowns\u231f, so that they may hear and so that they may learn and they may revere Yahweh your God, and \u231ethey shall diligently observe\u231f all the words of this law. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:13",
"text": "And then their children, who have not known, they too may hear, and they may learn to revere Yahweh their God all the days \u231ethat you live\u231f on the land that you are crossing the Jordan \u231eto get there\u231f to take possession of it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:14",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cLook, \u231eyou are about to die\u231f; call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of assembly, so that I may instruct him.\u201d So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:15",
"text": "And Yahweh appeared in the tent in a column of cloud, and the column of the cloud stood at the entrance of the tent. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:16",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Moses, \u201cLook, you are about to lie down with your ancestors, and this people will arise and they will play the prostitute after \u231ethe foreign gods\u231f of the land \u231eto which they are going\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:17",
"text": "And \u231emy anger shall flare up against them\u231f on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall become as prey, and disasters and troubles shall find them, and they shall say on that day, \u2018Is it not because our God is not in our midst that these disasters have found us?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:18",
"text": "But I will certainly hide my face on that day, because of all of the evil that they did because they turned to other gods. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:19",
"text": " \u201cAnd so then write this song for yourselves and teach it to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; put it in their mouth, so that this song may be for me as a witness against the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:20",
"text": "For when I bring them into the land that I swore to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey, \u231ethey will eat their fill\u231f, and they will become fat, and then they will turn to other gods, and they will serve them, and they will spurn me, and they will break my covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:21",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f many disasters and troubles will come upon them, and this song will give evidence before them as a witness, because it will not be forgotten from out of the mouth of their descendants, for I know their inclination that they are having \u231etoday\u231f before I have brought them into the land that I swore.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:22",
"text": "And Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:23",
"text": " Then he told Joshua the son of Nun, and said to him, \u201cBe strong and be courageous, for you shall bring the \u231eIsraelites\u231f into the land that I swore to them, and I will be with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:24",
"text": " \u231eAnd then when Moses finished writing\u231f the words of this law on the scroll \u231euntil they were complete\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:25",
"text": "then Moses commanded the Levites carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:26",
"text": "\u201cTake the scroll of this law and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and it will be there as a witness against you. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:27",
"text": "For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck even now while I am still alive with you \u231etoday\u231f, rebelling against Yahweh, and \u231ehow much more\u231f after my death. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:28",
"text": "Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, so that I may speak in their ears these words, and that I may call as witness against them heaven and earth. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:29",
"text": "For I know that after my death you will certainly act corruptly, and you will turn aside from the way that I have commanded you, and the disaster in the future days will befall you, because you will do evil in the eyes of Yahweh, \u231eprovoking him with the work of your hands\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Deuteronomy 31:30",
"text": "So Moses spoke into the ears of the assembly of Israel the words of this song \u231euntil they were complete\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:1",
"text": " \u201cGive ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:2",
"text": " May my teaching trickle like the dew, my words like rain showers on tender grass, and like spring showers on new growth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:3",
"text": " For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh; ascribe greatness to our God! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:4",
"text": " The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just; he is a faithful God, and \u231ewithout injustice\u231f; righteous and upright is he. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:5",
"text": " They have behaved corruptly toward him; they are not his children; this is their flaw, a generation crooked and perverse. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:6",
"text": " Like this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and \u231eunwise\u231f people? Has he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:7",
"text": " Remember the old days, \u231ethe years long past\u231f; ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders and they will tell you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:8",
"text": " \u231eWhen the Most High apportioned\u231f the nations, at his dividing up of the sons of humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the children of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:9",
"text": " For Yahweh\u2019s portion was his people, Jacob the share of his inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:10",
"text": " He found him in a desert land, and in a howling, desert wasteland; he \u231eencircled him\u231f, he cared for him, he protected him like the \u231eapple\u231f of his eye. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:11",
"text": " As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreads out its wings, takes them, carries them on its pinions, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:12",
"text": " so Yahweh alone guided him, and \u231ethere was no foreign god accompanying him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:13",
"text": " And he set him on the high places of the land, and he fed him the crops of the field, and he nursed him with honey from crags, and with oil from flinty rock, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:14",
"text": " With curds from the herd, and with milk from the flock, with the fat of young rams, and rams, the offspring of Bashan, and with goats along with the finest kernels of wheat, and from the blood of grapes you drank fermented wine. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:15",
"text": " And Jeshurun grew fat, and he kicked; you grew fat, you bloated, and you became obstinate; and he abandoned God, his maker, and he scoffed at the rock of his salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:16",
"text": " They made him jealous with strange gods; with detestable things they provoked him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:17",
"text": " They sacrificed to the demons, not God, to gods whom they had not known, new gods who came from recent times; \u231etheir ancestors had not known them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:18",
"text": " The rock who bore you, you neglected, and you forgot God, the one giving you birth. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:19",
"text": " Then Yahweh saw, and he spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:20",
"text": " So he said, \u2018I will hide my face from them; I will see what will be their end, for they are a generation of perversity, \u231echildren in whom there is no faithfulness\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:21",
"text": " They annoyed me with what is not a god; they provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those not a people, with a foolish nation I will provoke them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:22",
"text": " For a fire was kindled by my anger, and it burned \u231eup to the depths of Sheol\u231f, and it devoured the earth and its produce, and it set afire the foundation of the mountains. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:23",
"text": " I will heap disasters upon them; my arrows I will spend on them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:24",
"text": " They will become weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with the poison of the creeping things in the dust; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:25",
"text": " From outside her boundaries the sword will make her childless, and from inside, terror; both for the young man and also the young woman, the infant along with the gray-headed man. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:26",
"text": " I thought, \u201cI will wipe them out; \u231eI will make people forget they ever existed\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:27",
"text": " If I had not feared a provocation of the enemy, lest their foes might misunderstand, lest they should say, \u201cOur hand is \u231etriumphant\u231f, and Yahweh did not do all this.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:28",
"text": " For \u231ethey are a nation void of sense\u231f, and there is not any understanding in them. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:29",
"text": " If only they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern \u231efor themselves their end\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:30",
"text": " How could one chase a thousand and two could cause a myriad to flee, if their Rock had not sold them, and Yahweh had not given them up? "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:31",
"text": " For the fact of the matter is, their rock is not like our Rock, and our enemies recognize this. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:32",
"text": " For their vine is from the vine of Sodom, and from the terraces of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; \u231etheir clusters are bitter\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:33",
"text": " Their wine is the poison of snakes, and the deadly poison of horned vipers. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:34",
"text": " \u2018Is not this stored up with me, sealed in my treasuries?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:35",
"text": " \u231eVengeance belongs to me\u231f and also recompense, \u231efor at the time their foot slips\u231f, because the day of their disaster is near, \u231eand fate comes quickly for them\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:36",
"text": " For Yahweh will judge on behalf of his people, and concerning his servants; he will change his mind when he sees that their power has disappeared, and there is no one left, confined or free. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:37",
"text": " And he will say, \u2018Where are their gods, their rock in whom they took refuge? "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:38",
"text": " Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise up, and let them help you; \u231eLet them be to you a refuge\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:39",
"text": " See, now, that I, even I am he, and there is not a god besides me; I put to death and I give life; I wound and I heal; there is not one who delivers from my hand! "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:40",
"text": " For indeed I lift up my hand to heaven, And I promise \u231eas I live forever\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:41",
"text": " When I sharpen \u231emy flashing sword\u231f, and my hand takes hold of it in judgment, \u231eI will take reprisals against my foes\u231f, and my haters I will repay. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:42",
"text": " I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain, and captives from the heads of the leaders of the enemy.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:43",
"text": " Call for songs of joy, O nations, concerning his people, for the blood of his servants he will avenge, \u231eand he will take reprisals against his foes\u231f, and he will make atonement for his land, his people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:44",
"text": " And Moses came, and he spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people; that is, he and Joshua the son of Nun. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:45",
"text": "\u231eAnd when Moses finished speaking\u231f all these words to all Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:46",
"text": "then he said to them, \u201c\u231eTake to heart all the words\u231f that I am admonishing against you \u231etoday\u231f concerning which you should instruct them with respect to your children \u231eso that they will observe diligently\u231f all the words of this law, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:47",
"text": "for it is not a trifling matter among you, but it is your life, and through this word \u231eyou will live long in the land\u231f that you are about to cross the Jordan to get there to take possession of it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:48",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Moses on exactly this day, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:49",
"text": "\u201cGo up to this mountain of the Abarim range, Mount Nebo, which is \u231eopposite Jericho\u231f, and see the land of Canaan that I am giving to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f as a possession. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:50",
"text": "You shall die on that mountain that you are about to go up there, and you will be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on \u231eMount Hor\u231f and he was gathered to his people, "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:51",
"text": "because of the fact that you broke faith with me in the midst of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the desert of Zin, because \u231eyou did not treat me as holy\u231f in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Deuteronomy 32:52",
"text": "Yes, from afar you may view the land, but there you shall not enter there, that is, into the land that I am giving to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:1",
"text": " Now this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the \u231eIsraelites\u231f \u231ebefore\u231f his death. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:2",
"text": " Then he said, \u201cYahweh came from Sinai, and he dawned upon them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came with myriads of holy ones, at his right hand a fiery law for them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:3",
"text": " Moreover, \u231ehe loves his people\u231f, all the holy ones were in your hand, and they bowed down to your feet, \u231eeach one accepted directions from you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:4",
"text": " A law Moses instructed for us, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:5",
"text": " And then a king arose in Jeshurun, at the gathering of the leaders of the people, \u231eunited were the tribes of Israel\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:6",
"text": " \u201cMay Reuben live, and may he not die, \u231eand let his number not be few\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:7",
"text": " \u231eAnd he said this of Judah\u231f, \u201cHear, O Yahweh, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people; his own hands strive for him, and may you be a help \u231eagainst\u231f his foes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:8",
"text": " And of Levi he said, \u201cYour Thummim and your Urim are for \u231eyour faithful one\u231f, \u231ewhom you tested at Massah\u231f; you contended with him at the waters of Meribah. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:9",
"text": " The one saying of his father and of his mother, \u2018I have not regarded them,\u2019 and his brothers he did not acknowledge, and his children he did not know, but rather they observed your word, and your covenant they kept. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:10",
"text": " They taught your regulations to Jacob, and your law to Israel; they placed incense smoke \u231ebefore you\u231f, and whole burnt offerings on your altar. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:11",
"text": " Bless, O Yahweh, his substance, and with the work of his hands you must be pleased; smite the loins of those who attack him, and those hating him, \u231eso that they cannot arise\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:12",
"text": " Of Benjamin he said, \u201cThe beloved of Yahweh dwells \u231esecurely\u231f, the Most High shields all around him, all the day, and between his shoulders he dwells.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:13",
"text": " And of Joseph he said, \u201cBlessed by Yahweh is his land, with the choice things of heaven, with dew, and with the deep lying down beneath, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:14",
"text": " and with the choice things of the fruits of the the sun, and with the choice things of the yield of the \u231eseasons\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:15",
"text": " and with the finest things of the ancient mountains, and with the choice things of the \u231eeternal hills\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:16",
"text": " and with the choice things of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of the one \u231ewho dwelt\u231f in the bush. Let them come to the head of Joseph, and to the crown of the prince among his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:17",
"text": " As the firstborn of his ox, majesty \u231ebelongs to him\u231f, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he drives people together, and they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:18",
"text": " And of Zebulun he said, \u201cRejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and rejoice, Issachar, in your tents; "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:19",
"text": " They summon people to the mountains; there they sacrifice the sacrifices of righteousness, because the affluence of the seas they suck out, and \u231ethe most hidden treasures of the sand\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:20",
"text": " And of Gad he said, \u201cBlessed be \u231ethe one who enlarges Gad\u231f; like a lion he dwells, and he tears an arm as well as a scalp. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:21",
"text": " And he selected the best part for himself, for there the portion of a ruler is included, and he came with the heads of the people; he did the righteousness of Yahweh, and his regulations for Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:22",
"text": " And of Dan he said, \u201cDan is a cub of a lion; he leaps from Bashan.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:23",
"text": " And of Naphtali, he said, \u201cOh, Naphtali, sated of favor, and full of the blessing of Yahweh; take possession of the lake, and the land to the south.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:24",
"text": " And of Asher he said, \u201cBlessed \u231emore than sons\u231f is Asher; \u231emay he be the favorite\u231f of his brothers, \u231edipping his feet in the oil\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:25",
"text": " Your bars are iron and bronze, and as your days, so is your strength.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:26",
"text": " \u201cThere is no one like God, O, Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, and with his majesty through the skies. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:27",
"text": " The God of \u231eancient time\u231f is a hiding place, and underneath are the arms of eternity, and he drove out \u231efrom before\u231f you your enemy, and he said, \u2018Destroy them!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:28",
"text": " So Israel dwells alone and carefree, the spring of Jacob in a land of grain and wine; his heavens even drip dew. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Deuteronomy 33:29",
"text": " Blessed are you, O Israel. Who is like you, a people who is saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your triumph, and your enemies, they shall fawn before you, and you shall tread on their backs.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:1",
"text": " Then Moses went up from the desert plateau of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, \u231ewhich is opposite\u231f Jericho, and Yahweh showed him all of the land, Gilead all the way up to Dan, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:2",
"text": "and all of Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and all of the land of Judah, up to the western sea, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:3",
"text": "and the Negev and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palms, on up to Zoar. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:4",
"text": "And Yahweh said to him, \u201cThis is the land that I swore to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018To your offspring I will give it.\u2019 I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross \u231einto it\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:5",
"text": "Then Moses, the servant of Yahweh, died there in the land of Moab \u231eaccording to the command of Yahweh\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:6",
"text": "And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor. But until this day no one knows his burial site. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:7",
"text": "\u231eNow Moses was a hundred and twenty years old\u231f \u231ewhen he died\u231f; \u231ehis sight was not impaired and his vigor had not abated\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:8",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f wept concerning Moses thirty days; finally the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were completed. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:9",
"text": " Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses had placed his hands on him, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f listened to him, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:10",
"text": "And not again has a prophet arisen in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:11",
"text": "as far as all the signs and the wonders Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh and all of his servants and against all of his land, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Deuteronomy 34:12",
"text": "and as far as all of \u231ethe mighty deeds\u231f and as far as \u231ethe great awesome wonders\u231f Moses did before the eyes of all Israel. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Joshua",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:1",
"text": " After the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh said to Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:2",
"text": "\u201cMy servant Moses is dead. Get up and cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:3",
"text": "Every place that the soles of your feet will tread, I have given it to you, as I promised to Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:4",
"text": "From the wilderness \u231eand the Lebanon\u231f, up to the great river, the river Euphrates, all of the land of the Hittites, and up to \u231ethe great sea in the west\u231f, will be your territory. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:5",
"text": "No one will stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will not fail you, and I will not forsake you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:6",
"text": "Be strong and courageous, for you will give the people this land as an inheritance that I swore to their ancestors to give them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:7",
"text": "Only be strong and very courageous \u231eto observe diligently the whole law\u231f that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn aside from it, to the right or left, so that you may succeed \u231ewherever you go\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:8",
"text": "The scroll of this law will not depart from your mouth; you will meditate on it day and night so that \u231eyou may observe diligently all that is written\u231f in it. For then you will succeed in your ways and prosper. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:9",
"text": "Did I not command you? Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you \u231ewherever you go\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:10",
"text": "Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:11",
"text": "\u201cPass through the midst of the camp and command the people: \u2018Prepare your provisions; \u231ein\u231f three days you are to cross the Jordan to go possess the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:12",
"text": " To the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh Joshua said, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:13",
"text": "\u201cRemember the word that Moses Yahweh\u2019s servant commanded you, saying, \u2018Yahweh your God is giving rest to you, and he is giving you this land.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:14",
"text": "Your wives, your little children, and your livestock, they will remain in the land that Moses gave to you beyond the Jordan. \u231eAll of the best fighting men\u231f will cross armed in front of your families; they will help you "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:15",
"text": "until Yahweh gives rest to your families as well as to you. They will take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving to them. Then you will return to your own land and take possession of it, the land that Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan \u231eto the east\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:16",
"text": "And they answered Joshua, saying, \u201cAll that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you will send us we will go. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:17",
"text": "Just as we obeyed Moses, so will we obey you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joshua 1:18",
"text": "Whoever \u231erebels against your orders\u231f and does not obey your words according to what you commanded us will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:1",
"text": " Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men from Acacia Grove as spies, saying, \u201cGo, view the land, especially Jericho.\u201d So they went, and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and \u231espent the night\u231f there. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:2",
"text": "The king of Jericho was told, \u201cLook, some men from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f have come here tonight to search out the land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:3",
"text": "And the king of Jericho sent for Rahab, saying, \u201cBring out the men who came to you, the ones who have entered your house, for they have come to search out the whole land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:4",
"text": "But the woman took the two men and hid them. And she said, \u201cYes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:5",
"text": "And when it was time to shut the gate \u231efor the night\u231f, the men left, and I do not know where they went. Chase after them quickly, for you may catch up to them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:6",
"text": "(But she had taken them to the roof and had hidden them \u231ein the stalks of flax\u231f that she \u231ehad spread out\u231f on the roof.) "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:7",
"text": "So the men chased after them on \u231ethe way to the Jordan\u231f at the fords; and they shut the gate behind the pursuers that had gone out after them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:8",
"text": " Before \u231ethey went to sleep\u231f, she came up to them on the roof "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:9",
"text": "and said to the men, \u201cI know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that dread of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away in fear because of your presence. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:10",
"text": "For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the waters of the \u231eRed Sea\u231f before you when you went out from Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:11",
"text": "We heard this, and our hearts melted, and \u231eno courage was left in anyone\u231f because of your presence. For Yahweh your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:12",
"text": "So then please swear to me by Yahweh, because \u231eI have shown loyalty to you\u231f, and \u231eyou will also show loyalty\u231f \u231eto my family\u231f. You must give me a sign of good faith, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:13",
"text": "and you will spare my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all that belongs to them; you will deliver our lives from death.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:14",
"text": "And the men said to her, \u201c\u231eOur lives for yours\u231f. If you do not report this business of ours, \u231ewe will show you loyalty and faithfulness\u231f when Yahweh gives us the land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:15",
"text": " Then she lowered them with a rope through the window, as her house was on the outer side of the wall, and she was residing in the wall. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:16",
"text": "And she said to them, \u201cGo to the mountain, so that the pursuers will not find you, and hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers return, and afterward you may go \u231eon your way\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:17",
"text": "The men said to her, \u201cWe will be released from this oath of yours that you made us swear. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:18",
"text": "When we come to the land, you must tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you must gather your father and mother, and your brothers, and your whole family to your house. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:19",
"text": "If anyone goes outside the doors of your house, \u231ethey will be responsible for their own death\u231f, and we will be innocent. Anyone who will be with you in the house, \u231ewe will be responsible for their death\u231f \u231eif a hand is laid on them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:20",
"text": "But if you report this business of ours, we will be released from your oath that you made us swear.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:21",
"text": "And she said, \u201cAccording to your word it will be.\u201d Then she sent them away, and they went, and she tied the scarlet cord in the window. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:22",
"text": " They departed and came to the mountain, and they stayed there three days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers searched \u231eall along the way\u231f but did not find them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:23",
"text": "The two men returned and went down from the mountain, and they crossed over and came to Joshua son of Nun, and they told him everything that happened to them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joshua 2:24",
"text": "They said to Joshua, \u201cSurely Yahweh has given all the land into our hand; also, all the inhabitants of the land melt away in fear because of our presence.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:1",
"text": " Joshua rose early in the morning, and they set out from Acacia Grove. And they came up to the Jordan, he and all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and they spent the night there before they crossed over. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:2",
"text": "At the end of the three days the officers passed through the midst of the camp, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:3",
"text": "and they commanded the people: \u201cWhen you see the Levitical priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God you must set out from your place and go after it. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:4",
"text": "But there will be a distance between you and it of about two thousand cubits in measurement. Do not come near it, so that you may know the way that you must go, for you have not passed on this way \u231ebefore\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:5",
"text": "And Joshua said to the people, \u201cSanctify yourselves, because tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders in your midst.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:6",
"text": "And Joshua said to the priests, \u201cTake up the ark of the covenant and cross over \u231eahead of the people\u231f.\u201d And they took up the ark of the covenant and went \u231eahead of the people\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:7",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to Joshua, \u201cThis day I will begin exalting you \u231ein the sight\u231f of all Israel, that they may know that I was with Moses, and I will be with you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:8",
"text": "You will command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, saying, \u2018At the moment that you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you will stand still in the Jordan.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:9",
"text": "And Joshua said to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u201cCome here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:10",
"text": "Joshua said, \u201cBy this you will know that the living God is in your midst, and he will certainly drive out the Canaanites \u231efrom before you\u231f, and the Hittites, Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:11",
"text": "Look! The ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is about to cross over ahead of you into the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:12",
"text": "So then, take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, \u231eone from each tribe\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:13",
"text": "When the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of Yahweh, Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off \u231eupstream\u231f, and they will stand still in one heap. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:14",
"text": " And it happened, when the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were \u231eahead of the people\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:15",
"text": "When those carrying the ark came up to the Jordan, and the priests carrying the ark dipped their feet in the edge of the water (the Jordan was flowing over its banks during all the days of harvest), "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:16",
"text": "the waters flowing down from above stood still; they stood up in one heap very far from Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, while the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, \u231ewere completely cut off\u231f; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joshua 3:17",
"text": "And the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firmly on the dry land in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation finished crossing the Jordan. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:1",
"text": " After all the nation finished crossing the Jordan, Yahweh said to Joshua, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:2",
"text": "\u201cTake twelve men from the people, \u231eone man from each tribe\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:3",
"text": "and command them, saying, \u2018Take for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests\u2019 feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you, and set them up in \u231ethe place where you will camp tonight\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:4",
"text": "So Joshua summoned the twelve men whom he had appointed from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, one from each tribe. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:5",
"text": "And Joshua said to them, \u201cCross over before the ark of Yahweh your God to the middle of the Jordan, and each one of you lift up a stone on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:6",
"text": "so that this may be a reminder among you. When your children ask in the future, saying, \u2018\u231eWhat do these stones mean to you\u231f?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:7",
"text": "you will say to them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off \u231efrom before\u231f the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones will be as a memorial for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f for eternity.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:8",
"text": " Thus the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did as Joshua commanded. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan as Yahweh told Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and they carried them over with them to \u231ethe camp\u231f, and they put them there. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:9",
"text": "Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood, and they are there to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:10",
"text": "The priests carrying the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything that Yahweh commanded Joshua to tell the people was finished, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua. And the people hastily crossed over. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:11",
"text": " And it happened, when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of Yahweh and the priests crossed over in front of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:12",
"text": "The children of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, as Moses told them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:13",
"text": "About forty thousand armed for fighting crossed over before the presence of Yahweh to the plains of Jericho for battle. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:14",
"text": "On that day Yahweh exalted Joshua \u231ein the sight\u231f of all Israel, and they respected him as they respected Moses all the days of his life. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:15",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to Joshua, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:16",
"text": "\u201cCommand the priests carrying the ark of the testimony \u231eto come up\u231f from the Jordan.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:17",
"text": "So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, \u201cCome up from the Jordan.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:18",
"text": "And it happened that when the priests carrying the ark came up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests\u2019 feet \u231etouched dry land\u231f, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks as before. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:19",
"text": " And the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:20",
"text": "And those twelve stones that they took from the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:21",
"text": "And he said to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u201cWhen your children ask in the future \u231etheir parents\u231f, \u2018\u231eWhat is the meaning of these stones\u231f?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:22",
"text": "you will let your children know by saying, \u2018Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:23",
"text": "For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you, until you had crossed, just as Yahweh your God did to the \u231eRed Sea\u231f, which he dried up before us until we had crossed over, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Joshua 4:24",
"text": "so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of Yahweh is strong, so that you may fear Yahweh your God \u231eforever\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:1",
"text": " And it happened, when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea heard that Yahweh dried up the waters of the Jordan in front of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f until they crossed over, their hearts melted, and \u231ethere was no courage left in them\u231f because of the presence of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:2",
"text": " At that time Yahweh said to Joshua, \u201cMake for yourself knives of flint, and circumcise the \u231eIsraelites\u231f a second time.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:3",
"text": "So Joshua made knives of flint, and he circumcised the \u231eIsraelites\u231f at the hill of the foreskins. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:4",
"text": "This is the reason why Joshua circumcised all the people: all the males who went out from Egypt, all the warriors, died in the wilderness as they went out from Egypt \u231eon the journey\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:5",
"text": "For all the people who left were circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness \u231eon the journey\u231f after they left from Egypt were not circumcised. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:6",
"text": "For forty years the \u231eIsraelites\u231f traveled in the wilderness until all the nation, the warriors that left Egypt, perished, because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh. To them Yahweh swore that they would not see the land that he swore to their ancestors to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:7",
"text": "And it was their children whom he raised in their place that Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised \u231eon the journey\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:8",
"text": " And it happened, when all the nation had finished circumcising, they remained where they were in the camp until they recovered. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:9",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Joshua, \u201cToday I have rolled away the disgrace of Egypt from you.\u201d Therefore, the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:10",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f camped at Gilgal, and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, on the plains of Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:11",
"text": "On the next day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate from the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and roasted corn. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:12",
"text": "And the manna ceased the day after, when they started eating the produce of the land, and there was no longer manna for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. They ate from the crop of the land of Canaan in that year. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:13",
"text": " And it happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, \u231ehe looked up\u231f, and he saw a man standing \u231eopposite him\u231f with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said, \u201cAre you with us, or with our adversaries?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:14",
"text": "And he said, \u201cNeither. I have come now as the commander of Yahweh\u2019s army.\u201d And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and \u231ehe bowed down\u231f and said to him, \u201cWhat is my lord commanding his servant?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Joshua 5:15",
"text": "The commander of Yahweh\u2019s army said to Joshua, \u201cTake off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.\u201d And Joshua did so. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:1",
"text": " Now Jericho was shut up inside and out because of the presence of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; no one was going out or coming in. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:2",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Joshua, \u201cLook, I am giving Jericho into your hand, its king and the soldiers of the army. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:3",
"text": "You will march around the city, all the warriors circling the city once; you will do so for six days. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:4",
"text": "And seven priests will bear seven trumpets of rams\u2019 horns before the ark. On the seventh day you will march around the city seven times, and the priests will blow on the trumpets. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:5",
"text": "And when they blow long on the horn of the ram, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people will shout with a great war cry, and the wall of the city will fall flat, and \u231ethe people will charge, each one straight ahead\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:6",
"text": "So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, \u201cTake up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry the trumpets of the rams\u2019 horns before the ark of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:7",
"text": "And he said to the people, \u201cGo forward and march around the city, and let the armed men pass before the ark of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:8",
"text": " \u231eAnd when Joshua spoke\u231f to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams\u2019 horns before the presence of Yahweh went forward and they blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed behind them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:9",
"text": "And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while they were blowing the trumpets. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:10",
"text": "But Joshua commanded the people, saying, \u201cYou will not shout, and you will not let your voice be heard; a word will not go out from your mouth until the day I say to you \u2018Shout!\u2019 Then you will shout.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:11",
"text": "And the ark of Yahweh went around the city, \u231ecircling once\u231f, and they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:12",
"text": "Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:13",
"text": "The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of the rams\u2019 horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and they blew on the trumpets. And the armed men went before them, and the rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh, while the trumpets blew continually. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:14",
"text": "And they marched around the city once on the second day, and they returned to the camp. They did this for six days. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:15",
"text": " Then on the seventh day they rose early at dawn, and they marched around the city in this manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:16",
"text": "And at the seventh time the priests blew on the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, \u201cShout! For Yahweh has given you the city. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:17",
"text": "The city and all that is in it will be devoted to Yahweh; only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:18",
"text": "As for you, keep away from the things devoted to destruction so that you do not take them and bring about your own destruction, making the camp of Israel an object for destruction, bringing trouble upon it. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:19",
"text": "But all of the silver and gold, and the items of bronze and iron, are holy to Yahweh, and they must go to Yahweh\u2019s treasury.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:20",
"text": "So the people shouted, and they blew on the trumpets. And when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout, and the wall fell flat. \u231eThe people charged, each one straight ahead into the city\u231f, and they captured it. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:21",
"text": "And they utterly destroyed \u231eby the edge of the sword\u231f all who were in the city, both men and women, young and old, ox, sheep, and donkey. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:22",
"text": " Then Joshua said to the two men who spied on the land, \u201cGo to the prostitute\u2019s house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, just as you swore to her.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:23",
"text": "So the young men who were spies went and brought Rahab and her father and mother, her brothers, and all who were with her. And they brought all her family out and set them outside the camp of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:24",
"text": "And they burned the city and all that was in it with fire; they put only the silver and gold, and the items of copper and iron, into the treasury of the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:25",
"text": "But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute \u231eand her family\u231f and all who were with her, and she has lived in the midst of Israel until this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:26",
"text": " And Joshua swore at that time, saying, \u201cCursed is anyone before Yahweh who gets up and builds Jericho, this city. At the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Joshua 6:27",
"text": "So Yahweh was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:1",
"text": " But the \u231eIsraelites\u231f broke faith concerning the devoted things. Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took from the devoted things; and \u231eYahweh\u2019s anger was kindled\u231f against the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:2",
"text": " Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth Aven, east of Bethel, and he said to them, \u201cGo up and spy out Ai.\u201d And the men went up and spied out Ai. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:3",
"text": "And they returned to Joshua and said to him, \u201cDo not let all the people go up and attack Ai; only two or three thousand men should go up because they are few. Do not make all the people weary up there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:4",
"text": "So about three thousand from the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:5",
"text": "The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them, and they chased them from the gate up to Shebarim and killed them on the slope. And the hearts of the people melted and became like water. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:6",
"text": " And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:7",
"text": "And Joshua said, \u201cAh, my Lord! Why did you bring this people across the Jordan to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us? If only we had been content and stayed beyond the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:8",
"text": "Please, my Lord! What can I say after \u231eIsrael has fled from its enemies\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:9",
"text": "The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of this, and they will surround us and cut off our name from the land. What will you do, for your great name?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:10",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Joshua, \u201cStand up! \u231eWhy\u231f have you fallen on your face? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:11",
"text": "Israel has sinned and \u231etransgressed my covenant\u231f that I commanded them. They have taken from the devoted things; they have stolen and acted deceitfully, and they have put them among their belongings. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:12",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f were unable to stand before their enemies; \u231ethey fled from their enemies\u231f because they have become a thing devoted for destruction. \u231eI will be with you no more\u231f unless you destroy the devoted things from among you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:13",
"text": "Get up, sanctify the people, and say, \u2018Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow. Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: \u201cThere are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You will be unable to stand before you enemies until you remove the devoted things from your midst.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:14",
"text": "In the morning you will come forward, \u231etribe by tribe\u231f, and the tribe that Yahweh will select by lot will come forward by clans, and the clan that Yahweh selects by lot will come forward by families, and the family that Yahweh selects by lot will come forward one by one. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:15",
"text": "The one caught with the devoted things will be burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because \u231ehe transgressed the covenant\u231f of Yahweh, and because he did a disgraceful thing in Israel.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:16",
"text": " So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought forward Israel, \u231etribe by tribe\u231f, and the tribe of Judah was selected by lot. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:17",
"text": "And he brought forward the clans of Judah and selected the clan of the Zerahites by lot. Then he brought forward the clan of the Zerahites, one by one, and Zabdi was selected by lot. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:18",
"text": "He brought forward his family, one by one, and Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected by lot. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:19",
"text": "And Joshua said to Achan, \u201cMy son, please, give glory to Yahweh the God of Israel, and give him a doxology in court. Tell me, please, what you have done; do not hide it from me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:20",
"text": "And Achan answered Joshua and said, \u201cIt is true. I have sinned against Yahweh the God of Israel, and this is what I did: "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:21",
"text": "I saw among the spoil a beautiful robe from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and one bar of gold that weighed fifty shekels; I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, and the silver is under it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:22",
"text": " Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and there they were, hidden in his tent, and the silver was under it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:23",
"text": "And they took them from the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. And they spread them out before the presence of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:24",
"text": "Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his cattle and donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and everything that was his, and they brought them to the valley of Achor. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:25",
"text": "And Joshua said, \u201cWhy did you bring us trouble? Yahweh will bring you trouble on this day.\u201d And all Israel stoned them with stones; and they burned them with fire after they stoned them with stones. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Joshua 7:26",
"text": "Then \u231ethey placed\u231f on top of him a great pile of stones that remains to this day. And Yahweh \u231eturned from his burning anger\u231f, and thus the name of that place to this day is called the valley of Achor. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to Joshua, \u201cDo not fear or be dismayed. Take \u231eall the fighting men\u231f with you \u231eand go up immediately to Ai\u231f. Look, I am giving into your hand the king of Ai, his city, and his land. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:2",
"text": "You will do to Ai and its king that which you did to Jericho and its king; you may take only its spoils and livestock as booty for yourself. Set for yourself an ambush against the city from behind it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:3",
"text": " So Joshua and \u231eall the fighting men\u231f went up immediately to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand of the best fighting men and sent them by night. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:4",
"text": "And he commanded them, saying, \u201cLook, you are to lay an ambush against the city from behind. Do not go very far from the city and be ready. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:5",
"text": "Then I and all of the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they go out to meet us \u231eas before\u231f, we will flee from them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:6",
"text": "They will come out after us until we draw them away from the city, because they will think, \u2018They are fleeing from us \u231eas before\u231f.\u2019 So we will flee from them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:7",
"text": "Then you will rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city, for Yahweh your God will give it into your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:8",
"text": "And when you capture the city you will set it on fire as Yahweh commanded. Look, I have commanded you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:9",
"text": "So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of the ambush, and they sat between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent the night \u231ewith the people\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:10",
"text": " Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel before the people of Ai. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:11",
"text": "\u231eAll the fighting men\u231f who were with him \u231ewent up and drew near before the city\u231f and camped north of Ai; there was a valley between him and Ai. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:12",
"text": "And he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:13",
"text": "So they stationed the forces; all the army was north of the city while \u231ethe rear guard was west\u231f. But Joshua went that night to the middle of the valley. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:14",
"text": "When the king of Ai saw this, the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out to meet Israel for battle\u2014he and all his army\u2014to the meeting place before the Arabah. He did not know that there was an ambush for him behind the city. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:15",
"text": "Then Joshua and all Israel acted like they were beaten before them, and they fled \u231ein the direction of the wilderness\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:16",
"text": "All of the people who were in the city were called to pursue after them. As they pursued after Joshua, they were drawn away from the city. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:17",
"text": "Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel; they left the city open and pursued after Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:18",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Joshua, \u201cStretch out the sword that is in your hand to Ai, because I will give it into your hand.\u201d And Joshua stretched out the sword that was in his hand to the city. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:19",
"text": "The moment he stretched out his hand, those in the ambush stood up quickly from their place and ran. And they went into the city and captured it, quickly setting the city ablaze with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:20",
"text": "Then the men of Ai looked behind them, and they saw smoke from the city rising to the sky; \u231ethey had no power to flee this way or that\u231f, and the people fleeing the wilderness turned around to the pursuers. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:21",
"text": "And Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city was rising; they returned and struck down the men of Ai. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:22",
"text": "Then the others from the city came out to meet them, \u231eand they found themselves surrounded by Israel\u231f, \u231esome on one side, and others on the other side\u231f. And they struck them down until no survivor or fugitive was left. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:23",
"text": "But they captured the king of Ai alive, and they brought him to Joshua. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:24",
"text": " When Israel finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when all of them had fallen by \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f until they all had perished, all Israel returned to Ai and attacked it with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:25",
"text": "All the people that fell on that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand\u2014all the inhabitants of Ai. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:26",
"text": "For Joshua did not draw back his hand that was stretched out with the sword until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:27",
"text": "Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of Yahweh that Joshua commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:28",
"text": "So Joshua burned Ai and made it an everlasting heap of rubbish, a desolate place until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:29",
"text": "The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the time of evening, and as the sun went down Joshua commanded them, and they brought down his dead body from the tree. Then they threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and they raised over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:30",
"text": " Then Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal for Yahweh the God of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:31",
"text": "as Moses Yahweh\u2019s servant commanded the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses: \u201can altar of unhewn stones on which no one has \u231ewielded\u231f an iron implement.\u201d And they offered burnt offerings on it and sacrificed fellowship offerings. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:32",
"text": "And there Joshua wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:33",
"text": "Then all Israel, \u231eforeigner as well as native\u231f, with the elders, officials, and judges stood \u231eon either side\u231f of the ark before the priests and the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim, and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses Yahweh\u2019s servant had commanded before to bless the people of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:34",
"text": "And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the curses, according to all that was written in the scroll of the law. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Joshua 8:35",
"text": "There was not a word from all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before the assembly of all Israel, and the women, the little children, and the traveling foreigners among them. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:1",
"text": " Now when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the Shephelah, and on all the coast of the great sea toward Lebanon\u2014the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites\u2014heard of this, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:2",
"text": "they gathered themselves together to fight with one accord against Joshua and Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:3",
"text": " But the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua did to Jericho and Ai, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:4",
"text": "and they acted on their part with cunning: they went and prepared provisions, and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys and old wineskins that were torn and mended. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:5",
"text": "The sandals on their feet were patched and old, their clothes were old, and their food was dry and crumbled. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:6",
"text": "And they went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, \u201cWe have come from a far land; so then \u231emake a covenant with us\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:7",
"text": "And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, \u201cPerhaps you are living among us; how can we \u231emake a covenant\u231f with you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:8",
"text": "They said to Joshua, \u201cWe are your servants.\u201d And Joshua said to them, \u201cWho are you, and from where do you come?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:9",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cYour servants have come from a very far land because of the name of Yahweh your God; we have heard of his reputation, of all that he did in Egypt, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:10",
"text": "and of all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan\u2014to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was in Ashtaroth. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:11",
"text": "So our elders said to us and all the inhabitants of our land, \u2018Take in your hand provisions for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, \u201cWe are your servants; so then \u231emake a covenant with us\u231f.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:12",
"text": "This is our bread; it was hot when we took it from our houses as provisions on the day we set out to come to you. But now, look, it is dry and crumbled. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:13",
"text": "These are the wineskins that we filled new, but look, they have burst; and these are our clothes and sandals that have worn out from the very long journey.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:14",
"text": "So the leaders took from their provisions, but \u231ethey did not ask direction from Yahweh\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:15",
"text": "And Joshua made peace with them, and \u231ehe made a covenant with them\u231f to allow them to live happily, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:16",
"text": " And it happened that at the end of three days, after they made a covenant with them, they heard that \u231ethey were their neighbors\u231f and living among them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:17",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f set out and went to their cities on the third day (their cities were Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim). "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:18",
"text": "But the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured \u231eagainst their leaders\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:19",
"text": "But all the leaders of the congregation said, \u201cWe have sworn to them by Yahweh the God of Israel, and so we cannot touch them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:20",
"text": "This we will do to them: we will let them live so that wrath will not be on us because of the oath we swore to them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:21",
"text": "And the leaders said to them, \u201cLet them live.\u201d So they became woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said to them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:22",
"text": " And Joshua summoned them and said, \u201cWhy have you deceived us saying, \u2018We are very far from you\u2019 when you are living among us? "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:23",
"text": "Therefore you are cursed; some of you will always be slaves as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:24",
"text": "And they answered Joshua and said, \u201cBecause it was told with certainty to your servants that Yahweh your God commanded Moses his servant to give to you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you, so we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and so we did this thing. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:25",
"text": "So then, look, we are in your hand; do with us whatever seems good and right in your eyes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:26",
"text": "So he did this to them: he saved them from the hand of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and they did not kill them. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Joshua 9:27",
"text": "And that day Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place that he should choose. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:1",
"text": " And it happened that when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua captured Ai and had utterly destroyed it (just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he did to Ai and its king) and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:2",
"text": "he became very afraid because Gibeon was a very large city, \u231elike one of the royal cities\u231f, and because it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:3",
"text": "So Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hohman king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:4",
"text": "\u201cCome up and help me, and let us attack Gibeon, because it has made peace with Joshua and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:5",
"text": "And the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they and all their forces, and \u231ethey laid siege to Gibeon\u231f and made war against it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:6",
"text": " And the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, \u201c\u231eDo not abandon\u231f your servant. Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country have gathered against us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:7",
"text": "So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and \u231eall the fighting men\u231f with him, \u231eall the best warriors\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:8",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Joshua, \u201cDo not be afraid of them, for I have given them into your hand; \u231eno one will withstand you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:9",
"text": "Joshua came upon them suddenly \u231eby marching up\u231f all night from Gilgal. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:10",
"text": "And Yahweh threw them into panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and pursued them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:11",
"text": "And as they were fleeing from Israel, they were on the slope of Beth-horon, and Yahweh threw huge stones from the heavens on them as far as Azekah; and more died by the hail stones than those whom the \u231eIsraelites\u231f killed by the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:12",
"text": " Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh, on the day Yahweh gave the Amorites over to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and he said in the sight of Israel, \u201cSun in Gibeon, stand still, and moon, in the valley of Aijalon.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:13",
"text": " And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on its enemies. Is it not written in the scroll of Jashar? The sun stood still in the middle of the heaven and was not in haste to set for about a full day. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:14",
"text": "There has not been a day like this before it or after, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:15",
"text": "And Joshua returned and all Israel with him to the camp at Gilgal. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:16",
"text": " But these five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:17",
"text": "And it was told to Joshua, saying, \u201cThe five kings were found hidden in the cave at Makkedah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:18",
"text": "And Joshua said, \u201cRoll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men in front of it to guard them. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:19",
"text": "But do not stay there; pursue after your enemies and attack them from the rear. Do not allow them to go into their cities, for Yahweh your God has given them into your hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:20",
"text": "When Joshua and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f had finished striking them with a very great blow, until they perished, \u231ethose of them who survived\u231f went into the fortified cities, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:21",
"text": "and all the people returned to the camp safely to Joshua at Makkedah. \u231eNo one spoke\u231f against the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:22",
"text": " And Joshua said, \u201cOpen the mouth of the cave, and bring to me those five kings from the cave.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:23",
"text": "And they did so, and brought him these five kings from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:24",
"text": "And when they brought these kings to Joshua, Joshua called all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of \u231ethe fighting men\u231f who had gone with him, \u201cCome near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.\u201d So they came near and put their feet on their necks. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:25",
"text": "And Joshua said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid or dismayed! Be strong and bold, for thus Yahweh will do to all your enemies whom you are about to fight. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:26",
"text": "And after this Joshua struck them down and killed them, and he hanged them on five trees. And they were hanging on the trees until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:27",
"text": "And it happened \u231eat the time of sunset\u231f, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they put large stones against the mouth of the cave, which are there to this very day. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:28",
"text": " Joshua captured Makkedah on that day, and he struck it and its king with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f; he utterly destroyed it and everyone that was in it. He did not leave behind a survivor. So he did to the king of Makkedah just as he did to the king of Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:29",
"text": " And Joshua passed on, and all of Israel with him, from Makkedah to Libnah, and he fought against Libnah. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:30",
"text": "And Yahweh also gave it into the hand of Israel, and its king and all the people in it he struck with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f. He left in it no survivor. He did to its king just as he did to the king of Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:31",
"text": " And Joshua passed on, and all of Israel with him, from Libnah to Lachish, and \u231ehe laid siege to it\u231f and fought against it. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:32",
"text": "And Yahweh gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day. He struck it with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f, and everyone in it, just as he did to Libnah. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:33",
"text": " Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people until he left no survivor behind. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:34",
"text": " And Joshua passed on, and all of Israel with him, from Lachish to Eglon, and \u231ethey laid siege to it\u231f and fought against it. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:35",
"text": "And they captured it on that day, and he struck it with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f, and all the people that were in it on that day he utterly destroyed as he had done to Lachish. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:36",
"text": " And Joshua went up, and all Israel with him, from Eglon to Hebron, and they fought against it "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:37",
"text": "and captured it, and they struck it with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f, its king and all its cities, and all the people that were in it; he left behind no survivor, as he had done to Eglon, and he utterly destroyed it and all the people that were in it. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:38",
"text": "Then Joshua returned to Debir, and all of Israel with him, and they fought against it, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:39",
"text": "and he captured it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with \u231ethe the edge of the sword\u231f, and they utterly destroyed all the people that were in it; he left behind no survivor, just as he had done to Hebron. Thus he did to Debir and its king what he had done to Libnah and its king. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:40",
"text": " So Joshua struck all the land\u2014the hill country, the Negev, the Shephelah, and the slopes\u2014and all their kings; he left behind no survivor, and \u231eall that breathed\u231f he utterly destroyed as Yahweh the God of Israel commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:41",
"text": "Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen up to Gibeon; "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:42",
"text": "all of these kings and their land Joshua captured at one time, because Yahweh the God of Israel fought for Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Joshua 10:43",
"text": "And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:1",
"text": " And it happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Acshaph, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:2",
"text": "and to the kings who were in the north in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the Shephelah, and in Naphoth Dor in the west, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:3",
"text": "to the Canaanites in the east and west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites \u231eat the foot of\u231f Hermon in the land of Mizpah. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:4",
"text": "They came out, they and all their armies with them, as a great army like the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:5",
"text": "And all these kings joined forces, and they came and camped together by the waters of Merom to fight with Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:6",
"text": " And Yahweh said to Joshua, \u201cDo not be afraid because of their presence, for tomorrow at this time I will hand them over slain to Israel; you will hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:7",
"text": "So Joshua, and \u231eall the fighting men\u231f with him, came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and \u231ethey attacked them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:8",
"text": "And Yahweh gave them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them and pursued them up to Great Sidon and Misrephoth Maim, and eastward up to the valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until they left behind no survivor. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:9",
"text": "And Joshua did to them as Yahweh commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:10",
"text": " Then Joshua turned back at that time, and he captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, because Hazor formerly was the head of all these kingdoms. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:11",
"text": "He struck all the people that were in it with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f, utterly destroying them. \u231eThere was no one left who breathed\u231f, and he burned Hazor with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:12",
"text": "And Joshua captured all the cities of these kings, and all their kings, and he utterly destroyed them with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f, as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:13",
"text": "Israel did not burn the cities standing on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:14",
"text": "And all the spoil and livestock of these cities the \u231eIsraelites\u231f took as booty; they struck the people with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f, until they had destroyed them\u2014they left behind no one who breathed. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:15",
"text": "Just as Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did; he left nothing undone that Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:16",
"text": " So Joshua took all this land: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the Shephelah, the Arabah, and the hill country of Israel and its Shephelah, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:17",
"text": "from Mount Halak that rises to Seir and to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon \u231eat the foot of\u231f Mount Hermon; he captured all their kings, struck them, and killed them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:18",
"text": "For many days Joshua made war with all these kings. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:19",
"text": "There was not a city that made peace with the \u231eIsraelites\u231f besides the Hivites and the inhabitants of Gibeon\u2014\u231eall were taken in battle\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:20",
"text": "For it was Yahweh that \u231ehardened their hearts\u231f, to meet Israel in war in order to utterly destroy them without mercy, that they would destroy them just as Yahweh commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:21",
"text": " At that time Joshua came and exterminated the Anakites from the hill country, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:22",
"text": "None of the Anakites were left in the land of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; some remained only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Joshua 11:23",
"text": "Joshua took all the land according to all that Yahweh had spoken to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel, according to their tribal divisions, and the land rested from war. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:1",
"text": " These are the kings of the land whom the \u231eIsraelites\u231f defeated, and of whose land they took possession beyond the Jordon \u231eto the east\u231f, from the wadi of Arnon up to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:2",
"text": "Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi of Arnon, from the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, up to the \u231eJabbok River\u231f, which marks the border of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:3",
"text": "and the Arabah up to the Kinnereth Sea to the east, and as far as the sea of Arabah, the Salt Sea to the east, \u231ein the direction of\u231f Beth Jeshimoth, and to the area southward, \u231eat the foot of\u231f the slopes of Pisgah; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:4",
"text": "the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaites, who lived at Ashtaroth and Edrei "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:5",
"text": "and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and over all Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half of Gilead, as far as the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:6",
"text": "Moses Yahweh\u2019s servant and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f defeated them; and Moses Yahweh\u2019s servant gave it as a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:7",
"text": " These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f defeated beyond to the Jordan to the west, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon, and up to Mount Halak, which rises to Seir. And Joshua gave it as a possession to the tribes of Israel according to their allotments, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:8",
"text": "in the hill country, the Shephelah, the Arabah, on the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negev; the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:9",
"text": " the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:10",
"text": " the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:11",
"text": " the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:12",
"text": " the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:13",
"text": " the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:14",
"text": " the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:15",
"text": " the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:16",
"text": " the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:17",
"text": " the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:18",
"text": " the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:19",
"text": " the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:20",
"text": " the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Acshaph, one; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:21",
"text": " the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:22",
"text": " the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:23",
"text": " the king of Dor in Naphath Dor, one; the king of Goiim for Gilgal, one; "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Joshua 12:24",
"text": " the king of Tirzah, one; all the kings, thirty-one. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:1",
"text": " Now Joshua was old and \u231eadvanced in years\u231f, and Yahweh said to him, \u201cYou are old and \u231eadvanced in years\u231f, and very much of the land remains to be possessed. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:2",
"text": "This is the remaining land: all the regions of the Philistines, and all of the Geshurites, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:3",
"text": "from the Shihor, which is \u231eeast of Egypt\u231f, up to the border of Ekron to the north, which is reckoned as Canaanite; there are five Philistine rulers: the Gazites, Ashdodites, Ashkelonites, Gittites, Ekronites, and the Avvim. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:4",
"text": "In the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians up to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:5",
"text": "and the land of the Gebalites, and all the Lebanon, \u231etoward the east\u231f, from Baal Gad \u231eat the foot of\u231f Mount Hermon up to Lebo-Hamath; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:6",
"text": "all the inhabitants of the hill country, from the Lebanon up to Misrephoth Maim, and all the Sidonians. I will drive them out from before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; only allocate it to Israel as an inheritance just as I have commanded you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:7",
"text": "Therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:8",
"text": " With it the Reubenites, and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses Yahweh\u2019s servant gave to them: "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:9",
"text": "from Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi of Arnon, and the city which is in the middle of the wadi, and all the plateau from Medeba up to Dibon; "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:10",
"text": "and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon up to the border of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:11",
"text": "and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathites, all of \u231eMount Hermon\u231f, and Bashan up to Salecah; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:12",
"text": "all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei\u2014he was left over from the survivors of the Rephaim; these Moses had defeated and driven out. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:13",
"text": "But the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:14",
"text": "Only the tribe of Levites Moses did not give an inheritance; the offerings made by fire to Yahweh the God of Israel are their inheritance, just as he promised to them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:15",
"text": " Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the descendants of Reuben according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:16",
"text": "Their territory was from Aroer, which was on the edge of the wadi of Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plateau by Medeba; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:17",
"text": "Heshbon and its cities that are on the plateau; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:18",
"text": "Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:19",
"text": "Kiriathaim, Sibmah, and Zereth Shahar on the hill of the valley; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:20",
"text": "Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:21",
"text": "all of the cities of the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon who dwelled in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:22",
"text": "In addition to their slain, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f killed with the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:23",
"text": "And the border of the descendants of Reuben was the Jordan and its banks. This was the inheritance of the descendants of Reuben according to their families, the cities, and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:24",
"text": " Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the descendants of Gad, according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:25",
"text": "Their territory was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f up to Aroer, \u231ewhich is east of Rabbah\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:26",
"text": "and from Heshbon up to Ramah-Mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim up to the territory to Debir; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:27",
"text": "in the valley of Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, Zaphon, and the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its banks, up to the lower end of the Kinnereth Sea beyond the Jordan to the east. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:28",
"text": "This is the inheritance of the \u231eGadites\u231f according to their families, the cities, and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:29",
"text": " Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh; it was for the half-tribe of the descendants of Manasseh according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:30",
"text": "Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the settlements of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:31",
"text": "and half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth, Edrei, and the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan; these were allotted to the children of Makir son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Makir according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:32",
"text": "These are the territories that Moses gave as an inheritance on the desert-plateau of Moab, beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Joshua 13:33",
"text": "But to the tribe of Levi Moses did not give an inheritance; Yahweh the God of Israel, he is their inheritance, just as \u231ehe promised them\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:1",
"text": " These are the territories that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f gave as an inheritance to them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:2",
"text": "Their inheritance was by lot, just as Yahweh commanded through the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:3",
"text": "For Moses had given an inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:4",
"text": "For the descendants of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a plot of ground to the Levites in the land, only cities to live in, with their pastureland for their flocks and for their goods. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:5",
"text": "Just as Yahweh commanded Moses, so the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did; and they allotted the land. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:6",
"text": " Then the descendants of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal; and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, \u201cYou know the word that Yahweh said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea concerning you and me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:7",
"text": "\u231eI was forty years old\u231f when Moses Yahweh\u2019s servant sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I returned \u231ewith an honest report\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:8",
"text": "My companions who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt, but I remained true to Yahweh my God. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:9",
"text": "And Moses swore on that day, saying, \u2018Surely the land that your foot has trodden on will be an inheritance to you and your sons forever, because you remained true to Yahweh my God.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:10",
"text": "So then, look, Yahweh has kept me alive just as he promised these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses while Israel \u231ewandered\u231f in the wilderness. Now look, today \u231eI am eighty-five years old\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:11",
"text": "Today I am still strong, just as on the day that Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so now also is my strength for war \u231eand for daily activities\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:12",
"text": "So now give me this hill country that Yahweh spoke of on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakites were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps Yahweh is with me, and I will drive them out just as Yahweh promised.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:13",
"text": " And Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:14",
"text": "Thus Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he remained true to Yahweh the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Joshua 14:15",
"text": "And the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath Arba; Arba was the greatest person among the Anakites. And the land rested from war. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:1",
"text": " The allotment for the tribe of the descendants of Judah according to their families reached to the border of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin, \u231eto the far south\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:2",
"text": "Their southern border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay facing southward; "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:3",
"text": "it continues to the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, it goes up south of Kadesh Barnea, passes along Hezron, goes up to Addar, and makes a turn to Karka; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:4",
"text": "\u231eit passes on\u231f to Azmon, continues by the wadi of Egypt, and \u231eit ends\u231f at the sea. This will be your southern border. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:5",
"text": "The eastern border is the Salt Sea up to the mouth of the Jordan. The border on the northern side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:6",
"text": "the border goes up to Beth-hoglah and passes along north of Beth Arabah; and the border goes up the stone of Bohan son of Reuben; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:7",
"text": "and the border goes up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and to the north, turning to Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is south of the wadi; and the border passes on to the waters of En Shemesh, and it ends at En Rogel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:8",
"text": "Then the border goes up by the Valley of Ben Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites from the south (that is, Jerusalem); and the border goes up to the top of the mountain that lies opposite the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the valley of Rephaim to the north; "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:9",
"text": "then the border turns from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and continues from there to the cities of Mount Ephron; the border then turns to Baalah (that is, Kiriath Jearim); "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:10",
"text": "and the border goes around from Baalah to the west, to Mount Seir, and passes on to the slope of Mount Jearim from the north (that is, Kesalon), and goes down to Beth Shemesh, and passes along by Timnah. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:11",
"text": "The border continues to the slope of Ekron to the north, then bends around to Shikkeron, it passes on to Mount Baalah and continues to Jabneel; and \u231ethe border ends\u231f at the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:12",
"text": "And the western border is to the Great Sea and its coast. This is the border surrounding the descendants of Judah according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:13",
"text": " \u231eAccording to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua\u231f, he gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh a plot of ground among the descendants of Judah, Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron (Arba was Anak\u2019s father). "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:14",
"text": "Caleb drove out from there three of Anak\u2019s sons, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:15",
"text": "And from there he went up against the inhabitants of Debir (the former name of Debir was Kiriath Sepher). "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:16",
"text": "And Caleb said, \u201cWhoever attacks Kiriath Sepher and captures it, I will give to him my daughter Acsah as a wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:17",
"text": "Othniel son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it, and he gave to him Acsah his daughter as a wife. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:18",
"text": "When she came to him she urged him to ask her father for a field. So she dismounted from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, \u201c\u231eWhat do you want\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:19",
"text": "And she said to him, \u201cGive to me a gift; you have given me the land of the Negev, and you must give to me a spring of water.\u201d And he gave to her the upper and lower spring. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:20",
"text": " This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Judah according to their families: "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:21",
"text": "the cities belonging to the tribe of the descendants of Judah to the far south, to the border of Edom to the south, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:22",
"text": "Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:23",
"text": "Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:24",
"text": "Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:25",
"text": "Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (that is, Hazor), "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:26",
"text": "Amam, Shema, Moladah, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:27",
"text": "Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:28",
"text": "Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:29",
"text": "Baalah, Iim, Ezem, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:30",
"text": "Eltolad, Kesil, Hormah, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:31",
"text": "Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:32",
"text": "Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:33",
"text": " In the Shephelah: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:34",
"text": "Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:35",
"text": "Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:36",
"text": "Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:37",
"text": " Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:38",
"text": "Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:39",
"text": "Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:40",
"text": "Cabbon, Lahma, Kitlish, "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:41",
"text": "Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:42",
"text": " Libnah, Ether, Ashan, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:43",
"text": "Jephthah, Ashnah, Nezib, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:44",
"text": "Keilah, Aczib, and Mareshah; nine cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:45",
"text": " Ekron, its towns and villages; "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:46",
"text": "from Ekron to the sea, and all that \u231ewere near\u231f Ashdod and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:47",
"text": " Ashdod, its towns and villages; Gaza, its towns and villages, up to the wadi of Egypt and the Great Sea and its coast. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:48",
"text": " And in the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, Socoh, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:49",
"text": "Dannah, Kiriath Sanna (that is, Debir), "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:50",
"text": "Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim, "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:51",
"text": "Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:52",
"text": " Arab, Dumah, Eshan, "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:53",
"text": "Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah, "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:54",
"text": "Humtah, Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior; nine cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:55",
"text": " Moan, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah, "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:56",
"text": "Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:57",
"text": "Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:58",
"text": " Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor, "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:59",
"text": "Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:60",
"text": " Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah; two cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:61",
"text": " In the wilderness: Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah, "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:62",
"text": "Nibshan, the city of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Joshua 15:63",
"text": " But the descendants of Judah were unable to drive out the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live with the descendants of Judah in Jerusalem to this day. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Joshua 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Joshua 16:1",
"text": " The allotment of the descendants of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, at the waters of Jericho to the east, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel; "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Joshua 16:2",
"text": "it continues from Bethel to Luz, and it passes along to the territory of the Arkites at Ataroth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Joshua 16:3",
"text": "Then it goes down, to the west, to the territory of the Japhletites, up to the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and \u231eit ends\u231f at the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Joshua 16:4",
"text": " And the descendants of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Joshua 16:5",
"text": "This was the border of the descendants of Ephraim according to their families: the border of their inheritance to the east was Ataroth Addar, up to Upper Beth-horon. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Joshua 16:6",
"text": "The border continues to the sea; from Micmethath to the north, the border turns to the east to Taanath Shiloh, and it passes along it from the east to Janoah. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Joshua 16:7",
"text": "Then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah; it touches Jericho and ends at the Jordan; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Joshua 16:8",
"text": "from Tappuah the border goes to the west, to the wadi of Kanah, and \u231eit ends\u231f at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Ephraim according to their families, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Joshua 16:9",
"text": "with the cities that were set apart for the descendants of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the descendants of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Joshua 16:10",
"text": "But they did not drive out the Canananites who were dwelling in Gezer, and so the Canaanites live in the midst of Ephraim to this day, but they became forced laborers. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:1",
"text": " Then the allotment was made for the tribe of Manasseh, because he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, \u231ewere allotted\u231f Gilead and Bashan, because he was a warrior. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:2",
"text": "An allotment was made for the remaining descendants of Manasseh, according to their families: For the children of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida\u2014these were the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:3",
"text": " But Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:4",
"text": "They came before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, saying, \u201cYahweh commanded Moses to give an inheritance to us among our kinsmen.\u201d Therefore, according to the \u231ecommand of Yahweh\u231f he gave them an inheritance among the kinsmen of their father. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:5",
"text": "Thus ten shares fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:6",
"text": "because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead was allotted to the remaining descendants of Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:7",
"text": "The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Micmethath, which is opposite Shechem; then the border goes to the south, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:8",
"text": "The land of Tappuah \u231ebelonged to Manasseh\u231f, but Tuppuah on the border of Manasseh \u231ebelonged to the descendants of Ephraim\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:9",
"text": "Then the border goes down to the wadi of Kanah to the south of the wadi. These cities belong to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh is north of the wadi, and \u231eit ends\u231f at the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:10",
"text": "The south is Ephraim\u2019s, and the north is Manasseh\u2019s; the sea is their border; Asher touches the north and on the east Issachar. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:11",
"text": "In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, Ibleam and its villages, the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Napheth. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:12",
"text": "But the descendants of Manasseh were not able to take possession of these towns; the Canaanites were determined to live in this land. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:13",
"text": "And it happened, when the \u231eIsraelites\u231f grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but never drove them out completely. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:14",
"text": " The descendants of Joseph spoke with Joshua, saying, \u201cWhy have you given us one allotment and one share as an inheritance? We are many people, which Yahweh has blessed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:15",
"text": "And Joshua said to them, \u201cIf you are many people, go up to the forest and clear a place there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:16",
"text": "And the descendants of Joseph said, \u201cThe hill country is not enough for us, and all of the Canaanites living in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, those in Beth-shean and its villages, and those in the Jezreel Valley.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:17",
"text": "And Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, \u201cYou are many people and have great power; you will not have one allotment only; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Joshua 17:18",
"text": "the hill country will be yours. Even though it is a forest, you will clear it, and it will be yours to its farthest borders. You will drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and are strong.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:1",
"text": " The entire congregation of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f assembled at Shiloh, and they set up there the tent of meeting, and the land was subdued before them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:2",
"text": "And seven tribes remained among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f who had not been apportioned their inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:3",
"text": "And Joshua said to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u201c\u231eHow long\u231f will you be slack about going to take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, has given you? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:4",
"text": "Provide three men \u231efrom each tribe\u231f, and I will send them so that they may begin to go through the land and write a description of it \u231eaccording to their inheritance\u231f, and let them come to me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:5",
"text": "They will divide it among themselves into seven portions; \u231eJudah will maintain its border\u231f from the south, and \u231ethe house of Joseph will maintain its border\u231f from the north. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:6",
"text": "Describe the land in seven divisions, and bring it to me here; I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:7",
"text": "The Levites among you have no portion, for their inheritance is the priesthood of Yahweh; Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh received their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses Yahweh\u2019s servant gave to them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:8",
"text": " And \u231ethe men went immediately\u231f, and Joshua commanded the ones going to describe the land, saying, \u201cGo and walk about through the land, write a description, and return to me, and here I will cast a lot for you before Yahweh at Shiloh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:9",
"text": "And the men went and passed through the land, and they \u231edescribed\u231f the cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:10",
"text": "and Joshua cast a lot for them at Shiloh before Yahweh, and there he divided the land for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u231eto each a portion\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:11",
"text": " And the allotment of the tribe of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the border of their allotment fell between the descendants of Judah and the descendants of Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:12",
"text": "Their northern border began at the Jordan and went up to the slope of Jericho on the north and continued into the hill country to the west; \u231eit ends\u231f at the wilderness of Beth Aven. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:13",
"text": "The border passes on from there to Luz, to the slope of Luz to the south (that is, Bethel); then the border goes down to Ataroth Addar to the mountain that is south of Lower Beth-Horon. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:14",
"text": "Then the border changes direction and turns to the western side southward, from the mountain that \u231eis opposite\u231f Beth-Horon to the south. \u231eIt ends\u231f at Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a town belonging to the descendants of Judah. This is the western side. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:15",
"text": "The southern side begins on the outskirts of Kiriath Jearim, and the border continues to the west to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:16",
"text": "the border goes down to the foot of the mountain, which is opposite the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim to the north; then it does down the valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites to the south, and then it goes down to En Rogel. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:17",
"text": "It changes direction from the north, and it continues to En Shemesh; it goes out to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it goes down to the stone of Bohan, son of Reuben. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:18",
"text": "It passes on to the slope opposite the Arabah to the north, and it goes down to the Arabah. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:19",
"text": "The border passes on to the slope of Beth-hoglah to the north and \u231eends\u231f at the north bay of the Salt Sea at the south end of the Jordan. This is the southern border. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:20",
"text": "The Jordan forms its border on the eastern side. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin, its borders that surrounds them, according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:21",
"text": " Now the towns of the tribes of the descendants of Benjamin, according to their families, were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek Keziz, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:22",
"text": "Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:23",
"text": "Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:24",
"text": "Kephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:25",
"text": " Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:26",
"text": "Mizpeh, Kephirah, Mozah, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:27",
"text": "Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Joshua 18:28",
"text": "Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath; fourteen cities and their villages. This is the inheritance of the descendants of Benjamin according to their families. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:1",
"text": " The second allotment \u231efell\u231f for Simeon, for the tribe of the descendants of Simeon, according to their families. And their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the descendants of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:2",
"text": "And they had as their inheritance Beersheba, Sheba, Moladah, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:3",
"text": "Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:4",
"text": "Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:5",
"text": "Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:6",
"text": "Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:7",
"text": "Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:8",
"text": "and all the villages that were around these towns up to Baalat-Beor, Ramath of the Negev. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Simeon according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:9",
"text": "Part of the portion allotted to the descendants of Judah became the inheritance of the descendants of Simeon because the portion for the descendants of Judah was \u231etoo large for them\u231f, so the descendants of Simeon inherited from their inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:10",
"text": " The third allotment came up for the descendants of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance went up to Sarid. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:11",
"text": "Their border goes up to the west, to Maralah; it touches Dabbesheth, then the wadi that is opposite Jokneam. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:12",
"text": "It turns from Sarid to the east to the sunrise, to the border of Kislot-Tabor; it continues to Daberath and goes up to Japhia. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:13",
"text": "From there it passes along to the east toward the sunrise, to Gath Hepher and to Eth Kazin, and continuing to Rimmon, it turns to Neah; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:14",
"text": "it changes direction from the north of Hannathon, and \u231eit ends\u231f at the valley of Yiptah-El; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:15",
"text": "Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:16",
"text": "This is the inheritance of the descendants of Zebulun according to their families, these cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:17",
"text": " The fourth allotment \u231efell\u231f for Issachar, for the descendants of Issachar, according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:18",
"text": "Their border went to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:19",
"text": "Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:20",
"text": "Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:21",
"text": "Remeth, En Gannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:22",
"text": "and the border touches Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. \u231eIts border ends\u231f at the Jordan; sixteen cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:23",
"text": "This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:24",
"text": " The fifth allotment \u231efell\u231f for the tribe of the descendants of Asher according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:25",
"text": "Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, Acshaph, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:26",
"text": "Allamelech, Amad, and Mishal; it touches Carmel to the west, and Shihor-Libnat. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:27",
"text": "Then it turns \u231eeastward\u231f to Beth-dagon and touches Zebulun and the valley of Yiptah-El to the north to Beth Emeck and Neiel; it continues to Cabul from the north, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:28",
"text": "and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah up to Great Sidon; "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:29",
"text": "then the border turns to Ramah, and up to the fortified city of Tyre, where the border turns to Hosah; \u231eit ends\u231f at the sea, from Hebel to Aczib. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:30",
"text": "Included were Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob; twenty-two cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:31",
"text": "This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Asher according to their families, these cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:32",
"text": " The sixth allotment \u231efell\u231f for the children of Naphtali, for the children of Naphtali according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:33",
"text": "Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adami Nekeb, Jabneel, up to Lakkum; \u231eit ends\u231f at the Jordan; "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:34",
"text": "then the border turns to the west, to Aznoth Tabor, and continues from there to Hukok, and it touches Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and Judah on \u231ethe east\u231f at the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:35",
"text": "\u231eThe fortified cities\u231f are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:36",
"text": "Adamah, Ramah, Hazor, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:37",
"text": "Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:38",
"text": "Yiron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth-anath, Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:39",
"text": "This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:40",
"text": " The seventh lot \u231efell\u231f for the tribe of the descendants of Dan according to their families. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:41",
"text": "The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:42",
"text": "Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:43",
"text": "Elon, Timnah, Ekron, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:44",
"text": "Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:45",
"text": "Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:46",
"text": "Me Jarkon, Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:47",
"text": "The border of the descendants of Dan continued \u231ebeyond them\u231f, because the descendants of Dan went up and fought with Lesham, and they captured and struck it with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f, and they took possession of it and settled in it; and they called Leshem Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:48",
"text": "This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Dan according to their families, these cities and their villages. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:49",
"text": " They finished assigning the land according to its borders, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f gave an inheritance from among them to Joshua son of Nun. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:50",
"text": "\u231eAccording to the commandment of Yahweh\u231f, they gave him the city that he requested, Timnath Serah, in the hill country of Ephraim, and he rebuilt the city and settled in it. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Joshua 19:51",
"text": "These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes, distributed by allotment to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, at Shiloh \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And they finished dividing the land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Joshua 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Joshua 20:1",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Joshua 20:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, saying, \u2018Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through the hand of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Joshua 20:3",
"text": "Anyone who kills a person by accident or unintentionally may flee there; they will be for yourselves a refuge from the avenger of blood. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Joshua 20:4",
"text": "The killer will flee to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and \u231estate his case to the elders of that city\u231f; and they will take him into the city and give him a place, and he will dwell among them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Joshua 20:5",
"text": "And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, they will not hand over the killer into his hand, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally, and \u231ehe did not hate him previously\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Joshua 20:6",
"text": "The killer will stay in that city until he stands before the congregation for the trial, until the death of the one who is the high priest in those days. Then \u231ethe killer will return\u231f to his city and to his house, to the city from which he fled.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Joshua 20:7",
"text": " So \u231ethey set apart\u231f Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Joshua 20:8",
"text": "Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau, from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in the Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Joshua 20:9",
"text": "These were the cities designated for all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and for the foreigners dwelling among them, for anyone that kills a person unintentionally to flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, \u231euntil there is a trial\u231f before the congregation. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:1",
"text": " Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the tribes of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:2",
"text": "And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, \u201cYahweh commanded through the hand of Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasturelands for our livestock.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:3",
"text": "So, \u231eby command of Yahweh\u231f, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands from their inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:4",
"text": " The allotment \u231efell\u231f for the families of the Kohathites. The descendants of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, \u231ereceived\u231f by lot thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:5",
"text": " The remaining descendants of Kohath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:6",
"text": " The descendants of Gershon received by lot thirteen cities from the families of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, and Naphtali and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:7",
"text": " The descendants of the Merarites according to their families received twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:8",
"text": " The \u231eIsraelites\u231f gave to the Levites these cities and their pastureland by lot, just as Yahweh commanded through the hand of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:9",
"text": " They gave these cities, which are here mentioned by name, from the tribe of the families of Judah and from the tribe of the families of Simeon; "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:10",
"text": "and they were for the descendants of Aaron, from the families of the Kohathites, from the descendants of Levi, because the first lot was theirs. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:11",
"text": "And they gave to them Kiriath Arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah and the pasturelands surrounding it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:12",
"text": "But the field of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:13",
"text": " To the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands, Libnah and its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:14",
"text": "Jattir and its pasturelands, Eshtemoa and its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:15",
"text": "Holon and its pasturelands, Debir and its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:16",
"text": "Ain and its pasturelands, Juttah and its pasturelands, and Beth Shemesh and its pasturelands; nine cities from these two tribes. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:17",
"text": "From the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its pasturelands, Geba and its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:18",
"text": "Anathoth and its pasturelands, Almon and its pasturelands; four cities. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:19",
"text": "All the cities of the descendants of Aaron the priests, thirteen cities and their pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:20",
"text": " For the families of the descendants of Kohath, the remaining Levites of the descendants of Kohath, they received the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephraim. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:21",
"text": "They gave them Shechem, the city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer and its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:22",
"text": "Kibzaim and its pasturelands, and Beth-horon and its pasturelands; four cities. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:23",
"text": "From the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its pasturelands, Gibbethon and its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:24",
"text": "Aijalon and its pasturelands, and Gath Rimmon and its pasturelands; four cities. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:25",
"text": "From the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its pasturelands and Gath Rimmon with its pasturelands; two cities. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:26",
"text": "All the cities and their pasturelands for the remaining families of the descendants of Kohath were ten. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:27",
"text": " To the descendants of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan, a city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands, and Eshtarah and its pasturelands; two cities. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:28",
"text": "From the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and its pasturelands, Daberath and its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:29",
"text": "Jarmuth and its pasturelands, En Gannim and its pasturelands; four cities. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:30",
"text": "From the tribe of Asher, Mishal and its pasturelands, Abdon and its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:31",
"text": "Helkath and its pasturelands, Rehob and its pasturelands; four cities. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:32",
"text": "From the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands, Hammoth Dor and its pasturelands, and Kartan and its pasturelands; three cities. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:33",
"text": "All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities and their pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:34",
"text": " To the families of the descendants of Merarite, the remaining Levites, from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and its pasturelands, Kartah and its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:35",
"text": "Dimnah and its pasturelands, and Nahalal and its pasturelands; four cities. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:36",
"text": "From the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its pasturelands, Jahaz and its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:37",
"text": "Kedemoth and its pasturelands, and Mephaath and its pasturelands; four cities. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:38",
"text": "From the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands, Mahanaim and its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:39",
"text": "Heshbon and its pasturelands, and Jazer and its pasturelands; four cities in all. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:40",
"text": "All these were the cities of the descendants of Merarite according to their families, the remaining families of the Levites; their allotment was twelve cities. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:41",
"text": " All the cities of the Levites among the property of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f were forty-eight cities and their pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:42",
"text": "Each of these cities had pasturelands surrounding them; so it was for all of these cities. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:43",
"text": "And Yahweh gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their ancestors, and they took possession of it and \u231esettled in it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:44",
"text": "Yahweh gave them rest on every side, according to all that he had sworn to their ancestors, and nobody from all their enemies withstood them, for Yahweh had given all their enemies into their hand. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Joshua 21:45",
"text": "And \u231enothing failed from\u231f all the good things that Yahweh promised to the house of Israel; \u231eeverything came to pass\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:1",
"text": " Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:2",
"text": "and he said to them, \u201cYou have observed all that Moses Yahweh\u2019s servant commanded you, and you have listened to my voice in all that I have commanded you; "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:3",
"text": "you have not forsaken your kinsmen these many days, up to this day, and you have observed the obligation of the command of Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:4",
"text": "So then, Yahweh your God has given rest to your kinsmen, just as he promised them; so then, turn and go to your tents to the land of your possession, which Moses Yahweh\u2019s servant gave to you beyond the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:5",
"text": "Only be very careful to observe the commandment and law that Moses Yahweh\u2019s servant commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:6",
"text": "And Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:7",
"text": "And to the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua had given a possession with their kinsmen beyond the Jordan to the west; and when Joshua sent them to their tents and blessed them, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:8",
"text": "he said to them, \u201cReturn to your tents with much wealth, and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, copper, iron, and with very much clothing; divide the war-booty of your enemies with your kinsmen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:9",
"text": "So the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home and departed with the \u231eIsraelites\u231f at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead to the land of their possession, which they had acquired \u231eaccording to the command of Yahweh\u231f through the hand of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:10",
"text": " And they came to the region of the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, and the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar on the Jordan, \u231ea large and imposing altar\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:11",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f heard it said that the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had built an altar next to the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan, on the side belonging to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:12",
"text": "When the \u231eIsraelites\u231f heard of it, the whole congregation of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f gathered at Shiloh to go up against them for battle. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:13",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f sent to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, Phinehas the priest son of Eleazar, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:14",
"text": "and ten leaders with him, \u231eone leader for each\u231f \u231efamily\u231f from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one was the head of \u231ehis family\u231f among the clans of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:15",
"text": "They came to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:16",
"text": "\u201cThus says all the congregation of Yahweh: \u2018What is this treachery that you have committed against the God of Israel by turning away today from following Yahweh, by building for yourselves an altar to rebel today against Yahweh? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:17",
"text": "Is not the sin of Peor \u231eenough for us\u231f, from which we have not cleansed ourselves today, and for which a plague came to the congregation of Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:18",
"text": "that you must turn today from following Yahweh? If you rebel today against Yahweh, tomorrow he will be angry with all of the congregation of Israel; "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:19",
"text": "if, however, the land of your property is unclean, cross over to the land of Yahweh\u2019s property, where Yahweh\u2019s tabernacle resides, and take possession among us. But you must not rebel against Yahweh or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of Yahweh our God. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:20",
"text": "Did not Achan son of Zerah commit treachery with devoted things, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? \u231eAnd he alone\u231f did not perish because of his iniquity.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:21",
"text": " And the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh spoke with the heads of the clans of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:22",
"text": "\u201cYahweh, God of gods! Yahweh, God of gods knows. And let Israel itself know, if it was in rebellion or treachery against Yahweh, do not spare us this day "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:23",
"text": "for building for ourselves an altar to turn away from Yahweh, or if it was to offer burnt offerings, grain offerings, or fellowship offerings on it, may Yahweh himself take vengeance. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:24",
"text": "But in fact, we have done this because of anxiety, because of a reason, saying, \u2018In the future your children may say to our children, \u2018\u231eWhat is the relationship between you and Yahweh the God of Israel\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:25",
"text": "Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, the descendants of Reuben and Gad; you have no portion in Yahweh.\u2019 So your children may put an end to our children worshiping Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:26",
"text": "So we said, \u2018Let us build immediately for ourselves an altar, not for burnt offerings or for sacrifices; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:27",
"text": "instead, it is a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us for performing the serving of Yahweh in his presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and fellowship offerings; so that your children may not say in the future to our children, \u201cYou have no portion in Yahweh.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:28",
"text": "And we thought, if they say to us and to our children in the future, we can say, \u2018Look at this replica of the altar of Yahweh, which our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices; rather, it is a witness between us and you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:29",
"text": "Far be it from us to rebel against Yahweh, to turn today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, or sacrifices, instead of the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tabernacle.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:30",
"text": " Phinehas the priest, the leaders of the congregation, and the heads of the clans of Israel who were with him heard the words that the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh spoke, and \u231ethey were satisfied\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:31",
"text": "Phinehas the priest, son of Eleazar, said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, \u201cToday we know that Yahweh is among us, because you have not committed this treachery against Yahweh. Therefore you have rescued the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from the hand of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:32",
"text": " And Phinehas the priest, son of Eleazar, and the leaders returned from the descendants of Reuben and Gad, from the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and \u231ethey gave them their report\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:33",
"text": "\u231eThe report satisfied the Israelites\u231f; they blessed God, and they did not speak of going up for battle against them to destroy the land in which the descendants of Reuben and Gad were living. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Joshua 22:34",
"text": "The descendants of Reuben and Gad called the altar Witness, \u201cBecause,\u201d they said, \u201cit is a witness between us that Yahweh is God.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:1",
"text": " And it happened, after \u231ea long time\u231f, after Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and after Joshua was old and \u231ewell-advanced in years\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:2",
"text": "Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders, heads, judges, and officials, and he said to them, \u201cI am old and \u231ewell-advanced in years\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:3",
"text": "and you have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations \u231efor your sake\u231f, for Yahweh your God is fighting for you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:4",
"text": "Look! I have allotted to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, to the Great Sea \u231ein the west\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:5",
"text": "And Yahweh your God will push them \u231eback before you\u231f and drive them \u231eout of your sight\u231f, and you will possess their land, just as Yahweh your God promised to you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:6",
"text": "Be very strong to observe carefully all that is written in the scroll of the law of Moses so as not to turn aside from it, to the right or left, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:7",
"text": "so as not to go among these remaining nations with you; \u231edo not profess\u231f the name of their gods, and do not swear by them, serve them, or \u231ebow down to them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:8",
"text": "But hold fast to Yahweh your God, just as you have done up to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:9",
"text": "Yahweh has driven out before you great and strong nations; and as for you, \u231enobody has withstood\u231f you to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:10",
"text": "One of your men put to flight a thousand, for Yahweh your God is fighting for you, just as he promised you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:11",
"text": "Take utmost care for the sake of your life to love Yahweh your God, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:12",
"text": "for if indeed you turn back and join these remaining nations \u231eamong you\u231f, and you intermarry with them, \u231emarrying their women and they yours\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:13",
"text": "know for certain that Yahweh your God \u231ewill not continue to drive out\u231f these nations from before you; they will be for you a snare and a trap, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that Yahweh your God has given to you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:14",
"text": " Look! \u231eI am about to die\u231f, and you know in all your hearts and souls that not one thing \u231efailed\u231f from all the good things that Yahweh your God promised concerning you; everything \u231ehas been fulfilled\u231f; \u231enot one thing failed\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:15",
"text": "But just as all the good things came to you that Yahweh your God promised, so will Yahweh bring to you all the bad things until he has destroyed you from this good land that Yahweh your God has given to you. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Joshua 23:16",
"text": "If you transgress the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded to you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, \u231eYahweh\u2019s anger will be kindled\u231f against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:1",
"text": " And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem; he summoned the elders of Israel, their heads, their judges, and their officials, and they presented themselves before God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:2",
"text": "And Joshua said to all the people, \u201cThus says Yahweh the God of Israel: \u2018\u231eLong ago\u231f your ancestors\u2014Terah the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor\u2014lived beyond the river, and they served other gods. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:3",
"text": "I took your ancestor Abraham from beyond the river and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I increased his offspring; I gave him Isaac, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:4",
"text": "and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I gave the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:5",
"text": "And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:6",
"text": "When I brought out your ancestors from Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your ancestors with chariots and horsemen to the \u231eRed Sea\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:7",
"text": "They cried out to Yahweh, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and he brought the sea over them and covered them; your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you lived in the wilderness for many days. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:8",
"text": "And I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan; they fought you, and I gave them into your hand; you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them \u231ebefore you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:9",
"text": "Then Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, set out and fought against Israel, and he sent and summoned Balaam son of Beor to curse you, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:10",
"text": "but I was not willing to listen to Balaam, and he richly blessed you. So I rescued you from his hand, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:11",
"text": "and you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the citizens of Jericho, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, fought against you, and I gave them into your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:12",
"text": "I sent before you the hornet and they drove out before you two kings of the Amorites; but not by your sword or bow. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:13",
"text": "I gave to you a land that you have not labored on, and cities that you have not built, and you live in them; you eat from vineyards and olive groves that you have not planted.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:14",
"text": " \u201cSo now, revere Yahweh and serve him in sincerity and faithfulness; remove the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river and in Egypt, and serve Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:15",
"text": "But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:16",
"text": "And the people answered and said, \u201cFar be it from us that we would forsake Yahweh to serve other gods, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:17",
"text": "for Yahweh our God brought us and our ancestors from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and did these great signs before our eyes. He protected us along the entire way that we went, and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:18",
"text": "And Yahweh drove out all the people before us, the Amorites who live in the land. We will serve Yahweh, for he is our God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:19",
"text": " But Joshua said to the people, \u201cYou cannot serve Yahweh, for he is a holy and jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:20",
"text": "If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster to you; he will destroy you after he has done good to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:21",
"text": "And the people said to Joshua, \u201cNo, we will serve Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:22",
"text": "And Joshua said to the people, \u201cYou are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves to serve Yahweh.\u201d And they said, \u201cWe are witnesses.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:23",
"text": "He said, \u201cRemove the foreign gods that are in your midst, and incline your hearts to Yahweh the God of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:24",
"text": "And the people said to Joshua, \u201cWe will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:25",
"text": "So Joshua \u231emade a covenant\u231f with the people on that day, and he established for them a statute and a judgment at Shechem. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:26",
"text": "Then Joshua wrote these words in a scroll of the law of God, and he took a large stone and set it up there under a large tree, which is at the shrine of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:27",
"text": "And Joshua said to all the people, \u201cLook, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of Yahweh that he spoke with us. It will be as a witness against you, so that you do not deny your God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:28",
"text": "Then Joshua sent the people away to their inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:29",
"text": " After these things Joshua son of Nun servant of Yahweh died; \u231ehe was one hundred and ten years old\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:30",
"text": "They buried him in the territory of his inheritance, at Timnath-Serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:31",
"text": "Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who lived long after Joshua, and who had known all the work that Yahweh did for Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:32",
"text": "The bones of Jacob, which the \u231eIsraelites\u231f had brought out from Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in a piece of land that Jacob had bought from the children of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money; it became an inheritance for the descendants of Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Joshua 24:33",
"text": "And Eleazar son of Aaron died; and they buried him in Gibeah in the hill country of Ephraim, which had been given to his son Phinehas. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Judges",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:1",
"text": " After the death of Joshua, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f inquired of Yahweh, saying, \u201cWho will go up first for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:2",
"text": "And Yahweh said, \u201cJudah will go up. I hereby give the land into his hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:3",
"text": "And Judah said to Simeon his brother, \u201cGo up with me into my allotment, and let us fight against the Canaanites; then I too will go with you into your allotment.\u201d And Simeon went with him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:4",
"text": "And Judah went up, and Yahweh gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated ten thousand men at Bezek. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:5",
"text": "At Bezek they came upon Adoni-bezek, and they fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:6",
"text": "And Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued after him; they caught him and cut off \u231ehis thumbs and big toes\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:7",
"text": "Adoni-bezek said, \u201cSeventy kings with \u231etheir thumbs and big toes\u231f cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; just as I have done, so God has repaid to me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:8",
"text": " The descendants of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and they captured it, \u231eput it to the sword\u231f, and \u231eset the city on fire\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:9",
"text": "Afterward the descendants of Judah pursued to fight against the Canaanites who were living in the hill country, the Negev, and the Shephelah. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:10",
"text": "And Judah went against the Canaanites living in Hebron (the former name of Hebron was Kiriath Arba). And they defeated Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:11",
"text": " And from there they went to the inhabitants of Debir (the former name of Debir was Kiriath Sepher). "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:12",
"text": "And Caleb said, \u201cWhoever attacks Kiriath Sepher and captures it, I will give to him Acsah my daughter as a wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:13",
"text": "Othniel son of Kenaz, the younger brother of Caleb, captured it, and he gave to him Acsah his daughter as a wife. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:14",
"text": "When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she dismounted from the donkey, Caleb said to her, \u201c\u231eWhat do you want\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:15",
"text": "And she said to him, \u201cGive me \u231ea gift\u231f; you have given me the land of the Negev, and give me also a spring of water.\u201d And Caleb gave to her the upper and lower spring. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:16",
"text": " The descendants of Hobab the Kenite, Moses\u2019 father-in-law, went up with the descendants of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the Negev near Arad. And they went and settled with the people. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:17",
"text": "And Judah went with his brother Simeon, and they defeated the Canaanites inhabiting Zephath; they utterly destroyed it, so he called the name of the city Hormah. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:18",
"text": "Judah captured Gaza and its territory, Ashkelon and its territory, and Ekron and its territory. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:19",
"text": "And Yahweh was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:20",
"text": "They gave Hebron to Caleb just as Moses said, and he drove out the three sons of Anak from there. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:21",
"text": "But the descendants of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived among the descendants of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:22",
"text": " Likewise, the house of Joseph went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:23",
"text": "And the house of Joseph spied out Bethel (the former name of the city was Luz). "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:24",
"text": "And when the spies saw a man leaving the city, they said to him, \u201cPlease show us the entrance of the city, and we will deal kindly with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:25",
"text": "So he showed them the entrance of the city, and they struck the city with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f, but they let go the man and all his family. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:26",
"text": "And the man went to the land of the Hittites, and he built a city and named it Luz; this is its name to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:27",
"text": " Manasseh did not drive out Beth-Sean and its towns, or Taanach and its towns, or the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; the Canaanites were determined to live in this land. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:28",
"text": "And it happened, when Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they never totally drove them out. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:29",
"text": "Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in their midst in Gezer. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:30",
"text": "Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived in their midst and became subjected to forced labor. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:31",
"text": "Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Aczib, Helbah, Aphik, or Rehob, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:32",
"text": "so the Asherites lived in the midst of the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:33",
"text": " Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh or Beth-anath, but lived in the midst of the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and Beth-anath became forced labor for them. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:34",
"text": " The Amorites pressed the descendants of Dan to the hill country, and they did not allow them to come down to the plain; "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:35",
"text": "the Amorites were determined to live in Har-heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy on them, and they became subjected to forced labor. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Judges 1:36",
"text": "The border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim from Sela and upward. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:1",
"text": " And the angel of Yahweh went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, \u201cI brought you up from Egypt, and I brought you to the land that I had promised to your ancestors. I said, \u2018I will never break my covenant with you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:2",
"text": "And as for you, do not \u231emake a covenant\u231f with the inhabitants of this land; break down their altars.\u2019 But you did not listen to my voice. \u231eWhy would you do such a thing\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:3",
"text": "Now I say, I will not drive them out from before you; they will \u231ebecome as thorns\u231f for you, and their gods will be a trap for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:4",
"text": "And as the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, the people \u231ewept bitterly\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:5",
"text": "And they called the name of this place Bokim, and there they sacrificed to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:6",
"text": " And Joshua sent the people away, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went each to their own inheritance to take possession of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:7",
"text": "And the people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who saw all the great work Yahweh had done for Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:8",
"text": "And Joshua son of Nun, servant of Yahweh, died \u231eat the age of one hundred and ten years\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:9",
"text": "They buried him within the border of his inheritance in Timnah-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:10",
"text": "Moreover, that entire generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them who did not know Yahweh or the work he had done for Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:11",
"text": " The \u231eIsraelites\u231f did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and \u231ethey served\u231f the Baals. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:12",
"text": "They abandoned Yahweh the God of their ancestors, who brought them out from the land of Egypt. They \u231efollowed\u231f other gods from the gods of the people who were around them; and they bowed down to them, and they provoked the anger of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:13",
"text": "They abandoned Yahweh, and they served Baal and the Ashtaroth. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:14",
"text": "So \u231ethe anger of Yahweh was kindled\u231f against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of plunderers; and they plundered them, and he sold them into the hand of their enemies from all sides. They were unable to withstand their enemies any longer. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:15",
"text": "\u231eWhenever\u231f they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them to harm them, just as Yahweh warned, and just as Yahweh had sworn to them. And \u231ethey were very distressed\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:16",
"text": " Then Yahweh raised up leaders, and they delivered them from the hand of their plunderers. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:17",
"text": "But they did not listen to their leaders, but lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned away quickly from the way that their ancestors went, who had obeyed the commandment of Yahweh; they did not do as their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:18",
"text": "And when Yahweh raised leaders for them, Yahweh was with the leader, and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the leader, for Yahweh was moved by their groaning because of their persecutors and oppressors. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:19",
"text": "But when the leader died they relapsed and acted corruptly, more than their ancestors, following other gods, serving them, and bowing down to them. They would not give up their deeds or their stubborn ways. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:20",
"text": "\u231eSo the anger of Yahweh burned\u231f against Israel, and he said, \u201cBecause this people transgressed my covenant that I commanded their ancestors, and have not obeyed my voice, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:21",
"text": "I will not again drive out anyone from before them from the nations that Joshua left when he died, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:22",
"text": "in order to test Israel whether or not they would observe the way of Yahweh, to walk in it just as their ancestors did.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Judges 2:23",
"text": "So Yahweh left those nations; he did not drive them out at once, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:1",
"text": " These are the nations that Yahweh left, to test Israel by them (that is, to test all those who \u231ehad not experienced\u231f any of the wars of Canaan, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:2",
"text": "in order that the generations of Israel would know war, to teach those \u231ewho had not experienced it\u231f before): "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:3",
"text": "the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon up to Lebo-Hamath. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:4",
"text": "They were left for testing Israel, to know whether they would keep the commands of Yahweh that he commanded their ancestors through the hand of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:5",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f lived in the midst of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:6",
"text": "And they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:7",
"text": " The \u231eIsraelites\u231f did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. They forgot Yahweh their God, and they served the Baals and the Asheroth. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:8",
"text": "And \u231ethe anger of Yahweh was kindled\u231f against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-Rishathaim, the king of Aram Naharaim; and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f served Cushan-Rishathaim eight years. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:9",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh raised up a deliverer for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f who delivered them, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb\u2019s younger brother. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:10",
"text": "And the spirit of Yahweh came upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and Yahweh gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into his hand, and \u231ehe prevailed over\u231f Cushan-Rishathaim. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:11",
"text": "So the land rested forty years. Then Othniel son of Kenaz died. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:12",
"text": " And again the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. So Yahweh strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because they did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:13",
"text": "He gathered to himself the \u231eAmmonites and Amalekites\u231f, and he went and defeated Israel, and they took possession of the city of palms. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:14",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:15",
"text": " And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjaminite and \u231ea left-handed man\u231f. And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f sent a tribute to Eglon king of Moab \u231ethrough him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:16",
"text": "Ehud made for himself a short, \u231etwo-edged\u231f sword (a cubit in length), and he fastened it under his clothes on his right thigh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:17",
"text": "Then he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:18",
"text": "When Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:19",
"text": "But he turned back from the sculptured stones that were near Gilgal, and he said, \u201cI have \u231ea secret message\u231f for you, O king.\u201d And he said, \u201cSilence!\u201d So all those standing in his presence went out, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:20",
"text": "and Ehud came to him while he was sitting alone in his cool upper room. And Ehud said, \u201cI have a \u231emessage from God\u231f for you.\u201d So he got up from his seat. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:21",
"text": "Then Ehud reached with his left hand for the sword on his right thigh, and he thrust it into his stomach. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:22",
"text": "And the handle also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade because he did not draw back the sword from his stomach; and it went protruding out the back. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:23",
"text": "And Ehud went out the vestibule, and he closed the doors of the upper room and locked them behind him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:24",
"text": " After he left, his servants returned. When they saw that the doors of the upper room were locked, \u231ethey thought\u231f, \u201cSurely he is \u231erelieving himself\u231f in the cool inner room.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:25",
"text": "And they waited so long they became embarrassed because he did not open the doors of the upper room. So they took the key and opened the doors, and there their lord was lying on the ground dead. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:26",
"text": " And Ehud escaped while they delayed. He passed by the sculptured stones and escaped to Seirah. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:27",
"text": "And when he arrived he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went down from the hill country with him leading them. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:28",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cFollow after me! Yahweh has given Moab your enemies into your hand.\u201d So they went down after him, and they captured the fords of the Jordan toward Moab; and they did not allow anyone to cross over. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:29",
"text": "And they struck Moab at that time, about ten thousand men, \u231eall strong and able men\u231f; no one escaped. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:30",
"text": "And Moab was subdued on that day under the hand of Israel. And the land rested eighty years. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Judges 3:31",
"text": " And Shamgar son of Anath came after him, and he killed six hundred Philistines with the goad of an ox; he also delivered Israel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:1",
"text": " And again the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Ehud died. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:2",
"text": "So Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, and he was living in Harosheth Haggoyim. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:3",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f cried to Yahweh, as he had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the \u231eIsraelites\u231f \u231ecruelly\u231f for twenty years. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:4",
"text": " Now at that time Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:5",
"text": "And she used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went up to her for judgment. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:6",
"text": "She sent and called for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh Naphtali and said to him, \u201cHas not Yahweh the God of Israel commanded you? \u2018Go, \u231emarch to\u231f Mount Tabor, and take ten thousand men from the descendants of Naphtali and Zebulun. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:7",
"text": "\u231eI will draw out\u231f Sisera, the commander of Jabin\u2019s army, with his chariots and troops, to the wadi of Kishon, and I will give him into your hand.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:8",
"text": "Barak said to her, \u201cIf you go with me, I will go; but if you do not go with me, I will not go.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:9",
"text": "She said, \u201cSurely I will go with you; however, there will be no glory for you in \u231ethe path you are taking\u231f, for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.\u201d And Deborah stood up and went with Barak to Kedesh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:10",
"text": "Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and \u231ethey went up behind him\u231f, ten thousand men, and Deborah went up with him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:11",
"text": " And Heber the Kenite was separated from the other Kenites, that is, from the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses. And \u231ehe was encamped\u231f at Elon-bezaanannim, which is near Kedesh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:12",
"text": " When they reported to Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:13",
"text": "Sisera summoned all his chariots\u2014all nine hundred chariots of iron\u2014and the entire army that was with him from Harosheth Haggoyim to the wadi of Kishon. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:14",
"text": "And Deborah said to Barak, \u201cGet up! This is the day that Yahweh has given Sisera into your hand. Has Yahweh not gone out before you?\u201d So Barak went out from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:15",
"text": "And Yahweh threw Sisera and all his chariots and army into confusion before \u231ethe edge of Barak\u2019s sword\u231f; and Sisera dismounted from his chariot and fled on foot. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:16",
"text": "But Barak pursued after the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all of Sisera\u2019s army fell to \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f; no one was left. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:17",
"text": " Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:18",
"text": "And Jael came out to meet Sisera, and she said to him, \u201cTurn aside, my lord; turn aside to me and do not be afraid.\u201d So he turned aside into her tent, and she covered him \u231ewith a blanket\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:19",
"text": "And he said to her, \u201cPlease, give me a drink of water, because I am thirsty.\u201d So she opened a skin vessel of milk and gave him a drink and covered him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:20",
"text": "And he said to her, \u201cStand at the doorway of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks you, and says, \u2018Is there anyone here?\u2019 You must answer, \u2018No.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:21",
"text": "But Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, took in her hand a tent peg and a hammer, and she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; he was fast asleep since he was exhausted, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:22",
"text": "And behold, Barak was pursuing Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him, and she said to him, \u201cCome, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.\u201d And he came with her and saw that Sisera was lying dead with the peg in his temple. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:23",
"text": "On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Judges 4:24",
"text": "And the hand of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f \u231epressed harder\u231f and harder on Jabin king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:1",
"text": " And Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang on that day: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:2",
"text": " \u201cWhen long hair hangs loosely in Israel, when the people willingly offer themselves, bless Yahweh! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:3",
"text": " Hear, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to Yahweh; I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:4",
"text": " Yahweh, when you went down from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down water. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:5",
"text": " The mountains trembled before Yahweh, this Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:6",
"text": " \u201cIn the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the caravans had ceased, \u231ethe travelers\u231f, \u231ethey kept to the byways\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:7",
"text": " The warriors ceased; they failed to appear in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose; I arose as a mother in Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:8",
"text": " God chose new leaders, then war was at the gates; a small shield or a spear was not seen among forty thousand in Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:9",
"text": " My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel, those offering themselves willingly among the people; bless Yahweh! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:10",
"text": " The riders of white female donkeys, those sitting on saddle blankets, and those going on the way, talk about it! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:11",
"text": " At the sound of those dividing the sheep among the watering places, there they will recount the righteous deeds of Yahweh, the righteous deeds for his warriors in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:12",
"text": " \u201cWake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Take captive your captives, O son of Abinoam. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:13",
"text": " Then the remnant went down to the nobles; the people of Yahweh went down for him against the mighty. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:14",
"text": " From Ephraim is their root into Amalek, after you, Benjamin, with your family; from Makir the commanders went down, and from Zebulun those carrying the scepter of the military commander. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:15",
"text": " And the chiefs in Issachar were with Deborah; and Issachar likewise was with Barak; into the valley \u231ehe was sent to get him from behind\u231f. Among the clans of Reuben were great \u231edecisions of the heart\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:16",
"text": " Why do you sit among the sheepfolds, to hear the calling sounds of the herds? For the clans of Reuben, there were great searchings of the heart. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:17",
"text": " Gilead has remained beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan dwell as a foreigner with ships? Asher sat at the coast of the waters, and by his coves he has been settling down. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:18",
"text": " Zebulun is a people who scorned death, and Naphtali, on the heights of the field. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:19",
"text": " \u201cThe kings came, they fought; then the kings of Canaan fought; at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, they got no plunder in silver. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:20",
"text": " The stars fought from heaven; from their courses they fought against Sisera. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:21",
"text": " The wadi torrent of Kishon swept them away, the raging wadi torrent, the wadi torrent of Kishon. March on, my soul, with strength! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:22",
"text": " \u201cThen the hooves of the horse beat loudly, because of galloping, galloping of his stallions. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:23",
"text": " \u2018Curse Meroz,\u2019 says the angel of Yahweh; \u2018curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of Yahweh, to the help of Yahweh against the mighty.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:24",
"text": " \u201cMost blessed of women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; most blessed is she of women among tent dwellers. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:25",
"text": " He asked for water, and she gave milk; in a drinking bowl for nobles, she brought curds. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:26",
"text": " She reached out her hand to the peg, and her right hand for the workman\u2019s hammer; and she struck Sisera, crushed his head, and she shattered and pierced his temple. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:27",
"text": " Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay. Between her feet he sank down, he fell; Where he sank down, there he fell\u2014\u231edead\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:28",
"text": " \u201cThrough the window she looked down; the mother of Sisera cried out through the lattice, \u2018Why is his chariot delayed in coming? Why do the hoof beats of his chariot tarry?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:29",
"text": " The wisest of her ladies answer her; she also answers the question herself: "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:30",
"text": " \u2018Are they not finding and dividing the plunder? \u231eA bedmate or two bedmates for every man\u231f; colorful garments for Sisera, plunder of colorful garments, beautifully finished colorful garments, on the neck of the plunderer?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Judges 5:31",
"text": " So may all your enemies perish, O Yahweh, but those who love him are like the rising sun at its brightest.\u201d And the land had rest for forty years. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:1",
"text": " The \u231eIsraelites\u231f did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh gave them into the hand of the Midianites for seven years. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:2",
"text": "The hand of the Midianites prevailed over Israel; because of the presence of the Midianites, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f made for themselves hiding places that were in the mountains, caves, and strongholds. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:3",
"text": "And whenever Israel sowed seed, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east would come up against them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:4",
"text": "They would camp against them and destroy the produce of the land \u231eas far as\u231f Gaza; they left no produce in Israel, or sheep, ox, or donkey. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:5",
"text": "For they, their livestock, and their tents would come up like a great number of locusts; they and their camels could not be counted; they came into the land and devoured it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:6",
"text": "Israel was very poor because of the presence of the Midianites, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f cried out to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:7",
"text": " When the \u231eIsraelites\u231f cried out to Yahweh on account of the Midianites, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:8",
"text": "Yahweh sent a prophet to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and he said to them, \u201cThus says Yahweh the God of Israel: \u2018I brought you up from Egypt; I brought you from the house of slavery. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:9",
"text": "I delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors, and drove them out from \u231ebefore you\u231f; and I gave you their land. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:10",
"text": "And I said to you, \u2018I am Yahweh your God; do not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living.\u2019 But you have not listened to my voice.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:11",
"text": " The angel of Yahweh came and sat under the oak that was at Ophrah that belonged to Jehoash the Abiezrite; and Gideon his son was threshing wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:12",
"text": "The angel of Yahweh appeared to him and said to him, \u201cYahweh is with you, \u231eyou mighty warrior\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:13",
"text": "Gideon said to him, \u201cExcuse me, my lord. If Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, \u2018Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?\u2019 But now Yahweh has forsaken us; he has given us into the palm of Midian.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:14",
"text": "And Yahweh turned to him and said, \u201cGo in this your strength, and you will deliver Israel from the palm of Midian. Did I not send you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:15",
"text": "He said to him, \u201cExcuse me, my lord. How will I deliver Israel? Look, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father\u2019s house.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:16",
"text": "And Yahweh said to him, \u201cBut I will be with you, and you will defeat Midian \u231eas if they are one man\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:17",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cPlease, if I have found favor in your eyes, \u231eshow me a sign\u231f that you are speaking with me. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:18",
"text": "Please, do not depart from here until I come back to you and bring out my gift and set it out before you.\u201d And he said, \u201cI will stay until you return.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:19",
"text": " And Gideon went and prepared \u231ea young goat\u231f and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour; he put meat in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and he brought them to him under the oak and presented them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:20",
"text": "The angel of God said to him, \u201cTake the meat and the unleavened cakes and put them on this rock; pour the broth over it.\u201d And he did so. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:21",
"text": "Then the angel of Yahweh reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and he touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of Yahweh went \u231efrom his sight\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:22",
"text": "And Gideon realized that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, \u201cOh, my lord Yahweh! For now I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:23",
"text": "And Yahweh said to him, \u201cPeace be with you. Do not fear; you will not die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:24",
"text": "And Gideon built there an altar to Yahweh, and he called it \u201cYahweh is peace.\u201d To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:25",
"text": " Now on that same night Yahweh said to him, \u201cTake the bull of the cattle that belongs to your father, and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:26",
"text": "and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold in the proper arrangement, and take a second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you will cut down. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:27",
"text": "Gideon took ten men from his servants, and he did just as Yahweh told him; and because he was too afraid of his \u231efather\u2019s family\u231f and the men of the city to do it during the day, he did it during night. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:28",
"text": " When the men of the city got up early in the morning, look, the altar of Baal and the Asherah that was beside it were cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:29",
"text": "\u231eAnd they said to one another\u231f, \u201cWho did this thing?\u201d So they searched and inquired, and they said, \u201cGideon son of Jehoash did this thing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:30",
"text": "And the men of the city said to Jehoash, \u201cBring out your son so that he may die, for he has pulled down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah that was beside it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:31",
"text": "But Jehoash said to all who stood against him, \u201cWill you contend for Baal? Will you rescue him? Whoever contends for him will be put to death by the morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself because \u231ehis altar has been pulled down\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:32",
"text": "Thus, on that day he was called Jerub-Baal, \u231ewhich means\u231f, \u201cLet Baal contend against him,\u201d because he had pulled down his altar. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:33",
"text": " Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east gathered together and crossed the Jordan; and they camped in the valley of Jezreel. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:34",
"text": "So the Spirit of Yahweh \u231etook possession of\u231f Gideon, and he blew on the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called to follow him. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:35",
"text": "He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they were also called to follow him; and he sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:36",
"text": " Then Gideon said to God, \u201cIn order to see that you will deliver Israel by my hand, just as you have said, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:37",
"text": "I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and all of the ground is dry, I will know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, just as you have said.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:38",
"text": "And it was so. He arose early the next day and squeezed the fleece, and he wrung out dew from the fleece, a full drinking bowl of water. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:39",
"text": "And Gideon said to God, \u201c\u231eDo not let your anger burn\u231f against me; let me speak once more. Please let me test once more with the fleece; let the fleece be dry, and let there be dew on the ground.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Judges 6:40",
"text": "And God did so that night; only the fleece was dry, and dew was on all the ground. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:1",
"text": " Then Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) rose early, and all the army that was with him. They were camped beside the spring of Harod; the camp of Midian was north of the hill of Moreh, in the valley. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:2",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Gideon, \u201cThe troops that are with you are too many for me to give Midian into their hands; Israel will boast, saying, \u2018My hand has delivered me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:3",
"text": "So then, please proclaim in the \u231ehearing\u231f of the troops, saying, \u2018Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from the Mount of Gilead.\u2019\u00a0\u201d About twenty-two thousand troops returned, and ten thousand remained. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:4",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Gideon, \u201cThere are still too many troops; bring them down to the water, and I will sift through them for you there. For whomever I say to you, \u2018This one will go with you,\u2019 he will go with you; and for all whom I say to you, \u2018This one will not go with you,\u2019 he will not go.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:5",
"text": "So he brought down the troops to the water, and Yahweh said to Gideon, \u201cYou must separate everyone who laps up the water to drink with his tongue like a dog from those \u231ewho kneel\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:6",
"text": "The number of those lapping up the water with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; all the rest of the troops kneeled to drink the water. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:7",
"text": "And Yahweh said to Gideon, \u201cI will deliver you with the three hundred men lapping up the water; I will give Midian into your hand, so let the other troops go, each to his own place. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:8",
"text": "So they took their provisions and their trumpets into their hand, and he sent all the men of Israel, each one, to his tent; but three hundred of the men he kept; the camp of Midian was below him in the valley. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:9",
"text": " And that night Yahweh said to him, \u201cGet up; go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:10",
"text": "But if you are afraid, go down to the camp with Purah your servant, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:11",
"text": "and you will hear what they say; and afterward \u231eyou will have courage\u231f, and you will go down against the camp.\u201d Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men that were in the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:12",
"text": "Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east were lying in the valley, like a great multitude of locusts; their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand that is on the shore of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:13",
"text": "When Gideon came, a man was recounting a dream to his friend, and he said, \u201cBehold, \u231eI had a dream\u231f; a round loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came up to the tent, it struck it, and it fell and turned it upside down so that the tent fell.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:14",
"text": "His friend answered him and said, \u201cThis cannot be anything except the sword of Gideon son of Jehoash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and the entire camp into his hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:15",
"text": " When Gideon heard the recounting of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and returned to the camp of Israel; and he said, \u201cGet up, for Yahweh has given the camp of Midian into your hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:16",
"text": "He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put trumpets and empty jars in everyone\u2019s hand, with torches inside the jars. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:17",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWatch me and do the same. When I come to the edge of the camp, \u231edo just as I do\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:18",
"text": "When I and all who are with me blow on the trumpet, you must also blow on the trumpets and surround the camp, and you must say, \u2018To Yahweh and to Gideon!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:19",
"text": " So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle night-watch, when they had just finished setting up the guards, and they blew on the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:20",
"text": "When three companies blew on the trumpets and broke the jars, they held in their left hand the torches and in their right hand the trumpets for blowing, and they cried, \u201cA sword for Yahweh and for Gideon!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:21",
"text": "And each stood \u231ein his place\u231f all around the camp, and all the camp ran, and they cried out as they fled. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:22",
"text": "When they blew the three hundred trumpets, Yahweh set the sword of each one against his neighbor throughout the whole camp, and the camp fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, up to Abel Meholah, the border by Tabbath. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:23",
"text": "And the men of Israel were called from Naphtali, from Asher, and from all of Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:24",
"text": " And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, \u201cCome down to oppose Midian, and capture from them the waters up to Beth Barah and the Jordan.\u201d He called out all the men of Ephraim, and they captured the waters up to Beth Barah and the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Judges 7:25",
"text": "And they captured the two commanders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the wine press of Zeeb, while they chased Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon from beyond the Jordan. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:1",
"text": " The men of Ephraim said to him, \u201cWhat is this thing you have done to us, not calling us when you went to fight against the Midianites?\u201d And they quarreled with him severely. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:2",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhat I have done now in comparison with you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:3",
"text": "God has given into your hand the commanders of Midian, Oreb, and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?\u201d And their \u231eanger\u231f against him subsided when \u231ehe said that\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:4",
"text": " Then Gideon came to the Jordan, crossing it with the three hundred men who were with him, weary and pursuing. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:5",
"text": "He said to the men of Succoth, \u201cPlease give loaves of bread to the people who are \u231efollowing me\u231f, for they are weary, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:6",
"text": "The officials of Succoth said, \u201cIs the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna in your hand now, that we should give bread to your army?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:7",
"text": "Gideon said, \u201cWell then, when Yahweh gives Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will trample your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:8",
"text": "He went from there to Penuel, and he spoke similarly to them; and the men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth answered. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:9",
"text": "And he said also to the men of Penuel, saying, \u201cWhen I return \u231esafely\u231f, I will tear down this tower.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:10",
"text": " Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men remained from the entire army of the people of the east; those that fell in battle were one hundred and twenty thousand \u231eswordsmen\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:11",
"text": "And Gideon went up the route of those who dwell in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he attacked the army when it was off its guard. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:12",
"text": "And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he routed the entire army. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:13",
"text": " Then Gideon son of Jehoash returned from the battle \u231eby way of\u231f the ascent of Heres. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:14",
"text": "He captured a young man \u231efrom Succoth\u231f and questioned him. The young man listed for him the commanders of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:15",
"text": "He came to the men of Succoth, and he said, \u201cHere is Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, \u2018Is the palm of Zebah and Zalmunna in your hand now, that we should give food to your weary men?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:16",
"text": "He took the elders of the city and the thorn bushes and briers of the wilderness, and \u231ehe trampled\u231f the men of Succoth with them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:17",
"text": "He broke down the tower of Penuel, and he killed the men of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:18",
"text": " And he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, \u201cWhat type were the men whom you killed at Tabor?\u201d And they said, \u201c\u231eThey were like you\u231f; each one of them had the appearance of the sons of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:19",
"text": "He said, \u201cThey were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had kept them alive I would not kill you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:20",
"text": "And he said to Jether, his firstborn, \u201cGet up, kill them.\u201d But the boy did not draw his sword, for he was afraid because he was still a boy. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:21",
"text": "Zebah and Zalmunna said, \u201cGet up yourself, and strike us, for as is the man, so is his power.\u201d So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:22",
"text": " The men of Israel said to Gideon, \u201cRule over us, both you and your sons, and your sons\u2019 son, for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:23",
"text": "But Gideon said to them, \u201cI will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; Yahweh will rule over you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:24",
"text": "And Gideon said to them, \u201c\u231eLet me make a request of you\u231f, that each of you give to me an ornamental ring from his plunder.\u201d (They had ornamental rings of gold, because they were Ishmaelites.) "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:25",
"text": "They said, \u201cWe will gladly give them,\u201d and they spread out a garment, and everyone threw there an ornamental ring of his plunder. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:26",
"text": "The weight of the ornamental rings of gold that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, apart from the crescents, pendants, and purple garments that were on the kings of Midian, and apart from the pendants that were on the necks of their camels. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:27",
"text": "Gideon made an ephod out of it, and he put it in his town in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves to it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:28",
"text": "And Midian was subdued before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and they did not again lift up their head, and the land rested for forty years in the days of Gideon. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:29",
"text": " Jerub-Baal son of Joash lived in his own house. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:30",
"text": "Now Gideon had seventy sons, \u231ehis own offspring\u231f, for he had many wives. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:31",
"text": "His concubine who was in Shechem also bore for him a son, and \u231ehe named him\u231f Abimelech. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:32",
"text": "And Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age, and he was buried in the tomb of Jehoash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:33",
"text": " And it happened, as soon as Gideon died, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f returned and prostituted themselves after the Baals, and they made for themselves Baal-Berith as god. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:34",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f did not remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them from the hand of their enemies from all around, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Judges 8:35",
"text": "nor did they show favor to the house of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) in accordance with all the good that he did for Israel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:1",
"text": " And Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem, to the relatives of his mother, and he said to them and to the house of his mother\u2019s father, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:2",
"text": "\u201c\u231eSpeak to\u231f the lords of Shechem, \u2018What is better for you, that seventy men all from the sons of Jerub-Baal rule over you, or that one man rules over you?\u2019 Remember that I am your bone and your flesh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:3",
"text": "And his mother\u2019s relatives spoke all these words concerning him \u231eto\u231f all the lords of Shechem; and \u231ethey supported Abimelech\u231f, for they said, \u201cHe is our relative.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:4",
"text": "And they gave to him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech hired with them worthless and reckless men, and \u231ethey followed him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:5",
"text": "And he went to his father\u2019s house at Ophrah, and he killed his brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerub-Baal survived, because he hid himself. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:6",
"text": "All the lords of Shechem and Beth-Millo gathered, and they went and made Abimelech as king, near the oak of the pillar that is at Shechem. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:7",
"text": " And they told Jotham, and he went up and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and \u231ehe cried out loud\u231f and said to them, \u201cListen to me, lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:8",
"text": " \u201cThe trees went certainly, to anoint a king over themselves. And they said to the olive tree, \u2018Rule over us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:9",
"text": " And the olive tree replied, \u2018Should I stop producing my oil, which by me gods and men are honored, to go sway over the trees?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:10",
"text": " Then the trees said to the fig tree, \u2018You, come rule over us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:11",
"text": " But the fig tree said to them, \u2018Should I stop producing my sweetness, and my good crop, to go sway over the trees?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:12",
"text": " And the trees said to the vine, \u2018You, come rule over us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:13",
"text": " But the vine said to them, \u2018Should I stop producing my wine that makes the gods and men happy, to go sway over the trees?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:14",
"text": " So all the trees said to the thornbush, \u2018You, come rule over us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:15",
"text": " And the thornbush said to the trees, \u2018If in good faith you are anointing me as king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; if not, may fire go out from the thornbush and devour the cedars of Lebanon.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:16",
"text": " \u201cSo then, if you have acted in good faith and sincerity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerub-Baal and his house, and have dealt with him \u231eaccording to his accomplishments\u231f\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:17",
"text": "for my father fought and \u231erisked his life\u231f for you and delivered you from the hand of Midian; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:18",
"text": "but today you have risen against the house of my father and killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, a king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your relative\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:19",
"text": "if you have acted in good faith and sincerity with Jerub-Baal and his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:20",
"text": "But if not, let a fire come out from Abimelech and let it devour the lords of Shechem and Beth-Millo; and let a fire come out from the lords of Shechem, and from Beth-Millo, and let it devour Abimelech.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:21",
"text": "And Jotham escaped and fled, and went to Beer; he remained there because of Abimelech his brother. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:22",
"text": " Abimelech ruled over Israel three years. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:23",
"text": "And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the lords of Shechem, and the lords of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:24",
"text": "so that the violence done to the seventy brothers of Abimelech would be avenged and their blood be placed on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the lords of Shechem, \u231ewho helped\u231f to kill his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:25",
"text": "And the lords of Shechem set for him ambushes on the top of the mountains, and they robbed all who passed by them along the road; and it was reported to Abimelech. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:26",
"text": " And Gaal son of Ebel and his relatives came, and they crossed over into Shechem, and the lords of Shechem \u231egave him confidence\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:27",
"text": "They went out into the field and harvested their vineyards and trod them, and they \u231eheld a festival\u231f. And they went into the temple of their god, and they ate and drank and cursed Abimelech. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:28",
"text": "Then Gaal son of Ebed said, \u201cWho is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul his chief officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem. Why should we serve him? "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:29",
"text": "If only this people \u231ewere in my command\u231f! Then I would remove Abimelech, and I would have said, \u2018Increase your army and come out!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:30",
"text": " When Zebul the commander of the city heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, \u231ehe became angry\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:31",
"text": "and he sent messengers to Abimelech in Tormah, saying, \u201cLook, Gaal son of Ebed and his relatives are coming to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:32",
"text": "So then, get up by night, you and the army that is with you, and lie in ambush in the field. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:33",
"text": "And in the morning at sunrise, get up and rush the city; and look, when he and the troops who are with him come out to you, \u231eyou must act according to whatever opportunity offers itself\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:34",
"text": " So Abimelech and all the army that was with him got up by night, and they lay in ambush against Shechem in four divisions. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:35",
"text": "Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood at the entrance of the city gate, and Abimelech and the army that was with him got up from the ambush. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:36",
"text": "When Gaal saw the army, he said to Zebul, \u201cLook, people are coming down from the top of the mountains!\u201d And Zebul said to him, \u201c\u231eThe shadows of the mountains look like people to you\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:37",
"text": "\u231eAnd Gaal spoke again\u231f and said, \u201cLook, people are coming down from Tabbur-erez, and one division is coming from the direction of Elon-meonenim.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:38",
"text": "And Zebul said to him, \u201cWhere then \u231eis your boast\u231f, you who said, \u2018Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?\u2019 Is this not the army that you rejected? Please, go out now and fight against them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:39",
"text": "So Gaal went out before the lords of Shechem and fought against Abimelech. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:40",
"text": "And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; many fell slain up to the entrance of the gate. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:41",
"text": "So Abimelech resided at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives from living in Shechem. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:42",
"text": " On the next day the people went out to the field; and it was reported to Abimelech, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:43",
"text": "so he took the army and divided them into three divisions, and he laid an ambush in the field. And he saw the people were coming out from the city, and he arose against them and killed them. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:44",
"text": "Then Abimelech and the divisions that were with him dashed out and stood at the entrance of the city gate, and the two divisions dashed out against all who were in the field, and they killed them. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:45",
"text": "Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people that were in it; then he broke down the city and sowed it with salt. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:46",
"text": " When all the lords of the tower of Shechem heard, they went to the vault of the temple of El-Berith. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:47",
"text": "It was told to Abimelech that all the lords of the tower of Shechem had gathered. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:48",
"text": "So Abimelech went up Mount Zalmon, he and all his army that were with him, and Abimelech took the ax in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood, and he lifted it and put it on his shoulder. And he said to the army that was with him, \u201cWhat you have seen me do, quickly do also.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:49",
"text": "So the whole army cut down each one branch for himself and followed Abimelech, and they put them against the vault and set the vault ablaze with fire on those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died, about a thousand men and women. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:50",
"text": " Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he encamped against Thebez and captured it. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:51",
"text": "But there was a strong tower in the middle of the city, and all the men, women, and lords of the city fled there and shut themselves in; and they went up to the roof of the tower. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:52",
"text": "Abimelech came up to the tower and fought against it, and he came near the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:53",
"text": "But a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech\u2019s head and cracked open his skull. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:54",
"text": "He called quickly to the young man carrying his weapons, and he said to him, \u201cDraw your sword and kill me, so that they will not say of me, \u2018A woman killed him.\u2019\u00a0\u201d So the young man stabbed him, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:55",
"text": "When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, each one went to his home. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:56",
"text": "So God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech committed against his father by killing his seventy brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Judges 9:57",
"text": "And God also repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads, and the curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell on them. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:1",
"text": " After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dod, a man of Issachar, rose up to deliver Israel; and he was living at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:2",
"text": "And he judged Israel twenty-three years. And he died and was buried in Shamir. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:3",
"text": "After him Jair the Gileadite rose up, and he judged Israel twenty-two years. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:4",
"text": "And he had thirty sons who would ride on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty towns that are in the land of Gilead that they called Havvoth Jair until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:5",
"text": "And Jair died and was buried in Kamon. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:6",
"text": " And again, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. They served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and the gods of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f and Philistines; they abandoned Yahweh and did not serve him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:7",
"text": "And \u231ethe anger of Yahweh burned\u231f against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:8",
"text": "They crushed and oppressed the \u231eIsraelites\u231f in that year; for eighteen years they crushed all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f who were beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:9",
"text": "The \u231eAmmonites\u231f crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was very distressed. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:10",
"text": " Then the \u231eIsraelites\u231f cried out to Yahweh, saying, \u201cWe have sinned against you; we have abandoned our God and served the Baals.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:11",
"text": "And Yahweh said to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u201cDid I not deliver you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, from the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, and from the Philistines? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:12",
"text": "And when the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you, you cried out to me, and I delivered you from their hand. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:13",
"text": "Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:14",
"text": "Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your trouble.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:15",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f said to Yahweh, \u201cWe have sinned; \u231edo to us accordingly as you see fit\u231f; only please deliver us this day.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:16",
"text": "So they removed the foreign gods from their midst and served Yahweh; and \u231ehe could no longer bear\u231f the misery of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:17",
"text": " And the \u231eAmmonites\u231f were summoned, and they camped in Gilead. And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f gathered and camped at Mizpah. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Judges 10:18",
"text": "The people, the ones commanding Gilead, \u231esaid to each other\u231f, \u201cWho is the man that will begin to fight against the \u231eAmmonites\u231f? He will be as head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:1",
"text": " Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior; he was the son of a prostitute, and \u231eGilead was his father\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:2",
"text": "Gilead\u2019s wife also bore for him sons; and the sons of his wife grew up and drove Jephthah away, and they said to him, \u201cYou will not inherit the house of our father because you are the son of another woman.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:3",
"text": "So Jephthah fled from the presence of his brothers, and he lived in the land of Tob. And \u231eoutlaws\u231f gathered around Jephthah and went with him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:4",
"text": " After a time the \u231eAmmonites\u231f made war with Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:5",
"text": "When the \u231eAmmonites\u231f made war with Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:6",
"text": "And they said to Jephthah, \u201cCome and be our commander, so that we may make war against the \u231eAmmonites\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:7",
"text": "Jephthah said to the elders, \u201cDid you not shun me and drive me out from the house of my father? Why do you come to me now when you have trouble?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:8",
"text": "And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, \u201cThat being so, we have now returned to you, that you may go with us \u231eto fight\u231f against the \u231eAmmonites\u231f and become for us as head of all the inhabitants of Gilead.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:9",
"text": "So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, \u201cIf you bring me back \u231eto fight\u231f against the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, and Yahweh gives them \u231eover to me\u231f, will I be your head?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:10",
"text": "And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, \u201cYahweh will be a \u231ewitness\u231f between us; we will act according to your word.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:11",
"text": "So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh at Mizpah. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:12",
"text": " And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, saying, \u201cWhat is between you and me that you have come to me to make war against my land?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:13",
"text": "And the king of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f said to Jephthah\u2019s messengers, \u201cBecause Israel took my land from the Arnon up to the Jabbok and the Jordan when they came up from Egypt; so then, restore it peacefully.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:14",
"text": "Once again Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:15",
"text": "and he said to him, \u201cThus says Jephthah, \u2018Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:16",
"text": "because when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the \u231eRed Sea\u231f and went to Kadesh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:17",
"text": "Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, \u201cPlease let us cross through your land,\u201d but the king of Edom would not listen. And they also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he was not willing. So Israel stayed in Kadesh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:18",
"text": "Then they traveled through the wilderness, went around the land of Edom and Moab, and came to \u231ethe east\u231f side of the land of Moab, and they encamped beyond the Arnon; and they did not go into the territory of Moab because the Arnon was the border of Moab. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:19",
"text": "Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, \u2018Please let us cross through your land \u231eto our country\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:20",
"text": "But Sihon did not trust Israel to cross through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people and then encamped at Jahaz; and he made war with Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:21",
"text": "And Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; and Israel occupied all the land of the Amorites inhabiting that land. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:22",
"text": "They occupied all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon up to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness up to the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:23",
"text": "So then Yahweh, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before his people Israel, and you want to possess it? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:24",
"text": "Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gave you to possess? Whoever Yahweh our God has driven out before us, we will possess it. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:25",
"text": "So then, are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel, or did he ever make war against them? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:26",
"text": "When Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the towns that are \u231ealong the Arnon\u231f, for three hundred years, why did you not recover them at that time? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:27",
"text": "I have not sinned against you; but you are the one who is doing wrong by making war against me. \u231eLet Yahweh judge\u231f today between the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and the \u231eAmmonites\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:28",
"text": "But the king of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f did not listen to the message that Jephthah sent to him. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:29",
"text": " And the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh. He passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed through to the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:30",
"text": "And Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh, and he said, \u201cIf indeed you will give the \u231eAmmonites\u231f into my hand, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:31",
"text": "whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from the \u231eAmmonites\u231f will be Yahweh\u2019s, and I will offer it as a burnt offering.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:32",
"text": "And Jephthah crossed over to the \u231eAmmonites\u231f to make war against them; and Yahweh gave them into his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:33",
"text": "And he defeated them with a very great blow, from Aroer as far as Minnith, twenty towns, up to Abel Keramim. And the \u231eAmmonites\u231f were subdued before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:34",
"text": " Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and behold his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and dancing. She was his only child; he did not have a son or daughter except her. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:35",
"text": "And the moment he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, \u201cAh! My daughter, you have caused me to bow down, and you have become my trouble. \u231eI made an oath\u231f to Yahweh, and I cannot take it back.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:36",
"text": "She said to him, \u201cMy father, \u231eyou made an oath\u231f to Yahweh. Do to me according to what has gone out from your mouth, since Yahweh gave vengeance to you against your enemies, the \u231eAmmonites\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:37",
"text": "And she said to her father, \u201cLet this thing be done for me: grant me two months so that I may go wander on the mountains and lament over my virginity, I and my companions. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:38",
"text": "And he said, \u201cGo.\u201d He sent her away for two months, and she went with her friends, and she lamented over her virginity on the mountains. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:39",
"text": "At the end of the two months she returned to her father, and he did to her according to his vow; and \u231eshe did not sleep with a man\u231f. And it became an annual custom in Israel "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Judges 11:40",
"text": "for the daughters of Israel to go and lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for forty days of the year. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:1",
"text": " The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed over to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, \u201cWhy did you cross over and make war against the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, and why did you not call us to go with you? We will burn down your house over you with fire.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:2",
"text": "And Jephthah said to them, \u201cI and my people were engaged in great conflict with the \u231eAmmonites\u231f; I called you, but you did not deliver me from their hand. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:3",
"text": "I saw that you would not deliver us; \u231eI risked my own life\u231f, and I crossed over to the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, and Yahweh gave them into my hand. Why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:4",
"text": "Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and he made war with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim because they said, \u201cYou are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:5",
"text": "Then Gilead captured the fords of the Jordan from Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, \u201cLet me cross over,\u201d the men of Gilead said to him, \u201cAre you an Ephraimite?\u201d When he said, \u201cNo,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:6",
"text": "they said to him, \u201cPlease say Shibboleth,\u201d and if he said, \u201cSibboleth\u201d\u2014because he could not \u231epronounce it\u231f correctly\u2014they grabbed him and executed him at the fords of Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:7",
"text": " Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:8",
"text": " After him Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:9",
"text": "He had thirty sons. He gave his thirty daughters away in marriage outside his clan and brought in from outside thirty young women for his sons. He judged Israel for seven years. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:10",
"text": "Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:11",
"text": " After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:12",
"text": "Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:13",
"text": " After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:14",
"text": "He had forty sons and thirty grandsons that rode on seventy male donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Judges 12:15",
"text": "Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim in the hill country of the Amalekites. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:1",
"text": " And again, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh gave them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:2",
"text": " There was a certain man from Zorah, from the tribe of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; his wife was infertile and did not bear children. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:3",
"text": "And an angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and he said to her, \u201cBehold, you are infertile and have not borne children, but you will conceive and bear a son. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:4",
"text": "So then, be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:5",
"text": "because you will conceive and bear a son. No razor \u231ewill touch\u231f his head, because the boy will be a \u231eNazirite of God\u231f \u231efrom birth\u231f. And it is he who will begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:6",
"text": "And the woman came and told her husband, saying, \u201cA man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of an angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him from where he came, and he did not tell me his name. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:7",
"text": "And he said to me, \u2018Look, you will conceive and bear a son, so then, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, for the boy will be a Nazirite of God from birth until the day of his death.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:8",
"text": " Then Manoah prayed to Yahweh and said, \u201cExcuse me, my Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent again come to us and teach us what we should do concerning the boy who will be born.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:9",
"text": "And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and an angel of God came again to the woman; she was sitting in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:10",
"text": "The woman quickly ran and told her husband, and she said to him, \u201cLook! The man who came to me the other day appeared to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:11",
"text": "So Manoah got up and went after his wife, and he came to the man and said to him, \u201cAre you the man that spoke to the woman?\u201d And he said, \u201cI am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:12",
"text": "And Manoah said to him, \u201cNow \u231ewhen your words come true\u231f, what will be the boy\u2019s \u231emanner of life\u231f and work?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:13",
"text": "And the angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, \u201cLet the woman be attentive to all that I said. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:14",
"text": "She should not eat of anything that comes from the vine, or drink wine or strong drink, or eat anything unclean; she should keep all that I commanded.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:15",
"text": " And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, \u201c\u231ePlease stay\u231f, and let us prepare a \u231eyoung goat\u231f for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:16",
"text": "The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, \u201cIf you keep me, I will not eat your food, but if you prepare a burnt offering for Yahweh, you can offer it (for Manoah did not know that he was an angel of Yahweh).\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:17",
"text": "And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, \u201cWhat is your name so that when your words come true we may honor you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:18",
"text": "But the angel of Yahweh said to him, \u201cWhy do you ask my name? It is too wonderful.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:19",
"text": " And Manoah took the \u231eyoung goat\u231f and the grain offering, and he offered it to Yahweh on the rock, to the one who performs miracles. And Manoah and his wife were watching. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:20",
"text": "And when the flame went up toward the heaven from the altar, the angel of Yahweh went up in the flame of the altar to heaven while Manoah and his wife were watching. And they fell on their faces to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:21",
"text": "The angel of Yahweh did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, and then Manoah knew that he was a messenger of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:22",
"text": "And Manoah said to his wife, \u201cWe will certainly die because we have seen God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:23",
"text": "But his wife said to him, \u201cIf Yahweh wanted to kill us he would not have taken from our hand the burnt offering and the grain offering, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us things such as these.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:24",
"text": " The woman bore a son, and she called him Samson; the boy grew big, and Yahweh blessed him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Judges 13:25",
"text": "And the Spirit of Yahweh began to stir him in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:1",
"text": " And Samson went down to Timnah, and he saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:2",
"text": "He went up and told his father and mother, and he said, \u201cI saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines; so then, take her for me as a wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:3",
"text": "But his father and mother said to him, \u201cIs there not a wife among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?\u201d But Samson said to his father, \u201cTake her for me because \u231eshe pleases me\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:4",
"text": "His father and mother did not know that this was from Yahweh; he was seeking for an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines were ruling in Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:5",
"text": " And Samson and his father and mother went down to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah, and suddenly a young lion came roaring to meet him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:6",
"text": "And the Spirit of Yahweh rushed upon him, and he tore the lion apart as one might tear apart a male kid goat (\u231ehe was bare-handed\u231f). But he did not tell his father and mother what he had done. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:7",
"text": "Then he went down and talked to the woman, and \u231eshe pleased Samson\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:8",
"text": "And he returned after awhile \u231eto marry her\u231f, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and there was a swarm of wild honey bees in the body of the lion, and honey. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:9",
"text": "He scraped it out into his hands, and he went on, eating it as he went. And he went to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the body of the lion. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:10",
"text": " His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared there a feast, as young men were accustomed to doing this. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:11",
"text": "When they saw him, they took thirty companions, and they were with him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:12",
"text": "And Samson said to them, \u201cLet me tell you a riddle. If you can fully explain it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, I will give to you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:13",
"text": "But if you are unable to explain it to me, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.\u201d So they said to him, \u201cTell your riddle; let us hear it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:14",
"text": "He said to them, \u201cFrom the eater came out food, From the strong came out sweet.\u201d But they were unable to explain the riddle for three days. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:15",
"text": " When it was the fourth day, they said to Samson\u2019s wife, \u201cEntice your husband and tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father\u2019s house with fire. Have you invited us to rob us?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:16",
"text": "And Samson\u2019s wife wept before him, and she said, \u201cYou must hate me; you do not love me. You told the riddle to \u231emy people\u231f, but you have not explained it to me.\u201d He said to her, \u201cI have not explained it to my father and mother. Why should I explain it to you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:17",
"text": "She wept before him the seven days of their feast; and it happened, because she nagged him, on the seventh day he explained it to her, and she told the riddle to \u231eher people\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:18",
"text": "The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, \u201cWhat is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?\u201d And he said to them, \u201cIf you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:19",
"text": " And the Spirit of Yahweh rushed on him, and he went down to Ashkelon. He killed thirty men from them, and he took their belongings, and he gave festal garments to the ones that explained the riddle. \u231eHe was angry\u231f, and he went up to his father\u2019s house. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Judges 14:20",
"text": "And Samson\u2019s wife was given to his companion who was his best man. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:1",
"text": " After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a \u231eyoung goat\u231f. He said, \u201cI want to go to my wife\u2019s private room.\u201d But her father would not allow him to enter. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:2",
"text": "Her father said, \u201cI really thought that you hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, \u231etake her instead\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:3",
"text": "And Samson said to them, \u201cThis time, as far as the Philistines are concerned, when I do something evil I am without blame.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:4",
"text": "And Samson went and captured three hundred foxes, and he took torches. He turned them tail to tail, and he put one torch between two tails. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:5",
"text": "He set fire to the torches and let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and he burned both the stacks of sheaves and the standing grain, up to the vineyards of olive groves. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:6",
"text": "And the Philistines said, \u201cWho has done this?\u201d And they said, \u201cSamson the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion.\u201d And the Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:7",
"text": "Samson said to them, \u201cIf you want to behave like this, I swear I will not rest unless I have taken revenge on you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:8",
"text": "And \u231ehe gave them a thorough beating\u231f, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:9",
"text": " Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and they overran Lehi. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:10",
"text": "And the men of Judah said, \u201cWhy have you come up against us?\u201d And they said, \u201cTo bind Samson; to do to him just as he did to us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:11",
"text": "Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and they said to Samson, \u201cDo you not know that the Philistines are ruling over us? What is this that you have done to us?\u201d And he said to them, \u201cJust as they did to me, so I have done to them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:12",
"text": "They said to him, \u201cWe have come down to bind you and give you over into the hand of the Philistines.\u201d And Samson said to them, \u201cSwear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:13",
"text": "They said to him, \u201cNo, we will only bind you and give you into their hand; we will certainly not kill you.\u201d So they bound him with two new ropes, and they brought him up from the rock. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:14",
"text": " As he came up to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the Spirit of Yahweh rushed on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has burned with fire, and his bindings melted from his hands. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:15",
"text": "And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey; he reached down and took it and killed one thousand men with it. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:16",
"text": "And Samson said, \u201cWith the jawbone of the donkey, heap upon heap; with the jawbone of the donkey, I struck dead one thousand men.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:17",
"text": " And it happened, when he finished speaking he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he called that place Ramath Lehi. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:18",
"text": " And he was very thirsty, and he called to Yahweh and said, \u201cYou gave this great victory into the hand of your servant, but now I must die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:19",
"text": "So God split the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it; and he drank, and his spirit returned, and he was revived. Thus he called its name \u231eThe Spring of Ha-Qore\u231f, which is at Lehi to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Judges 15:20",
"text": "And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:1",
"text": " Samson went down to Gaza; there he saw a prostitute and \u231ehad sex with her\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:2",
"text": "The Gazites were told, \u201cSamson has come here,\u201d so they surrounded the place and lay in ambush for him all night at the city gate. They kept silent all night, saying, \u201cWe will wait until the morning light, and then we will kill him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:3",
"text": "But Samson lay until the middle of the night; he got up in the middle of the night and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two door posts, tore them loose with the bar, put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the hill that is \u231ein front of\u231f Hebron. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:4",
"text": " After this he fell in love with a woman in the wadi of Sorek, and her name was Delilah. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:5",
"text": "And the rulers of the Philistines came up to her and said, \u201cEntice him and find out what makes his strength so great, and how we can overpower him, so that we may bind him up in order to subdue him; each of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:6",
"text": "So Delilah said to Samson, \u201cPlease tell me what makes your strength so great, and with what can you be tied up to subdue you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:7",
"text": "Samson said to her, \u201cIf you tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that are not dried up, I will become weak like everyone else.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:8",
"text": "So the rulers of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that were not dried up, and she tied him up with them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:9",
"text": "The ambush was sitting in wait for her in an inner room. And she said to him, \u201cThe Philistines are upon you Samson!\u201d And he snapped the bowstrings just as flax fiber snaps when it comes close to fire. And the secret of his strength remained unknown. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:10",
"text": "Delilah said to Samson, \u201cLook, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you can be bound.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:11",
"text": "He said to her, \u201cIf they tie me tightly with new ropes that have not been used, I will become weak and be like everyone else.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:12",
"text": "So Delilah took new ropes and tied him up with them, and she said to him, \u201cThe Philistines are upon you, Samson!\u201d (The ambush was sitting in an inner room.) But he snapped them from his arms like thread. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:13",
"text": " And Delilah said to Samson, \u201cUntil now you have mocked me and told lies to me. Tell me how you can be bound.\u201d And he said to her, \u201cIf you weave seven locks of my head with warp-threads.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:14",
"text": "She fastened it with the pin and said to him, \u201cThe Philistines are upon you, Samson!\u201d And Samson woke up from his sleep and tore loose the loom pin of the web and the warp-threads. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:15",
"text": " And she said to him, \u201cHow can you say, \u2018I love you,\u2019 when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me how your strength is so great.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:16",
"text": "And because she nagged him day after day with her words, and pestered him, \u231ehis soul grew impatient to the point of death\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:17",
"text": "So \u231ehe confided everything to her\u231f, and he said to her, \u201cA razor \u231ehas never touched\u231f my head, for I am a \u231eNazirite of God\u231f \u231efrom birth\u231f. If I am shaved my strength will leave me, and I will become weak, like everyone else. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:18",
"text": " Delilah realized that \u231ehe had confided in her\u231f, so she sent and called the rulers of the Philistines, saying, \u201cCome up one more time, for \u231ehe has confided in me\u231f.\u201d And the rulers of the Philistines came up, and they brought the money \u231ewith them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:19",
"text": "And she put him to sleep on her lap; then she called the men and shaved off seven locks of his head. Then she began to subdue him, and his strength went away from him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:20",
"text": "And she said to him, \u201cThe Philistines are upon you, Samson!\u201d And he woke up from his sleep and said, \u201cI will go out just like every other time and shake myself free,\u201d but he did not know that Yahweh had left him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:21",
"text": "And the Philistines seized him, gouged his eyes, and brought him to Gaza. They tied him up with bronze shackles, and he became a grinder \u231ein the prison\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:22",
"text": "But the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved off. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:23",
"text": " The rulers of the Philistines had gathered to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice. And they said, \u201cOur god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:24",
"text": "And the people saw him, and they praised their god, for they said, \u201cOur god has given into our hand those who hate us, devastate our land, and have \u231ekilled many of us\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:25",
"text": "After awhile, when their hearts were merry, they said, \u201cCall Samson and let him entertain us.\u201d And they called Samson \u231efrom the prison\u231f, and \u231ehe entertained them\u231f. And they made him stand between the pillars. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:26",
"text": "Then Samson said to the servant who was holding him by his hand, \u201cPosition me so that I can touch the pillars on which the house rests, so I can lean on them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:27",
"text": "And the house was full of men and women, and all of the rulers of the Philistines were there\u2014about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching the performance of Samson. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:28",
"text": " And Samson called to Yahweh and said, \u201cMy Lord Yahweh, remember me! Please give me strength this one time, O God, so that I can repay with one act of revenge to the Philistines for my eyes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:29",
"text": "And Samson reached out and held two of the middle pillars on which the house was resting, and he leaned on them, one on his right and one on his left. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:30",
"text": "And Samson said, \u201cLet me die with the Philistines.\u201d And he pushed with all his strength, and the house fell on the rulers and all of the people who were with him. And the dead whom he killed in his death were more than those he killed in his life. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Judges 16:31",
"text": " His brothers and \u231ehis whole family\u231f came down and picked him up; and they brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father; he judged Israel twenty years. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:1",
"text": " There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim; his name was Micah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:2",
"text": "And he said to his mother, \u201cThe eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, and about which you also pronounced a curse \u231ein my hearing\u231f, are with me; I took it.\u201d And his mother said, \u201cBlessed be my son by Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:3",
"text": "He returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother thought, \u201cI will certainly consecrate to Yahweh the pieces of silver from my hand for my son to make an idol of cast metal; now then, I will return them to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:4",
"text": "When he returned the pieces of silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and she gave it to the smith, and he made it into an idol of cast metal; and it was in the house of Micah. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:5",
"text": "The man Micah had for himself \u231ea shrine\u231f, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and \u231ehe appointed one of his sons\u231f who became a priest for him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:6",
"text": "In those days there was no king in Israel, and each one did what was right in his own eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:7",
"text": " There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, from the clan of Judah; he was a Levite and was dwelling as a foreigner there. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:8",
"text": "And the man went from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to live as a foreigner wherever he could find a place. And he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, to continue his journey. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:9",
"text": "And Micah said to him, \u201cFrom where do you come?\u201d And he said to him, \u201cI am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah; I am going to dwell as a foreigner wherever I can find a place.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:10",
"text": "And Micah said to him, \u201cStay with me and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give to you ten pieces of silver a year, a set of clothes, and your food.\u201d So the Levite went with him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:11",
"text": "The Levite agreed to stay with the man; and the young man became as one of his sons. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:12",
"text": "So Micah \u231eappointed the Levite\u231f, and the young man became a priest for him; and he was in the house of Micah. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Judges 17:13",
"text": "And Micah said, \u201cNow I know Yahweh will make me prosperous, because the Levite has become my priest.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:1",
"text": " In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking territory for itself to live in, because until that day it had not been allotted territory among the tribes of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:2",
"text": "The descendants of Dan sent from the whole number of their clan five \u231ecapable men\u231f from Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, \u201cGo, explore the land.\u201d And they went to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and they spent the night there. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:3",
"text": "While they were with the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite, and they turned aside there and said to him, \u201cWho brought you here? What are you doing in this place, and \u231ewhat is your business here\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:4",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cMicah did such and such for me and hired me, and I became his priest.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:5",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cPlease inquire of God that we may know whether our journey that we are going on will be successful.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:6",
"text": "And the priest said to them, \u201cGo in peace. Yahweh is in front of you on the journey you want to go on.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:7",
"text": " And the five men went and came to Laish, and they observed the people who were living according to the customs of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, and lacking nothing in the land, and possessing restraint. And they were far from the Sidonians and had no word with anyone. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:8",
"text": "They came to their relatives at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their relatives said to them, \u201cWhat do you report?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:9",
"text": "And they said to them, \u201cCome, let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Will you do nothing? Do not hesitate to go, to enter, to possess the land. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:10",
"text": "When you go you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land \u231eis spread out on all sides\u231f; God has given a place into your hands where there is no lack of anything that is on the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:11",
"text": " Six hundred men from the clan of the Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war, set out from there. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:12",
"text": "They went up and encamped at Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they called this place Camp of Dan to this day; it is west of Kiriath Jearim. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:13",
"text": "From there they crossed over to the hill country of Ephraim, and they came to the house of Micah. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:14",
"text": " And the five men that went out to spy out the land (that is, Laish) responded and said to their relatives, \u201cDo you know that there are in these houses an ephod, teraphim, and an idol of cast metal? So then, consider what you must do.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:15",
"text": "So they turned to that direction, and they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and \u231ethey greeted him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:16",
"text": "And six hundred men from the descendants of Dan, armed with their weapons of war, were standing at the entrance of the gate. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:17",
"text": "And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and they entered there and took the carved divine image, ephod, teraphim, and the molten image. The priest was standing at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with the weapons of war. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:18",
"text": "When these went to Micah\u2019s house, they took the divine carved image, ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, and the priest asked them, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:19",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cKeep quiet! Put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be for us a father and a priest. Is it better being a priest for a house of one man or being a priest for a tribe and clan in Israel?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:20",
"text": "\u231eThe priest accepted the offer\u231f, and he took the ephod, teraphim, and molten image and went along with the people. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:21",
"text": " And they turned and went and put the little children, the livestock, and the valuable property in front of them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:22",
"text": "When they were at a distance from the house, Micah and the men who were in the houses that were near the house of Micah cried out, and they overtook the descendants of Dan. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:23",
"text": "And they called to the descendants of Dan, who turned around to face them, and they said to Micah, \u201cWhat is the matter with you that you assembled together?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:24",
"text": "He said, \u201cYou took away my gods that I had made, and the priest, and then you go away. What is now left for me? How can you say to me, \u2018What is the matter?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:25",
"text": "And the descendants of Dan said to him, \u201cYou should not let your voice be heard among us, so that \u231eill-tempered men\u231f \u231ewill not attack you\u231f, \u231eand take your life\u231f and the lives of your household.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:26",
"text": "And the descendants of Dan went their way. When Micah saw that they were stronger than him, he turned to return to his house. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:27",
"text": " And they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and they came to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and \u231ethey put them to the sword\u231f and burned the city with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:28",
"text": "There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and \u231ethey had had no dealings with anyone\u231f. It was in the valley that belonged to Beth-rehob, and they rebuilt the city and lived in it. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:29",
"text": "And they called the name of the city Dan, after Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the former name of the city was Laish. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:30",
"text": "And the descendants of Dan set up for themselves the carved divine image, and Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites until the time of the captivity of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Judges 18:31",
"text": "So they set up for themselves the carved divine image that Micah had made, all the days that the house of God was in Shiloh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:1",
"text": " In those days there was no king in Israel; there was a man, a Levite, who dwelled as a foreigner in the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim. And he took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:2",
"text": "But his concubine felt repugnance toward him, and she left him and went to her father\u2019s house, to Bethlehem in Judah; she was there some four months. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:3",
"text": "So her husband set out, and he went after her to speak \u231etenderly to her\u231f, to bring her back. He took with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. And she brought him to her father\u2019s house, and the father of the young woman saw him and was glad to meet him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:4",
"text": "His father-in-law, the young woman\u2019s father, urged him to stay with him three days; and they ate and drank, and they spent the night there. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:5",
"text": "On the fourth day, they rose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the father of the young woman said to his son-in-law, \u201c\u231eRefresh yourself\u231f with a bit of food, and afterward you may go.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:6",
"text": "So the two of them sat and ate and drank together, and the father of the young woman said to the man, \u201cPlease, agree to spend the night and \u231eenjoy yourself\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:7",
"text": "The man got up to go, but his father-in-law urged him, and he returned and spent the night there. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:8",
"text": "On the fifth day he rose early in the morning to go, and the father of the young woman said, \u201cPlease, \u231eenjoy yourself\u231f,\u201d and they lingered until the day declined, and the two of them ate. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:9",
"text": "And the man got up to go\u2014he, his concubine, and his servant\u2014but his father-in-law, the father of the young woman, said to him, \u201cPlease, the day has worn on to evening; please, spend the night, the day has drawn to a close. Spend the night here and \u231eenjoy yourself\u231f. You can rise early tomorrow for your journey and \u231ego to your home\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:10",
"text": " But the man was not willing to spend the night, and he got up and went; and he arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:11",
"text": "They were near Jebus, and \u231ethe day was far spent\u231f, and the servant said to his master, \u201cPlease, come, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites, and let us spend the night in it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:12",
"text": "But his master said to him, \u201cWe will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, who are not from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; we will cross over up to Gibeah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:13",
"text": "And he said to his servant, \u201cCome, let us approach one of these places; we will spend the night in Gibeah or in Ramah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:14",
"text": "So they crossed over and went their way, and the sun went down on them beside Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:15",
"text": "And they turned aside there to enter and to spend the night at Gibeah. And they went and sat in the open square of the city, but no one \u231etook them in to spend the night\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:16",
"text": " Then behold, an old man was coming from his work from the field in the evening, and the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was dwelling as a foreigner in Gibeah. (The people of the place were descendants of Benjamin.) "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:17",
"text": "And the old man raised his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city, and he said, \u201cWhere are you going, and from where do you come?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:18",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cWe are crossing over from Bethlehem in Judah up to the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but now I am going to Yahweh\u2019s house, but no one \u231etook me in to spend the night\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:19",
"text": "There is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servant; there is no lack of anything.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:20",
"text": "And the old man said, \u201cPeace to you. I will take care of your needs; however, you must not spend the night in the open square.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:21",
"text": "So he brought him to his house, and he fed the donkeys; they washed their feet, ate, and drank. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:22",
"text": " While \u231ethey were enjoying themselves\u231f, behold, the men of the city, \u231ethe perverse lot\u231f, surrounded the house, pounding on the door. And they said to the old man, the owner of the house, \u201cBring out the man who came to your house so that \u231ewe may have sex with him\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:23",
"text": "So the man, the owner of the house, went out to them and said to them, \u201cNo, my brothers, do not act wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this disgraceful thing. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:24",
"text": "Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. Please, let me bring them out; do violence to them, and do to them \u231ewhatever you please\u231f. Do not do this disgraceful thing to this man.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:25",
"text": "But the men were not willing to listen to him, and the man seized his concubine and brought her out to them; and they had intercourse with her, and they abused her all night until the morning; they let her go at the approach of dawn. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:26",
"text": "And the woman came as the morning appeared, and she fell at the entrance of the man\u2019s house where her master was, until daylight. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:27",
"text": " In the morning her master got up, and he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his journey, and behold, his concubine was falling at the entrance of the house, with her hand on the threshold. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:28",
"text": "And he said to her, \u201cGet up, let us go,\u201d but there was no answer. So he put her on the donkey, and the man got up and went to his place. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:29",
"text": "When he entered his house he took a knife, and he grasped his concubine and cut her into twelve pieces; and he sent her throughout the whole territory of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Judges 19:30",
"text": "All who saw it said, \u201cNothing like this has ever been since the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went up from the land of Egypt until this day. Take note of it, consider it, and speak up.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:1",
"text": " All the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and they gathered as one body to Yahweh at Mizpah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:2",
"text": "And the leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand sword-bearing infantry. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:3",
"text": "(The descendants of Benjamin heard that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f had gone up to Mizpah.) And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f said, \u201cTell us, how did this evil act occur?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:4",
"text": "The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered and said, \u201cI came to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:5",
"text": "The lords of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me, and they raped my concubine, and she died. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:6",
"text": "Then I grabbed my concubine and cut her into pieces, and I sent her throughout all the territory of Israel\u2019s inheritance; for they committed a shameful and disgraceful thing in Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:7",
"text": "Look, all you \u231eIsraelites\u231f! \u231eMake your decision\u231f and advice here.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:8",
"text": " All the people got up as one body, saying, \u201cNot one of us will go to his tent, or will any of us return to his house. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:9",
"text": "So then, this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against her by lot. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:10",
"text": "We will take ten men of one hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and one thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions to the troops, to repay them when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin for all the disgraceful things they did in Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:11",
"text": "And all the men of Israel were gathered to the city as one body united. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:12",
"text": " Then the tribes of Israel sent men throughout all the tribes of Benjamin, saying, \u201cWhat is this wickedness that happened among you? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:13",
"text": "So then, hand over the men, \u231ethe perverse lot\u231f, who are in Gibeah, so that we may kill them and purge this wickedness from Israel.\u201d But the descendants of Benjamin were not willing to listen to the voice of their relatives, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:14",
"text": "And the descendants of Benjamin were gathered from the cities to Gibeah to go out for battle against the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:15",
"text": "From the cities the descendants of Benjamin were counted on that day twenty-six thousand \u231esword-wielding men\u231f, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred well-trained men. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:16",
"text": "From all these troops were seven hundred well-trained men \u231ewho were left-handed\u231f; each one could sling with a stone at a hair and not miss. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:17",
"text": "And the men of Israel besides Benjamin were counted four hundred thousand \u231esword-wielding men\u231f; \u231eall were warriors\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:18",
"text": " Then the \u231eIsraelites\u231f got up and went up to Bethel, and they inquired of God, saying, \u201cWho will go up first for the battle against the descendants of Benjamin?\u201d And Yahweh said, \u201cJudah will go first.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:19",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f got up in the morning, and they encamped against Gibeah. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:20",
"text": "Then the men of Israel marched out for the battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel took up positions against them for battle at Gibeah. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:21",
"text": "The descendants of Benjamin went out from Gibeah, and they struck down on that day twenty-two thousand men of Israel to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:22",
"text": "But the troops, the men of Israel, \u231eencouraged themselves\u231f, and again they arranged their battle lines in the place where they had arranged themselves the first day. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:23",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f went up and wept before Yahweh until evening and inquired of Yahweh, saying, \u201cShould we again draw near from the battle against the descendants of Benjamin, our relatives?\u201d And Yahweh said, \u201cGo up against them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:24",
"text": " And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f drew near to the descendants of Benjamin on the second day. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:25",
"text": "And Benjamin went out from Gibeah to meet them on the second day, and they struck down the \u231eIsraelites\u231f again, eighteen thousand men to the ground; all of these were \u231esword-wielding\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:26",
"text": "And all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and all the troops went up and came to Bethel and wept; and they sat there before Yahweh and fasted on that day until evening; and they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:27",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f inquired of Yahweh (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:28",
"text": "and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was standing \u231ebefore it\u231f to minister in those days), saying, \u201cShould we go out once more to battle against the descendants of Benjamin our relatives, or should we stop?\u201d And Yahweh said, \u201cGo up tomorrow; I will give them into your hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:29",
"text": " So Israel stationed an ambush all around Gibeah. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:30",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went up against the descendants of Benjamin on the third day, and they took up positions against Gibeah as before. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:31",
"text": "The descendants of Benjamin went out to meet the troops, and they lured them away from the city and began to inflict casualties on the troops as before, on the main road, one of which goes up to Bethel, the other to Gibeah; and in the field there were about thirty men of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:32",
"text": "And the descendants of Benjamin thought, \u201cThey are being defeated before us \u231eas previously\u231f,\u201d and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f said, \u201cLet us flee and lure them away from the city to the main roads.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:33",
"text": "And all the men of Israel got up from their places and took up positions in Baal Tamar; and the ambush of Israel charged from their places, from the vicinity of Gibeah. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:34",
"text": "Then ten thousand well-trained men from all Israel came out against Gibeah, and the battle became fierce; they did not know that disaster was about to \u231eclose in\u231f on them. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:35",
"text": "And Yahweh defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f destroyed on that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them \u231esword-wielding\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:36",
"text": " The descendants of Benjamin saw that they were defeated, and the men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin because they trusted the ambush that they had set against Gibeah. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:37",
"text": "And the ambush came quickly and advanced against Gibeah, and it \u231eput the whole city to the sword\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:38",
"text": "Now the appointed time for the men of Israel with the ambush was that they sent up for them a great amount of smoke from the city. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:39",
"text": "And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to inflict casualties on about thirty men of Israel because they thought, \u201cThey will be completely defeated before us as in the first battle.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:40",
"text": "And the cloud of smoke began to go up from the city in a column of smoke, and Benjamin turned backward, and behold, the whole city was going up \u231ein smoke\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:41",
"text": "And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed because they saw that disaster was \u231eclosing in\u231f on them. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:42",
"text": "And they retreated from before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle caught up to them, and those who came from the cities destroyed them in the midst of them. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:43",
"text": "They surrounded Benjamin; they pursued them without rest and trod them down opposite Gibeah to the east. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:44",
"text": "And eighteen thousand men from Benjamin fell, all of them \u231eable men\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:45",
"text": "And they turned and fled toward the wilderness, to the rock of Rimmon, but they cut down on the main roads five thousand men; and they pursued after them up to Gidom, and they struck down two thousand men. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:46",
"text": "So all of Benjamin who fell on that day were twenty-five thousand \u231esword-wielding men\u231f; all of these were \u231eable men\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:47",
"text": "But six hundred turned and fled toward the wilderness, to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon for four months. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Judges 20:48",
"text": "And the men of Israel returned to the descendants of Benjamin, and they put them to \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f, both the inhabitants of city and the animals that were found; they also set on fire all the cities that they found. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:1",
"text": " The men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, saying, \u201cNone of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:2",
"text": "And the people of Bethel came and sat there until evening before God, and they lifted their voices and \u231ewept bitterly\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:3",
"text": "And they said, \u201cWhy, Yahweh, God of Israel, has it happened today in Israel that one tribe is lacking from Israel?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:4",
"text": "On the next day the people rose early, and they built there an altar and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:5",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f said, \u201cWho in the assembly has not come up from all the tribes of Israel to Yahweh?\u201d For a solemn oath was taken concerning whoever did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah, saying, \u201cHe will certainly be put to death.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:6",
"text": "But the \u231eIsraelites\u231f had compassion for Benjamin, their relatives, and they said, \u201cToday one tribe is cut off from Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:7",
"text": "What will we do for them\u2014for the ones being left over\u2014for wives? For we have sworn by Yahweh not to give to them our daughters as wives.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:8",
"text": " They asked, \u201cWhich one is there from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah?\u201d And behold, no one came from Jabesh-gilead to the camp, to the assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:9",
"text": "The people were counted, and no one was there from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:10",
"text": "And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men from the troops, and they commanded them, saying, \u201cGo, strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with \u231ethe edge of the sword\u231f, and the women and children. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:11",
"text": "This is the thing you will do: \u231eyou will destroy\u231f every man and \u231eevery woman who had sex with a man\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:12",
"text": "And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had not \u231ehad sex with a man\u231f, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:13",
"text": " Then the congregation sent and spoke all this to the descendants of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon, and \u231ethey assured them they would not be hurt\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:14",
"text": "And Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave to them the women whom they kept alive from Jabesh-gilead; but they were not enough for them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:15",
"text": " And the people felt sorry for Benjamin because \u231eYahweh weakened the tribes of Israel\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:16",
"text": "So the elders of the congregation said, \u201cWhat should we do for the remaining ones for wives, since the women from Benjamin have been destroyed?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:17",
"text": "And they said, \u201cThere must be a remnant for Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be blotted out from Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:18",
"text": "But we cannot give them wives from our daughters.\u201d (For the \u231eIsraelites\u231f swore, saying, \u201cCursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.\u201d) "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:19",
"text": "And they said, \u201cLook, the annual feast of Yahweh is in Shiloh, which is to the north of Bethel, \u231eeast\u231f of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:20",
"text": "They instructed the descendants of Benjamin, saying, \u201cGo, lie in ambush in the vineyards, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:21",
"text": "and watch and look; when the daughters of Shiloh dance in the dances, come out from the vineyards and seize for yourselves a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:22",
"text": "And if their fathers or their brothers complain to us, we will say to them, \u2018Allow us to have them, because we did not capture a wife for each man in the battle, and because you did not give them to them, \u231eor else\u231f you would have been guilty.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:23",
"text": "The descendants of Benjamin did likewise, and they took wives for each of them from the dancers whom they seized, and they went and returned to their territory, and they rebuilt the cities and they lived in them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:24",
"text": "So the \u231eIsraelites\u231f dispersed from there at that time according to tribe and family; and they went out from there, each one to their own territory. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Judges 21:25",
"text": "In those days there was no king in Israel; each one did what was right in his own eyes. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Ruth",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:1",
"text": " And it happened in the days when \u231ethe judges ruled\u231f, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem of Judah went \u231eto reside\u231f in the countryside of Moab\u2014he and his wife and his two sons. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:2",
"text": "And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephraimites from Bethlehem in Judah. And they went to the countryside of Moab and remained there. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:3",
"text": " But Elimelech the husband of Naomi died and she was left behind with \u231eher two sons\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:4",
"text": "And \u231ethey took\u231f for themselves Moabite wives. The name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other was Ruth. And they lived there about ten years. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:5",
"text": "But \u231eboth\u231f Mahlon and Kilion died, and the woman was left without her two sons and without her husband. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:6",
"text": " And she got up, she and her daughters-in-law, and returned from the countryside of Moab, because she had heard in the countryside of Moab that Yahweh had \u231ecome to the aid of\u231f his people to give food to them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:7",
"text": "So she set out from the place \u231ewhere she was\u231f and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:8",
"text": " But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, \u201cGo, each of you return to her mother\u2019s house. May Yahweh \u231eshow kindness to you\u231f just as you did with the dead and with me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:9",
"text": "May Yahweh \u231egrant that you\u231f find a resting place, each in the house of her husband.\u201d And she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and cried. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:10",
"text": " And they said to her, \u201cNo, we want to return with you to your people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:11",
"text": "And Naomi said, \u201cReturn, my daughters. \u231eWhy do you still want to go with me\u231f? Are there sons \u231ein my womb\u231f that may be husbands for you? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:12",
"text": "Turn back, my daughters! Go, for \u231eI am too old to have a husband\u231f. If I should think there is hope for me, even if I should have a husband this night, and even if I should bear sons, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:13",
"text": "would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore \u231erefrain from marrying\u231f? No, my daughters, for it is far more bitter to me than to you. For the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:14",
"text": "And they lifted up their voices and cried again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:15",
"text": "And she said, \u201cLook, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law too.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:16",
"text": " But Ruth said, \u201c\u231eDo not urge\u231f me to leave you or to return from \u231efollowing you\u231f! For where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:17",
"text": "Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. So may Yahweh do to me, \u231eand even more, unless\u231f death \u231eseparates you and me\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:18",
"text": "When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, \u231eshe said no more\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:19",
"text": " So the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. \u231eAnd when they came\u231f to Bethlehem, all of the town was stirred because of them. And they said, \u201cIs this Naomi?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:20",
"text": "And she said to them, \u201cYou should not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for Shaddai has \u231ecaused me to be very bitter\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:21",
"text": "I went away full, but Yahweh brought me back empty-handed! Why call me Naomi \u231ewhen Yahweh has testified against me\u231f and Shaddai has brought calamity upon me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ruth 1:22",
"text": "So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, returning from the countryside of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the harvest of barley. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:1",
"text": " \u231eNow\u231f Naomi \u231ehad a relative of her husband\u231f, \u231ea prominent rich man\u231f from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:2",
"text": "And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, \u201cPlease let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after someone in whose eyes I may find favor.\u201d And she said to her, \u201cGo, my daughter.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:3",
"text": "So she went and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers. And she happened by chance upon the tract of field \u231ebelonging to\u231f Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:4",
"text": "And look, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, \u201cMay Yahweh be with you.\u201d And they said to him, \u201cMay Yahweh bless you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:5",
"text": "And Boaz said to his servant \u231ein charge of the reapers\u231f, \u201cTo whom does this young woman belong?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:6",
"text": "And \u231ethe servant in charge of the reapers\u231f said, \u201cShe is a Moabite girl returning with Naomi from the countryside of Moab. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:7",
"text": "And she said, \u2018Please let me glean and let me gather among the sheaves behind the reapers.\u2019 So she came and remained from the morning up to now. \u231eShe is sitting for a little while in the house\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:8",
"text": " And Boaz said to Ruth, \u201c\u231eListen carefully\u231f, my daughter, go no longer to glean in another field. Moreover, do not leave from this one, but \u231estay close\u231f with my young women. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:9",
"text": "Keep your eyes on the field that they reap and go after them. Have I not ordered the servants not to bother you? And if you get thirsty, you shall go to the containers and drink from where the servants have drawn.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:10",
"text": "And she fell on her face and bowed down to the ground and said to him, \u201cWhy have I found favor in your eyes by recognizing me\u2014for I am a foreigner?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:11",
"text": "And Boaz answered and said to her, \u201cAll that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband was fully told to me. How you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and you went to a people that you did not know \u231ebefore\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:12",
"text": "May Yahweh reward your work and may a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you came to take refuge.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:13",
"text": "And she said, \u201cMay I find favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and have spoken \u231ekindly to your servant\u231f, and I am not one of your servants.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:14",
"text": " And Boaz said to her \u231eat mealtime\u231f, \u201cCome here and eat from the bread and dip your morsel in the wine vinegar.\u201d So she sat beside the gleaners, and he offered to her roasted grain. And she ate and was satisfied, and she had some left over. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:15",
"text": "And she got up to glean, and Boaz instructed his servants saying, \u201cLet her also glean between the sheaves and do not reproach her. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:16",
"text": "And also pull out for her from your bundles and leave it so that she may glean\u2014and do not rebuke her.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:17",
"text": " So she gleaned in the field until the evening and she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:18",
"text": "And she picked it up and went to the town. Her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. And she took it out and gave to her what she had left over \u231eafter being satisfied\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:19",
"text": "And her mother-in-law said to her, \u201cWhere did you glean \u231etoday\u231f and where did you work? May he who took notice of you be blessed.\u201d And she told her mother-in-law \u231ewith whom she had worked\u231f and said, \u201cThe name of the man who I worked with today is Boaz.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:20",
"text": "And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, \u201cMay he be blessed by Yahweh, whose loyal love has not forsaken the living or the dead.\u201d And Naomi said to her, \u201cThe man is a close relative for us, he is one of our redeemers.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:21",
"text": "And Ruth the Moabite said, \u201cAlso, he said to me, \u2018You shall stay close with the servants which are mine until they have finished all of the harvest which is mine.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:22",
"text": "And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, \u201cIt is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidservants so that you will not \u231ebe bothered\u231f in another field.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ruth 2:23",
"text": "So she stayed close with the maidservants of Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:1",
"text": " Now Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, \u201cMy daughter, should I not seek for you security that things may be good for you? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:2",
"text": "So then, is not Boaz our kinsman whose maidservants you were with? Look, he is winnowing the barley at the threshing floor tonight. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:3",
"text": "Wash, anoint yourself, put your clothing on, and go down to the threshing floor. Do not make yourself known to the man until he finishes eating and drinking. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:4",
"text": "And when he lies, take notice of the place where he lies. And you shall go and \u231euncover\u231f his feet and lie down, and he shall tell you what to do.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:5",
"text": "And she said to her, \u201cI will do all that you say.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:6",
"text": " And she went down to the threshing floor and did all that her mother-in-law had instructed her. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:7",
"text": "And Boaz ate and drank until his heart was \u231emerry\u231f and then he came to lie at the end of the grain heap. And she came in quietly and \u231euncovered\u231f his feet and lay down. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:8",
"text": "And it happened in the middle of the night the man was startled and he reached out and behold, a woman was lying at his feet. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:9",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWho are you?\u201d And she said, \u201cI am Ruth, your servant. Spread \u231eyour garment\u231f over your servant because you are a redeemer.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:10",
"text": "And he said, \u201cYou are blessed by Yahweh my daughter. You did better in this last kindness than the first by not going after young men, whether poor or rich. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:11",
"text": "And so then my daughter, do not be afraid. All that you ask I will do for you, for the entire assembly of my people knows that you are a worthy woman. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:12",
"text": "Now truly I am a redeemer, but there is also a redeemer of a closer relationship than me. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:13",
"text": "\u231eStay tonight,\u231f and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good; but if he is not willing to redeem, \u231ethen as Yahweh lives,\u231f I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:14",
"text": " So she lay at his feet until morning and got up before \u231eanyone could recognize each other\u231f. And he said, \u201cIt must not be known that \u231eyou\u231f came to the threshing floor.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:15",
"text": "And he said, \u201cBring the cloak that is on you and \u231ehold it out\u231f.\u201d And she held it out and he measured six measures of barley and put it on her cloak. Then she went into the city. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:16",
"text": "And she came to her mother-in-law, and she said, \u201c\u231eHow did it go for you,\u231f my daughter?\u201d And she told her all that the man did for her. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:17",
"text": "And she said, \u201cThese six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said, \u2018You shall not go empty-handed to your mother-in-law.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ruth 3:18",
"text": "And she said, \u201cWait, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:1",
"text": " And Boaz had gone up to the city gate and sat there. And look, the redeemer of whom Boaz had spoken was passing by. And he said, \u201cCome over here to sit, \u231efriend\u231f.\u201d And he came over and sat. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:2",
"text": "And he took ten men from the elders of the city and said, \u201cSit here.\u201d And they sat. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:3",
"text": "And he said to the redeemer, \u201cNaomi, who returned from the countryside of Moab, is selling the tract of land which was for our brother Elimelech. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:4",
"text": "And I thought \u231eI would tell you\u231f and say, \u2018\u231eBuy it in the presence of\u231f those sitting and before the elders of my people,\u2019 if you want to redeem it, redeem it. But if you do not want to redeem, tell me so that I may know, for there is no one except you to redeem it, and I am after you.\u201d And he said, \u201cI want to redeem it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:5",
"text": "And Boaz said, \u201cOn the day of your acquiring the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the dead man, in order to raise up for the name of the dead his inheritance.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:6",
"text": "And the redeemer said, \u201cI am not able to redeem for myself, lest I ruin my inheritance. You redeem for yourself my kinsman-redemption, for I am not able to redeem it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:7",
"text": " (Now this \u231ewas the custom in former times\u231f in Israel concerning the kinsman-redemption and transfer of property: to confirm the matter, a man removed his sandal and gave it to his fellow countryman. This was the manner of attesting in Israel.) "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:8",
"text": "So the redeemer said to Boaz, \u201cAcquire it for yourself,\u201d and he removed his sandal. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:9",
"text": "And Boaz said to the elders and all of the people, \u201cYou are witnesses today that I have acquired all that was for Elimelech and that was for Kilion and Mahlon from the hand of Naomi. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:10",
"text": "And also Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired as a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance, so that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his relatives and from the gate of his birth place. You are witnesses today.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:11",
"text": "And all of the people who were at the gate and the elders said, \u201cWe are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman coming into your house as Rachel and as Leah, who \u231etogether\u231f built the house of Israel. May you have strength in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:12",
"text": "And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah from the offspring that Yahweh will give to you from this young woman.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:13",
"text": " So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and Yahweh \u231eenabled her to conceive\u231f, and she bore a son. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:14",
"text": "And the women said to Naomi, \u201cBlessed be Yahweh who today \u231edid not leave you without a redeemer\u231f! And may his name be renowned in Israel! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:15",
"text": "He shall be for you a restorer of life and a sustainer in your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is better for you than seven sons, has borne him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:16",
"text": "And Naomi took the child and she put him on her bosom and became his nurse. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:17",
"text": "And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, \u201cA son has been born to Naomi.\u201d And they called his name Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:18",
"text": " Now these are the descendants of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:19",
"text": "and Hezron fathered Ram, and Ram fathered Amminadab, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:20",
"text": "and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, and Nahshon fathered Salmon, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:21",
"text": "and Salmon fathered Boaz, and Boaz fathered Obed, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ruth 4:22",
"text": "and Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "I Samuel",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:1",
"text": " There was a certain man from Ramathaim Zophim, from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:2",
"text": "He had two wives; the name of the first was Hannah, and the name of the second was Peninnah. Now Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:3",
"text": "Now this man used to go up from his town \u231eyear by year\u231f to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of hosts in Shiloh, \u231ewhere\u231f the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:4",
"text": "\u231eOn\u231f the day Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:5",
"text": "But to Hannah he would give \u231ea double portion\u231f, because he loved Hannah, though Yahweh had closed her womb. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:6",
"text": "(Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.) "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:7",
"text": "And so he used to do year after year; \u231ewhenever\u231f she went up to the house of Yahweh, she would provoke her so that she would weep and would not eat. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:8",
"text": "So Elkanah her husband would say to her: \u201cHannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat? And \u231ewhy are you heartsick\u231f? Am I not better to you than ten sons?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:9",
"text": "Then Hannah got up after eating and drinking at Shiloh. (Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the temple of Yahweh.) "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:10",
"text": "She was \u231edeeply troubled\u231f, so she prayed to Yahweh and wept bitterly. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:11",
"text": "She \u231emade a vow\u231f and said: \u201cO Yahweh of hosts, if you will look with compassion on the misery of your female servant, and will remember me, and not forget your female servant, and will give to your female servant \u231ea male child\u231f then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and a razor will never pass over his head.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:12",
"text": "\u231eWhile\u231f she continued to pray before Yahweh, Eli was observing her mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:13",
"text": "Now Hannah had been speaking in her heart; her lips were moving, but her voice could not be heard, so Eli considered her to be drunk. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:14",
"text": "Then Eli said to her, \u201cHow long will you behave like someone who is drunk? Put away your wine!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:15",
"text": "But Hannah answered and said, \u201cNo, my lord. I am a woman \u231edeeply distressed\u231f, but I have not drunk wine or strong drink. Rather, I have poured out my soul before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:16",
"text": "Do not regard your female servant as \u231eworthless\u231f, but because of the extent of my worries and my provocation I have spoken all of this.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:17",
"text": "Then Eli answered and said, \u201cGo in peace, and may the God of Israel grant your request that you have asked of him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:18",
"text": "And she said, \u201cMay your female slave find favor in your sight.\u201d Then the woman went on her way and ate something, and \u231eher face did not look sad any longer\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:19",
"text": " Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before Yahweh \u231eand returned\u231f to their house at Ramah. Then Elkanah \u231ehad sexual relations with\u231f Hannah his wife, and Yahweh remembered her. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:20",
"text": "\u231eIn due time\u231f, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She called his name Samuel, for she said, \u201cI requested him from Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:21",
"text": " So the man Elkanah went up with all his household \u231eto make the annual sacrifice\u231f to Yahweh and to pay his vow. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:22",
"text": "But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, \u201cOnce the boy is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear before Yahweh; and he will remain there forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:23",
"text": "So her husband Elkanah said to her, \u201c\u231eDo what seems right to you\u231f; stay until you wean him. Only may Yahweh fulfill his word.\u201d So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:24",
"text": "Then she brought him up with her when she had weaned him, along with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. She brought him to the house of Yahweh at Shiloh while the boy was still young. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:25",
"text": "They slaughtered the bull, and they brought the boy to Eli. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:26",
"text": "She said, \u201cExcuse me, my lord. As \u231eyou live\u231f, my lord, I am the woman who stood with you in this place to pray to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:27",
"text": "I prayed for this boy, and Yahweh has given me my request that I asked from him. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Samuel 1:28",
"text": "I in turn have lent him to Yahweh. \u231eAs long as he lives\u231f he is lent to Yahweh.\u201d Then they worshiped Yahweh there. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:1",
"text": "Then Hannah prayed and said, \u201cMy heart exults in Yahweh, my strength is exalted in Yahweh; \u231eI grin\u231f over my enemies, for I rejoice over your salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:2",
"text": " There is no one holy like Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, and there is no rock like our God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:3",
"text": " Do not increase speaking \u231every proud\u231f words! Let no arrogance go forth from your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge whose deeds are not weighed. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:4",
"text": " The bows of mighty warriors are shattered, but those who stumble gird themselves with strength. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:5",
"text": " Those who were full must hire themselves out for bread, but those who are hungry will become fat. As for the infertile, she will bear seven, but she who has many sons withers away. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:6",
"text": " Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down to Sheol and raises up. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:7",
"text": " Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and also exalts. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:8",
"text": " He raises up the poor from the dust. From the ash heap he lifts up the needy, to cause them to sit with noble people and to cause them to inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth belong to Yahweh and he has set the inhabited world on them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:9",
"text": " He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked will be destroyed in the darkness, because a man will not prevail by his might. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:10",
"text": " Yahweh will shatter his adversaries; he will thunder against them in the heavens. Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king and will exalt the might of his anointed one. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:11",
"text": " Then Elkanah went to Ramah, to his house. Now the boy was serving Yahweh \u231ein the presence of\u231f Eli the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:12",
"text": " Now the sons of Eli were \u231eworthless scoundrels\u231f; they did not know Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:13",
"text": "And the custom of the priests with the people was this: When any man \u231ebrought a sacrifice\u231f, as the meat was boiling, the servant of the priest would take a three-pronged meat fork in his hand "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:14",
"text": "and would thrust it into the pan or into the kettle or into the cauldron or into the cooking pot. All that the meat fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they used to do to all of the Israelites who came there at Shiloh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:15",
"text": "Also, before they \u231eoffered up\u231f the fat as a burnt offering, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, \u201cGive the priest meat for roasting, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but only \u231eraw\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:16",
"text": "And if the man said to him, \u201cLet them burn the fat completely \u231efirst\u231f, then take for yourself as \u231eyou\u231f desire,\u201d then he would say to him, \u201cNo! Give it now! If not, I will take it by force!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:17",
"text": "So the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of Yahweh, because the men treated the offering of Yahweh with contempt. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:18",
"text": " Now Samuel was serving before Yahweh, as a boy wearing a linen ephod. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:19",
"text": "His mother used to make for him a small robe and take it to him \u231eyear by year\u231f whenever she came up with her husband to offer the \u231eannual sacrifice\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:20",
"text": "And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and he said, \u201cMay Yahweh give you an offspring from this woman in place of the petitioned one that she requested from Yahweh.\u201d Then they went to their home. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:21",
"text": "Yahweh took note of Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters, while the young man Samuel grew up with Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:22",
"text": " Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel and that they were having sexual relations with the women who were serving at the entrance of the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:23",
"text": "And he asked them, \u201cWhy are you doing all these things that I am hearing, namely, your evil dealings with all these people? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:24",
"text": "No, my sons, the report is not good that I am hearing the people of Yahweh spreading. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:25",
"text": "If a man sins against a man, then God can intercede for him. But if a man sins against Yahweh, who can intercede for him?\u201d But they did not \u231eobey\u231f their father, because Yahweh wanted to kill them. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:26",
"text": "But the boy Samuel \u231econtinued to grow in stature and in favor\u231f with Yahweh and with the people. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:27",
"text": " Now a man of God came to Eli and said to him: \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018Did I not clearly reveal myself to the house of your ancestor when they were in Egypt under the house of Pharaoh? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:28",
"text": "And I chose him from all the tribes of Israel to be a priest to me, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to bear an ephod before me. I gave to the house of your ancestor all the offerings made by fire by the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:29",
"text": "Why do you despise my sacrifice and my offering which I commanded for my dwelling place, while you honored your sons more than me by making yourselves fat from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:30",
"text": "Therefore,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh the God of Israel, \u2018though I solemnly said that your house and the house of your ancestor would walk before me forever, but now,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me, I will treat with contempt! "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:31",
"text": "Look, days are coming when I will cut off your \u231estrength\u231f and the \u231estrength\u231f of the house of your ancestor \u231eso that no one in your house will live to old age\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:32",
"text": "You will look at the distress of my dwelling place, despite all the good caused for Israel, but there will never be an old man in your household \u231eforever\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:33",
"text": "The only one I will not cut off from my altar is you. Rather, to cause your eyes to fail and to cause your soul to grieve, \u231eall the members of your household\u231f will die as men. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:34",
"text": "This is the sign for you that will come regarding your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: they will both die on the same day! "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:35",
"text": "But I will raise up for myself a reliable priest; he will do just according to what is in my heart and in my soul. I will build for him a lasting house and he will walk continually before my anointed one \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Samuel 2:36",
"text": "All the remainder of your household will come to bow down \u231ebefore\u231f him for a bit of silver or a loaf of bread and will say, \u201cPlease assign me to one of the \u231epriestly offices\u231f so that I can eat a morsel of bread.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:1",
"text": " Now the boy Samuel was serving Yahweh \u231ein the presence\u231f of Eli. The word of Yahweh was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:2",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f one day when Eli was lying in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow weak so that he was not able to see) "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:3",
"text": "and the lamp of God had not yet gone out, Samuel was lying in the temple of Yahweh where the ark of God was. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:4",
"text": "Then Yahweh called out to Samuel and he said, \u201cHere I am!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:5",
"text": "And he ran to Eli and said, \u201cHere I am, because you called me.\u201d But he said, \u201cI did not call you. Go back and lie down.\u201d So he went and lay down. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:6",
"text": "And Yahweh called Samuel again, so Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, \u201cHere I am, because you called me.\u201d And he said, \u201cI did not call you, my son. Go back and lie down.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:7",
"text": "Now Samuel did not yet know Yahweh, and the word of Yahweh had not yet been revealed to him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:8",
"text": "Again Yahweh called Samuel a third time, so he got up and went to Eli and said, \u201cHere I am, because you called me.\u201d Then Eli realized that Yahweh was calling the boy. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:9",
"text": "So Eli said to Samuel \u201cGo lie down. \u231eIf he calls\u231f to you, then you must say, \u2018Speak Yahweh, because your servant is listening.\u2019\u00a0\u201d So Samuel went and lay down in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:10",
"text": " Then Yahweh came and stood there and called out \u231eas before\u231f, \u201cSamuel! Samuel!\u201d And Samuel said, \u201cSpeak, because your servant is listening.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:11",
"text": "So Yahweh said to Samuel, \u201cLook, I am doing something in Israel \u231ewhich will cause\u231f the two ears of everyone who hears it to tingle. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:12",
"text": "On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken against his household, \u231efrom beginning to end\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:13",
"text": "I will make him know that I am about to judge his household forever because of the iniquity that he knew, for his sons were bringing curses on themselves, but he did not rebuke them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:14",
"text": "Therefore I swore to the house of Eli that the iniquity of the house of Eli would not be atoned for by sacrifice or by offering forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:15",
"text": " So Samuel lay down until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, but Samuel was afraid of telling the vision to Eli. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:16",
"text": "Then Eli called Samuel and said, \u201cSamuel, my son!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:17",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWhat is the message that he spoke to you? Please do not conceal it from me. May God \u231epunish you severely\u231f if you conceal anything from me of all the words that he told you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:18",
"text": "So Samuel told him all the words and did not conceal anything from him. And he said, \u201cHe is Yahweh, he will do \u231ewhat is\u231f good in his \u231esight\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:19",
"text": " And Samuel grew up, and Yahweh was with him. \u231eHe did not allow any of his prophecies to go unfulfilled\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:20",
"text": "All Israel from Dan to Beersheba realized that Samuel was faithful as a prophet to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Samuel 3:21",
"text": "And Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh, for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh through the word of Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:1",
"text": " And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to meet the Philistines for battle, and they encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:2",
"text": "The Philistines lined up for the battle to meet Israel, and the battle was prolonged until Israel was defeated before the Philistines, \u231ewho\u231f killed about four thousand men \u231eon the battlefield\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:3",
"text": "When the army came back to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, \u201cWhy has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to us from Shiloh so that it may come into our midst and deliver us from the hand of our enemies.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:4",
"text": "So the army sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of hosts who sits between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:5",
"text": "Now when the ark of the covenant of Yahweh arrived at the camp, all Israel \u231elet out a loud shout\u231f so that the earth shook. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:6",
"text": " When the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, \u201cWhat is the noise of this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews?\u201d Then they learned that the ark of Yahweh had come into the camp. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:7",
"text": "So the Philistines were afraid, for they said, \u201cGod has come to the camp.\u201d And they said, \u201cWoe to us, \u231efor this has never happened before!\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:8",
"text": "Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the same gods who struck the Egyptians with all sorts of plagues in the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:9",
"text": "Take courage and be men, you Philistines, lest you end up serving the Hebrews just like they have served you. Be men and fight!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:10",
"text": "So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated and each man fled to his tent, for the slaughter was very great. Thirty thousand foot soldiers from Israel fell. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:11",
"text": "Furthermore, the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:12",
"text": " A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh that same day, and his clothes were torn and earth was on his head. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:13",
"text": "When he came, \u231ethere was\u231f Eli sitting on his chair \u231eby the side of the road\u231f watching, because his heart was anxious about the ark of God. Now the man had come \u231eto give his report\u231f in the city, and all the city cried out. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:14",
"text": "When Eli heard the noise of the outcry, he said, \u201cWhat is the noise of this commotion?\u201d Then the man \u231ecame quickly\u231f and told Eli. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:15",
"text": "Now Eli was \u231eninety-eight years old\u231f and his eyes \u231estayed fixed ahead\u231f and he was not able to see. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:16",
"text": "And the man said to Eli, \u201cI am the one who has come from the battle line! I have fled today from the battle line!\u201d And he said, \u201c\u231eWhat exactly happened\u231f, my son?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:17",
"text": "Then the messenger answered and said, \u201cIsrael has fled before the Philistines. There has been a great defeat among the troops. Also, your two sons have died, Hophni and Phinehas, and the ark of God has been captured.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:18",
"text": "Just as he mentioned the ark of God, he fell from his chair backwards against the side of the gate. He broke his neck and died, because the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:19",
"text": " Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news concerning the capture of the ark of God and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, she \u231ewent into labor\u231f and gave birth, because her labor pains came upon her. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:20",
"text": "Just before the time of her death, those \u231eattending her\u231f said, \u201cDo not fear, for you have given birth to a son.\u201d But she did not answer, or \u231epay any attention\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:21",
"text": "She called the boy Ichabod, saying, \u201cThe glory has departed from Israel,\u201d referring to the capture of the ark of God and concerning her father-in-law and husband. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Samuel 4:22",
"text": "And she said, \u201cThe glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God was captured.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:1",
"text": " Now the Philistines had captured the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:2",
"text": "Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:3",
"text": "When the Ashdodites got up early the next morning, \u231ethere was\u231f Dagon fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh! So they took Dagon and returned him to his place. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:4",
"text": "When they got up early in the morning the next day, \u231ethere was\u231f Dagon fallen again with his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh! The head of Dagon and the palms of his two hands were cut off, lying at the threshold; only the body of Dagon was left. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:5",
"text": "(Therefore the priests of Dagon and all who come into the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod until this very day.) "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:6",
"text": " Now the hand of Yahweh was heavy against the Ashdodites and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, both in Ashdod and its territories. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:7",
"text": "The men of Ashdod saw that it was so, and they said, \u201cThe ark of the God of Israel should not remain with us, because his hand is harsh on us and on Dagon our god!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:8",
"text": "So they sent and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines to them, and they asked, \u201cWhat shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?\u201d And they said, \u201cLet the ark of the God of Israel be brought around toward Gath.\u201d So they moved the ark of the God of Israel to Gath. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:9",
"text": " After they moved it, the hand of Yahweh was against the city, causing a very great confusion, and he struck the men of the city \u231efrom the youngest to the oldest\u231f, causing tumors to break out on them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:10",
"text": "So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But when the ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, \u201cThey have brought around the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our people!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:11",
"text": "So they sent and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines, and they said, \u201cSend away the ark of the God of Israel and let it return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people.\u201d For a \u231edeadly confusion\u231f was throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Samuel 5:12",
"text": "The men who did not die were struck with the tumors, so that the cry of the city for help went up to heaven. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:1",
"text": " Now the ark of Yahweh had been in the territory of the Philistines for seven months, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:2",
"text": "and the Philistines called to the priests and to those who practiced divination, saying, \u201cWhat should we do with the ark of Yahweh? Inform us how we should send it to its place.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:3",
"text": "They said, \u201cIf you are sending the ark of the God of Israel away, you must not send it away empty, but by all means return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed and it will become known to you why his hand is not turned aside from you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:4",
"text": "And they said, \u201cWhat is the guilt offering that we should return to him?\u201d They said, \u201cThe number of the rulers of the Philistines is five. Therefore send five gold tumors and five gold mice, because one plague was on all of you and all your rulers. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:5",
"text": "You must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that are ravaging the land, and you must give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will lighten his hand on you and on your gods and on your land. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:6",
"text": "Why should you harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? Is it not just like when he dealt with them wantonly so that they sent them away and they left? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:7",
"text": "So then, \u231eprepare\u231f one new utility cart and two milking cows that have never had a yoke on them, and you must harness the cows to the utility cart and then turn their calves from following them to their stall. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:8",
"text": "And you must take the ark of Yahweh and place it on the utility cart with the gold objects that you are returning to him as a guilt offering. You must place them in the container beside the ark and then send it off so that it goes away. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:9",
"text": "You must watch; if it goes up by the way of its territory to Beth Shemesh, he has caused this great disaster to come on us. But if not, then we will know his hand has not struck us; it was by chance that this happened to us. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:10",
"text": "So the men did so; they took two milking cows and harnessed them to the utility cart, but they shut up their calves in the stall. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:11",
"text": "Then they put the ark of Yahweh on the utility cart with the container holding the gold mice and the images of their tumors. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:12",
"text": "The cows went straight on the way on the road to Beth Shemesh, on the one main road, \u231elowing as they went\u231f. They did not turn aside to the right or to the left, and the rulers of the Philistines were walking after them up to the border of Beth Shemesh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:13",
"text": " Now the people of Beth Shemesh were reaping the wheat harvest in the valley. They lifted their eyes and saw the ark, and they were glad to see it. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:14",
"text": "The utility cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh and stopped there where there was a large stone. They split the wood of the utility cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:15",
"text": "Then the Levites took down the ark of Yahweh and the container that was beside it, in which were the gold objects, and they set them on the large stone. Then the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings, and they \u231emade\u231f sacrifices to Yahweh on that day. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:16",
"text": "The five rulers of the Philistines saw it and returned to Ekron that same day. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:17",
"text": " Now these are the gold tumors which the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to Yahweh: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:18",
"text": "And the gold mice according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines, for their five rulers, from the fortified city to the unwalled village of the open country as far as the great stone, \u231ewhere they set\u231f the ark of Yahweh until this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:19",
"text": "He struck seventy men among the men of Beth Shemesh because they looked into the ark of Yahweh. So the people mourned because Yahweh had struck a great blow among the people. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:20",
"text": "Then the men of Beth Shemesh asked, \u201cWho is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? And to whom shall it go up from us?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Samuel 6:21",
"text": "So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim saying, \u201cThe Philistines have returned the ark of Yahweh. Come down and take it up to yourselves.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:1",
"text": " The men of Kiriath Jearim came and brought up the ark of Yahweh, and they brought it to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah. They consecrated Eleazer his son to guard the ark of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:2",
"text": "\u231eFrom\u231f the day the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, \u231edays multiplied and became twenty years\u231f while all the house of Israel mourned after Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:3",
"text": "And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, \u201cIf with all your heart you are turning to Yahweh, remove the foreign gods and Ashtoreths from your midst. Commit your hearts to Yahweh and serve him alone. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:4",
"text": "So the \u231eIsraelites\u231f removed the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and they served Yahweh alone. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:5",
"text": " Then Samuel said, \u201cGather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:6",
"text": "So they gathered to Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before Yahweh. They fasted on that day and said there, \u201cWe have sinned against Yahweh!\u201d So Samuel judged the \u231eIsraelites\u231f at Mizpah. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:7",
"text": "Now when the Philistines heard that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f had gathered at Mizpah, the rulers of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the \u231eIsraelites\u231f heard of it, \u231ethey were afraid of the Philistines\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:8",
"text": "Then the \u231eIsraelites\u231f said to Samuel, \u201c\u231eYou must not cease\u231f from crying out to Yahweh our God, so that he will deliver us from the hand of the Philistines.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:9",
"text": "So Samuel took a single \u231enursing lamb\u231f and sacrificed it as a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Then Samuel cried out to Yahweh on behalf of Israel, and Yahweh answered him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:10",
"text": "\u231eWhile\u231f Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near for the battle against Israel. But Yahweh thundered against the Philistines with a great noise on that day and threw them into confusion so that they were defeated before Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:11",
"text": "Then the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and they struck them down as far as below Beth Car. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:12",
"text": " So Samuel took a single stone and put it between Mizpah and Shen, and he named it Ebenezer and said, \u201cUp to here Yahweh has helped us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:13",
"text": "So the Philistines were subdued and they did not come into the territory of Israel again, and the hand of Yahweh was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:14",
"text": "The towns which the Philistines had taken from Israel were returned to Israel from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered their territories from the hand of the Philistines. Then there was peace between Israel and the Amorites. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:15",
"text": " Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:16",
"text": "He used to go on the circuit \u231efrom year to year\u231f. He went around Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and he judged Israel in all these places. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Samuel 7:17",
"text": "Then \u231ehe returned\u231f to Ramah, because his house was there, and there he judged Israel, and he built an altar to Yahweh there. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:1",
"text": " When Samuel grew old he appointed his sons as judges over Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:2",
"text": "The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second son was Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:3",
"text": "But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after gain, they took bribes, and they perverted justice. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:4",
"text": " So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:5",
"text": "They said to him, \u201cLook, you are old and your sons do not follow in your ways. So then appoint a king for us to judge us, like all the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:6",
"text": "But the matter \u231ewas displeasing to Samuel\u231f when they said, \u201cGive us a king to judge us,\u201d so Samuel prayed to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:7",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to Samuel, \u201cListen to the voice of the people concerning all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:8",
"text": "Like all the deeds they have done from the day I brought them up from Egypt until this day, they have forsaken me and have served other gods\u2014so they are doing to you also. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:9",
"text": "And so then, listen to their voice. However, you must earnestly warn them; you must explain to them the custom of the king who will rule over them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:10",
"text": " So Samuel spoke all the words of Yahweh to the people who were requesting a king from him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:11",
"text": "He said, \u201cThis will be the custom of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and his horsemen, and they will run before his chariots. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:12",
"text": "He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and those \u231eto do his plowing\u231f and to reap his harvest, and those to make weapons of war and the equipment for his chariots. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:13",
"text": "He will take your daughters as his perfume makers and as cooks and as bakers. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:14",
"text": "He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive trees and will give them to his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:15",
"text": "He will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give it to his high officials and to his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:16",
"text": "He will take your male slaves and your female slaves and the best of your young men and your donkeys and \u231ewill use them for his projects\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:17",
"text": "He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:18",
"text": "So you will cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but Yahweh will not answer you on that day!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:19",
"text": "However, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel and they said, \u201cNo, but there must be a king over us, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:20",
"text": "so that we \u231ealso\u231f may be like all the nations, and our king may rule us and go out before us and fight our battles.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:21",
"text": " Now when Samuel heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Samuel 8:22",
"text": "Then Yahweh said to Samuel, \u201cListen to their voice, and appoint a king for them.\u201d So Samuel spoke to the men of Israel, \u201cEach of you go to his own town.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:1",
"text": " Now there was a man from Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjaminite, \u231ea very wealthy man\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:2",
"text": "He had a son whose name was Saul, a young and handsome man. There was not a man from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f more handsome than he was; from his shoulders up, he was taller than all the people. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:3",
"text": " Now the female donkeys of Kish the father of Saul got lost, and Kish said to Saul his son, \u201cPlease take one of the servants with you and get up; go and seek the female donkeys.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:4",
"text": "So he passed through the hill country of Ephraim; he passed through the land of Shalisha but they did not find them. They passed through the land of Shaalim but they were not there. He passed through the land of Benjamin but did not find them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:5",
"text": " When they entered the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, \u201cCome, let us return, lest my father cease caring about the female donkeys and worry about us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:6",
"text": "But he said to him, \u201cLook, a man of God is in this town, and the man is honored. All that he says certainly comes true. So then let us go there; perhaps he will tell us about our journey on which we have gone.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:7",
"text": "So Saul said to his servant, \u201cLook, we may go, but what should we bring to the man? For the bread is gone from our bags, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have with us?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:8",
"text": "The servant again answered Saul and said, \u201cLook, \u231eI have\u231f in my hand a quarter shekel of silver! I will give it to the man of God so that he will tell us our way.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:9",
"text": "(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he would say: \u201cCome, let us go up to the seer.\u201d For the prophet of today was formerly called a seer.) "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:10",
"text": "So Saul said to his servant, \u201c\u231eYour suggestion is a good one\u231f. Come, let us go.\u201d And they went to the town where the man of God was. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:11",
"text": " They were going up the ascent of the town when they found young women going out to draw water. They said to them, \u201cIs there the seer here?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:12",
"text": "They answered them and said, \u201cThere is. Look, he is just in front of you! Hurry now, because he has come to the town today, because there is a sacrifice for the people today at the high place. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:13",
"text": "As soon as you enter the town, you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice. Then afterward the invited guests will eat. So then, go up, because you will find him today!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:14",
"text": "So they went up to the town. As they were entering into the middle of the town, Samuel was coming forth to meet them, to go up to the high place. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:15",
"text": " Now Yahweh \u231ehad revealed this to\u231f Samuel the day before Saul arrived, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:16",
"text": "\u201cThis time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you must anoint him as leader over my people Israel. He will deliver my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen the suffering of my people, because their cry of distress has come to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:17",
"text": "When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh answered him, \u201cHere is the man about whom I told you! This is the one who will govern my people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:18",
"text": " Then Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate and said, \u201cPlease tell me, where is the house of the seer?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:19",
"text": "Samuel answered Saul and said, \u201cI am the seer. Go up \u231eahead of me\u231f to the high place, and you will eat with me today; then I will send you away in the morning. I will tell you all that is \u231eon your mind\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:20",
"text": "And as for your female donkeys that were lost \u231ethree days ago\u231f, \u231edo not be concerned about them\u231f, because they have been found. For whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not for you and for all the house of your father?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:21",
"text": " Saul answered and said, \u201cAm I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the humblest of all the families of the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me \u231ein this way\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:22",
"text": "So Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them to a room in the building and gave them a place at the head of \u231ethe invited guests\u231f. There were about thirty men. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:23",
"text": "Then Samuel said to the cook, \u201cBring the portion that I gave to you, about which I said to you, \u2018Keep it with you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:24",
"text": "So the cook took up the shank and what was on it and put it before Saul, and he said, \u201cLook, \u231ethe saved portion\u231f is placed \u231ebefore you\u231f\u2014eat, because it has been kept for you for the appointed time,\u201d \u231eand he said\u231f, \u201cI have invited the people.\u201d So Saul ate with Samuel that day. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:25",
"text": " When they came down from the high place to the town, he spoke with Saul on the roof. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:26",
"text": "They got up early, \u231eand as dawn was breaking\u231f, Samuel called to Saul on the roof, saying, \u201cGet up, so that I can send you away.\u201d So Saul got up and the two of them, he and Samuel, went outside. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Samuel 9:27",
"text": "As they were going down to the outskirts of the town, Samuel said to Saul, \u201cTell the servant to pass on before us. When he has passed, you stand here \u231ea while\u231f, so that I can make known to you the word of God.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:1",
"text": " Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it over his head and kissed him and said, \u201c\u231eHas not\u231f Yahweh anointed you as leader over his inheritance? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:2",
"text": "As you go from with me \u231etoday\u231f, you will find two men near the burial site of Rachel in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will say to you, \u2018The female donkeys that you went to search for have been found.\u2019 Now look, your father \u231eis no longer concerned about\u231f the female donkeys and has begun worrying about you, saying, \u2018What should I do about my son?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:3",
"text": "Then you will go on from there and further you will come to the oak of Tabor. There three men will meet you, who are going up to God at Bethel. One will be carrying three male kid goats, one will be carrying three loaves of bread, and one will be carrying a skin of wine. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:4",
"text": "\u231eThey will ask how you are doing\u231f and will give you two loaves, which you will take from their hand. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:5",
"text": "After this, you will come to the Gibeah of God, where there are sentries of the Philistines. \u231eJust as you enter\u231f the town there, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place, with harp, tambourine, flute, and zither before them, and they will be prophesying. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:6",
"text": "Then the Spirit of Yahweh will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them; and you will turn into \u231ea different person\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:7",
"text": "When these signs come to you, do for yourself what your hand finds to do, for God will be with you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:8",
"text": "Then you will go down before me to Gilgal. Look, I am coming down to you to offer burnt offerings \u231eand to make\u231f fellowship offerings. You must wait seven days until I come to you. Then I will let you know what you should do.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:9",
"text": "\u231eJust as he turned\u231f his shoulder to depart from Samuel, God \u231echanged his\u231f heart. And all these signs were fulfilled on that day. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:10",
"text": " When they went from there to Gibeah, a procession of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:11",
"text": "\u231eAnd when\u231f all who knew him \u231eformerly\u231f saw that he prophesied with prophets, the people said to one another, \u201cWhat is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:12",
"text": "And a man from there responded and said, \u201cAnd who is their father?\u201d Therefore it became a proverb: \u201cIs Saul also among the prophets?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:13",
"text": "When he finished prophesying, he went to the high place. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:14",
"text": "Then Saul\u2019s uncle said to him and to his servant, \u201cWhere did you go?\u201d And he said, \u201cTo search for the female donkeys; and when we saw none, we went to Samuel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:15",
"text": "So Saul\u2019s uncle said to him, \u201cPlease tell me, what did Samuel say to you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:16",
"text": "Then Saul said to his uncle, \u201cHe told us for certain that the female donkeys had been found.\u201d But he did not tell him about the matter of the kingship of which Samuel had spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:17",
"text": " Then Samuel summoned the people to Yahweh at Mizpah, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:18",
"text": "and he said to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u201cThus says Yahweh the God of Israel: \u2018I brought Israel up from Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:19",
"text": "But you today have rejected your God who always delivers you from all of your calamities and your distresses. You have said to him, \u2018No, but you must appoint a king over us!\u2019 So then present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes and by your clans.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:20",
"text": " So Samuel brought near all the tribes of Israel, and the tribe of Benjamin was selected by lot. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:21",
"text": "Then he brought near the tribe of Benjamin according to its families, and the family of Matri was selected by lot. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen, and they sought him, but he could not be found. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:22",
"text": "So they inquired again of Yahweh, \u201c\u231eDid the man come here\u231f?\u201d And Yahweh said, \u201cLook, he is hiding himself among the baggage.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:23",
"text": "So they ran and took him from there, and when he took his stand among the people, he was taller than all the people from his shoulders and up. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:24",
"text": "Then Samuel said to all the people, \u201cDo you see him whom Yahweh has chosen? For there is no one like him among all the people!\u201d And all the people shouted and said, \u201cLong live the king!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:25",
"text": " Then Samuel told the people the custom of the kingship, and he wrote the rules down on a scroll and laid it before Yahweh. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each to his own house. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:26",
"text": "And Saul also went to his house at Gibeah, and the troops whose hearts God had touched went with him. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Samuel 10:27",
"text": "However, some \u231eworthless men\u231f said, \u201cHow can this man deliver us?\u201d So they despised him and brought no gift to him, but he kept silent. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:1",
"text": " Now Nahash the Ammonite went up and encamped against Jabesh Gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, \u201c\u231eMake a treaty with us\u231f and we will serve you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:2",
"text": "But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, \u201cOn this condition \u231eI will make a treaty\u231f with you, by gouging out the right eye of each of you, so that I can make it a disgrace for all Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:3",
"text": "So the elders of Jabesh said to him, \u201cLeave us alone for seven days so that we may send messengers in all the territory of Israel, and if there is no deliverer for us, then we will come out to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:4",
"text": "When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, \u231ethey reported these things to\u231f the people. Then all the people lifted up their voices and wept. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:5",
"text": "\u231eJust then\u231f, Saul was coming from the field behind the cattle. Saul said, \u201cWhat is the matter with the people, that they are weeping?\u201d So they recounted to him the words of the men of Jabesh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:6",
"text": " Then the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and \u231ehe became very angry\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:7",
"text": "So he took a yoke of oxen and cut them into pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, \u201cWhoever is not going out after Saul and after Samuel, so will it be done to his oxen.\u201d Then the fear of Yahweh fell on the people and they went out as one man. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:8",
"text": "He mustered them at Bezek; the \u231eIsraelites\u231f were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah were thirty thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:9",
"text": "They said to the messengers who had come, \u201cThus you will say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: \u2018Tomorrow deliverance for you will come \u231ewhen the sun is hot\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh, they rejoiced. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:10",
"text": "The men of Jabesh said, \u201cTomorrow we will come out to you and you may do to us \u231ewhatever seems good to you\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:11",
"text": "\u231eAnd the\u231f next day Saul placed the people in three divisions. Then they came into the middle of the camp \u231eat the early morning watch\u231f and struck down \u231ethe Ammonites\u231f until the heat of the day. It happened that the remainder were scattered \u231eso that no two among them remained together\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:12",
"text": "Then the people said to Samuel, \u201cWho is the one who asked, \u2018Will Saul reign over us?\u2019 Give the men to us that we may kill them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:13",
"text": "But Saul said, \u201cNo one will be put to death on this day, because \u231etoday\u231f Yahweh has provided deliverance in Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:14",
"text": " Then Samuel said to the people, \u201cCome, let us go to Gilgal, and let us renew the kingship there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Samuel 11:15",
"text": "So all the people went to Gilgal and they made Saul king there before Yahweh in Gilgal. They sacrificed fellowship offerings there before Yahweh. Then Saul rejoiced there greatly along with all the men of Israel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:1",
"text": " Then Samuel said to all Israel, \u201cLook, I have listened to your voice regarding all that you have said to me, so I have set a king over you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:2",
"text": "And so then here is the king walking about before you. Now I am old and gray, but my sons (look at them!) are with you; and I have walked about before you from my youth until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:3",
"text": "Here I am! Testify against me before Yahweh and before his anointed one! Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I exploited? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, that I may shut my eyes \u231eregarding\u231f him?\u2013then I will restore it to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:4",
"text": "Then they said, \u201cYou have not exploited us or oppressed us, and you have not taken anything from the hand of anyone.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:5",
"text": "So he said to them, \u201cYahweh is witness against you, and his anointed one is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.\u201d Then they said, \u201cHe is witness.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:6",
"text": "Then Samuel said to the people, \u201cYahweh is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your ancestors up from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:7",
"text": "So then take your stand, so that I may judge you before Yahweh with regard to all the deeds of justice of Yahweh that he performed with both you and your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:8",
"text": " \u201cWhen Jacob came to Egypt, your ancestors cried out to Yahweh, so he sent Moses and Aaron, and they brought your ancestors out from Egypt and settled them in this place. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:9",
"text": "But they forgot Yahweh their God, so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the hosts of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:10",
"text": "So they cried out to Yahweh and said, \u2018We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh and have served the Baals and the Ashtoreths. But now deliver us from the hand of our enemies and we will serve you!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:11",
"text": "So Yahweh sent Jerub-Baal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel. Then he delivered you from the hand of your enemies all around, and you lived in security. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:12",
"text": " \u201cAnd when you saw that Nahash, the king of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, was coming against you, you said to me, \u2018No! A king shall reign over us,\u2019 although Yahweh your God is your king. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:13",
"text": "So then look! Here is the king you have chosen, for whom you have asked! Look, Yahweh has placed a king over you! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:14",
"text": "If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not be rebellious against \u231ewhat Yahweh says\u231f, and both you and the king who rules over you will follow after Yahweh your God, all will be well. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:15",
"text": "But, if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you rebel against \u231ewhat Yahweh says\u231f, then the hand of Yahweh will be against you as it was against your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:16",
"text": "So then take your stand again and see this great thing that Yahweh is going to do before your eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:17",
"text": "Is the wheat harvest not today? I will call out to Yahweh so that he still sends thunder and rain, so that you will know and will see that your wickedness is great that you have done in the eyes of Yahweh by asking for a king for yourselves.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:18",
"text": " So Samuel called out to Yahweh, and Yahweh brought thunder and rain that same day, so all the people feared Yahweh and Samuel greatly. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:19",
"text": "Then all the people said to Samuel, \u201cPray for your servants to Yahweh your God so that we will not die, because we have added to all our sins by requesting a king for ourselves.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:20",
"text": "And Samuel said to the people, \u201cDo not fear! You have done all this evil; only do not turn aside from \u231efollowing\u231f Yahweh. But you must serve Yahweh with all your heart. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:21",
"text": "And do not turn aside after the triviality, which have no value and cannot deliver, for they are triviality. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:22",
"text": "For Yahweh will not forsake his people for the sake of his great name, because Yahweh has decided to make you his own people. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:23",
"text": "Also, as for me, far be it from me \u231ethat I should sin\u231f against Yahweh by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the good and righteous way. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:24",
"text": "Only fear Yahweh and serve him faithfully with all of your heart. For consider \u231ewhat great things he has done for you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Samuel 12:25",
"text": "But if you continue to do wickedness, both you and your king will be swept away.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:1",
"text": " Saul was thirty \u231eyears old\u231f at the beginning of his reign, and he reigned forty-two years over Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:2",
"text": "He chose for himself three thousand from Israel. Two thousand of these were with Saul at Micmash in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. He sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:3",
"text": "Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, \u201cLet the Hebrews hear!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:4",
"text": "And all Israel did hear, saying, \u201cSaul has defeated the garrison of the Philistines; and also, Israel has become a stench among the Philistines!\u201d So the people were called out after Saul at Gilgal. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:5",
"text": " And the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and an army as numerous as sand which is on the seashore. And they came up and encamped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:6",
"text": " When the men of Israel saw that it was \u231etoo difficult\u231f for them, because the army was hard pressed, the people hid themselves in the caves, in the thorn bushes, in the cliffs, in the vaults and in the wells. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:7",
"text": "Some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. But Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the army \u231efollowed him trembling\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:8",
"text": "He waited seven days according to the appointed time Samuel determined, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and \u231ethe army started to slip away from him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:9",
"text": "So Saul said, \u201cBring here to me the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings.\u201d Then he offered up the burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:10",
"text": "\u231eJust as\u231f he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Samuel was coming. So Saul went out to meet him and to bless him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:11",
"text": "But Samuel said, \u201cWhat have you done?\u201d Saul said, \u201cBecause I saw that the army \u231ewas scattering\u231f from me and you did not come \u231eat the appointed time\u231f and that the Philistines had gathered at Micmash, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:12",
"text": "therefore I said, \u2018Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not yet implored the face of Yahweh.\u2019 So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:13",
"text": " Then Samuel said to Saul, \u201cYou have behaved foolishly! You have not kept the command of Yahweh your God which he commanded you. For then, Yahweh would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:14",
"text": "But now, your kingdom will not endure. Yahweh has sought for himself a man according to his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him as leader over his people, because you have not kept what Yahweh commanded you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:15",
"text": " Then Samuel got up and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul mustered the people who were found with him, about six hundred men. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:16",
"text": "Saul and Jonathan his son and the army that remained with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin, and the Philistines encamped at Micmash. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:17",
"text": "The \u231eraiders\u231f went out from the camp of the Philistines in three divisions. One division turned on the road to Ophrah toward the land of Shual. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:18",
"text": "One division turned on the road to Beth Horon, and one turned on the road toward the border overlooking the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:19",
"text": " Now no skilled craftsman could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, \u201cSo that the Hebrews cannot make swords or spears for themselves.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:20",
"text": "So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to have his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his iron plowshare sharpened. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:21",
"text": "The charge was \u231etwo-thirds of a shekel\u231f for the plowshare and for the mattock, and \u231ea third of a shekel for the pick\u231f and for the axe, and to set the goading sticks. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:22",
"text": "\u231eSo\u231f on the day of battle, there was not a sword or a spear found in the hands of all the army that was with Saul and Jonathan, but \u231eSaul and his son Jonathan had them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Samuel 13:23",
"text": "Now the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Micmash. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:1",
"text": " \u231eOne day\u231f Jonathan the son of Saul said to \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f, \u201cCome and let us go over to the garrison of the Philistines which is over there.\u201d But he did not tell his father. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:2",
"text": "Now Saul was staying at the outskirts of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree that was in Migron, and the troops that were with him were about six hundred men. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:3",
"text": "Now Ahijah, the son of Ahitub (the brother of Ichabod), the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of Yahweh at Shiloh, was carrying an ephod. The troops did not know that Jonathan had gone. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:4",
"text": "Now between the passes where Jonathan sought to go over to the garrison of the Philistines there was a crag of rock \u231eon one side\u231f and a crag of rock \u231eon the other\u231f. The name of the one was Bozez and the name of the other was Seneh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:5",
"text": "The one crag on the north was opposite Micmash and the other on the south was opposite Geba. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:6",
"text": "So Jonathan said to \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f, \u201cCome, let us go over to the garrisons of these uncircumcised; perhaps Yahweh will act for us, for there is no hindrance for Yahweh to save by many or by few.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:7",
"text": "And \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f said, \u201cDo all that is in your heart \u231ethat you are inclined to do\u231f. \u231eI am with you all of the way\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:8",
"text": "Then Jonathan said, \u201cLook, we are about to go over to the men; and we will show ourselves to them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:9",
"text": "If they say to us: \u2018Wait until we reach you,\u2019 \u231ethen we will stand as we are\u231f and not go up to them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:10",
"text": "But if they say, \u2018Come up to us,\u2019 then we will go up, for Yahweh has given them into our hand, and this will be the sign for us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:11",
"text": "So the two of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, \u201cThe Hebrews are coming out from the holes in which they have hidden themselves.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:12",
"text": "Then the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f, \u201cCome up to us and we will show you something!\u201d Then Jonathan said to \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f, \u201cCome up after me, for Yahweh has given them into the hand of Israel!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:13",
"text": "So Jonathan went up on his hands and his feet, with \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f after him. They fell before Jonathan and then \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f would kill them after him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:14",
"text": "So was the first attack in which Jonathan and \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f killed about twenty men within about half of a furrow in an acre of an open field. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:15",
"text": "Then there was terror in the camp, in the open field, and among all the army of the garrison. Even the \u231eraiders\u231f trembled. The earth shook, and it became \u231ea very great panic\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:16",
"text": " And the lookouts of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin saw \u231ethat\u231f the multitude \u231esurged back and forth\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:17",
"text": "Saul said to the troops that were with him, \u201cPlease call the roll and see who has gone from us.\u201d So they called the roll \u231eand found that\u231f Jonathan and \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f were not present. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:18",
"text": "Then Saul said to Ahijah, \u201cBring near the ark of God\u201d (for the ark of God was \u231eat that time\u231f with the \u231eIsraelites\u231f). "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:19",
"text": "While Saul was still speaking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines \u231eincreased more and more\u231f, so Saul said to the priest, \u201cWithdraw your hand!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:20",
"text": "Then Saul and all the troops who were with him were assembled on command and came up to the battle, and look! Each Philistine\u2019s sword was against his friend; and there was a very great confusion. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:21",
"text": "The Hebrews who had been for the Philistines \u231epreviously\u231f, who had gone up with them into the camp all around, even they \u231ejoined the Israelites\u231f who were with Saul and Jonathan. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:22",
"text": "All the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, so even they pursued them closely in the battle. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:23",
"text": "So on that day Yahweh delivered Israel, and the battle shifted to Beth Aven. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:24",
"text": " Now the men of Israel were hard pressed on that day, because Saul had made the army take an oath, saying, \u201cCursed be the man who eats any food until evening, when I will have avenged myself on my enemies!\u201d So none of the army tasted any food. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:25",
"text": "(Now all the people of the land used to go into the forest, for there was honey on the surface of the ground.) "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:26",
"text": "When the army came to the forest, look! There was honey flowing, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the army was afraid of the solemn oath. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:27",
"text": " However, Jonathan had not heard about the oath of his father with the army, so he extended the end of the staff which was in his hand, and he dipped it into the honeycomb. Then he put his hand to his mouth and his eyes gleamed. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:28",
"text": "Then a man from the army informed him and said, \u201cYour father made the army swear a solemn oath, saying, \u2018Cursed be the man who eats food today,\u2019\u00a0\u201d so the army is exhausted. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:29",
"text": "Then Jonathan said, \u201cMy father has brought trouble on the land! See now that my eyes have brightened because I have tasted a little of this honey. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:30",
"text": "\u231eHow much more could have been done\u231f if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder of their enemies that they had found! For now the loss among the Philistines is not great.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:31",
"text": "They defeated the Philistines that day from Micmash to Aijalon, and the troops were very weary. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:32",
"text": " Then the troops took the plunder: they took sheep and cattle and \u231ecalves\u231f and slaughtered them on the ground and the troops ate them all with the blood. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:33",
"text": "So they reported it to Saul, saying, \u201cLook! The troops are sinning against Yahweh by eating the animals with the blood!\u201d And he said, \u201cYou have dealt treacherously! Roll to me a large stone \u231etoday\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:34",
"text": "Then Saul said, \u201cDisperse yourselves among the troops and say to them, \u2018Bring to me each one his ox and each his sheep and slaughter them in this place and eat, but do not sin against Yahweh by eating the animals with the blood.\u2019\u00a0\u201d So all the troops brought them, each leading his ox in his hand that night, and slaughtered it there. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:35",
"text": " Then Saul built an altar to Yahweh; \u231eit was the first altar he built\u231f to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:36",
"text": "Saul said, \u201cLet us go down after the Philistines by night, and let us plunder them until the morning light, and let us not leave alive a man among them.\u201d So they said, \u201cDo all that is good in your eyes.\u201d But the priest said, \u201cLet us draw near to God here.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:37",
"text": "So Saul inquired of God, \u201cShould I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?\u201d But he did not answer him on that day. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:38",
"text": "Then Saul said, \u201cCome here, all you leaders of the people, \u231eso that we find out\u231f what the sin was this day. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:39",
"text": "For as Yahweh lives, who delivers Israel, I swear that even if it is in Jonathan my son, \u231ehe will certainly die\u231f!\u201d But nobody from all the army answered him. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:40",
"text": "Then he said to all Israel, \u201cYou will be \u231eon one side\u231f, and I and my son Jonathan will be \u231eon the other\u231f.\u201d And the army said to Saul, \u201cDo what is good in your eyes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:41",
"text": "Then Saul said to Yahweh the God of Israel, \u201c\u231eRender a decision perfectly\u231f.\u201d Jonathan and Saul were chosen by lot and the people went out. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:42",
"text": "Then Saul said, \u201cLet them cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan,\u201d and Jonathan was chosen. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:43",
"text": "So Saul said, \u201cTell me what you have done.\u201d So Jonathan told him and said, \u201cI \u231emerely tasted\u231f a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am, I must die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:44",
"text": "Then Saul said, \u201cSo may God do to me and \u231emore\u231f, you will certainly die today, Jonathan!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:45",
"text": "But the army said to Saul, \u201cMust Jonathan die, who accomplished this great victory in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, not a hair from his head will fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.\u201d So the army ransomed Jonathan and he did not die. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:46",
"text": " Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their place. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:47",
"text": "So Saul took the kingship over Israel, and he fought all around against his enemies, against Moab, against the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. He inflicted punishment against all who rebelled. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:48",
"text": "He acted bravely and defeated the Amalekites and rescued Israel from the hand of those who plundered it. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:49",
"text": " Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malki-Shua; the names of his two daughters were as follows: the name of the firstborn was Merab and the younger was Michal. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:50",
"text": "The name of Saul\u2019s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz, and the name of the commander of his army was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul\u2019s uncle. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:51",
"text": "Now Kish was the father of Saul, but Ner, the father of Abner, was the son of Abiel. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Samuel 14:52",
"text": " Warfare was severe against the Philistines all the days of Saul. Whenever Saul saw \u231eanyone who was a mighty warrior\u231f or \u231eany brave man\u231f, he \u231econscripted him into his service\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:1",
"text": " Then Samuel said to Saul, \u201cYahweh sent me to anoint you as king over his people Israel. So then, \u231elisten to the words\u231f of Yahweh! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:2",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018I have observed what Amalek did to Israel, \u231ehow he opposed him\u231f when he went up from Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:3",
"text": "So then, go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that is his! You must not spare him, but kill both man and woman, both child and nursing infant, both ox and sheep, both camel and donkey.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:4",
"text": " Saul summoned the army and mustered them at Telaim; two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:5",
"text": "Then Saul came up to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the wadi. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:6",
"text": "Saul said to the Kenites, \u201cGo, leave! Withdraw from among the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you with them. You have shown loyal love to all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f when they came up from Egypt.\u201d So the Kenites left from among the Amalekites. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:7",
"text": "Then Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as one goes to Shur which is \u231eeast of\u231f Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:8",
"text": "He captured Agag the king of Amalek alive, but all the people he utterly destroyed with the \u231eedge\u231f of the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:9",
"text": "However, Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and the cattle and the second best of the young fatlings and \u231eall that was valuable\u231f; they were not willing to utterly destroy them. But all the possessions that were despised or worthless, they utterly destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:10",
"text": " Then the word of Yahweh came to Samuel, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:11",
"text": "\u201cI regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not kept my word.\u201d \u231eSamuel became angry\u231f, and he cried out to Yahweh all night. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:12",
"text": "Then Samuel got up early in the morning to meet Saul. Samuel was told, \u201cSaul has gone to Carmel, and look, he is setting up a monument for himself.\u201d Then he turned around and crossed over and went down to Gilgal. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:13",
"text": " When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him, \u201cMay you be blessed by Yahweh! I have kept the word of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:14",
"text": "But Samuel said, \u201cThen what is this bleating of the sheep that I hear in my ears and the lowing of the cattle that I am hearing?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:15",
"text": "Saul said, \u201cThey have brought them from the Amalekites; the troops spared the best of the sheep and the cattle in order to sacrifice them to Yahweh your God. But the rest we have utterly destroyed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:16",
"text": "Then Samuel said to Saul, \u201cStop and let me tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.\u201d So he said to him, \u201cSpeak.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:17",
"text": " Samuel said, \u201cEven though you are small in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh has anointed you as king over Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:18",
"text": "When Yahweh sent you on your way, he said to you: \u2018Go! You must utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and you must fight against them until you have destroyed them.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:19",
"text": "Why did you not listen to the voice of Yahweh and fall with shouting on the plunder? You have done evil in the sight of Yahweh!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:20",
"text": "Then Saul said to Samuel, \u201cI have listened to the voice of Yahweh, and I have gone on the way that Yahweh sent me! I brought Agag the king of Amalek, and the Amalekites I have utterly destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:21",
"text": "The troops took from the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God at Gilgal.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:22",
"text": " Then Samuel said, \u201cIs there as much delight for Yahweh in burnt offerings and sacrifices as there is in \u231eobeying\u231f Yahweh? Look! \u231eTo obey\u231f is better than sacrifice; to give heed than the fat of rams. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:23",
"text": " For rebellion is like the sin of divination; arrogance is like iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has rejected you from being king!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:24",
"text": " Then Saul said to Samuel, \u201cI have sinned because I have transgressed \u231ethe commandment of Yahweh\u231f and your words, for I feared the troops and I listened to their voice. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:25",
"text": "So then, please pardon my sin and return with me \u231eso that I can worship\u231f Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:26",
"text": "But Samuel said to Saul, \u201cI will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and he has rejected you from being king over Israel!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:27",
"text": " As Samuel turned around to go, he caught hold of the hem of his robe, and it tore. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:28",
"text": "Then Samuel said to him, \u201cYahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor \u231ewho is better than you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:29",
"text": "Moreover, the Glory of Israel will not break faith and will not regret, for he is not a human that he should regret.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:30",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cI have sinned! Now please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me \u231eso that I can worship\u231f Yahweh your God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:31",
"text": "So Samuel returned after Saul, and Saul \u231eworshiped\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:32",
"text": " Then Samuel said, \u201cBring Agag the king of Amalek out to me!\u201d Agag came to him confidently, for Agag thought, \u201cSurely the bitterness of death \u231eis over\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:33",
"text": " Samuel said, \u201cJust as your sword bereaved women, so will your mother be bereaved among women!\u201d Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces in the presence of Yahweh at Gilgal. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:34",
"text": " Then Samuel went to Ramah and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Samuel 15:35",
"text": "Samuel \u231edid not see Saul again\u231f until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned over Saul, and Yahweh regretted that he made Saul king over Israel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to Samuel, \u201c\u231eHow long\u231f will you mourn about Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel! Fill up your horn with oil and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen a king for myself among his sons.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:2",
"text": "But Samuel said, \u201cHow can I go? If Saul hears, he will kill me.\u201d Yahweh said, \u201cYou must take a heifer from the herd \u231ewith you\u231f, and you must say, \u2018I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:3",
"text": "You will invite Jesse to the sacrifice and I will make known to you what you must do. You will anoint for me the one whom I tell you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:4",
"text": " So Samuel did what Yahweh said. He came to Bethlehem, and the elders of the city came trembling to meet him. They said, \u201c\u231eHave you come in peace\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:5",
"text": "He said, \u201cI come in peace. I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.\u201d So he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:6",
"text": " \u231eWhen they came\u231f, he saw Eliab and said, \u201cSurely his anointed one is before Yahweh!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:7",
"text": "But Yahweh said to Samuel, \u201cDo not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For God does not see what man sees, for a man \u231elooks on the outward appearance\u231f, but Yahweh \u231elooks on the heart\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:8",
"text": "Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel, and he said, \u201cThis one also Yahweh has not chosen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:9",
"text": "So Jesse made Shammah pass before Samuel, but he said, \u201cYahweh also has not chosen this one.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:10",
"text": "And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to Jesse, \u201cYahweh has not chosen any of these.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:11",
"text": " Then Samuel said to Jesse, \u201c\u231eAre all the young men here\u231f?\u201d And he said, \u201cThe youngest still remains, but look, he is shepherding the flock.\u201d And Samuel said to Jesse, \u201cSend and bring him, for we cannot \u231esit down\u231f until he comes here.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:12",
"text": "So he sent and brought him. Now he was ruddy with beautiful eyes and of \u231ehandsome\u231f appearance. And Yahweh said, \u201cArise, anoint him, for this is he.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:13",
"text": "So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. Then the Spirit of Yahweh rushed upon David from that day \u231eon\u231f. Then Samuel got up and went to Ramah. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:14",
"text": " Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul and an evil spirit from Yahweh tormented him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:15",
"text": "So the servants of Saul said to him, \u201cLook please, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:16",
"text": "Please, let our lord command your servants who are before you! Let them seek a man skilled in playing on the lyre. \u231eWhen\u231f the evil spirit from God is upon you, he can play \u231eon it\u231f and \u231eyou will feel better\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:17",
"text": "So Saul said to his servants, \u201cPlease select a man \u231ewho plays a stringed instrument well\u231f and bring him to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:18",
"text": " One of the servants answered and said, \u201cLook, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing a stringed instrument, a \u231ebrave man, a warrior, prudent in speech, and handsome\u231f. And Yahweh is with him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:19",
"text": "So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, \u201cSend me David your son who is with the sheep.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:20",
"text": "And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a skin of wine and one \u231eyoung goat\u231f and sent them to Saul by the hand of David his son. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:21",
"text": "So David came to Saul and \u231eentered his service\u231f. He loved him greatly and \u231ehe became Saul\u2019s armor bearer\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:22",
"text": "Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, \u201cPlease let David stand before me, because he has found favor \u231ein my sight\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Samuel 16:23",
"text": "So whenever the evil spirit from God came to Saul, David would take the stringed instrument and play it with his hand. Then \u231eit would bring relief\u231f for Saul; \u231ehe would feel better\u231f and the evil spirit would depart from him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:1",
"text": " The Philistines gathered their camps for battle and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah. They camped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes Dammim. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:2",
"text": "Then Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and encamped in the valley of Elah, and they formed ranks for the battle to meet the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:3",
"text": "The Philistines were standing on the hill on one side and the army of Israel was standing on the hill on the other side with the valley between them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:4",
"text": "Then \u231ea champion\u231f went out from the camps of the Philistines, whose name was Goliath from Gath. His height was six cubits and a span. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:5",
"text": "A bronze helmet was on his head, and he was clothed with scale body armor; the weight of the body armor was five thousand bronze shekels. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:6",
"text": "Bronze greaves were on his legs, and a bronze javelin was slung between his shoulders. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:7",
"text": "The shaft of his spear was like a weaver\u2019s beam and the point of his spear weighed six hundred iron shekels. \u231eHis shield bearer\u231f was walking in front of him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:8",
"text": " He stood and called to the battle lines of Israel and said to them, \u201cWhy have you come out to form ranks for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Commission for yourselves a man and let him come down to me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:9",
"text": "If he is able to fight with me and he defeats me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail over him and defeat him, then you will be our servants and you will serve us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:10",
"text": "Then the Philistine said, \u201cI hereby defy the battle lines of Israel today! Give me a man so that we may fight each other!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:11",
"text": "When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and very afraid. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:12",
"text": " Now David was the son of an Ephrathite. This man was from Bethlehem of Judah, and his name was Jesse. \u231eHe had\u231f eight sons; in the days of Saul this man was old, yet he still walked among the men. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:13",
"text": "The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone and \u231efollowed\u231f Saul to the battle. The names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, his second oldest was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:14",
"text": "Now David was the youngest. The three oldest \u231efollowed\u231f Saul, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:15",
"text": "but David went \u231eback and forth\u231f from Saul to feed the sheep of his father in Bethlehem. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:16",
"text": "Now the Philistine came forward early and late, and he took his stand for forty days. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:17",
"text": " Then Jesse said to his son David, \u201cPlease take for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and bring them quickly to the camp for your brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:18",
"text": "And these ten portions of cheese you will bring to the commander of the thousand; \u231efind out how your brothers are doing\u231f, and take their pledge.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:19",
"text": "Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah fighting the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:20",
"text": " David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and he took the provisions and went as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the encampment while the troops were going to the battle line, and they raised the war cry. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:21",
"text": "Israel and the Philistines drew up in battle lines, \u231eone battle line against the other\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:22",
"text": "David left the baggage he had with him in the \u231ecare\u231f of the baggage keeper, ran to the battle line, and came and \u231easked how his brothers were doing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:23",
"text": "While he was speaking to them, \u231ethe champion\u231f, whose name was Goliath the Philistine from Gath, was coming up from the caves of the Philistines. He spoke \u231ejust as he had previously\u231f, and David heard his words. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:24",
"text": "When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from his presence and were very afraid. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:25",
"text": "And the men of Israel said, \u201cDid you see this man who has come up? For he is going up to defy Israel! It will be that the man who defeats him, the king will make him very rich with great wealth and will give him his daughter in marriage and will make his father\u2019s house free in Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:26",
"text": "Now David had spoken to the men who were standing with him, saying, \u201cWhat will be done for the man who defeats this Philistine and removes the disgrace from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he defies the battle lines of the living God?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:27",
"text": "And the troops had spoken to him according to this word, saying, \u201cSo it will be done for the man who defeats him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:28",
"text": " His oldest brother Eliab heard while he was speaking to the men, \u231eand Eliab became very angry against David\u231f and said, \u201cWhy have you come down today, and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumptuousness and the evil of your heart! For you have come down in order to see the battle!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:29",
"text": "David replied, \u201cWhat have I done now? \u231eI merely asked a question\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:30",
"text": "He turned around from him to another opposite him and \u231ehe spoke to him in the same way\u231f, and the people \u231eanswered him as before\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:31",
"text": " Now the words which David had spoken were heard and they reported them \u231eto\u231f Saul, and he summoned him. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:32",
"text": "David said to Saul, \u201cDo not let anyone\u2019s heart fail concerning him! Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:33",
"text": "But Saul said to David, \u201cYou will not be able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, because you are only a boy, whereas he has been a man of war since his childhood!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:34",
"text": "And David said to Saul, \u201cYour servant has been a shepherd of the flock for his father. If the lion or the bear would come and carry off a sheep from the group, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:35",
"text": "I would go out after it and strike it down and rescue the sheep from its mouth. If it rose against me, I would grab it by its beard and strike it down and kill it. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:36",
"text": "Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he defied the battle lines of the living God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:37",
"text": " And David said, \u201cYahweh, who rescued me from the hand of the lion and from the hand of the bear, will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine!\u201d Then Saul said to David, \u201cGo and may Yahweh be with you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:38",
"text": "Then Saul clothed David with his own fighting attire and put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with body armor. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:39",
"text": "Then David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire, but he tried in vain to walk around, for he was not trained to use them. So David said to Saul, \u201cI am not able to walk with these, because I am not trained to use them.\u201d So David removed them. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:40",
"text": "Then he took his staff in his hand, picked out for himself five smooth stones from the wadi, and he put them in his shepherd\u2019s bag, in the pouch. And with his sling in his hand, he approached the Philistine. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:41",
"text": " Then the Philistine \u231ecame on, getting nearer and nearer\u231f to David, with \u231ehis shield bearer\u231f in front of him. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:42",
"text": "When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him, for he was only a boy and ruddy with a handsome appearance. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:43",
"text": "So the Philistine said to David, \u201cAm I a dog, that you are coming to me with sticks?\u201d Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:44",
"text": "The Philistine said to David, \u201cCome to me so that I can give your flesh to the birds of heaven and to the wild animals of the field!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:45",
"text": "Then David said to the Philistine, \u201cYou are coming to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I am coming to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the battle lines of Israel, whom you have defied! "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:46",
"text": "This day Yahweh will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down \u231eand cut off your head\u231f! Then I will give the corpses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of heaven and to the animals of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God who is for Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:47",
"text": "And all of this assembly will know that Yahweh does not rescue with sword or with spear, for the battle belongs to Yahweh, and he will give you into our hands!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:48",
"text": " \u231eWhen\u231f the Philistine got up and came and drew near to meet David, David \u231eran quickly\u231f to the battle line to meet the Philistine. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:49",
"text": "Then David put his hand into the bag and took a stone from it and slung it. He struck the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:50",
"text": "So David prevailed over the Philistine with the sling and with the stone, and he struck down the Philistine and killed him, but there was no sword in David\u2019s hand. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:51",
"text": " Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it from its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:52",
"text": "The men of Israel and Judah got up, raised the war cry, and pursued the Philistines \u231eas far as\u231f the valley and up to the gates of Ekron. So the slain of the Philistines fell on the way to Shaaraim up to Gath and as far as Ekron. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:53",
"text": "Then the \u231eIsraelites\u231f returned from pursuing the Philistines and plundered their camp. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:54",
"text": "And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem and placed his weapons in his tent. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:55",
"text": " Now when Saul saw David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, \u201cWhose son is this young man, Abner?\u201d And Abner said, \u201cAs your soul lives, O king, I do not know.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:56",
"text": "Then the king said, \u201cYou inquire whose son this young man is.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:57",
"text": "So when David returned from striking down the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul. The head of the Philistine was in his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Samuel 17:58",
"text": "Then Saul said to him, \u201cWhose son are you, young man?\u201d And David said, \u201cI am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:1",
"text": " \u231eWhen\u231f he finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan became attached to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:2",
"text": "Saul took him on that very day and did not allow him to return to his father\u2019s house. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:3",
"text": "Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:4",
"text": "Jonathan stripped off the robe \u231ethat he was wearing\u231f and gave it to David, along with his fighting attire, and even his sword, his bow, and his belt. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:5",
"text": " David went out \u231ewhenever\u231f Saul sent him, and he succeeded. So Saul appointed him over the men of the war, and it \u231epleased\u231f all the people and even \u231epleased\u231f the servants of Saul. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:6",
"text": "\u231eWhen they were coming back\u231f after David had returned from striking down the Philistine, the women went out from all the cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet King Saul with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:7",
"text": "And the women sang as they danced, and they said, \u201cSaul has struck down his thousands, but David his ten thousands!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:8",
"text": " \u231eSaul became very angry\u231f, and \u231ethis saying displeased him\u231f, and he thought, \u201cThey have attributed to David ten thousands, but to me they have attributed thousands! \u231eWhat more can he have but the kingdom\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:9",
"text": "So Saul was watching David with suspicion from that day onward. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:10",
"text": " \u231eOn\u231f the next day, the evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. Now David was playing the lyre with his hand on that day \u231eas usual\u231f, and the spear was in Saul\u2019s hand. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:11",
"text": "Then Saul hurled the spear and thought, \u201c\u231eI will pin David to the wall\u231f.\u201d But David eluded him twice. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:12",
"text": "\u231eNow Saul was threatened by the presence of David\u231f because Yahweh was with him, but had departed from Saul. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:13",
"text": "So Saul removed him \u231efrom his presence\u231f, and made him commander of a thousand, \u231eso he marched in and out at the front of the army\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:14",
"text": "And David was achieving success in all his ways and Yahweh was with him, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:15",
"text": "but when Saul saw that he was very successful, \u231ehe was severely threatened by him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:16",
"text": "However, all of Israel and Judah were loving David, for he was going forth and marching ahead of them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:17",
"text": " Then Saul said to David, \u201cHere is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as your wife. Only be \u231ea brave warrior\u231f for me and fight the battles of Yahweh.\u201d For Saul thought, \u201cMy hand will not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:18",
"text": "But David said to Saul, \u201cWho am I, and who are my relatives, the clan of my father in Israel, that I should be a son-in-law to the king?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:19",
"text": "\u231eBut\u231f at the time Saul\u2019s daughter Merab was to be given to David, she was given instead to Adriel the Meholathite as wife. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:20",
"text": " Now Saul\u2019s daughter Michal loved David, so they told Saul, and the matter \u231epleased him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:21",
"text": "And Saul thought, \u201cI will give her to him, so that she may be a snare for him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.\u201d So Saul said to David, \u201cFor a second time you can become my son-in-law today.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:22",
"text": "Then Saul commanded his servants, \u201cSpeak to David in secret, saying, \u2018Look, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. So then, become a son-in-law of the king.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:23",
"text": "And Saul\u2019s servants spoke these words \u231eto David privately\u231f. But David said, \u201cIs it insignificant \u231ein your sight\u231f to become the son-in-law of the king, as I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:24",
"text": "So the servants of Saul informed him, saying, \u201c\u231eThis is what David said\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:25",
"text": "Then Saul said, \u201cThis is what you must say to David: \u2018\u231eThe king desires no bride price\u231f except for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to avenge himself on the enemies of the king.\u2019\u00a0\u201d (Now Saul had planned to allow David to fall by the hand of the Philistines.) "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:26",
"text": "So his servants told David these words, and the matter \u231epleased David\u231f to become the son-in-law of the king as \u231ethe specified time had not expired\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:27",
"text": " And David got up, and he and his men went and struck down two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and \u231ethey presented the full number\u231f to become the king\u2019s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as his wife. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:28",
"text": "When Saul \u231erealized\u231f that Yahweh was with David and \u231ehis own daughter Michal\u231f loved him, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:29",
"text": "Saul \u231ewas threatened by David still more\u231f, so Saul \u231ebecame a perpetual enemy of David\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Samuel 18:30",
"text": "Then the commanders of the Philistines went out for battle, and as often as they went out, David succeeded more than all the servants of Saul, and his name became very esteemed. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:1",
"text": " Now Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants about killing David, but Saul\u2019s son Jonathan \u231eliked David very much\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:2",
"text": "So Jonathan informed David, saying, \u201cMy father Saul is trying to kill you; now please take care! In the morning you should stay in the hiding place and conceal yourself. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:3",
"text": "I will go out and stand \u231eat my father\u2019s side\u231f in the field where you are, and I will speak about you to my father; \u231eif I find out anything\u231f I will tell it to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:4",
"text": "So Jonathan spoke well about David to his father Saul and said to him, \u201cThe king should not sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his service for you has been very good. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:5",
"text": "He put his life in his hand and attacked the Philistine, and Yahweh brought about a great victory for all of Israel, and you saw it and rejoiced! Now why should you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:6",
"text": "And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, he will not be put to death!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:7",
"text": "Jonathan called to David and told him all of these words. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul and he was before him as \u231eformerly\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:8",
"text": " War came again, so David went out and fought against the Philistines and \u231edefeated them thoroughly\u231f so that they fled before him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:9",
"text": "Then the evil spirit from Yahweh came upon Saul while he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing a stringed instrument in his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:10",
"text": "So Saul tried \u231eto pin David to the wall with the spear\u231f, but \u231ehe eluded Saul\u231f, so that he struck the spear into the wall, and David fled and escaped that same night. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:11",
"text": " Then Saul sent messengers to David\u2019s house to guard him and to kill him in the morning, but Michal his wife told David, saying, \u201cIf \u231eyou do not save your life\u231f tonight, then tomorrow you will be killed!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:12",
"text": "So Michal lowered David through the window, and he went and fled and escaped. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:13",
"text": "Then Michal took the household god and put it on the bed and put a quilt of goat\u2019s hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:14",
"text": "And Saul sent messengers to arrest David, but she said, \u201cHe is ill.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:15",
"text": "So Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, \u201cBring him up to me in the bed, so that I can kill him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:16",
"text": "When the messengers came, \u231eto their surprise\u231f the idol was on the bed with the quilt of goat\u2019s hair at the head. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:17",
"text": "Then Saul said to Michal, \u201cWhy have you deceived me like this and sent away my enemy, so that he escaped?\u201d Michal said to Saul, \u201cHe said to me, \u2018Let me go, why should I kill you?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:18",
"text": " So David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:19",
"text": "And it was told to Saul, \u201cDavid is in Naioth in Ramah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:20",
"text": "So Saul sent messengers to capture David. When they saw the company of the prophets prophesying and Samuel standing as chief over them, then the Spirit of God came upon Saul\u2019s messengers, and they also prophesied. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:21",
"text": "So they told Saul, and he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Again Saul sent messengers a third time, and they also prophesied. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:22",
"text": "Then he also went to Ramah. When he came to the great cistern which was in Secu, he asked and said, \u201cWhere are Samuel and David?\u201d Someone said, \u201cLook they are in Naioth in Ramah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:23",
"text": "So he went there to Naioth in Ramah and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and \u231ehe walked along prophesying\u231f until he came to Naioth in Ramah. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Samuel 19:24",
"text": "He also stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel. He lay naked all that day and all night. Therefore they say, \u201cIs Saul also among the prophets?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:1",
"text": " Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, \u201cWhat have I done? What is my guilt and what is my sin before your father that he is \u231etrying to kill me\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:2",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cFar from it! You will not die! Look, my father does not do \u231eanything large or small unless he reveals it to me\u231f. Why should my father hide this thing or anything from me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:3",
"text": "Then David \u231etook an oath\u231f again and said, \u201cYour father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thought, \u2018Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he worry.\u2019 But \u231eas Yahweh lives\u231f and \u231eas your soul lives\u231f, surely there is merely a step between me and death!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:4",
"text": "Then Jonathan said to David, \u201c\u231eWhatever you wish\u231f, I will do for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:5",
"text": "David said to Jonathan, \u201cLook, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should certainly sit with the king to eat. You must send me away so that I can hide myself in the field until the third evening. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:6",
"text": "If your father misses me at all, then you must say, \u2018David earnestly asked from me to run to Bethlehem his city, for \u231ethe yearly sacrifice\u231f is there for all the clan.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:7",
"text": "If he says \u2018Good,\u2019 it will mean peace for your servant; but if he is very angry, know that \u231ehe has decided to do me harm\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:8",
"text": "So you must show loyal love to your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you. But if there is guilt in me, then kill me yourself! But why should you bring me to your father?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:9",
"text": "Then Jonathan said, \u201cFar be it from you! For if I know for certain that \u231emy father decided evil should come upon you\u231f, would I not have told it to you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:10",
"text": "Then David said to Jonathan, \u201cWho will tell me if what your father answers you is harsh?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:11",
"text": "And Jonathan said to David, \u201cCome, let us go out to the field.\u201d So the two of them went out to the field. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:12",
"text": " Then Jonathan said to David, \u201cYahweh the God of Israel is my witness that I will question my father \u231eby this time the day after tomorrow\u231f. And look, \u231eif he is well disposed toward you\u231f, will I not send word to you and \u231edisclose it to you\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:13",
"text": "\u231eSo may Yahweh punish Jonathan and more\u231f if \u231emy father decides to do you harm\u231f and if \u231eI fail to disclose it to you\u231f and send word to you that you can go safely. And may Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:14",
"text": "And not while I am still alive, will you not show the loyal love of Yahweh with me, that I may not die? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:15",
"text": "And do not cut off your loyal love from \u231emy family\u231f forever, not even when Yahweh \u231eexterminates\u231f each of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:16",
"text": "So Jonathan \u231emade a covenant\u231f with the house of David, saying, \u201cMay Yahweh \u231ecall the enemies of David to account\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:17",
"text": "And Jonathan again made David swear an oath, because he loved him; for with the love of his soul he loved him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:18",
"text": " Then Jonathan said to him, \u201cTomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, for your seat will stay empty. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:19",
"text": "On the third day you must go down quickly and go to the place where you hid yourself \u231eon the day all this started\u231f and remain beside the stone Ezel. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:20",
"text": "I will shoot three arrows to the side as if I were shooting at a target. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:21",
"text": "\u231eThen\u231f I will send word to my servant, \u2018Go, find the arrows!\u2019 If I clearly say to the boy, \u2018Look, the arrows are \u231eon this side of you\u231f; \u231ebring\u231f it,\u2019 then come, for it means peace for you. And there is no problem, \u231eas Yahweh lives\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:22",
"text": "But if I say this to the young man, \u2018Look, the arrows are \u231ebeyond you\u231f,\u2019 go, for Yahweh has sent you away. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:23",
"text": "And as for the matter about which you and I spoke, look, Yahweh is between you and me forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:24",
"text": " So David hid himself in the field. \u231eWhen the new moon came\u231f, \u231ethe king was seated at the feast\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:25",
"text": "The king sat at his seat \u231eas before\u231f, the seat by the wall, and Jonathan got up, and Abner sat beside Saul, but David\u2019s place was empty. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:26",
"text": "But Saul said nothing on that day, for he thought, \u201c\u231eSomething happened to him\u231f. He is not ceremonially clean; surely he is not clean.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:27",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f on the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David\u2019s place was empty. So Saul asked Jonathan his son, \u201cWhy did the son of Jesse not come either yesterday or today to the feast?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:28",
"text": "Jonathan answered Saul, \u201cDavid earnestly asked permission from me to go up to Bethlehem. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:29",
"text": "He said, \u2018Send me away, please, for our clan sacrifice is in the city, and my brother commanded me to be present. So then, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me slip away and see my brothers.\u2019 Therefore he has not come to the table of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:30",
"text": "Then \u231eSaul became angry\u231f at Jonathan and said to him, \u201cYou son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame and to the shame of your mother\u2019s nakedness? "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:31",
"text": "For \u231eas long as\u231f the son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established! So then, send and bring him to me, for \u231ehe will surely die\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:32",
"text": "But Jonathan answered his father Saul and said to him, \u201cWhy should he be put to death? What has he done?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:33",
"text": "Then Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. So Jonathan knew \u231ethat his father had decided\u231f to kill David. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:34",
"text": " Jonathan got up from the table \u231eenraged\u231f, and did not eat on the second day of the new moon because he was upset about David, because his father had disgraced him. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:35",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f in the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a young boy was with him. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:36",
"text": "He said to his servant, \u201cRun, please find the arrows that I am shooting!\u201d The boy ran, and he shot the arrow to pass over him. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:37",
"text": "When the boy came up to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called out after the boy and said, \u201cIs not the arrow \u231ebeyond you\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:38",
"text": "Then Jonathan called out after the boy, \u201cQuick, hurry, do not linger!\u201d And Jonathan\u2019s servant collected the arrows and came to his master. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:39",
"text": "But the boy did not know anything about this; only Jonathan and David knew the matter. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:40",
"text": "Jonathan gave his weapons to his servant and said to him, \u201cGo, bring them to the city.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:41",
"text": "The boy left, and then David got up from the south side, and he fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed \u231eeach other\u231f and wept \u231etogether\u231f, but David wept the most. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Samuel 20:42",
"text": "Jonathan said to David, \u201cGo in peace, because we have sworn, the two of us, an oath in the name of Yahweh, saying, \u201cYahweh will be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring forever.\u201d Then he got up and left, and Jonathan went into the city. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:1",
"text": " Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came trembling to meet David, and he said to him, \u201cWhy are you alone and there are no men with you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:2",
"text": "So David said to Ahimelech the priest, \u201cThe king charged me with a matter and said to me, \u2018No one must know anything about this matter on which I am sending you, with which I have charged you and the servants.\u2019\u00a0\u201d So \u231eI have arranged to meet with my servants at a certain place\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:3",
"text": "Now then, \u231ewhat do you have at hand\u231f? Give me five loaves of bread or \u231ewhatever is here\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:4",
"text": "The priest answered David and said, \u201cThere is no ordinary bread \u231ehere at hand\u231f; there is only holy bread, but only if the young men have kept themselves from women.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:5",
"text": "David answered the priest and said to him, \u201cIndeed, women were held back from us \u231eas it has been when I\u2019ve gone out before\u231f. And the things of the young men are holy when it is an ordinary journey. \u231eHow much more\u231f \u231etoday\u231f will the things be holy?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:6",
"text": "So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which was removed from before Yahweh, in order to set hot bread there on the day when it was taken away. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:7",
"text": " Now there was a man from the servants of Saul on that day, detained before Yahweh, whose name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul\u2019s shepherds. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:8",
"text": "David asked Ahimelech, \u201cIs there not \u231eat your disposal\u231f a spear or a sword? For I took neither my sword nor my weapons with me because the king\u2019s matter was urgent.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:9",
"text": "So the priest said, \u201cThe sword of Goliath the Philistine whom you killed in the valley of Elah is here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take it for yourself, then take it, for there is no other except it here.\u201d And David said, \u201cThere is none like it; give it to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:10",
"text": " So David got up and fled on that day from the presence of Saul, and he came to Achish the king of Gath. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:11",
"text": "The servants of Achish said to him, \u201cIs not this David the king of the land? Is it not for this one that they sang in the dances, saying, \u2018Saul killed his thousands, but David his ten thousands?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:12",
"text": "\u231eDavid took these words seriously\u231f and \u231efelt severely threatened by\u231f Achish the king of Gath. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:13",
"text": "So he changed his behavior \u231ebefore them\u231f and pretended to be mad \u231ein their presence\u231f. He made scratches on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down into his beard. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:14",
"text": "Then Achish said to his servants, \u201cLook, you see a madman! Why did you bring him to me? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Samuel 21:15",
"text": "Do I lack madmen that you have brought this one to act like a madman before me? Should this one enter my household?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:1",
"text": " David went from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father\u2019s household heard, they came down to him there. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:2",
"text": "Every man in distress and every man who had a creditor and every embittered man gathered to him, and he became \u231etheir commander\u231f. Now there were about four hundred men with him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:3",
"text": "And David went up from there to Mizpah of Moab. He said to the king of Moab, \u201cPlease let my father and my mother \u231estay\u231f with you until I know what God will do for me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:4",
"text": "So \u231ehe brought them before the king of Moab\u231f, and they stayed with him all the days David was in the stronghold. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:5",
"text": " Then Gad the prophet said to David, \u201cYou should not stay in the stronghold; leave and go into the land of Judah.\u201d So David left and came to the forest of Hereth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:6",
"text": "Now Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been located. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at Ramah. Now his spear was in his hand and all his servants were stationed around him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:7",
"text": "Then Saul said to the servants who were standing around him, \u201cPlease listen, \u231eBenjaminites\u231f! Will the son of Jesse give you all fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:8",
"text": "For all of you have conspired against me, and \u231eno one discloses to me\u231f the \u231emaking\u231f of an agreement between my son and the son of Jesse! None of you have had sympathy for me or \u231edisclosed to me\u231f that \u231emy son commissioned my servant against me to ambush me\u231f as has been done this day!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:9",
"text": " But Doeg the Edomite, who was stationed among the servants of Saul, answered and said, \u201cI saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:10",
"text": "And he inquired of Yahweh for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:11",
"text": "So the king sent to summon Ahimelech the son of Ahitub the priest, and all his father\u2019s household, the priests who were at Nob. So all of them came to the king. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:12",
"text": "Saul said, \u201cListen please, son of Ahitub.\u201d He said, \u201cHere I am, my lord.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:13",
"text": "Then Saul said to him, \u201cWhy did you conspire against me, you and the son of Jesse, when you gave to him bread and a sword, and by inquiring of God for him so that he might arise against me to ambush me as has been done this day?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:14",
"text": "But Ahimelech answered the king and said, \u201cAnd who among all your servants is as faithful as David? He is the son-in-law of the king who moves quickly to safeguard you and is honored in your house. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:15",
"text": "Only today I began to inquire of God for him. Far be it from me that \u231ethe king should impute anything against his servant\u231f or against my father\u2019s household, for your servant has not known any of this matter, little or much.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:16",
"text": "Then the king said, \u201cYou must certainly die, Ahimelech, you and all your father\u2019s household!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:17",
"text": "So the king said to the runners who were stationed around him, \u201cTurn and kill the priests of Yahweh, because \u231ethey also support David\u231f and because they knew that he was fleeing and \u231edid not disclose it to me\u231f.\u201d But the servants of the king were not willing to raise their hand to attack the priests of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:18",
"text": "Then the king said to Doeg, \u201cYou turn and attack the priests!\u201d So Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests himself, and on that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:19",
"text": "And \u231ehe put to the sword\u231f Nob, the city of the priests, from man to woman, from child to infant, and ox and donkey and sheep; all \u231eto the sword\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:20",
"text": " But, one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, whose name was Abiathar, escaped and fled after David. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:21",
"text": "Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:22",
"text": "Then David said to Abiathar, \u201cI knew on that day that Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would certainly tell Saul. \u231eI am responsible for the deaths of all your father\u2019s household\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Samuel 22:23",
"text": "Stay with me! Do not fear, because he who seeks my life seeks your life. You are in good care with me.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:1",
"text": " Now they told David, \u201cLook, the Philistines are fighting in Keilah and they are raiding the threshing floors.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:2",
"text": "So David inquired of Yahweh, saying, \u201cShall I go and attack these Philistines?\u201d And Yahweh said to David, \u201cGo and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:3",
"text": "But David\u2019s men said to him, \u201cLook, we are afraid here in Judah. \u231eHow much more\u231f if we go to Keilah to the battle lines of the Philistines?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:4",
"text": "So David again inquired of Yahweh, and Yahweh answered him and said, \u201cGet up, go down to Keilah, for I am giving the Philistines into your hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:5",
"text": "So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines. They drove off their livestock and \u231edealt them a heavy blow\u231f. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:6",
"text": " \u231eNow when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled\u231f to David at Keilah, he went down with an ephod in his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:7",
"text": "When it was told to Saul that David had gone to Keilah, Saul said, \u201cGod \u231ehas given him\u231f into my hand, because he has shut himself in by going into a city with \u231etwo barred gates\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:8",
"text": "Saul then summoned all of the army for the battle, to go down to Keilah to lay a siege against David and his men. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:9",
"text": "When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, \u201cBring the ephod here.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:10",
"text": "And David said, \u201cO Yahweh, God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul is seeking to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:11",
"text": "Will the rulers of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Yahweh, God of Israel, please tell your servant!\u201d And Yahweh said, \u201cHe will come down.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:12",
"text": "Then David said, \u201cWill the rulers of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?\u201d And Yahweh said, \u201cThey will deliver you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:13",
"text": "So David and his men got up, about six hundred men, and went out from Keilah and wandered wherever they could go. When it was told to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, \u231ehe stopped his pursuit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:14",
"text": " David remained in the wilderness, in the strongholds, and in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him \u231econtinually\u231f, but God did not give him into his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:15",
"text": "When David realized that Saul had gone out to seek his life, David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:16",
"text": "So Jonathan the son of Saul got up and went to David at Horesh, and \u231eencouraged him\u231f through God. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:17",
"text": "He said to him, \u201cDo not be afraid, for the hand of my father Saul will not find you. You will be king over Israel, and \u231eI will be second to you\u231f. My father Saul knows this also.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:18",
"text": "Then the two of them \u231emade\u231f a covenant before Yahweh. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went to his house. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:19",
"text": " Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, \u201cIs not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, which is south of Jeshimon? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:20",
"text": "So then, O king, \u231ewhenever you want\u231f to come down, come down, and it will be for us to deliver him into the hand of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:21",
"text": "And Saul said to them, \u201cMay you be blessed by Yahweh, for you have shown me compassion! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:22",
"text": "Go, please, make certain again! Find out and see \u231eexactly where he is\u231f and who has seen him there! For they have said to me, \u2018He is very cunning.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:23",
"text": "Look, find out all of the hiding places where he hides. Then return to me \u231ewith dependable information\u231f, and I will go with you. And then if he is there in the land, then I will seek him among all the thousands of Judah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:24",
"text": "Then they got up and went to Ziph before Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon in the Arabah, to the south of Jeshimon. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:25",
"text": "And Saul and his men went to seek him, and they told David, so he went down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard this, he pursued David into the wilderness of Maon. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:26",
"text": "Saul went \u231eon one side of the mountain\u231f, and David and his men \u231ewent on the other side of the mountain\u231f. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, while Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:27",
"text": "But a messenger came to Saul, saying, \u201cHurry and come, because the Philistines have made a raid on the land!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:28",
"text": "So Saul returned from pursuing David, and he went to confront the Philistines. Therefore, they called that place the Rock of Division. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Samuel 23:29",
"text": " David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:1",
"text": " When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, \u201cLook, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:2",
"text": "So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel, and he and his men went to search for David \u231ein the direction of\u231f the Rocks of the Mountain Goats. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:3",
"text": "He came to the sheep pens beside the road, and a cave was there. Then Saul went in \u231eto relieve himself\u231f. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost part of the cave. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:4",
"text": "And David\u2019s men said to him, \u201cLook, today is the day about which Yahweh said to you, \u2018See, I am giving your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him \u231ewhatever seems good to you\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d So David got up and secretly cut the hem of Saul\u2019s robe. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:5",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f afterward David \u231efelt guilty\u231f, because he had cut \u231ethe hem of Saul\u2019s robe\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:6",
"text": "He said to his men, \u201cFar be it from me in Yahweh, that I do this thing to my lord, to Yahweh\u2019s anointed one, by stretching out my hand against him! For he is the anointed one of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:7",
"text": "So David rebuked his men with the words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul got up from the cave, and he went on his way. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:8",
"text": " Then David got up afterward and went out of the cave and called after Saul, \u201cMy lord the king!\u201d When Saul looked after him, David knelt down with his face to the ground and bowed down. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:9",
"text": "Then David said to Saul, \u201cWhy do you listen to the words of people who say: \u2018Look, David is \u231eseeking to do you harm\u231f\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:10",
"text": "Look, this day your eyes have seen that Yahweh gave you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you. But \u231eI took pity\u231f on you and said, \u2018I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, because he is Yahweh\u2019s anointed one.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:11",
"text": "Now, my father, see, yes, see, the hem of your robe in my hand! For \u231ewhen I cut\u231f the hem of your robe I did not kill you. Know and \u231erealize\u231f that there is no evil or rebellion in my hand. I did not sin against you, but you are hunting down my life to take it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:12",
"text": "May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me on you, but my hand will not be against you! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:13",
"text": "Just as the ancient proverb says, \u2018From the wicked, wickedness goes out,\u2019 but my hand will not be against you! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:14",
"text": "After whom did the king of Israel go out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog? After one flea? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:15",
"text": "May Yahweh be the judge, and let him judge between me and you, and may he see and plead my case. \u231eMay he vindicate me against you\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:16",
"text": " When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, \u201cIs this your voice, my son David?\u201d And Saul lifted up his voice and wept. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:17",
"text": "Then he said to David, \u201cYou are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me the good, but I have repaid you the evil. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:18",
"text": "You have explained to me today that you have dealt well with me, how Yahweh delivered me into your hand but you did not kill me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:19",
"text": "For a man has found his enemy but sent him on his way safely. Now may Yahweh reward you with good in return for this day, for what you have done for me. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:20",
"text": "So now then, look, I know that you will certainly be king and the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:21",
"text": "So then, swear to me by Yahweh that you will not cut off my \u231edescendants\u231f after me and that you will not wipe out my name from my father\u2019s house.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Samuel 24:22",
"text": "So David swore this on oath to Saul, and Saul went to his house, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:1",
"text": " Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:2",
"text": " Now there was a man in Maon, whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich and \u231eowned\u231f three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. \u231eNow\u231f the shearing of his sheep was taking place in Carmel. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:3",
"text": "The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail. Now the woman was wise and beautiful, but the man was stubborn and \u231emean\u231f, and he was as his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:4",
"text": "David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:5",
"text": "So David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, \u201cGo up to Carmel and go to Nabal; \u231eyou will greet him in my name\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:6",
"text": "Then you must say to him, \u2018Long life to you, and \u231emay it go well with you, with your house, and with all that is yours\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:7",
"text": "Now I have heard that \u231eyou have shearers\u231f. Now while your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and nothing of theirs was missing, all the days they were in Carmel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:8",
"text": "Ask your servants and they will tell you! Let the young men find favor in your eyes because we have come on a feast day. Please give \u231ewhatever you have on hand\u231f for your servants and for your son David.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:9",
"text": " So David\u2019s young men came and they spoke all these words to Nabal in the name of David. Then they waited. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:10",
"text": "But Nabal answered David\u2019s servants and said, \u201cWho is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Today, there are many servants breaking away from the presence of their masters. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:11",
"text": "Should I take my bread and my water and my meat which I have slaughtered for my shearers and give it to men whom I do not know where they are from? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:12",
"text": "So David\u2019s young men turned on their way and returned and came and told him according to all these words. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:13",
"text": "Then David said to his men, \u201cEach man strap on his sword!\u201d So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:14",
"text": " But a young man of the servants told Abigail, Nabal\u2019s wife, saying, \u201cLook, David sent messengers from the desert to greet our master, but he addressed them angrily, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:15",
"text": "even though the men were very good to us; we were not mistreated and did not miss anything all the days we went about with them \u231ewhile we were\u231f in the field. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:16",
"text": "They were a wall to us both night and day, all \u231ethe days we were\u231f with them keeping the sheep. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:17",
"text": "And so then, know and \u231econsider\u231f what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his household, and he is such \u231ea wicked man\u231f, \u231enobody can reason with him\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:18",
"text": " Then Abigail \u231equickly took\u231f two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she put them on the donkeys. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:19",
"text": "Then she said to her servants, \u201cGo ahead before me; look, I am coming after you,\u201d but she did not tell her husband Nabal. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:20",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, as she was riding on the donkey and was going down the ravine of the mountain, David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she met them. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:21",
"text": "Now David had said, \u201cSurely \u231ein vain\u231f I guarded all that this fellow had in the desert. And nothing was missed of all that was his, but he returned evil against me in place of good! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:22",
"text": "\u231eMay God severely punish the enemies of David\u231f and again do thus if I leave behind \u231eanything that is his\u231f until the morning, not even \u231eone male\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:23",
"text": "When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell on her face before \u231eDavid\u2019s anger\u231f, and she bowed down to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:24",
"text": "She fell at his feet and said, \u201cOn me, my lord, be the guilt! Please let your female servant speak \u231eto you personally\u231f! Hear the words of your female servant! "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:25",
"text": "Please do not let my lord set his heart against \u231ethis worthless man\u231f, Nabal; for as his name, so is he. Nabal is his name, and stupidity is with him! But I, your female servant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:26",
"text": "So then, my lord, \u231eas Yahweh lives and as your soul lives\u231f, since Yahweh restrained you from bloodguilt \u231eby taking matters into your own hand\u231f, so then, may your enemies be like Nabal, even \u231ethose who seek to do my lord harm\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:27",
"text": "So then, this gift which your female servant has brought to my lord, may it be given to the young men \u231ewho follow my lord\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:28",
"text": "Please forgive the transgression of your female servant, because Yahweh will certainly make a lasting house for my lord, because my lord is fighting the battles of Yahweh, and evil will not be found in you \u231eas long as you live\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:29",
"text": "Should a man arise to pursue you and to seek your life, may the life of my lord be wrapped in the pouch of the living with Yahweh your God. But as for the life of your enemy, he will sling it from within the pocket of the sling! "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:30",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f when Yahweh has done for my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you as leader over Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:31",
"text": "then this will not be an obstacle for you or a stumbling block of conscience for my lord either by the shedding of blood without cause or by \u231emy lord taking matters into his own hands\u231f. And when Yahweh does good to my lord, then remember your female servant.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:32",
"text": " Then David said to Abigail, \u201cBlessed be Yahweh the God of Israel who has sent you this day to meet me! "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:33",
"text": "And blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you who have prevented me this day from bloodguilt and from delivering myself by my own hand. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:34",
"text": "But \u231eas Yahweh lives\u231f, the God of Israel who has prevented me from harming you, if you had not hurried and come to meet me, surely there would not have been \u231eone male\u231f left alive for Nabal by the light of morning!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:35",
"text": "Then David took from her hand what she had brought for him, and he said to her, \u201cGo up to your house in peace. See, I have listened to your voice, and I have \u231egranted your request\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:36",
"text": " Then Abigail went to Nabal, and look, \u231ehe was holding a feast\u231f in his house like the feast of the king. \u231eNabal was enjoying himself\u231f, and he was very drunk, so she did not tell him a thing, \u231enothing at all\u231f, until the light of morning. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:37",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f in the morning when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these words. Then his heart died \u231ewithin him\u231f, and he became like a stone. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:38",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, about ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:39",
"text": " When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, \u201cBlessed be Yahweh who has vindicated the case of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and he has kept back his servant from evil; but Yahweh has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.\u201d Then David sent and spoke with Abigail to take her for his wife. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:40",
"text": "So the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, and they spoke to her, saying, \u201cDavid has sent us to you to take you for his wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:41",
"text": "She got up and bowed down with her face to the ground and said, \u201cHere is your female servant, as a slave to wash the feet of my lord\u2019s servants.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:42",
"text": "Then Abigail \u231equickly got up\u231f and rode on the donkey, along with five of her maidservants who \u231eattended her\u231f, and she went after the messengers of David and became his wife. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:43",
"text": " David had also taken Ahinoam from Jezreel, and both of them became his wives. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Samuel 25:44",
"text": "(Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David\u2019s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.) "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:1",
"text": " The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, \u201cIs not David hiding on the hill of Hakilah opposite Jeshimon?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:2",
"text": "Then Saul got up and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, and three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:3",
"text": " Now Saul was on the hill of Hakilah, which is opposite Jeshimon by the road, but David was staying in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had come to the wilderness after him, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:4",
"text": "David sent spies, and he learned that Saul had come \u231efor certain\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:5",
"text": "Then David got up and came to the place where Saul had encamped, and David saw the place where Saul was lying down, \u231eas well as\u231f Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. (Now Saul was lying in the encampment, and the army was encamping around him.) "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:6",
"text": " David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah the brother of Joab, saying, \u201cWho will go down with me to Saul, in the camp?\u201d And Abishai said, \u201cI will go down with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:7",
"text": "So David and Abishai came to the army by night, and \u231ethere was\u231f Saul lying asleep in the encampment with his spear thrust into the ground near his head, and Abner and the army were lying all around him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:8",
"text": "Then Abishai said to David, \u201cGod has handed over your enemy into your hand today! So then, \u231eplease let me pin him to the ground with the spear\u231f \u231eone time\u231f, and \u231eI will not strike him twice\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:9",
"text": "But David said to Abishai, \u201cDo not destroy him! For who has stretched out his hand against Yahweh\u2019s anointed one and remained blameless?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:10",
"text": "And David said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, \u231ecertainly\u231f Yahweh will strike him, or his day will come and he will die, or he will go down in the battle and \u231eperish\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:11",
"text": "\u231eYahweh forbid me\u231f from stretching out my hand against Yahweh\u2019s anointed one! So then, please take the spear that is near his head and the jar of water, and let us go.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:12",
"text": "So David took the spear and the jar of water from near Saul\u2019s head, and they went away. \u231eNo one saw, no one knew, and no one awakened\u231f, for all of them were sleeping because a deep sleep of Yahweh had fallen upon them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:13",
"text": " Then David went to the other side and stood on the top of the hill at a distance; the distance was great between them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:14",
"text": "David called out to the army and to Abner the son of Ner, \u201cWill you not answer, Abner?\u201d And Abner answered and said, \u201cWho are you that you call to the king?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:15",
"text": "So David said to Abner, \u201cAre you not a man? And who is like you in Israel? Why did you not keep watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came to destroy your lord the king. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:16",
"text": "This thing that you have done is not good. \u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, \u231esurely you people deserve to die\u231f since you have not kept watch over your lord, over Yahweh\u2019s anointed one! So then, see where the king\u2019s spear is and the jar of water that was near his head!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:17",
"text": "Then Saul recognized David\u2019s voice and said, \u201cIs this your voice, my son David?\u201d And David said, \u201cIt is my voice, my lord the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:18",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cWhy is my lord pursuing after his servant? For what have I done? And what evil is in my hand? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:19",
"text": "And so then, please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant: If Yahweh has incited you against me, may he delight in an offering; but if \u231eit is mortals\u231f, may they be accursed \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, for they have driven me away today from sharing in the inheritance of Yahweh, saying, \u2018Go, serve other gods!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:20",
"text": "And so then, do not let my blood fall to the ground \u231eaway from\u231f the presence of Yahweh, for the king of Israel has gone out to seek a single flea, as one hunts a partridge in the mountains.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:21",
"text": " Then Saul said, \u201cI have sinned! Come back, David my son, for I will not harm you again, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Look, I have acted like a fool and \u231ehave made a terrible mistake\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:22",
"text": "David answered and said, \u201cHere is the king\u2019s spear; let one of the young men come over and take it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:23",
"text": "Yahweh repays to each one his righteousness and his faithfulness, for Yahweh gave you into my hand today, but I was not willing to stretch out my hand against Yahweh\u2019s anointed. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:24",
"text": "Look, as your life was precious in my eyes this day, may my life be great in the eyes of Yahweh, and may he rescue me from all trouble.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Samuel 26:25",
"text": "Then Saul said to David, \u201cBlessed are you, my son David; \u231eyou will not only do many things, but also will always succeed\u231f!\u201d Then David went on his way and Saul returned to his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:1",
"text": " Then David \u231ethought to himself\u231f, \u201cNow I will perish one day by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me but that I must certainly escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will desist from searching for me further in all of the territories of Israel, and so I will escape from his hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:2",
"text": "So David got up and crossed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, the king of Gath. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:3",
"text": "David settled with Achish in Gath, he and his men, each with his household. David took along his two wives Ahinoam \u231efrom Jezreel\u231f and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:4",
"text": "And it was reported to Saul that David had fled to Gath, so \u231ehe no longer searched for him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:5",
"text": " Then David said to Achish, \u201cPlease, if I have found favor in your eyes, then let them give me a place in one of the \u231ecountry towns\u231f that I can live there. Why should your servant live in \u231ethe royal city\u231f with you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:6",
"text": "So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (Therefore, Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this day.) "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:7",
"text": "The number of days that David lived in the countryside of the Philistines was one year and four months. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:8",
"text": " Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites, for they had been living in the land for a long time \u231ein the direction of\u231f Shur and \u231eas far as\u231f the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:9",
"text": "So David struck the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive; he took the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:10",
"text": "And Achish said, \u201cAgainst whom have you raided today?\u201d David said, \u201cAgainst the Negev of Judah and against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites and against the Negev of the Kenites.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:11",
"text": "And David did not leave alive a man or a woman to bring them back to Gath, thinking, \u201cSo that they will not report about us, saying, \u2018David did thus and so.\u2019\u00a0\u201d Thus was his practice all the days that he lived in the countryside of the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Samuel 27:12",
"text": "And Achish trusted David, saying, \u201c\u231eHe has made himself utterly hated\u231f among his people in Israel, and he will be my servant forever.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:1",
"text": "\u231eNow\u231f in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war to fight against Israel. So Achish said to David, \u201cCertainly you realize that you must go out with me in the army, you and your men.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:2",
"text": "David said to Achish, \u201cVery well, you will know what your servant can do.\u201d Achish said to David, \u201cVery well, I will make you \u231emy bodyguard\u231f for life.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:3",
"text": " (Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him, and they had buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had expelled the mediums and the soothsayers from the land.) "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:4",
"text": "Then the Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem, so Saul assembled all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:5",
"text": "When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid and his heart trembled greatly. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:6",
"text": "And Saul inquired of Yahweh, but Yahweh did not answer him, not by dreams or by the Urim or by the prophets. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:7",
"text": "So Saul said to his servants, \u201cSearch for me \u231ea woman who is a medium\u231f so that I may go to her and inquire of her.\u201d His servants said to him, \u201cLook there is a woman who is a medium in Endor.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:8",
"text": "So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went \u231ewith two of his men\u231f. And they came to the woman by night and he said, \u201cPlease consult a spirit for me through \u231ethe ritual pit\u231f, and bring up for me the one whom I tell you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:9",
"text": "But the woman said to him, \u201cLook, you know what Saul did, how he exterminated the mediums and the soothsayers from the land! Why are you setting a trap for my life to kill me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:10",
"text": "Then Saul swore to her by Yahweh, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, \u231eyou will not be punished\u231f for this thing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:11",
"text": "So the woman asked, \u201cWhom shall I bring up for you?\u201d He said, \u201cBring up Samuel for me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:12",
"text": "When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and the woman said to Saul, \u201cWhy did you deceive me? You are Saul!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:13",
"text": "The king said to her, \u201cDo not be afraid! What do you see?\u201d And the woman said to Saul, \u201cI see a god coming up from the ground!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:14",
"text": "Then he said to her, \u201cWhat is his appearance?\u201d She said, \u201cAn old man is coming up, and \u231ehe is wrapped in a robe\u231f.\u201d Then Saul realized that it was Samuel, and he knelt with his face to the ground and bowed down. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:15",
"text": " Then Samuel said to Saul, \u201cWhy have you disturbed me by bringing me up?\u201d And Saul said, \u201c\u231eI am in distress\u231f! For the Philistines are about to make war against me, but God has turned away from me, and he does not answer me any more, not \u231eby the prophets\u231f or by the dreams. So I called to you to let me know what I should do.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:16",
"text": "Then Samuel said, \u201cWhy do you ask me, since Yahweh has turned away from you and has become your enemy? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:17",
"text": "Yahweh has done to you just as he spoke by my hand! Yahweh has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor, to David. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:18",
"text": "Because you \u231edid not obey\u231f Yahweh and did not carry out the fierce anger of his \u231ewrath\u231f against Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:19",
"text": "And Yahweh will also give Israel with you into the hands of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me, and Yahweh will also give the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:20",
"text": "\u231eThen Saul immediately fell prostrate\u231f to the ground, and he was very afraid because of the words of Samuel; there was no more strength in him, for he had not eaten food all day and all night. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:21",
"text": "Then the woman came to Saul and realized that he was absolutely terrified, so she said to him, \u201cLook, your female servant \u231ehas obeyed you\u231f, and I have \u231erisked my life\u231f. I have listened to your words that you have spoken to me. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:22",
"text": "So then, you also please listen to the voice of your female servant, and let me set before you a morsel of bread, and you eat so that \u231eyou will have strength\u231f in you when you go on your way.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:23",
"text": "But he refused and said, \u201cI will not eat!\u201d However, his servants urged him, and the woman also. So he listened \u231eto what they said\u231f, and he got up from the ground and sat on the bed. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:24",
"text": "Now the woman had a fattened bull calf in the house, \u231eso she quickly slaughtered it\u231f and took flour, kneaded dough, and baked him some unleavened bread. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Samuel 28:25",
"text": "She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they got up and went away that very night. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29:1",
"text": " Now the Philistines assembled all their forces at Aphek, and Israel was encamped at the spring that is in Jezreel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29:2",
"text": "The rulers of the Philistines were passing on according to hundreds and thousands, David and his men passing on at the rear with Achish. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29:3",
"text": "Then the commanders of the Philistines said, \u201cWhat are these Hebrews doing here?\u201d And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, \u201cIs this not David, the servant of Saul, the king of Israel, who has been with me \u231efor days and years\u231f? I have not found anything threatening in him from the day of his desertion until this day!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29:4",
"text": "But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him and they said to him, \u201cSend the man back so that he might return to his place where you have assigned him! But he will not go down with us into the battle, so that he does not become an adversary to us in the battle. By what could this fellow make himself favorable to his lord? Is it not with the heads of these men? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29:5",
"text": "Is this not David about whom they sing in the dances, saying, \u2018Saul has killed his thousands, but David his ten thousands\u2019?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29:6",
"text": " So Achish called David and said to him, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, certainly you were honest, and \u231eI am pleased to have you marching with me\u231f in the campaign. For I have not found any wrong in you from the day you came to me until this day, but in the eyes of the rulers, you are not good. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29:7",
"text": "So then, return and go in peace, so that you do not do \u231esomething that displeases\u231f the rulers of the Philistines.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29:8",
"text": "Then David said to Achish, \u201cBut what have I done? And what have you found in your servant from the day that I \u231eentered your service\u231f until this day, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29:9",
"text": "And Achish answered and said to David, \u201cI know that you are good in my eyes, like an angel of God! However, the commanders of the Philistines have said, \u2018He must not go up with us into the battle.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29:10",
"text": "So then, rise early in the morning, you and the servants of your lord who came with you. When you rise early in the morning and it is light enough for you, leave. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Samuel 29:11",
"text": "So David set out early, he and his men, to leave in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:1",
"text": " \u231eNow\u231f when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. When they attacked Ziklag, they burned it with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:2",
"text": "They took captive the women who were in it, \u231efrom the youngest to the oldest\u231f. They did not kill anyone, but carried them off and went on their way. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:3",
"text": "When David and his men came to the city, \u231ethey saw\u231f, and it was burned with fire, and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:4",
"text": "Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until there was not enough strength in them to weep. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:5",
"text": "Two of David\u2019s wives had been taken captive. Ahinoam \u231efrom Jezreel\u231f and Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:6",
"text": "And \u231eDavid was in a very precarious situation\u231f, for the people spoke of stoning him, for the souls of all the people were bitter, each one over his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:7",
"text": " Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, \u201cPlease bring the ephod here for me.\u201d So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:8",
"text": "And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, \u201cShould I pursue after this band of raiders? Will I overtake them?\u201d He said to him, \u201cPursue them, for you will certainly overtake them, and you will certainly rescue them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:9",
"text": "So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the Wadi Besor, but the rest remained. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:10",
"text": "David pursued, he and four hundred men; but two hundred men stayed because they were too exhausted to pass over the Wadi Besor. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:11",
"text": " Then they found an Egyptian man in the open country and brought him to David, and they gave him food and he ate; they also gave him water. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:12",
"text": "They gave him a slice of fig cake and two raisin cakes; he ate and \u231ethis revived him\u231f, because he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:13",
"text": "Then David said to him, \u201c\u231eTo whom do you belong\u231f, and from where are you? The young man said, \u201cI am an Egyptian young man, a servant of an Amalekite man, but my master abandoned me because I became ill three days ago. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:14",
"text": "We raided the Negev of the Kerethites and that which belongs to Judah and then the Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:15",
"text": "So David asked him, \u201cWill you take me down to this band of raiders?\u201d He said, \u201cSwear to me by God that you will not kill me and that you will not deliver me into my master\u2019s hand! Then I will take you down to this band.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:16",
"text": "So he took him down, and \u231ethere they were\u231f, spread out over the surface of all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all of the abundant plunder which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:17",
"text": "Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped \u231eexcept\u231f four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:18",
"text": "So David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; David also rescued his two wives. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:19",
"text": "None of theirs was missing \u231efrom the smallest to the greatest\u231f, even sons and daughters, from the plunder up to everything they had taken for themselves; David brought back everything. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:20",
"text": "And David took all of the sheep, and the cattle they drove along in front of that livestock, and they said, \u201cThis is David\u2019s plunder.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:21",
"text": " Then David came to the two hundred men \u231ewho had been too exhausted to follow\u231f David; they had left them behind at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. David came near with the people and \u231easked them how they were doing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:22",
"text": "Then all the corrupt and useless men among the men who went with David reacted and said, \u201cBecause they did not go with us, we will not give them anything from the plunder which we recovered, \u231eexcept\u231f each man may take his own wife and children. They must take them along and go!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:23",
"text": "But David said to them, \u201cYou should not do so, my brothers, with what Yahweh has given to us! He has preserved us and has given the raiding band that came against us into our hand. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:24",
"text": "And who would listen to you regarding this matter? For as the share of the one who went down into the battle, so the share of the one who remained with the baggage will be. They will share alike.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:25",
"text": "So from that day and beyond, he made it a rule and a regulation for Israel until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:26",
"text": " Then David came to Ziklag, and he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, \u201c\u231eHere is\u231f a gift for you from the plunder of the enemies of Yahweh!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:27",
"text": "It was for those in Bethel, for those in Ramoth of the Negev, for those in Jattir, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:28",
"text": "for those in Aroer, for those in Siphmoth, for those in Eshtemoa, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:29",
"text": "for those in Racal, for those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites, for those in the towns of the Kenites, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:30",
"text": "for those in Hormah, for those in Bor Ashan, for those in Athach, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "I Samuel 30:31",
"text": "for those in Hebron, and for all the places \u231ewhere David and his men had roamed\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:1",
"text": " Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and they fell slain on Mount Gilboa. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:2",
"text": "And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malki-Shua, the sons of Saul. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:3",
"text": "\u231eSaul was in the thick of the battle\u231f, and \u231ethe archers\u231f spotted him, and he was badly wounded by the archers. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:4",
"text": "Then Saul said to \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f, \u201cDraw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised do not come and thrust me through and make a fool of me!\u201d But \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f was not willing to do so because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:5",
"text": "And when \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:6",
"text": "So Saul died, and his three sons, \u231ehis armor bearer\u231f, and all his men together that same day. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:7",
"text": " And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those who were beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the towns and fled. Thus the Philistines came and lived in them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:8",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f the next day, the Philistines came to strip the dead and they found Saul and his three sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:9",
"text": "So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor. Then they sent messengers around in the land of the Philistines to proclaim victory in the temples of their idols and to the people. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:10",
"text": "And they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreth, and they fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:11",
"text": "When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard about it, what the Philistines had done to Saul, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:12",
"text": "all of \u231ethe valiant men\u231f set out and went all night and took the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "I Samuel 31:13",
"text": "Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "II Samuel",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:1",
"text": " \u231eAfter\u231f the death of Saul, David returned from defeating the Amalekites and he stayed at Ziklag two days. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:2",
"text": "On the third day, a man came from the camp from being with Saul, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head. \u231eWhen he came\u231f to David, he fell to the ground and bowed down. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:3",
"text": "David said to him, \u201cWhere did you come from?\u201d He said to him, \u201cI have escaped from the camp of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:4",
"text": "Then David said to him, \u201c\u231eHow did things go\u231f? Please tell me.\u201d He answered, \u201c\u231eWhen\u231f the army fled from the battle, and many of the people fell; also, Saul and Jonathan his son died.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:5",
"text": "Then David asked the young man who was reporting to him, \u201cHow do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan died?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:6",
"text": "The young man who was reporting to him said, \u201cI merely happened to be on Mount Gilboa. Here Saul was leaning on his spear, and look, the chariots and the horsemen were getting close to him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:7",
"text": "When he turned around and saw me, he called to me, and I said, \u2018Here I am.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:8",
"text": "Then he said to me, \u2018Who are you?\u2019 And I said to him, \u2018I am an Amalekite.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:9",
"text": "He said to me, \u2018Please stand over me and kill me, for convulsions have seized me, even though my life is still in me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:10",
"text": "So I stood over him and killed him, for I knew that he could not live after his falling; I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet which was on his arm; and here, I have brought them to my lord. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:11",
"text": "David grabbed at his clothes and tore them, as did all of the men who were with him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:12",
"text": "Then they mourned and wept and fasted over Saul and Jonathan his son until the evening, as well as over the people of Yahweh and over the house of Israel because they had fallen by the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:13",
"text": "Then David said to the young man who was reporting to him, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d And he said, \u201cI am the son of an alien man. I am an Amalekite.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:14",
"text": "David said to him, \u201cHow is it that you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh\u2019s anointed one?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:15",
"text": "Then David called to one of the young men and said to him, \u201cCome near; strike him.\u201d So he struck him down and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:16",
"text": "David said to him, \u201cYour blood is on your head, for your mouth has testified against you by saying, \u2018I killed Yahweh\u2019s anointed one!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:17",
"text": " Then David sang this funeral song over Saul and over Jonathan his son. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:18",
"text": "And he ordered \u201cThe Bow\u201d to be taught to the children of Judah. Look, it is written on the scroll of Jashar. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:19",
"text": " \u201cThe glory of Israel is on your high places; how the mighty have fallen! "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:20",
"text": " Do not tell it in Gath; do not proclaim it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:21",
"text": " O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you or on the fields of grain for offerings, for there the small shield of the mighty was defiled, the small shield of Saul was not anointed with oil. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:22",
"text": " From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not turn back, and the sword of Saul did not return \u231ewithout effect\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:23",
"text": " Saul and Jonathan were beloved and pleasant in their lives and were not separated in their death. They were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:24",
"text": " O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, the one who clothed you with crimson, the one who \u231eadorned your clothing with golden ornaments\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:25",
"text": " How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle; Jonathan lies slain on your high places. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:26",
"text": " \u231eI am distressed\u231f over you, my brother Jonathan. you were very dear to me; your love was more wonderful to me than the love of women. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Samuel 1:27",
"text": " How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of warfare perished.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:1",
"text": " It happened after this that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, \u201cShall I go up into one of the cities of Judah?\u201d And Yahweh said to him, \u201cGo up.\u201d David asked, \u201cWhere shall I go up?\u201d And he said, \u201cTo Hebron.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:2",
"text": "So David went up there \u231ealong with\u231f his two wives, Ahinoam \u231efrom Jezreel\u231f and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:3",
"text": "Also, David brought up his men who were with him, each \u231ewith\u231f his household, and they settled in the towns of Hebron. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:4",
"text": " Then the men of Judah came, and they anointed David there as king over the house of Judah, and they told David, \u201cThe men of Jabesh-Gilead buried Saul.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:5",
"text": "So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-Gilead and said to them, \u201cMay you be blessed by Yahweh because you did this loyal love with your lord, with Saul, and you buried him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:6",
"text": "Now may Yahweh show loyal love and faithfulness with you. I will also show the good with you that you have done in this matter. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:7",
"text": "So then, let your hands be strong and \u231ebe valiant\u231f, for your lord Saul is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me as king over them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:8",
"text": " But Abner the son of Ner, the commander of Saul\u2019s army, had taken Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:9",
"text": "He made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over Israel, all of it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:10",
"text": "Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul was forty years old when he became king over Israel and he reigned two years; however, the house of Judah \u231efollowed\u231f David. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:11",
"text": "The number of days that David was king over Hebron, over the house of Judah, was seven years and six months. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:12",
"text": " Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:13",
"text": "Then Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out, and they met at the pool of Gibeon. The one group sat on one side of the pool, and the other sat on the other side. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:14",
"text": "Abner said to Joab, \u201cLet the young men come up and fight in our presence.\u201d And Joab said, \u201cLet them come up.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:15",
"text": "So they came forward and passed by in number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:16",
"text": "Then each seized his \u231eopponent\u231f by the head and each thrust his sword in the side of his opponent, so they fell together. So they called the name of that place Helkath Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:17",
"text": "Then the battle \u231ebecame increasingly fierce\u231f on that day, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated before the servants of David. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:18",
"text": " The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel. Now Asahel was swift with his feet as one of the gazelles which is in the open field. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:19",
"text": "So Asahel pursued Abner, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left from going after Abner. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:20",
"text": "Abner turned around and said, \u201cAre you this Asahel?\u201d And he said, \u201cYes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:21",
"text": "Abner said to him, \u201cTurn aside to your right or to your left; seize for yourself one of the young men, and take his belongings for yourself.\u201d But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:22",
"text": "So Abner said to Asahel \u231eonce again\u231f, \u201c\u231eFor your own sake\u231f, turn aside \u231efrom following me\u231f. Why should I strike you down to the ground? How could I \u231eshow my face\u231f to Joab your brother?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:23",
"text": "But he refused to turn away, so Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of the spear, and the spear went out of his back. He fell there and he died \u231eon the spot\u231f. \u231eThen\u231f all who came to the place where Asahel fell and died just stood there. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:24",
"text": " So Joab and Abishai pursued Abner \u231ewhen\u231f the sun went down. And they came to the hill country of Ammah, which is \u231ebefore Giah\u231f on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:25",
"text": "The descendants of Benjamin rallied after Abner, and they became as one fighting group and stood on the top of a certain hill. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:26",
"text": "Then Abner called to Joab and said, \u201cWill the sword devour forever? Do you not know that there will be bitterness in the end? \u231eHow long\u231f will you not tell the people to turn \u231eaway from pursuing\u231f their brothers?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:27",
"text": "Joab said, \u201c\u231eAs God lives\u231f, for if you had not spoken, the people would surely have gone up in the morning, each one of them \u231efrom following after\u231f his brother.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:28",
"text": "Then Joab blew on the trumpet and all the people stopped, and they no longer pursued after Israel, and they did not fight with them again. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:29",
"text": " Then Abner and his men went through the Arabah all that night, and they crossed over the Jordan. They went all the forenoon and came to Mahanaim. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:30",
"text": "After Joab returned from pursuing Abner, he gathered all the people; nineteen of the servants of David were missing along with Asahel. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:31",
"text": "The servants of David had killed some of the Benjaminites among the men of Abner; three hundred and sixty men had died. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Samuel 2:32",
"text": "Then they picked up Asahel and buried him in the grave of his father, which was at Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all that night \u231earriving in Hebron at first light\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:1",
"text": " The battle was prolonged between the house of Saul and the house of David, but David \u231ewas growing stronger and stronger\u231f while the house of Saul \u231ewas becoming weaker and weaker\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:2",
"text": "And sons were born to David in Hebron; his firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam \u231efrom Jezreel\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:3",
"text": "His second was Kileab by Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; the third was Absalom the son of Maacah, who was the daughter of Talmai the king of Geshur. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:4",
"text": "The fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith; the fifth was Shephatiah the son of Abital. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:5",
"text": "The sixth was Ithream by Eglah the wife of David. These were born to David in Hebron. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:6",
"text": " As the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was continuing, Abner was strengthening himself in the house of Saul. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:7",
"text": "Saul had had a concubine, and her name was Rizpah the daughter of Aiah. Then Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, \u201cWhy \u231edid you have sex with\u231f my father\u2019s concubine?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:8",
"text": "\u231eAbner became very angry\u231f at the words of Ish-Bosheth, and he said, \u201cAm I the head of a dog which is for Judah today? Do I not continue to show loyal love with the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends? I have not let you fall into the hands of David, yet you have \u231eaccused me of sin with this woman\u231f today. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:9",
"text": "Thus \u231emay God punish Abner\u231f, \u231eif I do not accomplish what Yahweh has sworn to David\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:10",
"text": "specifically, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah from Dan to Beersheba!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:11",
"text": "And Ish-Bosheth was no longer able to \u231eanswer\u231f Abner \u231ebecause he feared him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:12",
"text": " Abner sent messengers to David \u231ewhere he was\u231f, saying, \u201cTo whom does the land belong? \u231eMake your covenant with me\u231f! Look, my hand is with you to bring all of Israel over to you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:13",
"text": "He said, \u201cGood. \u231eI will make a covenant with you\u231f. I am asking only one thing from you: You shall not see my face unless you bring Michal the daughter of Saul when you come to see \u231eme\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:14",
"text": "Then David sent messengers to Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul, saying, \u201cGive me my wife Michal whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:15",
"text": "So Ish-Bosheth sent and took her from her husband, from Paltiel the son of Laish. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:16",
"text": "But her husband went with her, \u231eweeping all along\u231f after her as far as Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, \u201cGo and return.\u201d So he returned. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:17",
"text": " The word of Abner \u231ecame to\u231f the elders of Israel, saying, \u201c\u231eFor quite some time\u231f you were seeking David as king over you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:18",
"text": "So then, bring it about, because Yahweh had said to David, \u201cThrough the hand of David my servant I am about to save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:19",
"text": "Abner also spoke \u231eprivately to Benjamin\u231f. Abner also went \u231eto speak to David\u231f in Hebron, all that was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:20",
"text": " Then Abner came to David in Hebron and with him were twenty men. David had prepared a feast for Abner and for the men who were with him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:21",
"text": "And Abner said to David, \u201cLet me get up and go and gather all of Israel to my lord the king, that they may \u231emake a covenant\u231f with you so you can reign over all which your soul desires.\u201d So David dismissed Abner, and he left in peace. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:22",
"text": "And look, the servants of David and Joab came from the raid, and they brought much plunder with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had dismissed him, and he had gone in peace. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:23",
"text": "When Joab and all the army that was with him came, they told Joab, \u201cAbner the son of Ner came to the king, and he sent him away, and he left in peace.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:24",
"text": " Then Joab came to the king and said, \u201cWhat have you done? Abner came here to you? Why have you dismissed him that he \u231eactually went away\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:25",
"text": "You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you. He came to learn about your going out and coming in and to know all which you are doing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:26",
"text": "Then Joab went out from David, and he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from Bor Hasirah, but David did not know it. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:27",
"text": " When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate to speak with him in private. Then he struck him in the stomach there and he died, \u231efor he had shed the blood of Asahel his brother\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:28",
"text": "When David heard this afterwards, he said: \u201cI and my kingdom are innocent \u231ebefore Yahweh\u231f forever for the blood of Abner the son of Ner. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:29",
"text": "May the blood come down on the head of Joab and all the house of his father. \u231eMay the house of Joab never lack\u231f one with a bodily discharge or one with leprosy or one who grasps the distaff or one who falls by the sword or one who is lacking food.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:30",
"text": " So Joab and Abishai, his brother, killed Abner because he had killed Asahel, their brother, at Gibeon in the battle. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:31",
"text": "David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, \u201cTear your clothing and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner.\u201d Now King David was following after the bier. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:32",
"text": "And they buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:33",
"text": "The king sang a lament for Abner and said, \u201cShould Abner have died the death of a fool? "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:34",
"text": "Your hands were not tied and your feet were not in contact with bronze fetters. You have fallen as one who falls before sons of wickedness.\u201d Then \u231eall the people wept over him again\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:35",
"text": "Then all the people came to give David food. Still on that day, David swore, \u201c\u231eMay God punish me\u231f if I taste food or anything before the sun goes down.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:36",
"text": "All the people noticed, and it was good in their eyes, as everything that the king did was good in the eyes of all the people. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:37",
"text": "Then all the people and all of Israel realized on that day that \u231ethe king had not desired\u231f to kill Abner the son of Ner. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:38",
"text": "Then the king said to his servants, \u201cDid you not realize that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Samuel 3:39",
"text": "I am weak today even though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are crueler than I am. May Yahweh pay them back for doing wickedness according to their own wickedness.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:1",
"text": " When the son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, \u231ehis courage failed\u231f and all of Israel was horrified. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:2",
"text": "Two of the men, commanders of the raiding bands, were for the son of Saul. The name of one was Baanah, and the name of the other was Recab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite from the descendants of Benjamin; also, Beeroth was regarded as belonging to Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:3",
"text": "The Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and they are resident aliens there until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:4",
"text": "(Now Jonathan the son of Saul had a son who was crippled in the feet. He was five years old when the message of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse had picked him up and fled. It happened that as she was hurrying away to flee, he fell and became crippled. His name was Mephibosheth.) "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:5",
"text": "When the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Recab and Baanah, set out, they came at the heat of the day to the house of Ish-Bosheth while \u231ehe was taking a noontime rest\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:6",
"text": "They came as far as the middle of the house as if takers of wheat, and they struck him in the stomach. Then Recab and Baanah his brother escaped. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:7",
"text": "When they had come into the house, he was lying on his couch \u231ein his bedchamber\u231f, and they attacked him and killed him. Then they \u231ebeheaded him\u231f, and they took his head and went on the way of the Arabah all night. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:8",
"text": "They brought the head of Ish-Bosheth to David at Hebron, and they said to the king, \u201cHere is the head of Ish-Bosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life. Yahweh has given to my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and on his offspring.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:9",
"text": "Then David answered Recab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and he said to them, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, who redeemed my soul from all trouble, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:10",
"text": "when the one who told me, \u201cLook, Saul is dead,\u201d \u231ethought that he was bringing good news\u231f, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was as my giving the news back to him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:11",
"text": "\u231eHow much more\u231f when wicked men kill a righteous man in his house, on his bed! So then, shall I not seek his lifeblood from your hand, so that I may destroy you from the earth?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Samuel 4:12",
"text": "Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them, and they cut off their hands and their feet, and they hung them at the pool at Hebron, but the head of Ish-Bosheth they took and buried in the grave of Abner at Hebron. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:1",
"text": " So all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and they said, \u201cHere we are, \u231ewe are your flesh and blood\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:2",
"text": "\u231eFor some time\u231f, when Saul was king over us, \u231eyou were leading Israel in and out\u231f. Yahweh had said to you, \u2018You shall be the shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be the leader over Israel.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:3",
"text": "All the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David \u231emade a covenant\u231f with them at Hebron in the presence of Yahweh; then they anointed David as king over Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:4",
"text": "David was thirty years old when he began to reign; he reigned forty years. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:5",
"text": "He reigned over Judah at Hebron for seven years and six months; and he reigned over all Israel and Judah at Jerusalem for thirty-three years. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:6",
"text": " The king and his men went to Jerusalem, to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land. They said to David, \u201cYou will not come here, for even the blind and the lame can turn you back, saying, \u2018David cannot come here.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:7",
"text": "David captured the fortress of Zion, the city of David. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:8",
"text": "David had said, \u201cOn that day \u231ewhen we attack the Jebusites\u231f, one must attack the lame and the blind, those who hate the soul of David, by means of the water supply.\u201d For thus the blind and the lame would say, \u201cHe cannot come into the house.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:9",
"text": "David occupied the fortress and called it the city of David. And David built all around it from the Millo and \u231einward\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:10",
"text": " David \u231econtinued growing stronger and stronger\u231f, and Yahweh the God of hosts was with him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:11",
"text": "So Hiram, the king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, along with cedar trees and \u231ecraftsmen skilled in wood and in stone masonry\u231f, and they built a house for David. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:12",
"text": "David realized that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom because of his people Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:13",
"text": "David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:14",
"text": "These are the names of the ones born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:15",
"text": "Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:16",
"text": "Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:17",
"text": " When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David as king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard and went down to the stronghold. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:18",
"text": "Now the Philistines had come, and they spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:19",
"text": "And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, \u201cShall I go up to the Philistines? Will you give them into my hands?\u201d Yahweh said to David, \u201cGo up, for \u231eI will certainly give\u231f the Philistines into your hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:20",
"text": "So David came to Baal Perazim and defeated them there; and David said, \u201cYahweh has burst through my enemies before me like the bursting of water.\u201d Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:21",
"text": "They had left their idols there, so David and his men carried them away. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:22",
"text": " \u231eOnce again\u231f the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:23",
"text": "So David inquired of Yahweh, but he said, \u201cYou shall not go up. Rather, go around to their rear and come to them from opposite the balsam trees. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:24",
"text": "\u231eAnd it shall be\u231f that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then pay attention, for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Samuel 5:25",
"text": "So David did thus, just as Yahweh had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Geba \u231eall the way\u231f to Gezer. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:1",
"text": " David again gathered all the chosen men in Israel, thirty thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:2",
"text": "David got up and went and all the people who were with him, from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called the name, the name of Yahweh of hosts, \u231eupon which the cherubim sit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:3",
"text": "They loaded the ark of God on a new utility cart, and they carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Now Uzza and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new utility cart along. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:4",
"text": "So they brought it out from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill with the ark of God, and Ahio was going before the ark. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:5",
"text": "Now David and all the house of Israel were dancing before Yahweh, with all kinds of musical instruments made from ash trees, and with zithers, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:6",
"text": "When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzza reached out to the ark of God and took hold of it, because the oxen had stumbled. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:7",
"text": "\u231eThen the anger of Yahweh was kindled\u231f against Uzza, and God struck him down there because of the indiscretion, and he died there beside the ark of God. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:8",
"text": "\u231eDavid was angry\u231f because Yahweh had burst out against Uzza, and he called that place Perez-Uzza until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:9",
"text": "But David feared Yahweh on that day and said, \u201cHow can the ark of Yahweh come to me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:10",
"text": "However, David was not willing to bring the ark of Yahweh to himself, to the city of David, so David caused it to turn to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:11",
"text": "So the ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom and all his household. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:12",
"text": " It was told to King David, \u201cYahweh has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and all that is his because of the ark of God.\u201d So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David with jubilation. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:13",
"text": "It happened that when the carriers of the ark of Yahweh had marched six steps that he sacrificed an ox and a fatling. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:14",
"text": "Now David was dancing with all his might before Yahweh, and David was wearing a linen ephod. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:15",
"text": "So David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of Yahweh with shouts of joyful acclaim and with the sound of the trumpet. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:16",
"text": "It happened that when the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before Yahweh, and she despised him in her heart. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:17",
"text": " They brought the ark of Yahweh and set it in its place in the middle of the tent which David had pitched for it. Then David offered up burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the presence of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:18",
"text": "When David had finished from the sacrificing of the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:19",
"text": "Then he distributed to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, from man to woman, to each: one ring-shaped piece of bread, one cake of dates, and one cake of raisins; and all the people went each to his house. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:20",
"text": " When David returned to bless his household, Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David. She said, \u201cHow the king of Israel honored himself today \u231eby uncovering himself\u231f before the eyes of the maids of his servants, \u231eas the total exposure of a worthless one\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:21",
"text": "So David said to Michal, \u201cIn the presence of Yahweh who chose me \u231eover\u231f your father and \u231eover\u231f his household, to appoint me as leader over the people of Yahweh, over Israel, I have celebrated before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:22",
"text": "I will demean myself again more than this, and I will be abased in my eyes, but with the maids whom you mentioned, with them I will be honored.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Samuel 6:23",
"text": "So for Michal the daughter of Saul, she had no child until the day of her death. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:1",
"text": " It happened that the king settled in his house. (Now Yahweh had given rest to him from all his enemies all around.) "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:2",
"text": "And the king said to Nathan the prophet, \u201cLook, please, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is staying in the middle of the tent.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:3",
"text": "Nathan said to the king, \u201cGo and do all that is in your heart, for Yahweh is with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:4",
"text": "But it happened \u231ethat night\u231f, the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:5",
"text": "\u201cGo and tell my servant David, \u2018Thus says Yahweh: \u201cAre you the one to build for me a house for my dwelling? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:6",
"text": "For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought up the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from Egypt until this day; rather, I was going about in a tent and in a tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:7",
"text": "In all of my going about among all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, \u2018Why did you not build me a cedar house?\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:8",
"text": "So then, thus you shall say to my servant David, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cI took you from the pasture \u231efrom following\u231f the sheep to be a leader over my people, over Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:9",
"text": "and I have been with you \u231eeverywhere you went\u231f. I have cut off all of your enemies from in front of you, and I will make a great name for you, as the name of the great ones who are on the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:10",
"text": "I will make a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them so that they can dwell \u231ein their own place\u231f. They will not tremble any longer, and the children of wickedness will not afflict them again, as in the former days. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:11",
"text": "\u231eIn the manner that\u231f I appointed judges over my people Israel, I will give you rest from all your enemies. And Yahweh declares to you that Yahweh will build a house for you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:12",
"text": "When your days are full and you lie down with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you who will go out from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:13",
"text": "He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:14",
"text": "I will be a father to him, and he will be a son for me, whom I will punish when he does wrong, with a rod of men and with blows of the \u231ehuman beings\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:15",
"text": "But my loyal love shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:16",
"text": "Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before you; your throne shall be established forever.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:17",
"text": " According to all these words and according to all this vision, this Nathan spoke to David. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:18",
"text": "Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, \u201cWho am I, my lord Yahweh, and what is my house that you have brought me up to \u231ethis place\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:19",
"text": "Still, this was \u231einsignificant\u231f in your eyes, my lord Yahweh, and also you have spoken about the house of your servant from afar, and this may be the teaching of humans, my lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:20",
"text": "\u231eWhat more can David say to you\u231f? You know your servant, my lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:21",
"text": "Because of your word and according to your heart, you have done all of this great thing, in order to let your servant know. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:22",
"text": "Therefore you are great, my lord Yahweh, for there is no one like you, and there is no god except you, in all that we have heard with our ears. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:23",
"text": "Who is like your people, like Israel? Israel is the one nation on earth whose God \u231eled them\u231f, in order to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to do for you the great and awesome things for your land in the presence of your people whom he redeemed for himself from Egypt, from the nations and their gods. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:24",
"text": "You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O Yahweh, have become their God. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:25",
"text": "So then, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do just as you have promised. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:26",
"text": "Your name shall be great forever, \u231eand they will say\u231f, \u2018Yahweh of hosts is God over Israel\u2019; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:27",
"text": "For you, O Yahweh of hosts, are God of Israel! You have revealed to the ear of your servant, \u2018I will build a house for you\u2019; therefore your servant \u231ehas found courage\u231f to pray this prayer to you. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:28",
"text": "Now, my Lord Yahweh, you alone are God, and your words are true. You have promised this good to your servant. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Samuel 7:29",
"text": "So then, be content and bless the house of your servant to be forever in your presence, for you, my Lord Yahweh, have spoken, and because of your blessing, may the house of your servant be blessed forever.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:1",
"text": " It happened afterwards that David attacked the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Metheg Ammah from the hands of the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:2",
"text": "When he defeated Moab, he measured them with the cord, making them lie on the ground. He measured two cords to kill and \u231ethe third cord\u231f to let live. So Moab became servants of David, bringing tribute. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:3",
"text": "Then David struck down Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to restore his monument at the Euphrates River. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:4",
"text": "David captured from him one thousand and seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand \u231efoot soldiers\u231f. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but \u231efrom them\u231f he spared a hundred chariot horses. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:5",
"text": "When Aram of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, the king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand men of Aram. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:6",
"text": "David placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, so Aram became servants of David, bringing tribute. Yahweh protected David everywhere he went. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:7",
"text": " David took the small round gold shields which had \u231ebelonged\u231f to the servants of Hadadezer, and he brought them to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:8",
"text": "From Betah and from Berothai, the towns of Hadadezer, King David took very many bronze items. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:9",
"text": " When Toi, the king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:10",
"text": "Toi sent Joram his son to King David \u231eto greet him\u231f and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; \u231efor Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi\u231f. \u231eHe brought with him\u231f objects of silver and objects of gold and objects of bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:11",
"text": "King David dedicated them also to Yahweh along with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated from all of the nations which he had subdued; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:12",
"text": "from Aram and from Moab and from the \u231eAmmonites\u231f and from the Philistines and from Amalek and from the plunder of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:13",
"text": "So David made a name for himself when he returned from defeating Aram in the Valley of Salt, eighteen thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:14",
"text": "He put garrisons in Edom; all over Edom he put garrisons, and all of Edom became servants of David. Yahweh protected David wherever he went. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:15",
"text": " David reigned over all of Israel, and he was administering justice and righteousness for all his people. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:16",
"text": "Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was secretary. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:17",
"text": "Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests and Seraiah was scribe. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Samuel 8:18",
"text": "Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and the sons of David were priests. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:1",
"text": " Then David said, \u201cIs there still anyone who is left for the house of Saul that I may show loyal love to him for the sake of Jonathan?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:2",
"text": "Now Saul\u2019s household had a servant whose name was Ziba, so they summoned him to David, and the king asked him, \u201cAre you Ziba?\u201d He said, \u201c\u231eAt your service\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:3",
"text": "Then the king said, \u201cBut is there still anyone of Saul\u2019s household that I may show the loyal love of God with him?\u201d And Ziba said to the king, \u201cThere is still a son of Jonathan who is lame in the feet.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:4",
"text": "The king said to him, \u201cWhere is he?\u201d And Ziba said to the king, \u201c\u231eHe is here\u231f in the house of Makir the son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:5",
"text": "So King David sent and brought him from the house of Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:6",
"text": "So Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David. And he fell on his face and did obeisance. David said, \u201cMephibosheth,\u201d and he said, \u201c\u231eI am ready to serve you\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:7",
"text": "Then David said to him, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, for \u231eI will certainly show\u231f loyal love to you for the sake of Jonathan your father, and I will restore to you all the lands of Saul your father. And you shall always eat food at my table.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:8",
"text": "Then he did obeisance and said, \u201cWhat is your servant that you have paid attention to the dead dog like me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:9",
"text": " David summoned Ziba the servant of Saul and said to him, \u201cAll that was Saul\u2019s and all his household I have given to the son of your master. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:10",
"text": "You shall till the land for him, you and your sons and your servants; you shall bring in the produce and it shall be food for the son of your master that he may eat. But Mephibosheth the son of your master may always eat food at my table.\u201d (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty slaves.) "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:11",
"text": "Ziba said to the king, \u201cAccording to all that my master the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.\u201d So Mephibosheth was eating at his table as one of the sons of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:12",
"text": "Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Micah, and all of the dwelling of the household of Ziba became servants for Mephibosheth. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Samuel 9:13",
"text": "And Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem, because he was continually eating at the table of the king, even though he was lame in both of his feet. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:1",
"text": " \u231eAfterwards the king of the Ammonites died\u231f, and his son Hanun ruled in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:2",
"text": "David said, \u201cI will show loyal love with Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father showed loyal love with me.\u201d So David sent to console him concerning his father, by the hand of his servants. And the servants of David came to the land of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:3",
"text": "But the commanders of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f said to Hanun their master, \u201c\u231eIn your opinion\u231f, is David honoring your father because he has sent condolences to you? Is it not in order to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it that David sent his servants to you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:4",
"text": "Then Hanun took the servants of David, and he shaved off half of their beards and cut their garments off in the middle up to their buttocks, then sent them away. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:5",
"text": "When they told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, \u201cRemain in Jericho until your beards have grown, and then you can return.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:6",
"text": " When the \u231eAmmonites\u231f saw that they had become odious to David, the \u231eAmmonites\u231f sent word and hired Aram Beth-Rehob and Aram-Zobah, twenty thousand infantry; and they also hired the king of Maacah, a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:7",
"text": "When David heard, he sent Joab and all the army of mighty warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:8",
"text": "The \u231eAmmonites\u231f came out and \u231edrew up a battle formation\u231f at the entrance of the gate, but Aram-Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were alone in the open field. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:9",
"text": "When Joab saw that \u231ethe battle was to be fought on two fronts\u231f, he chose from all the members of the elite troops of Israel and \u231elined them up for battle\u231f to meet Aram. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:10",
"text": "The rest of the army he placed into the hand of his brother Abishai, who \u231earranged them in battle lines\u231f to meet the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:11",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cIf Aram is stronger than I am, you must become my deliverer; but if the \u231eAmmonites\u231f are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:12",
"text": "Be strong, and let us strengthen ourselves for the sake of the people and for the sake of the cities of our God. May Yahweh do what is good in his eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:13",
"text": "Joab and all the people who were with him moved forward into the battle against Aram, and they fled from before him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:14",
"text": "When the \u231eAmmonites\u231f saw that Aram had fled, they fled from before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the \u231eAmmonites\u231f and came to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:15",
"text": " When the Arameans saw that they were defeated before Israel, they gathered themselves together. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:16",
"text": "Then Hadadezer sent and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam. Now Shobach, the commander of the army of Hadadezer, \u231ewas at their head\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:17",
"text": "David was told, so he gathered all Israel and crossed over the Jordan and came to Helam. Aram \u231earranged themselves in battle lines\u231f to meet David, and they fought with him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:18",
"text": "And Aram fled before Israel, and David killed from the Arameans seven hundred chariot teams and forty thousand horsemen. He struck down Shobach, the commander of his army, and he died there. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Samuel 10:19",
"text": "When all the kings, the servants of Hadadezer, saw that he had been defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them, and Aram was afraid to help the \u231eAmmonites\u231f any longer. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:1",
"text": " \u231eIt came about in the spring\u231f, at the time \u231ekings\u231f go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him and all of Israel. They ravaged all of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f and besieged Rabbah, but David was remaining in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:2",
"text": "It happened \u231elate one afternoon\u231f that David got up from his bed and walked about on the roof of the king\u2019s house, and he saw a woman bathing on her roof. Now the woman \u231ewas very beautiful\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:3",
"text": "David sent and inquired about the woman, and someone said, \u201cIs this not Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:4",
"text": "Then David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) And she returned to her house. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:5",
"text": "The woman became pregnant, and she sent and told David, and she said, \u201cI am pregnant.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:6",
"text": "So David sent to Joab, \u201cSend Uriah the Hittite to me.\u201d So Joab sent Uriah to David. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:7",
"text": "Uriah came to him, and David asked \u231ehow Joab and the army fared and how the war was going\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:8",
"text": "David said to Uriah, \u201cGo down to your house, and wash your feet.\u201d So Uriah went out from the king\u2019s house, and a gift from the king went out after him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:9",
"text": "But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king\u2019s house with all the servants of his master and did not go down to his house. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:10",
"text": "They told David, \u201cUriah did not go down to his house.\u201d David said to Uriah, \u201cAre you not coming from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:11",
"text": "Uriah said to David, \u201cThe ark and Israel and Judah are living in the booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping on the surface of the open field; and I, shall I go to my house to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I surely will not do this thing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:12",
"text": "David said to Uriah, \u201cRemain here \u231etoday\u231f, and tomorrow I will send you away.\u201d So Uriah remained in Jerusalem on that day and the next. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:13",
"text": "David invited him, and he ate and drank in his presence \u231eso that he became drunk\u231f, and he went out in the evening to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:14",
"text": "And it happened in the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and he sent it by the hand of Uriah. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:15",
"text": "He had written in the letter, \u201cPut Uriah in the front, in the face of the fiercest fighting, then draw back from behind him so that he may be struck down and die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:16",
"text": " \u231eWhen Joab was besieging\u231f the city, he put Uriah toward the place which he knew \u231ethere were valiant warriors\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:17",
"text": "The men of the city came out and fought with Joab. Some from the army from the servants of David fell; Uriah the Hittite also died. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:18",
"text": "Joab sent and told David all of the news of the battle. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:19",
"text": "He instructed the messenger, saying, \u201cAs you are finishing to speak all the news of the battle to the king, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:20",
"text": "if the anger of the king rises and he says to you, \u2018Why did you go near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from atop the wall? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:21",
"text": "Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerub-bosheth, if not a woman who threw an upper millstone on him from atop the wall and he died at Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?\u2019 Then you shall say, \u2018Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:22",
"text": "Then the messenger left, and he came and told David all that Joab had sent him to say. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:23",
"text": "The messenger said to David, \u201cBecause \u231ethe men overpowered us\u231f, the men came out to us in the field, but \u231ewe forced them back\u231f to the entrance of the gate. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:24",
"text": "The archers shot at your servant from atop the wall, and some of the servants of the king died; your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:25",
"text": "Then David said to the messenger, \u201cThus you shall say to Joab, \u2018\u231eDo not feel badly about this matter\u231f; \u231enow one and then another\u231f the sword will devour. Intensify your attack on the city and overthrow it.\u2019\u00a0\u201d And he encouraged him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:26",
"text": "When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned over her husband. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Samuel 11:27",
"text": "When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his household, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:1",
"text": " So Yahweh sent Nathan to David, and he came to him and said, \u201cTwo men were in a certain city; one was rich and the other was poor. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:2",
"text": "The rich man had very many flocks and herds, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:3",
"text": "but the poor man had nothing except for one small ewe lamb which he had bought. He had nurtured her, and she grew up with him and with his children together. She used to eat from his morsel and drink from his cup, and she used to lie in his lap and became like a daughter for him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:4",
"text": "And a visitor came to the rich man, but he \u231ewas reluctant\u231f to take from his flocks or from his herds to prepare a meal for the traveler when he came to him. So he took the ewe lamb of the poor man and prepared it for the man who had come to him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:5",
"text": "Then \u231ethe anger of David was kindled\u231f against the man, and he said to Nathan, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, the man who has done this \u231edeserves to die\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:6",
"text": "He shall restore the ewe lamb fourfold because he has done this thing, and because he had no pity.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:7",
"text": "Then Nathan said to him, \u201cYou are the man! Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: \u2018I anointed you as king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:8",
"text": "I gave you the household of your master and the women of your master into your lap. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah; if that had been too little, I would have added to you \u231emuch more\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:9",
"text": "Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to yourself as wife! You have killed him with the sword of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:10",
"text": "So then, a sword will not turn away from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:11",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh, \u2018Look, I am going to raise up evil against you from within your house, and I will take your women before your eyes, and I will give them to your neighbor, and he shall sleep with your wives \u231ein broad daylight\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:12",
"text": "Though you did this in secret, I will do this thing before all of Israel \u231ein broad daylight\u231f!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:13",
"text": " Then David said to Nathan, \u201cI have sinned against Yahweh!\u201d Nathan said to David, \u201cYahweh has also forgiven your sin; you shall not die. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:14",
"text": "But because you have \u231eutterly scorned\u231f Yahweh in this matter, the son born for you \u231ewill certainly die\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:15",
"text": "Then Nathan went to his house, and Yahweh struck the child that the wife of Uriah bore for David, and he became ill. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:16",
"text": "David pleaded with God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:17",
"text": "The elders of his household stood over him to lift him up from the ground, but he was not willing, and he did not eat any food with them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:18",
"text": "It happened on the seventh day that the child died, and the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, \u201cLook, when the child was alive, we spoke to him, but he would not listen to our voice. How can we tell him, \u2018The child is dead\u2019? He may do something evil.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:19",
"text": "When David saw that his servants were whispering together, he realized that the child was dead. Then David said to his servants, \u201cIs the child dead?\u201d And they said, \u201cHe is dead.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:20",
"text": "David stood up from the ground and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothing. Then he went to the house of Yahweh and worshiped, and he went to his own house. He asked, so they served him food, and he ate. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:21",
"text": "Then his servants said to him, \u201cWhat is this thing that you have done? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept; now that the child has died, you get up and eat food!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:22",
"text": "He said, \u201cWhen the child was still alive, I fasted and I wept because I thought, \u2018Who knows? Yahweh may have mercy on me that the child will live.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:23",
"text": "But now he is dead. Why should I be fasting? Am I able to return him again? I am going to him, but he cannot return to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:24",
"text": "David consoled Bathsheba his wife, and he went to her and slept with her. She bore a son, and he called him Solomon, and Yahweh loved him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:25",
"text": "He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet, so he called him Jedidiah because of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:26",
"text": " And Joab fought against Rabbah of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, and he captured \u231ethe royal city\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:27",
"text": "Then Joab sent messengers to David and said, \u201cWe have fought against Rabbah, and we captured the city of the waters. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:28",
"text": "So then, gather the remainder of the army and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and my name be proclaimed over it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:29",
"text": "So David gathered all of the army, and he went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:30",
"text": "He took the crown of their king from his head. (Now its weight was a talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it and it was put on David\u2019s head.) He brought out the plunder of the city \u231ein great abundance\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Samuel 12:31",
"text": "He also brought out the people who were in it and put them to the saws and to the iron picks and to the iron axes, and he sent them to the place of the brickmakers. Thus he used to do to all the cities of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:1",
"text": " It happened afterwards that Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar, and Amnon the son of David fell in love with her. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:2",
"text": "And Amnon \u231ewas so frustrated that he felt ill\u231f because of Tamar his sister, because she was a virgin, and it was too difficult in Amnon\u2019s eyes to do anything with her. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:3",
"text": "Now Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David. (Now Jonadab was a very crafty man.) "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:4",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cWhy are you so sullen \u231eevery morning\u231f, O son of the king? Will you not tell me?\u201d And Amnon said to him, \u201cI am in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:5",
"text": "Then Jonadab said to him, \u201cLie down on your bed and appear ill. If your father comes to see you, you shall say to him, \u2018Please let Tamar my sister come and give me food to eat, and let her prepare the food before my eyes, in order that I may see it and eat from her hand.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:6",
"text": "So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill, and the king came to see him. Amnon said to the king, \u201cPlease let Tamar my sister come, and let her bake two cakes before my eyes that I may eat from her hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:7",
"text": "So David sent to the house for Tamar, saying, \u201cPlease go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare food for him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:8",
"text": "Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother. Now he was lying down, and she took the dough and kneaded it and made cakes before his eyes, and she baked the cakes. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:9",
"text": "Then she took the pan and poured it out before him, but he refused to eat. Then Amnon said, \u201cLet all the men go out from me.\u201d So all the men went out from him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:10",
"text": "Then Amnon said to Tamar, \u201cBring the food to the private room that I may eat from your hand.\u201d So Tamar took the cakes which she had made and brought them to Amnon her brother in the private room. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:11",
"text": "When she brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, \u201cCome, lie with me, my sister!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:12",
"text": "Then Tamar said to him, \u201cNo, my brother! Do not force me, for such a thing has not been done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:13",
"text": "As for me, where should I take my disgrace? You will be as one of the fools in Israel. So please, speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:14",
"text": "But he was not willing to listen to her voice. He was stronger than she, and he forced her and lay with her. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:15",
"text": " Then Amnon hated her \u231every deeply\u231f, for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. So Amnon said to her, \u201cGet up and go.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:16",
"text": "She said to him, \u201cNo, because this evil in sending me away is greater than the other you have done to me.\u201d But he was not willing to listen to her. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:17",
"text": "Then he called his young man who was serving him and said, \u201cPlease send this woman from me to the outside, and bolt the door behind her!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:18",
"text": "Now there was a long-sleeved robe on her, for so they clothed the daughters of the king who were virgins, in robes. His servant put her outside, and he bolted the door behind her. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:19",
"text": "Tamar put ashes on her head, and she tore the long-sleeved robe which was on her. She put her hand on her head, and \u231eshe went away, crying out as she went\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:20",
"text": "Absalom her brother said to her, \u201cWas Amnon your brother with you? But now, my sister, be quiet; he is your brother. \u231eDo not take this matter to heart\u231f.\u201d So Tamar remained a desolate woman in the house of Absalom her brother. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:21",
"text": " Now King David heard all these things, and \u231ehe became very angry\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:22",
"text": "Absalom did not speak with Amnon \u231eeither bad or good\u231f, for Absalom hated Amnon \u231eover the matter when\u231f he raped Tamar his sister. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:23",
"text": "\u231eAbout two full years later\u231f, Absalom\u2019s shearers were in Baal Hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom summoned all the sons of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:24",
"text": "Then Absalom went to the king and said, \u201cLook, here are your servant\u2019s shearers; please let the king and his servants go with your servant. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:25",
"text": "The king said to Absalom, \u201cNo my son, not all of us shall go, so that we not be a burden to you.\u201d And he urged him, but he was not willing to go, but he blessed him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:26",
"text": "So Absalom said, \u201cBut will you not let Amnon my brother go with us?\u201d And the king said to him, \u201cWhy should he go with you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:27",
"text": "But Absalom pressed him, so he sent Amnon with him and all of the sons of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:28",
"text": "Absalom commanded his servants, saying, \u201cPlease watch. At the moment the heart of Amnon is \u231etipsy\u231f with wine, then I shall say to you, \u2018Strike Amnon down,\u2019 and you shall kill him! Don\u2019t be afraid. Is it not I myself who has commanded you? Be courageous and be \u231evaliant!\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:29",
"text": "So Absalom\u2019s servants did to Amnon just as Absalom commanded, and all the sons of the king got up, and each mounted his mule and fled. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:30",
"text": " \u231eWhile they were on the way\u231f, the message came to David, \u201cAbsalom has killed all the sons of the king, and not one of them was left.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:31",
"text": "Then the king rose and tore his garments, and he lay on the ground, and all his servants standing by were tearing their garments. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:32",
"text": "Then Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David, responded and said, \u201cMy lord should not think that all the young men, the sons of the king, are dead, because only Amnon is dead. \u231eAbsalom was talking about it\u231f, as it was being determined from the day he raped Tamar his sister. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:33",
"text": "So then, let not my lord the king set his heart on this matter, thinking, \u2018All the sons of the king are dead,\u2019 for only Amnon alone is dead.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:34",
"text": " So Absalom fled, and the young man who was keeping watch lifted up his eyes and saw, and there were many people coming from the road behind him from the side of the mountain. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:35",
"text": "Jonadab said to the king, \u201cLook, the sons of the king have come. According to the word of your servant, so it has come about.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:36",
"text": "When he finished speaking, look, the sons of the king came and they lifted up their voice and wept. Also, the king and all his servants wept a very great weeping. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:37",
"text": "Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, the king of Geshur. David mourned over his son \u231eday after day\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:38",
"text": "But Absalom had fled and went to Geshur, and he was there three years. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Samuel 13:39",
"text": "King David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was consoled that Amnon had died. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:1",
"text": " Joab the son of Zeruiah realized that the mind of the king was on Absalom. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:2",
"text": "So Joab sent to Tekoa and took from there a wise woman, and he said to her, \u201cPlease pretend to mourn and put on garments of mourning. You should not anoint yourself with oil, and you must act like this woman who has been mourning over the dead for \u231ea long time\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:3",
"text": "Then you must go to the king and speak to him according to this word.\u201d Thus Joab put the words in her mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:4",
"text": " So the Tekoite woman spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance. She said, \u201cHelp me, O king!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:5",
"text": "Then the king asked her, \u201c\u231eWhat do you want\u231f?\u201d And she said, \u201cTruly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:6",
"text": "Your servant had two sons, and they both fought in the open field, and there was no one \u231eto part them\u231f. One struck the other and killed him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:7",
"text": "And look, all of the family has risen up against your servant, and they said, \u2018Give up the one who struck his brother, that we may kill him in exchange for the life of his brother whom he murdered. We will also wipe out the heir,\u2019 and so they would put out my embers which remain, by not preserving for my husband a name and a remnant on the face of the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:8",
"text": " Then the king said to the woman, \u201cGo to your house, and I myself will give the command concerning you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:9",
"text": "The Tekoite woman said to the king, \u201cOn me, my lord the king, is the guilt, and on the house of my father, but the king on his throne is innocent.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:10",
"text": "The king said, \u201cWhoever has spoken to you, bring him to me, and he will not touch you again.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:11",
"text": "Then she said, \u201cPlease may the king remember Yahweh your God, \u231eto prevent the increase of blood avengers who kill\u231f, so that they not wipe out my son.\u201d He said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, surely not one hair shall fall from your son to the ground.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:12",
"text": "The woman said, \u201cPlease let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.\u201d And he said, \u201cSpeak.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:13",
"text": "The woman said, \u201cBut why have you plotted like this against the people of God? By speaking this word, he is guilty not to bring back his banished one. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:14",
"text": "For \u231ewe must certainly die\u231f, and we are as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:15",
"text": "Now I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, because the people made me afraid, and your servant thought, \u2018I will speak to the king, perhaps the king will grant the request of his servant. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:16",
"text": "For the king will listen, to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who seeks to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:17",
"text": "Your servant also thought, \u2018May the word of my lord the king \u231ebring rest\u231f, for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, \u231eto sense what is good and what is bad\u231f.\u2019 May Yahweh your God be with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:18",
"text": "The king answered and said to the woman, \u201cPlease do not withhold from me a thing which I am about to ask you.\u201d The woman said, \u201cPlease let my lord the king speak.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:19",
"text": "The king asked, \u201cWas the hand of Joab with you in all of this?\u201d The woman answered and said, \u201c\u231eAs your soul lives\u231f, my lord the king, surely one cannot go to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken. Yes, your servant Joab himself commanded me, and he put all of these words in the mouth of your servant. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:20",
"text": "In order \u231eto change the situation\u231f, your servant Joab did this thing. But my lord has wisdom, as the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all that is on the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:21",
"text": "Then the king said to Joab, \u201cLook, please, I will grant this thing. Go and bring back the young man Absalom.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:22",
"text": "Joab fell with his face to the ground and did obeisance. And he blessed the king, and he said, \u201cToday your servant knows that I have found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:23",
"text": " Then Joab got up and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:24",
"text": "The king said, \u201cLet him go over to his house, and he may not see my face.\u201d So Absalom went over to his house, and did not see the face of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:25",
"text": "As far as Absalom, there was not a more handsome man in all of Israel to admire so much; from the sole of his foot up to his crown, there was no physical defect on him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:26",
"text": "When he shaved his head, it would happen \u231eevery year\u231f, which he did because it was heavy on him, he would shave it off and weigh the hair of his head: two hundred shekels \u231eby the king\u2019s weight\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:27",
"text": "Three sons were born to Absalom and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman beautiful of appearance. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:28",
"text": "Absalom lived in Jerusalem \u231etwo full years\u231f, but he did not see the face of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:29",
"text": "So Absalom sent for Joab, in order that he send him to the king, but he was not willing to go to him. He sent again a second time, but he was not willing to go. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:30",
"text": "So he said to his servants, \u201cLook at the tract of land of Joab \u231enext to mine\u231f, for he has barley plants there. Go, set it ablaze with fire.\u201d So the servants of Absalom set the tract of land ablaze with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:31",
"text": "Then Joab got up and went to Absalom, to the house, and said to him, \u201cWhy have your servants set my tract of land ablaze with fire?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:32",
"text": "Absalom said to Joab, \u201cLook, I have sent to you, saying, \u2018Come here that I may send you to the king to say, \u201cWhy have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 So then, let me see the face of the king; if there is guilt in me, then let him kill me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Samuel 14:33",
"text": "So Joab went to the king and he told him. Then he summoned Absalom, and he came to the king, and he bowed down to him with his face to the ground before the king. Then the king kissed Absalom. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:1",
"text": " It happened afterward that Absalom made himself a chariot with horses and fifty men running before him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:2",
"text": "Absalom used to rise early in the morning, and he stood \u231ebeside\u231f the road at the gate; \u231eanyone\u231f who had a legal dispute to bring to the king for judgment Absalom would call to him and say, \u201c\u231eWhere are you from?\u231f\u201d And he would say, \u201cYour servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:3",
"text": "Then Absalom would say to him, \u201cLook, your case is good and right, but for you there is no hearing with the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:4",
"text": "Then Absalom would say, \u201c\u231eOh, that someone would\u231f appoint me as judge in the land, that \u231eanyone\u231f might come to me who had a legal dispute or a case, and I would give him justice.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:5",
"text": "It happened whenever anyone drew near to do obeisance to him, that he would stretch his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:6",
"text": "Absalom did like this to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole the hearts of the people of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:7",
"text": " It happened at the end of four years that Absalom said to the king, \u201cPlease let me go and pay my vow which I have made to Yahweh in Hebron, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:8",
"text": "for your servant made a vow while I was staying in Geshur in Aram, saying, \u2018\u231eIf Yahweh will indeed let me return\u231f to Jerusalem, then I will worship Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:9",
"text": "Then the king said to him, \u201cGo in peace.\u201d So he got up and went to Hebron. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:10",
"text": "Then Absalom sent scouts throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, \u201cWhen you hear the sound of the trumpet, you shall shout \u2018Absalom has become king in Hebron!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:11",
"text": "Two hundred men from Jerusalem went with Absalom as invited guests, going in their innocence as they did not know anything. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:12",
"text": "Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, the advisor of David, from his city Giloh, while he offered the sacrifices. The conspiracy \u231egrew in strength\u231f, and the people were going and \u231eincreasing\u231f with Absalom. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:13",
"text": " Then the messenger came to David, saying, \u201cThe hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:14",
"text": "Then David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, \u201cGet up and let us flee, for there will be no escape for us from Absalom! Hurry to go, otherwise he will come quickly and overtake us! And he will bring disaster on us and evil! He will attack the city with the edge of the sword!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:15",
"text": "Then the servants of the king said to the king, \u201cAccording to all that my lord the king chooses, \u231eyour servants are ready to act\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:16",
"text": "The king went out with all his household \u231efollowing him\u231f, but the king left behind ten concubines to look after the house. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:17",
"text": "So the king went out with all the people \u231efollowing him\u231f, and they stopped \u231eat the last house\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:18",
"text": "All his servants were passing \u231eby him\u231f: all of the Kerethites and all of the Pelethites and all of the Gittites\u2014six hundred men \u231ewho had followed him\u231f from Gath\u2014passing \u231ebefore the king\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:19",
"text": "The king said to Ittai the Gittite, \u201cWhy are you also coming with us? Return and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner; moreover, you are an exile. \u231eYou are far from your place\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:20",
"text": "Yesterday when you came and \u231etoday\u231f, I have caused you to wander by going with us. Now I am going to where I am going; return and let your brothers return. May loyal love and faithfulness be with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:21",
"text": "But Ittai answered the king and said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f and \u231emy lord the king lives\u231f, surely in the place wherever my lord the king shall be, if for death or if for life, surely there your servant will be.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:22",
"text": "Then David said to Ittai, \u201cGo and pass over.\u201d So Ittai the Gittite passed over and all his men and all of the little children who were with him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:23",
"text": "All of the land was weeping with a loud voice as all the people were passing by and the king was crossing through the Wadi Kidron, and all the people were passing \u231eon the road to the wilderness\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:24",
"text": " Suddenly Zadok was there, and all of the Levites with him, carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set the ark of God down, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people passed out of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:25",
"text": "The king said to Zadok, \u201cLet the ark of God return to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yawheh, he will let me return and let me see him in his dwelling place. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:26",
"text": "But if he says, \u2018I take no pleasure in you,\u2019 then \u231eI am ready\u231f. Let him do to me that which is good in his eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:27",
"text": "Then the king said to Zadok the priest, \u201cAre you a seer? Return to the city in peace, with Ahimaaz your son and Jonathan the son of Abiathar, your two sons with you. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:28",
"text": "See, I am waiting at the fords of the wilderness until a word comes from you all to inform me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:29",
"text": "So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and they remained there. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:30",
"text": " Now David was going up on the Ascent of the Olives, \u231eweeping as he went\u231f, with his head covered and going barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered their head \u231eand wept as they went\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:31",
"text": "Now David was told, \u201cAhithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom.\u201d Then David said, \u201cPlease frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:32",
"text": "It happened that as David was coming up to the summit where he used to worship God, suddenly Hushai the Arkite was there to meet him. His coat was torn and dirt was on his head. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:33",
"text": "David said to him, \u201cIf you move on with me, you will be a burden to me, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:34",
"text": "but if you want to return to the city and say to Absalom, \u2018I am your servant, O king. I used to be a servant of your father, but from then and now I will be your servant,\u2019 then you can frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel for me. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:35",
"text": "Will not Zadok and Abiathar the priests be with you there? It shall be that all the words you hear from the house of the king you shall tell Zadok and Abiathar the priests. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:36",
"text": "Look, there with them are their two sons, Ahimaaz of Zadok and Jonathan of Abiathar. You shall send to me \u231eby means of them\u231f all the words that you hear.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Samuel 15:37",
"text": "So Hushai the friend of David came to the city as Absalom was entering Jerusalem. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:1",
"text": " Now David passed a little from beyond the summit, and suddenly Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him with a pair of saddled donkeys; on them were two hundred loaves of bread and a hundred raisin cakes, with a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:2",
"text": "The king said to Ziba, \u201c\u231eWhat do you want to accomplish by bringing these\u231f?\u201d And Ziba said, \u201cThe donkeys are for the king\u2019s household to ride on; the bread and the summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for the faint in the wilderness to drink. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:3",
"text": "Then the king said, \u201cWhere is the son of your lord?\u201d And Ziba said to the king, \u201cHe is living in Jerusalem for he said, \u2018Today the house of Israel shall return the kingdom of my father to me.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:4",
"text": "The king said to Ziba, \u201cLook, all that was Mephibosheth\u2019s is yours.\u201d Ziba said, \u201cI hereby do obeisance; may I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:5",
"text": " King David came up to Bahurim and suddenly a man from there was coming out from the family of the house of Saul, and his name was Shimei the son of Gera. \u231eHe was cursing as he came out\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:6",
"text": "And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David and at all the people and at all the mighty warriors on his right and on his left. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:7",
"text": "Shimei said while cursing him, \u201cGo out, go out, you \u231eman of bloodshed\u231f, you \u231eman of wickedness\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:8",
"text": "Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the household of Saul \u231ewhom you have supplanted as king\u231f, and Yahweh has given the kingship into the hand of Absalom your son. Look, you are in disaster for you are a man of blood.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:9",
"text": "Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, \u201cWhy should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:10",
"text": "The king said, \u201c\u231eWhat do we have in common\u231f, sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because Yahweh has said to him \u2018Curse David,\u2019 who can say, \u201cWhy have you done this?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:11",
"text": "David said to Abishai and to all his servants, \u201cLook, my son who came out of my loins is seeking my life. Now \u231eas far as\u231f this Benjaminite, leave him alone and let him curse, for Yahweh has spoken to him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:12",
"text": "Perhaps Yahweh will look \u231ein my eye\u231f and repay good for me in place of his curse this day. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:13",
"text": "Then David and his men went on the road, with Shimei going on the side of the hill beside him, \u231ecursing as he went\u231f. He threw stones beside him and threw dust in the air. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:14",
"text": "When the king and all of the people who were with him arrived, he was weary, so he recovered there. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:15",
"text": " Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, had come to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:16",
"text": "When Hushai the Arkite the friend of David came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, \u201cLong live the king, long live the king!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:17",
"text": "Absalom said to Hushai, \u201cThis is your loyal love with your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:18",
"text": "Then Hushai said to Absalom, \u201cNo, rather, whom Yahweh and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, to him I will be, and with him I will remain. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:19",
"text": "\u231eFurthermore\u231f, for whom have I served? Is it not in the presence of his son that I have served before your father? \u231eSo shall I serve you\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:20",
"text": "Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, \u201cGive your advice. What shall we do?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:21",
"text": "And Ahithophel said to Absalom, \u201cGo to the concubines of your father whom he left behind to watch over the house, then all of Israel will hear that you made yourself odious to your father, and \u231eall of your followers will be motivated\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:22",
"text": "Then they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he went in to the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Samuel 16:23",
"text": "The counsel that Ahithophel gave in those days was regarded as when a man inquired of the word of God, so all the counsel of Ahithophel was esteemed both by David and by Absalom. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:1",
"text": " Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, \u201cPlease let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue after David \u231etonight\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:2",
"text": "I will come upon him while he is weary and \u231eweak\u231f. I will startle him, and all of the people who are with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king while he is alone. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:3",
"text": "Then I will return all the people to you; when all have returned, the man whom you are seeking will be dead, but all the people will be safe.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:4",
"text": "The word was right in the eyes of Absalom and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:5",
"text": "Then Absalom said, \u201cPlease call also for Hushai the Arkite, and let us hear \u231ewhat he has to say\u231f also.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:6",
"text": "So Hushai came to Absalom, who said to him, \u201cShall we do according to this word that Ahithophel has spoken? If not, then you tell us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:7",
"text": "Then Hushai said to Absalom, \u201cThe counsel that Ahithophel gave is not good \u231eat this time\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:8",
"text": "Hushai continued, \u201cYou know your father and his men, that they are mighty warriors and they \u231eare enraged\u231f as a bear robbed of her offspring in the field. Your father is a man of war, so he will not spend the night with the troops. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:9",
"text": "Now he has hidden himself in one of the caves or in one of the places. At the moment he falls on them the first time, \u231ewhoever hears\u231f the report will say, \u2018There has been a defeat among the people who follow after Absalom.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:10",
"text": "And he is also a \u231evaliant warrior\u231f, whose heart is like the heart of the lion. He will \u231ecertainly melt\u231f with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty warrior and those who are with him are \u231evaliant warriors\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:11",
"text": "I give the advice that all of Israel from Dan to Beersheba should be completely gathered to you, as the sand which is on the seashore for abundance, with \u231eyou personally\u231f going into the battle. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:12",
"text": "Then we will come to him in one of the places where he may be found, and we shall come upon him as the dew falls on the ground. He and all the men who are with him will not survive, not even one! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:13",
"text": "Even if he withdraws to a city, all Israel will bring up ropes to that city, and they will drag him away to the valley until there is not even a pebble to be found.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:14",
"text": "Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, \u201cThe advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than the advice of Ahithophel.\u201d (Now Yahweh had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for Yahweh to bring misery upon Absalom). "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:15",
"text": " Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, \u201c\u231eThus and so\u231f Ahithophel advised Absalom and the elders of Israel, but \u231ethus and so\u231f I have advised. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:16",
"text": "So then, send quickly and tell David, \u2018Don\u2019t spend the night at the fords of the wilderness! Moreover, by all means cross over lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:17",
"text": "Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En Rogel, so a servant girl used to go and tell them, then they would go and tell King David, for they were not able to be seen coming to the city. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:18",
"text": "But a young man saw them and told Absalom, so both of them went quickly and came to the house of a man at Bahurim. Now he had a well in his courtyard, so they went down there. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:19",
"text": "Then the woman took and spread a covering over the opening of the well; then she spread out dried grain on it, so nothing was discovered. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:20",
"text": "When the servants of Absalom came to the woman at the house, they said, \u201cWhere are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?\u201d And she said to them, \u201cThey crossed over the brook of water.\u201d So they searched but could not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:21",
"text": "After they left, they came up from the well and went and told King David. They said to David, \u201cSet out and cross over the water quickly, for thus Ahithophel has advised against you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:22",
"text": "So David and all the people who were with him set out, and they crossed over the Jordan until morning light until \u231ethere was no one\u231f missing who had not crossed over the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:23",
"text": "When Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. \u231eAfter he set his house in order\u231f, he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:24",
"text": " Now David had come to Mahanaim, and Absalom had crossed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:25",
"text": "Absalom had appointed Amasa in place of Joab over the army. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, \u231ewho had married\u231f Abigail the daughter of Nahash the sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:26",
"text": "Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:27",
"text": "Just as David had arrived in Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f and Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:28",
"text": "brought beds and basins and objects of pottery, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Samuel 17:29",
"text": "honey, curds, sheep, cheese, and cattle for David and for the people who were with him to eat. For they had thought, \u201cThe troops are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:1",
"text": " Then David mustered the people who were with him, and he appointed over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:2",
"text": "David sent forth a third of the troops \u231eunder the command of Joab\u231f, and a third \u231eunder the command of Abishai\u231f, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the remaining third \u231eunder the command of Ittai\u231f the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, \u201cI, even I, \u231ewill certainly go out\u231f with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:3",
"text": "Then the troops said, \u201cYou will not go out, for \u231eif we must flee\u231f, then \u231ethey will not care about us\u231f; even if half of us die, \u231ethey will not care about us\u231f, but now, you are like ten thousand of us. And so then, it is better for us that you be in the city to help.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:4",
"text": "The king said to them, \u201cI will do what seems good in your eyes.\u201d So the king stood at the side of the gate while all of the troops went out by hundreds and by thousands. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:5",
"text": "The king ordered Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, \u201cWith respect to the young man Absalom, deal gently for me.\u201d And all the troops heard when the king ordered all of the commanders concerning the matter of Absalom. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:6",
"text": " The army went out to the field to meet Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:7",
"text": "The army of Israel was defeated there before the servants of David, and the defeat there was great on that day: twenty thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:8",
"text": "The battle there was spreading over the surface of all the land, and \u231ethe forest devoured more among the army than\u231f the sword did on that day. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:9",
"text": "Absalom was found in the presence of the servants of David as he was riding on the mule. The mule went under the thicket of the great oak tree, and his head was caught in the tree. He was left hanging between heaven and earth, and the mule which was under him went on. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:10",
"text": "When a certain man saw it, he told Joab, and he said, \u201cLook, I saw Absalom hanging in the oak tree!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:11",
"text": "Then Joab said to the man who was telling him, \u201cLook, if you saw, why did you not strike him down to the ground there? \u231eI would have gladly given you\u231f ten pieces of silver and a leather belt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:12",
"text": "The man said to Joab, \u201c\u231eEven if I felt the weight\u231f of a thousand pieces of silver in my palms, I would not have sent my hand against the son of the king, for in our ears the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, \u2018Whoever you may be, protect the young man Absalom.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:13",
"text": "If I had dealt treacherously against his life, and there is not any matter hidden from the king, \u231eyou would have presented yourself aloof\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:14",
"text": "Joab said, \u201cNo longer will I wait in your presence.\u201d Then he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:15",
"text": "Then ten of the young men who bore the weapons of Joab surrounded him and struck and killed Absalom. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:16",
"text": "Then Joab blew on the trumpet and the troops returned from pursuing after Israel, for Joab kept back the troops. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:17",
"text": "They took Absalom and they threw him into the large pit in the forest and raised a very great heap of stones over him. Then all of Israel fled, each to his tent. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:18",
"text": " (Now Absalom had taken and set up for himself in his lifetime a stone pillar that is in the valley of the king, because he said, \u201cI have no son in order to remember my name,\u201d and he called the stone pillar by his name. It is called the monument of Absalom until this day). "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:19",
"text": "Now Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, \u201cPlease let me run and bring the good news to the king that Yahweh has vindicated him from the hand of his enemies.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:20",
"text": "Joab said to him, \u201cYou will not be a man \u231ebringing\u231f good news this day! You may bring good news on another day, but today you will not be bringing good news because the king\u2019s son is dead.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:21",
"text": "Then Joab said to the Cushite, \u201cGo, tell the king what you have seen\u201d; then the Cushite bowed down to Joab and ran off. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:22",
"text": "Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok again said to Joab, \u201c\u231eCome what may\u231f, please let me also run after the Cushite.\u201d Joab asked, \u201cWhy are you wanting to run, my son, when for you there is no \u231emessenger\u2019s reward\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:23",
"text": "\u201c\u231eCome what may\u231f, I want to run.\u201d He said to him, \u201cRun,\u201d so Ahimaaz ran on the road on the plain, and he passed the Cushite. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:24",
"text": " Now David was sitting between the two gates, and the sentinel went up to the roof of the gate by the wall and he lifted up his eyes and watched, and look, a man was running by himself. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:25",
"text": "The sentry called and told the king, and the king said, \u201cIf he is alone, good news is in his mouth.\u201d \u231eHe kept coming closer\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:26",
"text": "Then the sentinel saw another man running, so the sentinel called to the gatekeeper and said, \u201cLook, a man running alone.\u201d The king said, \u201cThis one also is bringing good news.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:27",
"text": "The sentinel said, \u201cI am seeing that the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zakok.\u201d The king said, \u201cHe is a good man; he will come, for good news.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:28",
"text": "Then Ahimaaz called and said to the king, \u201cPeace.\u201d He bowed down to the king with his face to the ground, and he said, \u201cMay Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delivered the men who raised their hand against my lord the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:29",
"text": "The king said, \u201cIs it peace for the young man Absalom?\u201d Ahimaaz said, \u201cI saw the great commotion when Joab the servant of the king sent your servant, but I do not know what it was all about.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:30",
"text": "Then the king said, \u201cTurn aside, take your place here,\u201d so he turned aside and waited. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:31",
"text": "Suddenly the Cushite arrived and said, \u201cMay my lord the king receive the good news, for Yahweh has vindicated you today from the power of all who stood up against you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:32",
"text": "The king said to the Cushite, \u201cIs it peace for the young man Absalom?\u201d Then the Cushite answered, \u201cMay the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you \u231eto harm you\u231f be like the young man!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Samuel 18:33",
"text": " The king was upset, and he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. He said as he went, \u201cMy son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom. \u231eIf only\u231f I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:1",
"text": " And it was told to Joab that the king was weeping and he mourned over Absalom, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:2",
"text": "so the victory turned to mourning on that day for all the army, because they had heard that day, \u201cThe king is grieving over his son.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:3",
"text": "The army \u231ecame secretly\u231f into the city on that day because the army was disgraced when they fled in the battle, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:4",
"text": "and because the king had covered his face and cried with a loud voice, \u201cMy son, Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:5",
"text": " Then Joab came to the king\u2019s house and said, \u201cToday you have humiliated the faces of all of your servants who have saved your life this day, and the life of your sons and your daughters, the life of your wives, and the life of your concubines, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:6",
"text": "by loving those who hate you and hating those who love you. Indeed, you have made clear this day that you have no regard for your commanders or officers, for I have realized today that were Absalom alive, and all of us were dead, then that would have been right in your eyes! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:7",
"text": "So then, get up and go out and \u231espeak kindly to your servants\u231f, for I swear by Yahweh, if you do not go out, no man will lodge this night with you, and this disaster will be greater for you than any disaster that has come upon you from your childhood until now!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:8",
"text": "So the king got up and he sat in the gate, and they told all the army, \u201cLook, the king is sitting in the gate.\u201d Then all the army came before the king; whereas all of Israel had fled, each to his tent. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:9",
"text": " Then it happened that all the people were disputing among all the tribes of Israel, saying, \u201cThe king delivered us from the hand of our enemies, and he saved us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:10",
"text": "Now Absalom whom we anointed as king over us has died in the battle; so then, why are you taking no action to restore the king?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:11",
"text": "Then King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, \u201cSpeak to the elders of Judah: \u2018Why are you last to bring back the king to his house? The talk of all Israel has come to the king in his house. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:12",
"text": "My brothers, you are my bones and you are my flesh. Why should you be the last to bring back the king?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:13",
"text": "To Amasa you shall say: \u2018Are you not my bones and my flesh? \u231eMay God punish me\u231f if you are not the commander of my army before me forever, in place of Joab.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:14",
"text": "So he turned the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they sent word to the king, \u201cReturn, you and all your servants.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:15",
"text": " Then the king returned and he came to the Jordan; Judah had come to Gilgal to come to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:16",
"text": "Then Shimei the son of Gera, the son of the Benjaminite, who was from Bahurim quickly came down with the men of Judah to meet King David, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:17",
"text": "and a thousand men were with him from Benjamin. Too, Ziba the servant of the household of Saul and fifteen of his sons and twenty of his servants were with him, and they rushed to the Jordan before the king. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:18",
"text": "\u231eThe crossing took place\u231f to bring the household of the king over and to do good in his eyes. Then Shimei the son of Gera fell before the king when he crossed over the Jordan, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:19",
"text": "and he said to the king, \u201cMay not my lord hold me guilty, and may you not remember how your servant did wrong on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, by taking it to heart! "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:20",
"text": "For your servant knows that I have sinned; look, I have come this day as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:21",
"text": "Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah responded and said, \u201cBecause of this, should not Shimei be put to death, for he cursed the anointed one of Yahweh?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:22",
"text": "Then David said, \u201cWhat is it to me or to you, sons of Zeruiah, that you should be an adversary today? Should anyone be put to death in Israel? Do I not know today that I am king over Israel?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:23",
"text": "Then the king said to Shimei, \u201cYou shall not die,\u201d and so the king swore to him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:24",
"text": " Now, Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; he had not taken care of his feet nor trimmed his moustache nor washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he came back in peace. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:25",
"text": "It happened that when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, \u201cWhy did you not come with me, Mephibosheth?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:26",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cMy lord the king, my servant deceived me, for your servant had said, \u2018Let me saddle the donkey that I may ride on her and go with the king,\u2019 for your servant is lame. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:27",
"text": "But he slandered against your servant to my lord the king. My lord the king is like the angel of God; \u231edo as you see fit.\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:28",
"text": "For there was no one in all the house of my father \u231ewho were not doomed to death\u231f before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. Do I have any righteousness any longer except to cry out to the king?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:29",
"text": "Then the king said to him, \u201cWhy should you speak any more about the matter? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:30",
"text": "Then Mephibosheth said to the king, \u201cLet him take the whole thing, since my lord the king has come \u231esafely\u231f to his house.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:31",
"text": " Then Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim and crossed with the king over the Jordan to escort him through the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:32",
"text": "Now Barzillai was very old, \u231eeighty years old\u231f. Now he had provided the king with food while he was staying at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:33",
"text": "The king said to Barzillai, \u201cYou cross over with me, and I will provide for you to dwell with me in Jerusalem.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:34",
"text": "Then Barzillai said to the king, \u201cWhat are the days of the years of my life, that I should go with the king to Jerusalem? "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:35",
"text": "I am eighty years old today. Can I discern between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be a burden any longer to my lord the king? "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:36",
"text": "Your servant shall go over the Jordan with the king a little way, but why should the king recompense me with this reward? "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:37",
"text": "Please let your servant return, and let me die in my city in the tomb of my father and my mother. Here is your servant Kimham; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him that which is good in your eyes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:38",
"text": "The king said, \u201cLet Kimham go over with me, and I will do for him the good in your eyes, and all that you desire of me I will do for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:39",
"text": " Then all the people crossed over the Jordan, and the king crossed and kissed Barzillai and blessed him; then he returned to his place. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:40",
"text": "The king went over to Gilgal, and Kimham went over with him. All the people of Judah went over with the king, and half of the people of Israel too. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:41",
"text": "Suddenly, all the men of Israel were coming to the king. They said to the king, \u201cWhy have our brothers the men of Judah stolen away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, with all the men of David?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:42",
"text": "Then all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, \u201cBecause the king is my close relative! Why are you this angry over this matter? \u231eHave we by any means eaten anything from the king? Did we take by any means anything that was not ours\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Samuel 19:43",
"text": "Then the people of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, \u201cI have \u231eten times as much\u231f in the king, moreover in David I have more than you. Why did you treat me with contempt \u231eby not giving me first chance\u231f to bring back my king?\u201d But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the word of the men of Israel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:1",
"text": " Now a man of wickedness was found there whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. He blew the horn and said, \u201cThere is no share for us in David, and there is no inheritance for us in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:2",
"text": "Then all the men of Israel went up from following after David, following instead after Sheba the son of Bicri, but the men of Judah stuck to their king from the Jordan up to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:3",
"text": "David went up to his house in Jerusalem, then the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to look after the house, and he put them \u231eunder confinement\u231f. However, he provided for them, but \u231ehe did not sleep with them\u231f. So they were confined until the day of their death, like a lifetime of widowhood. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:4",
"text": " Then the king said to Amasa, \u201cSummon for me the men of Judah within three days, \u231eand be here yourself\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:5",
"text": "So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he tarried more than the appointed time which he had set for him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:6",
"text": "Then David said to Abishai, \u201cNow Sheba the son of Bicri will do us more harm than Absalom. You take the servants of your lord and pursue after him, lest he find fortified cities for himself and escape from us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:7",
"text": "Then the men of Joab, the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty warriors went out after him; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba the son of Bicri. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:8",
"text": "They were near the big rock that is in Gibeon, and Amasa came before them. Joab \u231ewas dressed in his military clothing\u231f, with a utility belt on him and a sword strapped to his waist in its scabbard. Now he went out, and it fell out. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:9",
"text": "Then Joab said to Amasa, \u201cIs it peace, O you my brother?\u201d Then the right hand of Joab took hold of the beard of Amasa as if to kiss him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:10",
"text": "Now Amasa was not on his guard against the sword that was in Joab\u2019s hand, and he struck him with it into the stomach, and his entrails poured out to the ground. He did not strike him again, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bicri. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:11",
"text": "A young man stood over him, from the young men of Joab, and he said, \u201cWhoever takes delight in Joab and whoever is for David, follow after Joab.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:12",
"text": "Now Amasa was wallowing in the blood in the middle of the highway; when the man saw that all the people stood there, he turned Amasa over from the highway into the field, and he threw a garment over him because he had seen that all who had come by him had stopped. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:13",
"text": "After he was removed from the highway, all the men passed by after Joab to pursue after Sheba the son of Bicri. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:14",
"text": " (He had passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel and Beth Maacah; now all of the Berites had been treated badly, so they also followed after him.) "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:15",
"text": "And they came and besieged him in Abel Beth Maacah. They threw up a siege ramp against the city, and they stood against the ramparts. And all the army who were with Joab were battering to cause the wall to fall. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:16",
"text": "Then a wise woman from the city called out, \u201cListen, listen! Please speak to Joab to come near here so that I may speak to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:17",
"text": "Then he came near to her, and the woman asked, \u201cAre you Joab?\u201d And he said, \u201cI am.\u201d Then she said to him, \u201cListen to the words of your servant.\u201d He said, \u201cI am listening.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:18",
"text": "Then she said, \u201cIn former times, \u231ethey would always say\u231f, \u2018By all means, let them inquire in Abel,\u2019 and so they settled things. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:19",
"text": "I am one of the faithful representatives of Israel. You are seeking to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow the inheritance of Yahweh?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:20",
"text": "Then Joab answered and said, \u201cFar be it, far be it from me that I should swallow or I should destroy. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:21",
"text": "That is not the matter. But a man from the mountains of Ephraim, whose name is Sheba the son Bicri, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Give only him to us, and I will depart from the city.\u201d The woman said to Joab, \u201cLook, his head is being thrown down to you over the wall.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:22",
"text": "The woman went to all of the people with her wise plan, so they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bicri and threw it to Joab. Then he blew the horn and dispersed from the city, each to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:23",
"text": "Now Joab was over all the army of Israel and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Carites and over the Pelethites. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:24",
"text": "Adoram was over the forced labor, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:25",
"text": "Shiya was secretary, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Samuel 20:26",
"text": "Also Ira the Jairite was priest for David. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:1",
"text": " There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David \u231einquired of Yahweh\u231f, and Yahweh said, \u201cThe bloodguilt is on Saul and on his household, because he killed the Gibeonites.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:2",
"text": "So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f; they were from the remainder of the Amorites. Now the \u231eIsraelites\u231f had sworn to them, but Saul tried to wipe them out in his zeal for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:3",
"text": "So David asked the Gibeonites, \u201cWhat can I do for you, and with what can I make amends that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:4",
"text": "Then the Gibeonites said to him, \u201c\u231eIt is not a matter for us of\u231f silver or gold with Saul or with his household. It is not for us to put to death anyone in Israel.\u201d He asked, \u201cWhat are you saying that I should do for you all?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:5",
"text": "Then they said to the king, \u201cThe man who consumed us and who plotted against us so that we were destroyed from existing in all of the territory of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:6",
"text": "let seven men from his sons be given over to us, and we will execute them before Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen one of Yahweh.\u201d Then the king said, \u201cI will give them over.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:7",
"text": "But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the sworn oath of Yahweh which was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:8",
"text": "So the king took two of the sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, namely Armoni and Mephibosheth, and five of the sons of Michal the daughter of Saul whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:9",
"text": "He gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they executed them on the mountain in the presence of Yahweh, and the seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest, at the beginning of the harvest of barley. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:10",
"text": " Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took the sackcloth, and she spread it for herself on the rock at the beginning of the harvest until water gushed forth on them from heaven, but she did not allow the birds of heaven to rest on them by day nor the animals of the field by night. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:11",
"text": "David was told about what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:12",
"text": "So David left and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the rulers of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth Shan, where the Philistines hung them \u231ewhen\u231f the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:13",
"text": "He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of the executed. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:14",
"text": "And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin at Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. They did all that the king had commanded, and afterward God was entreated for the land. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:15",
"text": " There was war again for the Philistines with Israel, and David and his servants with him went down, and they fought the Philistines, and David grew weary. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:16",
"text": "Now Yishbi in Nob, who was among the descendents of Raphah (now the weight of his spearhead was three hundredweight of bronze, and he was newly armed), said that he would kill David. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:17",
"text": "But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and he attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, \u201cYou shall not go out with us any longer to the battle, so that you do not quench the lamp of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:18",
"text": " It happened afterward that there was again battle at Gob with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph who was among the descendants of the Raphah. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:19",
"text": " There was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. And Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim, the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like the beam of a weaver. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:20",
"text": " Once again there was battle at Gath, and there was \u231ea man of great size\u231f. The fingers of his hand and the toes of his feet were six and six, twenty-four in number. He was also born to the Raphah. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:21",
"text": "He taunted Israel but Jonathan the son of Shimei, the brother of David, killed him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Samuel 21:22",
"text": "These four were born for the Raphah in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:1",
"text": " Then David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song, on the day Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:2",
"text": " And he said: \u201cYahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:3",
"text": " I take refuge in God, my rock, my shield, and the \u231estrength\u231f of my salvation. My stronghold and my refuge, O my savior, you will save me from violence! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:4",
"text": " I call upon Yahweh who is praiseworthy, and I am saved from those who hate me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:5",
"text": " For the breaker waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:6",
"text": " The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:7",
"text": " In my distress I called upon Yahweh, and to my God I called. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help was to his ears. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:8",
"text": " The earth heaved and shook, the foundations of heaven trembled and heaved because \u231ehe was angry\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:9",
"text": " Smoke went up from his nostrils and fire from his mouth. Burning coals devoured, they burned from him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:10",
"text": " He bowed the heavens and came down; a very thick cloud was under his feet. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:11",
"text": " He rode upon a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:12",
"text": " He put darkness as a canopy all around him, a collection of \u231ethick rain clouds\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:13",
"text": " From the brightness before him flamed burning coals of fire. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:14",
"text": " Yahweh thundered from heaven, and the Most High \u231euttered his voice\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:15",
"text": " He sent arrows and he scattered them, lightning, and he directed them. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:16",
"text": " Then the channels of water of the sea were exposed, the foundations of the world, at the rebuke of Yawheh, from the blast of the breath of his nostrils. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:17",
"text": " He sent from a high position and took me; he drew me from mighty waters. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:18",
"text": " He delivered me from my strong enemies, from those who hate me, for they were mightier than I. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:19",
"text": " They approached me on the day of my disaster, but Yahweh was my support. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:20",
"text": " He brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:21",
"text": " Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:22",
"text": " For I have kept the ways of Yahweh; I have not acted wickedly against my God. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:23",
"text": " For all of his ordinances were before me, and I did not turn aside from his statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:24",
"text": " I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:25",
"text": " Yahweh has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:26",
"text": " With the loyal, you act as loyal, and with the blameless, you show yourself blameless. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:27",
"text": " With the pure, you show yourself pure, but with the crooked, you appear as a fool. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:28",
"text": " Humble people you will deliver, but your eyes are on the haughty, whom you bring down. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:29",
"text": " For you, O Yahweh are my lamp, and Yahweh lightens my darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:30",
"text": " For by you I can run a raid; by my God I can leap over a wall. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:31",
"text": " This God, his way is blameless; the promise of Yahweh is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in him. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:32",
"text": " For who is God apart from Yahweh? And who is a rock apart from our God? "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:33",
"text": " God is my strong refuge, he has fully opened my way. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:34",
"text": " He makes my feet like a doe deer, and on my high places he has set me. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:35",
"text": " He trains my hands for the war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:36",
"text": " You have given me the shield of your salvation; your willingness to help has made me great. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:37",
"text": " You have broadened my steps beneath me; my ankles have not wobbled. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:38",
"text": " I pursued those who hate me, and I destroyed them. I did not turn back until finishing them. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:39",
"text": " I wiped them out and I smashed them; they did not get up; they fell under my feet. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:40",
"text": " You have girded me with physical strength for the battle; you caused those who rose up against me to kneel under me. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:41",
"text": " \u231eMy enemies you cause to retreat from me\u231f; I destroy those who hate me. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:42",
"text": " They looked out, but there was no deliverer, even to Yahweh, but he did not answer them. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:43",
"text": " I beat them fine, like the dust of the earth; like the mire of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them down. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:44",
"text": " You delivered me from the strife of my people; you preserved me as the head of the nations. A people I had not known served me. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:45",
"text": " Children of a foreign land came cringing to me; \u231ewhen they heard of me\u231f, they became obedient to me. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:46",
"text": " Children of a foreign land lost heart and came trembling from their strongholds. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:47",
"text": " Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! May God, the rock of my salvation, be exalted! "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:48",
"text": " God does vengeance for me, bringing down peoples under me. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:49",
"text": " He brings me out from my enemies, and from those who rose up against me you lift me up, and from men of violence you rescue me. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:50",
"text": " Therefore I will extol you, Yahweh, among the nations! I will sing praises to your name! "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Samuel 22:51",
"text": " He makes great salvation for his king and shows loyal love to his anointed one, David and to his descendants forever.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:1",
"text": " These are the last words of David, the declaration of David the son of Jesse, and the declaration of the man exalted by the Most High, the anointed one of the God of Jacob and the darling of the songs of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:2",
"text": "\u201cThe spirit of Yahweh speaks through me, and his word is upon my tongue. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:3",
"text": "The God of Israel said to me, the rock of Israel has spoken; \u2018He who rules over mankind rules righteously, in the fear of God. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:4",
"text": "Like the light of the morning when the sun rises, shining with no clouds, bringing vegetation from the earth apart from rain.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:5",
"text": "Yet not so is my house with God, for he made an everlasting covenant for me, arranging everything. He has secured all my deliverance, and all my desire he will cause to happen. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:6",
"text": "But evil persons are like thorns cast aside; all of them, because they cannot be picked up in the hand. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:7",
"text": "And if a man wants to touch them, he must use an iron instrument or the shaft of a spear; then they are consumed entirely with fire on the spot.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:8",
"text": " These are the names of the mighty warriors who were David\u2019s: Josheb-Basshebeth a Tahkemonite was chief of three officers; first Adino, whose spear was against eight hundred slain on one occurrence. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:9",
"text": "Next to him Eleazar, the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite, was among the three mighty warriors with David when they defied the Philistines and they gathered there for the battle and the men of Israel withdrew. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:10",
"text": "He stood up and struck down the Philistines until his hand grew tired and his hand clung to the sword, and Yahweh brought about a great victory on that day. Then the army returned back to him only for stripping the dead. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:11",
"text": "Next to him was Shamma, the son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines assembled at Lehi, a plot of the field was there filled with lentils, and the army fled there from the presence of the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:12",
"text": "But he took a stand in the middle of the plot of land and defended it. He killed the Philistines, and Yahweh brought about a great victory. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:13",
"text": "Then three of the thirty leaders went down and came to David \u231eat the time of the harvest\u231f to the cave of Adullam, while a group of the Philistines were camping in the valley of the Rephaim. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:14",
"text": "Now at that time, David was in the stronghold, and a garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that same time. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:15",
"text": "David \u231esaid longingly\u231f, \u201c\u231eOh that someone would bring me a drink\u231f of water from the well of Bethlehem that is at the gate.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:16",
"text": "So three of the mighty warriors broke into the camp of the Philistines, and they drew water from the well of Bethlehem that was at the gate, and they carried it and brought it to David. But he was not willing to drink it, but poured it out to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:17",
"text": "He said, \u201cFar be it from me before Yahweh that I should do this. Is this not the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?\u201d So he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty warriors did. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:18",
"text": "Now Abishai the brother of Joab the son of Zeruiah was himself the leader of the thirty. He was wielding his spear against three hundred slain and \u231egained a name\u231f among the thirty. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:19",
"text": "Among the thirty, is it not that he was honored and became a commander for them? But he did not come up to the three. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:20",
"text": "Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of Ish-Hai, was a great man of deeds from Kabzeel. He struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab, and he went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:21",
"text": "He also killed a good-looking Egyptian man, in whose hand was a spear. He went down against him with the staff and snatched the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his spear. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:22",
"text": "These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did and gained a name for himself among the three mighty warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:23",
"text": "He was honored more than the thirty, but he did not come up to the three. David appointed him in charge of his bodyguard. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:24",
"text": " Among the thirty were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:25",
"text": "Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:26",
"text": "Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:27",
"text": "Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:28",
"text": "Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:29",
"text": "Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:30",
"text": "Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai from the wadis of Gaash, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:31",
"text": "Abi-Albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:32",
"text": "Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:33",
"text": "the son of Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:34",
"text": "Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:35",
"text": "Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:36",
"text": "Igal the son of Nathan from Zobah, Bani the Gadite, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:37",
"text": "Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the carriers of the weapons of Joab the son of Zeruiah, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:38",
"text": "Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Samuel 23:39",
"text": "Uriah the Hittite; in all, thirty-seven. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:1",
"text": " Again Yahweh was angry with Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, \u201cGo count Israel and Judah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:2",
"text": "The king said to Joab, the commander of the army who was with him: \u201cPlease go about through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people that I may know the number of the people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:3",
"text": "Then Joab said to the king, \u201cMay Yahweh your God increase the people a hundred times \u231ewhat they are\u231f as the eyes of my lord the king are seeing. But my lord the king, why does he desire this thing?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:4",
"text": "But the word of the king prevailed over Joab and over the commanders of the army, so Joab and the commanders of the army went out from before the king to count the people of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:5",
"text": "They crossed over the Jordan and camped at Aroer to the south of the city, which was in the middle of the wadi of Gad, and up to Jazer. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:6",
"text": "Then they went to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi. They came to Dan Jaan and around to Sidon "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:7",
"text": "and came to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went out to the Negev of Judah at Beersheba. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:8",
"text": "They went about through all the land, and they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:9",
"text": " Then Joab gave the number of the counting of the people to the king. Israel was eight hundred thousand \u231evaliant warriors\u231f wielding the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:10",
"text": "The heart of David struck him after he had counted the people, and David said to Yahweh, \u201cI have sinned greatly in what I have done! So then, O Yahweh, please forgive the guilt of your servant because I have acted very foolishly.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:11",
"text": "When David got up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to Gad the prophet, the seer of David, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:12",
"text": "\u201cGo and speak to David, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, three things I am laying on you; choose for yourself one of them and I will do it to you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:13",
"text": "Then Gad came to David, and he told him and said to him, \u201cShall seven years of famine in the land come to you? Or three months of your fleeing from your enemies while he is pursuing you? Or should there be three days of pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what I must return to the one who sent me a word.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:14",
"text": "Then David said to Gad, \u201cI am greatly distressed. Please let us fall into the hand of Yahweh, because he is great in his compassion; but into the hand of man don\u2019t let me fall.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:15",
"text": "Then Yahweh sent a plague into Israel from the morning \u231euntil the agreed time\u231f, and from the people from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand men died. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:16",
"text": " When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, Yahweh regretted about the evil, and he said to the angel who brought destruction among the people, \u201cEnough, now relax your hand.\u201d Now the angel of Yahweh was at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:17",
"text": "David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel destroying among the people, and he said, \u201cLook, I have sinned and I have done wrong, but these sheep, what did they do? Please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:18",
"text": "Then Gad came to David on that same day and said to him, \u201cGo up and erect an altar to Yahweh at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:19",
"text": "So David went up according to the word of Gad, as Yahweh had commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:20",
"text": "Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming over to him, so Araunah went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:21",
"text": "Then Araunah said, \u201cWhy has my lord the king come to his servant?\u201d David said, \u201cTo buy from you the threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh who brought a halt to the plague on the people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:22",
"text": "Araunah said to David, \u201cLet my lord the king take and offer what is good in his eyes. Look, here are the cattle for the burnt offering and the threshing sledge and the yokes of the oxen for the firewood. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:23",
"text": "All of this Araunah hereby gives to the king.\u201d Then Araunah said to the king, \u201cMay Yahweh your God respond favorably for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:24",
"text": "Then the king said to Araunah, \u201cNo, but \u231eI will certainly buy\u231f it from you for a price; I don\u2019t want to offer to Yahweh my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.\u201d So David bought the threshing floor and the cattle for fifty shekels of silver. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Samuel 24:25",
"text": "David built an altar to Yahweh there, and he offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then Yahweh responded to his prayer for the land and brought the plague to a halt from upon Israel. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "I Kings",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:1",
"text": " Now King David had become old, \u231eadvanced in years\u231f, and they covered him with garments, but he was not warm. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:2",
"text": "His servants said to him, \u201cLet them search for a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her stand before the king. Let her be of use for him, and let her lie in your lap that my lord the king may be warm.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:3",
"text": "So they sought a beautiful young woman in all the territory of Israel, and they found Abishag the Shunnamite and brought her to the king. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:4",
"text": "Now the young woman was very beautiful; she was of use for the king, and she served him, but the king did not \u231ehave sexual relations with her\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:5",
"text": " Now Adonijah the son of Haggith was exalting himself, saying, \u201cI will be king,\u201d so he prepared for himself a chariot and horsemen and fifty men running before him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:6",
"text": "His father did not rebuke him \u231eat any time\u231f by saying, \u201cWhy did you do so?\u201d Now he was also very handsome of appearance; she had borne him after Absalom. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:7",
"text": "\u231eHe conferred\u231f with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and \u231ethey supported Adonijah\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:8",
"text": "But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty warriors were David\u2019s; they were not with Adonijah. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:9",
"text": " And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened animals near the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel. He invited all of his brothers, the sons of the king, and all the men of Judah, the servants of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:10",
"text": "But he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty warriors or Solomon his brother. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:11",
"text": " Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, \u201cHave you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king, but our lord David does not know? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:12",
"text": "So then, come, let me advise you please, \u231ethat you may save\u231f your life and the life of your son, Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:13",
"text": "Come, go to King David and say to him, \u2018Have you not, my lord the king, sworn to your servant, \u201cSurely Solomon your son shall become king after me. And he will sit on my throne\u201d? But why is Adonijah king?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:14",
"text": "While you are still there speaking with the king, I will enter after you, and \u231eI will confirm your words\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:15",
"text": " So Bathsheba went to the king in the private room. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunnamite was attending the king. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:16",
"text": "Bathsheba knelt and bowed down before the king, and the king asked, \u201c\u231eWhat do you want\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:17",
"text": "She said to him, \u201cMy lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your servant, \u2018Solomon your son surely shall become king after me, and he will sit upon my throne!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:18",
"text": "But now, look! Adonijah has become king! And now, my lord the king, you do not know! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:19",
"text": "He has sacrificed oxen and sheep and fattened animals \u231ein abundance\u231f, and he has invited all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, Joab the commander of the army, but Solomon your servant he did not invite. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:20",
"text": "But as for you, my lord the king, the eyes of all of Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:21",
"text": "It shall be that when my lord the king sleeps with his ancestors, I and my son Solomon will be considered as sinners.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:22",
"text": " While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:23",
"text": "They told the king, \u201cNathan the prophet is here.\u201d He came into the presence of the king and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:24",
"text": "Nathan said, \u201cMy lord the king, have you said, \u2018Adonijah shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:25",
"text": " \u201cFor he went down today and sacrificed oxen, sheep, and fattened animals \u231ein abundance\u231f. He invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest, and look, they are eating and drinking before him. They have also said, \u201cLong live King Adonijah! "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:26",
"text": "But me, your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Solomon your servant he did not invite. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:27",
"text": "If it was from my lord the king that this thing has happened, then all is well, but if not, you must let your servants know who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:28",
"text": "Then King David answered and said, \u201cSummon Bathsheba for me.\u201d Then she came before the king and stood in his presence. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:29",
"text": "Then the king swore and said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, who has saved my life from all trouble, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:30",
"text": "surely as I swore to you by Yahweh the God of Israel, saying, \u2018Solomon your son shall surely be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,\u2019 surely I shall do so this very day.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:31",
"text": "Then Bathsheba knelt with her face to the ground and did obeisance to the king, and she said, \u201cMay my lord, King David, live forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:32",
"text": " Then King David said, \u201cSummon Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,\u201d and they came before the king. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:33",
"text": "The king said to them, \u201cTake with you all the servants of your lord, and let them make Solomon my son ride on my mule, and bring him down to Gihon. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:34",
"text": "Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel. Blow on the trumpet and say, \u2018Long live King Solomon!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:35",
"text": "Then you shall go up after him, and let him come and sit on my throne; he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be leader over Israel and Judah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:36",
"text": "Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, \u201cAmen! So may Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, confirm it! "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:37",
"text": "As Yahweh was with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:38",
"text": "Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites went down, and they let Solomon ride on the mule of King David, and they brought him to Gihon. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:39",
"text": "Then Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent, and he anointed Solomon. They blew on the trumpet, and all the people said, \u201cLong live King Solomon!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:40",
"text": "All the people went up after him, and the people were playing on the flutes and rejoicing with great joy, and the earth shook with their noise. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:41",
"text": " And Adonijah and all the invited guests who were with him heard it. Now they were finished eating when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet and said, \u201c\u231eWhy is there such a noise in the city?\u231f\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:42",
"text": "While he was still speaking, suddenly Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. Adonijah said, \u201cCome, for you are a man of valor, and you bring good news.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:43",
"text": "Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, \u201cBut our lord King David has made Solomon king! "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:44",
"text": "He sent Zadok the priest with the king, and Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites; they made him ride on the king\u2019s mule. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:45",
"text": "Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed him as king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing. The city has gone wild; this is the sound which you heard. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:46",
"text": "And also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom! "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:47",
"text": "The servants of the king also came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, \u2018Your God has made the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!\u2019 So the king worshiped on the bed. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:48",
"text": "What is more, the king said, \u2018May Yahweh the God of Israel be blessed, who has given this day one sitting on my throne, and my eyes are seeing it!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:49",
"text": " Then all the invited guests who were for Adonijah trembled and got up and went, each on his way. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:50",
"text": "Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon, and he got up and went and grasped the horns of the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:51",
"text": "Solomon was told, \u201cLook, Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon, and he has grasped the horns of the altar, saying, \u2018Let King Solomon swear to me \u231efirst\u231f that he will surely not kill his servant with the sword!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:52",
"text": "Solomon said, \u201cIf he is a son of noble character, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, but if evil is found in him, then he will die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Kings 1:53",
"text": "Then King Solomon sent and brought him down from upon the altar. He came and did obeisance to King Solomon. Solomon said to him, \u201cGo to your house.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:1",
"text": " The days of David came near for him to die, and he charged Solomon his son, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:2",
"text": "\u201cI am about to go the way of all the world. Be strong and be \u231ecourageous\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:3",
"text": "You shall keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his judgments, and his testimonies, as are written in the law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all that you do and everywhere you turn, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:4",
"text": "so that Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, \u2018If your sons take heed of their way, to walk before me in faithfulness, with all their heart and with all their soul, no man of yours will be cut off from the throne of Israel.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:5",
"text": " \u201cMoreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me when he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner and to Amasa son of Jether, and he murdered them and put the blood of war in a time of peace. He put the blood of war on the leather belt that was on his waist and on the sandals which were on his feet. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:6",
"text": "You must act according to your wisdom, but you must not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:7",
"text": "Regarding the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, you shall do loyal love and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:8",
"text": "And look, Shimei the son of Gera the son of the Benjaminite from Bahurim is with you. Now he \u231ecursed me severely\u231f when I went to Mahanaim, but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, so I swore to him by Yahweh, \u2018I surely will not kill you with the sword.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:9",
"text": "So then, do not leave him unpunished, for you are a wise man, and you will know what you must do to him. You must bring his grey hair down to Sheol with blood.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:10",
"text": " Then David slept with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:11",
"text": "The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:12",
"text": "Then Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:13",
"text": " Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and she said, \u201c\u231eAre you coming in peace\u231f?\u201d He said, \u201cPeace.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:14",
"text": "Then he said, \u201c\u231eMay I have a word with you\u231f?\u201d Then she said, \u201cGo on.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:15",
"text": "He said, \u201cYou know that the kingship was mine and that all Israel had set their face toward me as king, but the kingship turned around and became my brother\u2019s, for it was from Yahweh for him to have it. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:16",
"text": "Now one request I am asking from you, and you must \u231enot refuse me\u231f.\u201d Then she said to him, \u201cGo on.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:17",
"text": "He said, \u201cPlease speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, so that he will give to me Abishag the Shunnamite as wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:18",
"text": "Then Bathsheba said, \u201cVery well, I will speak to the king concerning you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:19",
"text": " Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonijah, and the king got up to meet her, bowed down to her, and then sat on his throne. Then he set up a throne for the king\u2019s mother, and she sat on his right. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:20",
"text": "She said, \u201cI have one small request I am asking from you. Do \u231enot refuse me\u231f.\u201d The king said to her, \u201cAsk, my mother, for I will \u231enot refuse you\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:21",
"text": "Then she said, \u201cLet Abishag the Shunnamite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:22",
"text": "King Solomon answered and said to his mother, \u201cWhy are you asking Abishag the Shunnamite for Adonijah? Ask for him also the kingdom, for he is my brother, older than I; and ask for him also Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:23",
"text": "Then King Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, \u201cThus may God do to me and thus may he add, if Adonijah hasn\u2019t spoken this thing at the expense of his life. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:24",
"text": "So then, \u231eas Yahweh lives\u231f, who has established me and seated me on the throne of my father David and who has established for me a dynasty as he promised, then surely Adonijah will be put to death today.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:25",
"text": "King Solomon sent through the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, so he struck him, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:26",
"text": " To Abiathar the priest, the king said, \u201cGo to Anathoth, to your field, for \u231eyou deserve to die\u231f, but on this day I will not kill you, for you carried the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you endured hardship in all the hardship that my father endured.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:27",
"text": "So Solomon banished Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, thus fulfilling the word which Yahweh had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:28",
"text": " When the message came to Joab (now Joab \u231ehad supported\u231f Adonijah but \u231ehad not supported\u231f Absalom), he fled to the tent of Yahweh and grasped the horns of the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:29",
"text": "It was told to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of Yahweh and was beside the altar. So Solomon sent word to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, \u201cGo and fall upon him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:30",
"text": "So Benaiah went to the tent of Yahweh, and he said to him, \u201cThus says the king: \u2018Come out.\u2019\u00a0\u201d And he said, \u201cNo, for I want to die here.\u201d So Benaiah returned a word to the king, saying, \u201cThus Joab spoke, and thus he answered me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:31",
"text": "Then the king said to him, \u201cDo as he spoke; fall upon him and bury him, and so you shall remove the innocent blood that Joab shed from on me and from on the house of my father. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:32",
"text": "Yahweh will return his blood on his head, because he fell upon two men, more righteous and better than he, and he killed them with the sword, even though my father did not know it; namely Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:33",
"text": "And their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever, but for David and his descendants and for his house and his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:34",
"text": "So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, and he fell on him and killed him, and he was buried in his house in the wilderness. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:35",
"text": "Then the king appointed Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army, and the king appointed Zadok the priest in place of Abiathar. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:36",
"text": " Then the king sent and summoned Shimei, and he said to him, \u201cBuild yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, but you must not go out \u231eanywhere whatsoever\u231f from there. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:37",
"text": "It shall happen that on the day you go out and cross over the Wadi Kidron, know for certain that \u231eyou will surely die\u231f. Your blood will be on your head.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:38",
"text": "Shimei said to the king, \u201cThe word is good that my lord the king has spoken to me; thus will your servant do.\u201d So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:39",
"text": " It happened that at the end of three years, two of Shimei\u2019s slaves fled to Achish, son of Maacah, the king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, \u201cYour slaves are here in Gath.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:40",
"text": "So Shimei got up and saddled his donkey, and he went to Gath, to Achish, to search for his slaves. So Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:41",
"text": "When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:42",
"text": "the king sent and summoned Shimei, and he said to him, \u201cDid I not make you swear by Yahweh? I warned you, saying, \u2018On the day you go out and you go \u231eanywhere whatsoever\u231f, know for certain that \u231eyou will surely die\u231f.\u2019 And you said to me, \u2018The word is good; I accept.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:43",
"text": "Why have you not kept the oath of Yahweh and the command which I commanded you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:44",
"text": "Then the king said to Shimei, \u201cYou know all the evil which your heart knows, what you did to David my father. Now Yahweh will return the evil on your head, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:45",
"text": "but King Solomon will be blessed and the throne of David will be established before Yahweh forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Kings 2:46",
"text": "Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell upon him, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:1",
"text": " Solomon intermarried with Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and he took the daughter of Pharaoh and brought her to the city of David until he finished building his house, the house of Yahweh, and the walls of Jerusalem all around. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:2",
"text": "But the people were sacrificing on the high places, for the house for the name of Yahweh had not yet been built in those days. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:3",
"text": "Solomon loved Yahweh, by walking in the statutes of David his father; only he was sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:4",
"text": "So the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice, for the great high place was there. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:5",
"text": " Yahweh appeared to Solomon at Gibeon in a dream at night, and God said, \u201cAsk what I should give to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:6",
"text": "Then Solomon said, \u201cYou have shown great loyal love with your servant David my father, as he walked before you in faithfulness and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. You have shown for him this great loyal love, and you have given a son to him who is sitting on his throne as it is this day. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:7",
"text": "So then, O Yahweh, you are my God. You have made your servant king in place of David my father though I am a young boy. I do not know going out or coming in. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:8",
"text": "Your servant is in the middle of your people whom you have chosen; a great people who cannot be counted or numbered because of abundance. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:9",
"text": "Give to your servant a listening heart to judge your people, to discern between good and bad, because who is able to judge this, your difficult people?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:10",
"text": " The word was good in the eyes of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:11",
"text": "And God said to him, \u201cBecause you have asked this thing and you did not ask for yourself \u231ea long life\u231f and you did not ask riches for yourself and you did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you have asked for yourself \u231ethe ability to make wise judgments\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:12",
"text": "behold, I do hereby do according to your word. I hereby give you a wise and discerning heart; there was no one like you before you, nor afterwards will one like you arise. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:13",
"text": "Too, what you have not asked I give to you: both riches and honor, so that no man among the kings will be like you all of your days. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:14",
"text": "If you will walk in my ways by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David your father walked, then I will lengthen your days.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:15",
"text": "Then Solomon awoke, and look, it was a dream, and he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and he offered burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings, and he held a feast for all of his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:16",
"text": " Then two prostitutes came to the king, and they stood before him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:17",
"text": "The one woman said, \u201cPlease my lord, I and this woman are living in one house, and I gave birth, with her in the house. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:18",
"text": "It happened on the third day after my giving birth, this woman also gave birth, and we were together. There was not anyone with us in the house, only the two of us were in the house. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:19",
"text": "Then the son of this woman died in the night because she laid on him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:20",
"text": "So she got up in the middle of the night, and she took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she put him in her lap, and she put her dead son in my lap. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:21",
"text": "When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead! When I looked closely at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I had borne.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:22",
"text": "Then the other woman said, \u201cNo, for my son is the living one, and your son is the dead one.\u201d The other kept on saying, \u201cNo, for your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one,\u201d and so they argued in front of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:23",
"text": "Then the king said, \u201cThis one is saying, \u2018This is my son, the living one, but your son is the dead one,\u2019 and the other one keeps saying, \u2018But no! Your son is the dead one, and my son is living!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:24",
"text": "So the king said, \u201cBring me a sword,\u201d and they brought the sword before the king. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:25",
"text": "Then the king said, \u201cDivide the living child into two, and give half to the one and half to the other.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:26",
"text": "Then the woman whose son was the living one spoke to the king because her compassion was aroused for her son, and she said, \u201cPlease, my lord, give her the living child, but certainly do not kill him!\u201d The other one was saying, \u201cAs for me, so for you! Divide him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:27",
"text": "Then the king answered and said, \u201cGive the living child to her, and do not kill him; she is his mother.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Kings 3:28",
"text": "When all of Israel heard the judgment that the king had rendered, they \u231estood in awe\u231f of the king, because they realized that the wisdom of God was in him to execute justice. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:1",
"text": " King Solomon was king over all Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:2",
"text": "Now these are the officials who were his: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:3",
"text": "Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were the secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:4",
"text": "Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:5",
"text": "Azariah the son of Nathan was over the governors, and Zabud the son of Nathan was a priest, an advisor to the king. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:6",
"text": "Ahishar was over the palace, and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:7",
"text": "Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, and they sustained the king and his palace, \u231eeach one was to sustain for each month of the year\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:8",
"text": "These are their names: Ben-Hur was in the hill country of Ephraim. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:9",
"text": "Ben-Deker was in Makaz and in Shaalbim and in Beth-Shemesh and Elon of Beth-Hanan. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:10",
"text": "Ben-Hesed was in the Arubbot; Socoh and all the land of Hepher were his. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:11",
"text": "Ben-Abinadab was in all of Naphat of Dor; Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:12",
"text": "Baanah the son of Ahilud was in Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-Shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, of Beth-Shean up to Abel-Meholah up to the other side of Jokmeam. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:13",
"text": "Ben-Geber was in Ramoth-Gilead; the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh which are in the Gilead were his, and the region of Argob which is in the Bashan, sixty great cities, with walls having crossbars of bronze, were his. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:14",
"text": "Ahinadab the son of Iddo was in Mahanaim. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:15",
"text": "Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he moreover also had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:16",
"text": "Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and Bealoth. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:17",
"text": "Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah was in Issachar. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:18",
"text": "Shimei the son of Ela was in Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:19",
"text": "Geber the son of Uri was in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, and of Og, the king of Bashan; one governor which was over the land. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:20",
"text": "Judah and Israel were as many as the sand which is on the seashore in abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing! "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:21",
"text": " Now Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and up to the border of Egypt, who were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:22",
"text": "The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour; "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:23",
"text": "ten stall-fed oxen and twenty pasture-fed oxen and a hundred sheep, besides deer and buck gazelles and roebucks and well-fed fowls. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:24",
"text": "For he was ruling over all the west of the River from Tiphsah up to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace from every side all around. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:25",
"text": "Judah and Israel lived in security, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:26",
"text": " Now Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his war chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:27",
"text": "These governors sustained King Solomon and all who came near to the table of King Solomon, each in his month; they did not omit anything. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:28",
"text": "The barley and the straw for the horses and for packhorses they brought to the place where they were, each according to his share. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:29",
"text": " God gave wisdom to Solomon and very great discernment, as well as \u231ebreadth of understanding\u231f, as the sand which is on the edge of the seashore. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:30",
"text": "The wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the east and more than all the wisdom of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:31",
"text": "He was wiser than all the men: Ethan the Ezrahite; Heman, Calcol, and Darda the children of Mahol; and \u231ehe was very well known\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:32",
"text": "He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:33",
"text": "He spoke concerning the trees, from the cedar which is in Lebanon up to the hyssop which grows on the wall; he also spoke concerning the animals, concerning the birds, concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fish. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Kings 4:34",
"text": "They came from all the nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon; from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:1",
"text": " Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him as king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend for David. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:2",
"text": "Then Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:3",
"text": "\u201cYou knew David my father, that he was not able to build a house for the name of Yahweh his God, \u231ein view of the warfare\u231f which surrounded him, until Yahweh placed them under the soles of his feet. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:4",
"text": "But now Yahweh my God has given me rest all around me. There is no adversary, and there is no bad occurrence. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:5",
"text": "Here I am, intending to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh promised to my father David, saying, \u2018Your son, whom I will set in your place on your throne, shall build the house for my name.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:6",
"text": "So then, command that they may cut cedars for me from Lebanon, and let my servants be with your servants. The wage of your servants I will give to you according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:7",
"text": "When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and he said, \u201cBlessed be Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:8",
"text": "Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, \u201cI have heard what you have sent to me; I will do all of your desire concerning the timber of cedars and concerning the timber of cypresses. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:9",
"text": "My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts in the sea to float to the place which you indicated to me. Then I shall break them up there, and you may carry them further, and \u231eyou shall meet my needs\u231f by giving food for my house.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:10",
"text": "So Hiram was giving to Solomon the cedar timbers and the cypress timbers, \u231eeverything he needed\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:11",
"text": "Then Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand dry measures of wheat as food for his household, and twenty dry measures of \u231especially prepared olive oil\u231f; thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:12",
"text": "Yahweh gave wisdom to Solomon as he promised to him, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them \u231emade\u231f a covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:13",
"text": " Then King Solomon conscripted a forced labor from all Israel, and the forced labor numbered thirty thousand men. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:14",
"text": "He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand \u231eevery month\u231f; the work groups were a month in Lebanon and two months at home; now Adoniram was over the forced labor. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:15",
"text": "Solomon had seventy thousand \u231ecommon laborers\u231f and eighty thousand stone craftsmen in the hill country. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:16",
"text": "Besides the chiefs of the officers Solomon had, there were three thousand three hundred having charge over the people who were doing the work. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:17",
"text": "When the king commanded, they quarried great stones and precious stones to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stones. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Kings 5:18",
"text": "So Solomon\u2019s builders and Hiram\u2019s builders and the Gebalites hewed stones, and they prepared the timber and the stone to build the house. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:1",
"text": " It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the \u231eIsraelites\u231f went out from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year \u231eof Solomon\u2019s rule\u231f over Israel, the month of Ziv (that is the second month), that he began to build the house for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:2",
"text": "Now the house that King Solomon built for Yahweh was sixty cubits in its length and twenty cubits in its width and thirty cubits in its height. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:3",
"text": "The vestibule on the face of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits in its length, and the width of the temple was ten cubits wide on the face of the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:4",
"text": "And he made for the temple specially designed framed windows, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:5",
"text": "and he built a structure against the wall of the temple running all along the walls of the house, for the outer sanctuary and for the inner sanctuary, and made side rooms all around. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:6",
"text": "The lower structure was five cubits in its width and the middle was six cubits in its width and the third was seven cubits in its width, for he made niches for the temple all around to the outside, so that beams would not attach to the walls of the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:7",
"text": "Now while the temple was being built, it was built with stones finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or stone shaping tool or any instrument of iron was heard in the temple as it was being built. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:8",
"text": "The doorway of the side room in the middle of the side of the temple was on the south; they went up with a stairway to the middle and from the middle to the third floor. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:9",
"text": "So he built the house and finished it. He covered the temple with rafters and wood planks and with the cedars. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:10",
"text": "He also built the structure against all of the temple five cubits in height and fastened it to the temple with beams of cedar. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:11",
"text": " Then the word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:12",
"text": "\u201cRegarding this temple that you are building: if you walk in my ordinances and if you do my judgments and you keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my promise with you which I made to David your father. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:13",
"text": "And I will dwell \u231eamong\u231f the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and I will not forsake my people Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:14",
"text": " So Solomon built the temple and finished it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:15",
"text": "He lined the walls \u231eof the inside of the house\u231f with boards of cedar; from the floor of the temple up to the rafters of the ceiling he covered them with wood \u231eon the inside\u231f. He also covered the floor of the temple with cypress boards. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:16",
"text": "He built twenty cubits from the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor up to the ceiling, and he built for it an inner sanctuary on the inside, as the \u231emost holy place\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:17",
"text": "The main hall of the temple was forty cubits \u231ein front of the inner sanctuary\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:18",
"text": "with the cedar within the inner house having carvings of gourds and buds of flowers. It was entirely of cedar; there was not a stone visible. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:19",
"text": "Now in the inner sanctuary in the middle of the temple he prepared the inside to place the ark of the covenant of Yahweh there. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:20",
"text": "In front, the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold and covered the altar with cedar. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:21",
"text": "Solomon overlaid the temple on the inside with pure gold, and he drew across it with golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary, which he overlaid with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:22",
"text": " All of the temple he overlaid with gold until all of the temple was finished; all of the altar which belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:23",
"text": "He made two cherubim of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, ten cubits high. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:24",
"text": "Five cubits was the first wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub, from the tip of his one wing up to the tip of his other wing. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:25",
"text": "The second cherub was ten cubits according to \u231ethe same\u231f measurement, and there was one shape for the two cherubim. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:26",
"text": "The height of the first cherub was ten cubits and so was the second cherub. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:27",
"text": " He placed the cherubim in the middle of the inner house, and they spread out the wings of the cherubim; the wing of the first cherub touched against the wall and the wing of the second cherub was touching against the second wall; their wings spread to the middle of the house and were touching wing to wing. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:28",
"text": "He also overlaid the cherubim with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:29",
"text": " On all of the walls around the house, he carved engravings of cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers both inside and out. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:30",
"text": "He overlaid the floor of the house with gold both inside and out. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:31",
"text": "He made doors of olive wood for the doorway of the inner sanctuary, as well as for the doorpost of the fifth doorframe. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:32",
"text": "On the two doors of olive wood he made carvings of cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers, and he overlaid them with gold \u231eby beating\u231f out the gold on the cherubim and the palm tree images. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:33",
"text": "Thus he made doorframes of olive wood on four sides for the doorway of the main hall "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:34",
"text": "and two doors of cypress wood; one door with two folding panels and the second door with two folding panels. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:35",
"text": "He carved cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers and overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:36",
"text": "Then he built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of cedar beams. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:37",
"text": "In the fourth year, the house of Yahweh was founded in the month of Ziv. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Kings 6:38",
"text": "In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, that is, the eighth month, the house was finished according to all his specifications and according to all his plans. He had built it in seven years. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:1",
"text": " Solomon built his house over thirteen years, and he finished all of his house. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:2",
"text": " He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; one hundred cubits its length, fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams atop the pillars. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:3",
"text": "It was covered with cedar above, and the supporting beams which were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen to the row. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:4",
"text": "There were three rows of specially designed windows; with window to window three times. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:5",
"text": "All of the doorways and the doorframes had four-sided casings, with opening to opposite opening three times. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:6",
"text": " The hall of pillars he made fifty cubits in its length and thirty cubits in its width, and a porch was \u231ein front of them\u231f, with pillars and an overhang \u231ein front of them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:7",
"text": "He made the hall of the throne where he would pronounce judgment, the hall of justice, and it was covered with cedar from the floor to the rafters. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:8",
"text": "His house where he would live in the next courtyard on the inside of the porch was like this work, and he would make a house like this porch for the daughter of Pharaoh whom Solomon had taken as wife. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:9",
"text": "All of these were of precious stones, according to the measurement of dressed stone, sawn with a saw \u231eon all sides\u231f; from the foundation up to the eaves and from the outside up to the great courtyard. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:10",
"text": "The foundation was of precious stones, and large stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:11",
"text": "with precious stones above, \u231ejust the right size\u231f, and cedar. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:12",
"text": "The great courtyard all around had three rows of dressed stones and a row of cedar beams; for both the courtyard of the inner house of Yahweh and for the porch of the house. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:13",
"text": " King Solomon invited and received Hiram from Tyre. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:14",
"text": "He was the son of a widow woman from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, an artisan of bronze. He was filled with wisdom and with ability and with the knowledge to do all the work with the bronze. And he came to King Solomon, and he did all of his work. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:15",
"text": "He cast the two pillars out of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of the first, and a cord of twelve cubits would encircle the second pillar. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:16",
"text": "He made two capitals to place on the tops of the pillars out of molten bronze; the first capital was five cubits in height, and the second capital was five cubits in height. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:17",
"text": "A network of latticework and wreaths of chainwork with small chains were for the capitals which were on top of the pillars; seven for the first capital and seven for the second capital. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:18",
"text": "He also made the pillars with two rows around on the lattice, each to cover the capitals which were on top, out of the pomegranate-shaped ornaments, and thus he did for the second capital as well. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:19",
"text": "And on the capitals which were on top of the pillars in the porch were works of lilies four cubits high. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:20",
"text": "And capitals were on the two pillars above near the bulging section which was beside the lattice, and two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments were in rows all around on the second capital. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:21",
"text": "He set up the pillars for the porch of the main hall; he erected the pillar on the right and called its name Jakin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name Boaz. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:22",
"text": "On the top of the pillars was a work of lilies; and so the work of the pillars was finished. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:23",
"text": " He also made the molten sea, ten cubits \u231ein diameter\u231f, and five cubits was its height. A measuring line of thirty cubits would encircle it all around. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:24",
"text": "Gourds were under its rim surrounding it all around; ten to the cubit, surrounding the sea all around with two rows of gourds, which were cast when he cast the metal. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:25",
"text": "The sea was standing on twelve oxen, with three facing to the north, three facing to the west, three facing to the south, and three facing to the east. The sea was on top of them, with all of their hindquarters turned to the inside. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:26",
"text": "Its thickness was a handbreadth, but its rim was as the work on the brim of a cup, like the bud of a lily; it held two thousand baths. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:27",
"text": " He made the ten stands of bronze; each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits in height. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:28",
"text": "Now this was the construction of the stands: there were frames for them and frames between the crossbars, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:29",
"text": "and on the frames which were between the crossbars were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the crossbars both above and beneath the lions and oxen were works of cascading wreaths. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:30",
"text": "There were four bronze wheels for each of the stands, with bronze axles; the four support pedestals for these were under the basin, and the supports were decorated on each side with wreaths. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:31",
"text": "Its opening from the inside of the capital and above was a cubit; its pedestal was a round work of a cubit and a half; moreover, on its opening were the carvings with four-sided frames, not circular. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:32",
"text": "Four of the wheels were underneath the frames, and the axles of the wheels were on the stands. The height of each wheel was a cubit and a half. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:33",
"text": "The construction of the wheel was like the construction of the wheel of the chariot; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their naves were all cast. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:34",
"text": "The four supports were the four corners of each stand, with the stand supporting it. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:35",
"text": "On top of the stand was half a cubit deep, circular all around, and on the top of the stand were its supports and its frames. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:36",
"text": "He engraved on the plates, on its supports, and on its frame cherubim, lions and images of a palm tree, according to the space for each, with wreaths all around. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:37",
"text": "He made the ten stands like this in one cast, with the same measurement and shape for each of them. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:38",
"text": " He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths; each basin was four cubits, one basin on each of the ten stands. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:39",
"text": "He placed five of the stands on the south side of the house and five on the north side of the house, and the sea he set on the southeast side of the house. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:40",
"text": " Hiram also made the basins and the shovels and the bowls for drinking wine; and so Hiram finished doing all of the work \u231ethat he was to do\u231f for King Solomon in the house of Yahweh: "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:41",
"text": "the two pillars and the bowls of the capitals which were atop the two pillars, and the two lattice works to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were atop the pillars; "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:42",
"text": "and the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the two lattice works, the two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments for each latticework to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the surface of the pillars; "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:43",
"text": "and the ten stands and the ten basins on the stands; "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:44",
"text": "and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:45",
"text": "and the pots, the shovels, and the bowls for drinking wine. All the vessels of the tent which Hiram had made for King Solomon for the house of Yahweh were polished bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:46",
"text": "The king had cast them in the plain of the Jordan with the casting mold set in the ground between Succoth and Zarethan. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:47",
"text": "Solomon left all of the vessels unweighed because of their very great abundance, so the weight of the bronze could not be determined. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:48",
"text": " Solomon also made all of the vessels which were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the presence; "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:49",
"text": "as well as the five lampstands of beaten gold at the south and five lampstands at the north before the presence of the inner sanctuary, with the flower-shaped ornaments, the lamps, and the pair of tongs all of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:50",
"text": "The cups, the snuffers, the bowls for drinking wine, the bowls for the incense, and the firepans were made from beaten gold; the facades for the doors of the inner house, for the \u231emost holy place\u231f, for the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Kings 7:51",
"text": "When all of the work which king Solomon did on the house of Yahweh was completed, Solomon brought out the holy objects of his father David, the silver and the gold and the vessels, which he put in the treasury rooms of the house of Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:1",
"text": " At that time, Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, and the leaders of the \u231efamilies\u231f of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f before King Solomon, in order to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, that is, Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:2",
"text": "All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the festival in the month of Ethnaim, that is, the seventh month. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:3",
"text": "All the elders of Israel came, and the priests carried the ark. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:4",
"text": "So they brought up the ark of Yahweh and the tent of assembly and all of the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:5",
"text": "King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel who were assembling with him in the presence of the ark were sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted nor numbered because of abundance. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:6",
"text": "The priests brought the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, to the \u231emost holy place\u231f, under the wings of the cherubim, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:7",
"text": "for the cherubim were spreading their wings over the place of the ark. The cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles from above. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:8",
"text": "The poles were long, and the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place \u231ein front of\u231f the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside, and they are there until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:9",
"text": "There was not anything in the ark \u231eexcept\u231f the two tablets of stone which Moses had placed there at Horeb, where Yahweh \u231emade\u231f a covenant with the \u231eIsraelites\u231f after they went out from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:10",
"text": "When the priests went out from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:11",
"text": "The priests were not able to stand to minister \u231ebecause of the presence of\u231f the cloud, for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:12",
"text": " Then Solomon said, \u201cYahweh has said that he would dwell in the very thick cloud. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:13",
"text": "I have certainly built a lofty house for you, a place for you to live forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:14",
"text": "Then the king turned his face around, and he blessed all of the assembly of Israel. (Now all the assembly of Israel was standing). "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:15",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cBlessed be Yahweh the God of Israel who has promised with his mouth to David my father and fulfilled \u231eby his oath\u231f, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:16",
"text": "\u2018From the day that I brought out my people Israel from Egypt I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a house where my name might be, but I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:17",
"text": "\u231eDavid my father desired\u231f to build a house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:18",
"text": "but Yahweh said to David my father, \u2018Because \u231eyou desired\u231f to build a house for my name, you did well in that it was within your heart. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:19",
"text": "However, you will not build the house, but your son who has come from your loins, he shall build the house for my name.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:20",
"text": "Yahweh has carried out his promise which he had made; I have risen in place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel as Yahweh promised, and I have built the house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:21",
"text": "I have provided a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant which Yahweh made with our ancestors when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:22",
"text": " Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all of the assembly of Israel, and he spread out his hands to the heavens, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:23",
"text": "and he said, \u201cO Yahweh, God of Israel, there is no god like you in the heavens above or on the earth beneath, keeping the covenant and the loyal love for your servants who are walking before you with all their heart. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:24",
"text": "You have kept for your servant David my father what you promised to him, and you have spoken with your mouth, and with your hand you have fulfilled it this very day. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:25",
"text": "So then, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you promised to him, saying, \u2018For you, no man will be cut off from before me who will be sitting on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their ways to walk before me just as you have walked before me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:26",
"text": "So then, O God of Israel, please let your word be confirmed which you have promised to your servant David my father. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:27",
"text": "For will God really dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens could not contain you! \u231eHow could\u231f this house that I have built? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:28",
"text": "You must regard the prayer of your servant and his plea! O Yahweh my God, listen to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant is praying before you this day, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:29",
"text": "so that your eyes will be open to this house night and day, to the place which you said, \u2018My name will be there,\u2019 to hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:30",
"text": "You must listen to the plea of your servant and your people Israel which they pray toward this place; and you must hear from the place where you live, from heaven you must hear and you must forgive. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:31",
"text": "If a man sins against his neighbor and he pronounces an oath against him to curse him, and the curse comes before your altar in this house, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:32",
"text": "then you shall hear in heaven and you shall act and you shall judge your servant, to declare the wicked guilty by bringing his way upon his head and \u231eto declare the righteous innocent\u231f by rewarding him according to his righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:33",
"text": "When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy \u231ebecause\u231f they sinned against you, and when they turn to you and confess your name and pray and beg for mercy from you in this house, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:34",
"text": "then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and you shall bring them back to the ground which you gave to their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:35",
"text": "When you shut up the heavens so there is no rain because they have sinned against you, then they pray to this place and they confess your name and they return from their sin because you punished them, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:36",
"text": "then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, for you will teach them the good way in which they should go, and you will give rain upon your land which you have given to your people as an inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:37",
"text": "If there should be in the land famine or disease, if there should be blight or mildew or locust or caterpillars, if it happens that his enemy lays siege against him in the land of his gates, if any plague or any disease, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:38",
"text": "any prayer or any plea which is offered by any person for all of your people Israel, who each knows the infestation of his own heart and spreads out his palms to this house, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:39",
"text": "then you shall hear in heaven the place of your dwelling, and you shall forgive and act and give to the man whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you alone know the heart of all the sons of man. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:40",
"text": "Do these things so that they may fear you all the days that they live on the face of the land that you gave to our ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:41",
"text": "Also for the foreigner who is not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:42",
"text": "(for they shall hear of your great name and your powerful hand and your outstretched arm), and he shall come and pray toward this house, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:43",
"text": "you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, and act according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you as your people Israel, and to know that your name has been invoked over this house that I have built. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:44",
"text": "If your people go out to battle against his enemy in the way that you shall send them and they pray to Yahweh, toward the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:45",
"text": "then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall \u231evindicate\u231f them. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:46",
"text": " \u201cIf they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:47",
"text": "and then they return their heart in the land where they have been taken captive and they return and plead to you in the land of their captivity, saying, \u2018We have sinned and we did wrong. We acted wickedly,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:48",
"text": "if they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive and they pray to you toward their land which you gave to their ancestors, the city that you have chosen and the house that you built for your name, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:49",
"text": "then you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their plea, and you shall \u231evindicate them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:50",
"text": "You shall forgive your people who sinned against you, even for all their transgressions which they committed against you. You shall give them compassion before their captors so that they may have compassion on them, "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:51",
"text": "for they are your people and your inheritance whom you brought from Egypt from the middle of the smelter of iron. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:52",
"text": "O, that your eyes may be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, to listen to them in all things when they call to you. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:53",
"text": "For you have separated them for yourself as an inheritance from all the peoples of the earth, as you promised through the hand of Moses your servant when you brought out our ancestors from Egypt, my Lord Yahweh!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:54",
"text": " It happened that when Solomon finished praying to Yahweh all of the prayer and this plea, he got up from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling down on his knees with his palms outstretched to heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:55",
"text": "He stood and blessed all of the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:56",
"text": "\u201cBlessed be Yahweh who gave a resting place to his people Israel. According to all that he promised, not one word has fallen from all of his promises concerning the good which he spoke through the hand of Moses his servant. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:57",
"text": "May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our ancestors, and may he not leave us or abandon us, "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:58",
"text": "to incline our hearts toward him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his judgments which he commanded our ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:59",
"text": "Let these my words which I pleaded before Yahweh be near to Yahweh our God, by day and by night, to maintain the justice of his servant and the justice of his people Israel \u231eas each day requires\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:60",
"text": "so that all of the people of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; there is none other. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:61",
"text": "Let your heart be completely with Yahweh our God by walking in his statutes, by keeping his commands as this day.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:62",
"text": " Then the king and all of Israel with him offered a sacrifice in the presence of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:63",
"text": "Solomon sacrificed the fellowship offerings which he offered to Yahweh: twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep; and the king and all of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f dedicated the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:64",
"text": "On that day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard before the house of Yahweh because he offered there the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings because the bronze altar that was in the presence of Yahweh was too small to hold the burnt offerings and the grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings. "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:65",
"text": "Solomon held the festival at that time and all of Israel with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath up to the wadi of Egypt before Yahweh our God, for seven days and seven days, a total of fourteen days. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Kings 8:66",
"text": "On the eighth day, he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and they went to their tents rejoicing and \u231ein good spirits\u231f because of all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:1",
"text": " It happened that as Solomon finished the building of the house of Yahweh, the king\u2019s house, and all the things Solomon desired to do, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:2",
"text": "Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him in Gibeon. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:3",
"text": "Yahweh said to him, \u201cI have heard your prayer and your plea which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house which you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:4",
"text": "As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, with \u231eintegrity of heart\u231f and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep my ordinances and my judgments, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:5",
"text": "then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, \u2018A man will not be cut off for you from upon the throne of Israel.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:6",
"text": " \u201cIf ever you or any of your descendants turn from following me and do not keep my commandments and my ordinances that I have set before you and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:7",
"text": "then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, even the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:8",
"text": "This house shall become a heap of ruins; all those passing by will be appalled by it and hiss, and they will say, \u2018On what account did Yahweh do this to this land and to this house?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:9",
"text": "And they will say, \u2018Because they have forsaken Yahweh their God who brought their ancestors out from the land of Egypt and they embraced other gods and bowed down to them and served them. Therefore, Yahweh brought on them all of this disaster.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:10",
"text": " It happened at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:11",
"text": "since Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with wood of cedar and with wood of cypresses and with the gold according to all his desire, then King Solomon gave twenty cities in the land of the Galilee to Hiram. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:12",
"text": "So Hiram went out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but they were not right in his eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:13",
"text": "So he said, \u201cWhat are these cities that you have given to me, my brother?\u201d \u231eSo they are called the land of Cabul until this day\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:14",
"text": "Then Hiram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:15",
"text": " This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the house of Yahweh and his house, the Millo, the walls of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:16",
"text": "Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire. He had also killed the Canaanites who were living in the city and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:17",
"text": "Solomon rebuilt Gezer and Lower Beth-Horon, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:18",
"text": "as well as Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness in the land; "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:19",
"text": "and he also built all of the storage cities which were Solomon\u2019s, the cities for the chariots, the cities for the cavalry, and all of Solomon\u2019s desire that he wanted to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:20",
"text": " All of the people who were remaining from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who were not of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:21",
"text": "their children who remained after them in the land, whom the \u231eIsraelites\u231f were not able to completely destroy, Solomon conscripted them for forced labor, until this very day. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:22",
"text": "But from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f Solomon did not make a slave, but they were the men of war, his officers, his commanders, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and his cavalry. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:23",
"text": "These were the commanders of the overseers who were over the work for Solomon, five hundred and fifty, ruling over the people doing the work. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:24",
"text": " As soon as the daughter of Pharaoh went up from the city of David to her house which he built for her, then he built the Millo. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:25",
"text": " Solomon sacrificed three times a year: burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar that he had built to Yahweh, and he offered incense with it before Yahweh; and so he completed the house. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:26",
"text": " King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-Geber which is near Elath on the shore of the \u231eRed Sea\u231f in the land of Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:27",
"text": "Hiram sent his servants with the fleet of ships, \u231esailors\u231f who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Kings 9:28",
"text": "They went to Ophir and imported from there four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and they brought it to King Solomon. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:1",
"text": " Now the queen of Sheba had heard of the fame of Solomon regarding the name of Yahweh, and she came to test him with hard questions. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:2",
"text": "So she came to Jerusalem with very great wealth; with camels carrying spices, very much gold, and precious stones. She came to Solomon, and she spoke to him all that was on her heart. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:3",
"text": "\u231eSolomon answered all of her questions\u231f; there was not a thing hidden from the king which he could not explain to her. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:4",
"text": "When the queen of Sheba observed all the wisdom of Solomon and the house which he had built, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:5",
"text": "the food of his table, the seat of his servants, the \u231emanner\u231f of his servants and their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he offered in the house of Yahweh, \u231eshe was breathless\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:6",
"text": "Then she said to the king, \u201cThe report which I heard in my land was true concerning your accomplishments and your wisdom. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:7",
"text": "I had not believed the report to be true until I came and my eyes had seen, and behold! The half had not been told to me. \u231eYour wisdom and prosperity surpass\u231f the report that I had heard. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:8",
"text": "Happy are your men and happy are these your servants who stand before you continually hearing your wisdom. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:9",
"text": "May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel, because of the love of Yahweh for Israel forever, and he has made you king to execute justice and righteousness.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:10",
"text": "Then she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, abundant spices, and precious stones. Spices as these did not come again in such abundance as that which the queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:11",
"text": " Moreover, the fleet of ships of Hiram which carried the gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir abundant amounts of almug wood and precious stones. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:12",
"text": "The king made a raised structure for the house of Yahweh and for the house of the king out of the almug wood, as well as lyres and harps for the singers. This much almug wood has not come nor been seen again up to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:13",
"text": "King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all of her desire that she asked, besides that which \u231eKing Solomon freely offered her\u231f. Then she turned and went to her land with her servants. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:14",
"text": " The weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:15",
"text": "apart from that of the men of the traders and the profits of the traders, and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:16",
"text": "King Solomon made two hundred shields of hammered gold; six hundred measures of gold went up over each shield. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:17",
"text": "Also he made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went up over each of the small shields; and the king put them into the House of the Forest of Lebanon. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:18",
"text": "The king also made a large ivory throne, and he overlaid it with fine gold. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:19",
"text": "Six steps led up to the throne, and there was a circular top to the throne behind it, and armrests were \u231eon each side of the seat\u231f, with two lions standing beside the armrests. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:20",
"text": "Twelve lions were standing there, six on each of the six steps \u231eon either side\u231f; nothing like this was made for any of the kingdoms. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:21",
"text": "All of the drinking vessels of King Solomon were gold, and all the vessels for the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver; it was not considered as something valuable in the days of Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:22",
"text": "For the fleet of Tarshish belonged to the king and was on the sea with the fleet of Hiram; once every three years the fleet of Tarshish used to come carrying gold and silver, ivory, apes, and baboons. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:23",
"text": " King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth with respect to wealth and wisdom. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:24",
"text": "All of the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:25",
"text": "They were each bringing his gift; objects of silver and objects of gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. \u231eThis used to happen year after year\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:26",
"text": " Solomon gathered chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses. He stationed them in the cities of the chariots and with the king in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:27",
"text": "The king made the silver in Jerusalem as the stones, and the cedars he made as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah in abundance. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:28",
"text": "The import of the horses which were Solomon\u2019s was from Egypt and from Kue; the traders of the king received horses from Kue at a price. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Kings 10:29",
"text": "A chariot went up and went out from Egypt at six hundred silver shekels and a horse at a hundred and fifty. So it was for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Aram; by their hand they were exported. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:1",
"text": " King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, Hittite; "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:2",
"text": "from the nations which Yahweh had said to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, \u201cYou shall not \u231emarry them\u231f, and they shall not \u231emarry you\u231f. They will certainly turn your heart after other gods.\u201d But Solomon clung to them to love. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:3",
"text": "He had seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:4",
"text": " It happened at the time of Solomon\u2019s old age that his wives guided his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father had been. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:5",
"text": "Solomon went after Ashtoreth the god of the Sidonians and after Molech the abhorrence of the Ammonites. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:6",
"text": "So Solomon did evil in the eyes of Yahweh and did not fully follow after Yahweh as David his father. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:7",
"text": "At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mountain which \u231efaces\u231f Jerusalem and for Molech, the abomination of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:8",
"text": "Thus he did for all of his foreign wives, offering incense and sacrificing to their gods. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:9",
"text": " Yahweh was angry with Solomon, for he had turned his heart from Yahweh, the God of Israel who had appeared to him twice. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:10",
"text": "And he had commanded him concerning this matter not to go after other gods, but he did not keep that which Yahweh commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:11",
"text": "So Yahweh said to Solomon, \u201cBecause this was with you, and you did not keep my covenant and my ordinances which I have commanded you, I will certainly tear the kingdom from you, and I will give it to your servant. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:12",
"text": "However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it away. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:13",
"text": "Yet all of the kingdom I will not tear away. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:14",
"text": " Then Yahweh raised an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, from the descendants of that king in Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:15",
"text": "It had happened that when David was at Edom, Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, and he killed every male in Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:16",
"text": "For Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months until he exterminated every male in Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:17",
"text": "But Hadad himself had fled, and some Edomite men from the servants of his father with him, to go to Egypt, when Hadad was a young boy. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:18",
"text": "They had set out from Midian until they came to Paran where they took men from Paran with them and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt. He gave to him a house and assigned food for him and gave him land. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:19",
"text": "Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh, and he gave him the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen, as wife. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:20",
"text": "The sister of Tahpenes bore Genubath his son for him, and Tahpenes weaned him in the middle of the house of Pharaoh. Genubath was in the house of Pharaoh in the midst of the children of Pharaoh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:21",
"text": "Now Hadad heard in Egypt that David had slept with his ancestors and that Joab the commander of the army was dead. Then Hadad said to Pharaoh, \u201cSend me away that I may go to my land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:22",
"text": "Pharaoh said to him, \u201cWhat do you lack with me that you now are seeking to go to your land?\u201d He said, \u201cNo, but you must surely send me away.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:23",
"text": " God had also raised Rezon the son of Eliada as an adversary against him, who had fled from Hadadezer the king of Zobah, his master. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:24",
"text": "He gathered men around him and he became the commander of bandits. When David killed some of them, they went to Damascus and settled \u231ethere\u231f, and they reigned in Damascus. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:25",
"text": "He was an adversary for Israel all the days of Solomon, and along with the evil that Hadad did, he detested Israel while he reigned over Aram. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:26",
"text": " Now Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah (now the name of his mother was Zeruah, a widow woman), a servant of Solomon \u231erebelled against the king\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:27",
"text": "This is the reason that he rebelled against the king: when Solomon built the Millo, he closed the gap of the city of David his father. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:28",
"text": "Now the man Jeroboam was a man of ability, and Solomon saw that the young man \u231ewas a diligent worker\u231f, so he appointed him over all of the forced labor for the house of Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:29",
"text": "It happened at that time that Jeroboam went out from Jerusalem, and he accidentally met Ahijah the Shilonite the prophet on the way. Now he had clothed himself with new clothing. While the two of them were alone in the field, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:30",
"text": "Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:31",
"text": "Then he said to Jeroboam, \u201cTake for yourself ten pieces, for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: \u2018Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give to you ten tribes, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:32",
"text": "but one tribe shall be for him, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel; "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:33",
"text": "because he has forsaken me, and they bowed down to Ashtoreth, the god of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Molech, the god of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. They did not walk in my ways to do right in my eyes, my ordinances, or my judgments, as did David his father. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:34",
"text": "But I will not take all of the kingdom from his hand, but I will make him a leader all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my ordinances. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:35",
"text": "But I will take the kingship from the hand of his son, and I will give ten tribes to you. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:36",
"text": "To his son I will give one tribe in order to be a lamp for my servant David, always before my face, in Jerusalem the city in which I have chosen to place my name. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:37",
"text": "You I will take, and you shall reign over all your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:38",
"text": "It shall be that if you listen to all that I command you and you walk in my ways and you do right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, then I will be with you, and I will build an enduring house for you as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:39",
"text": "I will punish the offspring of David on account of this; however, not always.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:40",
"text": "Then Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam got up and fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king of Egypt, and he remained in Egypt until the death of Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:41",
"text": " Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and all that he did and his wisdom; are they not written on the scroll of the acts of Solomon? "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:42",
"text": "All the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all of Israel were forty years. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Kings 11:43",
"text": "Then Solomon slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son became king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:1",
"text": " Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all of Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:2",
"text": "It happened that Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it while he was still in Egypt where he had fled from the face of King Solomon, and Jeroboam had lived in Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:3",
"text": "So they sent and summoned him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came. Then they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:4",
"text": "\u201cYour father made our yoke heavy; now lighten the hard labor of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:5",
"text": "He said, \u201cGo up for three days and then return to me\u201d; so the people went away. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:6",
"text": " Then King Rehoboam consulted with the old men who had been \u231eserving\u231f before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, \u201cHow are you advising me \u231eto answer this people\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:7",
"text": "They said to him, \u201cIf you will be a servant today to this people, then you will serve them; and if you answer them and speak good words to them, they will always be your servants.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:8",
"text": "But he rejected the advice of the old men, which they gave him, and he consulted with the youngsters who had grown up with him, who were \u231eserving\u231f before him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:9",
"text": "He said to them, \u201cWhat are you advising that we should reply to this people who spoke to me by saying, \u2018Lighten the yoke your father put on us.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:10",
"text": "Then the youngsters who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, \u201cThus you shall say to this people who spoke to you: \u2018Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,\u2019 you shall say to them, \u2018My little finger is thicker than my father\u2019s loins. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:11",
"text": "So then, my father loaded a heavy yoke on all of you, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:12",
"text": " Jeroboam and all of the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had spoken: \u201cReturn to me on the third day.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:13",
"text": "Then the king answered all the people harshly, as he had rejected the advice of the old men that they had offered. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:14",
"text": "He spoke to them according to the advice of the youngsters, saying, \u201cMy father made your yoke heavy, but I will add onto your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:15",
"text": "So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turning of events from Yahweh in order to fulfill his word which Yahweh had spoken through the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:16",
"text": "When all of Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, \u201c\u231eWhat share do we have in David\u231f? There is no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now look to your house, David!\u201d Then Israel went to their tents. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:17",
"text": " The \u231eIsraelites\u231f were living in the cities of Judah, and Rehoboam was reigning over them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:18",
"text": "King Rehoboam sent Adoram who was over the forced labor, and all of Israel cast stones at him and he died, but King Rehoboam managed to get up on the chariot to flee to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:19",
"text": "So Israel rebelled against the house of David until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:20",
"text": " It happened that just when all of Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all of Israel. Not one followed after the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:21",
"text": "When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all of the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand \u231echoice troops\u231f to fight with the house of Israel, to restore the kingship to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:22",
"text": "Then the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:23",
"text": "\u201cSay to Rehoboam the son of Solomon the king of Judah and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and the remainder of the people, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:24",
"text": "\u2018Thus says Yahweh: \u201cYou shall not go up and you shall not fight with your brothers the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. Return each of you to his house, for this thing was from me.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d So they heeded the word of Yahweh, and they returned to go home according to the word of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:25",
"text": " Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and he resided in it. Then he went out from there and built Penuel. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:26",
"text": "Then Jeroboam \u231esaid to himself\u231f, \u201cNow the kingdom will return to the house of David "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:27",
"text": "if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem. The heart of this people will return to their master Rehoboam the king of Judah, and they shall kill me and \u231ereturn to him\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:28",
"text": " And the king had decided, so he made two golden calves and he said to them, \u201c\u231eYou have been going up to Jerusalem long enough\u231f; here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:29",
"text": "He put one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:30",
"text": "This thing became a sin, and the people walked before the one as far as Dan. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:31",
"text": "Then he built the houses on the high places, and he appointed priests \u231efrom all walks of life\u231f who were not from the sons of Levi. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:32",
"text": "Jeroboam also inaugurated a religious feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the religious feast which was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. Thus he did in Bethel, by sacrificing to the calves that he had made; and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Kings 12:33",
"text": "He offered sacrifices on the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month which his heart had devised. He inaugurated a religious feast for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and he went up to the altar to offer incense. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:1",
"text": " Suddenly a man of God from Judah came to Bethel, by the word of Yahweh, while Jeroboam was standing at the altar to offer incense. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:2",
"text": "Then he proclaimed against the altar by the word of Yahweh and said, \u201cO altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: \u2018Look, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall burn on you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:3",
"text": " He gave a sign on that day, saying, \u201cThis is the sign that Yahweh has predetermined: Look, this altar will be torn apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:4",
"text": " It happened at the moment the king heard the word of the man of God that he cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, \u201cSeize him!\u201d But his hand which he stretched out to him was paralyzed, and he was not able to draw it back to himself. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:5",
"text": "Then the altar was torn apart and the ashes from the altar poured out according to the sign which the man of God had announced by the word of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:6",
"text": "Then the king responded and said to the man of God, \u201cPlease entreat the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me that my hand may return to me.\u201d So the man of God entreated the face of Yahweh, and the hand of the king returned to him, as it was in the beginning. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:7",
"text": "Then the king spoke to the man of God, \u201cCome with me to the house and refresh yourself, that I may give you a gift.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:8",
"text": "Then the man of God said to the king, \u201cEven if you give to me half of your house I will not come with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water in this place, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:9",
"text": "for the word of Yahweh has commanded me, saying, \u2018You shall not eat bread nor drink water, and you shall not return on the way that you came.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:10",
"text": "So he went another way, and he did not return by the way on which he had come to Bethel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:11",
"text": " Now a certain older prophet was living in Bethel, and his son came and recounted to him all of the things that the man of God had done that day in Bethel and the words he had spoken to the king, and they told them to their father. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:12",
"text": "Then their father asked them, \u201c\u231eWhich way did he go\u231f?\u201d His sons had seen the way which the man of God who had come from Judah had taken. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:13",
"text": "Then he said to his sons, \u201cSaddle the donkey for me.\u201d So they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:14",
"text": "and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under the oak and said to him, \u201cAre you the man of God who came from Judah?\u201d He said, \u201cI am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:15",
"text": "Then he said to him, \u201cCome with me to the house and eat some food.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:16",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cI am not able to return with you or to go with you. I will not eat food nor will I drink water with you in this place. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:17",
"text": "For a word came to me by the word of Yahweh, \u2018You shall not eat food, nor shall you drink water there. You shall not return to go by the way that you came.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:18",
"text": " Then he said, \u201cI am also a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, \u2018Let him return with you to your house that he may eat food and drink water.\u2019\u00a0\u201d He lied to him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:19",
"text": "So he returned with him and ate food in his house and drank water. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:20",
"text": " Now it happened that they were sitting at the table, and the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:21",
"text": "He proclaimed to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018Because you have disobeyed the word of Yahweh and have not kept the command which Yahweh your God commanded you, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:22",
"text": "but you have returned and have eaten food and drank water in the place which he ordered you not to eat food nor to drink water, then your dead body shall not return to the tomb of your ancestors.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:23",
"text": " It happened after he ate food and drank water that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:24",
"text": "When he left, a lion found him on the road and killed him, and his dead body was thrown on the road with the donkey standing beside it, and the lion was standing by the dead body. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:25",
"text": "As men were passing by and they saw the dead body thrown in the road and the lion standing beside the dead body, they came and told it in the city where the old prophet was living. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:26",
"text": "When the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard, he said, \u201cIt is the man of God who disobeyed the mouth of Yahweh, and Yahweh has given him to the lion. He tore him in pieces and killed him according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken to him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:27",
"text": "Then he spoke to his sons, saying, \u201cSaddle the donkey for me.\u201d So they saddled it. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:28",
"text": "He went and found his dead body thrown in the road and a donkey with the lion standing beside it, but the lion had not eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:29",
"text": "So the prophet lifted up the corpse of the man of God and put it on the donkey and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn him and to bury him. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:30",
"text": "He put his corpse in his tomb, and they mourned over him, \u201cAlas, my brother!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:31",
"text": "It happened after he buried him that he said to his sons, \u201cWhen I die, you shall bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried; you shall lay my bones beside his bones. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:32",
"text": "For surely, the thing which he proclaimed by the word of Yahweh against the altar which is in Bethel will happen, as it will against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:33",
"text": " After this event, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but he returned and again made priests for the high places of people from \u231eall walks of life\u231f. He filled his hand with all his desire and became one of the priests of the high places himself. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Kings 13:34",
"text": "This matter became sin in the house of Jeroboam, to make it disappear and to destroy it from the surface of the earth. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:1",
"text": " At that time, Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:2",
"text": "Jeroboam said to his wife, \u201cPlease get up and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Look, Ahijah the prophet is there, and he spoke concerning me before I became king over this people. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:3",
"text": "You must take ten loaves of bread in your hand and cakes and a jar of honey, and you must go to him. He shall tell you what will happen to the boy.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:4",
"text": "The wife of Jeroboam did so. She got up, went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was not able to see, for \u231ehis eyes were fixed\u231f because of his old age. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:5",
"text": "Then Yahweh said to Ahijah, \u201cLook, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from you about her son, for he is ill. \u231eThus and so\u231f you shall say to her. When she comes, she will be disguising herself.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:6",
"text": "It happened at the moment Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps coming through the doorway, he said, \u201cCome in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you making yourself unrecognizable? I have been sent a hard message for you: "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:7",
"text": "Go, tell Jeroboam, \u2018Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: \u201cBecause I raised you from the midst of the people and I made you leader over my people Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:8",
"text": "I tore the kingdom from the house of David and I gave it to you. But you were not like my servant David who kept my commandments, and who went after me with all his heart, to do only what is right in my eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:9",
"text": "But you did more evil than all who were before you. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten idols to provoke me, but me you have \u231ecompletely disregarded\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:10",
"text": "Therefore, look, I am about to bring disaster upon the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off \u231emales\u231f from Jeroboam, bond or free, in Israel. I will burn after the house of Jeroboam as one burns after the manure, until it is finished. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:11",
"text": "He who dies for Jeroboam in the city, the dogs will eat. He who dies in the open field, the birds from the heavens will eat, for Yahweh has spoken it.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:12",
"text": "As for you, get up. Go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child will die. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:13",
"text": "All of Israel will mourn for him, and they will bury him. This one alone will come to a tomb for Jeroboam, because a good thing has been found in him by Yahweh the God of Israel in the house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:14",
"text": "Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will even now cut off the house of Jeroboam this day. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:15",
"text": "Yahweh will strike Israel as one shakes the reed plant in the water, and he will root Israel up from this good land that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the River because they have made their sacred poles which are provoking Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:16",
"text": "He will give up Israel because of the sin of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he caused Israel to sin.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:17",
"text": " Then the wife of Jeroboam got up, went, and came to Tirzah. As she was coming to the threshold of the house, the boy died. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:18",
"text": "They buried him and all of Israel mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:19",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:20",
"text": "The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years, and he slept with his ancestors. Then Nadab his son became king in place of him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:21",
"text": " Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which, from all of the tribes of Israel, Yahweh chose to place his name. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:22",
"text": "But Judah did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and they annoyed him more than their fathers did with their sins that they had committed. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:23",
"text": "They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:24",
"text": "There were also male shrine prostitutes in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh had driven out from before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:25",
"text": " It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:26",
"text": "and he took the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and he took all the treasures of the king\u2019s house. He took the small gold shields that Solomon had made, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:27",
"text": "so King Rehoboam made small copper shields in place of them and \u231eentrusted them\u231f to the commanders of the royal guard who keep the doorway of the king\u2019s house. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:28",
"text": "Whenever the king came to the house of Yahweh, the royal guard carried them and brought them back to the alcove room of the royal guard. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:29",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:30",
"text": "There was always war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Kings 14:31",
"text": "Then Rehoboam slept with his ancestors, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. The name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son became king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:1",
"text": " In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:2",
"text": "Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:3",
"text": "He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:4",
"text": "For the sake of David, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by establishing his son after him and by causing Jerusalem to exist; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:5",
"text": "because David did right in the eyes of Yahweh and he didn\u2019t turn aside from all that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:6",
"text": " There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:7",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:8",
"text": "Abijam slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:9",
"text": " In the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa became the king of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:10",
"text": "He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:11",
"text": "Asa did right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his ancestor. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:12",
"text": "He put away the male shrine prostitutes from the land, and he removed all of the idols that his ancestors made. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:13",
"text": "Also, he had Maacah his mother removed from the office of queen mother, as she had made a repulsive image for the Asherah. Asa also cut down her repulsive image and burned it in the Wadi Kidron. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:14",
"text": "But the high places he did not remove. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was completely with Yahweh all of his days. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:15",
"text": "He brought the holy objects of his father and his own holy objects to the house of Yahweh, silver and gold and utensils. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:16",
"text": " There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all of their days. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:17",
"text": "Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and he built Ramah \u231eto hinder the coming and going of anyone to Asa\u231f king of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:18",
"text": "Asa took all of the silver and gold remaining in the storerooms of the house of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the house of the king, and he gave them into the hand of his servants; so King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad the son of Tabrimmon the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:19",
"text": "\u201cLet there be a covenant between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel that he may go up away from me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:20",
"text": "Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa, and he sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and he attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-Beth-Maacah, and all of Kinnereth, in addition to all the land of Naphtali. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:21",
"text": "When Baasha heard, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:22",
"text": "Then King Asa proclaimed among all of Israel that there was no one free from obligation, so they carried the stones of Ramah and its wood with which Baasha had built, and King Asa rebuilt Geba in Benjamin with them, and the Mizpah. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:23",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Asa, all of his achievements, all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? But at the time of his old age, \u231ehe developed a foot disease\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:24",
"text": "Asa slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David his ancestor; Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:25",
"text": " Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:26",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the way of his father and in his sin that he caused Israel to commit. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:27",
"text": "Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. Now Nadab and all of Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:28",
"text": "and Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa the king of Judah, and he reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:29",
"text": "It happened that as soon as he became king, he killed all of the house of Jeroboam. There was no one left of Jeroboam who breathed, until he had destroyed him according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servant, Ahijah the Shilonite, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:30",
"text": "because of the sins of Jeroboam that he had committed and that he had caused Israel to commit and because of his anger with which he had provoked Yahweh the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:31",
"text": "Now the remainder of the acts of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:32",
"text": " There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:33",
"text": "In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah had become king over all of Israel; he lived in Tirzah twenty-four years. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Kings 15:34",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin that he caused Israel to commit. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:1",
"text": "The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:2",
"text": "\u201cBecause I exalted you from the dust and I made you a leader over my people Israel, but you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and you caused my people Israel to sin, to provoke me with their sins, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:3",
"text": "I am now about to consume Baasha and his house. I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:4",
"text": "Those who die for Baasha in the city, the dogs will eat; those who die for him in the field, the birds of the heavens will eat.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:5",
"text": " The remainder of the acts of Baasha, what he did, and his powerful deeds, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:6",
"text": "Baasha slept with his ancestors and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:7",
"text": "Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to Baasha and to his house by the hand of Jehu the son of Hanani the prophet, because of all the evil that he did in the eyes of Yahweh by provoking him with the work of his hands, by being like the house of Jeroboam; and he destroyed him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:8",
"text": " In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel for two years. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:9",
"text": "His servant Zimri the commander of half of the chariots conspired against him. Now he had been in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza who was over the palace in Tirzah. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:10",
"text": "Zimri came and struck him down and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah and became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:11",
"text": "It happened that as soon as he became king, at the moment he sat on his throne, he killed all of the house of Baasha. He left \u231eno males\u231f among his kindred or any of his friends. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:12",
"text": " So Zimri destroyed all of the house of Baasha according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke against Baasha by the hand of Jehu the prophet "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:13",
"text": "because of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son which they committed and which they caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:14",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:15",
"text": " In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the army was encamping against Gibbethon which belonged to the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:16",
"text": "The encamping army heard that Zimri had conspired and moreover had killed the king, so they made Omri the commander of the army of Israel king over all Israel in the camp on that day. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:17",
"text": "Then Omri went up and all Israel with him from Gibbethon, and they besieged Tirzah. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:18",
"text": "It happened that when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went to the citadel fortress of the house of the king, and he burnt the house of the king over him with fire so that he died. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:19",
"text": "This happened because of his sin which he committed by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, by going the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he did by causing Israel to sin. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:20",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he made, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:21",
"text": " At that time, the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people went after Tibni the son of Ginath to make him king, and the other half went after Omri. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:22",
"text": "The people who went after Omri overcame the people who went after Tibni the son of Ginath, so that he died and Omri became king. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:23",
"text": " In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel for twelve years. He reigned in Tirzah six years, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:24",
"text": "then bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, fortified the hill, and called the name of the city Samaria that he built after Shemer, the owner of the hill. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:25",
"text": "But Omri did evil in the eyes of Yahweh more than all who were before him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:26",
"text": "He went in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins that he caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:27",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Omri that he did and his powerful deeds, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:28",
"text": "Omri slept with his ancestors, and he was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:29",
"text": " Now Ahab son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah. Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:30",
"text": "But Ahab son of Omri did evil in the eyes of Yahweh more than all who were before him. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:31",
"text": "\u231eIf it wasn\u2019t enough that he went\u231f after the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he also took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal the king of the Sidonians. He went and served Baal and bowed down to him. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:32",
"text": "And he built an altar to Baal in the house of Baal which he had built in Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:33",
"text": "Ahab also made the sacred pole, and \u231ehe continued to provoke\u231f Yahweh the God of Israel more than all the kings of Israel who were before him. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Kings 16:34",
"text": "In his days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho; at the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his younger sibling, he set up its gates, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of Joshua the son of Nun. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:1",
"text": " Elijah the Tishbite from Tishbe of Gilead said to Ahab, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, the God of Israel before whom I stand, there shall surely not be dew nor rain these years \u231eexcept by my command\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:2",
"text": "Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:3",
"text": "\u201cGo from this place and turn to the east; you must hide yourself in the Wadi Kerith \u231ewhich faces the Jordan\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:4",
"text": "It shall be that you shall drink from the wadi, and I have commanded the crows to sustain you there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:5",
"text": "So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. He went and stayed in the Wadi Kerith \u231ewhich faces the Jordan\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:6",
"text": "The crows were bringing bread and meat in the morning for him and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the wadi. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:7",
"text": "It happened \u231eafter a while\u231f that the wadi dried up, because there was no rain in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:8",
"text": " Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:9",
"text": "\u201cGet up and go to Zarephath which belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman there, a widow, to sustain you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:10",
"text": "So he arose and went to Zarephath and came to the gate of the city. There was a widow woman gathering wood, so he called to her, and he said, \u201cPlease bring a little water for me in a vessel so that I can drink.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:11",
"text": "She went to fetch it, and he called to her and said, \u201cPlease bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:12",
"text": "She said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh your God lives\u231f, surely I do not have a cake, \u231ebut only a handful of flour\u231f in the jar and a little olive oil in the jug. Here I am gathering a few pieces of wood, and I will go and prepare it for me and my son, that we might eat it and die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:13",
"text": "Elijah said to her, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid. Go and do according to your word; only make for me a small bread cake from it first, and bring it out to me. Make it for yourself and for your son afterward. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:14",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: \u2018The jar of flour will not be emptied and the jug of olive oil will not run out until the day Yahweh gives rain on the surface of the earth.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:15",
"text": "So she went and did according to the word of Elijah; then both she and he ate with her household for many days. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:16",
"text": "The jar of flour was not emptied and the jug of olive oil did not run out, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of Elijah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:17",
"text": " It happened after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; and his illness was very severe until there was no breath left in him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:18",
"text": "She said to Elijah, \u201c\u231eWhat do you have against me\u231f, O man of God, that you have come to me to make known my guilt and to cause my son to die?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:19",
"text": "Then he said to her, \u201cGive me your son.\u201d He took him from her lap and carried him up to the upper room where he was staying, and he laid him on his bed. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:20",
"text": "Then he called to Yahweh and said, \u201cO Yahweh my God, are you also causing evil to come upon the widow with whom I am dwelling as an alien by causing her son to die?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:21",
"text": "He stretched himself out on the child three times and called to Yahweh and said, \u201cO Yahweh my God, please let the life of this child return within him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:22",
"text": "Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned within him, and he lived. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:23",
"text": "Elijah then took the child and brought him down from the upper room to the house and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, \u201cLook, your son is alive.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Kings 17:24",
"text": "Then the woman said to Elijah, \u201cNow this I know, that you are a man of God and the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:1",
"text": " It happened many days later that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah in the third year, saying, \u201cGo, present yourself to Ahab so that I may give rain on the surface of the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:2",
"text": "So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:3",
"text": "Ahab summoned Obadiah who was over the house. (Now Obadiah was fearing Yahweh greatly. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:4",
"text": "It had happened that when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them \u231eby fifties\u231f in the cave and sustained them with food and water.) "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:5",
"text": "Ahab said to Obadiah, \u201cGo through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis. Perhaps we may find green grass that we may keep horses and mules alive and that we might not lose any of the animals.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:6",
"text": "So they divided the land for themselves in order to pass through it; Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:7",
"text": " It happened that Obadiah was on the way, and suddenly Elijah was there to meet him. When he recognized him, he fell on his face and said, \u201cIs this you, my lord Elijah?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:8",
"text": "He said to him, \u201cI am. Go, say to your lord, \u2018Elijah is here.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:9",
"text": "He said, \u201cHow have I sinned that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:10",
"text": "\u231eAs Yahweh your God lives\u231f, surely there is not a nation or a kingdom to which my lord has not sent me to seek you. If they would say, \u2018He is not here,\u2019 then he would make the kingdom or the nation swear that it could not find you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:11",
"text": "Now you are saying, \u2018Go, say to your lord: \u201cElijah is here.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:12",
"text": "And it will happen that I will go from you and the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you up to where I do not know. Then I will come to tell Ahab, but he will not find you, and then he will kill me, even though your servant has feared Yahweh from my youth. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:13",
"text": "Has it not been told to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh? I hid a hundred men of the prophets of Yahweh \u231eby fifties\u231f in the cave, and I sustained them with food and water. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:14",
"text": "Now you are saying, \u2018Go, say to your lord: \u201cElijah is here,\u201d\u00a0\u2019 and he will kill me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:15",
"text": "Elijah said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh of hosts lives\u231f, before whom I stand, I will certainly show myself to him today.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:16",
"text": " So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and he told him, so Ahab went to meet Elijah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:17",
"text": "When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, \u201cIs this you who throws Israel into confusion?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:18",
"text": "He said, \u201cI did not throw Israel into confusion; rather you and the house of your father have by forsaking the commands of Yahweh when you went after the Baals! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:19",
"text": "So then, send word and assemble all of Israel to me on Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:20",
"text": " So Ahab sent word among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and he assembled the prophets to Mount Carmel. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:21",
"text": "Elijah approached to all the people and said, \u201cHow long will you go limping over two opinions? If Yahweh is God, go after him; but if Baal, go after him.\u201d But the people did not answer him a word. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:22",
"text": "Then Elijah said to the people, \u201cI alone am left a prophet of Yahweh, but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:23",
"text": "Let them give us two bulls, and let them choose for themselves one bull, cut him in pieces, and put it on the wood, but don\u2019t let them start a fire on it. I will prepare the other bull and set it on the wood, but I will put no fire on it. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:24",
"text": "Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh, and it shall be that the god who answers by fire, he is God.\u201d Then all the people answered and said, \u201cThe word is good!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:25",
"text": " Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, \u201cChoose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are the majority, and call on the name of your god, but don\u2019t set fire under it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:26",
"text": "So they took the bull that he allowed to them, prepared it, and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, \u201cO Baal, answer us!\u201d But there was no voice and there was no answer, so they limped about the altar which they had made. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:27",
"text": "It happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, \u201cCall out with a loud voice, for he is a god! Perhaps he is meditating, or \u231eis using the bathroom\u231f, or is on a journey. Perhaps he is asleep and must wake up!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:28",
"text": "So they called out with a loud voice, and they cut themselves with swords and with spears as was their custom, until the blood poured out over them. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:29",
"text": "It happened as noon passed, they raged until the time of the evening offering, but there was no voice, there was no answer, and no one paid attention. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:30",
"text": " Then Elijah said to all the people, \u201cCome near to me,\u201d so all the people came closer to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh that had been destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:31",
"text": "Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of God came, saying, \u201cIsrael shall be your name.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:32",
"text": "With them, he built an altar in the name of Yahweh, and he made a trench \u231ewhich would have held\u231f about two seahs of seed, all around the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:33",
"text": "And he arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces, and placed it on the wood. Then he said, \u201cFill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:34",
"text": "He said, \u201cDo it again!\u201d They did it again. He said, \u201cDo it a third time!\u201d So they did it a third time. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:35",
"text": "The water went all around the altar, and the trench also was filled with water. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:36",
"text": " It happened at the offering of the evening oblation, Elijah the prophet went near, and he said, \u201cO Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and that I have done all of these things by your words. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:37",
"text": "Answer me, O Yahweh, answer me; that this people may know that you, O Yahweh, are God and that you have turned their hearts back again.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:38",
"text": "Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and it consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust; and the water which was in the trench it licked up! "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:39",
"text": "When all the people saw, they fell on their faces and said, \u201cYahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:40",
"text": "Then Elijah said to them, \u201cSeize the prophets of Baal; don\u2019t let any man of them escape!\u201d So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the wadi of Kishon and killed them there. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:41",
"text": " Then Elijah said to Ahab, \u201cGo up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of the noise of rain.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:42",
"text": "So Ahab went up to eat and to drink while Elijah went to the top of Carmel, bent down to the earth, and put his face between his knees. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:43",
"text": "Then he said to his servant, \u201cPlease go and look in the direction of the sea.\u201d So he went up and looked; then he said, \u201cThere is nothing.\u201d Then he said, \u201cGo back,\u201d seven times. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:44",
"text": "It happened that at the seventh time, he said, \u201cLook, there is a small cloud, as the hand of a man, coming up from the sea.\u201d Then Elijah said, \u201cGo up, say to Ahab, \u2018Harness your horses and go down, lest the rain stop you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:45",
"text": "\u231eIn no time\u231f the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was heavy rain. Ahab rode and he went to Jezreel, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Kings 18:46",
"text": "but the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab as one comes to Jezreel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:1",
"text": " Then Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:2",
"text": "Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, \u201cThus may the gods do to me, and may they add to it, surely at this time tomorrow I will make your life as the life of one of them!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:3",
"text": "Then he became afraid, got up, and \u231efled for his life\u231f. He came to Beersheba which belongs to Judah, and he left his servant there. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:4",
"text": "Then he went into the wilderness one day\u2019s journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then \u231ehe asked Yahweh that he might die\u231f, and he said, \u201cIt is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:5",
"text": "He lay down and fell asleep under a certain broom tree, and suddenly this angel was touching him and said to him, \u201cGet up, eat!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:6",
"text": "He looked, and behold, a bread cake on hot coals was near his head and a jar of water, so he ate and drank. Then he did it again and lay down. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:7",
"text": "The angel of Yahweh appeared a second time and touched him and said, \u201cGet up, eat, for the journey is greater than you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:8",
"text": "So he got up, ate, drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights up to Horeb, the mountain of God. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:9",
"text": " He came to the cave there and spent the night there. Suddenly the word of Yahweh came to him and asked him, \u201c\u231eElijah, what are you doing here\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:10",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cI have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of hosts, for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f have forsaken your covenant. They have demolished your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left over, and they seek to take my life. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:11",
"text": "He said, \u201cGo out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.\u201d Suddenly Yahweh was passing by, with a great and strong wind ripping the mountains and crushing rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind, there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:12",
"text": "After the earthquake was a fire, but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire there was the sound of a gentle whisper. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:13",
"text": "It happened at the moment Elijah heard, he covered his face with his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, \u201c\u231eElijah, why are you here\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:14",
"text": "He said, \u201cI have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of Hosts, for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f have forsaken your covenant, demolished your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; I alone am left, and they seek to take my life!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:15",
"text": "Then Yahweh said to him, \u201cGo, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael as king over Aram; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:16",
"text": "and Jehu son of Nimshi you shall anoint as king over Israel. You shall also anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-Meholah as prophet in your place. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:17",
"text": "It shall be that the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall kill. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:18",
"text": "I will leave in Israel seven thousand, all of the knees that have not bowed down to Baal and all of the mouths that have not kissed him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:19",
"text": " So he went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him. When he and the twelve passed Elijah, he threw his cloak on him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:20",
"text": "Then he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, \u201cPlease let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will go after you.\u201d Then he said, \u201cGo, return, for what I have done to you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Kings 19:21",
"text": "So he returned from after him, and he took a pair of oxen and slaughtered them, and with the yoke of the oxen he boiled the flesh and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and served him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:1",
"text": " Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered all of his army, and thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. He went up and laid siege against Samaria and fought with it. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:2",
"text": "He sent messengers to the city to Ahab king of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:3",
"text": "He said to him, \u201cThus says Ben-Hadad: \u2018Your silver and your gold are mine, and your women and your best sons are mine.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:4",
"text": "Then the king of Israel answered and said, \u201cAs your word, my master the king; I am yours, and all that is mine is yours.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:5",
"text": "The messengers returned and said, \u201cThus says Ben-Hadad, saying, \u2018I sent to you saying, \u201cYour silver and gold are mine, and your women and your best sons you must give to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:6",
"text": "So at this time tomorrow, I will send my servants to you that they might search your house and the houses of your servants. All the desire of your eyes \u231ethey will lay hands on\u231f and take it away.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:7",
"text": " Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, \u201cPlease know and realize that this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my women, my sons, my silver, and my gold, and I did not withhold anything from him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:8",
"text": "All of the elders and all of the people said to him, \u201cDo not listen and do not consent.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:9",
"text": "So he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, \u201cSay to my lord the king, \u2018All that you demanded from your servant at the first, I will do, but this thing I am not able to do.\u2019\u00a0\u201d Then the messengers went and \u231emade a report to him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:10",
"text": "Then Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, \u201cThus may the gods do to me and thus may they add if the dust of Samaria is sufficient for the hollow of a hand for all of the people who are at my feet.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:11",
"text": "The king of Israel answered and said, \u201cTell him, \u2018Let not him who girds on his armor boast as one who takes off his armor.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:12",
"text": "It happened at the moment he heard this word, he and the kings were drinking in the \u231etents\u231f. He said to his servants, \u201cGet ready to attack.\u201d So they got ready to attack the city. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:13",
"text": " Suddenly a certain prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018Have you seen all this great crowd? Behold, I am giving it into your hand today, that you may know that I am Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:14",
"text": "Ahab said, \u201cBy whom?\u201d And he said, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018By the servants of the commanders of the provinces.\u2019\u00a0\u201d He asked, \u201cWho will begin the battle?\u201d And he said, \u201cYou.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:15",
"text": "So he mustered the servants of the commanders of the provinces, and there were two hundred and thirty-two. After them he mustered all of the army, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:16",
"text": " They went out at noon while Ben-Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the tents, he and the thirty-two kings helping him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:17",
"text": "Then the servants of the commanders of the provinces went out first, and Ben-Hadad sent, and they reported to him, saying, \u201cMen have come out from Samaria.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:18",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cIf they have come out for peace, seize them alive; and if they have come out for war, seize them alive.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:19",
"text": "But these had come out from the city, the servants of the commanders of the provinces, and the army that was after them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:20",
"text": "Each man killed his man, and the Arameans fled, so Israel pursued them, but Ben-Hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with cavalry. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:21",
"text": "The king of Israel went out and attacked the horses and the chariots and defeated Aram with a great blow. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:22",
"text": " Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and he said to him, \u201cGo, strengthen yourself; \u231econsider well\u231f what you should do, for the king of Aram is coming against you at the turn of the year.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:23",
"text": " The servants of the king of Aram said to him, \u201cTheir gods are gods of the mountains, therefore they were stronger than we. Let us fight with them in the plain; surely we will be stronger than they. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:24",
"text": "Do this thing: remove the kings each from his post, and put a governor in their place. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:25",
"text": "You must muster an army for yourself as the army \u231eyou have lost\u231f, and horses and chariots as the horses and chariots you lost, then we will fight them in the plain. Surely we will be stronger than they.\u201d So he listened to their voice and did so. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:26",
"text": " It happened at the turning of the year that Ben-Hadad mustered Aram and went up to Aphek for the war with Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:27",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f had been mustered and provisioned, and they went to engage them. The \u231eIsraelites\u231f encamped opposite them as two flocks of goats, but the Arameans filled the land. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:28",
"text": "Then the man of God approached, and he spoke to the king of Israel, and he said, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018Because Aram has said, \u201cYahweh is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys,\u201d\u00a0\u2019 I will give all this great crowd into your hand that you may know that I am Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:29",
"text": "These encamped opposite for seven days, and it happened on the seventh day that \u231ethe battle began\u231f, and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f killed the Arameans, one hundred thousand infantry in one day. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:30",
"text": "Then those who remained fled to Aphek, to the city, and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who had remained, so Ben-Hadad fled and went to the innermost rooms of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:31",
"text": " Then his servants said to him, \u201cPlease now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are kings of mercy. Let us now put sackcloth on around our waists and ropes on our heads. Then let us go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps \u231ehe will let you live\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:32",
"text": "So they tied sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads. Then they went to the king of Israel and said, \u201cYour servant Ben-Hadad says, \u2018Please let me live.\u2019\u00a0\u201d And he said, \u201cIs my brother still alive?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:33",
"text": "The men took this as a good omen and they quickly accepted it as true from him, and they said, \u201cYour brother Ben-Hadad lives.\u201d So he said, \u201cGo, get him.\u201d Ben-Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up on the chariot. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:34",
"text": "Ben-Hadad said to him, \u201cThe cities which my father took from your father I shall return. You may set up streets with stalls for yourself in Damascus just as my father set up in Samaria.\u201d Then Ahab said, \u201c\u231eOn these terms\u231f I will let you go,\u201d So he made a covenant with him and let him go. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:35",
"text": " A certain man from the sons of the prophets said to his fellow countryman, \u201cBy the word of Yahweh, please strike me.\u201d But the man refused to strike him. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:36",
"text": " He said to him, \u201cBecause you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, look, as you now are going from me, a lion will kill you.\u201d When he went from beside him, the lion found him and killed him. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:37",
"text": "Then he found another man and said, \u201cStrike me, please,\u201d so the man struck him sharply and wounded him. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:38",
"text": "Then the prophet went and \u231ewaited\u231f for the king along the road and disguised himself with a headband over his eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:39",
"text": "As the king was passing by, he called to the king and said, \u201cYour servant went out in the thick of the battle, and suddenly a man turned and brought a man to me and said, \u2018Guard this man. If by any means he should be missed, it will be your life in his place, or you shall pay a talent of silver.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:40",
"text": "It happened that your servant \u231ewas busy here and there\u231f, and he \u231edisappeared\u231f.\u201d Then the king said to him, \u201cYour own judgment has been determined.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:41",
"text": "He quickly removed the headband from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him, that he was from the prophets. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:42",
"text": "He said to him, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018Because you have let the man I devoted for destruction go from your hand, your life shall be in place of his life and your people in place of his people.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Kings 20:43",
"text": "Then the king of Israel went to his house, sullen and angry, and he came to Samaria. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:1",
"text": " It happened after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:2",
"text": "Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, \u201cGive me your vineyard that it may be mine for a garden of vegetable plants, because it is near, beside my house, and I will give to you a better vineyard in place of it. If it is better in your eyes, I will give you the money of its price.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:3",
"text": "Naboth said to Ahab, \u201cFar be it from me from Yahweh that I should give the inheritance of my ancestors to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:4",
"text": "Then Ahab went to his house, sullen and angry because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him when he had said, \u201cI will not give to you the inheritance of my ancestors.\u201d So he lay on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat any food. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:5",
"text": " Then Jezebel his wife came to him, and she said to him, \u201cWhat is this, that your spirit is sullen and you are not eating food?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:6",
"text": "Then he said to her, \u201cWhen I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and asked him, \u2018Give me your vineyard for money, or it you prefer, I will give you a vineyard in place of it,\u2019 he said, \u2018I will not give you my vineyard.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:7",
"text": "Jezebel his wife said to him, \u201cNow, you \u231erule\u231f over Israel. Get up, eat food, and let your heart be \u231echeerful\u231f. I myself will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:8",
"text": " So she wrote letters in the name of Ahab and sealed them with his seal. She sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who were dwelling with Naboth in his city. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:9",
"text": "She had written in the letters, saying, \u201cCall a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:10",
"text": "Seat two men, \u231escoundrels\u231f, opposite him. Let them witness against him saying, \u2018You cursed God and the king.\u2019 Then you shall bring him out and stone him so that he dies.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:11",
"text": "The men of his city and the elders and nobles who were living in his city did according to what Jezebel had sent to them, as was written in the letters which she had sent to them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:12",
"text": "They called a fast, and they seated Naboth at the head of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:13",
"text": "Then the two men, \u231escoundrels\u231f, came, sat opposite him, and the \u231escoundrels\u231f witnessed against Naboth before the people, saying, \u201cNaboth cursed God and the king,\u201d so they brought him outside of the city and stoned him with stones, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:14",
"text": " They sent to Jezebel saying, \u201cNaboth has been stoned, and he is dead.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:15",
"text": "It happened at the moment Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and died, Jezebel said to Ahab, \u201cGet up, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite which he had refused to give to you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:16",
"text": "When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite to take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:17",
"text": " The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:18",
"text": "\u201cArise, go down to meet Ahab the king of Israel who is in Samaria. Look in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession of it. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:19",
"text": "You shall say to him, \u2018Thus says Yahweh: \u201cHave you committed murder and also taken possession?\u201d\u00a0\u2019 You shall also say to him, \u2018Thus says Yahweh: \u201cIn the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will also lick your blood.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:20",
"text": " Then Ahab said to Elijah, \u201cHave you found me, my enemy?\u201d He said, \u201cI have found you because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:21",
"text": "\u2018Look, I am bringing disaster on you, and I will sweep away after you. I will cut off for Ahab \u231eevery male\u231f in Israel, bond or free. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:22",
"text": "I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, \u231ebecause you made me angry\u231f and have caused Israel to sin.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:23",
"text": "Moreover, concerning Jezebel, Yahweh has said, \u2018The dogs will eat Jezebel in the outer rampart of Jezreel.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:24",
"text": "The one who dies for Ahab in the city, the dogs will eat; the one who dies in the open country, the birds of heaven will eat.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:25",
"text": " Truly, there was no one like Ahab who had sold himself by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, whose wife Jezebel urged him on. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:26",
"text": "Also, he acted very abominably by going after idols like all the Amorites had done whom Yahweh had driven out from before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:27",
"text": " When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his flesh, fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:28",
"text": "Then the word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Kings 21:29",
"text": "\u201cHave you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring disaster in his days. I will bring the disaster on his house in the days of his son.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:1",
"text": " They lived three years, and there was no war between Aram and Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:2",
"text": "It happened in the third year, Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to the king of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:3",
"text": "and the king of Israel said to his servants, \u201cDo you know Ramoth-Gilead belongs to us, and we are doing nothing about taking it from the hand of the king of Aram?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:4",
"text": "Then he said to Jehoshaphat, \u201cWill you go with me to the battle for Ramoth-Gilead?\u201d Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, \u201c\u231eI am like you\u231f; \u231emy people are like your people\u231f; \u231emy horses are like your horses\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:5",
"text": " Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, \u201cPlease inquire for the word of Yahweh today.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:6",
"text": "Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them, \u201cShall I go against Ramoth-Gilead for the battle, or should I refrain?\u201d Then they said, \u201cGo up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:7",
"text": "So Jehoshaphat said, \u201cIs there no prophet of Yahweh here that we might still inquire from him?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:8",
"text": "Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, \u201cThere is still one man to inquire from Yahweh, but I despise him, for he never prophesies anything good concerning me, but only bad: Micaiah the son of Imlah.\u201d Then Jehoshaphat said, \u201cThe king should not say so.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:9",
"text": "The king of Israel summoned a certain court official, and he said, \u201cQuickly fetch Micaiah son of Imlah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:10",
"text": "The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were each sitting on his throne, dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:11",
"text": "Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018With these you shall gore the Arameans until finishing them.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:12",
"text": "All of the prophets were likewise prophesying, saying, \u201cGo up to Ramoth-Gilead and triumph, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:13",
"text": " Then the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, \u201cPlease now, the words of the prophet are \u231eunanimously\u231f favorable to the king. Please let your words be as one word with them, and speak favorably.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:14",
"text": "Then Micaiah said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, surely only as Yahweh speaks to me, that will I speak.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:15",
"text": "When he came to the king, the king asked him, \u201cMicaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to the battle, or shall we refrain?\u201d He said to him, \u201cGo up and triumph, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:16",
"text": "Then the king said to him, \u201cHow many times must I make you swear that you shall not tell me anything but truth in the name of Yahweh?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:17",
"text": "So he said, \u201cI saw all of Israel scattering to the mountains, like the sheep without a shepherd. Yahweh also said, \u2018There are no masters for these, let them return in peace, each to his house.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:18",
"text": "Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, \u201cDid I not say to you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but disaster?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:19",
"text": " And he said, \u201cTherefore, hear the word of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne with all the hosts of heaven standing beside him from his right hand and from his left hand. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:20",
"text": "And Yahweh said, \u2018Who will entice Ahab so that he will go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?\u2019 Then \u231ethis one was saying one thing and the other one was saying another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:21",
"text": "Then a spirit came out and stood before Yahweh and said, \u2018I will entice him,\u2019 and Yahweh said to him, \u2018How?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:22",
"text": "He said, \u2018I will go out and I will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.\u2019 And he said, \u2018You shall entice and succeed, go out and do so.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:23",
"text": "So then, see that Yahweh has placed a false spirit in the mouth of all of these your prophets, and Yahweh has spoken disaster concerning you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:24",
"text": " Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah came near and slapped Micaiah on the cheek and said, \u201cWhen did the Spirit of Yahweh pass from me to speak with you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:25",
"text": "Then Micaiah said, \u201cBehold, you are about to see on that day when you go \u231efrom room to room\u231f to hide.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:26",
"text": "The king of Israel said, \u201cTake Micaiah and return him to Amon the commander of the city and to Jehoash the son of the king; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:27",
"text": "and say, \u2018Thus says the king: \u201cPut this fellow in the house of imprisonment and feed him reduced rations of food and water until I come in peace.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:28",
"text": "Then Micaiah said, \u201cIf you indeed return in peace, then Yahweh has not spoken with me.\u201d Then he said, \u201cLet all the peoples hear!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:29",
"text": " Then the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:30",
"text": "Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, \u201cI will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you wear your robes.\u201d So the king of Israel disguised himself, and he went into the battle. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:31",
"text": "The king of Aram commanded his thirty-two chariot commanders, saying, \u201cYou shall not fight with small or great, but only against the king of Israel, him alone!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:32",
"text": "When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, \u201cSurely he is the king of Israel,\u201d and they turned to fight against him, so Jehoshaphat called out. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:33",
"text": "When the chariot commanders saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:34",
"text": "But another man drew his bow fully and struck the king of Israel between the armor scales and the breastplate; so he said to his chariot driver, \u201cTurn \u231ethe chariot\u231f and bring me out from the camp, for I am wounded.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:35",
"text": " The battle intensified on that day, and the king was being propped up in the chariot opposite Aram, but he died in the evening, and the blood of the wound ran out to the floor of the chariot. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:36",
"text": "Then the shout passed through the camp about sunset, saying, \u201cEach man to his city and each to his land!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:37",
"text": "So the king died, and \u231ethey brought him\u231f to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:38",
"text": "They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked his blood (now, the prostitutes washed themselves there) according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:39",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory palace and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:40",
"text": "So Ahab slept with his ancestors, and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:41",
"text": " Jehoshaphat the son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:42",
"text": "Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Azubah daughter of Shilhi. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:43",
"text": "He walked in all of the way of Asa his father, and he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the eyes of Yahweh. Only he did not remove the high places; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:44",
"text": " But, Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:45",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Jehoshaphat, his powerful deeds he did, and how he fought, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:46",
"text": "The remainder of the male shrine prostitutes who were left over in the days of Asa his father he exterminated from the land. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:47",
"text": "There was not a king in Edom; a governor served as king. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:48",
"text": "Jehoshaphat built ships of the Tarshish type to go to Ophir for the gold; but he did not go because the ships were destroyed at Ezion-Geber. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:49",
"text": "Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, \u201cLet my servants go with your servants in the ships,\u201d but Jehoshaphat was not willing. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:50",
"text": "And Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David his ancestor, and Joram his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:51",
"text": " Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:52",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he went in the way of his father and his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Kings 22:53",
"text": "He served Baal and bowed down to him; and he provoked Yahweh the God of Israel according to all that his father did. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "II Kings",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:1",
"text": " Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:2",
"text": "Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper room, which was in Samaria, and he was injured. So he sent messengers, and he said to them, \u201cGo, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:3",
"text": " Then the angel of Yahweh spoke to Elijah the Tishbite, \u201cGet up, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and speak to them, \u2018Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:4",
"text": "Therefore, thus says Yahweh, \u2018The bed upon which you have gone, you will not come down from it, but you shall surely die.\u2019\u00a0\u201d So Elijah went. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:5",
"text": " When the messengers returned to him, he asked them, \u201cWhy have you returned?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:6",
"text": "Then they said to him, \u201cA man came up to meet us, and he said to us, \u2018Go, return to the king who sent you and speak to him, \u201cThus says Yahweh, \u2018Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron? Therefore the bed upon which you have gone, you will not come down from it, for you will surely die.\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:7",
"text": "Then he spoke to them, \u201cWhat was the manner of the man who came up to meet you and spoke to you all these things?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:8",
"text": "They answered him, \u201cA \u231ehairy man\u231f with a leather belt girded around his waist.\u201d And he said, \u201cIt is Elijah the Tishbite.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:9",
"text": " So \u231eAhaziah\u231f sent to him the commander of fifty with his fifty men, and he went up to him while he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, \u201cO man of God, the king says, \u2018Come down.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:10",
"text": "Then Elijah answered and said to the commander of the fifty, \u201cIf I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty!\u201d Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:11",
"text": " So he \u231eagain sent\u231f another commander of fifty and his fifty men. He answered and said to him, \u201cO man of God, thus says the king, \u2018Come down quickly!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:12",
"text": "Then Elijah answered and said to them, \u201cIf I am a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty!\u201d Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:13",
"text": " So he \u231eagain sent\u231f a third time a commander of fifty and his fifty, and the commander of the third fifty went up and came and knelt down on his knees before Elijah and entreated him. He said to him, \u201cO man of God, please let my life and the lives of your servants, these fifty, be precious in your eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:14",
"text": "Behold, fire from heaven came down and consumed the first two commanders of fifty and their fifties, so then let my life be precious in your eyes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:15",
"text": "Then the angel of Yahweh spoke to Elijah, \u201cGo down with him. Do not be afraid because of him.\u201d So he got up and went down with him to the king, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:16",
"text": "and he said to him, \u201cThus says Yahweh, \u2018Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron\u2014is it because there is no God in Israel from whom to inquire his word?\u2014therefore the bed upon which you went, you shall not come down from it, for you shall surely die.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:17",
"text": " So he died, according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken, and Joram became king in his place in the second year of Joram the son of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, because he had no son. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Kings 1:18",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:1",
"text": " When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up in the storm to heaven, Elijah and Elisha went from Gilgal. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:2",
"text": "Elijah said to Elisha, \u201cPlease stay here, for Yahweh has sent me up to Bethel.\u201d Elisha said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f and \u231eas your soul lives\u231f, I will certainly not leave you!\u201d So they went down to Bethel. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:3",
"text": "Then the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha, and they said to him, \u201cDo you know that Yahweh is going to take your master \u231efrom you\u231f today?\u201d He said, \u201cI also know; be quiet!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:4",
"text": " Elijah said to him, \u201cElisha, please stay here because Yahweh has sent me to Jericho.\u201d And he said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f and \u231eas your soul lives\u231f, I will certainly not leave you!\u201d So they came to Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:5",
"text": "Then the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho came near to Elisha, and they said to him, \u201cDo you know that Yahweh is going to take your master \u231efrom you\u231f today?\u201d He said, \u201cI also know; be quiet!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:6",
"text": " Then Elijah said to him, \u201cPlease stay here, because Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan.\u201d He said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f and \u231eas your soul lives\u231f, I will certainly not leave you!\u201d So the two of them went on. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:7",
"text": "Then fifty men from the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite them at a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:8",
"text": "Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the water. It divided \u231ein two\u231f, and the two of them crossed over on dry land. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:9",
"text": " After they crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, \u201cAsk what I may do for you before I am taken away from you.\u201d Then Elisha said, \u201cPlease let there come to me a double portion of your spirit.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:10",
"text": "He said, \u201cWhat you ask is difficult. If you see me being taken from you, it will be so for you, but if not, it will not happen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:11",
"text": "Then they were walking, talking as they went. Suddenly a fiery chariot with horses of fire appeared and separated between the two of them. Elijah went up in the storm to the heavens "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:12",
"text": "while Elisha was watching and crying out, \u201cMy father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!\u201d But he could not see him any longer, and he grasped his clothes and tore them in two pieces. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:13",
"text": " Then he picked up Elijah\u2019s cloak that had fallen off of him, and he returned and stood on the bank of the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:14",
"text": "He took Elijah\u2019s cloak that had fallen from upon him and struck the water. Then he said, \u201cWhere is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?\u201d So he also struck the water, and it divided \u231ein two\u231f, and Elisha crossed over. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:15",
"text": " When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him from the other side, they declared, \u201cThe spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha,\u201d and they came to meet him and bowed down to him to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:16",
"text": "Then they said to him, \u201cLook, there are with your servants fifty able men. Please let them go and look for your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has lifted him up and thrown him on one of the mountains or into one of the valleys,\u201d but he said, \u201cYou must not send them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:17",
"text": "But they urged him until embarrassing him, so he said, \u201cSend them.\u201d So they sent fifty men, and they looked for three days, but they could not find him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:18",
"text": "Then they returned to him while he was staying in Jericho. He said to them, \u201cDid I not tell you not to go?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:19",
"text": " The men of the city said to Elisha, \u201cPlease now, the location of the city is good, as my master can see, but the water is bad and the land unproductive.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:20",
"text": "So he said, \u201cBring me a new bowl and put salt in it.\u201d So they brought it to him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:21",
"text": "Then he went out to the spring of waters and threw the salt into it there and said, \u201cThus says Yahweh, \u2018I hereby purify these waters; let there be no longer any death or unproductiveness from it.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:22",
"text": "Then the waters were purified until this very day according to the word of Elisha that he spoke. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:23",
"text": " Then he went up from there to Bethel; as he was going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, \u201cGo up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:24",
"text": "When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two boys among them. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Kings 2:25",
"text": "Then he went from there to Mount Carmel and from there he returned to Samaria. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:1",
"text": " Now Joram the son of Ahab had become king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah. He reigned twelve years "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:2",
"text": "and did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not as his father or his mother, as he removed the stone pillars of Baal that his father had made. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:3",
"text": "But he did cling to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin, and he did not depart from it. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:4",
"text": " Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he used to deliver to the king of Israel a hundred thousand male lambs and a hundred thousand wool rams. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:5",
"text": "It happened that when Ahab died, Mesha king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:6",
"text": "So King Joram went out on that day from Samaria, and he mustered all of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:7",
"text": "He went and sent a message to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, \u201cThe king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab for the battle?\u201d And he said, \u201cI will go up. \u231eI am like you\u231f; \u231emy people are like your people\u231f; \u231emy horses are like your horses\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:8",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cWhich way shall we go up?\u201d And he answered, \u201cBy way of the wilderness of Edom.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:9",
"text": " So the king of Israel and the king of Judah and the king of Edom went around, a way of seven days, but there was no water for the army or for the animals which \u231ewere with them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:10",
"text": "Then the king of Israel said, \u201cAha, Yahweh has called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:11",
"text": "Then Jehoshaphat asked, \u201cIs there no prophet of Yahweh here that we might inquire guidance from Yahweh?\u201d One of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, \u201cElisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:12",
"text": "Jehoshaphat said, \u201cThe word of Yahweh is with him.\u201d So the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom went down to him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:13",
"text": " Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, \u201c\u231eWhat do we have in common\u231f? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.\u201d Then the king of Israel said to him, \u201cNo, for Yahweh has called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:14",
"text": "Then Elisha said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh of hosts lives\u231f, before whom I stand, surely if I was not \u231eregarding the face\u231f of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would have not looked at you nor even glanced at you. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:15",
"text": "But now, bring me a musician.\u201d It happened that at the moment the musician played, the hand of Yahweh came upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:16",
"text": "He said, \u201cThus says Yahweh, \u2018Make this wadi \u231efull of cisterns\u231f,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:17",
"text": "for thus says Yahweh, \u2018You will see neither wind nor rain, yet this wadi will be full of water; and you and all of your livestock and your animals shall drink.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:18",
"text": "And since this is too trivial in the eyes of Yahweh, he will also give Moab into your hand, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:19",
"text": "and you shall defeat every fortified city, every choice city, and you shall fell every good tree. All of the springs of water you shall stop up, and every tract of good land you shall ruin with the stones.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:20",
"text": "It happened in the morning about the time of the morning offering, that water was suddenly coming from the direction of Edom and the land was filled with water. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:21",
"text": " Now all of Moab had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, and all \u231ewho were fighting age and up\u231f were called up, and they stood at the border. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:22",
"text": "When they arose early in the morning, the sun shone on the waters, and Moab saw the waters from the opposite side as red as blood. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:23",
"text": "Then they said, \u201cThis is blood! Certainly the kings have fought one another, and each has killed his neighbor. Now, to the war booty, O Moab!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:24",
"text": "But when they came to the camp of Israel, Israel stood up and killed Moab, so that they fled from before them. They came at her and defeated Moab. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:25",
"text": "The cities they tore down, on every good tract of land they threw stones until it was filled up, every spring of water they stopped up, and every good tree they felled. They let the stone walls at Kir Hareseth remain, but the slingers surrounded and attacked it. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:26",
"text": "When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too heavy for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew the sword to break through to the king of Edom, but they were not able. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Kings 3:27",
"text": "He took his firstborn son who was to become king in his place and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. Great wrath came upon Israel, and they withdrew from him and returned to the land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:1",
"text": " A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, \u201cYour servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:2",
"text": "Elisha asked her, \u201cWhat shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?\u201d Then she said, \u201cYour servant has nothing in the house except a jar of olive oil.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:3",
"text": "Then he said to her, \u201cGo, ask for yourself some containers from the streets, from all your neighbors. \u231eYou must collect as many empty containers as you can\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:4",
"text": "You must also go and shut the door behind you and your children, and you must pour out oil into all of these containers and set the filled ones aside.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:5",
"text": "So she went from him, and she shut the door behind her and her children. They were bringing containers to her, and she kept pouring. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:6",
"text": "It happened that when the containers were full, she said to her son, \u201cBring near me another container,\u201d but he said to her, \u201cThere is not another container.\u201d Then the olive oil stopped flowing. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:7",
"text": "So she came and told the man of God, and he said, \u201cGo, sell the olive oil and repay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left over.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:8",
"text": " It happened one day that Elisha passed through to Shunem where there was a wealthy woman, and she urged him to eat bread; so it happened each time he passed through, he would stop there to eat. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:9",
"text": "She said to her husband, \u201cPlease now, I know that he is a holy man of God who is passing \u231eour way\u231f regularly; "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:10",
"text": "let us make a small enclosed room upstairs and put a bed, table, chair, and lampstand there for him, so that when he comes to us, he can turn and stay there. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:11",
"text": "One day it happened that he came there and went to the upper room and lay down there. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:12",
"text": "He said to Gehazi his servant, \u201cCall to this Shunammite,\u201d so he called to her, and she stood before him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:13",
"text": "He said to him, \u201cPlease say to her, \u2018Look, you took all this trouble, showing care for us; what is there for me to do for you? To speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?\u2019\u00a0\u201d She said, \u201cI am living among my people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:14",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cWhat may be done for her?\u201d Gehazi said, \u201cWell, she has no son, and her husband is old.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:15",
"text": "And he said, \u201cCall for her,\u201d so he called for her and she stood in the doorway. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:16",
"text": "And he said, \u201cAt this time \u231enext spring\u231f, you will be embracing a son.\u201d She said, \u201cNo, my lord, O man of God! You must not tell a lie to your servant!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:17",
"text": "But the woman conceived, and she bore a son \u231ein the spring\u231f, which Elisha had promised to her. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:18",
"text": " The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father and to the reapers. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:19",
"text": "Then he said to his father, \u201cMy head, my head!\u201d So he said to the servant, \u201cCarry him to his mother.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:20",
"text": "So they carried him and brought him to his mother; he sat on her lap until noon and then died. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:21",
"text": "She went up, laid him on the bed of the man of God, closed the door, and went out behind it. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:22",
"text": "She called to her husband and said, \u201cPlease send one of the servants and one of the female donkeys for me, so that I can go quickly up to the man of God and return.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:23",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWhy are you going to him today? It is neither the new moon nor the Sabbath!\u201d And she said, \u201cPeace.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:24",
"text": "She saddled the female donkey, and she said to her servant, \u201cDrive along and go; you must not hold me back from riding, unless I tell you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:25",
"text": "So she went and came to the man of God by Mount Carmel. It happened when the man of God saw her \u231eat a distance\u231f, he said to Gehazi his servant, \u201cThere is this Shunammite. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:26",
"text": "Now, please run to meet her and ask her, \u2018Is it peace for you? Is it peace for your husband? Is it peace for the boy?\u2019\u00a0\u201d She said, \u201cPeace.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:27",
"text": "So she came to the man of God at the mountain, and she caught hold of his feet. Then Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said, \u201cLet her alone, for her soul is bitter, and Yahweh has hidden it from me and has not told me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:28",
"text": "Then she said, \u201cDid I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say that you must not mislead me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:29",
"text": " Then he said to Gehazi, \u201cGird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, you must not greet them; if anyone greets you, you must not answer them. You must put my staff on the face of the boy.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:30",
"text": "Then the mother of the boy said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f and \u231eas your soul lives\u231f, I will surely not leave you.\u201d So he got up and went after her. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:31",
"text": "Gehazi crossed over before them, and he put the staff on the face of the boy; but there was no sound, and there was no sign of life, so he returned to meet him. He told him, saying, \u201cThe boy did not wake up.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:32",
"text": " When Elisha came to the house, here was the boy dead, lying on his bed. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:33",
"text": "He went and closed the door behind the two of them and prayed to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:34",
"text": "Then he went up and lay upon the child and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his palms on his palms. As he bent down over him, the flesh of the boy became warm. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:35",
"text": "He returned and went \u231eto and fro\u231f in the house one time, then he went up and bent over him. Then the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:36",
"text": "Elisha called to Gehazi and said, \u201cCall this Shunammite.\u201d So he called her and she came to him; then he said, \u201cPick up your son.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:37",
"text": "She came and fell at his feet and bowed down to the ground; then she picked up her son and went out. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:38",
"text": " So Elisha returned to Gilgal. Now the famine was in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. He said to his servant, put on the large pot and cook a stew for the sons of the prophets. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:39",
"text": "One went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a \u231ewild vine\u231f and gathered wild gourds from it and filled his cloak. Then he came and cut them into the pot of stew, but they did not know what they were. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:40",
"text": "They served the men to eat, but when they ate from the stew, they cried out and said, \u201cThere is death in the pot, O man of God!\u201d They were not able to eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:41",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cBring some flour,\u201d and he threw it into the pot. He then said, \u201cServe the people and let them eat.\u201d There was nothing harmful in the pot. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:42",
"text": " A man came from Baal-Shalishah and brought food to the man of God: firstfruits and twenty loaves of barley bread, with ripe grain in his sack. He said, \u201cGive it to the people and let them eat.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:43",
"text": "Then his servant said, \u201cHow can I set this before a hundred men?\u201d He said, \u201cGive it to the people and let them eat, for thus Yahweh says, \u2018They shall eat and have some left over.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Kings 4:44",
"text": "So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:1",
"text": " Now Naaman was the commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man before his master and \u231ehighly regarded\u231f, for by him Yahweh had given victory to Aram. Now the man was a mighty warrior, but he was afflicted with a skin disease. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:2",
"text": "When the Arameans went on a raid, they brought back a young girl from the land of Israel, and \u231eshe came into the service of\u231f the wife of Naaman. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:3",
"text": "She said to her mistress, \u201cIf only my lord would come before the prophet who is in Samaria; then \u231ehe would cure his skin disease\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:4",
"text": "He came and told his master, saying, \u201cThus and so the girl who is from the land of Israel said.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:5",
"text": "So the king of Aram said, \u201cGo, I will send a letter to the king of Israel.\u201d He went and took \u231ewith him\u231f ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:6",
"text": " So he brought the letter of the king to Israel, saying, \u201cNow, when this letter comes to you, I have just sent Naaman my servant to you that you may cure him from his skin disease.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:7",
"text": "It happened that when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, \u201cAm I God to cause death or to give life? This man is sending a man to me to cure his disease. Indeed! But know and see that he seeks an opportunity against me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:8",
"text": " It happened that as soon as Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, \u201cWhy did you tear your clothes? Please may he come to me, that he might know that there is a prophet in Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:9",
"text": "Then Naaman came with his horses and his chariots, and he stopped at the doorway of the house of Elisha. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:10",
"text": "Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, \u201cGo, you must wash seven times in the Jordan, then your flesh shall return to you, and you shall be clean.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:11",
"text": "But Naaman became angry and he went and said, \u201cLook, I said to myself, \u2018Surely he will come out, stand, call upon the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hands over the spot; then he would take away the skin disease.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:12",
"text": "Are not the Abana and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all of the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them that I may be clean?\u201d Then he turned and left in anger. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:13",
"text": "But his servants came near and spoke to him and said, \u201cMy father, if the prophet had spoken a difficult thing to you to do, would you not have done it? Why not even when he says to you, \u2018Wash and you shall be clean\u2019?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:14",
"text": "So he went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh returned as the flesh of a small boy, and he was clean. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:15",
"text": " When he returned to the man of God, he and all of his army, he came and stood before him and said, \u201cPlease now, I know that there is no God in all of the world except in Israel. So then, please take a gift from your servant.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:16",
"text": "And he said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, before whom I stand, I surely will not take it.\u201d Still he urged him to take it, but he refused. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:17",
"text": "Then Naaman said, \u201cIf not, then please let a load of soil on a pair of mules be given to your servants, for your servant will never again bring a burnt offering and sacrifice to other gods, but only to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:18",
"text": "As far as this matter, may Yahweh pardon your servant when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he is leaning himself on my arm, that I also bow down in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down in the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh please pardon your servant in this matter.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:19",
"text": "He said to him, \u201cGo in peace,\u201d so he went from him \u231ea short distance\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:20",
"text": " But Gehazi the servant of Elisha, the man of God, thought, \u201cLook, my master has refrained from taking what this Aramean Naaman brought from his hand. \u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, I will certainly run after him, and I will accept something from him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:21",
"text": "So Gehazi pursued after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he jumped off his chariot to meet him and asked him, \u201cIs it peace?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:22",
"text": "He said, \u201cPeace. My master has sent me saying, \u2018Look, \u231ejust now\u231f two servants from the hill country of Ephraim came to me, from the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:23",
"text": "Then Naaman said, \u201cBe prepared to accept two talents.\u201d So he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two sets of clothing and gave it to two of his servants and they carried it before him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:24",
"text": "When he came to the citadel, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, then sent away the men so that they went. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:25",
"text": "When he went and stood by his master, Elisha asked him, \u201cFrom where have you come, Gehazi?\u201d And he said, \u201cYour servant has not gone \u231eanywhere\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:26",
"text": " Then he said to him, \u201cDid not my heart go with you as the man turned from on his chariot to meet you? Is it time to take silver, clothes, olive orchards, vineyards, sheep, oxen, male slaves, and female slaves? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Kings 5:27",
"text": "The skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your offspring forever.\u201d Then he went out from before him having a skin disease like the snow. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:1",
"text": " Then the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, \u201cPlease look; the place where we are living before you is too cramped for us. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:2",
"text": "Let us please go to the Jordan and each bring from there one log that we might make a place there for us to live.\u201d Then he said, \u201cDo so.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:3",
"text": "Then a certain one said, \u201cPlease be prepared and go with your servants,\u201d and he said, \u201cI will go.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:4",
"text": "He went with them, and they went to the Jordan, and they cut down the trees. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:5",
"text": "It happened as the one was felling the log, that the iron ax fell into the water. He called out and said, \u201cOh, no! My master, it was borrowed!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:6",
"text": "Then the man of God said, \u201cWhere did it fall?\u201d So he showed him the place, and then he cut off a stick and threw it there and made the iron ax float. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:7",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cPick it up for yourself,\u201d so he stretched out his hand and took it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:8",
"text": " The king of Aram was fighting with Israel, so he consulted with his officers, saying, \u201cMy camp is \u231eat such and such a place\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:9",
"text": "Then the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, \u201cTake care while crossing over to this place, because the Arameans are descending there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:10",
"text": "So the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God said to him and warned him, so he was on guard there \u231econtinually\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:11",
"text": " Then the heart of the king of Aram was stormy because of this matter, so he called his servants and said to them, \u201cCan you not tell me \u231ewho among us sides with the king of Israel\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:12",
"text": "Then one of his servants said, \u201cNo, my lord the king, but Elisha the prophet who is in Israel tells the king of Israel things which you speak \u231ein your own bedchamber\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:13",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cGo and see where he is so that I can send and capture him.\u201d Then he was told to him, \u201cLook, he is in Dothan.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:14",
"text": "So he sent horses, chariots, and an oppressing army there. They arrived at night and surrounded the town. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:15",
"text": "The attendant of the man of God arose early and went out, and look, the army was surrounding the city with horses and chariots. His servant said to him, \u201cOh no, my master! What shall we do?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:16",
"text": "And he said, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, for more are with us than are with them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:17",
"text": "Then Elisha prayed and said, \u201cO Yahweh, please open his eyes that he may see,\u201d and Yahweh opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw, and look, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:18",
"text": "They came down to him, and Elisha prayed to Yahweh and said, \u201cPlease strike this people with blindness,\u201d so he struck them with blindness as \u231eElisha had spoken\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:19",
"text": "Then Elisha said to them, \u201cThis is not the way and this is not the city. Come after me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.\u201d Then he brought them to Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:20",
"text": " It happened at the moment they came to Samaria, Elisha said, \u201cO Yahweh, open the eyes of these that they may see,\u201d so Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw, and look, the middle of Samaria! "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:21",
"text": "Then the king of Israel said to Elisha when he saw them, \u201cShall I kill them? Shall I kill, my father?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:22",
"text": "And he said, \u201cYou shall not kill. Would you kill those whom you took captive with the sword or with the bow? Put food and water before them that they may eat and drink and then go to their master.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:23",
"text": "So he made a great feast for them, and they ate and drank; then he sent them, and they went to their master. And the bands of the Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:24",
"text": " It happened after this that Ben-Hadad king of Aram assembled all of his army and marched up and laid siege against Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:25",
"text": "There was a great famine in Samaria, and behold, a siege was against it, until the head of a donkey went for eighty shekels of silver, and one fourth of the measure of the dung of doves went for five shekels of silver. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:26",
"text": "It happened that the king of Israel was crossing over on the wall, and a woman called out to him, saying, \u201cHelp, my lord the king!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:27",
"text": "He said, \u201cNo, let Yahweh help you. \u231eHow\u231f can I save you? From the threshing floor or from the wine press?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:28",
"text": "The king said to her, \u201c\u231eWhat is the problem\u231f?\u201d Then the woman said, \u201cThis woman said to me, \u2018Give me your son, and let us eat him today, then tomorrow we will eat my son.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:29",
"text": "So we cooked my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, \u2018Give your son that we may eat him.\u2019 But she had hidden her son.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:30",
"text": "It happened that when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he had been walking on the wall, and the people saw, and behold, sackcloth was over his flesh underneath. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:31",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cMay God do to me and thus may he add, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:32",
"text": "Now Elisha was sitting in his house and the elders were sitting with him, and the king dispatched a man from before him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, \u201cDid you see that this son of a murderer has sent to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, close the door; and you must \u231ehold the door closed against him\u231f. Is not the sound of the feet of his master behind him?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Kings 6:33",
"text": "While he was still speaking with them, suddenly the messenger was coming down to him, and he said, \u201cLook this trouble is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:1",
"text": " Elisha said, \u201cHear the word of Yahweh: \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cAt this time tomorrow a seah of wheat bread flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:2",
"text": "Then the officer \u231eon whom the king relied\u231f answered the man of God and said, \u201cLook, even if Yahweh is making windows in heaven, could this thing happen?\u201d And he said, \u201cLook, you will be seeing it with your eyes, but you shall not eat from it there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:3",
"text": " Now four men who had a skin disease were at the entrance of the gate, and they said \u231eto each other\u231f, \u201cWhy are we sitting here until we die? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:4",
"text": "If we say, \u2018Let us go into the city,\u2019 the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; but if we sit here, we shall die. So then, come, let us fall into the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we shall live; but if they kill us, then we shall die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:5",
"text": "So they got up at dusk to go to the camp of the Arameans. They went up to the edge of the camp of the Arameans, and look, there was no man there! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:6",
"text": "Now the Lord had caused the camp of the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, the sound of horses, and the sound of a great army. So they said \u231eto one another\u231f, \u201cLook, the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:7",
"text": "So they got up and fled at dusk and left their tents, their horses, their donkeys, and the camp as it was, and they fled for their lives. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:8",
"text": "When these who had the skin disease came to the edge of the camp, they went into a certain tent and they ate, drank, and took from there silver and gold and clothes. Then they went and hid them, then returned and came to another tent, and they took from there and went and hid them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:9",
"text": " Then they said \u231eto one another\u231f, \u201cWe are not doing right. This day is a day of good news! If we are silent and wait until the light of morning, they will find us and \u231ewe will be punished\u231f. So then, come, let us go and tell the house of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:10",
"text": "When they came, they called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, saying, \u201cWe came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no man or the voice of a man there! Only the horses and the donkeys were tied up, and the tents were left as they were.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:11",
"text": "Then the gatekeepers called and told it inside the house of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:12",
"text": "The king got up in the night and said to his servants, \u201cPlease let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. The Arameans know that we are hungry, so they went out from the camp to hide in the field, saying, \u2018When they go out from the city, we shall seize them alive and go into the city.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:13",
"text": "Then one of his servants replied and said, \u201cPlease let them take five of the remaining horses which remain in the city; behold, they are like all of the multitude of Israel that remain in it; they are like all the multitude of Israel who have perished. Let us send and see.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:14",
"text": "So he took two charioteer horsemen, and the king sent after the camp of the Arameans, saying, \u201cGo, find out,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:15",
"text": "and they went after them to the Jordan. Look, all of the way was littered with clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. Then the messengers returned and told the king. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:16",
"text": " So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. A seah of wheat flour went for a shekel and two seahs of barley went for a shekel according to the word of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:17",
"text": "Then the king appointed the officer he was depending on over the gate, but the people trampled him and he died, according to that which the man of God had said which he spoke when the king came down to him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:18",
"text": "It happened as the man of God spoke to the king, saying, \u201cTwo seahs of barley shall be sold for a shekel and a seah of wheat flour for a shekel at this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:19",
"text": "Then the officer had replied to the man of God and said, \u201cLook, even if Yahweh is opening the windows in heaven, could this thing happen?\u201d And he had said, \u201cLook you are about to see it with your eyes, but you will not eat from it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Kings 7:20",
"text": "So it had happened to him; the people trampled him in the gate and he died. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:1",
"text": " Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, \u201cGet up and go, you and your household, and dwell as an alien wherever you can, for Yahweh has called for a famine, and it will come to the land for seven years.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:2",
"text": "So the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God. She and her household went and dwelt as an alien in the land of the Philistines for seven years. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:3",
"text": "It happened at the end of seven years that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went out to appeal to the king for her household and for her \u231eproperties\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:4",
"text": "Now the king was speaking to Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, \u201cPlease tell me all of the great things which Elisha has done.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:5",
"text": "It happened that as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, suddenly the woman whose son he had restored to life was crying out to the king about her household and about her field. Then Gehazi said, \u201cMy lord the king, this is the woman and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:6",
"text": "So the king asked the woman, and she told him. So the king appointed for her a certain court official, saying, \u201cRestore all that is hers and all the yield of the field from the day she left the land up to now.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:7",
"text": " Elisha came to Damascus. Now Ben-Hadad king of Aram was ill, and he was told, \u201cThe man of God has come up here.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:8",
"text": "Then the king said to Hazael, \u201cTake a gift in your hand and go meet the man of God. Inquire of Yahweh from him, saying, \u2018Shall I recover from this illness?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:9",
"text": "So Hazael went to meet him and took a gift in his hand of all of the good things of Damascus, a load on each of forty camels, and he came and stood before him. Then he said, \u201cYour son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, \u2018Shall I recover from this illness?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:10",
"text": "Elisha said to him, \u201cGo; say to him, \u2018You shall certainly recover,\u2019 but Yahweh has shown me that he certainly will die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:11",
"text": "Then the man \u231efixed his gaze and stared at him\u231f until he was ashamed and the man of God cried. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:12",
"text": "Then Hazael asked, \u201cWhy is my lord crying?\u201d He said, \u201cBecause I know what evil you will do to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. You will \u231eset their fortifications on fire\u231f, and you will kill their young men with the sword. Their little ones you will dash to pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip open!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:13",
"text": "Then Hazael said, \u201cBut how could your servant, who is like a dog, do this great thing?\u201d Elisha said, \u201cYahweh has shown me that you are to be king over Aram.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:14",
"text": "So he departed from Elisha and came to his master. He asked him, \u201cWhat did Elisha say to you.\u201d So he said, \u201cHe said to me that you will certainly recover.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:15",
"text": "On the next day, he took the bed cover, dipped it in the water, and spread it over his face so that he died. Then Hazael became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:16",
"text": " Now in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Joram son of Jehoshaphat became the king of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:17",
"text": "He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:18",
"text": "He walked in the way of the kings of Israel as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife, and he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:19",
"text": "Yet Yahweh was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, as he had promised to give him a lamp for his sons always. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:20",
"text": " In his days, Edom rebelled \u231eagainst the rule\u231f of Judah, and they set up a king over them. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:21",
"text": "So Joram crossed over to Zair and all the chariots with him. It happened that he arose by night and attacked Edom who had surrounded him and the commanders of the chariots; but the army fled to their tents. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:22",
"text": "So Edom has rebelled \u231eagainst the rule\u231f of Judah until this day; then Libnah also rebelled at that time. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:23",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Joram and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:24",
"text": "So Joram slept with his ancestors, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and Ahaziah his son became king in place of him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:25",
"text": " In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Joram became king of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:26",
"text": "Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Athaliah daughter of Omri, king of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:27",
"text": "He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, as the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:28",
"text": " He went with Joram the son of Ahab for the battle against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-Gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Kings 8:29",
"text": "Joram the king returned to Jezreel to heal from the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted at Ramah when Hazael king of Aram fought him. Ahaziah the son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was ill. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:1",
"text": " Now Elisha the prophet called for one of the sons of the prophets, and he said to him, \u201cGird your loins, and take this flask of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:2",
"text": "Go there and look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi. Go, for you must cause him to arise from among his brothers, and you must bring him into an \u231einner room\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:3",
"text": "You must take the flask of olive oil and pour it out on his head. You must say, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cI hereby anoint you as king over Israel.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 Then you must open the door and flee; do not linger!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:4",
"text": " So the young man, servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:5",
"text": "He came, and look, the commanders of the army were sitting there. He said, \u201cI have a word for you, O commander!\u201d Jehu said, \u201cFor whom? For all of us?\u201d And he said, \u201cFor you, O commander!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:6",
"text": "He got up and went to the house, and poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, \u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: \u2018I hereby anoint you as king over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:7",
"text": "You will destroy the house of Ahab your master, and you will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all of the servants of Yahweh, from the hand of Jezebel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:8",
"text": "All of the house of Ahab will perish, and I shall cut off \u231eall males\u231f from Ahab, both bond and free. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:9",
"text": "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. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:10",
"text": "The dogs will eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and there shall not be \u231eanyone to bury her\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d Then he opened the door and fled. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:11",
"text": " Then Jehu came out to the officers of his master, and they said to him, \u201cPeace? Why did this madman come to you?\u201d And he said to them, \u201cYou know the man and his foolish talk.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:12",
"text": "Then they said, \u201cLiar. Please tell us.\u201d He said, \u201c\u231eThus and so\u231f he said to me, saying, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cI hereby anoint you as king over Israel.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:13",
"text": "So they hastened each one to take his cloak, and they spread them under him on the bare steps, blew on the trumpet, and said, \u201cJehu is king!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:14",
"text": " So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram was keeping guard in Ramoth-Gilead, he and all of Israel, because of the \u231ethreat\u231f of Hazael king of Aram. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:15",
"text": "But Joram the king had returned to heal in Jezreel from the wound which the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. Jehu said, \u201c\u231eIf this is what you want\u231f, do not let him go out as a fugitive from the city to go to make it known in Jezreel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:16",
"text": "Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there, and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to visit Joram. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:17",
"text": "Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu when he came, and he said, \u201cI see a company.\u201d Joram said, \u201cTake a horseman and send him to meet them.\u201d And he said, \u201cIs it peace?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:18",
"text": "So the rider of the horse went out to meet him, and he said, \u201cThus the king asks, \u2018Is it peace?\u2019\u00a0\u201d Then Jehu said, \u201c\u231eWhat do you have to do with peace\u231f? Turn after me.\u201d Then the watchman reported, saying, \u201cThe messenger went up to them, but he did not return.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:19",
"text": "Then he sent out a second horseman, and he came to them and said, \u201cThus the king asks, \u2018Is it peace?\u2019\u00a0\u201d Then Jehu said, \u201c\u231eWhat do you have to do with peace\u231f? Turn after me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:20",
"text": "So the sentinel reported, saying, \u201cHe went up to them, but he did not return, and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives with madness.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:21",
"text": " Then Joram said, \u201cGet ready,\u201d so he got his chariot ready. Joram king of Israel went out, and Ahaziah king of Judah, each with his chariot. They went out to meet Jehu, and they found him at the tract of land of Naboth the Jezreelite. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:22",
"text": "When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, \u201cIs it peace?\u201d And he said, \u201cWhat peace is there while the prostitutions of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are numerous?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:23",
"text": "Joram turned his \u231echariot\u231f and fled and said to Ahaziah, \u201cIt\u2019s treason, Ahaziah!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:24",
"text": "Then Jehu \u231edrew his bow\u231f and shot Joram between his shoulders so that the arrow went out from his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:25",
"text": "He said to Bidkar his third servant, \u201cLift him out and throw him on the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember, you and I were with the pair of chariots behind Ahab his father when Yahweh pronounced this oracle against him: "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:26",
"text": "\u2018\u00a0\u201cSince I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his children yesterday,\u201d declares Yahweh, \u201cI will requite it for you in this tract of land,\u201d declares Yahweh.\u2019 So then lift him out and throw him on the tract of land according to the word of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:27",
"text": " When Ahaziah king of Judah saw, he fled the way of Beth-Haggen. Jehu pursued after him and said, \u201cShoot him also, in the chariot.\u201d They shot him at the ascent of Gur which is in Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo, but he died there. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:28",
"text": "Then his officers carried him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:29",
"text": "In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:30",
"text": " When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, so she painted her eyes with black eye paint and adorned her head and looked through the window. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:31",
"text": "Now Jehu had come in the gate, so she said, \u201cIs it peace, O Zimri, murderer of his master?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:32",
"text": "When he lifted up his face to the window, he asked, \u201cWho is with me?\u201d Two or three eunuchs looked down to him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:33",
"text": "So he said, \u201cThrow her down.\u201d So they threw her down, and her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled her. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:34",
"text": "Then he came and ate and drank, and said, \u201cPlease take care of this cursed one and bury her, for she is the daughter of a king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:35",
"text": "When they went to bury her, they could not find her, except the skull, the feet, and the palms of the hands. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:36",
"text": "They returned and told him, and he said, \u201cThis is the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, \u2018On the plot of ground of Jezreel, the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Kings 9:37",
"text": "So the dead body of Jezebel became dung on the surface spread on the field in the plot of ground of Jezreel, so one cannot say, \u201cThis is Jezebel.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:1",
"text": " Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria, and Jehu wrote letters, and he sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:2",
"text": "\u201cNow, when this letter comes to you and your master\u2019s sons are with you, the chariots are with you, the horses, a fortified city, and weapons, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:3",
"text": "then you must select the best and the most suitable from the sons of your master, and you must place him on the throne of his father, and they must fight for the house of your masters.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:4",
"text": "But they were very afraid, and they said, \u201cLook, two kings could not stand before him; how can we stand?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:5",
"text": "So whoever was over the house, and whoever was over the city, and the elders and the guardians sent to Jehu, saying, \u201cWe are your servants; all that you say to us, we shall do. We shall not make anyone a king. Do what is good in your eyes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:6",
"text": " Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, \u201cIf you are for me, and you are listening to my voice, take the heads of the men of the sons of your master and come to me at this time tomorrow at Jezreel.\u201d Now the sons of the king, seventy men, were with the leaders of the city who were raising them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:7",
"text": "When the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king, and they killed seventy men. Then they put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:8",
"text": "Then the messenger came and told him, saying, \u201cThey have brought the heads of the king\u2019s sons,\u201d and he said, \u201cPut them in two piles at the entrance of the gate until morning.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:9",
"text": "It happened in the morning that he went out, stood, and said to all of the people, \u201cYou are righteous. Look, I conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all of these? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:10",
"text": "Know then that \u231ethe word of Yahweh will not fail\u231f which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab; Yahweh has done what he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:11",
"text": "Then Jehu killed all of the remainder of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all of his leaders, his close friends, and his priests, until there was no survivor left for him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:12",
"text": " Then he arose and went and came to Samaria. On the way, he was at Beth-Eked of the shepherds, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:13",
"text": "and Jehu met the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah. He asked, \u201cWho are you?\u201d They said, \u201cWe are the brothers of Ahaziah; we came down for the peace of the king\u2019s children and the children of the queen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:14",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cSeize them alive!\u201d So they seized them alive but then slaughtered them at the cistern of Beth-Eked, forty-two men. He did not allow any of them to survive. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:15",
"text": " Next he went from there and found Jehonadab the son of Recab to meet him. He greeted him and asked him, \u201c\u231eIs your heart right with me as my heart is with you\u231f?\u201d Then Jehonadab said, \u201cYes, it is. Give your hand!\u201d And he gave his hand and took him up to him on the chariot. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:16",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cCome with me! Look at my zeal for Yahweh!\u201d So he let him ride in his chariot. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:17",
"text": "Then he came to Samaria and killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria until he wiped them out according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken to Elijah. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:18",
"text": " Then Jehu assembled all of the people and said to them, \u201cAhab served Baal a little, but Jehu will worship him greatly. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:19",
"text": "So then, summon to me all of the prophets of Baal and all of his servants and his priests; no man should fail to come, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come shall not live!\u201d Now Jehu was acting with cunning in order to destroy the servants of Baal. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:20",
"text": "Then Jehu said, \u201cSanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!\u201d So they proclaimed it. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:21",
"text": "Jehu sent word through all of Israel, and all of the servants of Baal came; there did not remain a man who did not come. They came to the house of Baal so that the house of Baal was filled from \u231ewall to wall\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:22",
"text": "He said to the one who was over the wardrobe, \u201cBring out clothing for all of the servants of Baal.\u201d So he brought the clothing out for them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:23",
"text": "Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Recab came to the temple of Baal, and he said to the servants of Baal, \u201cSearch and see that there is none of the servants of Yahweh here with you; only those who serve Baal.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:24",
"text": "They came to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he said, \u201cThe man who lets anyone escape from the men who I am \u231eentrusting to you\u231f, \u231ehe will pay with his life\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:25",
"text": " It happened that when he finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the royal guard and to the officers, \u201cCome and kill them; let no man go free!\u201d So \u231ethey put them to the sword\u231f, and the royal guard and the officers threw them out, then they went up to the citadel of the temple of Baal. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:26",
"text": "They brought out the stone pillars of the temple of Baal and burned \u231ethem\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:27",
"text": "So they broke down the stone pillars of Baal and destroyed the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:28",
"text": "So Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:29",
"text": " Only Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat by which he caused Israel to sin; namely, the calf-shaped idols of gold which were in Bethel and Dan. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:30",
"text": "Yahweh said to Jehu, \u201cBecause you have done well by doing right in my eyes and you have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart; therefore, sons of the fourth generation will sit for you on the throne of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:31",
"text": "But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of Yahweh God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam by which he caused Israel to sin. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:32",
"text": " In those days, Yahweh began to reduce Israel, so Hazael defeated them in every territory of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:33",
"text": "from the Jordan eastward: all of the land of Gilead, the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer which is on the Wadi Arnon and Gilead and Bashan. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:34",
"text": "Now the remainder of the acts of Jehu and all that he did and all of his powerful deeds, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:35",
"text": "So Jehu slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in Samaria, and Jehoahaz his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Kings 10:36",
"text": "Now the days which Jehu had reigned over Israel were twenty-eight years in Samaria. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:1",
"text": " Now Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, so she prepared to destroy all of the offspring of the royal family. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:2",
"text": "But Jehosheba the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah took Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, and she stole him from among the sons of the king who were being put to death, putting him and his nurse in the inner bedroom. So they hid him from the presence of Athaliah, and he was not killed. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:3",
"text": "He remained with her in the temple of Yahweh, hidden for six years while Athaliah was reigning over the land. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:4",
"text": " But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and took the commanders of the hundreds of the Carites and the runners, and he brought them to himself to the temple of Yahweh. Then he \u231emade\u231f a covenant with them and made them swear in the house of Yahweh and showed them the son of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:5",
"text": "He commanded them, saying, \u201cThis is the thing which you must do: one third of you \u231ewho go off duty on the Sabbath\u231f, the keepers of the guard in the house of the king, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:6",
"text": "and another third at the gate of Sur, and a third at the gate behind the runners, shall guard the post of the palace alternately. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:7",
"text": "Two of the units among you, all \u231ewho go on duty on the Sabbath\u231f, guard the post of the temple of Yahweh for the king. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:8",
"text": "You must surround the king all about, each with his weapon in his hand; whoever comes to the ranks must be killed. Be with the king \u231ewherever he goes\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:9",
"text": " So the commanders of hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and each took his men \u231ewho went off duty on the Sabbath\u231f and those \u231ewho came on duty on the Sabbath\u231f, and they came to Jehoiada the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:10",
"text": "Then the priest gave to the commanders of the hundreds spears and small round shields which were King David\u2019s, which were in the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:11",
"text": "So the royal runners stood, each with his weapons in his hand, from the side of the temple to the south up to the side of the temple on the north, around the altar and around the temple, about the king all around. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:12",
"text": "Then he brought out the son of the king, put the crown on him with the testimony, and they made him king, anointed him, clapped their hands, and said, \u201cLong live the king!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:13",
"text": " When Athaliah heard the sound of the runners of the people, she came to the people at the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:14",
"text": "She looked, and there was the king standing by the pillar according to the custom. The commanders and the trumpeters were by the king, and all of the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing on the trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and she called, \u201cTreason, treason!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:15",
"text": "Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the commanders of the hundreds, the appointed of the army, and he said to them, \u201cBring her out to the house of the ranks! The one coming after her should kill her with the sword,\u201d for the priest had said, \u201cLet her not be killed in the temple of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:16",
"text": "So \u231ethey grabbed her\u231f as she went by the entranceway of the horses to the palace of the king, and she was killed there. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:17",
"text": "Then Jehoiada \u231emade\u231f a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that the people should be as a people for Yahweh, and also a covenant between the king and the people. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:18",
"text": "Then all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down, and its altars and its images they broke completely into pieces. Mattan the priest of Baal they killed in front of the altars. Then the priest put guards over the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:19",
"text": "He took the commanders of the hundreds and the Carites and the runners and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the temple of Yahweh. And they marched by the way of the runner\u2019s gate to the palace of the king, and he sat on the throne of the kings. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:20",
"text": "All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city rested; for Athaliah had been killed with the sword in the palace of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Kings 11:21",
"text": " Jehoash was \u231eseven years old\u231f when he began to reign. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:1",
"text": " In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king. He reigned in Jerusalem forty years, and the name of his mother was Zibiah from Beersheba. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:2",
"text": "Jehoash did right in the eyes of Yahweh all of his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:3",
"text": "Only the high places were not removed; the people were still making sacrifices and offering incense on the high places. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:4",
"text": " Jehoash said to the priests, \u201cAll of the money for the sacred things that is brought to the temple of Yahweh, \u231ethe money taxed at its proper value for each person\u231f and all of the money which comes upon the heart of a man to bring to the temple of Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:5",
"text": "let the priests take for themselves, each from his treasurers, and let them repair the breach of the temple for every place where damage is found.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:6",
"text": " It happened in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash that the priests had not repaired the damage in the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:7",
"text": "So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the priests, and he said to them, \u201cWhy are you not repairing the damage in the temple? Now, you shall not take money from your treasurers for the damage in the temple. You must provide it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:8",
"text": "So the priests agreed not to take money from the people and not to repair the damage to the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:9",
"text": " Then Jehoiada the priest took a certain chest and bored a hole in its lid, and he put it beside the altar to the right as a man enters into the temple of Yahweh; then the priests who were keepers of the threshold would put there all of the money brought into the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:10",
"text": "It happened that when they saw a great deal of money in the chest, the secretary of the king and the high priest would come up, put the money in bags, then count the money found in the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:11",
"text": "They placed the money, which was weighed out, into the hands of the workers who were appointed over the temple of Yahweh, and they paid it to the skilled craftsmen of wood and to the builders working on the temple of Yahweh "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:12",
"text": "and to the masons and the stonecutters, to buy timber and stones for hewing, in order to repair the damage of the temple of Yahweh, and for all who went to the temple to repair it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:13",
"text": "Only, for the temple of Yahweh, there were not any silver basins, snuffers, bowls for drinking wine, trumpets, or any vessel of gold or silver from the money being brought to the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:14",
"text": "For they gave that to all the workers, and they repaired the temple of Yahweh with it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:15",
"text": "They did not have to settle accounts with the men into whose hands they placed the money to give to the workers, for they were dealing honestly. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:16",
"text": "The money of the guilt offering and the money of the sin offering was not brought into the temple of Yahweh, but were each for the priests. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:17",
"text": " At that time, Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it; then Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:18",
"text": "Jehoash king of Judah took all of the holy objects that Jehoshaphat, Joram, and Ahaziah his ancestors, the kings of Judah, had devoted, and all his holy objects and all of the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of Yahweh, and in the palace of the king, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, so that he went up from Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:19",
"text": " Now the remainder of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:20",
"text": "Then his servants arose and conspired and killed Joash in the house of the Millo as he was going down toward Silla. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Kings 12:21",
"text": "Jozabad the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and killed him, so they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David. Then Amaziah his son became king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:1",
"text": " In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel in Samaria, reigning seventeen years. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:2",
"text": "But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he went after the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat with which he had caused Israel to sin, and he did not depart from it. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:3",
"text": "So the \u231eanger of Yahweh was kindled\u231f against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of Hazael king of Aram and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael \u231erepeatedly\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:4",
"text": "Then Jehoahaz entreated Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Aram oppressed them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:5",
"text": "Yahweh gave Israel a savior, and they went out from under the hand of Aram. So the \u231eIsraelites\u231f lived in their tents as \u231eformerly\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:6",
"text": "Yet they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to sin, but walked in it; and also, the pole of the Asherah worship was still standing in Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:7",
"text": "For there was no army left over for Jehoahaz except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them as the dust at threshing. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:8",
"text": "Now the remainder of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did and his powerful deeds, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:9",
"text": "Then Jehoahaz slept with his ancestors and they buried him in Samaria, and Jehoash his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:10",
"text": " In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, reigning sixteen years. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:11",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not depart from all of the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin, but walked in it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:12",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Joash and all that he did, his powerful deeds, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:13",
"text": "Then Joash slept with his ancestors, and Jeroboam sat on his throne. Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:14",
"text": " Elisha became ill with the illness with which he would die, so Jehoash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, and said, \u201cMy father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:15",
"text": "Elisha said to him, \u201cTake a bow and arrows,\u201d so he took him a bow and arrows. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:16",
"text": "He said to the king of Israel, \u201c\u231eLay your hand on the bow\u231f,\u201d so he lay hold of it; then Elisha put his hand on the hands of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:17",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cOpen the window to the east,\u201d so he opened it. Elisha said, \u201cShoot,\u201d and he shot. Then he said, \u201cAn arrow of victory for Yahweh, and an arrow of victory against Aram; you shall fight the Arameans in Aphek until finishing them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:18",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cTake the arrows,\u201d so he took them. He said to the king of Israel, \u201cStrike the ground,\u201d so he struck three times and stopped. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:19",
"text": "Yet the man of God became angry against him and said, \u201cFor striking five or six times, then you would have defeated Aram until finishing them, but now you will defeat Aram only three times.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:20",
"text": " Elisha died and they buried him. Now the raiding parties of Moab came \u231ein the spring\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:21",
"text": "And it happened that they were burying a man; suddenly they saw the marauding band, so they threw the man in the grave of Elisha. As he went in, the man touched the bones of Elisha, and became alive and got up on his feet! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:22",
"text": " Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:23",
"text": "But Yahweh had mercy on them and showed compassion to them and turned to them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was not willing to destroy them nor cast them from his presence up to now. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:24",
"text": " When Hazael king of Aram died, his son Ben-Hadad became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Kings 13:25",
"text": "Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz returned and took the cities from the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael which he had taken from the hand of Jehoahaz his father in the war. Three times Jehoash defeated him and recovered the towns of Israel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:1",
"text": " In the second year of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah began to reign. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:2",
"text": "He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Jehoaddin from Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:3",
"text": "He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as David his ancestor; as all which Jehoash his father had done, he did. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:4",
"text": "Only the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:5",
"text": " It happened that when the kingdom was firmly in his hand, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:6",
"text": "But the sons of the killers he did not kill, as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which Yahweh had commanded, saying, \u201cFathers should not be killed because of children, and children should not be killed because of fathers; but a man should die because of his own sin.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:7",
"text": "He also killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and he seized Sela in the battle, and he called its name Jokteel, until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:8",
"text": " Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, \u201cCome let us meet \u231eface-to-face\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:9",
"text": "So Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah, saying, \u201cThe thornbush which is in Lebanon sent to the cedar which is in Lebanon, saying, \u2018Give your daughter to my son as wife,\u2019 but an animal of the field which is in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thornbush. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:10",
"text": "You have indeed defeated Edom and your heart is lifted up; enjoy the honor and stay home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall and Judah with you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:11",
"text": " But Amaziah would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel went up and they met face-to-face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-Shemesh which belongs to Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:12",
"text": "Judah was defeated before Israel and they fled, each to this tent. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:13",
"text": "Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-Shemesh. Then they came to Jerusalem, and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim up to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:14",
"text": "He also took all of the gold and silver and all the vessels found in the temple of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the palace of the king, as well as the \u231ehostages\u231f; then he returned to Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:15",
"text": " Now the remainder of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his powerful deeds, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:16",
"text": "Then Jehoash slept with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:17",
"text": " Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:18",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:19",
"text": "They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent men after him to Lachish, and they killed him there. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:20",
"text": "Then they carried him on the horses, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:21",
"text": "All of the people of Judah took sixteen-year-old Azariah and made him king in place of this father Amaziah. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:22",
"text": "He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:23",
"text": " In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Jehoash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, reigning forty-one years. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:24",
"text": "But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:25",
"text": "He restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-Hamath up to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet, who was from Gath-Hepher. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:26",
"text": "For Yahweh saw that the misery of Israel was very bitter, whether bond or free, but there was no helper for Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:27",
"text": "Yahweh did not decree to blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:28",
"text": " Now the remainder of the acts of Jeroboam, all that he did, his powerful deeds, how he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath of Judah to Israel, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Kings 14:29",
"text": "So Jeroboam slept with his ancestors the kings of Israel, and his son Zechariah became king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:1",
"text": " In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:2",
"text": "He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:3",
"text": "He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father had done. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:4",
"text": "Only he did not remove the high places; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:5",
"text": "Yahweh struck the king, and he was infected with a skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, while Jotham the son of the king was over the house, governing the people of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:6",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:7",
"text": "So Azariah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David, and Jotham his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:8",
"text": " In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria for six months. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:9",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as his ancestors had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:10",
"text": "Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, struck him in front of the people, killed him, and reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:11",
"text": "Now the remainder of the acts of Zechariah, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:12",
"text": "This is the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, \u201cSons of a fourth generation shall sit for you on the throne of Israel,\u201d and it was so. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:13",
"text": " Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned \u231ea full month\u231f in Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:14",
"text": "Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah, and he came to Samaria and struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and killed him. Then he became king in place of him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:15",
"text": "Now the remainder of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he conspired; look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:16",
"text": "At that time Menahem destroyed Tiphsah, all who were in it, and all its territory from Tirzah, because it had not opened to him, so he destroyed it and ripped open all of its pregnant women. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:17",
"text": " In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel for ten years in Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:18",
"text": "But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart all of his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:19",
"text": " Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, so Menahem gave a thousand talents of silver to Pul so that his hand would be with him \u231eto strengthen his hold on the kingdom\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:20",
"text": "Menahem exacted the money from Israel, from all \u231ethe very rich\u231f, to give to the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver for each one. Then the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:21",
"text": "Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:22",
"text": "So Menahem slept with his ancestors, and Pekahiah his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:23",
"text": " In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:24",
"text": "But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:25",
"text": "Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, so he attacked him in Samaria in the citadel fortress of the palace of the king, with Argob and Arieh. With him also were fifty men from the children of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:26",
"text": "Now the remainder of the acts of Pekahiah and all that he did, look, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:27",
"text": " In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:28",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:29",
"text": " In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-Beth-Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, the Gilead, the Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali; then he deported them to Assyria. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:30",
"text": "Hoshea the son of Elah conspired against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and he attacked and killed him. He reigned in place of him in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:31",
"text": "Now the remainder of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, look, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:32",
"text": " In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:33",
"text": "He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:34",
"text": "He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Uzziah his father had done. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:35",
"text": "Only the high places were not removed; the people still were sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:36",
"text": "Now the remainder of the acts of Jotham which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:37",
"text": "(Now, in those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.) "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Kings 15:38",
"text": "So Jotham slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David his ancestor, and his son Ahaz became king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:1",
"text": " In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:2",
"text": "Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do right in the eyes of Yahweh his God as David his ancestor. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:3",
"text": "He walked in the way of the kings of Israel; he even let his son pass through the fire according to the detestable things of the nations which Yahweh drove out from before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:4",
"text": "He sacrificed and offered incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:5",
"text": "Then Rezin the king of Aram went up with Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel against Jerusalem for battle, and they besieged Ahaz but were not able to \u231edefeat\u231f him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:6",
"text": "At that time, Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram and drove out the Judeans from Elath. The Arameans came to Elath and have lived there until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:7",
"text": " Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, \u201cI am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel who are rising up against me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:8",
"text": "Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the house of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the palace of the king, and he sent a gift to the king of Assyria. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:9",
"text": "So the king of Assyria listened to him and he went up to Damascus and captured it and deported them to Kir. He also killed Rezin. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:10",
"text": " So King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria in Damascus, and he saw the altar which was in Damascus, so King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the builder\u2019s plan of the altar and the \u231eexact model of how it had been made\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:11",
"text": "So Uriah the priest built the altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus; thus Uriah the priest did before King Ahaz came from Damascus. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:12",
"text": "When the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar, so he went near to the altar and went up on it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:13",
"text": "Then he offered his burnt offerings and his grain offerings, he poured his libations and dashed the blood of his fellowship offerings against the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:14",
"text": "Now the bronze altar which was before Yahweh, he brought over from the front of the temple, from between his altar and the temple of Yahweh, and he placed it at the side of his altar to the north. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:15",
"text": "Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, \u201cOn the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the grain offering of the evening, the burnt offering of the king and his grain offering, the burnt offering of all of the people of the land, their offerings, their libations, and all of the blood of the burnt offerings, the blood of the sacrifices you must dash on it. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:16",
"text": "So Uriah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:17",
"text": "Then King Ahaz cut off the side panels of the water carts and removed from upon them the basin, and the sea he took down from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:18",
"text": "The covering for the Sabbath which they had built in the palace and in the entrance of the king to the outside, he removed from the temple of Yahweh because of the presence of the king of Assyria. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:19",
"text": "Now the remainder of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Kings 16:20",
"text": "So Ahaz slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:1",
"text": " In the twelfth year of Ahaz the king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, reigning nine years. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:2",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as the kings of Israel who were before him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:3",
"text": "Shalmaneser the king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid tribute to him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:4",
"text": "But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and he did not offer tribute to the king of Assyria as he had year after year; so the king of Assyria arrested him, and confined him in a house of imprisonment. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:5",
"text": "So the king of Assyria went up in all the land, then he went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:6",
"text": " In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported Israel to Assyria. He placed them in Halah, in Habor, in the river regions of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:7",
"text": "Now this happened because the \u231eIsraelites\u231f had sinned against Yahweh their God when he brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt and they feared other gods. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:8",
"text": "They walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out from before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, which the kings of Israel had introduced. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:9",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f secretly did things which were not right, against Yahweh their God; they built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower up to the fortified city. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:10",
"text": "They set up for themselves stone pillars and poles of Asherah worship on every high hill and under every green tree. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:11",
"text": "They burned incense there on all the high places, like the nations which Yahweh deported before them, and they did evil things to provoke Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:12",
"text": "They served idols which Yahweh had said to them, \u201cYou shall not do this thing!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:13",
"text": "Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of his every prophet, with every seer saying, \u201cTurn from all of your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, according to all the law which I commanded your ancestors, which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:14",
"text": "But they did not listen and they stiffened their necks, like the necks of their ancestors who did not believe in Yahweh their God. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:15",
"text": "They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he \u231emade\u231f with their ancestors, and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and went after all the nations which were all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they did. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:16",
"text": "They abandoned all the commands of Yahweh their God and made for themselves two molten calf-shaped idols; they made a pole of Asherah worship and bowed down to the army of the heavens and served Baal. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:17",
"text": "They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:18",
"text": "So Yahweh was very angry with Israel and he removed them from his presence; none remained except the tribe of Judah alone. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:19",
"text": " Even Judah did not keep the commands of Yahweh their God, and they walked in the customs of Israel which they introduced, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:20",
"text": "so Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel and punished them, and he gave them into the hand of the plunderers until he banished them from his presence. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:21",
"text": "For he had torn Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king, but Jeroboam detached Israel from following Yahweh, and he made them sin a great sin. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:22",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he committed, and they did not depart from it, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:23",
"text": "until Yahweh removed Israel from his presence as he had foretold by the hand of all his servants, the prophets. And so he deported Israel from upon his land to Assyria until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:24",
"text": " The king of Assyria brought from Babylonia, from Cush, from Arva, from Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and he settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, so they took possession of Samaria and lived in her cities. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:25",
"text": "It happened that when they began living there, they did not fear Yahweh, so Yahweh sent lions among them, and they were killing them. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:26",
"text": "So they said to the king of Assyria, \u201cThe nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the customs of the God of the land, so he sent lions among them, and now they are killing them because they do not know the customs of the God of the land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:27",
"text": "Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, \u201cRelease one of the priests whom you deported from there, and let him go and settle there. Let him teach them the customs of the God of the land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:28",
"text": "So one of the priests went, whom they had deported from Samaria, and he settled in Bethel and was teaching them how they should fear Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:29",
"text": " Yet every nation was making their gods, and they put them in the shrine of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they were living. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:30",
"text": "The men of Babylonia made Succoth Benoth; the men of Cush made Nergal; the men of Hamath made Ashima. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:31",
"text": "The Arvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; the Sepharvites were burning their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:32",
"text": "Those who were fearing Yahweh made priests of the high places \u231efrom among themselves\u231f, and they were sacrificing for them in the shrines of the high places. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:33",
"text": "Yahweh they were fearing, but their gods they were serving, according to the customs of the nations from which they were deported. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:34",
"text": " Until this day they are doing according to their former customs; none of them are fearing Yahweh, and none of them are doing according to their statutes, to their decisions, to the law, or to the commands that Yahweh commanded the descendants of Jacob to which he had given the name Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:35",
"text": "Yahweh had \u231emade\u231f a covenant with them and commanded them, \u201cYou shall not fear other gods, nor shall you bow down to them, nor shall you serve them, nor shall you sacrifice to them. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:36",
"text": "Rather, Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt with great strength and with an outstretched arm\u2014him you shall fear, and to him you shall bow down, and to him you shall sacrifice. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:37",
"text": "The statutes, the decisions, the law, and the commands that he wrote to you, you shall observe to do always, and you shall not fear other gods. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:38",
"text": "The covenant that I have \u231emade\u231f with you, you shall not forget, and you shall not fear other gods. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:39",
"text": "But Yahweh your God you shall fear, and he will deliver you from the hand of all of your enemies.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:40",
"text": "They did not listen but kept on doing according to their former customs. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Kings 17:41",
"text": "So these nations were fearing Yahweh, but they were serving their idols, as were their children and their children\u2019s children; as their ancestors did, they are doing until this day. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:1",
"text": " It happened in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:2",
"text": "He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:3",
"text": "He did right in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that David his ancestor had done. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:4",
"text": "He removed the high places, and he smashed the stone pillars; he cut down the poles of Asherah worship and demolished the bronze serpent which Moses had made, for up to those days the \u231eIsraelites\u231f were offering incense to it and called it Nehushtan. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:5",
"text": "He trusted in Yahweh the God of Israel; there was no one like him, before or after, among all the kings of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:6",
"text": "He held on to Yahweh; he did not depart from following him, and he kept his commands that Yahweh had commanded Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:7",
"text": "Yahweh was with him; everywhere he went, he succeeded. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:8",
"text": "He attacked the Philistines up to Gaza and its territory from the watchtower up to the fortified city. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:9",
"text": " It happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, that is, the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came against Samaria and laid siege against her. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:10",
"text": "At the end of three years, he captured it in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel; Samaria was captured. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:11",
"text": "Then the king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Habor, in the river regions of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:12",
"text": "because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh their God, and they transgressed his covenant; all that he had commanded Moses, the servant of Yahweh, they did not listen to nor did they obey. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:13",
"text": " In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:14",
"text": "So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, \u201cI have done wrong. Withdraw from me. What you impose on me I will bear.\u201d So the king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:15",
"text": "Then Hezekiah gave all of the silver found in the temple of Yahweh and in the storerooms of the house of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:16",
"text": "At that time, Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of Yahweh and the doorposts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and he gave them to the king of Assyria. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:17",
"text": "So the king of Assyria sent the commander in chief, the chief eunuch, and the \u231echief advisor\u231f from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem with a heavy army. They went up and came to Jerusalem, then they went up and came and stood at the aqueduct of the upper pool which is on the main road of the \u231ewasher\u2019s\u231f field. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:18",
"text": "Then they called to the king, so Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:19",
"text": " Then the chief advisor said to them, \u201cPlease say to Hezekiah: \u2018Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: \u201cWhat is this confidence that you trust? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:20",
"text": "You think only a word of lips, \u2018I have advice and power for the war.\u2019 Now, on whom do you trust that you have rebelled against me? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:21",
"text": "Now, look! You \u231erely\u231f on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which when a man leans on it, it goes into his hand and pierces it! So is Pharaoh the king of Egypt for all who are trusting on him! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:22",
"text": "But if you say to me, \u2018On Yahweh our God we trust,\u2019 is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, and he had said to Judah and to Jerusalem, \u2018In the presence of this altar you shall bow down only in Jerusalem?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:23",
"text": "So then, please make a wager with my lord, with the king of Assyria, and I will give to you a thousand horses \u231eif you are able on your part to put riders on them.\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:24",
"text": "How \u231ecan you repulse a single captain among the least of the servants of my master\u231f? Yet you rely for yourself on Egypt for chariots and horsemen! "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:25",
"text": "Have I now come up against this place without Yahweh to destroy it? Yahweh has said to me, \u2018Go up against this land and destroy it!\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:26",
"text": " Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah and Shebna and Joah said to the chief commander, \u201cPlease speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we are understanding, but you must not speak Judean with us in the ears of the people who are on the wall.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:27",
"text": "The chief commander said to them, \u201cIs it solely to your master and to you my master has sent me to speak these words? Is it not for the men who sit on the wall to eat their feces and to drink their urine with you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:28",
"text": " Then the chief commander stood and called with a great voice in Judean, and he spoke and said, \u201cHear the word of the king, the great king of Assyria! "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:29",
"text": "Thus says the king, \u2018Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to rescue you from my hand. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:30",
"text": "Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, \u201cCertainly Yahweh will rescue us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:31",
"text": "Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria, \u2018Make with me a treaty of peace and come out to me that each may eat from his vine and each from his fig tree, and each may drink water from his cistern! "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:32",
"text": "Until I come and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees, olive oil, and honey, that you may live and not die! You must not listen to Hezekiah, for he has misled you by saying, \u201cYahweh will deliver us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:33",
"text": "Did the gods of each of the nations ever rescue the land from the hand of the king of Assyria? "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:34",
"text": "Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? For did they rescue Samaria from my hand? "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:35",
"text": "Who among all of the gods of the countries have rescued their countries from my hand that Yahweh should rescue Jerusalem from my hand?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:36",
"text": " The people were silent, and they did not answer him a word, for the command of that king was saying, \u201cYou shall not answer him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Kings 18:37",
"text": "Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah with torn clothes, and they told him the words of the chief commander. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:1",
"text": " It happened that when King Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went to the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:2",
"text": "He sent Eliakim who was over the palace, Shebna the secretary, the elders, and the priests, all clothed in sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:3",
"text": "They said to him, \u201cThus says Hezekiah, \u2018A day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace is this day, for the children \u231eare about to be born\u231f, but there is no strength to bear them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:4",
"text": "Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all of the words of the chief commander whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to insult the living God, and he will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remainder who are left.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:5",
"text": "So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:6",
"text": "and Isaiah said to them, \u201cThus you must say to your master, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cYou must not be afraid because the face of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:7",
"text": "Look, I am putting in him a spirit. He will hear a rumor and return to his land. Then I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:8",
"text": " When the chief commander returned, he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:9",
"text": "He heard about Tirhakah, the king of Cush, saying, \u201cLook, he has set out to fight with you,\u201d so he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:10",
"text": "\u201cThus you shall say to Hezekiah the king of Judah, \u2018Let not your God whom you are trusting deceive you, by his saying, \u201cJerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:11",
"text": "Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, by utterly destroying them, and shall you be delivered? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:12",
"text": "Did the gods of the nations that my \u231epredecessors\u231f destroyed deliver them? Not Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, nor the children of Eden who were in Tel Assar. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:13",
"text": "Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:14",
"text": " Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the messengers and read them. Then he went up to the temple of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread them out before the presence of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:15",
"text": "Then Hezekiah prayed before the face of Yahweh and said, \u201cO Yahweh, God of Israel who lives above the cherubim. You are God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the world; you have made the heavens and the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:16",
"text": "Incline your ears and hear; open, O Yahweh, your eyes and see and hear the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to insult the living God. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:17",
"text": "Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have utterly destroyed the nations and their land. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:18",
"text": "He has hurled their gods in the fire because they are not gods, but the work of the hands of a human made of wood and stone, so they destroyed them. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:19",
"text": "So then, O Yahweh our God, rescue us, please, from his hand, that all of the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Yahweh, you alone are God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:20",
"text": " Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, \u201cThus says Yahweh the God of Israel, \u2018What you have prayed to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:21",
"text": "This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: She despises you, she scorns you, the virgin daughter of Zion. Behind you the daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:22",
"text": " Whom have you mocked and reviled? And against whom have you have raised your voice and have haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel! "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:23",
"text": " By the hand of your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, \u2018With my many chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains. To the remote areas of Lebanon, I have felled the tallest of its cedars, the choicest of its cypresses. I have entered the place of overnight lodging. Even to the edge of forest of its fertile land. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:24",
"text": " I dug wells and I drank foreign water, and I dried up with the sole of my steps all the canals of Egypt.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:25",
"text": " Have you not heard? From long ago I have determined it, from the days of old I have planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. It shall be turned into a pile of rocks; fortified cities are ruined. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:26",
"text": " Their inhabitants, short of hand, shall be dismayed; and they shall be ashamed. They have become green plants of the open field, and tender grass, green grass of the roof and blight before the standing grain. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:27",
"text": " Your sitting, your going out, and your coming in I know, and your raging against me. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:28",
"text": " Because you are raging against me, and your arrogance has come up in my ears, I will put my nose ring in your nose and my bridle in your mouth. And I will turn you back on the way that you have come. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:29",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018This will be the sign for you: Eat the volunteer plants for the year, and in the second year, the volunteer plants that spring up from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:30",
"text": "The remainder of the house of Judah which survives will again take root below and bear fruit above. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:31",
"text": "For from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and survivors from Mount Zion; the zeal of Yahweh will do this. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:32",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Therefore thus says Yahweh to the king of Assyria, \u201cHe shall not come to this city, nor shall he shoot an arrow there, nor shall he bring a small shield near her, nor shall he cast a siege ramp against her. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:33",
"text": "By the way that he came to her he shall return; but to this city, he shall not come,\u201d declares Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:34",
"text": "And I will defend this city to save her for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:35",
"text": " It happened in that night that an angel of Yahweh went out, and he struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. When they got up early in the morning, look! All of them were dead corpses. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:36",
"text": "Then Sennacherib king of Assyria set out and went and returned and lived in Nineveh. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Kings 19:37",
"text": "It happened that he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword. Then they escaped into the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son became king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:1",
"text": " In those days Hezekiah became \u231edeathly ill\u231f, and Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet came to him and said to him, \u201cThus says Yahweh, \u2018Command your house, for you are about to die; you will not recover.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:2",
"text": "Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:3",
"text": "\u201cO Yahweh, please remember how I went about before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and remember the good that I have done in your eyes.\u201d Then Hezekiah \u231ewept bitterly\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:4",
"text": "Isaiah had not gone out from the middle of the city when the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:5",
"text": "\u201cReturn; you must say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, \u2018Thus says Yahweh the God of David your ancestor, \u201cI have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Look, I am about to heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:6",
"text": "I will add to your days fifteen years, and from the hand of the king of Assyria I will deliver you and this city. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:7",
"text": "Then Isaiah said, \u201cBring a lump of figs,\u201d so they took and put it on the skin sores, and he lived. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:8",
"text": " Hezekiah said to Isaiah, \u201cWhat is the sign that Yahweh will heal me that I shall go up on the third day to the temple of Yahweh?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:9",
"text": "Isaiah said, \u201cThis is the sign for you from Yahweh that Yahweh will do the thing that he has promised: Shall the shadow advance ten steps or shall it return ten steps?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:10",
"text": "Hezekiah answered, \u201cIt is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backwards ten steps.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:11",
"text": "Isaiah the prophet called to Yahweh, and he brought back the shadow on the steps where it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backwards ten steps. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:12",
"text": " At that time, Berodak-Baladan the son of Baladan king of \u231eBabylon\u231f sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been ill. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:13",
"text": "Hezekiah heard about them and showed them all of the house of his treasure, both the silver and the gold, the spices, the good olive oil, the room of his weapons, and all that could be found in his treasuries. There was nothing that he did not show them in his palace and in all of his kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:14",
"text": "Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, \u201cWhat did these men say, and from where have they come to you?\u201d Hezekiah said, \u201cFrom a far land; they have come from Babylon.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:15",
"text": "Then he asked, \u201cWhat did they see in your palace?\u201d And Hezekiah said, \u201cAll that is in my palace they have seen; there is nothing that I did not show them in my treasuries.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:16",
"text": " Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, \u201cHear the word of Yahweh! "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:17",
"text": "\u2018Look, days are coming when all that is in your palace will be carried off; even all that your ancestors have stored up until this day, to Babylon; nothing shall be left,\u2019 says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:18",
"text": "\u2018Your sons who went out from you, whom you brought forth, will be taken, and they shall be eunuchs in the temple of the king of Babylon.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:19",
"text": "Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, \u201cThe word of Yahweh which you have spoken is good,\u201d and he thought, \u201cIs it not that peace and security shall be in my days?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:20",
"text": "Now the remainder of the acts of Hezekiah, all of his powerful deeds, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Kings 20:21",
"text": "Then Hezekiah slept with his ancestors, and Manasseh his son became king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:1",
"text": " Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hephzibah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:2",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, according to the detestable things of the nations that Yahweh had driven out from the presence of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:3",
"text": "He returned and rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He erected altars for Baal and made a pole of Asherah worship just as Ahab king of Israel had made, and he bowed down to all of the host of heaven and served them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:4",
"text": "He built altars in the temple of Yahweh about which Yahweh had said, \u201cI will put my name in Jerusalem.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:5",
"text": "He built an altar to all of the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:6",
"text": "He made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying and divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He increased the doing of evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:7",
"text": "He put the image of the Asherah that he had made in the temple which Yahweh had said to David and to Solomon his son, \u201cIn this temple and in Jerusalem which I have chosen from all of the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:8",
"text": "I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I have given to their ancestors, if they only observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, as far as the law that Moses my servant commanded them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:9",
"text": "But Manasseh did not listen and tempted them to do evil more than the nations that Yahweh destroyed before the presence of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:10",
"text": " So Yahweh spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:11",
"text": "\u201cBecause Manasseh the king of Judah committed these detestable things and did evil more than the Amorites did who were before him and caused even Judah to sin with his idols, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:12",
"text": "therefore, thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, \u2018Look, I am bringing disaster upon Jerusalem and Judah about which the two ears of all who hear it will tingle. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:13",
"text": "I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes the dish; he wipes it and turns it on its face. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:14",
"text": "I will give up the remainder of my inheritance, and I will give them into the hand of their enemies. They shall become as prey and as spoil for all their enemies, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:15",
"text": "because they have done evil in my eyes and were provoking me from the day that their ancestors came out from Egypt up to this day.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:16",
"text": " Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he filled Jerusalem \u231efrom one end to another\u231f, apart from his sin which he caused Judah to sin by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:17",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin that he committed, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:18",
"text": "Then Manasseh slept with his ancestors and was buried in the garden of his palace, in the garden of Uzza. Amon his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:19",
"text": " Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz from Jotbah. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:20",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as Manasseh his father had done. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:21",
"text": "He walked in all of the way which his father had walked, and he served the idols which his father had served and bowed down to them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:22",
"text": "He abandoned Yahweh the God of his ancestors and did not walk in the way of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:23",
"text": "The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:24",
"text": "But the people of the land killed all who conspired against the king and made Josiah his son king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:25",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Kings 21:26",
"text": "They buried him in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in place of him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:1",
"text": " Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:2",
"text": "He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in all of the way of David his ancestor and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:3",
"text": " It happened in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent word to Shaphan the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the secretary of the temple of Yahweh, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:4",
"text": "\u201cGo up to Hilkiah the high priest, and let them count the money being brought to the temple of Yahweh which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:5",
"text": "and let them give it into the hand of those appointed doers of the work at the temple of Yahweh. Let them give it to the doers of the work who are at the temple of Yahweh to repair the breach of the temple: "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:6",
"text": "to the skilled craftsmen, to the builders, to the masons, and to buy timber and hewing stones to repair the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:7",
"text": "Only the money being given to them is not to be accounted for by them, for they are dealing with honesty.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:8",
"text": " Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, \u201cI have found the scroll of the Torah in the temple of Yahweh,\u201d and Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:9",
"text": "Shaphan the secretary came to the king and returned the king a word, and he said, \u201cYour servant poured out the money found in the temple, and they have given it into the hand of the doers of the work appointed over the temple of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:10",
"text": "Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king saying, \u201cHilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.\u201d Then Shaphan read before the king. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:11",
"text": " When the king heard the words of the scroll of the Torah, he tore his clothes. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:12",
"text": "Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Acbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the servant of the king, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:13",
"text": "\u201cGo, inquire of Yahweh for me and for the people and for all of Judah concerning the words of this scroll that was found. For the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled against us is great because our ancestors did not listen to the words of this scroll to do according to all that is written concerning us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:14",
"text": " So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah the son of Harhas, the keeper of the robes. Now she was living in Jerusalem in the second district. Then they spoke to her, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:15",
"text": "and she said to them, \u201cThus says Yahweh the God of Israel, \u2018Say to the man who sent you to me, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:16",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh, \u2018Look I am bringing evil to this place and upon its inhabitants, according to all of the words of that scroll that the king of Judah has read "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:17",
"text": "because they have abandoned me and they have burned incense to other gods, provoking me to anger with all of the works of their hands. My wrath shall be kindled against this place and not be quenched.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:18",
"text": "And to the king of Judah who sent all of you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall say to him, \u201cThus says Yahweh the God of Israel, \u2018Concerning the words that you have heard, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:19",
"text": "because you have a responsive heart, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants to become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before my face, I have also heard, declares Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Kings 22:20",
"text": "Therefore look, I am gathering you to your ancestors, and you shall be gathered to your tombs in peace. Your eyes will not see all of the disaster that I am bringing onto this place.\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d Then they \u231ereported the word\u231f to the king. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:1",
"text": " So the king sent word, and all of the elders of Judah and Jerusalem gathered to him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:2",
"text": "Then the king went up to the temple of Yahweh, and all of the men of Judah and all of the inhabitants of Jerusalem were with him, including the priests, the prophets, and all of the people from smallest to greatest; and in their \u231ehearing\u231f he read all of the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been found in the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:3",
"text": "Then the king stood by the pillar, and he \u231emade\u231f a covenant before Yahweh, to go after Yahweh and to keep his commands and his warnings and his statutes, with all of his heart and with his all of his soul, to keep the words of this covenant written on this scroll. Then all of the people \u231ejoined\u231f in the covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:4",
"text": " Then the \u231eking\u231f commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the second priests, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all of the objects made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and then he carried their ashes to Bethel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:5",
"text": "He removed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem and who offered incense to, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:6",
"text": "He brought out the Asherah image from the temple of Yahweh outside of Jerusalem to the Wadi of the Kidron and burnt it \u231ethere\u231f; then he pulverized it to dust and threw its dust upon the tombs of the children of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:7",
"text": "He tore down the shrines of the male shrine prostitutes which were in the temple of Yahweh, where the women were weaving shrines for the Asherah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:8",
"text": "Then he brought all of the priests from the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests from Geba up to Beersheba burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which were on the left of each gate of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:9",
"text": "However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread in the midst of their relatives. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:10",
"text": "He defiled the Topheth which is in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, \u231eto prevent\u231f anyone causing his sons or his daughters to pass through the fire for Molech. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:11",
"text": "He kept the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun from coming to the temple of Yawheh at the side room of Nathan-Melech the eunuch, which was in the court; and the chariots of the sun he burned with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:12",
"text": "The altars which were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the temple of Yahweh, the king tore down and ran from there and threw their ashes into the Wadi Kidron. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:13",
"text": "The high places which were east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the Mountain of Destruction which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the detestable thing of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, the king defiled. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:14",
"text": "He also broke into pieces the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and covered their sites with human bones. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:15",
"text": " Moreover, the altar which was in Bethel, the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin, had built, even that altar and the high place, Josiah tore down. Then he burned down the high place and crushed the pole of Asherah worship to dust and burned it with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:16",
"text": "When Josiah turned and saw the tombs which were there on the hill, he sent and took the bones from the tombs and burned them on the altar. Thus he defiled them according to the word of Yahweh that the man of God had proclaimed who had proclaimed these things. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:17",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cWhat is this gravestone that I am seeing?\u201d The men of the city said to him, \u201cThis is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:18",
"text": "So Josiah said, \u201cLet him rest and let no man move his bones.\u201d So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:19",
"text": "Moreover, all of the shrines of the high places which were in the towns of Samaria which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh, Josiah removed, and he did to them like all of the deeds he had done in Bethel. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:20",
"text": "Then he slaughtered all of the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and he burned the bones of the humans on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:21",
"text": " Then the king commanded all of the people, saying, \u201cKeep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as has been written on the scroll of this covenant.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:22",
"text": "For they had not kept this Passover from the days of the judges who had judged over Israel \u231eor\u231f during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:23",
"text": "But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept for Yahweh in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:24",
"text": " Moreover, the mediums and the spiritists, the household gods and the idols, and all of the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah removed in order to establish the words of the law written on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found in the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:25",
"text": "There was not a king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all of his heart and with all of his soul and with all of his might according to the law of Moses, nor did one arise like him afterwards. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:26",
"text": " However, Yahweh did not turn from the fierceness of his great anger which was kindled against Judah because of all of the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:27",
"text": "Yahweh had said, \u201cEven Judah I will remove from my face, as I have removed Israel; I will reject this city that I have chosen, even Jerusalem and the house of which I said, \u2018My name shall be there\u2019!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:28",
"text": " The remainder of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:29",
"text": "In his days, Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went to meet him, and he killed him at Megiddo as soon as he saw him. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:30",
"text": "So his servants drove him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and they brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:31",
"text": " Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:32",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all his ancestors had done. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:33",
"text": "Then Pharaoh Neco confined him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, from reigning in Jerusalem, and imposed a levy on the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:34",
"text": " Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of Josiah his father, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt, and he died there. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:35",
"text": "The silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh; however, he taxed the land to give the silver \u231eto meet the demands of Pharaoh\u231f. Each according to assessment, he exacted payment of the silver and the gold from the people of the land to give to Pharaoh Neco. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:36",
"text": " Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Kings 23:37",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his ancestors had done. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:1",
"text": " In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up because Jehoiakim had become his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:2",
"text": "So Yahweh sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, raiding bands of Aram, raiding bands of Moab, and raiding bands of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. He had sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servants the prophets. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:3",
"text": "Surely, it was \u231eon the command\u231f of Yahweh against Judah to remove them from his sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:4",
"text": "Also, for the blood of the innocent that he had shed\u2014and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood\u2014Yahweh was not willing to forgive. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:5",
"text": "The remainder of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:6",
"text": "So Jehoiakim slept with his ancestors, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:7",
"text": "The king of Egypt did not again come out from his land, for the king of Babylon had taken territory from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:8",
"text": " Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:9",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his father had done. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:10",
"text": " At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and the city came under the siege. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:11",
"text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city while his servants were besieging it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:12",
"text": "Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his court officials. The king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:13",
"text": "Then he took from there all of the treasures of the temple of Yahweh and the treasures of the palace of the king. He cut up all of the vessels of gold which Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had foretold. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:14",
"text": "He deported all of Jerusalem: all of the commanders, ten thousand of the skilled warriors, and the artisans; no one was left over except the poorest of the people of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:15",
"text": "He deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king, the wives of the king, his court officials, and the citizenry of the land he caused to go into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:16",
"text": "of all of the skilled men, seven thousand, and of the skilled craftsmen and the artisans, one thousand. All of the mighty warriors \u231efit for war\u231f the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:17",
"text": "Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his uncle king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:18",
"text": " Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:19",
"text": "He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh just like all that Jehoiakim had done. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Kings 24:20",
"text": "For it happened because of the anger of Yahweh, in Jerusalem and in Judah, until they were cast out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:1",
"text": " It happened that in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and his army, against Jerusalem. He encamped against it and built siege works against it all around. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:2",
"text": "So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:3",
"text": "In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:4",
"text": "Then the city was breached, and all of the men of war entered by night by way of the gate between the wall which was by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans were against the city all around, so he left by the way of the Arabah. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:5",
"text": "But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the Arabah of Jericho, and all of his army scattered from him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:6",
"text": "So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and \u231ethey passed sentence on him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:7",
"text": "They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; then they blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:8",
"text": " In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, a commander of the imperial guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:9",
"text": "He burned the temple of Yahweh, the palace of the king, and all of the houses of Jerusalem; every large house he burned with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:10",
"text": "He and all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the imperial guard tore down the wall of Jerusalem all around. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:11",
"text": "The remainder of the people left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the remainder of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard deported. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:12",
"text": " But the poor of the land the commander of the imperial guard left for the vineyards and for tilling. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:13",
"text": " The bronze pillars which were in the temple of Yahweh, the water carts, and the bronze sea that was in the temple of Yahweh, the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried their bronze to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:14",
"text": "The pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the dishes, and the vessels of bronze with which they served there, they took. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:15",
"text": "The firepans and the basins, whatever was gold, the commander of the imperial guard took for the gold and whatever was silver, for the silver. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:16",
"text": "The two pillars, the one sea, and the water cart which Solomon had made for the temple of Yahweh, there was no weighing to the bronze of all of these vessels. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:17",
"text": "The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; a bronze capital was on it, with the height of the capital being three cubits. The latticework and pomegranates on the capital all around were bronze, and likewise on the latticework for the second pillar. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:18",
"text": " Then the commander of the imperial guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and three of the threshold keepers. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:19",
"text": "From the city he took one court official who was chief officer over the men of war, five men \u231efrom the king\u2019s council\u231f who were found in the city, the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:20",
"text": "Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:21",
"text": "Then the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath; thus Judah was removed from its land. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:22",
"text": " Now as far as the people left in Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left behind, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan over them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:23",
"text": "When all of the commanders of the troops heard, they and the men, that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seriah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:24",
"text": "Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and he said to them, \u201cYou must not be afraid because of the Chaldeans. Settle in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and may it go well with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:25",
"text": "But it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama from the offspring of the kingship came, and ten men with him, and they struck down Gedaliah so that he died with the Judeans and with the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:26",
"text": "Then all the people, from youngest to oldest, and the commanders of the troops, went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:27",
"text": " It happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month on the twenty-seventh of the month, lifted Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in the year that he became king, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the house of imprisonment. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:28",
"text": "He spoke \u231ekindly\u231f to him, and he gave him a better seat than the seat of the kings who were with him in Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:29",
"text": "So he changed the clothes of his imprisonment, and he ate food continually in his presence all the days of his life. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Kings 25:30",
"text": "His allowance was continually given to him from the king, \u231ea portion every day\u231f all the days of his life. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "I Chronicles",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:1",
"text": " Adam, Seth, Enosh; "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:2",
"text": "Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared; "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:3",
"text": "Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:4",
"text": "Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:5",
"text": " The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:6",
"text": "The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:7",
"text": "The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rhodanim. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:8",
"text": " The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:9",
"text": "The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:10",
"text": "And Cush fathered Nimrod; he himself began to be mighty on earth. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:11",
"text": "And Mizraim fathered the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:12",
"text": "the Pathrusim, the Casluhim (from whence the Philistines descended), and the Caphtorim. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:13",
"text": "And Canaan fathered Zidon his firstborn, and Heth, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:14",
"text": "and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:15",
"text": "the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:16",
"text": "the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:17",
"text": " The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:18",
"text": "And Arphaxad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:19",
"text": "And two sons were born to Eber: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and the name of his brother was Joktan. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:20",
"text": "And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:21",
"text": "Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:22",
"text": "Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:23",
"text": "Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:24",
"text": "Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:25",
"text": "Eber, Peleg, Reu; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:26",
"text": "Serug, Nahor, Terah; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:27",
"text": "Abram, that is, Abraham. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:28",
"text": " The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:29",
"text": "These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, Abdeel, Mibsam, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:30",
"text": "Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:31",
"text": "Jetur, Naphish, and Kedmah. These are the sons of Ishmael. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:32",
"text": "And the sons of Keturah, Abraham\u2019s concubine: she gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:33",
"text": "And the sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:34",
"text": " Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:35",
"text": "The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:36",
"text": "The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:37",
"text": "The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:38",
"text": "And the sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:39",
"text": "And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and the sister of Lotan was Timna. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:40",
"text": "The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:41",
"text": "The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:42",
"text": "The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:43",
"text": " These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the \u231eIsraelites\u231f: Bela son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:44",
"text": "When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:45",
"text": "When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:46",
"text": "When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:47",
"text": "When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:48",
"text": "When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth-by-the-River reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:49",
"text": "When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:50",
"text": "When Baal-Hanan died, Hadad reigned in his place, and the name of his city was Pai. And the name of his wife was Mehetabel, daughter of Matred, daughter of Me-Zahab. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:51",
"text": "And Hadad died. And the chiefs of Edom were: chiefs Timna, Aliah, Jetheth, "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:52",
"text": "Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:53",
"text": "Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "I Chronicles 1:54",
"text": "Magdiel, and Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:1",
"text": " These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:2",
"text": "Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:3",
"text": "The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three were born to him from Bathshua the Canaanite. Now Er, Judah\u2019s firstborn, was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he put him to death. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:4",
"text": "And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore Perez and Zerah to him. The sons of Judah were five in all. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:5",
"text": " The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:6",
"text": "The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:7",
"text": "The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who acted unfaithfully in the matter of the devoted thing. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:8",
"text": "And the son of Ethan was Azariah. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:9",
"text": " The sons of Hezron who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:10",
"text": "And Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:11",
"text": "And Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:12",
"text": "And Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:13",
"text": "And Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:14",
"text": "Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:15",
"text": "Ozem the sixth, David the seventh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:16",
"text": "And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:17",
"text": "And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:18",
"text": " And Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by Azubah his wife and by Jerioth. And these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:19",
"text": "And when Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrathah, and she bore Hur to him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:20",
"text": "And Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:21",
"text": " And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead. And he married her when he was sixty years old. And she bore Segub to him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:22",
"text": "And Segub fathered Jair, and he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:23",
"text": "And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-Jair from them, Kenath and its villages, sixty cities. All these were the \u231edescendants\u231f of Makir, the father of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:24",
"text": "And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephrathah, Abijah the wife of Hezron bore to him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:25",
"text": " And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:26",
"text": "And Jerahmeel had another wife, and her name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:27",
"text": "The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:28",
"text": "And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai were Nadab and Abishur. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:29",
"text": "And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore to him Ahban and Molid. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:30",
"text": "And the sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim. And Seled died without children. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:31",
"text": "And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:32",
"text": "And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan. And Jether died without children. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:33",
"text": "And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the children of Jerahmeel. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:34",
"text": "And Sheshan had no sons, only daughters, but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave, and his name was Jarha. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:35",
"text": "So Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his slave for a wife, and she bore to him Attai. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:36",
"text": "And Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:37",
"text": "And Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:38",
"text": "And Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:39",
"text": "And Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:40",
"text": "And Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:41",
"text": "And Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:42",
"text": " And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn; he was the father of Ziph. The sons of Mareshah: Hebron. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:43",
"text": "And the sons of Hebron were Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:44",
"text": "And Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem fathered Shammai. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:45",
"text": "And the son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-Zur. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:46",
"text": "And Ephah, the concubine of Caleb, gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez. And Haran fathered Gazez. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:47",
"text": "And the sons of Jahdai were Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:48",
"text": "Maacah, the concubine of Caleb, gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:49",
"text": "She also gave birth to Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Acsah. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:50",
"text": "These were the \u231edescendants\u231f of Caleb. The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-Jearim, "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:51",
"text": "Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-Gader. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:52",
"text": "And Shobal the father of Kiriath-Jearim had other sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:53",
"text": "And the families of Kiriath-Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these descended the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:54",
"text": "The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Ataroth-Beth-Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "I Chronicles 2:55",
"text": "And the families of the scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These were the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Recab. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:1",
"text": " These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite; "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:2",
"text": "the third, Absalom, the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith; "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:3",
"text": "the fifth, Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth, Ithream, by his wife Eglah. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:4",
"text": "Six were born to him in Hebron. And he reigned there seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:5",
"text": "And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:6",
"text": "then Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:7",
"text": "Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:8",
"text": "Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:9",
"text": "All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines. And Tamar was their sister. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:10",
"text": " Now the son of Solomon was Rehoboam; Abijah was his son, Asa was his son, Jehoshaphat was his son, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:11",
"text": "Joram was his son, Ahaziah was his son, Joash was his son, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:12",
"text": "Amaziah was his son, Azariah was his son, Jotham was his son, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:13",
"text": "Ahaz was his son, Hezekiah was his son, Manasseh was his son, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:14",
"text": "Amon was his son, Josiah was his son. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:15",
"text": " And the sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:16",
"text": "And the \u231edescendants\u231f of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:17",
"text": "And the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:18",
"text": "Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:19",
"text": "And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. And the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:20",
"text": "and Hashubah, Ohel, Berekiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-Hesed, five. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:21",
"text": "And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah. The sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:22",
"text": "And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:23",
"text": "And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "I Chronicles 3:24",
"text": "And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:1",
"text": " The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:2",
"text": "And Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:3",
"text": "And these were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:4",
"text": "and Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:5",
"text": "And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives: Helah and Naarah. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:6",
"text": "And Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:7",
"text": "The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:8",
"text": "And Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the clans of Aharhel, the son of Harum. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:9",
"text": "And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, \u201cBecause I bore him in pain.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:10",
"text": "And Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, \u201cOh that you would surely bless me and enlarge my border. And may your hand be with me, that you would keep me from evil so that it might not harm me!\u201d And God granted what he asked. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:11",
"text": "Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir. He was the father of Eshton. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:12",
"text": "And Eshton fathered Beth-Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of the city of Nahash. These are the men of Recah. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:13",
"text": "The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel: Hathath. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:14",
"text": "And Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-Harashim, because they were craftsmen. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:15",
"text": "The sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. And the sons of Elah: Kenaz. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:16",
"text": "The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:17",
"text": "The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. And she became pregnant with Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:18",
"text": "And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these were the sons of Bithiah daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:19",
"text": "The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:20",
"text": "The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-Hanan, and Tolon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:21",
"text": "The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of linen workers at Beth Ashbea; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:22",
"text": "and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem. (Now the records are ancient). "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:23",
"text": "These were the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there with the king in his service. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:24",
"text": " The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:25",
"text": "Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:26",
"text": "The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:27",
"text": "Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children. But all their families did not multiply like the men of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:28",
"text": "And they lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar Shual, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:29",
"text": "Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:30",
"text": "Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:31",
"text": "Beth-Marcaboth, Hazar-Susim, Beth-Biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until David reigned. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:32",
"text": "And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token, and Ashan, five cities "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:33",
"text": "and all their villages that surrounding these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record for them. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:34",
"text": " Meshobab, Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:35",
"text": "Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:36",
"text": "And Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:37",
"text": "and Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:38",
"text": "These \u231ementioned by name\u231f were leaders in their families, and their fathers\u2019 households increased greatly. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:39",
"text": "And they went to the entrance of Gedor, up to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:40",
"text": "And they found fertile and good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and at ease, for the former inhabitants there were from Ham. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:41",
"text": "These, mentioned by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there. And they devoted them to destruction to this day, and they settled among them because there was pasture there for their flocks. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:42",
"text": "And some of them from the Simeonites went to Mount Seir, five hundred men. And Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, were under their leadership. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "I Chronicles 4:43",
"text": "And they destroyed the remainder of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:1",
"text": " The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but when he defiled the couch of his father, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that he was not enrolled in the genealogy as the firstborn, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:2",
"text": "though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, but the birthright belonged to Joseph). "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:3",
"text": "The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:4",
"text": "The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:5",
"text": "Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:6",
"text": "Beerah his son, a leader of the Reubenites, whom Tiglath-Pilneser king of Assyria deported into exile. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:7",
"text": "And his kinsmen by their families, when their generations were recorded in the genealogy: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:8",
"text": "and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-Meon. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:9",
"text": "He also lived to the east up to the entrance of the desert \u231ethis side of\u231f the River Euphrates, for their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:10",
"text": "And in the days of Saul they made war against the Hagrites, and they fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents in all the region east of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:11",
"text": " And the sons of Gad lived near to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah: "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:12",
"text": "Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:13",
"text": "And their kinsmen according to their fathers\u2019 households: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:14",
"text": "These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:15",
"text": "Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was chief in their fathers\u2019 households. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:16",
"text": "And they lived in Gilead, in Bashan, and in \u231eits towns\u231f, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:17",
"text": "All of them were enrolled in the genealogy in the days of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, king of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:18",
"text": " The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had \u231evaliant\u231f men who carried a shield and a sword, and archers, and who were expert in war, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty for going out as an army. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:19",
"text": "And they made war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:20",
"text": "And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he responded to their prayer because they trusted in him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:21",
"text": "And they captured their livestock: fifty thousand of their camels; two hundred and fifty thousand sheep; two thousand donkeys; and one hundred thousand men alive. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:22",
"text": "For many were slain because the war was of God. And they lived under them until the exile. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:23",
"text": " And the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal-Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They were numerous. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:24",
"text": "Now these were the heads of their fathers\u2019 households: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of strength, \u231efamous men\u231f, heads of their fathers\u2019 households. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:25",
"text": "But they transgressed against the God of their ancestors and prostituted themselves after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "I Chronicles 5:26",
"text": "So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-Pilneser, king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, until this day. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:1",
"text": " The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:2",
"text": "The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:3",
"text": "The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:4",
"text": "Eleazar fathered Phinehas; Phinehas fathered Abishua; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:5",
"text": "Abishua fathered Bukki; Bukki fathered Uzzi; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:6",
"text": "Uzzi fathered Zerahiah; Zerahiah fathered Meraioth; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:7",
"text": "Meraioth fathered Amariah; Amariah fathered Ahitub; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:8",
"text": "Ahitub fathered Zadok; Zadok fathered Ahimaaz; "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:9",
"text": "Ahimaaz fathered Azariah; Azariah fathered Johanan; "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:10",
"text": "and Johanan fathered Azariah. It was he who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:11",
"text": "And Azariah fathered Amariah; Amariah fathered Ahitub; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:12",
"text": "Ahitub fathered Zadok; Zadok fathered Shallum; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:13",
"text": "Shallum fathered Hilkiah; Hilkiah fathered Azariah; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:14",
"text": "Azariah fathered Seraiah; Seraiah fathered Jehozadak. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:15",
"text": "And Jehozadak went into exile when Yahweh sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:16",
"text": " The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:17",
"text": "Now these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:18",
"text": "The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:19",
"text": "The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. Now these are the families of the Levites according to their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:20",
"text": "Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:21",
"text": "Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:22",
"text": "The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:23",
"text": "Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:24",
"text": "Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:25",
"text": "The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:26",
"text": "Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:27",
"text": "Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:28",
"text": "The sons of Samuel: Joel his firstborn and Abijah the second. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:29",
"text": "The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:30",
"text": "Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:31",
"text": " Now these are the men whom David appointed for \u231econtrol of singing\u231f in the house of Yahweh where the ark rested. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:32",
"text": "They were ministering with song before the tabernacle of the tent of assembly until Solomon built the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem. And they stood according to their order with respect to their duty. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:33",
"text": "Now these are those who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, son of Samuel, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:34",
"text": "son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:35",
"text": "son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:36",
"text": "son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:37",
"text": "son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:38",
"text": "son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel; "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:39",
"text": "and his brother Asaph, who stood on his right namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:40",
"text": "son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malkijah, "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:41",
"text": "son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:42",
"text": "son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:43",
"text": "son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:44",
"text": "On the left were their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:45",
"text": "son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:46",
"text": "son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shemer, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:47",
"text": "son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:48",
"text": "And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:49",
"text": "But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:50",
"text": " Now these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:51",
"text": "Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:52",
"text": "Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:53",
"text": "Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:54",
"text": "And these are their dwellings according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the clans of Kohathites, for the first lot was theirs, "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:55",
"text": "and they gave to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:56",
"text": "but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:57",
"text": "To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:58",
"text": "Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:59",
"text": "Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-Shemesh with its pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:60",
"text": "And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities were thirteen cities throughout their clans. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:61",
"text": "To the Kohathites who remained from the family of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, were given by lot ten cities. "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:62",
"text": "To the Gershomites according to their clans thirteen cities were allotted out of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:63",
"text": "To the Merarites twelve cities were allotted according to their clans out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:64",
"text": "So the \u231eIsraelites\u231f gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:65",
"text": "And they gave by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin these cities that are mentioned by name. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:66",
"text": "And of the clans of the sons of Kohath were cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim. "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:67",
"text": "And they gave them the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 68,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:68",
"text": "Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-Horon with its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 69,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:69",
"text": "Aijalon with its pasturelands, and Gath-Rimmon with its pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 70,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:70",
"text": "And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands for the remaining the clans of the Kohathites. "
},
{
"verse": 71,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:71",
"text": "To the Gershomites were given out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 72,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:72",
"text": "And out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 73,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:73",
"text": "Ramoth with its pasturelands, and Anem with its pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 74,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:74",
"text": "And out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 75,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:75",
"text": "Hukok with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 76,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:76",
"text": "And out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 77,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:77",
"text": "To the remainder of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 78,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:78",
"text": "And beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 79,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:79",
"text": "Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands. "
},
{
"verse": 80,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:80",
"text": "And out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands, "
},
{
"verse": 81,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "I Chronicles 6:81",
"text": "Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:1",
"text": " The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:2",
"text": "The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers\u2019 houses; for Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David were twenty-two thousand six hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:3",
"text": "The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah; all five of them were chiefs. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:4",
"text": "And in addition to them, according to their generations, according to the house of their fathers, were troops of the army for war: thirty-six thousand. For \u231ethey had\u231f many wives and sons. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:5",
"text": "Now their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled according to their genealogy. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:6",
"text": " The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, and Jediael, three. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:7",
"text": "The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, the heads of the house of the fathers, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogy was twenty-two thousand thirty-four. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:8",
"text": "The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Beker. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:9",
"text": "And their enrollment by genealogy according to their generations, as heads of the house of their fathers, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:10",
"text": "The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:11",
"text": "All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand two hundred, \u231eable to go to war\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:12",
"text": "And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim, the son of Aher. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:13",
"text": " The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the \u231edescendants\u231f of Bilhah. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:14",
"text": " The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:15",
"text": "And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. And the name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second, Zelophehad. And Zelophehad had daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:16",
"text": "And Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son, and she called his name Peresh. And the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:17",
"text": "The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Makir, son of Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:18",
"text": "And his sister, Hammolecheth, gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:19",
"text": "The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:20",
"text": " The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:21",
"text": "Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead. And the men of Gath who were born in the land killed them because they came down to take their livestock. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:22",
"text": "And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:23",
"text": "And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And he called his name Beriah because disaster had been upon his house. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:24",
"text": "And his daughter was Sheerah, and she built Lower and Upper Beth-Horon and Uzzen-Sheerah. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:25",
"text": "And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:26",
"text": "Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:27",
"text": "Nun his son, Joshua his son. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:28",
"text": "And their property and their dwellings were Bethel and \u231eits towns\u231f. And to the east, Naaran. And to the west, Gezer and its towns, and Shechem and its towns, up to Aija and its towns. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:29",
"text": "And along the borders of the sons of Manasseh: Beth-Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:30",
"text": " The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:31",
"text": "The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel, who was the father of Birzayith. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:32",
"text": "And Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:33",
"text": "The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:34",
"text": "The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:35",
"text": "The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:36",
"text": "The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:37",
"text": "Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:38",
"text": "The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispah, and Ara. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:39",
"text": "The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "I Chronicles 7:40",
"text": "All of these were the sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, chosen mighty warriors, heads of the princes. And their number enrolled by genealogy, in the army for the war, was twenty-six thousand men. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:1",
"text": " Now Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:2",
"text": "Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:3",
"text": "And Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:4",
"text": "Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:5",
"text": "Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:6",
"text": "And these are the sons of Ehud (these were heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f for the inhabitants of Geba, and they took them away to Manahath): "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:7",
"text": "Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who took them away. And he fathered Uzza and Ahihud. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:8",
"text": "And Shaharaim fathered children in the fields of Moab after he had sent them away\u2014Hushim and Baara, his wives. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:9",
"text": "And he fathered by Hodesh his wife Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:10",
"text": "Jeuz, Sakia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:11",
"text": "And by Husham he fathered Abitub and Elpaal. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:12",
"text": "The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, Shemed (he built Ono and Lod with \u231eits towns\u231f), "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:13",
"text": "and Beriah and Shema who were the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of the inhabitants of Aijalon (they themselves chased away the inhabitants of Gath). "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:14",
"text": "Now Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:15",
"text": "Zebadiah, Arad, Eder, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:16",
"text": "Michael, Ishpah, and Joha were sons of Beriah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:17",
"text": "And Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:18",
"text": "Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:19",
"text": "And Jakim, Zikri, Zabdi, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:20",
"text": "Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:21",
"text": "Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:22",
"text": "And Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:23",
"text": "Abdon, Zikri, Hanan, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:24",
"text": "Hananiah, Elam, Antothijah, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:25",
"text": "Iphdeiah, and Peniel were the sons of Shashak. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:26",
"text": "And Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:27",
"text": "Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zikri were the sons of Jeroham. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:28",
"text": "These were the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f according to their generations, chiefs. These lived in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:29",
"text": "And Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. And the name of his wife was Maacah. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:30",
"text": "And his firstborn son was Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:31",
"text": "Gedor, Ahio, Zeker, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:32",
"text": "and Mikloth (he fathered Shimeah). Now these also lived nearby their brothers in Jerusalem with their kinsmen. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:33",
"text": "And Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-Shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:34",
"text": "And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:35",
"text": "And the sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:36",
"text": "And Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:37",
"text": "And Moza fathered Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:38",
"text": "And Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:39",
"text": "And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "I Chronicles 8:40",
"text": "And the sons of Ulam were men who were mighty warriors, bowmen, and they had many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. All these were Benjaminites. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:1",
"text": " So all Israel was enrolled in genealogy. And behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away to Babylon on account of their sin. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:2",
"text": "Now the first inhabitants who were settled on their property in their cities in Israel were the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:3",
"text": "And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem: "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:4",
"text": "Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez, the son of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:5",
"text": "And from the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:6",
"text": "And from the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brethren, six hundred and ninety. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:7",
"text": "And from the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:8",
"text": "Ibneah the son of Jeroham; Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri; Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah; "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:9",
"text": "and their brethren according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f in the house of their fathers. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:10",
"text": " And from the priests: Jedaiah; Jehoiarib; Jakin; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:11",
"text": "Azariah son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the commander of the house of God; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:12",
"text": "Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malkijah; Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:13",
"text": "and their kinsmen, heads of the house of their fathers, one thousand seven hundred and sixty mighty men for the work of the service of the house of God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:14",
"text": " And from the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, from the sons of Merari; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:15",
"text": "Bakbakkar; Heresh; Galal; Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zicri, son of Asaph; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:16",
"text": "Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of Netophathite. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:17",
"text": " And the gatekeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief); "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:18",
"text": "until then they were gatekeepers at the gate of the king on the east side toward the camps of the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:19",
"text": "And Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of the house of his fathers, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, the guardians of the entrances to the tent, and their fathers were over the camp of Yahweh, guardians of the entrance. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:20",
"text": "And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the leader over them \u231ein time past\u231f; Yahweh was with him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:21",
"text": "Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper at the doorway to the tent of assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:22",
"text": "All of them were chosen as gatekeepers at the entrances, two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. They were established by David and Samuel the seer on account of their faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:23",
"text": "So they and their sons were over the gates of the house of Yahweh at the house of the tent as guards. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:24",
"text": "The gatekeepers were on four sides: east, west, north, and south. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:25",
"text": "And their brethren in their villages were to come every seven days \u231eby turn\u231f to be with these. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:26",
"text": "For the four mighty gatekeepers, they who were Levites, \u231ewere entrusted\u231f and were over the chambers and over the storerooms of the house of God. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:27",
"text": "And they lodged all around the house of God, for upon them was a responsibility. And \u231ethey had charge of opening the house of God every morning\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:28",
"text": " And some of them were over the utensils of the service, for \u231ethey count them\u231f when they are brought in and \u231ethey count them\u231f when they are brought out. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:29",
"text": "And some of them were appointed over the objects, over the objects of the sanctuary, and over the wheat flour and the wine, the olive oil, the frankincense, and the spices. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:30",
"text": "And some of the sons of the priests mixed the fragrant ointment for the spices. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:31",
"text": "And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite and \u231ewas entrusted\u231f with the work of the pan breads. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:32",
"text": "And from the sons of the Kohathites, some of their kinsmen were over the \u231eshowbread\u231f to prepare it \u231eevery Sabbath\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:33",
"text": " Now these were the singers; the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of the Levites were in the chambers free from other service, for day and night they were over them on the service. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:34",
"text": "These were the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of the Levites according to their genealogies, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:35",
"text": " And these lived in Gibeon: Jeiel the father of Gibeon. And the name of his wife was Maacah. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:36",
"text": "And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:37",
"text": "Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:38",
"text": "And Mikloth fathered Shimeam. And they also lived nearby their brothers in Jerusalem with their brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:39",
"text": "And Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-Shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:40",
"text": "And the son of Jonathan was Meribaal. And Meribaal fathered Micah. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:41",
"text": "And the sons of Micah were Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:42",
"text": "And Ahaz fathered Jarah, and Jarah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:43",
"text": "and Moza fathered Binea; and Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "I Chronicles 9:44",
"text": "And Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:1",
"text": " Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and every Israelite fled away from before the Philistines. And they fell slain upon Mount Gilboa. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:2",
"text": "And the Philistines \u231eovertook\u231f Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua, the sons of Saul. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:3",
"text": "And the battle was heavy against Saul, and the \u231earchers\u231f found him, and he was wounded by the \u231earchers\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:4",
"text": "And Saul said to his armor-bearer, \u201cDraw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and deal harshly with me.\u201d But he was very afraid. Then Saul took the sword and fell upon it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:5",
"text": "When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon the sword, and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:6",
"text": "So Saul died. And his three sons and all his house died together. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:7",
"text": "And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. Then the Philistines came and dwelled in them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:8",
"text": "And it happened that on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:9",
"text": "And they stripped him and took his head and his weapons, and they sent them throughout the land of the Philistines to bring news to their idols and the nation. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:10",
"text": "And they put his weapons in the temple of their gods, and they fastened his skull to the temple of Dagon. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:11",
"text": "When all Jabesh-Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:12",
"text": "every strong man arose and took the dead body of Saul and the dead bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:13",
"text": "So Saul died on account of his sin which he had sinned against Yahweh concerning the command of Yahweh that he did not keep. He also consulted a medium to seek guidance. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "I Chronicles 10:14",
"text": "But he did not seek Yahweh. So Yahweh put him to death and turned over the kingship to David, the son of Jesse. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:1",
"text": " Then all Israel gathered to David in Hebron, saying, \u201cLook\u2014we are your flesh and bones. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:2",
"text": "\u231eFor some time now\u231f, even when Saul was king, you were \u231ethe one who led the army of Israel in battle\u231f. And Yahweh your God said to you, \u2018You will shepherd my people Israel and will be leader over my people Israel.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:3",
"text": "Then all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron in the presence of Yahweh. And they anointed David as king over Israel according to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Samuel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:4",
"text": "And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (that is Jebus). And the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:5",
"text": "And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, \u201cYou will not enter here.\u201d But David captured the stronghold of Zion; that is, the city of David. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:6",
"text": "Then David said, \u201cWhoever strikes the Jebusites first will be chief and commander.\u201d And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first and became chief. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:7",
"text": "And David lived in the fortress. Therefore they called it the city of David. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:8",
"text": "And he built the city all around from the Millo and up to the circuit. And Joab restored the remainder of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:9",
"text": "And David \u231ebecame greater and greater\u231f. And Yahweh of hosts was with him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:10",
"text": " Now these are the chiefs of the mighty men who were for David, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel to make him king according to the word of Yahweh concerning Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:11",
"text": "And this is the numbering of the mighty warriors who were for David: Jashobeam son of Hachmoni was chief of the three. He himself raised his spear against three hundred whom he killed on one occasion. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:12",
"text": " And after him was Eleazar son of Dodo the Ahohite. He was among the three mighty warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:13",
"text": "He himself was with David at Pas-Dammim when the Philistines were gathered there for the battle. And there was a plot of the field filled with barley, and the people fled before the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:14",
"text": "But they took their stand in the middle of the plot and defended it. And they killed the Philistines. And Yahweh saved them with a great victory. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:15",
"text": " And three of the thirty chiefs went down toward the rock to David at the cave of Adullam when the army of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:16",
"text": "And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:17",
"text": "And David had a craving, and he said, \u201cWho could give me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:18",
"text": "Then the three broke through into the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and brought it and came to David. But David would not drink it and poured it out before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:19",
"text": "And he said, \u201cFar be it from me that I would do this before my God. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For \u231eat the risk of their lives\u231f they brought it.\u201d And he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty men did. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:20",
"text": " Now Abishai the brother of Joab was himself the head of the three. And he roused himself with his spear against three hundred whom he killed and made a name for himself among the three. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:21",
"text": "\u231eHe was twice as renowned\u231f among the three and was their commander. But he did not attain to the three. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:22",
"text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was \u231ea strong man\u231f from Kabzeel, one who did great deeds. He himself struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab. And he himself went down and struck down a lion within a pit on a snowy day. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:23",
"text": "And he himself struck down an Egyptian man, a large man five cubits tall. And in the hand of the Egyptian was a spear like a weaver\u2019s beam. But he went down to him with a club and seized the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his own spear. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:24",
"text": "These things Benaiah son of Jehoiada did and had a name among the three mighty warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:25",
"text": "He himself was certainly distinguished among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David appointed him over his bodyguard. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:26",
"text": " Now the mighty warriors of the troops were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo from Bethlehem, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:27",
"text": "Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:28",
"text": "Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:29",
"text": "Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:30",
"text": "Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:31",
"text": "Ittai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the people of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:32",
"text": "Hurai of the valleys of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:33",
"text": "Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:34",
"text": "the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jehonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:35",
"text": "Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:36",
"text": "Hepher the Mekerathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:37",
"text": "Hezro the Carmelite, Naari the son of Ezbai, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:38",
"text": "Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:39",
"text": "Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the bearer of the weapons of Joab the son of Zeruiah, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:40",
"text": "Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:41",
"text": "Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:42",
"text": "Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a leader of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:43",
"text": "Hanan the son of Maacah, Jehoshaphat the Mithnite, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:44",
"text": "Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:45",
"text": "Jediael the son of Shimri and Joha his brother the Tizite, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:46",
"text": "Eliel the Mahavite, Jeribai and Joshaviah the sons of Elnaam, Ithmah the Moabite, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "I Chronicles 11:47",
"text": "Eliel, Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:1",
"text": " Now these are the ones who came to David at Ziklag while he was still shut up because \u231eof Saul\u231f, the son of Kish. And they were the mighty warriors helping with the war. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:2",
"text": "They were armed with the bow, able to shoot right-handed or left-handed, slinging stones or shooting arrows with the bow; they were kinsmen of Saul from Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:3",
"text": "The leader was Ahiezer, then Jehoash, sons of Shemaah the Gibeonite; Jeiel and Pelet, sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:4",
"text": "Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty warrior among the thirty who was over the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:5",
"text": " Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Hariphite; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:6",
"text": "Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam the Korahites; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:7",
"text": "Joelah and Zebadiah, sons of Jeroham from the Gedor. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:8",
"text": " And from the Gadites, valiant mighty warriors, \u231esoldiers fit for war\u231f, expert with shield and spear, defected to David at the fortress toward the wilderness. And \u231ethey had faces like lions\u231f and were swift as gazelles upon the mountains. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:9",
"text": "Ezer the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:10",
"text": "Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:11",
"text": "Attai sixth, Eliel seventh, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:12",
"text": "Jehonan eighth, Elzabad ninth, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:13",
"text": "Jeremiah tenth, Macbannai eleventh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:14",
"text": "These were the sons of Gad, leaders of the army. The smallest one was as a hundred, and the greatest as a thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:15",
"text": "These were they who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was filled over its banks. And they put to flight all who were in the valley to the east and to the west. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:16",
"text": " And some of the sons of Benjamin and from Judah came to the fortress, to David. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:17",
"text": "And David went out \u231eto meet them\u231f and answered and said to them, \u201cIf you come in peace to me, to help me, \u231emy heart will be joined with you\u231f, but if you come to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong on my hands, may the God of our fathers see and pass judgment.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:18",
"text": "Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the thirty who said: \u201cWe are yours, O David! And we are with you, O son of Jesse! Peace! Peace to you, and peace to those who help you, for your God helps you.\u201d So David appointed them as heads of the troops. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:19",
"text": " And some Manassites deserted to David when he came with the Philistines to the battle against Saul, but he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines sent him away upon counsel, saying, \u201cHe will desert to his master Saul at the cost of our heads.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:20",
"text": "When he went to Ziklag some Manassites deserted to him: Adnah, Jehozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, heads of the thousands that were for Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:21",
"text": "And they themselves helped David against the troops, for all of them were mighty men of strength and were commanders in the army. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:22",
"text": "\u231eDay in and day out\u231f they came to David to help him until there was a great army, like the army of God. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:23",
"text": " And these are the numbers of the chiefs of those prepared for the army who came to David at Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him according to the word of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:24",
"text": "The sons of Judah bearing shield and spear: six thousand eight hundred armed troops. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:25",
"text": "From the men of Simeon, mighty warriors of strength for war: seven thousand one hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:26",
"text": "From the Levites: four thousand six hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:27",
"text": "Jehoiada the chief officer of the house of Aaron, and with him, three thousand seven hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:28",
"text": "And Zadok, a young man, a mighty warrior of strength, and the house of his father: twenty-two commanders. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:29",
"text": "From the men of Benjamin, kinsmen of Saul, three thousand, and \u231eeven still\u231f the majority of them \u231eremained loyal\u231f to the house of Saul. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:30",
"text": "And from the men of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred mighty warriors of strength, famous men in the house of their fathers. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:31",
"text": "And from the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand who were designated by name to come to make David king. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:32",
"text": "And from the men of Issachar: \u231emen who were skilled in understanding the times\u231f to know what Israel should do. Their chiefs were two hundred, and all their kinsmen were under their command. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:33",
"text": "From Zebulun, those who went out armed, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war: fifty thousand to help David \u231ewith singleness of purpose\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:34",
"text": "From Naphtali: one thousand commanders; and those with them with shield and spear: thirty-seven thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:35",
"text": "From the Danites, those equipped for battle: twenty-eight thousand six hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:36",
"text": "And from Asher, those who went out armed and prepared for battle: forty thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:37",
"text": "And from beyond the Jordan, from the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all their weapons of war for battle: one hundred and twenty thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:38",
"text": "All these were men of war arrayed in battle line \u231ewith a whole heart\u231f. They came to Hebron to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel had one heart to make David king. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:39",
"text": "And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen were prepared for them. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "I Chronicles 12:40",
"text": "And also their relatives, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen\u2014provisions of flour, cakes of figs, raisin cakes, wine and oil, cattle and sheep in abundance, for there was great joy in Israel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:1",
"text": " And David consulted with the commanders of thousands and hundreds, with every leader. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:2",
"text": "And David said to all the assembly of Israel, \u201c\u231eIf it seems good to you\u231f and before Yahweh our God, \u231elet us send word abroad\u231f to our brothers who remain in all the land of Israel and to the priests and Levites with them in the cities with their pasturelands that they might be gathered to us. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:3",
"text": "Then let us bring around the ark of our God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:4",
"text": "And all the assembly agreed to do so, for the word was pleasing in the eyes of all the people. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:5",
"text": " And David summoned all Israel from Shihor of Egypt up to Lebo-Hamath to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-Jearim. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:6",
"text": "And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, Kiriath-Jearim of Judah, to bring up from there the ark of Yahweh God who is enthroned between the cherubim, which is called the name. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:7",
"text": "And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart from the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio were driving the cart. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:8",
"text": " Now David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their strength, and with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:9",
"text": "And when they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzza reached out his hand to hold the ark because the cattle had stumbled. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:10",
"text": "And Yahweh \u231ewas angry\u231f with Uzza, and he struck him down because he reached his hand upon the ark. And he died there before God. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:11",
"text": "And David \u231ewas angry\u231f because Yahweh had broken out in wrath against Uzza. And that place is called Perez Uzza unto this day. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:12",
"text": "And David feared God on that day, saying, \u201cHow can I bring the ark of God home to me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:13",
"text": "So David did not move the ark to himself into the city of David but diverted it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "I Chronicles 13:14",
"text": "And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed-Edom in his house three months. And Yahweh blessed the household of Obed-Edom and all that he had. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:1",
"text": " And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David and cedar trees, \u231emasons\u231f, and \u231ecarpenters\u231f to build a house for him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:2",
"text": "And David knew that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:3",
"text": "And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:4",
"text": "Now these are the names of the children who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:5",
"text": "Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:6",
"text": "Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:7",
"text": "Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:8",
"text": " When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed as king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard and went out from before them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:9",
"text": "Now the Philistines came and carried out a raid in the Valley of Rephaim. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:10",
"text": "Then David inquired of God, saying, \u201cShall I go up against the Philistines? Will you put them into my hand?\u201d And Yahweh said to him, \u201cGo up. I will put them into your hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:11",
"text": "And he went up to Baal-Perazim, and David struck them there. And David said, \u201cGod has burst out against my enemies by my hand like waters burst out.\u201d Therefore they will call the name of this place Baal-Perazim. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:12",
"text": "And they abandoned their gods there. And David commanded, and they were burnt with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:13",
"text": "Then the Philistines \u231ecarried out another raid\u231f in the valley. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:14",
"text": "Then David inquired again of God. And God said to him, \u201cYou shall not go up after them. Go around from before them and come against them the opposite way of the balsam trees. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:15",
"text": "And it shall be that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out into battle, for God goes out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:16",
"text": "And David did as God commanded him, and they struck the camp of the Philistines from Gibeon to Gezer. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "I Chronicles 14:17",
"text": "And the fame of David went out through all the lands. And Yahweh put the fear of him upon all the nations. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:1",
"text": " And David built houses for himself in the city of David, and he established a place for the ark of God. And he pitched a tent for it. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:2",
"text": "Then David ordered that none except the Levites should carry the ark of God, for Yahweh had chosen them to carry the ark of Yahweh and to serve him forever. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:3",
"text": "And David gathered all Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of Yahweh to its place that he had established for it. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:4",
"text": "And David gathered the sons of Aaron and the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:5",
"text": "Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief and one hundred and twenty of his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:6",
"text": "Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief and two hundred and twenty of his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:7",
"text": "Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief and one hundred and thirty of his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:8",
"text": "Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief and two hundred of his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:9",
"text": "Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief and eighty of his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:10",
"text": "Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief and one hundred and twelve of his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:11",
"text": "Then David summoned Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:12",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cYou are the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f for the Levites. Sanctify yourselves and your brothers and bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the place I have established for it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:13",
"text": "Because the first time you did not, and Yahweh our God burst out against us, for we did not care for it according to the law.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:14",
"text": "Then the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:15",
"text": "And the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God according to what Moses commanded, according to the word of Yahweh, on their shoulders with the carrying poles upon them. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:16",
"text": " Then David ordered the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of song, musical instruments, stringed instruments, and cymbals, \u231eraising their voices for joy\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:17",
"text": "So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel, and from his brothers, Asaph the son of Berekiah, and from the sons of Merari, their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:18",
"text": "and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah the son, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-Edom and Jeiel. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:19",
"text": "Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound bronze cymbals; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:20",
"text": "Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play on harps according to Alamoth; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:21",
"text": "and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to play lyres, directing according to the Sheminith. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:22",
"text": "And Kenaniah, chief of the Levites in singing, was to be an instructor in singing because he understood. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:23",
"text": "And Berekiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the ark. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:24",
"text": "And Shebaniah, Jehoshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Elizezer the priests \u231esounded the trumpets\u231f before the ark of God. And Obed-Edom and Jehiah were gatekeepers for the ark. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:25",
"text": " And it happened that David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the house of Obed-Edom with joy. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:26",
"text": "And it happened that when God helped the Levites carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:27",
"text": "Now David was clothed with a robe of fine linen; so also all the Levites who were carrying the ark, the singers, and Kenaniah the chief of the singing. And David wore a linen ephod. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:28",
"text": "And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, with the sound of a shofar, and with trumpets and cymbals, making loud music with musical instruments and stringed instruments. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "I Chronicles 15:29",
"text": " And when the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the city of David, then Michal the daughter of Saul looked down from the window and saw the king, David, leaping and dancing. And she despised him in her heart. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:1",
"text": " And they brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:2",
"text": "And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:3",
"text": "And he distributed to every man of Israel, both men and women, to each person a loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:4",
"text": "Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of Yahweh, to invoke, thank, and praise Yahweh the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:5",
"text": "Asaph was chief, and his second was Zechariah; Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel were on harps and lyres. And Asaph played on the cymbals. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:6",
"text": "And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew on the trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:7",
"text": "Then on that day David first appointed to give thanks to Yahweh by the hand of Asaph and his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:8",
"text": " Give thanks to Yahweh; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:9",
"text": " Sing to him; sing praises to him; tell of his wondrous works! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:10",
"text": " Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those seeking Yahweh rejoice! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:11",
"text": " Seek Yahweh and his strength; seek his face continually! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:12",
"text": " Remember his wonderful works that he has done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:13",
"text": " O offspring of Israel, his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:14",
"text": " He is Yahweh our God; his judgments are in all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:15",
"text": " Remember his covenant forever, the word he commanded for a thousand generations, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:16",
"text": " that he \u231emade\u231f with Abraham, his sworn oath to Isaac. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:17",
"text": " And he confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, an everlasting covenant to Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:18",
"text": " saying, \u201cTo you I will give the land of Canaan, the portion of your inheritance.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:19",
"text": " When you were few in number, little, and sojourners were in it, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:20",
"text": " when they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:21",
"text": " he did not allow anyone to oppress them, and he rebuked kings on their account, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:22",
"text": " saying, \u201cYou must not touch my anointed nor do harm to my prophets!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:23",
"text": " Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Proclaim his salvation from day to day! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:24",
"text": " Proclaim his glory among the nations, his wondrous works among the peoples! "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:25",
"text": " For Yahweh is great and greatly praised, and he is feared among all gods. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:26",
"text": " For all the gods of the nations are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:27",
"text": " Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:28",
"text": " Ascribe to Yahweh, O clans of the nations, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength! "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:29",
"text": " Ascribe to Yahweh the glory of his name! Lift up an offering and come before him! Bow down to Yahweh in the splendor of holiness! "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:30",
"text": " Tremble before him, all the earth; surely the world shall not be shaken. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:31",
"text": " Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, and let them tell the peoples, \u201cYahweh reigns!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:32",
"text": " Let the sea roar and its fullness; let the field rejoice and all that is in it. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:33",
"text": " Then the trees of the forest shall sing for joy before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:34",
"text": " Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; his loyal love is everlasting. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:35",
"text": " Then say, \u201cSave us, O God of our salvation; gather us and rescue us from the nations that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:36",
"text": " Blessed be Yahweh the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!\u201d Then all the people said, \u201cAmen!\u201d and praised Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:37",
"text": " So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to minister before the ark regularly \u231eas each day required\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:38",
"text": "and he left Obed-Edom with his sixty-eight brothers. And Obed-Edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah were gatekeepers. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:39",
"text": "And he left Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of Yahweh at the high place which was at Gibeon "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:40",
"text": "to offer burnt offerings regularly to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the law of Yahweh that he commanded concerning Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:41",
"text": "And with them were Heman and Jeduthun and the remainder of those chosen, who were designated by name to give thanks to Yahweh, for his loyal love is everlasting. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:42",
"text": "And Heman and Jeduthun with them had trumpets and cymbals for making music, along with instruments for the song of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were at the gate. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "I Chronicles 16:43",
"text": "Then all the people went each to his house, and David turned to bless his household. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:1",
"text": " And as David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, \u201cLook, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under tent curtains.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:2",
"text": "And Nathan said to David, \u201cWhatever is in your heart, do, for God is with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:3",
"text": " And it happened that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:4",
"text": "\u201cGo and say to David my servant, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cYou are not to build a house for me to live in, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:5",
"text": "for I have not lived in a house from the day that I brought out Israel unto this day. I have been from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:6",
"text": "In every place I have moved about, did I say one word with the judges of Israel I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, \u2018Why have you not built for me a house of cedar?\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:7",
"text": "So now, thus you shall say to my servant David, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cI took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over my people Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:8",
"text": "and I have been with you wherever you went and have cut down your enemies from before you and will make a name for you, like the name of the great ones on the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:9",
"text": "And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place and be in anguish no longer. And wicked men will no longer wear them down as before, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:10",
"text": "from the day that I commanded judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue your enemies, and I declare to you that Yahweh will build for you a house. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:11",
"text": "And it shall be that when your days are fulfilled to go and sleep with your ancestors, then I will raise up your seed after you, who will be one of your sons, and I will establish his kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:12",
"text": "He himself will build for me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:13",
"text": "I myself will be a father to him, and he himself will be a son to me. And I will not remove my steadfast love from him as I took it away from whoever was before you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:14",
"text": "And I will establish him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:15",
"text": "According to all these words and according to all this revelation, thus did Nathan speak to David. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:16",
"text": " Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, \u201cWho am I, O Yahweh God, and what is my house that you have brought me thus far? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:17",
"text": "And this was a small matter in your eyes, O God. And you have spoken concerning the house of your servant for a long time and have shown me \u231efuture generations to come\u231f, O Yahweh God. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:18",
"text": "\u231eWhat more\u231f can David do to you for honoring your servant? Now you know your servant. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:19",
"text": "O Yahweh, for the sake of your servant and according to your heart you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:20",
"text": "O Yahweh, there is none like you, and there is no God except you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:21",
"text": "And who is like your people Israel, the one nation upon earth whom God went to redeem for himself, to establish for you a reputation for great and awesome things, to drive out nations from before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt? "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:22",
"text": "And you made your people Israel an everlasting nation for yourself. And you, O Yahweh, became their God. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:23",
"text": "So now, O Yahweh, let the word that you spoke to your servant and to his house be established forever, that you might do what you have spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:24",
"text": "And let your name be established and be magnified forever, saying, \u2018Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel\u2019s God, and may the house of David your servant be established before you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:25",
"text": "For you, my God, \u231ehave informed\u231f your servant that you will build a house for him. Therefore, your servant has found courage to pray before you. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:26",
"text": "So now, O Yahweh, you yourself are God, and you have spoken to your servant this good thing. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "I Chronicles 17:27",
"text": "And now may you begin to bless the house of your servant \u231eto continue forever\u231f before you, for you, O Yahweh, have blessed. And it will be blessed forever.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:1",
"text": " And it happened that after David struck the Philistines and subdued them, he captured Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:2",
"text": "And he struck Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David, bearing tribute. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:3",
"text": "And David struck Hadadezer, king of Zobah-Hamath, as he set up his monument at the Euphrates River. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:4",
"text": "And David captured from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left one hundred of them to remain for chariots. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:5",
"text": "And when the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah-Hamath, David struck down twenty-two thousand men of Aram. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:6",
"text": "Then David set up garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became servants to David, bearing tribute. And Yahweh delivered David wherever he went. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:7",
"text": "And David took small round shields of gold that were upon the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:8",
"text": "And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David captured very much bronze. Solomon made the bronze sea with it along with the columns and objects of bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:9",
"text": " And when Tou the king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer the king of Zobah, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:10",
"text": "he sent Hadoram his son to King David to ask him for peace and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Tou \u231ehad been at war\u231f with Hadadezer. And he brought with him all the objects of gold, silver, and bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:11",
"text": "King David dedicated these also to Yahweh, along with the silver and gold that he had taken from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the sons of Ammon, the Philistines, and Amalek. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:12",
"text": " And Abishai son of Zeruiah defeated eighteen thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:13",
"text": "And he put garrisons in Edom, and all Edom became servants to David. And Yahweh delivered David wherever he went. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:14",
"text": " So David reigned over all Israel, and \u231ehe administered justice\u231f and righteousness to all his people. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:15",
"text": "And Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:16",
"text": "And Zadok son of Ahitub and Abimelech son of Abiathar were priests, and Shavsha was secretary. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "I Chronicles 18:17",
"text": "And Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and the Pelethites. And the sons of David were chief officials under the hand of the king. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:1",
"text": " And it happened that after this Nahash the king of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f died, and his son reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:2",
"text": "And David said, \u201cI will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash because his father showed kindness to me.\u201d So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And the servants of David came to the land of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, to Hanun, to comfort him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:3",
"text": "But the princes of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f said to Hanun, \u201c\u231eDo you think\u231f because David sent comforters to you that David honors your father? Is it not for the purpose of exploring so as to overthrow and spy out the land that his servants have come to you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:4",
"text": "So Hanun took the servants of David and shaved them and cut off their garments at the middle, up to the buttocks, and sent them away. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:5",
"text": "And they went and told David concerning the men, and he inquired of them, for the men were very disgraced. And the king said, \u201cDwell in Jericho until your beards grow out; then return.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:6",
"text": " And when the \u231eAmmonites\u231f saw that they made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the \u231eAmmonites\u231f sent one thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves horses and chariots from Aram-Naharaim, Aram-Maacah, and Zobah. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:7",
"text": "And they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Maacah and his people, and they came and encamped before Medeba. And the \u231eAmmonites\u231f were gathered from their cities and came to the battle. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:8",
"text": "And when David heard, he sent Joab and the entire army of mighty warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:9",
"text": "And the \u231eAmmonites\u231f went out and took up positions for battle at the entrance of the city. And the kings who had come were alone in the field. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:10",
"text": " When Joab saw that there was \u231ea battle line\u231f against him at the front and the back, he chose from among the chosen men in Israel and arranged them to meet Aram. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:11",
"text": "And the remainder of the people he put in the hand of Abishai his brother, and they were arranged to meet the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:12",
"text": "And he said, \u201cIf Aram is too strong for me, then you must be a help to me, but if the \u231eAmmonites\u231f are too strong for you, then I will help you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:13",
"text": "Be strong! Let us strengthen ourselves on behalf of our people and on behalf of the cities of our God. And may Yahweh do what is good in his eyes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:14",
"text": "And Joab and the people who were with him drew near before Aram for battle, and they fled before him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:15",
"text": "And when the \u231eAmmonites\u231f saw that Aram had fled, they also fled before Abishai his brother, and they came to the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:16",
"text": " And when Aram saw that they were defeated before Israel, they sent messengers and brought out Aram, who was from beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer before them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:17",
"text": "And when it was told to David, he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan. And he came to them and was arrayed against them. Then David was arrayed to meet Aram in battle, and they fought with him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:18",
"text": "And Aram fled before Israel. And David killed from Aram the men of seven thousand chariots and forty thousand foot soldiers, and he put to death Shophach the commander of the army. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "I Chronicles 19:19",
"text": "And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with David and became servants to him. So Aram was no longer willing to help the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Chronicles 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Chronicles 20:1",
"text": " And it happened that \u231ein the spring time of year\u231f, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led the troops of the army and destroyed the land of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. And he came and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Chronicles 20:2",
"text": "And David took the crown of their king from his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold. And in it was a precious stone. Then it was placed upon the head of David. And he brought out the booty of the city, a large amount. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Chronicles 20:3",
"text": "And the people who were in it he brought out, and \u231ehe set them to work with saws and iron implements and axes\u231f. Thus David did to all the cities of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. Then David returned, and all the nation went with him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Chronicles 20:4",
"text": " And after this there arose a war in Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaim. And they were subdued. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Chronicles 20:5",
"text": "And again there was war with the Philistines. And Elhanan son of Jair struck down Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver\u2019s beam. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Chronicles 20:6",
"text": "And again there was war in Gath. And there was a \u231every tall\u231f man there, and \u231ehe had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all\u231f. He himself was also a descendant of the Rephaim. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Chronicles 20:7",
"text": "And he taunted Israel, but Jehonathan son of Shimea, brother of David, struck him down. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "I Chronicles 20:8",
"text": "These were born to the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:1",
"text": " Then Satan stood against Israel and urged David to count Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:2",
"text": "So David said to Joab and to the commanders of the nation, \u201cGo, count Israel from Beersheba to Dan and bring a report to me that I might know their number.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:3",
"text": "But Joab said, \u201cMay Yahweh add to the people a hundred times what they are! Are they not, O my lord the king, all of them the king\u2019s servants? Why does my lord seek this? Why would he bring guilt to Israel?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:4",
"text": "But the word of the king prevailed over Joab. Then he went about through all Israel and came to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:5",
"text": "And Joab gave the number of the enrollment of the people to David. And it happened that all Israel was one million one hundred thousand men drawing a sword, and in Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men drawing a sword. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:6",
"text": "But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the word of the king was repulsive to Joab. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:7",
"text": " But this word was displeasing in the eyes of God, and he struck Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:8",
"text": "Then David said to God, \u201cI have sinned severely in that I have done this thing. But now, please forgive the sin of your servant, for I have been very foolish.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:9",
"text": "Then Yahweh spoke to Gad the seer of David, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:10",
"text": "\u201cGo, you must speak to David, saying, \u2018Thus says Yahweh: \u201cThree choices I offer to you. Choose one of them for yourself that I will do to you.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:11",
"text": "So Gad came to David and said to him, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018Choose for yourself: "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:12",
"text": "whether three years of famine or three months of devastation by your enemies while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days of the sword of Yahweh, with disease in the land and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory in Israel.\u2019 So now, see what word I should return to my sender.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:13",
"text": "Then David said to Gad, \u201c\u231eI am very troubled\u231f. Let me into the hand of Yahweh, for his compassion is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of a man.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:14",
"text": " So Yahweh sent a pestilence through Israel, and seventy thousand men from Israel fell. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:15",
"text": "And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he was about to destroy it, Yahweh saw and was grieved on account of the calamity. Then he said to the angel, the destroyer, \u201cIt is enough; slacken your hand.\u201d And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:16",
"text": "And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven, with his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:17",
"text": "Then David said to God, \u201cWas it not I who gave a command to count the people? Now I am he who has sinned, and I have certainly done wickedness, but these sheep, what have they done? O Yahweh, my God, please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father, but against your people, let there be no plague.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:18",
"text": " Now the angel of Yahweh had spoken to Gad to say to David that David should go up and erect an altar for Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:19",
"text": "So David went up at the word of Gad that he had spoken in the name of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:20",
"text": "Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and Ornan turned and saw the angel, and his four sons with him hid themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:21",
"text": "Then David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out from the threshing floor, and they bowed down to David, faces to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:22",
"text": "Then David said to Ornan, \u201cPlease give me the place, the threshing floor, that I might build an altar on it to Yahweh; at full price please give it to me, that the plague against the people might be stopped.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:23",
"text": "And Ornan said to David, \u201cTake it to yourself; let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. See, I give the cattle for the burnt offerings and threshing sledges for the wood and wheat for the grain offering\u2014I give it all.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:24",
"text": "But King David said to Ornan, \u201cNo, for I will certainly buy it at full value; indeed, I will not take what is yours for Yahweh and offer burnt offerings for nothing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:25",
"text": "So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:26",
"text": "Then David built an altar there to Yahweh, and he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and he called to Yahweh. And he answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:27",
"text": "Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he returned his sword to its sheath. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:28",
"text": " At that time, when David saw that Yahweh answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:29",
"text": "Now the tabernacle of Yahweh that Moses had made in the desert and the altar of burnt offering were at that time at the high place of Gibeon. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "I Chronicles 21:30",
"text": "But David was not able to go before it to seek God, for he was afraid on account of the sword of the angel of Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:1",
"text": "Then David said, \u201cThis will be the house of Yahweh God, and this altar of burnt offering for Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:2",
"text": " And David commanded to assemble the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel and appointed stone craftsmen to cut dressed stones to build the house of God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:3",
"text": "And David provided much iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for the seams, and abundant copper that could not be weighed, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:4",
"text": "and cedar timbers without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought abundant cedars to David. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:5",
"text": "Then David said, \u201cSolomon my son is a boy and inexperienced, and the house built for Yahweh must be exceedingly great in fame and splendor throughout every land. I will make preparations for him.\u201d So David provided abundant materials before he died. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:6",
"text": " Then he called to Solomon his son and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:7",
"text": "And David said to Solomon his son, \u201cI myself had in my heart to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:8",
"text": "but it happened that the word of Yahweh came over me, saying, \u2018You have shed much blood and have made much war; you shall not build a house for my name because you have shed much blood upon the ground before me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:9",
"text": "Behold, a son shall be born to you; he himself will be a man of rest, and I will give rest to him from all his enemies all around, for his name will be Solomon, and peace and quietness I will give to Israel in his days. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:10",
"text": "He himself will build a house for my name, and he himself will be to me a son, and I will be to him as a father, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:11",
"text": "Now, my son, Yahweh will be with you, that you may succeed and build the house of Yahweh your God as he has spoken concerning you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:12",
"text": "Only may Yahweh give to you understanding and insight that he might give you charge over Israel and the keeping of the law of Yahweh your God. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:13",
"text": "Then you will prosper if you take care to do the statutes and judgments which Yahweh commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and be courageous; fear not and do not be dismayed. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:14",
"text": "Now see, with great effort I have made provision for the house of Yahweh: 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron that cannot be weighed, for there is an abundance. Also timber and stone I have provided, but to these you should add. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:15",
"text": "And with you there is an abundance of craftsmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and everyone skilled in every kind of craftsmanship "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:16",
"text": "with gold, silver, bronze, and iron without number. Arise and work! Yahweh will be with you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:17",
"text": " And David commanded all the commanders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:18",
"text": "\u201cIs not Yahweh your God with you? And has he not given you rest all around? For he has put in my hand the inhabitants of the land, and the land is subdued before Yahweh and before his people. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "I Chronicles 22:19",
"text": "Now set your heart and mind to seek Yahweh your Go, and arise and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, that the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the holy vessels of God might be brought into the house built for the name of Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:1",
"text": " Now David was old and full of days. And he made Solomon his son king over Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:2",
"text": "And he assembled all the commanders of Israel and the priests and the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:3",
"text": "And the Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their number according to their head count for the men was thirty-eight thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:4",
"text": "Of these, David said, \u201cTwenty-four thousand are to direct the work of the house of Yahweh, along with six thousand judges and officials, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:5",
"text": "four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand offering praise with the instruments that I have made for praise.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:6",
"text": "And David organized them in divisions according to the sons of Levi: to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:7",
"text": " For the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:8",
"text": "The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief and Zetham and Joel, three. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:9",
"text": "The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of Ladan. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:10",
"text": "And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:11",
"text": "And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons. They were enrolled as one for the house of a father. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:12",
"text": " The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:13",
"text": "The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was set apart to consecrate the most holy things. He and his sons were to burn offerings forever before Yahweh to serve him and to bless in his name forever. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:14",
"text": "But Moses the man of God and his sons were reckoned among the tribe of Levi. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:15",
"text": "The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:16",
"text": "The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:17",
"text": "And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah, the head. And Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:18",
"text": "The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:19",
"text": "The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:20",
"text": "The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief and Isshiah the second. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:21",
"text": " The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:22",
"text": "And Eleazar died, and he did not have sons, but only daughters. And the sons of Kish, their relatives, married them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:23",
"text": "The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:24",
"text": " These were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f, according to their enrollment, by the number of the names, according to their head count, who were to do the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and above. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:25",
"text": "For David said, \u201cYahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:26",
"text": "And also, the Levites do not need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:27",
"text": "For by the last words of David, they are the number of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and above. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:28",
"text": "For their station was \u231eto assist\u231f the sons of Aaron with the service of the house of Yahweh, over the courtyards, over the chambers, and over the cleansing of all the sanctified objects, and with the work of the service of the house of God, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:29",
"text": "and with the rows of bread, the flour, the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and for all the amounts and measurements. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:30",
"text": "And they were to stand \u231eevery morning\u231f, thanking and praising Yahweh, and likewise in the evening, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:31",
"text": "and for every burnt offering offered to Yahweh, on Sabbaths, on new moon festivals, and at the appointed feasts, according to the customary number \u231erequired of them\u231f, regularly before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "I Chronicles 23:32",
"text": "And they shall keep the responsibility of the tent of assembly, the responsibility of the sanctified objects, and the responsibility of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, to serve the house of Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:1",
"text": " And as for the sons of Aaron, these were their divisions. The sons of Aaron were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:2",
"text": "And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and \u231ethey had no sons\u231f, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:3",
"text": "And David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their appointments for their service. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:4",
"text": "And more sons of Eleazar were found as heads of the men than the sons of Ithamar, so they divided them to the sons of Eleazar to be sixteen heads over the house of the fathers, and to the sons of Ithamar over the house of the fathers were eight heads. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:5",
"text": "They divided them by lot \u231eall alike\u231f, for they were commanders of the sanctuary and commanders of God from among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:6",
"text": "And Shemaiah the son of Nethanel, the scribe, from the Levites, recorded them before the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of the priests and Levites, one father\u2019s house drawn by Lot for Eleazar and one drawn by lot for Ithamar. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:7",
"text": "And the first lot went out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:8",
"text": "the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:9",
"text": "the fifth to Malkijah, the sixth to Mijamin, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:10",
"text": "the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:11",
"text": "the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shekaniah, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:12",
"text": "the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:13",
"text": "the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:14",
"text": "the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:15",
"text": "the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Ha-Pizzez, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:16",
"text": "the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Ezekiel, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:17",
"text": "the twenty-first to Jakin, the twenty-second to Gamul, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:18",
"text": "the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:19",
"text": "These were their appointments for their service to come into the house of Yahweh according to their custom by the hand of Aaron their father, as Yahweh the God of Israel had commanded him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:20",
"text": " And as for the remainder of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:21",
"text": "Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:22",
"text": "Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons Shelomoth, Jahath. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:23",
"text": "Of the sons of Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:24",
"text": "The sons of Uzziel, Micah; the sons of Micah, Shamur. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:25",
"text": "The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:26",
"text": "The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah, his son. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:27",
"text": "The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, his son, Shoham, Zakkur, and Ibri. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:28",
"text": "Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:29",
"text": "Of Kish: the sons of Kish, Jerahmeel. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:30",
"text": "And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to the house of their fathers. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "I Chronicles 24:31",
"text": "And lots were also cast for these, just as their brothers, the sons of Aaron, before David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f for the priests and for the Levites the fathers, \u231eon the principle of the chief and younger brother alike\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:1",
"text": " And David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with stringed instruments, with harps, and with cymbals. And their inventory of the men of the work and for their duty was: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:2",
"text": "for the sons of Asaph: Zakkur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asarelah, sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied under the hands of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:3",
"text": "Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Heshabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the stringed instrument with thanksgiving and praise to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:4",
"text": "Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:5",
"text": "All these were sons to Heman, the seer of the king, according to the words of God to raise a horn. And God had given to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:6",
"text": "All these were under the \u231edirection\u231f of their father in the music of the house of Yahweh, with cymbals, harps, and stringed instruments for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the \u231edirection\u231f of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:7",
"text": "And their number, along with their brothers, trained singers, all the skilled people for Yahweh, were two hundred and eighty-eight. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:8",
"text": "And they cast lots for responsibilities \u231eon the principle of small and great alike\u231f, teacher with student. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:9",
"text": " And the first lot for Asaph went out to Joseph; the second to Gedaliahu; he and his brothers and his twelve sons. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:10",
"text": "The third, Zakkur, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:11",
"text": "the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:12",
"text": "the fifth, Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:13",
"text": "the sixth, Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:14",
"text": "the seventh, Jesarelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:15",
"text": "the eighth, Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:16",
"text": "the ninth, Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:17",
"text": "the tenth, Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:18",
"text": "eleventh, Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:19",
"text": "the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:20",
"text": "to the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:21",
"text": "to the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:22",
"text": "to the fifteenth, to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:23",
"text": "to the sixteenth, to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:24",
"text": "to the seventeenth, to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:25",
"text": "to the eighteenth, to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:26",
"text": "to the nineteenth, to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:27",
"text": "to the twentieth, to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:28",
"text": "to the twenty-first, to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:29",
"text": "to the twenty-second, to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:30",
"text": "to the twenty-third, to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "I Chronicles 25:31",
"text": "to the twenty-fourth, to Romamti-ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:1",
"text": " As for the working groups of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, from the sons of Asaph. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:2",
"text": "And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:3",
"text": "Elam the fifth, Jehohana the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:4",
"text": "And Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:5",
"text": "Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:6",
"text": "And to Shemaiah his son were sons born who were rulers in the house of their father, for they were mighty warriors of ability. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:7",
"text": "The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were sons of ability, Elihu and Semakiah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:8",
"text": "All these from the sons of Obed-Edom, they and their sons, and their brothers were men of ability with strength for service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:9",
"text": "And Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, sons of ability, eighteen. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:10",
"text": "And Hosah, from the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (though he was not firstborn, his father appointed him as chief), "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:11",
"text": "Hilkiah the second, Tabaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:12",
"text": " These working groups of gatekeepers, corresponding to the chief men, had responsibilities like their brothers to serve in the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:13",
"text": "And they cast lots, small and great alike, by their fathers\u2019 houses, \u231efor their gates\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:14",
"text": "And the lot fell to the east to Shelemiah. As for Zechariah his son, \u231ea wise counselor\u231f, they cast lots. And his lot came out for the north. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:15",
"text": "To Obed-Edom went out the south, and to his sons, the storehouses. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:16",
"text": "For Shuppim and Hosah it went out for the west, at the gate of Shalleketh, on the road that goes up, guard for guard. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:17",
"text": "To the east, six Levites; to the north, four daily; to the south, four daily; and at the storerooms, two by two. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:18",
"text": "For the court to the west, four at the road, two at the court. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:19",
"text": "These were the working groups of the gatekeepers among the sons of the Korahites and among the sons of Merari. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:20",
"text": " And of the Levites: Ahijah was over the treasuries of the house of God and over the treasuries of the sanctified objects. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:21",
"text": "The sons of Ladan: the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:22",
"text": "The sons of Jehieli, Zetham and Joel his brother, were over the treasuries of the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:23",
"text": "Of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Ozzielites: "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:24",
"text": "Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was commander over the treasuries. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:25",
"text": "And his brothers: from Eliezer were Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zikri his son, and Shelomoth his son. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:26",
"text": "That Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasuries of the sanctified objects that King David and the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f to the commanders of thousands and hundreds and the commanders of the army had dedicated. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:27",
"text": "From the battles and from the spoil they had dedicated these things to strengthen the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:28",
"text": "And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated\u2014all the dedicated gifts were under the hand of Shelomith and his brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:29",
"text": "For the Izharites: Kenaniah and his sons were appointed to the duties outside of Israel as officials and as judges. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:30",
"text": "For the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his brothers, one thousand seven hundred men of ability, were over the administration of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the work of Yahweh and for the service of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:31",
"text": "For the Hebronites: Jeriah the chief of the Hebronites for the genealogy for the \u231efamilies\u231f. (In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were examined, and there was found among them mighty warriors of strength at Jazer in Gilead.) "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "I Chronicles 26:32",
"text": "And his brothers, sons of ability, were two thousand seven hundred heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f, and King David appointed them over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for every matter of God and matter of the king. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:1",
"text": " And as for the number of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, the heads of \u231efamilies\u231f, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officials who serve the king in all matters of the working groups that came and went, month by month, throughout all the months of the year, each working group: twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:2",
"text": " Over the first working group for the first month: Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:3",
"text": "From the sons of Perez who was the chief of the commanders of the armies for the first month. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:4",
"text": "And over the working groups of the second month: Dodai the Ahohite and his working group, and Mikloth the commander. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:5",
"text": "The third commander of the army for the third month was Benaiah son of Jehoiada the chief priest. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:6",
"text": "This was Benaiah who was a mighty warrior of thirty, and over the thirty and his working group was Ammizabad his son. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:7",
"text": "The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel the brother of Joab and his son Zebadiah after him. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:8",
"text": "The fifth, for the fifth month, the commander was Shamhuth the Izrahite. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:9",
"text": "The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:10",
"text": "The seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pelonite, from the sons of Ephraim. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:11",
"text": "The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite of the Zerahites. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:12",
"text": "The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite of the Benjamites. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:13",
"text": "The tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai the Netophathite of the Zerahites. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:14",
"text": "The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite from the sons of Ephraim. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:15",
"text": "The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:16",
"text": " And over the tribes of Israel, for the Reubenites: the commander was Eliezer the son of Zikri. For the Simeonites: Shephatiah the son of Maacah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:17",
"text": "For Levi: Hashabiah the son of Kemuel. For Aaron, Zadok. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:18",
"text": "For Judah: Elihu, from the brothers of David. For Issachar: Omri the son of Michael. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:19",
"text": "For Zebulun: Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah. For Naphtali: Jerimoth the son of Azriel. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:20",
"text": "For the Ephraimites: Hoshea the son of Azaziah. For the half-tribe of Manasseh: Joel the son of Pedaiah. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:21",
"text": "For the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead: Iddo the son of Zechariah. For Benjamin: Jaasiel son of Abner. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:22",
"text": "For Dan: Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the commanders of the tribes of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:23",
"text": "And David did not \u231etake a census of those twenty years old or under\u231f because Yahweh promised to make Israel more numerous than the stars of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:24",
"text": "Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but he did not finish. But wrath came upon Israel concerning this, and the number was not included in \u231ethe chronicles\u231f of King David. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:25",
"text": " And over the treasury rooms of the king was Azmaveth the son of Adiel. And over the treasuries in the country, in the cities, in the unwalled villages, and in the towers was Jonathan the son of Uzziah. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:26",
"text": "And over those who did the work in the field to till the soil was Ezri the son of Kelub. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:27",
"text": "And over the vineyards was Shemei the Ramathite. And over the produce in the vineyards for the storehouses of the wine was Zabdi the Shiphmite. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:28",
"text": "And over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the Shephelah was Baal-Hanan the Gederite. And over the treasury houses of olive oil was Joash. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:29",
"text": "And over the cattle pastured in the Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite. And over the cattle in the valley was Shaphat the son of Adlai. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:30",
"text": "And over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite. And over the female donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite. And over the sheep was Jaziz the Hagrite. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:31",
"text": "All of these were officials of the property of King David. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:32",
"text": " And Jehonathan the uncle of David was an adviser, a man of insight, and he was a scribe. And Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the sons of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:33",
"text": "And Ahithophel was an adviser to the king, and Hushai the Arkite was a friend of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "I Chronicles 27:34",
"text": " And after Ahithophel came Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. And Joab was the commander of the king\u2019s army. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:1",
"text": " Then David assembled all the commanders of Israel, the commanders of the tribes and the commanders of working groups who served the king, and the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, and the commanders over all the property of the king and his sons, with the court officials and mighty warriors, and all the mighty warriors of ability, at Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:2",
"text": "And King David rose to his feet and said, \u201cListen to me, my brothers and my people. \u231eI myself wanted\u231f to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the footstool of our God, and I prepared to build. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:3",
"text": "But God said to me, \u2018You may not build a house for my name because you are a man of war, and you have shed blood.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:4",
"text": "But Yahweh the God of Israel chose me from all of the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to reign over all Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:5",
"text": "And from all my sons\u2014for Yahweh has given many sons to me\u2014he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:6",
"text": "And he said to me, \u2018Solomon your son, he himself shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him as a son to myself, and I myself will be as a father to him, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:7",
"text": "and I will establish his kingdom forever if \u231ehe firmly performs\u231f my commandments and my judgments as he has to this day.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:8",
"text": "So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of Yahweh, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek all the commandments of Yahweh your God so that you may take possession of this good land and bestow it as an inheritance to your children after you forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:9",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for Yahweh searches all hearts and understands every plan and all thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:10",
"text": "Look now, for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong and do it!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:11",
"text": " Then David gave to Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, its inner chambers, and of the house of the lid of the ark, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:12",
"text": "and the plan of all \u231ethat he had in mind\u231f for the courtyards of the house of Yahweh and for all the surrounding storage rooms, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for sanctified objects, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:13",
"text": "and for the working groups of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels for the service of the house of Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:14",
"text": "and for the gold, according to the weight of the gold for all the vessels of the service, and the service of all the vessels of silver according to the weight of all the vessels \u231efor every kind of service\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:15",
"text": "And the weight of the golden lampstands and the golden lamps, \u231ethe weight of each lampstand and each lamp\u231f, and the silver according to the weight of a lampstand and its lamp, according to the use of \u231eeach lampstand\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:16",
"text": "and the weight of gold for the tables of the arranged bread, \u231eeach table\u231f, and silver for the tables of silver, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:17",
"text": "and pure gold for the three-pronged meat forks, and the bowls and the pitchers, and for the golden bowls, by weight for \u231eeach bowl\u231f, and for the silver bowls, by weight for \u231eeach bowl\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:18",
"text": "and for the altar of incense made of refined gold, by weight, and gold for the plan for the chariot\u2014the cherubim with outspread and covering wings over the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:19",
"text": "\u201cAll this I give you in writing; from the hand of Yahweh he instructed me about all the workings of this plan.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:20",
"text": " Then David said to Solomon his son, \u201cBe strong and courageous, and do this! Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for Yahweh God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you and will not forsake you until all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh is finished. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "I Chronicles 28:21",
"text": "And behold, the working groups of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work for all those willing with the skill for every service, and the commanders and all the people for all your commands.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:1",
"text": " Then David the king said to all the assembly, \u201cGod has chosen Solomon my son alone, a young man and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the citadel is not for humankind, but for Yahweh God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:2",
"text": "So I have provided for the house of my God according to all my strength, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and the wood for the things of wood, along with an abundance of onyx stones, stones for settings, stones of turquoise, and variegated stones, and all kinds of precious stones and alabaster stones. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:3",
"text": "And moreover, with respect to my provisions for the house of my God I have a treasure of gold and silver that I have given to the house of my God above all that I have provided for the holy house: "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:4",
"text": "three thousand talents of gold from the gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of refined silver to overlay the walls of the houses, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:5",
"text": "gold for the golden things and silver for the silver things, for all the work by the hand of skilled craftsmen. Now who will offer willingly, \u231econsecrating himself\u231f today to Yahweh?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:6",
"text": " Then the commanders of the \u231efamilies\u231f, the commanders of the tribes of Israel, and the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and the commanders of the work of the king offered themselves willingly. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:7",
"text": "And they gave for the service of the house of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:8",
"text": "And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of Yahweh under the authority of Jehiel the Gershonite. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:9",
"text": "And the people rejoiced over their freewill offering, for with a whole heart they had willingly offered to Yahweh, and King David also rejoiced with great joy. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:10",
"text": " Then David blessed Yahweh in the sight of all the assembly, and David said, \u201cBlessed are you, O Yahweh, God of Israel, our father forever and ever! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:11",
"text": "To you, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the splendor and the glory and the strength, for everything in the heavens and in the earth. Yours, O Yahweh, is the kingdom and exaltation over all as head! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:12",
"text": "And wealth and glory are from you, and you rule over all. And in your hand is power and might. And in your hand is power to make great and to give strength to all. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:13",
"text": "And now, our God, we give thanks to you and offer praise to the name of your splendor. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:14",
"text": "And indeed, who am I, and who are my people that we retain power to offer according to these offerings willingly? For everything is from you, and from your hand we have given to you. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:15",
"text": "For we are strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days are like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope of abiding. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:16",
"text": "O Yahweh our God, all this abundance that we have provided to build for you a house for your holy name is from your hand, and all of it is yours. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:17",
"text": "And I know, my God, that you yourself test the heart and are pleased with uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these things, and now I have seen your people who are found here willingly offer to you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:18",
"text": "O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep this forever as a plan and thoughts of the heart of your people, and establish their heart toward you. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:19",
"text": "Grant to Solomon my son a heart of peace to keep your commands, your statutes, and your regulations to do everything, and to build the citadel for which I have provided.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:20",
"text": "And David said to all the assembly, \u201cBless Yahweh your God!\u201d And all the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. And they bowed down and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:21",
"text": " And they offered sacrifices to Yahweh, and on that next day they offered burnt offerings to Yahweh: one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, one thousand lambs, with their libations and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:22",
"text": "And they ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great joy. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him commander for Yahweh, and Zadok the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:23",
"text": " Then Solomon sat upon the throne of Yahweh as king in place of David his father. And he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:24",
"text": "And all the officials and mighty warriors, and also all the sons of King David, \u231epledged allegiance to\u231f King Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:25",
"text": "And Yahweh made Solomon exceedingly great in the sight of all Israel, and he bestowed upon him royal splendor that was not bestowed upon any king before him in Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:26",
"text": " And David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:27",
"text": "And the days that he reigned over Israel were forty years. In Hebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:28",
"text": "And he died in a good old age, full of days, wealth, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:29",
"text": "Now the words of King David, from the first to the last, see, they are written among the words of Samuel the seer, and among the words of Nathan the prophet, and among the words of Gad the seer, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "I Chronicles 29:30",
"text": "with all the accounts of his kingdom, his power, and the times that came upon him, and upon Israel, and upon all the kingdoms of the earth. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "II Chronicles",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:1",
"text": " And Solomon the son of David strengthened himself concerning his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:2",
"text": "And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to all the leaders for all Israel, the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:3",
"text": "And Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of assembly of God that Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in the desert was there. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:4",
"text": "(But the ark of God David had brought up from Kiriath-Jearim to the place David had prepared for it, for David had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.) "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:5",
"text": "And the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before the tabernacle of Yahweh. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:6",
"text": "And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the tent of assembly, and he offered upon it a thousand burnt offerings. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:7",
"text": " On that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, \u201cAsk what I shall give to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:8",
"text": "Then Solomon said to God, \u201cYou yourself have shown steadfast loyal love to David my father and have made me king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:9",
"text": "Now, O Yahweh God, let your word to David my father be fulfilled, for you yourself have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:10",
"text": "Now, give to me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can judge this, your great people?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:11",
"text": " Then God said to Solomon, \u201cBecause this was with your heart and you did not ask for wealth, possessions, honor, and the lives of your enemies, and also did not ask for \u231elong life\u231f, but have asked for wisdom and knowledge that you might judge my people over whom I have made you king, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:12",
"text": "wisdom and knowledge is given to you. And I will also give to you wealth, possessions, and honor, the like of which was not had by the kings who were before you, nor will there be the like after you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:13",
"text": "So Solomon went from the high place which was at Gibeon to Jerusalem before the tent of assembly. And he reigned over Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:14",
"text": " And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. And he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:15",
"text": "And the king made silver and gold in Jerusalem like the stones. And he made cedar as abundant as the sycamore fig trees that were in the Shephelah. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:16",
"text": "And Solomon\u2019s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue. The traders of the king received them from Kue at a price. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "II Chronicles 1:17",
"text": "They went up and exported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver and a horse for one hundred and fifty shekels. And these were \u231elikewise exported\u231f to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:1",
"text": " And Solomon planned to build a house for the name of Yahweh and a \u231eroyal palace for himself\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:2",
"text": "And Solomon assigned seventy thousand men \u231eto bear burdens\u231f and eighty thousand \u231equarriers\u231f in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred men to supervise them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:3",
"text": "And Solomon sent word to Huram king of Tyre, saying, \u201cAs you have dealt with David my father and sent cedar to him to build for himself a house in which to live, please deal with me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:4",
"text": "Look, I am building a house for the name of Yahweh my God to dedicate to him, to offer sweet spices of incense before him, and for the regular rows of bread, and burnt offerings for mornings, evenings, Sabbaths, and new moon festivals, and for appointed feasts of Yahweh our God which are everlasting for Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:5",
"text": "And the house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:6",
"text": "Now who indeed has adequate strength to build a house for him? For the heavens and \u231ethe highest heavens\u231f are not able to contain him. Now who am I that I would build a house for him, except to burn incense before him? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:7",
"text": "So then, send to me skilled men to work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue fabric, knowledgeable in engraving, with the skilled men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father has established. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:8",
"text": "Send me trees of cedar, cypress, and algum from Lebanon, for I myself know that your servants are knowledgeable in cutting the trees of Lebanon. Now see, my servants will be with your servants "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:9",
"text": "to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building will be great and wonderful. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:10",
"text": "Now see, I will provide twenty thousand dry measures of crushed wheat, twenty thousand dry measures of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil to the woodcarvers and those who cut timber.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:11",
"text": " Then Huram king of Tyre answered in a letter, and he sent word to Solomon: \u201cBecause Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:12",
"text": "Then Huram said, \u201cBlessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has made the heavens and the earth, who has given to King David a wise son knowing discretion and understanding, who will build for Yahweh a house and a royal palace for himself. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:13",
"text": "So now I have sent a skilled man, knowledgeable and with understanding: my master Huram, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:14",
"text": "a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, knowledgeable for working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and with purple, blue, and crimson fabric, and with fine linen, for engraving any engraving and devising any plan that is given to him, with your skilled men and the skilled men of my lord David your father. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:15",
"text": "Now as for the wheat, barley, oil, and wine that my lord mentioned, let him send that to his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:16",
"text": "And we ourselves will cut trees from Lebanon according to all your need, and we will bring them to you on rafts over the sea to Joppa, so that you may bring them up to Jerusalem.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:17",
"text": " Then Solomon counted all the resident alien men who were in the land of Israel after the census that David his father had taken of them. And there were found one hundred and fifty-three thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "II Chronicles 2:18",
"text": "And he appointed from them seventy thousand \u231eto bear burdens\u231f, eighty thousand \u231eto quarry\u231f in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:1",
"text": " Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had established, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:2",
"text": "And he began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:3",
"text": " Now these were the measurements of Solomon for building the house of God: the length in cubits by the former measurement was sixty cubits, and the width was twenty cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:4",
"text": "\u231eThe length of the portico that was in front was the same as the front of the width of the house\u231f: twenty cubits. And its height was one hundred and twenty cubits. And he overlaid it on the inside with pure gold. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:5",
"text": "And the great house itself he covered with cypress wood, then he overlaid it with pure gold. And he put on it palm tree images and ornate chains. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:6",
"text": "Then he overlaid the house with precious stone as decoration. (Now the gold was the gold of Parvaim.) "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:7",
"text": "And he overlaid the house with gold\u2014the beams, the thresholds, the walls, and the doors. And he carved cherubim upon the walls. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:8",
"text": "Then he made \u231ethe most holy place\u231f. Its length \u231ewas equal to\u231f the width of the house: twenty cubits. And its breadth was twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:9",
"text": "And the weight for the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid its upper rooms with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:10",
"text": "And he made two sculpted wood cherubim in \u231ethe most holy place\u231f, and he overlaid them with gold. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:11",
"text": "The length of the outstretched wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits; one wing of five cubits touched the wall of the house, and the other wing of five cubits was touching the outstretched wing of the other cherub. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:12",
"text": "And the wing of five cubits of the other cherub was touching the wall of the house, and its other wing five cubits long touching the wing of the first cherub. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:13",
"text": "The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they were standing on their feet, their faces toward the house. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:14",
"text": "And he made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson and fine linen, and put cherubim on it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:15",
"text": "And at the front of the house he made two columns, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on their top was five cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:16",
"text": "And he made decorative chains in the inner sanctuary and put them on top of the columns. And he made one hundred pomegranate ornaments, and put them on the chains. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "II Chronicles 3:17",
"text": "And he erected the columns in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. He called the name of the southern one Jakin, and the name of the northern one Boaz. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:1",
"text": " And he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits was its length, and twenty cubits was its width, and ten cubits was its height. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:2",
"text": "Then he made the sea of molten metal, from brim to brim it was ten cubits, completely round. And it was five cubits in height, and \u231eits circumference measured\u231f thirty cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:3",
"text": "Under it were figures of oxen all around it, ten cubits high, encircling the sea all around. The oxen were in two rows \u231ecast as one piece with it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:4",
"text": "It was standing upon twelve oxen, three facing north, and three facing west, and three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set upon them from above, and all their hindquarters faced \u231einward\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:5",
"text": "And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was like the working of the lip of a cup, the blossom of a lily. And it held three thousand baths. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:6",
"text": "And he made ten basins. And he set five on the south and five on the north in which to wash; they washed off the work of the burnt offering in them, but the sea was for the priests to wash therein. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:7",
"text": "And he made ten golden lampstands according to their custom, and he set them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:8",
"text": "And he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north. And he made a hundred drinking bowls of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:9",
"text": "And he made the courtyard of the priests and the great outer courtyard and the doors for the outer court. And he overlaid their doors with bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:10",
"text": "And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:11",
"text": "And Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the drinking bowls. So Hiram finished making the work that he made on the house of God for King Solomon: "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:12",
"text": "the two columns, the bowls, and the two capitals on top of the columns, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on top of the columns, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:13",
"text": "and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for the latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were before the columns. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:14",
"text": "And he made the water carts, and he made the basins on the water carts, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:15",
"text": "and the one sea and the twelve oxen underneath it. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:16",
"text": " And Huram-abi made for King Solomon the pots, the shovels, the three-pronged meat forks, and all the utensils of polished bronze for the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:17",
"text": "The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay soil between Succoth and Zeredah. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:18",
"text": "Solomon made all these utensils in great abundance, for the weight of the bronze could not be determined. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:19",
"text": "So Solomon made all the objects that were in the house of God: the altar of gold; the tables upon which was the bread of the presence; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:20",
"text": "the lampstands, and the lamps for burning according to the custom before the inner sanctuary, of solid gold; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:21",
"text": "and the blossoms, the lamps, and the tongs that were of solid gold; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "II Chronicles 4:22",
"text": "and the snuffers, the drinking bowls, the dishes, and the firepans, of solid gold; and the entrance to the house, the inner doors to \u231ethe most holy place\u231f, and the doors to the house of the temple were of gold. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:1",
"text": " When all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished, Solomon brought the holy objects of David his father: the silver, the gold, and all the objects he had put into the storehouses of the house of God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:2",
"text": "Then Solomon assembled all the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the \u231efamilies\u231f for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, to Jerusalem in order to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, which is Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:3",
"text": "And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:4",
"text": "And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:5",
"text": "And they brought up the ark, the tent of assembly, and all the holy objects that were in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:6",
"text": "And King Solomon and the whole community of Israel that was assembled before him were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted nor numbered for abundance. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:7",
"text": "Then the priests brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, into \u231ethe most holy place\u231f, underneath the wings of the cherubim. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:8",
"text": "The cherubim were spreading their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim were covering the ark and over its poles from above. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:9",
"text": "But the poles were so long that the ends of the poles from the ark were seen from before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside. And they are there until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:10",
"text": "There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets that Moses had put inside at Horeb on which Yahweh had \u231emade\u231f a covenant with the \u231eIsraelites\u231f when they went out from Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:11",
"text": "And when the priests came out of the sanctuary (for all the priests who were present sanctified themselves without keeping their divisions) "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:12",
"text": "and all the Levitical singers\u2014Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons, their brothers, dressed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and stringed instruments\u2014they were standing to the east of the altar. And with them outside were one hundred and twenty priests who were trumpet blowers. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:13",
"text": "And it was the primary duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard with one voice, to praise and give thanks to Yahweh. And when a sound from the trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments of song was raised to Yahweh\u2014for he is good, because his loyal love is everlasting\u2014then the house, the house of Yahweh, was filled with a cloud. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "II Chronicles 5:14",
"text": "And the priests were not able to stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:1",
"text": " Then Solomon said, \u201cYahweh has decided to dwell in the deep gloom. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:2",
"text": "But I have built for you an exalted house, even a place for you to dwell in forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:3",
"text": "Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel were standing. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:4",
"text": "And he said, \u201cBlessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth with David my father, and with his hands he has fulfilled it, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:5",
"text": "\u2018From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt I did not choose a city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in order for my name to be there. Nor did I choose a man to be leader over my people Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:6",
"text": "But I have chosen my name to be there in Jerusalem, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:7",
"text": "Now, it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:8",
"text": "But Yahweh said to David my father, \u2018Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:9",
"text": "but you yourself will not build the house, but your son who will proceed from your loins; he himself will build the house for my name.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:10",
"text": "Now Yahweh has fulfilled his word that he spoke. I have risen in the place of David my father and am seated on the throne of Israel as Yahweh has spoken. I have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:11",
"text": "And I have there the ark in which is the covenant of Yahweh that he \u231emade\u231f with the \u231eIsraelites\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:12",
"text": " Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh before all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:13",
"text": "(For Solomon had made a platform of bronze five cubits long and five cubits wide and three cubits high, and placed it in the midst of the outer court.) And he stood upon it, then knelt down on his knees before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands to heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:14",
"text": "And he said, \u201cO Yahweh, God of Israel, there is none like you, a God in the heavens and on the earth, keeping the covenant and loyal love with your servants who walk before you with all their heart, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:15",
"text": "that you have kept for your servant David my father what you spoke to him. You spoke with your mouth, and by your hand you have fulfilled it on this day. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:16",
"text": "And now, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep for your servant David, my father, what you have spoken to him, saying, \u2018\u231eYou shall not lack\u231f a man to sit on the throne of Israel before me, if only your sons keep their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:17",
"text": "And now, O Yahweh, God of Israel, let your word that you have spoken to your servant David be confirmed. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:18",
"text": " \u201cBut will God indeed dwell with humankind upon the earth? Look, the heavens and \u231ethe highest heavens\u231f cannot contain you! Surely then this house that I have built will not contain you! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:19",
"text": "But turn to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Yahweh my God, to hearken to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant is praying before you, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:20",
"text": "that your eyes may be open day and night to this house, to the place that you have promised to place your name there, that you may hear the prayer that your servant has prayed to this place. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:21",
"text": "And listen to the pleas of your servant and your people Israel when they pray toward this place, that you yourself might hear from the place of your dwelling, from the heavens, that you might hear and forgive. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:22",
"text": " \u201cIf a man sins against his neighbor and \u231emakes him swear an oath\u231f and comes with an oath before your altar in this house, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:23",
"text": "then may you yourself hear from the heavens and act and judge your servants, to repay the guilty by bringing his way upon his head and to vindicate the righteous by giving to him according to his righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:24",
"text": " \u201cAnd if your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against you and they repent and confess your name and pray and plead before you in this house, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:25",
"text": "then may you yourself hear from the heavens and forgive the sin of your people Israel and again bring them back to the land that you gave to them and to their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:26",
"text": " \u201cWhen the heavens are stopped up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you and they pray to this place and confess your name and turn back from their sin when you humble them, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:27",
"text": "then may you yourself hear from the heavens and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and give rain upon your land that you have given to your people as an inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:28",
"text": " \u201cIf there is a famine in the land; if there is disease, blight, mildew, locust, and caterpillar; if it happens that his enemy lays siege to him in the land and his gates; any kind of plague, any kind of disease, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:29",
"text": "then any prayer, any plea that is made by any person and by all your people Israel, each one who knows his own affliction and his own anguish and who spreads out his hands to this house, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:30",
"text": "then may you yourself hear from the heavens, your dwelling place, and forgive and give to each according to all his ways, since you know the heart of the children of humankind, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:31",
"text": "that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they are alive upon the face of the land that you have given to our ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:32",
"text": " \u201cAnd also, with respect to the foreigner, he who is not of your people Israel, but comes from a distant land, for the sake of your great name and your powerful hand and outstretched arm, when he comes and prays to this house, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:33",
"text": "then may you yourself hear from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner asks of you, so that all peoples of earth will know of your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that your name \u231epossesses\u231f this house that I have built. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:34",
"text": " \u201cWhen your people go out to battle against their enemy according to the way that you have sent them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:35",
"text": "then may you hear their prayer and their pleas from the heavens and uphold their case. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:36",
"text": "When they sin against you\u2014for there is no person who does not sin\u2014and you become angry with them and place them before their enemy that they carry them away as captives to a land far or near, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:37",
"text": "but \u231eif they repent\u231f in the land where they were taken captive and \u231erepent\u231f and beg you for mercy in the land of their captivity, saying, \u2018We have sinned and acted perversely and done wickedly, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:38",
"text": "and we return to you,\u2019 with their whole heart and with all their inmost being in the land of their captivity where they took them captive, and if they pray toward their land that you have given to their ancestors and the city that you have chosen and to the house that I have built for your name, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:39",
"text": "then may you hear their prayer and their pleas from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and uphold their case and forgive your people who sinned against you. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:40",
"text": "Now, O my God, please let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place! "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:41",
"text": " \u201cAnd now arise, O Yahweh God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength! O Yahweh God, let the priests be clothed with salvation, and let your holy ones rejoice in your goodness! "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "II Chronicles 6:42",
"text": "O Yahweh God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember the loyal love of your servant, David!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:1",
"text": " And when Solomon finished praying, then fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of Yahweh filled the house. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:2",
"text": "And the priests were not able to go into the house of Yahweh, for the glory of Yahweh had filled the house. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:3",
"text": "When all the \u231eIsraelites\u231f saw the fire come down and the glory of Yahweh upon the house, they knelt down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loyal love is everlasting. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:4",
"text": " Then the king and all the people were offering a sacrifice before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:5",
"text": "And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:6",
"text": "And the priests stood at their posts with the Levites, with the instruments of the song of Yahweh that King David had made to give thanks to Yahweh\u2014for his loyal love is everlasting\u2014whenever David offered praise by their hand. Now the priests sounded trumpets standing opposite them, and all Israel stood. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:7",
"text": " And Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was before the house of Yahweh, for there he had made the burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, for the bronze altar that Solomon had made was not able to hold the burnt offerings, cereal offerings, and the fat. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:8",
"text": " And Solomon held a feast at that time of seven days. And all Israel was with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-Hamath to the river of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:9",
"text": "And on the eighth day they made a solemn assembly, for they held the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:10",
"text": "And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents rejoicing and festive of heart on account of the goodness that Yahweh had done for David, Solomon, and Israel his people. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:11",
"text": "And Solomon finished the house of Yahweh and the house of the king. And all that came into the heart of Solomon to do with respect to the house of Yahweh and his own house he accomplished. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:12",
"text": " Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, \u201cI have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:13",
"text": "When I hold back the heavens so that there is not rain, and when I command the locust to devour the earth, and if I send disease among my people, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:14",
"text": "then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and will pray and will seek my face and will turn from their evil ways, then I myself shall hear from the heavens and will forgive their sins and heal their land. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:15",
"text": "Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:16",
"text": "And now I have chosen and consecrated this house for my name to be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there \u231efor all time\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:17",
"text": "Now as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked and do according to all that I have commanded you and will keep my ordinances and judgments, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:18",
"text": "then I will establish the throne of your kingdom as I promised to David your father, saying, \u2018A man shall not be cut off for you from ruling over Israel.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:19",
"text": " \u201cBut if you turn yourselves away and forsake my ordinances and my commandments which I have given before you all and will go and serve other gods and bow down to them, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:20",
"text": "then I will uproot them from upon my land that I have given to them, and this house that I have consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face, and I will make it a proverb and a taunt among all the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:21",
"text": "And as for this house, which was exalted, all who pass by it will be appalled and will say, \u2018Why has Yahweh done thus to this land and to this house?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "II Chronicles 7:22",
"text": "Then they will say, \u2018Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and they laid hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought upon them all this evil.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:1",
"text": " And it happened that at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh and his own house, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:2",
"text": "Solomon also built the cities that Huram had given to him, and he settled the \u231eIsraelites\u231f in them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:3",
"text": "And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah and laid siege upon it. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:4",
"text": "And he built Tadmor in the desert, and he built all the storage cities in Hamath. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:5",
"text": "He also built Upper Beth-Horon and Lower Beth-Horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:6",
"text": "Baalath and all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon; all the cities for chariots and cities for horses; and any desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:7",
"text": "All the people who remained from the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who were not from Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:8",
"text": "from the descendants who were left over after them in the land, whom the Israelites had not destroyed, Solomon conscripted them as forced labor until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:9",
"text": "But from the \u231eIsraelites\u231f Solomon did not give as servants for his work, but they were men of war, his commanders of his officers, and commanders of his chariots and his horses. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:10",
"text": "And these were the commanders of the garrisons that belonged to King Solomon, two hundred and fifty who exercised authority over the people. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:11",
"text": " And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, \u201cMy wife shall not dwell in the house of David, king of Israel, for those places to which the ark of Yahweh has come are holy. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:12",
"text": "Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh that he had built before the portico, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:13",
"text": "\u231eas was the daily requirement\u231f, to offer up according to the commandments of Moses for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and the three \u231eannual\u231f feasts: the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:14",
"text": "And in accord with the ordinance of David his father he appointed working groups of priests for their service, Levites for their responsibilities for praise and cultic service before the priests \u231eaccording to the daily requirement\u231f, and the gatekeepers in their working groups, gate by gate. For thus David the man of God had commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:15",
"text": "And they did not turn aside from the commandment of the king concerning the priests and the Levites concerning anything, and concerning the treasury rooms. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:16",
"text": "And Solomon accomplished all the work from the day the foundation stone was laid for the house of Yahweh until its completion, and the house of Yahweh was finished. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:17",
"text": "Then Solomon went to Ezion-Geber, and to Elath, on the edge of the sea in the land of Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "II Chronicles 8:18",
"text": "And Huram sent to him, by the hand of his servants, ships and servants knowledgeable of the sea. And they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and from there they collected four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:1",
"text": " Now the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with hard questions, with much wealth and camels, bearing spices and much gold and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and told him all that was \u231eon her mind\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:2",
"text": "And Solomon \u231eanswered all her questions\u231f. Not a word was hidden from Solomon that he did not answer for her. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:3",
"text": "When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon and the house he had built, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:4",
"text": "and the food of his table, and the position of his officers, the duty of his servants and their clothing, his cupbearers and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of Yahweh, there was no longer any breath in her. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:5",
"text": "And she said to the king, \u201cThe word which I heard in my land concerning your words and your wisdom is true, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:6",
"text": "but I did not believe their words until I came and saw with my own eyes. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not reported to me; you surpass the rumors that I had heard. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:7",
"text": "Blessed are your men, and blessed are these your servants who stand before you regularly and hear your wisdom! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:8",
"text": "Blessed be Yahweh your God who took delight in you, to put you on his throne as king for Yahweh your God! Because your God loved Israel, he established him forever and has put you over them as king to do justice and righteousness!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:9",
"text": "And she gave to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. And there were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:10",
"text": " Moreover the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir brought algum wood and precious stones. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:11",
"text": "And the king made steps for the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, and lyres and harps for the singers from the algum wood. And there was not seen anything like them before in the land of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:12",
"text": "Now King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba every desired thing she asked, besides what she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went to her land, she and her servants. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:13",
"text": " And it happened that the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:14",
"text": "besides the gold and silver the traders and merchants brought, and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:15",
"text": "And King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into each shield. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:16",
"text": "And he made three hundred small shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels went into each small shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:17",
"text": "And the king made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:18",
"text": "And the throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to the throne. And there were armrests \u231eon each side\u231f. And by \u231ethe seat\u231f were two lions standing beside the armrests. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:19",
"text": "And twelve lions were standing there on each of the six steps \u231eon each end\u231f. And there was nothing like it made in all the kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:20",
"text": "And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not valued as anything in the days of Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:21",
"text": "For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Once \u231eevery three years\u231f the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:22",
"text": " Thus King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:23",
"text": "And all the kings of the earth sought the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God put in his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:24",
"text": "And each of them brought his gifts, objects of silver, objects of gold, cloaks, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, as an amount year by year. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:25",
"text": "And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:26",
"text": "And he ruled over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, to the boundary of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:27",
"text": "And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as the sycamore trees that are in the Shephelah for abundance. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:28",
"text": "And the horses were imported from Egypt and from all lands for Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:29",
"text": " As for the remainder of the words of Solomon from the first to the last, are they not written in the chronicles of Nathan the prophet and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer, concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat? "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:30",
"text": "And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "II Chronicles 9:31",
"text": "And Solomon slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:1",
"text": " Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:2",
"text": "And it happened that when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it\u2014now he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon\u2014Jeroboam returned from Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:3",
"text": "And they sent and called him. Then Jeroboam and all Israel went, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:4",
"text": "\u201cYour father made our yoke heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:5",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cIn three days return to me again.\u201d And the people went away. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:6",
"text": " Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had been \u231eserving\u231f before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, \u201cWhat word do you advise to answer this people?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:7",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cIf you will be good to this people and please them, then speak good words to them. Then they will be your servants \u231eforever\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:8",
"text": "But he forsook the advice of the elders that advised him and took counsel of the young men who had grown up with him who were \u231eserving\u231f before him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:9",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhat do you advise that we should say in return to this people, who said to me, \u2018Lighten the yoke that your father has put upon us\u2019?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:10",
"text": "Then the young men who had grown up with him said to him, \u201cThus you should say to this people who have said to you, \u2018Your father made our yoke heavy, so you yourself should lighten it for us.\u2019 Thus you should say to them, \u2018My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:11",
"text": "So now, my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, but I myself will add to the yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I myself will do so with scorpions.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:12",
"text": " Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had spoken, saying, \u201cReturn to me on the third day.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:13",
"text": "And the king answered them harshly, and King Rehoboam forsook the advice of the elders. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:14",
"text": "And he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, \u201cI will make your yoke heavy, and I myself will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will do so with scorpions.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:15",
"text": "So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turning of events from God, so that Yahweh might fulfill his word that he had spoken by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:16",
"text": "So all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, and the people answered the king, saying, \u201cWhat portion is there for us in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each to your tents, O Israel! Now look to your own house, David!\u201d And all Israel went to their own tents. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:17",
"text": "But as for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f who were living in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam ruled over them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:18",
"text": "Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was \u231ein charge of\u231f the forced labor, but the \u231eIsraelites\u231f stoned him with stones, and he died. Then King Rehoboam hastily went up into the chariot to flee to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "II Chronicles 10:19",
"text": "So Israel has rebelled against the house of David until this day. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:1",
"text": " When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand \u231echosen warriors\u231f, to fight against Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:2",
"text": "But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:3",
"text": "\u201cSay to Rehoboam, son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:4",
"text": "\u2018Thus says Yahweh: \u201cDo not go up, and do not fight against your brothers. Return, each man to his house, for this matter has come from me.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d So they obeyed the words of Yahweh and turned back from going against Jeroboam. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:5",
"text": " And Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities as strongholds in Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:6",
"text": "He built Bethlehem, Etah, Tekoa, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:7",
"text": "Beth-Zur, Socoh, Adullam, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:8",
"text": "Gath, Mareshah, Ziph, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:9",
"text": "Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:10",
"text": "Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities that are in Judah and in Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:11",
"text": "And he strengthened the fortifications and put commanders in them, along with stores of food, olive oil, and wine. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:12",
"text": "And in all the cities he put shields and spears, and he greatly strengthened them. So he had Judah and Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:13",
"text": " Now the priests and the Levites who were throughout all Israel took their stand with him from all their territories. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:14",
"text": "For the Levites left their pasturelands and their property and came to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:15",
"text": "And he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the bull calves that he had made. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:16",
"text": "Then after them, from all the tribes of Israel, those who set their heart to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to offer to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:17",
"text": "And they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, secure for three years, for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:18",
"text": " Then Rehoboam took to himself as a wife Mahalath, the daughter of Yerimot son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:19",
"text": "And she bore to him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:20",
"text": "And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:21",
"text": "And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters). "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:22",
"text": "And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief and crown prince over his brothers, in order to make him king. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "II Chronicles 11:23",
"text": "And he dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons throughout all the land of Judah and Benjamin, through all the fortified cities, and gave abundant provisions to them and obtained many wives for them. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:1",
"text": " And when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and when he was strengthened, he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:2",
"text": "And it happened that in the fifth year of King Rehoboam (for they had acted unfaithfully against Yahweh), Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:3",
"text": "with one thousand two hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And there was no number to the people who came up with him from Egypt\u2014Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:4",
"text": "And he took the fortified cities that belonged to Judah, and he came up to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:5",
"text": " Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem from before Shishak. And he said to them, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018You yourselves have abandoned me, and I myself have surely abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:6",
"text": "Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, \u201cYahweh is righteous.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:7",
"text": "And when Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, \u201cThey have humbled themselves; I will not destroy. I will give to them some way of escape, that my anger not be poured out against Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:8",
"text": "However, they shall be his servants, that they might know my service and the service of the kingdoms of other countries.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:9",
"text": " Then Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and he took the treasures out of the house of Yahweh and the treasures out of the king\u2019s house. He took everything. He also took the small shields of gold that Solomon had made. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:10",
"text": "And King Rehoboam made small shields of bronze in their place and committed them into the hand of the commanders of the guards who were keeping the entrance of the house of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:11",
"text": "And whenever the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guards came and carried them, and then they returned them to the alcove of the guards. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:12",
"text": "And when he humbled himself, the anger of Yahweh was turned away from him, so that he did not destroy the city completely. Moreover, matters were well in Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:13",
"text": " So King Rehoboam was strengthened in Jerusalem, and he reigned there. Now, Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh had chosen to put his name out of all the tribes of Israel. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonite. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:14",
"text": "And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:15",
"text": " Now the words of Rehoboam from the first to the last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer as a record? And there were battles between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "II Chronicles 12:16",
"text": "And Rehoboam slept with his ancestors, and he was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:1",
"text": " In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah reigned over Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:2",
"text": "He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. Now there was war between Abijah and between Jeroboam. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:3",
"text": "And Abijah joined in the battle with an army of four hundred thousand \u231ebattle-hardened warriors\u231f, chosen men, and Jeroboam put the battle in order against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, an army of mighty warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:4",
"text": " Then Abijah stood up on top of Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, \u201cHear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:5",
"text": "Do you not all know that Yahweh the God of Israel gave the kingdom to David over Israel forever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:6",
"text": "But Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:7",
"text": "and worthless men, \u231esons of wickedness\u231f, were gathered about him and became hostile against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was a boy and gentle of heart and was not strong enough to stand before them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:8",
"text": "So now you yourselves are considering that you are strong before the kingdom of Yahweh which is in the hand the sons of David, since you yourselves are a great multitude and you have bull calves of gold that Jeroboam has made for idols. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:9",
"text": "Did you not drive out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, the Levites? Have you not made for yourselves priests like all the peoples of the lands? All who come \u231eto be consecrated for priestly service\u231f with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what is not a god. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:10",
"text": "But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him. The priests serving Yahweh are the sons of Aaron, the Levites, according to their service. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:11",
"text": "They offer burnt offerings to Yahweh \u231eevery morning\u231f and \u231eevery evening\u231f, sweet spices of incense, and the rows of bread upon the pure table. And the golden lampstand with its lamps they keep kindled \u231eevery evening\u231f, for we are keeping the requirement of Yahweh our God, but you yourselves have forsaken him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:12",
"text": "And look, God is with us at the head, and his priests have the trumpets for sounding blasts against you, O sons of Israel. Do not fight against Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:13",
"text": " Then Jeroboam sent around an ambush to come behind them. So they were in front of Judah, but the ambush was behind them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:14",
"text": "When Judah turned, then behold, the battle against them was in front and behind, and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests blew on the trumpets. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:15",
"text": "Then the men of Judah shouted, and it happened that when the men of Judah were shouting, then God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:16",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f fled from before Judah, and God gave them into their hand. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:17",
"text": "And Abijah and his people struck a great blow against them, and the dead from Israel that fell were five hundred thousand chosen men. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:18",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f were subdued at that time, and the people of Judah were victorious, for they relied upon Yahweh the God of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:19",
"text": " And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam and took cities from him: Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:20",
"text": "And Jeroboam did not regain strength again in the days of Abijah. And Yahweh plagued him and he died. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:21",
"text": "But Abijah became strong, and he took to himself fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "II Chronicles 13:22",
"text": "Now the rest of the words of Abijah and his ways and his words are written in the story of the prophet Iddo. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:1",
"text": " And Abijah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son became king in his place. In his days the land was at rest ten years. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:2",
"text": "Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:3",
"text": "He removed the foreign altars and high places, broke down the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherahs. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:4",
"text": "And he commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, and to keep the law and the commandment. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:5",
"text": "And he removed the high places and the incense stands from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom had rest under him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:6",
"text": "And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land was at rest. Under him there was no war in those years, for Yahweh had given rest to him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:7",
"text": "And he said to Judah, \u201cLet us build these cities and surround them with walls, towers, gates, and bars while the land is before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God. We have sought and he has given rest to us on every side.\u201d So they built and had success. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:8",
"text": "And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand from Judah, bearing shields and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand from Benjamin who carried shields and drew bows. All of these were mighty warriors of strength. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:9",
"text": " Zerah the Cushite came out against them with an army of a thousand thousands and three hundred chariots. And he came to Mareshah. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:10",
"text": "And Asa went out before him, and a battle was put in order in the valley of Zepah at Mareshah. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:11",
"text": " Then Asa cried out to Yahweh his God. And he said, \u201cO Yahweh, there is none with you to help between the great and the powerless. Help us, O Yahweh our God, for we rely upon you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Yahweh, you are our God! Let no man prevail against you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:12",
"text": " So Yahweh defeated the Cushites before Asa and before Judah, and the Cushites fled. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:13",
"text": "Then Asa and the army with him pursued them to Gerar. And many from the Cushites fell, for they had no deliverance, for they were shattered before Yahweh and before his army. And they carried away much war booty. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:14",
"text": "And they struck all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of Yahweh was upon them. And they plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "II Chronicles 14:15",
"text": "And they also struck the tents of the herdsmen and carried away many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:1",
"text": " Now Azariah the son of Oded\u2014the Spirit of God came upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:2",
"text": "And he went out before Asa and said to him, \u201cHear me, O Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you while you are with him. And if you will seek him he will be found by you. But if you forsake him he will forsake you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:3",
"text": "Now Israel has been without the true God many days, and without a teaching priest, and without law, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:4",
"text": "but at its trouble he returned to Yahweh, the God of Israel. They sought him, and he was found by them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:5",
"text": "And in those times there was no peace for the one going out and the one coming in, for great tumults were upon all the inhabitants of the lands. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:6",
"text": "Nation was crushed by nation, and city was against city, for God threw them into confusion by all sorts of trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:7",
"text": "But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:8",
"text": " And when Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the vile idols from all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was in front of the portico of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:9",
"text": " And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those sojourning with them, from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for many had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:10",
"text": "And they were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:11",
"text": "And they sacrificed to Yahweh on that day from the war booty they brought back: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:12",
"text": "And they entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their inmost being, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:13",
"text": "but all who will not seek Yahweh the God of Israel should be killed, from young to old, from men to women. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:14",
"text": "And they took an oath to Yahweh with a great voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with horns. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:15",
"text": "And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they swore with all their heart. And they sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and Yahweh gave rest to them all around. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:16",
"text": " And also Maacah, the mother of Asa, the king removed her from being queen, because she had made a repulsive image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her repulsive image, and he crushed and burned it at the Wadi Kidron. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:17",
"text": "But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was fully devoted all his days. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:18",
"text": "And he brought the holy objects of his father and his own holy objects into the house of God\u2014silver and gold and vessels. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "II Chronicles 15:19",
"text": "And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:1",
"text": " In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha the king of Israel went up against Judah. And he built Ramah in order not to allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa, king of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:2",
"text": "Then Asa brought out silver and gold from the storehouses of the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, and he sent them to Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:3",
"text": "\u201cThere is a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Look, I am sending you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha, king of Israel, that he might withdraw from me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:4",
"text": " And Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa, and he sent commanders of his troops that were with him against the cities of Israel. And they struck Ijon, Dan, Abel-Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:5",
"text": "And it happened that when Baasha heard this, he stopped building Ramah and ceased his work. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:6",
"text": "Then King Asa took all of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had been building, and he built Geba and Mizpah with them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:7",
"text": " And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, \u201cOn account of your reliance upon the king of Aram, and since you did not rely on Yahweh your God, therefore the troops of the king of Aram escaped from your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:8",
"text": "Were not the Cushites and Libyans a mighty army with very abundant chariots and horsemen? And because of your reliance on Yahweh he gave them into your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:9",
"text": "For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose heart is fully devoted to him. You have been foolish in this, for from now on you will have wars.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:10",
"text": " Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in \u231ethe prison\u231f, for he was enraged with him concerning this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:11",
"text": " Now behold, the words of Asa from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:12",
"text": "And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, he fell \u231eseverely\u231f ill in his feet. But even in his illness he did not seek Yahweh, but only among the healers. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:13",
"text": "And Asa slept with his ancestors. And he died in the forty-first year of his reign. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "II Chronicles 16:14",
"text": "And they buried him in his burial site, which had been cut out for him in the city of David. And they laid him on the bier which they had filled with all kinds of spices made by the perfumers as a fragment ointment. And they made a great fire in his honor. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:1",
"text": " And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and he strengthened himself against Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:2",
"text": "And he put troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had taken. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:3",
"text": "And Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the former ways of David his father and did not seek after the Baals, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:4",
"text": "but he sought after the God of his ancestors and walked in his commandments and not according to the works of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:5",
"text": "So Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah gave tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had much wealth and honor. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:6",
"text": "And his heart was courageous in the ways of Yahweh. Moreover, he removed the high places and the Asherahs from Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:7",
"text": " In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:8",
"text": "and with them the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah; and with them the priests Elisham and Joram. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:9",
"text": "And they taught in Judah, and the scroll of the law of Yahweh was with them when they went around in all the cities of Judah, and they taught the people. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:10",
"text": " And the fear of Yahweh was upon all the kingdoms of the lands surrounding Judah, and they did not make war against Jehoshaphat. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:11",
"text": "And some of the Philistines brought a gift and silver to Jehoshaphat as tribute. The Arabians also brought him seven thousand seven hundred sheep and seven thousand seven hundred goats. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:12",
"text": " And Jehoshaphat \u231egrew greater and greater\u231f, and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:13",
"text": "And he had many supplies in the cities of Judah and mighty warriors for battle in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:14",
"text": "Now these were their enrollment by the house of their ancestors: of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah, the commander, and with him were three hundred thousand mighty armed warriors; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:15",
"text": "and at his side, Jehohanan the commander, and with him were two hundred and eighty thousand; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:16",
"text": "and at his side, Amasiah the son of Zicri, who had made a freewill offering to Yahweh, and with him were two hundred thousand mighty armed warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:17",
"text": "And from Benjamin: Eliada, a powerful mighty warrior, and with him were two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:18",
"text": "and at his side, Jehozabad, and with him were one hundred and eighty thousand armed for war. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "II Chronicles 17:19",
"text": "These were serving the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:1",
"text": " Now Jehoshaphat had much wealth and honor, and he became son-in-law to Ahab. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:2",
"text": "And \u231eafter some years\u231f he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle for him and for the people who were with him, and urged him to go up against Ramoth-Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:3",
"text": "And Ahab the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, \u201cWill you go up with me to Ramoth-Gilead?\u201d And he answered him, \u201cI am as you are, and my people are as your people with you in war.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:4",
"text": " Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, \u201cSeek \u231efirst of all\u231f the word of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:5",
"text": "Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets, four hundred men. And he said to them, \u201cShall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall we cease?\u201d And they said, \u201cGo up, since God will give it into the hand of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:6",
"text": "Then Jehoshaphat said, \u201cIs there not here another prophet of Yahweh that we might inquire of him?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:7",
"text": "Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, \u201cThere is yet one man by whom to seek Yahweh, but I hate him, because he never prophesies good concerning me, but \u231ealways\u231f disaster. He is Micaiah the son of Imlah.\u201d Then Jehoshaphat said, \u201cLet not the king say thus.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:8",
"text": "Then the king of Israel called to a eunuch and said, \u201cQuickly bring Micaiah the son of Imlah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:9",
"text": " Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were each sitting on his throne, clothed in robes. And they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:10",
"text": "And Zedekiah the son of Kenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018With these you will gore Aram to their destruction.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:11",
"text": "And all the prophets prophesied thus, saying, \u201cGo up to Ramoth-Gilead and triumph! Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:12",
"text": " Then the messenger who went to call Micaiah said to him, \u201cBehold, the words of the prophets are good with one voice to the king. Please let your word be as one with them and speak good.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:13",
"text": "But Micaiah said, \u201cAs Yahweh lives, only what my God has said, that will I speak.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:14",
"text": " And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, \u201cMicaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to war or shall I cease?\u201d And he said, \u201cGo up and triumph! They shall be given into your hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:15",
"text": "But the king said to him, \u201cHow many times shall I make you swear that you speak nothing except the truth in the name of Yahweh?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:16",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cI saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains like sheep that had no shepherd. And Yahweh said, \u2018These have no masters; let them return to his own house in peace.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:17",
"text": "Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, \u201cDid I not say to you he would not prophesy good concerning me, but only disaster?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:18",
"text": "Then Micaiah said, \u201cTherefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting upon his throne with all the host of heaven standing on his right and on his left. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:19",
"text": "And Yahweh said, \u2018Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel that he would go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?\u2019 And one said this, and another said that. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:20",
"text": "Then a spirit came forth and stood before Yahweh and said, \u2018I will entice him.\u2019 Then Yahweh said to him, \u2018By what means?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:21",
"text": "Then he said, \u2018I will go forth and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.\u2019 And he said, \u2018You will entice him and will also succeed. Go out and do so.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:22",
"text": "So now, behold, Yahweh has put a spirit of deception into the mouths of these your prophets. Yahweh has spoken disaster against you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:23",
"text": " Then Zedekiah the son of Kenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, \u201c\u231eWhich way\u231f did the Spirit of Yahweh come from me to speak to you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:24",
"text": "Then Micaiah said, \u201cBehold, you will see on that day when you go into a private room to hide yourself.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:25",
"text": "Then the king of Israel said, \u201cTake Micaiah and return him to Amon the commander of the city and to Jehoash the son of the king, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:26",
"text": "and say, \u2018Thus says the king: \u201cPut this one into the prison house, and let him eat \u231ea meager ration of bread and water\u231f until I return in peace.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:27",
"text": "And Micaiah said, \u201cIf you surely return in peace Yahweh has not spoken with me.\u201d Then he said, \u201cHear, peoples, all of them!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:28",
"text": " Then the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:29",
"text": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, \u201cI will disguise myself and go into battle, but you, wear your garments.\u201d So the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went to war. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:30",
"text": "Now the king of Aram had commanded the commanders of his chariots, saying, \u201cDo not fight with the small or the great, but only with the king of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:31",
"text": "And it happened that when the commanders of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, then they said, \u201cIt is the king of Israel!\u201d And they turned against him to fight. Then Jehoshaphat cried out and Yahweh helped him. God drove them away from him. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:32",
"text": "And it happened that when the commanders of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from following him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:33",
"text": "Now a certain man drew the bow \u231eat random\u231f and struck the king of Israel between the soldering of his breastplate armor. Then he said to the chariot driver, \u201c\u231eTurn around\u231f; get me away from the war camp, for I am wounded.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "II Chronicles 18:34",
"text": "And the battle went on that day, and the king of Israel was propped up in the chariot facing Aram until the evening. And he died at the time of the going down of the sun. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19:1",
"text": " Then Jehoshaphat king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19:2",
"text": "And Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. And he said to King Jehoshaphat, \u201cShould you be a help to the wicked and love those who hate Yahweh? On account of this, wrath has come against you from Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19:3",
"text": "Nevertheless some good things have been found in regard to you, for you burned the Asherahs out of the land and set your heart to seek God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19:4",
"text": " And Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem and returned and went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19:5",
"text": "And he appointed judges in the land and in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19:6",
"text": "And he said to the judges, \u201cConsider what you are doing, for you are not judging for a man but for Yahweh. Now he is with you in speaking justice. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19:7",
"text": "So now, let the fear of Yahweh be upon you all. \u231eBe careful what you do\u231f, for there is neither wickedness nor \u231eshowing partiality\u231f and taking bribes with Yahweh our God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19:8",
"text": " Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites and the priests and heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of Israel as judges and to decide legal disputes for Yahweh. And they sat in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19:9",
"text": "And he commanded them, saying, \u201cThus you must do in the fear of Yahweh in faithfulness and with a whole heart. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19:10",
"text": "Any legal dispute that comes before you from your brothers who live in their cities concerning bloodguilt, law, commandment, statutes, and justice, you must warn them, so that they do not incur guilt before Yahweh, and that wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you must do that you do not incur guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "II Chronicles 19:11",
"text": "And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the word of Yahweh, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all matters of the king, and the Levites shall be before you as officials. Be strong and do well! May Yahweh be with the upright.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:1",
"text": " And it happened that afterward, the \u231eMoabites\u231f, the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, and some of the Meunites came against Jehoshaphat for war. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:2",
"text": "And they came and reported it to Jehoshaphat, saying, \u201cA great multitude from beyond the sea, from Aram, is coming against you. Now behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar\u201d (that is, En Gedi). "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:3",
"text": "Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek Yahweh. And he called for a fast through all Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:4",
"text": "And Judah assembled to seek after Yahweh; even from all the cities of Judah they came to seek Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:5",
"text": " Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of Yahweh before the new courtyard. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:6",
"text": "And he said, \u201cO Yahweh, God of our ancestors, are you not God in heaven? Now you rule in all the kingdoms of the nations, and in your hand are power and might, and there is none who can resist against you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:7",
"text": "O, our God, did you yourself not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:8",
"text": "And they lived in it and built for you a sanctuary for your name in it, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:9",
"text": "\u2018If disaster, a sword, punishment, disease, or famine come upon us, we shall stand before this house and before you\u2014for your name is in this house\u2014and cry out to you out of our trouble, then you will hear and save us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:10",
"text": "And now, look, the people of Moab and Ammon and Mount Seir whom you did not allow Israel to come against when they came from Egypt, from whom they turned aside and did not destroy, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:11",
"text": "now behold, they are rewarding us by coming to dispossess us from your possession which you gave us as an inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:12",
"text": "O our God, will you not judge them, for there is no power in us before this great multitude that is coming against us. Now we do not know what we shall do, for our eyes are upon you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:13",
"text": " And all Judah was standing before Yahweh, and also their little children, their wives, and their children. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:14",
"text": "Then the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jahaziel, the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite from the descendants of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:15",
"text": "And he said, \u201cListen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat, thus says Yahweh to you: \u2018Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed before this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God\u2019s. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:16",
"text": "Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they are coming up the ascent of Ziz. And you will find them at the end of the valley facing the desert of Jeruel. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:17",
"text": "There will be no need for you to fight in this battle. Take your stand! Stand and see the deliverance of Yahweh among you, O Judah and Jerusalem! Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out before them and Yahweh will be with you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:18",
"text": "Then Jehoshaphat bowed his face down to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before Yahweh to worship Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:19",
"text": "Then the Levites, from the \u231eKohathites\u231f and from the \u231eKorahites\u231f stood up to praise Yahweh the God of Israel with an exceedingly loud voice. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:20",
"text": " And they rose up early in the morning and went out to the desert of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, \u201cHear me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, and you shall be established! Believe in his prophets, and you shall succeed!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:21",
"text": "And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed singers to Yahweh who were giving praise to the splendor of his holiness when they went out before the army. And they said, \u201cGive thanks to Yahweh, for his loyal love is everlasting!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:22",
"text": " And \u231ewhen\u231f they began with singing and praise, Yahweh set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who were coming against Judah. And they were defeated "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:23",
"text": "when the people of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to destroy and demolish them. And when the inhabitants of Seir had made an end of them, each helped to destroy his comrade. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:24",
"text": " And Judah came against the watchtower of the wilderness. And they looked at the crowd, and behold, corpses were lying on the ground. There was none who had escaped. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:25",
"text": "When Jehoshaphat came with his people to plunder their booty, they found among them in abundance possessions, corpses, and precious items. And they took plunder for themselves \u231euntil they could carry no more\u231f. And they were three days in plundering the booty, for it was abundant. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:26",
"text": "And on the fourth day, they assembled in the Valley of Berakah, for there they blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place is called the Valley of Berakah up to this day. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:27",
"text": "And all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned, and Jehoshaphat was at their head in returning to Jerusalem with joy, for Yahweh caused them to rejoice over their enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:28",
"text": "And they came to Jerusalem with harps, stringed instruments, and trumpets to the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:29",
"text": "And the fear of God came upon all the kingdoms of the earth when they heard that Yahweh had fought against the enemies of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:30",
"text": "So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at rest, since his God gave rest to him all around. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:31",
"text": " So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign. And he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:32",
"text": "And he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn aside from it, to do what was right in the eyes of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:33",
"text": "Only the high places were not removed. The people still had not yet set their heart on the God of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:34",
"text": "Now the rest of the words of Jehoshaphat, from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the scroll of the kings of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:35",
"text": " And afterward Jehoshaphat the king of Judah joined with Ahaziah the king of Israel, who acted wickedly. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:36",
"text": "He joined with him to build ships to go to Tarshish. And they built the ships in Ezion Geber. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "II Chronicles 20:37",
"text": "Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, \u201cBecause of your joining with Ahaziah, Yahweh will break down your works.\u201d And the ships were destroyed and were not able to go to Tarshish. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:1",
"text": " And Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:2",
"text": "Now he had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:3",
"text": "And their father gave to them many gifts of silver, gold, and valuables, with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, for he was the firstborn. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:4",
"text": "When Jehoram ascended to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself and murdered all his brothers with the sword, and even some of the princes of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:5",
"text": " Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:6",
"text": "And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did evil in the sight of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:7",
"text": "But Yahweh was not willing to destroy the house of David on account of the covenant that he had \u231emade\u231f with David and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his descendants \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:8",
"text": " In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they set up a king of their own. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:9",
"text": "Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all the chariots with him, and when night came he struck Edom who was all around him and the commanders of his chariots. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:10",
"text": "So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah until this day. Then Libnah also revolted at that time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:11",
"text": " Moreover, he made high places in the hill country of Judah, and he enticed the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful, and he led Judah astray. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:12",
"text": "And a letter from Elijah the prophet came to him, saying, \u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of David your father: \u2018Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father or in the ways of Asa, the king of Judah, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:13",
"text": "but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful like the unfaithfulness of the house of Ahab, and have also murdered your brothers of the house of your father who were better than you, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:14",
"text": "behold, Yahweh is inflicting a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:15",
"text": "and you yourself will be afflicted with great illness, with sickness in your bowels, until your bowels come out on account of the illness, day by day.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:16",
"text": " And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who were \u231enear\u231f the Cushites against Jehoram. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:17",
"text": "And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions found in the house of the king, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz his youngest son. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:18",
"text": " And after all this Yahweh afflicted him in his bowels with an illness for which there was no cure. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:19",
"text": "And it happened that \u231eafter many days, at the end of two years\u231f, his bowels came out because of his illness, and he died in terrible agony. And his people did not make a fire for him like the fire for his ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "II Chronicles 21:20",
"text": "He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one\u2019s regret. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the burial sites of the kings. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:1",
"text": " And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, for the band of men who had come with the Arabs to the camp had murdered all the older sons. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, the king of Judah, reigned. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:2",
"text": "Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:3",
"text": "He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor for doing wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:4",
"text": "And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as the house of Ahab had done, for they were his counselors to his destruction after the death of his father. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:5",
"text": "He also walked in their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-Gilead. And the Arameans wounded Joram. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:6",
"text": "And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds he had suffered at Ramah, when he made war against Hazael king of Aram. And Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram son of Ahab in Jezreel for he was sick. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:7",
"text": " But the downfall of Ahaziah was from God, and intended to come to Joram. And when he came, he went out with Jehoram to Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:8",
"text": "And it happened that when Jehu was judging the house of Ahab, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah who ministered to Ahaziah, and he killed them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:9",
"text": "And he searched for Ahaziah and captured him. And he was hiding in Samaria. And they brought him to Jehu and put him to death. And they buried him, for they said, \u201cHe is the descendant of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with his whole heart.\u201d And the house of Ahab had no one to exercise power over the kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:10",
"text": " Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and murdered all the \u231eroyal descendants\u231f of the house of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:11",
"text": "But Jehosheba the daughter of the king took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, and kidnapped him away from the sons of the king who were to be put to death. And she put him and his nurse in a private bedroom. So Jehosheba the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from before Athaliah so that she did not put him to death. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "II Chronicles 22:12",
"text": "And he was hidden with them in the house of God six years, but Athaliah reigned over the land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:1",
"text": " And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself and took with him into a covenant relationship the commanders of hundreds: Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zicri. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:2",
"text": "And they went around in Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:3",
"text": "And all the assembly \u231emade\u231f a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, \u201cBehold, the son of the king shall reign as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:4",
"text": "This is the thing that you must do: one third of you priests and Levites \u231ecoming off duty on the Sabbath\u231f shall be gatekeepers at the entrances, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:5",
"text": "and one third at the house of the king, and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courtyards of the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:6",
"text": "Let no one enter into the house of Yahweh except the priests and the ministering Levites. They themselves may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the requirements of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:7",
"text": "And the Levites shall surround the king all around, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever comes into the house shall be put to death. You shall be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:8",
"text": " And the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And they each took his men who were \u231ecoming off duty on the Sabbath\u231f with \u231ethe ones going out to duty on the Sabbath\u231f, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the working groups. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:9",
"text": "And Jehoiada the priest gave the spears and small shields that had belonged to King David that were in the house of God to the commanders of hundreds. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:10",
"text": "And he appointed all the people, each with his weapon in his hand from the south side of the house to the north side of the house around the altar and the house. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:11",
"text": "Then they brought out the son of the king and set upon him the crown and gave him the statute and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said, \u201c\u231eLong live the king\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:12",
"text": " When Athaliah heard the sound of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people at the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:13",
"text": "And she looked and, behold, the king was standing by his column at the entrance, and the commanders and trumpeters beside the king, along with all the people of the land, rejoicing and blowing with trumpets, and the singers with the instruments of song leading the praise. And Athaliah tore her garments and cried, \u201cConspiracy! Conspiracy!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:14",
"text": "Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of the hundreds appointed over the troops, and he said to them, \u201cBring her out between the ranks, and whoever goes after her shall be put to death with the sword.\u201d For the priest had said, \u201cYou must not kill her in the house of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:15",
"text": "And they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the Horse Gate of the house of the king, and they killed her there. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:16",
"text": " And Jehoiada \u231emade\u231f a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be Yahweh\u2019s people. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:17",
"text": "Then all the people went to the house of Baal and broke it down. And they smashed his altars and his images, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:18",
"text": "And Jehoiada placed appointees at the house of Yahweh under the hand of the Levitical priests whom David had allotted to the house of Yahweh to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh as was written in the law of Moses, with joy and with song, according to the \u231eorder of David\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:19",
"text": "And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of Yahweh so that no person unclean with respect to any matter could enter. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:20",
"text": "And he took the commanders of hundreds, the noblemen, the governors over the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of Yahweh. And they came through the upper gate to the house of the king, and they set the king upon the throne of the kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "II Chronicles 23:21",
"text": "So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been killed with the sword. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:1",
"text": " Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Zibiah from Beersheba. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:2",
"text": "And Joash did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:3",
"text": "And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he fathered sons and daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:4",
"text": " And afterward it was in the heart of Joash to repair the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:5",
"text": "So he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, \u201cGo out to the cities of Judah and gather money from all Israel to strengthen the house of your God sufficiently year by year. Now you yourselves must hasten to the matter.\u201d But the Levites did not act with haste. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:6",
"text": "So the king called Jehoiada the chief, and he said to him, \u201cWhy have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax of Moses, the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel for the tent of the testimony?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:7",
"text": "For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and had used all the holy vessels of the house of Yahweh for the Baals. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:8",
"text": " Then the king commanded, and they made a chest and put it at the gate outside the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:9",
"text": "And \u231ethey issued a proclamation\u231f in Judah and in Jerusalem to bring to Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God had levied upon Israel in the wilderness. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:10",
"text": "And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and they brought their tax and threw it into the chest until it was finished. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:11",
"text": "And whenever he brought the chest to the appointee of the king by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money in it, then the secretary of the king and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest, then they took it and returned it to its place. Thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:12",
"text": "And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of Yahweh. And they hired stonemasons and skilled craftsmen to restore the house of Yahweh, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:13",
"text": "So those doing the work labored, and the restoration for the work made progress under their hand. And they restored the house of God to its position and strengthened it. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:14",
"text": "And when they had finished, they brought the remainder of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and they used it for objects for the house of Yahweh, objects for the service and the burnt offerings, dishes, and objects of gold and silver. And they were offering burnt offerings in the house of Yahweh regularly, all the days of Jehoiada. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:15",
"text": " And Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and he died; he was one hundred and thirty years old at his death. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:16",
"text": "And they buried him in the city of David with the kings, for he did good in Israel and with respect to God and his house. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:17",
"text": " Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:18",
"text": "And they forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors and served the Asherahs and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem on account of this guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:19",
"text": "But he sent prophets among them, to bring them back to Yahweh. And they testified against them, and they did not obey. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:20",
"text": " Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people and said to them, \u201cThus says God: \u2018Why are you transgressing the commandments of Yahweh so that you will not succeed? For you have forsaken Yahweh, so he will forsake you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:21",
"text": "Then they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:22",
"text": "So King Joash did not remember the loyal love that Jehoiada had shown to him, and he killed his son. And as he was dying he said, \u201cMay Yahweh see and avenge!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:23",
"text": " And it happened at the turn of the year that the army of Aram went up against him, and they came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the commanders of the people from among the people, and all the war booty they sent to the king of Damascus. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:24",
"text": "Though the army of Aram came with few men, Yahweh gave a very large army into their hand, for they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. And they inflicted punishment on Joash. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:25",
"text": " And when they were going away from him (for they had left him with many wounds), his servants conspired against him on account of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest. So they killed him on his bed and he died. And they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him at the burial sites of the kings. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:26",
"text": "Now these are the ones who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath, the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith, the Moabite. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "II Chronicles 24:27",
"text": "And as for his sons, the many oracles against him, and his repair of the foundation of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the scroll of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:1",
"text": " Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king. And he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Jehoaddan from Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:2",
"text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not with a fully-devoted heart. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:3",
"text": "And it happened that as his reign was strengthened, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:4",
"text": "But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the scroll of Moses, where Yahweh commanded, saying, \u201cFathers shall not be put to death on account of the sons, and the sons shall not be put to death on account of the fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:5",
"text": " Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by \u231efamilies\u231f under commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. And he counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found them to be three hundred thousand chosen for going out to battle, able with spear and shield. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:6",
"text": "And he hired from Israel one hundred thousand strong, mighty warriors for one hundred talents. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:7",
"text": " But a man of God came to him, saying, \u201cO king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for Yahweh is not with Israel, all the Ephraimites. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:8",
"text": "But even still, you yourself go, do! Be strong for the battle else God will make you stumble before the enemy! For there is power with God to help and to cause stumbling.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:9",
"text": "And Amaziah said to the man of God, \u201cNow what should I do with the one hundred talents that I have given to the troops of Israel?\u201d And the man of God said, \u201c\u231eYahweh is able to give\u231f to you more than this.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:10",
"text": "Then Amaziah dismissed the troops that came to him from Ephraim to go to their home. And \u231ethey became very angry\u231f with Judah, and they returned to their home \u231ein great anger\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:11",
"text": " Then Amaziah strengthened himself, and leading his army, he went to the Valley of Salt. And he struck down ten thousand men of Seir. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:12",
"text": "Now the \u231etroops\u231f captured ten thousand others alive, and they brought them to the top of the rock and threw them from the top of the rock. So all of them were smashed to pieces. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:13",
"text": " As for the \u231etroops\u231f Amaziah had sent back from going with him to war, they raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-Horon. And they struck down three thousand of them and plundered much booty. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:14",
"text": " And it happened that after Amaziah came back from killing the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and he stood them up to himself as gods and bowed down before them and make smoke offerings for them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:15",
"text": "So \u231eYahweh became very angry\u231f with Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, and he said to him, \u201cWhy have you sought the gods of the people who could not deliver their own people from your hand?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:16",
"text": "And it happened that while he was speaking to him, he said to him, \u201cHave we appointed you as a counselor to the king? Stop\u2014\u231ewhy should you be killed\u231f?\u201d So the prophet stopped and said, \u201cI know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:17",
"text": " Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel, and he sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, \u201cCome, \u231elet us face one another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:18",
"text": "And Joash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, \u201cThe thorn bush that is in Lebanon has sent to the cedar which is in Lebanon, saying, \u2018Give your daughter to my son as wife.\u2019 But a wild animal of the field that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thorn bush. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:19",
"text": "Look, you say that you have struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up to boast. Now remain at your home. Why stir up disaster that you fall, you and Judah with you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:20",
"text": " But Amaziah did not listen, for it was from God that he might give them into the hand of enemies, because they sought the gods of Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:21",
"text": "So Joash the king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah the king of Judah \u231efaced one another\u231f at Beth-Shemesh, which belongs to Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:22",
"text": "And Judah was defeated before Israel, and each man fled to his tent. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:23",
"text": "And Joash the king of Israel captured Amaziah the king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-Shemesh. And they brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:24",
"text": "Then with all the gold and silver, all the objects found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, the storehouses of the house of the king, and \u231ethe hostages\u231f, he returned to Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:25",
"text": " And Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the king of Israel, fifteen years. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:26",
"text": "Now the remainder of the words of Amaziah, from the first to the last, behold, are they not written in the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:27",
"text": "And from the time that Amaziah turned away from Yahweh, they had plotted a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. And he fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "II Chronicles 25:28",
"text": "And they carried him on the horses and buried him with his ancestors in the city of Judah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:1",
"text": " Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah (now he was sixteen years old) and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:2",
"text": "He built Elath and returned it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:3",
"text": "Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. And the name of his mother was Yecoliah of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:4",
"text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father had done. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:5",
"text": "And he began to seek God in the days of Zechariah who was teaching in visions of God. And \u231ewhenever\u231f he sought Yahweh God made him have success. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:6",
"text": " And he went out and made war against the Philistines, and he broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:7",
"text": "And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabs who were living in Gur-Baal and Meunim. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:8",
"text": "And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah, and his fame went out to the boundary of Egypt, for he became \u231every strong\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:9",
"text": "And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the Angle, and he strengthened them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:10",
"text": "And he built towers in the desert and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and on the plain, along with farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:11",
"text": "And Uzziah had troops \u231etrained and ready for war\u231f in divisions according to the number of their enrollment at the hand of Jeuel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah of the king\u2019s commanders. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:12",
"text": "The whole number of the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f for mighty warriors of strength was two thousand six hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:13",
"text": "And under their hand were army troops numbering three hundred and seven thousand five hundred who could make war with power and strength to help the king against an enemy. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:14",
"text": "And Uzziah prepared small shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the whole army. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:15",
"text": "And he made siege machines in Jerusalem designed by skillful men to be set upon the towers and upon the corners to shoot arrows and large slingstones. And his fame went out far, for he helped marvelously, for he was strong. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:16",
"text": " But on account of his strength his heart grew proud unto destruction. And he acted unfaithfully against Yahweh his God and went into the temple of Yahweh to offer an incense offering on the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:17",
"text": "And Azariah the priest, along with eighty strong priests with him, went in after him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:18",
"text": "And they stood against King Uzziah and said to him, \u201cIt is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but it is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully. There will be no honor for you from Yahweh God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:19",
"text": "Then Uzziah, his censer in hand to burn incense, became angry. And when he became angry with the priests, then leprosy appeared on his forehead in front of the priests in the house of Yahweh at the altar of incense. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:20",
"text": "When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him, behold, he was leprous in the forehead. So they rushed him away from there, and he also hastened to go out, for Yahweh had smitten him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:21",
"text": "So King Uzziah was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house as a leper, for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh. And Jotham his son was over the house of the king, judging the people of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:22",
"text": " Now the remainder of the words of Uzziah, from the first to the last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "II Chronicles 26:23",
"text": "And Uzziah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him with his ancestors in the burial field which belonged to the kings, because, they said, \u201cHe was leprous.\u201d And Jotham his son reigned in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "II Chronicles 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "II Chronicles 27:1",
"text": " Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "II Chronicles 27:2",
"text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done\u2014only he did not go into the temple of Yahweh. But the people still acted corruptly. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "II Chronicles 27:3",
"text": "He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and \u231ehe did much restoration\u231f on the wall of Ophel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "II Chronicles 27:4",
"text": "And he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built forts and towers in the wooded places. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "II Chronicles 27:5",
"text": "Now he fought with the king of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f and prevailed against them. And the \u231eAmmonites\u231f gave to him in that year one hundred talents of silver and ten thousand measures of wheat and ten thousand measures of barley. This is what the \u231eAmmonites\u231f rendered to him, as well as in the second and third year. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "II Chronicles 27:6",
"text": "And Jotham strengthened himself, for he established his ways before Yahweh his God. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "II Chronicles 27:7",
"text": " Now the remainder of the words of Jotham and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written upon the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "II Chronicles 27:8",
"text": "He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "II Chronicles 27:9",
"text": "And Jotham slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Ahaz became king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:1",
"text": " Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh like David his ancestor. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:2",
"text": "But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and also made molten idols for the Baals. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:3",
"text": "And he himself burned incense in the valley of Ben-Hinnom and burned his sons in the fire, according to the detestable practices of the nations whom Yahweh drove out before the Israelites. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:4",
"text": "And he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops, and under every flourishing tree. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:5",
"text": " Then Yahweh his God gave him into the hand of the king of Aram who defeated him and captured many captives from him and brought them to Damascus. Moreover, he was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he defeated him by a great attack. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:6",
"text": "And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, killed in one day one hundred and twenty thousand in Judah, all men of strength, because they forsook Yahweh the God of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:7",
"text": "And Zikri, a mighty warrior of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, Azrikam the commander of the house, and Elkanah the second to the king. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:8",
"text": "And the Israelites captured two hundred thousand of their brothers, women, sons, and daughters. And they also plundered much booty from them and brought the booty to Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:9",
"text": " Now a prophet of Yahweh was there; Oded was his name. And he went out before the army that was coming to Samaria and said to them, \u201cLook, it is on account of the anger of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, against Judah that he gave them into your hands, and you killed them in a rage reaching to the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:10",
"text": "So now, you yourselves plan to subdue people of Judah and Jerusalem as slaves and female servants for yourselves. \u231eIs there not also guilt on your part\u231f against Yahweh your God? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:11",
"text": "So now, listen to me and return the captives of your brothers whom you have taken captive, for the fierce anger of Yahweh is against you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:12",
"text": " Then men from the heads of Ephraim\u2014Azariah the son of Jehohanan, Berekiah the son of Meshillemoth, Hezekiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai\u2014stood against those returning from the fight. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:13",
"text": "And they said to them, \u201cYou shall not bring the captives here, for it is as guilt against Yahweh upon us. You yourselves plan to add to our sins and to our guilt, but our guilt is very great, and there is great anger against Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:14",
"text": "So the soldiers left the captives and the plunder before the commanders and all the assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:15",
"text": "Then the men designated by name arose and took the captives and from the plunder clothed all their nakedness. So they clothed them, gave them sandals, gave them food to eat, gave them water to drink, anointed them, and guided them with the donkeys provided for all those who stumbled, and brought them to Jericho, the city of the palm trees, next to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:16",
"text": " At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:17",
"text": "since again the Edomites came and struck against Judah and took captives. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:18",
"text": "And the Philistines sent raids into the cities of the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah. And they captured Beth-Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Socoh with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:19",
"text": "For Yahweh subdued Judah for the sake of Ahaz, king of Israel, for he created disorder in Judah and acted unfaithfully against Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:20",
"text": "Then Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria came against him and brought trouble for him, \u231einstead of helping him\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:21",
"text": "for Ahaz took a portion from the house of Yahweh and the house of the king and the princes, and he gave it to the king of Assyria, but it was no help to him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:22",
"text": " And in the time of his distress, King Ahaz continued to act unfaithfully against Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:23",
"text": "He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, \u201cBecause the gods of the king of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they will help me.\u201d But they were \u231ea disaster\u231f to him and to all Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:24",
"text": "Then Ahaz gathered the objects of the house of God, and he cut the objects of the house of God to pieces. And he shut the doors of the house of Yahweh and made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:25",
"text": "And \u231ein every city\u231f of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and he provoked Yahweh, the God of his ancestors, to anger. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:26",
"text": " Now the remainder of his words and all his ways, from the first to the last, behold, they are written upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "II Chronicles 28:27",
"text": "And Ahaz slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him to the burial site of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son became king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:1",
"text": " Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:2",
"text": "And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:3",
"text": " In the first year of his kingship, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh and strengthened them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:4",
"text": "And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and he gathered them into the eastern square. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:5",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cHear me, O Levites! Sanctify yourselves now, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, and bring out the defilement from the sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:6",
"text": "For our ancestors acted unfaithfully and did evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him and turned away their faces from the dwelling place of Yahweh. \u231eThey have turned their backs\u231f on it. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:7",
"text": "They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. And they did not burn incense or offer burnt offerings in the sanctuary to the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:8",
"text": "And the wrath of Yahweh was upon Judah and Jerusalem. And he made them as an abhorrence, as a desolation and an object of scorn, as you see with your own eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:9",
"text": "Now behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity on account of this. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:10",
"text": "Now \u231eit is in my heart\u231f to \u231emake\u231f a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger might turn away from him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:11",
"text": "Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him to serve him and to be his servants and incense burners.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:12",
"text": " Then the Levites arose\u2014Mahath the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah, from the Kohathites; and Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehallelel from the Merarites; and Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah, from the Gershonites. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:13",
"text": "And from the descendants of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeiel; and from the descendants of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:14",
"text": "and from the descendants of Heman: Jeiel and Shimei; and from the descendants of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:15",
"text": "and they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and they went in according to the command of the king because of the words of Yahweh, to purify the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:16",
"text": "And the priests went into the inner part of the house of Yahweh to purify it. And they brought out all the impurity that they found in the temple of Yahweh out to the courtyard of the house of Yahweh. And the Levites took them to bring them outside to the Wadi Kidron. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:17",
"text": "And they began to sanctify themselves on the first day of the first month. And on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of Yahweh. And they sanctified the house of Yahweh for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:18",
"text": "And they went into the inner part to King Hezekiah and said, \u201cWe have cleansed all the house of Yahweh: the altar of burnt offering, all its objects, the table of the rows of bread and all its objects, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:19",
"text": "and all the objects that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he sinned, we have prepared and sanctified. Look, they are before the altar of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:20",
"text": " Then King Hezekiah rose early and gathered the officials of the city, and he went up to the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:21",
"text": "And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a purification offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the descendants of Aaron, the priests, to offer them on the altar of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:22",
"text": "And they slaughtered the cattle, and the priests received the blood and threw it toward the altar. Then they slaughtered the rams and threw the blood toward the altar, and then they slaughtered the lambs and threw the blood toward the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:23",
"text": "Then they brought the goats of the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid hands upon them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:24",
"text": "And the priest killed them and offered their blood against the altar to make atonement for all Israel, for the king had commanded the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:25",
"text": " And he stood the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the command of David and Gad, the seer of the king, and Nathan the prophet, for the command was by the hand of Yahweh by the hand of his prophets. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:26",
"text": "When the Levites stood with the objects of David and the priests with the trumpets, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:27",
"text": "Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And at the time the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh began, and also the trumpets, at the hands of the instruments of David king of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:28",
"text": "Then all the assembly bowed down, and the song was sung, and the trumpeters trumpeted\u2014all together until the end of the burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:29",
"text": "And when the offering was finished, the king and all who were found with him knelt down and bowed themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:30",
"text": "Then King Hezekiah and the princes commanded the Levites to praise Yahweh with the words of David and Asaph the seer. So they offered praise with joy, and they bowed down and worshiped. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:31",
"text": " Then Hezekiah answered and said, \u201cNow \u231eyou have consecrated yourselves\u231f to Yahweh. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of Yahweh!\u201d And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were willing in heart brought burnt offerings. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:32",
"text": "And the number of burnt offerings that the assembly brought was seventy cattle, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs\u2014all these were to offer to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:33",
"text": "And the consecrated offerings of cattle were six hundred cattle and three thousand sheep. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:34",
"text": "But the priests were too few, and they were not able to offer all the burnt offerings, so their brothers, the Levites, strengthened them to finish the work, and until the rest of the priests consecrated themselves. (For the Levites were \u231emore conscientious\u231f to sanctify themselves than the priests.) "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:35",
"text": "And beside the many burnt offerings was the fat of the peace offerings and the libations for the burnt offerings. So the service of the house of Yahweh was established. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "II Chronicles 29:36",
"text": "And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over what God had established with the people, for the matter happened suddenly. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:1",
"text": " Then Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, to come to the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem to make a Passover feast to Yahweh the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:2",
"text": "Now the king and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to make the Passover feast in the second month\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:3",
"text": "but they were not able to make it at that time, for the priests had not consecrated themselves \u231ein sufficient numbers\u231f, and the people had not been assembled in Jerusalem\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:4",
"text": "and the plan seemed right in the eyes of the king and in the eyes of all the assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:5",
"text": "So they let the decree stand, \u231eto make a proclamation\u231f throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, to come to make a Passover feast to Yahweh the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:6",
"text": "And the runners went with the letter from the hand of the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah according to the command of the king, saying, \u201cO sons of Israel, return to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:7",
"text": "Do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who acted unfaithfully before Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them as a desolation, as you see. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:8",
"text": "Now, do not stiffen your neck as your fathers, but give a hand to Yahweh and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve Yahweh your God that his fierce anger may turn away from you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:9",
"text": "For when you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before their captors and return to this land, for Yahweh your God is gracious and compassionate, and he will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:10",
"text": " And it happened that the runners were passing from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and up to Zebulun, but they were laughing at them and mocking them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:11",
"text": "Only men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:12",
"text": "The hand of God was also upon Judah, to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and the princes concerning the word of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:13",
"text": " So many people gathered in Jerusalem to hold the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month; it was a very great assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:14",
"text": "And they rose up and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem. And they removed all the incense altars and threw them away in the Wadi Kidron. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:15",
"text": "And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were disgraced, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:16",
"text": "Then they stood at their positions according to custom, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests were sprinkling the blood from the hand of the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:17",
"text": "For there were many in the assembly who did not consecrate themselves, so the Levites were over the killing of the Passover sacrifices for all who were not clean, to consecrate them to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:18",
"text": "For a majority of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves. But they ate the Passover sacrifice \u231eotherwise than prescribed\u231f, but Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, \u201cMay the good Yahweh make atonement unto "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:19",
"text": "everyone whose heart is set to seek God, Yahweh the God of his ancestors, though not according to the cleansing for the sanctuary.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:20",
"text": "And Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and he healed the people. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:21",
"text": "And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f who were found in Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy. And the Levites and the priests were offering praise to Yahweh day by day, with powerful instruments to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:22",
"text": "And Hezekiah spoke to the heart of all the Levites \u231ewho were skilled at service\u231f to Yahweh. So they ate the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and giving thanks to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:23",
"text": " Then the whole assembly decided to make seven more days of feasting, so they made seven more days with joy, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:24",
"text": "for Hezekiah the king of Judah had \u231eprovided\u231f one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the princes \u231eprovided\u231f one thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep for the assembly. And many priests consecrated themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:25",
"text": "And the whole assembly of Judah, the priests and the Levites, all the assembly who had come from the land of Israel, and those living in Judah rejoiced. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:26",
"text": "And there was great joy in Jerusalem, for from the days of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, there was nothing such as this in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "II Chronicles 30:27",
"text": "Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy dwelling place in the heavens. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:1",
"text": " And when all this was finished, all Israel who were found in the cities of Judah went out and shattered the stone pillars, cut down the Asherahs, and destroyed the high places and the altars from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh \u231eto the very last one\u231f. Then all the Israelites returned, each to his own property and to their cities. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:2",
"text": " And Hezekiah appointed working groups of the priests and the Levites, each according to their divisions, \u231eaccording to the service for priests and Levites\u231f, for burnt offerings, for peace offerings, to serve, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camps of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:3",
"text": "And the gift of the king was out of his own possessions for the burnt offerings\u2014the burnt offerings for the morning and the evening and for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and appointed feasts, as is written in the law of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:4",
"text": "Then he said to the people, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to give a gift for the priests and the Levites, so that they might be strong in the law of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:5",
"text": "And the word spread. The Israelites gave abundantly from the firstfruits of grain, new wine, olive oil, honey, and all kinds of grains from the field. And they brought tithes of everything in abundance. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:6",
"text": "Then the people of Israel and Judah who were living in the cities of Judah, they also brought a tithe of cattle and sheep and a tithe of consecrated objects to Yahweh their God. And they gave heaps upon heaps. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:7",
"text": "In the third month the heaps began to pile up, and in the seventh month they ceased. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:8",
"text": "When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh and his people Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:9",
"text": "And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:10",
"text": "And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, saying, \u201cSince the offerings began to be brought to the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and been satisfied, and have much to spare, for Yahweh has blessed his people. Now see this abundant remainder!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:11",
"text": " And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Yahweh, and they were prepared. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:12",
"text": "Then they brought the offerings and tithes and holy objects faithfully. And over them as leader was Conaniah the Levite. And Shimei his brother was second in rank. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:13",
"text": "And Jehiel, Azaziah, Nathan, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were chief officers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei, his brother, by appointment of King Hezekiah. And Azaraiah was leader of the house of God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:14",
"text": "Now Kore the son of Imlah, the Levite, the gatekeeper of the east gate was over the freewill offerings of God, to give offerings to Yahweh and the most holy things. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:15",
"text": "And at his hand were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests and \u231eentrusted\u231f to give to their brothers by working groups, according to the eldest to the youngest, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:16",
"text": "besides their enrollment by genealogy, to males from three years old and upward, to all who came into the house of Yahweh, \u231eas each day required\u231f for their service in their posts according to their working groups. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:17",
"text": "And the enrollment of the priests was according to the house of their fathers, and the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, according to their posts by their working groups. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:18",
"text": "And they were enrolled with all their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters for the whole assembly because of their faithfulness. And they sanctified themselves in holiness. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:19",
"text": "And for the descendants of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of the pasturelands of their cities, \u231ein each and every one of their cities\u231f were men who were designated by name to give shares to every male among the priests and to everyone enrolled among the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:20",
"text": " And Hezekiah did according to this throughout all Judah. And he did what is good and what is right and what is faithful before Yahweh his God. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "II Chronicles 31:21",
"text": "And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God or with respect to the law and the commandment to seek his God, he did with all his heart, and he prospered. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:1",
"text": " After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib the king of Assyria came, and he came against Judah. And he encamped against the fortified cities and planned to break them down for himself. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:2",
"text": "When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that his face was set for battle against Jerusalem, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:3",
"text": "he took counsel with his commanders and his mighty warriors to block off the waters of the springs that came from outside the city, and they helped him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:4",
"text": "Then many people were gathered, and they blocked off all the springs and the river that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, \u201cWhy should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:5",
"text": "Then he strengthened himself and built up all the walls that were broken down, and raised towers upon them and another wall \u231eoutside\u231f. And he strengthened the Millo of the city of David and made much weaponry and small shields. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:6",
"text": "And he appointed commanders for battle over the people and gathered them to himself into the public square of the gate of the city. And he spoke to their hearts, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:7",
"text": "\u201cBe strong! Be courageous! Do not fear and do not be dismayed before the king of Assyria and before all the crowd that is with him, for there are more with us than with him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:8",
"text": "With him is the arm of flesh, and with us is Yahweh our God, to help us and to fight our battles.\u201d And the people took confidence with the words of Hezekiah, king of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:9",
"text": " After this Sennacherib the king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem (now he and all his armies with him were against Lachish) to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all of Judah that was in Jerusalem, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:10",
"text": "\u201cThus says Sennacherib the king of Assyria: \u2018On what are you relying that you are dwelling in siege works in Jerusalem? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:11",
"text": "Is not Hezekiah urging you to give you up to die by starvation and thirst, saying, \u201cYahweh our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria\u201d? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:12",
"text": "Has not Hezekiah himself removed his high places and his altars and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, saying, \u201cYou must bow down before one altar and upon it you must make offerings\u201d? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:13",
"text": "Do you not know what I have done, I and my ancestors, to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of all the lands at all able to save their land from my hand? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:14",
"text": "Who among all the gods of those nations whom my ancestors utterly destroyed was able to save his people from my hand, that your God will be able to save you from my hand? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:15",
"text": "So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you. Do not let him urge you according to this. Do not put trust in him, for no god of any nation and kingdom has been able to save his people from my hand and from the hand of my ancestors. Surely then your God will not save you from my hand!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:16",
"text": " And still more his servants said against Yahweh God and against Hezekiah his servant. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:17",
"text": "And he wrote letters to treat Yahweh the God of Israel with contempt and spoke against him, saying, \u201cAs the gods of the nations of the earth who did not save their people from my hand, so likewise the God of Hezekiah will not save his people from my hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:18",
"text": "Then they called with a great voice in Judean to the people of Jerusalem who were upon the wall to frighten them and terrify them, so that they could take the city captive. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:19",
"text": "And they spoke about the God of Jerusalem as about the gods of the peoples of the earth, the works of the hands of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:20",
"text": " Then King Hezekiah and Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, prayed concerning this. And they cried to the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:21",
"text": "Then Yahweh sent an angel, and he destroyed every mighty warrior of strength, commander, and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. And he returned with shamed face to his land and went into the house of his god. And some of the offspring of his loins fell upon him there with the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:22",
"text": "So Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and from the all their enemies, and gave them rest all around. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:23",
"text": "And many brought tribute to Yahweh, to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the eyes of all the nations thereafter. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:24",
"text": " In those days Hezekiah fell ill unto death, and he prayed to Yahweh. And he answered him and gave him a sign. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:25",
"text": "But Hezekiah did not reciprocate according to the benefit placed upon him, because his heart became proud. So wrath was upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:26",
"text": "But Hezekiah humbled himself with respect to the arrogance of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:27",
"text": " And Hezekiah had very much wealth and honor, and he made storehouses for himself for silver, gold, precious stones, spices, small shields, and all sorts of desirable objects; "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:28",
"text": "and storage buildings for the yield of grain, new wine, and olive oil; and animal stalls for all kinds of animals, and animals and herds for animal stalls. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:29",
"text": "And he made cities for himself, and livestock of sheep and abundant cattle, for God had given to him very abundant possessions. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:30",
"text": "And this same Hezekiah blocked off the flow of the waters of the upper Gihon, and directed them down the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:31",
"text": "And thus in the matter of the envoys of the commanders of Babylon who had been sent to him to seek the sign that had happened in the land, God forsook him, to test him and to know all that was in his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:32",
"text": " Now the remainder of the words of Hezekiah and his loyal love, behold, they are written in the visions of Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "II Chronicles 32:33",
"text": "And Hezekiah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the upper part of the burial sites of the descendants of David. And all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son became king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:1",
"text": " Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:2",
"text": "And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to the detestable things of the nations whom Yahweh drove out before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:3",
"text": "And \u231ehe rebuilt\u231f the high places that Hezekiah his father broke down, and he set up altars for the Baals, made Asherahs, and bowed down to the host of heaven and served them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:4",
"text": "And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, \u201cIn Jerusalem my name shall be forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:5",
"text": "And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:6",
"text": "And he himself burned his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom. And he practiced sorcery and divination, and he engaged in witchcraft and dealt with mediums and spiritists. And he did much evil in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:7",
"text": "And he placed the carved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, \u201cIn this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:8",
"text": "And I will \u231enever\u231f remove the foot of Israel from upon the land that I appointed to your ancestors, if only you will take care to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the regulations, and the judgments by the hand of Moses.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:9",
"text": "And Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do evil more than the nations that Yahweh destroyed before the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:10",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not listen. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:11",
"text": "So Yahweh brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria upon them, and they took Manasseh captive with hooks, and they bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:12",
"text": "And when he was in distress he entreated Yahweh his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:13",
"text": "and prayed to him. And God responded to him and heard his plea and let him return to Jerusalem to his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:14",
"text": " Then afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of the Gihon in the valley, and for the entrance into the Gate of the Fishes. And it encircled the Ophel and raised it very high. Then he placed strong commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:15",
"text": "And he removed the foreign gods and the carved image from the house of Yahweh and all the altars which he built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:16",
"text": "And he restored the altar of Yahweh and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and thank offerings upon it. And he commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:17",
"text": "Nevertheless, the people offered at the high places, but only to Yahweh their God. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:18",
"text": " Now the remainder of the words of Manasseh and his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the words of the kings of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:19",
"text": "And his prayer, and how he responded to him, all his sin and his unfaithful acts, and the places where he built the high places and set up Asherahs and idols before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the words of the seers. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:20",
"text": " And Manasseh slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in his house. And Amon his son became king in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:21",
"text": "Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:22",
"text": "And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh as Manasseh his father had done. And Amon sacrificed to all the idols that Manasseh his father had made, and he served them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:23",
"text": "And he did not humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father humbled himself, but Amon himself multiplied his guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:24",
"text": "And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his house. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "II Chronicles 33:25",
"text": "But the people of the land struck down all who conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:1",
"text": " Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:2",
"text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the ways of David his ancestor and did not deviate to the right or to the left. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:3",
"text": "In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of David his ancestor. And in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherahs, the idols, and the images. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:4",
"text": "And he destroyed before him the altars for the Baals, and he cut down the incense stands above them. And the Asherahs, the idols, and the images he smashed. And he ground them to powder and sprinkled the dust over the burial sites of those who sacrificed to them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:5",
"text": "And he burned the bones of the priests on the altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:6",
"text": "And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:7",
"text": "he broke down the altars and the Asherahs and crushed the idols, grinding them to dust, and he cut down all the incense stands in all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:8",
"text": " Now in the eighteenth year of his reign after he purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the commander of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:9",
"text": "And they came to Hilkiah the high priest and gave the money that was brought for the house of God, which the Levites, the guardians of the threshold, had gathered from the hand of Manasseh, Ephraim, and from the whole remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:10",
"text": "And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen who were appointed in the house of Yahweh, and they in turn gave it to those doing the work who were at work in the house of Yahweh, to repair and restore the house. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:11",
"text": "And they dispensed it to the skilled craftsmen and the builders to buy stone for hewing and timber for the seams and for binding the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:12",
"text": "And the men did the work faithfully. Over them as supervisors were appointed Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites from the Merarites, and Zechariah and Meshullam from the Kohathites. And other Levites, all who were skilled in instruments of song, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:13",
"text": "were over the porters and were directing all who worked \u231eon each task\u231f. And some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:14",
"text": " And when they brought out the money that had been brought to the house of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found a scroll of the law of Yahweh by the hand of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:15",
"text": "And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, \u201cI have found a scroll of the law in the house of Yahweh!\u201d Then Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:16",
"text": "And Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and \u231ealso informed\u231f the king, saying, \u201cAll that was put into the hand of your servants they are doing. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:17",
"text": "They have dispensed the money which was found in the house of Yahweh and have put it into the hand of the overseers and those doing the work.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:18",
"text": "Then Shaphan the scribe reported to the king, \u201cHilkiah the priest gave to me a scroll.\u201d Then Shaphan read from it before the king. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:19",
"text": "And when the king heard the words of the law, he tore his garments, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:20",
"text": "and the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:21",
"text": "\u201cGo! Seek Yahweh on my behalf and on behalf of those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words of the scroll that was found, for the anger of Yahweh that was poured out on us is great, because our ancestors have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do all that is written in this scroll.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:22",
"text": " Then Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum, son of Tikvath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the garments. (Now she was living in Jerusalem in the second district.) And they spoke to her concerning this. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:23",
"text": "And she said to them, \u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: \u2018Say to the man who sent you all to me: "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:24",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018Behold, I am bringing disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants\u2014all the curses written in the scroll that were read before the king of Judah\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:25",
"text": "because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods so as to provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands. And my wrath will be poured out on this place and it will not be quenched.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:26",
"text": "But to the king of Judah who sent you to seek Yahweh, thus shall you say to him: \u2018Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As for the words which you heard, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:27",
"text": "because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants and you humbled yourself before me and tore your garments and wept before me, now I also have heard,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:28",
"text": "\u2018Behold, I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see any of the disaster that I am bringing upon this place.\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:29",
"text": " Then they sent word to the king, and he gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:30",
"text": "And the king went up to the house of Yahweh with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with the priests and the Levites\u2014all the people from great to small\u2014and they read in their ears all the words of the scroll of the covenant that was found in the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:31",
"text": "And the king stood at his position. And he made the covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh and to keep his commands and statutes and regulations with all his heart and with all his soul, to do the words of the covenant that were written on this scroll. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:32",
"text": "Then he obligated all who were found in Jerusalem and in Benjamin, that the inhabitants of Jerusalem would do according to the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "II Chronicles 34:33",
"text": "And Josiah removed all the detestable things from the whole land that belonged to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and obligated all who were found in Israel to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they did not turn aside from following Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:1",
"text": " Josiah kept the Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover sacrifice on the fourteenth day of the first month. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:2",
"text": "And he set the priests at their posts and encouraged them in the service of the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:3",
"text": "And he said to the Levites who were teaching all Israel, who were sanctified to Yahweh, \u201cPut the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. There is no need to carry it on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God and his people Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:4",
"text": "And prepare yourselves according to \u231eyour families\u231f, according to your working groups, according to the decree of David king of Israel and according to the decree of Solomon his son. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:5",
"text": "And stand in the sanctuary according to the clans of \u231eyour families\u231f for your brothers, the \u231elay people\u231f, and a part of the \u231efamily\u231f of the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:6",
"text": "And slaughter the Passover lamb and consecrate yourself and prepare for your brothers to do according to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:7",
"text": " Then Josiah provided for the \u231elay people\u231f sheep, lambs, and young goats, all for the Passover for all who were found there, to the sum of thirty thousand, along with three thousand bulls. These were the possession of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:8",
"text": "And his officials contributed a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, commanders of the house of God, gave to the priests two thousand six hundred Passover lambs and three hundred bulls. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:9",
"text": "Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jehozabad, commanders of the Levites, contributed to the Levites five thousand Passover lambs and five hundred bulls. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:10",
"text": " And when the work had been completed, the priests stood at their positions and the Levites in their working groups according to the command of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:11",
"text": "And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed the sacrifices. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:12",
"text": "And they set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the clans of the \u231efamilies\u231f for the \u231elay people\u231f, to offer to Yahweh according to what is written in the scroll of Moses. And thus they did with the bulls. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:13",
"text": "Then they roasted the Passover lamb in the fire according to the ordinance. And they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in kettles, and in dishes and brought it quickly to the \u231elay people\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:14",
"text": "And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. So the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:15",
"text": "And the singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the decree of David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the seer of the king. And the gatekeepers were at \u231eeach gate\u231f. They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites had made preparations for them. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:16",
"text": " So all the service of Yahweh was prepared on that day to keep the Passover and to sacrifice burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the command of King Josiah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:17",
"text": "And the Israelites who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:18",
"text": "And there was no Passover like it kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. And none of the kings of Israel kept a Passover like that which Josiah and the priests and the Levites, and all of Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, kept. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:19",
"text": "In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:20",
"text": " After all of this that Josiah had prepared for the temple, Neco the king of Egypt went up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went up to meet him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:21",
"text": "And he sent messengers to him, saying, \u201c\u231eWhat is there between us\u231f, O king of Judah? I am not against you yourself this day, but against the house making war against me. And God has commanded me to make haste. Stop opposing God, who is with me that he will not destroy you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:22",
"text": "But Josiah did not turn his face from him, but he disguised himself to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and he went out to fight in the plain of Megiddo. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:23",
"text": "And the archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, \u201cTake me away, for I am badly wounded.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:24",
"text": "So his servants took him out of the chariot and transported him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the burial sites of his ancestors. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned over Josiah. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:25",
"text": "And Jeremiah uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken in their laments about Josiah to this day. And they made them a requirement in Israel, and behold, they are written in the laments. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:26",
"text": " Now the remainder of the words of Josiah and his loyal love for what is written in the law of Yahweh "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "II Chronicles 35:27",
"text": "and his words, from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:1",
"text": " And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:2",
"text": "Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:3",
"text": "Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid a tribute upon the land of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:4",
"text": "And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and brought him to Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:5",
"text": " Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh his God. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:6",
"text": "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon went up against him, and he bound him with bronze fetters to bring him to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:7",
"text": "And Nebuchadnezzar brought to Babylon the objects of the house of Yahweh and put them into the temple in Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:8",
"text": "Now the remainder of the words of Jehoiakim and the detestable things that he did and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:9",
"text": " Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:10",
"text": "And at the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with objects of the treasure of the house of Yahweh. And he made Zedekiah his brother king in Judah and Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:11",
"text": " Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:12",
"text": "And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet \u231ewho spoke for\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:13",
"text": "And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:14",
"text": "All the leaders of the priests and the people likewise increased in unfaithfulness according to all the detestable things of the nations. And they polluted the house of Yahweh that he had consecrated in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:15",
"text": " And Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, had repeatedly and persistently sent to them by the hand of his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:16",
"text": "But they were mocking the messengers of God and despising his words and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people until there was no remedy. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:17",
"text": " Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He showed no mercy on a young man, a virgin, the elderly, or decrepit. He delivered all into his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:18",
"text": "And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, the storehouses of the house of Yahweh, and the storehouses of the king and his princes, these all he brought to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:19",
"text": "And they burned the house of God. And they shattered the walls of Jerusalem and burned its citadels with fire and destroyed all the vessels of its treasuries. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:20",
"text": "And he took \u231ethose who escaped the sword\u231f to Babylon. And they became servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:21",
"text": "to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land has enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of desolation it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:22",
"text": " And in the first year of Cyrus, the king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that he \u231emade a proclamation\u231f throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying: "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "II Chronicles 36:23",
"text": "\u201cThus says Cyrus, king of Persia: \u2018Yahweh the God of heaven has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has appointed me to build a house for him at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you from all his people, may Yahweh his God go up with him.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Ezra",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1:1",
"text": " In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to accomplish the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia and he sent a message to all of his kingdom and also put the message in writing: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1:2",
"text": " \u201cThus says Cyrus king of Persia: Yahweh, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. And he himself has appointed me to build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1:3",
"text": "Whoever among you who is from all of his people, may his God be with him and may he go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and may he build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel. He is the God who is in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1:4",
"text": "And let every survivor, from wherever he \u231eresides\u231f be assisted by the men of that place with silver and gold, with possessions and domestic animals, and with the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1:5",
"text": " So the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f for Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites\u2014to all whose spirit God had stirred\u2014prepared to go up and build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1:6",
"text": "And all of their neighbors \u231ehelped them\u231f with objects of silver, gold, possessions, domestic animals, and with valuable gifts\u2014besides all of the freewill offering. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1:7",
"text": "And Cyrus the king brought out the objects of the house of Yahweh that Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1:8",
"text": "Cyrus the king of Persia let them go out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1:9",
"text": "Now these were the inventories: thirty gold metal dishes, one thousand silver metal dishes, twenty-nine vessels, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1:10",
"text": "thirty bowls of gold, four hundred and ten matching silver metal bowls, and one thousand other objects. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezra 1:11",
"text": "All of the objects of gold and silver metal were five thousand four hundred. All this Sheshbazzar brought up along with the exiles from Babylonia to Jerusalem. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:1",
"text": " Now these were the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exile whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own city. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:2",
"text": "They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:3",
"text": "the descendants of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:4",
"text": "the descendants of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:5",
"text": "the descendants of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:6",
"text": "the descendants of Pahath-moab, particularly the descendants of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:7",
"text": "the descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:8",
"text": "the descendants of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five; "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:9",
"text": "the descendants of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty; "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:10",
"text": "the descendants of Bani, six hundred and forty-two; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:11",
"text": "the descendants of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:12",
"text": "the descendants of Azgad, one thousand two hundred and twenty-two; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:13",
"text": "the descendants of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-six; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:14",
"text": "the descendants of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:15",
"text": "the descendants of Adin, four hundred and fifty-four; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:16",
"text": "the descendants of Ater, particularly of Hezekiah, ninety-eight; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:17",
"text": "the descendants of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-three; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:18",
"text": "the descendants of Jorah, one hundred and twelve; "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:19",
"text": "the descendants of Hashum, two hundred and twenty-three; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:20",
"text": "the descendants of Gibbar, ninety-five; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:21",
"text": "the people of Bethlehem, one hundred and twenty-three; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:22",
"text": "the men of Netophah, fifty-six; "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:23",
"text": "the men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight; "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:24",
"text": "the people of Azmaveth, forty-two; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:25",
"text": "the people of Kiriath \u0391rim, Kephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:26",
"text": "the people of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:27",
"text": "the men of Micmash, one hundred and twenty-two; "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:28",
"text": "the men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three; "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:29",
"text": "the people of Nebo, fifty-two; "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:30",
"text": "the people of Magbish, one hundred and fifty-six; "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:31",
"text": "the people of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:32",
"text": "the people of Harim, three hundred and twenty; "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:33",
"text": "the people of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five; "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:34",
"text": "the people of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five; "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:35",
"text": "the people of Senaah, three thousand six hundred and thirty. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:36",
"text": " The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three; "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:37",
"text": "the descendants of Immer, one thousand fifty-two; "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:38",
"text": "the descendants of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven; "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:39",
"text": "the descendants of Harim, one thousand seventeen. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:40",
"text": " The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the descendants of Hodaviah, seventy-four. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:41",
"text": " The singers: the descendants of Asaph, one hundred and twenty-eight. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:42",
"text": " The descendants of the gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai; in total one hundred and thirty-nine. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:43",
"text": " The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:44",
"text": "the descendants of Keros, the descendants of Siaha, the descendants of Padon, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:45",
"text": "the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah, the descendants of Akkub, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:46",
"text": "the descendants of Hagab, the descendants of Shamlai, the descendants of Hanan, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:47",
"text": "the descendants of Giddel, the descendants of Gahar, the descendants of Reaiah, "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:48",
"text": "the descendants of Rezin, the descendants of Nekoda, the descendants of Gazzam, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:49",
"text": "the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah, the descendants of Besai, "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:50",
"text": "the descendants of Asnah, the descendants of Meunim, the descendants of Nephisim, "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:51",
"text": "the descendants of Bakbuk, the descendants of Hakupha, the descendants of Harhur, "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:52",
"text": "the descendants of Bazluth, the descendants of Mehida, the descendants of Harsha, "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:53",
"text": "the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah, "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:54",
"text": "the descendants of Neziah, and the descendants of Hatipha. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:55",
"text": " The descendants of Solomon\u2019s servants: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Hassophereth, the descendants of Peruda, "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:56",
"text": "the descendants of Jaalah, the descendants of Darkon, the descendants of Giddel, "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:57",
"text": "the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the descendants of Ami. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:58",
"text": " All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon\u2019s servants were three hundred and ninety-two. "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:59",
"text": " Now these were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their fathers\u2019 household and their descent, if they were from Israel: "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:60",
"text": "the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:61",
"text": "And from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Habaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name). "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:62",
"text": "These sought their record in the genealogy records, but they were not found, and \u231ewere excluded from the priesthood as unclean\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:63",
"text": "The governor said to them that they could not eat from the holy food of the sanctuary until there was present a priest for the Urim and Thummim. "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:64",
"text": " The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:65",
"text": "apart from their male and female servants, of whom were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred male and female singers. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:66",
"text": "Their horses numbered seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules numbered two hundred and forty-five, "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:67",
"text": "their camels numbered four hundred and thirty-five, their donkeys numbered six thousand seven hundred and twenty. "
},
{
"verse": 68,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:68",
"text": " When some of the heads of \u231efamilies\u231f came to the house of Yahweh that is in Jerusalem, they gave freewill offerings for the house of God to erect it on its place. "
},
{
"verse": 69,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:69",
"text": "According to their ability they gave to the treasury room for the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly tunics. "
},
{
"verse": 70,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezra 2:70",
"text": " The priests, the Levites, and some of the people lived in Jerusalem, and the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:1",
"text": " Now the seventh month drew near and the \u231eIsraelites\u231f were in the cities, so the people gathered as \u231eone\u231f in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:2",
"text": "And Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers the priests stood up, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers built the altar of the God of Israel, in order to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:3",
"text": "They set up the altar on its foundations, because \u231ethey were in terror\u231f because of the peoples of the lands. And they offered burnt offerings on it for Yahweh, burnt offerings for the morning and the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:4",
"text": "And they kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered burnt offerings day by day in number according to the ordinance \u231eas described for each day\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:5",
"text": "After this, they presented the daily sacrifice of burnt offerings, the offerings for the New Moon Festival, and for all of the appointed times consecrated for Yahweh and for all who gave a freewill offering to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:6",
"text": "From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh. But the temple of Yahweh was not yet founded. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:7",
"text": "So they gave money to the stone craftsmen and skilled craftsmen, and food, drink, and olive oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the authorization over them of Cyrus king of Persia. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:8",
"text": " In the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jehozadak began their work, and the remainder of their brothers the priests and the Levites and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem. They appointed the Levites \u231efrom twenty years and older\u231f to direct the work of the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:9",
"text": "And Jeshua with his sons and brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons\u2014the sons of Judah\u2014together directed the workers in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:10",
"text": " And the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, and the priests in their apparel with the trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with the cymbals, were positioned to praise Yahweh, \u231eas described by\u231f King David of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:11",
"text": "And they \u231esang responsively\u231f, with praising and thanksgiving to Yahweh saying, \u201cFor he is good, for his loyal love is everlasting for Israel.\u201d And all of the people responded with a great shout of joyful acclaim in praise to Yahweh because the house of Yahweh was laid. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:12",
"text": "But many of the elderly priests, Levites, and heads of the families who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house, but many \u231eshouted aloud with joy\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezra 3:13",
"text": "No person could distinguish the sound of joyful acclaim from the sound of people weeping, for the people shouted with great joyful acclaim and the sound was heard from afar. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:1",
"text": " Now the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the \u231ereturned exiles\u231f were building a temple for Yahweh the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:2",
"text": "And they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f, and they said to them, \u201cLet us build with you. Like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him from the days of Esarhaddon the king of Assyria who brought us up here. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:3",
"text": "But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of Israel said to them, \u201cIt is not for you but for us to build a house for our God. For we ourselves alone will build it for Yahweh the God of Israel, just as Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:4",
"text": " Then the people of the land discouraged \u231ethe people of Judah\u231f and made them afraid to build "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:5",
"text": "and bribed officials against them to frustrate their plan for all the days of Cyrus king of Persia until the reign of Darius king of Persia. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:6",
"text": " In the reign of Ahasuerus, at the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:7",
"text": "And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated from Aramaic. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:8",
"text": "Rehum the royal officer and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:9",
"text": "(then Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the envoys, the officials, the Persians, the Erechs, the Babylonians, the Susians (that is the Elamites) "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:10",
"text": "and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and the rest of the province Beyond the River) and now "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:11",
"text": "this is the copy of the letter which they sent to him: \u201cTo King Artaxerxes from your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River. And now, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:12",
"text": "be it known to the king that the Jews who have come up from near you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the wall and repairing the foundation. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:13",
"text": "Now be it known to the king that if this city is built and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute and toll, and the royal revenue will be reduced. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:14",
"text": "Now since we eat the salt of the palace and the dishonor of the king is not proper for us to see, we send and make this known to the king, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:15",
"text": "so that it may be investigated in the book of records of your ancestors. You will find in the book of records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and they have rebelled in its midst from ancient times. Because of that this city was destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:16",
"text": "We make known to the king that if this city is built and the walls are finished, you will have nothing in the province Beyond the River.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:17",
"text": " The king sent a reply: \u201cTo Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and the rest of the province Beyond the River, greetings. And now "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:18",
"text": "the letter that you sent to us has been translated and read before me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:19",
"text": "And \u231eI issued\u231f a decree, and they searched and found that this city from ancient days revolted against kings, and rebellion and sedition has been made in it. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:20",
"text": "Mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem, governing all the province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, duty, and tax has been given. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:21",
"text": "So now, issue forth a decree that these men stop and this city not be built, until a decree is issued from me. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:22",
"text": "And be careful not to be negligent on this matter. Why should damage grow to hurt kings?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:23",
"text": " Then when a copy of the letter of King Artaxerxes was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates they returned in a hurry to Jerusalem against the Jews and they stopped them by force and power. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezra 4:24",
"text": "Then the work on the house of God in Jerusalem stopped, and was discontinued until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:1",
"text": " Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in \u231eJudah\u231f and in Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:2",
"text": "Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak set out and began to build the house of God that is in Jerusalem. And with them the prophets of God were helping them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:3",
"text": " At the same time Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus: \u201cWho issued you all a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:4",
"text": "Then we asked them this: \u201cWhat are the names of the men who are building this building?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:5",
"text": "And the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report came to Darius, and then answer was received. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:6",
"text": " The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai and his associates the envoys who were in the province Beyond the River sent to Darius the king. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:7",
"text": "They sent to him the report \u231ein which was written as follows\u231f: \u201cTo Darius the king, all peace. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:8",
"text": "May it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, the house of the great God. It is being built with stone blocks and timber is being put in the walls. This work is being done with diligence and is making progress in their hands. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:9",
"text": "Then we asked those elders and said this to them, \u2018Who issued forth to you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:10",
"text": "We also asked them their names to make them known to you, that we might write down the \u231ename of their leaders\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:11",
"text": "And this is the answer they returned to us: \u2018We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house that was built formerly many years ago, which a great king of Israel had built and finished. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:12",
"text": "But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of the Chaldean King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:13",
"text": "But in the first year of King Cyrus of Babylon\u2019s reign he issued forth a decree to build this house of God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:14",
"text": "Also, the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took away from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to the temple in Babylonia, King Cyrus removed them from the temple in Babylonia and they were given to Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:15",
"text": "He said to him, \u2018Take these vessels. Go put them in the temple in Jerusalem and let the house of God be built on its site.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:16",
"text": "Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of the house of God in Jerusalem. And from that time until now it is being built, but not yet finished.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezra 5:17",
"text": "And now, if it seems good for the king, let it be investigated in the house of the treasury of the king in Babylonia to see if a decree was issued forth from King Cyrus to build this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send to us his desire on this matter.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:1",
"text": " Then King Darius issued forth a decree, and they searched the house of the treasury of scrolls being stored in Babylonia. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:2",
"text": "But it was in Ecbatana in the province of Media, in the citadel, that a certain scroll had written on it, \u201cA record. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:3",
"text": "In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued forth a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem. Let the house be built, the place where sacrifices are offered and let its foundations be raised. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:4",
"text": "with three layers of great stones and a layer of timber. Let the new expenses be paid from the house of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:5",
"text": "Also, let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylonia, be returned and brought to the temple in Jerusalem to its place. Put them in the house of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:6",
"text": " \u201cNow then, Tattenai governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates, the envoys who are in the province Beyond the River\u2014keep far away from there. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:7",
"text": "Leave this work of the house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God on its site. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:8",
"text": "And I issue forth a decree for what you should do for these elders of the Jews to build this house of God. The full expense will be paid to these men from the riches of the king from the taxes of the province Beyond the River, without delay. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:9",
"text": "Whatever may be needed\u2014\u231eyoung bulls\u231f, young rams, sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil for the priests in Jerusalem\u2014let it be given to them day by day with no negligence, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:10",
"text": "that they may offer incense offerings to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his children. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:11",
"text": "Furthermore, I issue forth a decree that if any person violates this decree, let a beam be pulled out from his house and let him be impaled on it. And let his house be made a pile of rubble on account of this. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:12",
"text": "May the God who has set his name there overthrow any king or people who sets his hand to alter or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, issue forth a decree. Let it be done with diligence.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:13",
"text": " Then Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates consequently did with diligence what Darius the king ordered. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:14",
"text": "So the elders of the Jews were building and prospering, through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building by the command of the God of Israel and by the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:15",
"text": "This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:16",
"text": " And the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the \u231ereturned exiles\u231f celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:17",
"text": "And they offered during the dedication of this house of God one hundred young bulls, two hundred young rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin offering for Israel according to the number of the tribes of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:18",
"text": "Then they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their sections for the work of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:19",
"text": " On the fourteenth day of the first month the returned exiles observed the Passover feast. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:20",
"text": "For the priests and Levites together had consecrated themselves; all of them were clean. And they slaughtered the Passover sacrifice for all of the returned exiles, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:21",
"text": "The \u231eIsraelites\u231f who returned from the exile and all those who separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the earth to seek Yahweh the God of Israel, ate. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezra 6:22",
"text": "With joy they celebrated the festival of unleavened bread for seven days, because Yahweh had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them in order to help them with the work of their hands on the house of the God of Israel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:1",
"text": " After these things during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:2",
"text": "son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:3",
"text": "son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:4",
"text": ", son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:5",
"text": "son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:6",
"text": "this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh the God of Israel gave. The king granted him all his requests, for the hand of Yahweh was upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:7",
"text": " Some of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, some priests and Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:8",
"text": "He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:9",
"text": "For on the first day of the first month he began the journey from Babylonia; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:10",
"text": "For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, to do it, and to teach the regulations and judgments in Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:11",
"text": " This is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the scroll of the words of the commands of Yahweh and his statutes for Israel: "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:12",
"text": "\u201cArtaxerxes, the king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens. Peace. And now "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:13",
"text": "I issue forth a decree that any of the people of Israel, their priests, or their Levites in my kingdom who are willing to go to Jerusalem may go with you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:14",
"text": "For you are sent from the king and his seven counselors to enquire about Judah and Jerusalem concerning the law of your God, which is in your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:15",
"text": "Also, bring the silver and gold that the king and his advisors have freely offered to the God of Israel whose dwelling is in Jerusalem, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:16",
"text": "and all of the silver and gold that you will find in the whole province of Babylonia, with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests giving willingly for the house of their God in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:17",
"text": "With this money, then, with diligence you must buy young bulls, young rams, lambs, and their offerings and libations. You must offer them on the altar that is in the house of your God in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:18",
"text": "You may do whatever seems best to you and your brothers to do with the remainder of the silver and gold according to the desire of your God. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:19",
"text": "And the vessels that were given to you for the service of the house of your God you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:20",
"text": "And the remainder of the needs for the house of your God that falls to you to provide, you may provide from the house of the king\u2019s treasury.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:21",
"text": " \u201cI, even I, King Artaxerxes, issue forth a decree to all the treasurers who are in the province Beyond the River. Whatever the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may ask of you, let it be done with diligence, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:22",
"text": "up to one hundred talents of silver, one hundred measures of wheat, one hundred baths of wine, one hundred baths of oil, and \u231eunlimited salt\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:23",
"text": "All that is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done with diligence for the house of the God of heaven, otherwise wrath will come on the kingdom of the king and his sons. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:24",
"text": "You also should be aware that it is not permitted to place tax, tribute, or duty upon all of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, and other servants of the house of God. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:25",
"text": " \u201cYou, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges who can judge all of the people in the province Beyond the River who know the laws of your God. And you will teach those who do not know. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:26",
"text": "All who do not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with diligence, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of goods and for imprisonment.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:27",
"text": " Blessed be Yahweh the God of our ancestors, who put this in the heart of the king to glorify the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezra 7:28",
"text": "and who extended to me loyal love before the king and his counselors, and before all of the mighty officials of the king. I took courage, for the hand of Yahweh my God was upon me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:1",
"text": " These were the heads of their \u231efamilies\u231f and the register of those returnees from Babylonia who came up with me in the reign of King Artaxerxes: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:2",
"text": "From the descendants of Phinehas: Gershom. From the descendants of Ithamar: Daniel. From the descendants of David: Hattush. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:3",
"text": "From the descendants of Shecaniah, from the descendants of Parosh: Zechariah and with him one hundred and fifty registered males. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:4",
"text": "From the descendants of Pahath-Moab: Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah and with him two hundred males. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:5",
"text": "From the descendants of Zattu: Shecaniah son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:6",
"text": "From the descendants of Adin: Ebed son of Jehonathan, and with him fifty males. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:7",
"text": "From the descendants of Elam: Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:8",
"text": "From the descendants of Shephatiah: Zebadiah son of Michael, and with him eighty males. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:9",
"text": "From the descendants of Joab: Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:10",
"text": "From the descendants of Bani: Shelomith son of Josiphiah, and with him one hundred and sixty males. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:11",
"text": "From the descendants of Bebai: Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:12",
"text": "From the descendants of Azgad: Jehohanan son of Haqqatan, and with him one hundred and ten males. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:13",
"text": "From the descendants of Adonikam, those who came last, these were their names: Eliphelet, Jeiel, Shemaiah, and with them sixty males. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:14",
"text": "From the descendants of Bigvai: Uthai son of Zabud, and with him seventy males. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:15",
"text": " I gathered them by the river that goes to Ahava and we camped there for three days. And I looked at the people and the priests, I found no one there from the sons of Levi. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:16",
"text": "And I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were family heads, and for Jehoiarib and Elnathan who were wise. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:17",
"text": "I sent them to Iddo, the head of the place called Casiphia, and I placed in their mouths what words to say to Iddo and his brothers the temple servants in Casiphia, to send to us ministers for the house of our God. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:18",
"text": "With the good hand of our God before us, they brought us a man of understanding from the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel\u2014Sherebiah and his sons and brothers, eighteen in total. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:19",
"text": "Also Hashabiah and with him Jeshaiah, the sons of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, twenty in total. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:20",
"text": "And from the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set up to serve the Levites, two hundred and twenty in total. All of them were registered by name. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:21",
"text": " I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava to humble ourselves before our God in order to seek from him a safe journey for us, our children, and our possessions. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:22",
"text": "For I was ashamed to ask the king for troops and horses to protect us from enemies on the way because we said to the king, \u201cthe hand of our God is favorable to all who seek him, but his strength and anger are against all who forsake them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:23",
"text": "So we fasted and sought our God for this and he responded to our prayer. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:24",
"text": " I set apart twelve of the official priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:25",
"text": "Then I weighed out to them silver and gold and the vessels, the offering of the house of our God that the king, his counselors, his commanders, and all of Israel who was present offered. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:26",
"text": "I weighed out into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, one hundred vessels of silver, one hundred talents of gold, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:27",
"text": "twenty gold bowls worth one thousand darics, and two vessels of good polished bronze as precious as gold. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:28",
"text": "And I said to them, \u201cYou are holy to Yahweh and the vessels are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, God of your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:29",
"text": "Guard and look after them until you weigh them before the chief priests, the Levites, and the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chamber of the house of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:30",
"text": "So the priests and Levites took over the weighed silver, gold, and the vessels to bring to Jerusalem for the house of our God. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:31",
"text": " On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the river of Ahava to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushing on the way. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:32",
"text": "We came to Jerusalem and remained there three days. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:33",
"text": "On the fourth day, the silver, gold, and vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of priest Meremoth, the son of Uriah, and with him Eleazar son of Phinehas. With them were the Levites, Jehozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:34",
"text": "The amount and weight of all the weighed items was recorded at that time. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:35",
"text": " The exiles that returned from captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel; twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve goats as a sin offering. All was a burnt offering to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezra 8:36",
"text": "They delivered the customs of the king to the king\u2019s satraps and to the governor of the province Beyond the River. And they supported the people of the house of God. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:1",
"text": " After finishing these things the officials approached me saying, \u201cThe people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated from the people of the lands with their detestable things, and from the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:2",
"text": "For they have taken from their daughters for themselves and their sons. So the holy seed has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the officials and prefects were foremost in this sin. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:3",
"text": "When I heard this I tore my garment and my robe, and I pulled the hair out from my head and beard, and I sat appalled. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:4",
"text": "Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the sin of the returned exiles were gathered around me and I sat appalled until the evening offering. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:5",
"text": " At the evening offering I got up from my mourning posture and, with my garment and robe torn, I fell down on my knees and I spread out my palms to Yahweh my God "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:6",
"text": "and said, \u201cMy God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God. For our sins have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown up to the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:7",
"text": "From the days of our ancestors until this day we have been in great guilt, and because of our sins we ourselves, our kings, and our priests have been handed into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to utter shame, as it is this day. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:8",
"text": "But now for a brief moment mercy has been shown by Yahweh our God, who left behind for us a remnant, and given us security in his holy place\u2014for our God to brighten our eyes and to give us brief relief in our bondage. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:9",
"text": "For we are slaves and in our bondage our God did not forsake us, and he has extended to us loyal love in the presence of the kings of Persia, to give to us deliverance and to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judea and Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd now our God what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:11",
"text": "which you commanded by the hand of your servants the prophets saying, \u2018The land that you are entering to possess is a land of impurity with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their detestable things which they have filled from end to end with their uncleanness. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:12",
"text": "Therefore, do not give your daughters to their sons, and do not take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek their peace and prosperity so that forever you may be strong and eat the good of the land and may give it as an inheritance to your sons.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:13",
"text": "After all that has come upon us for our evil practices and for our great guilt\u2014you, our God, have held back less than our guilt deserved and you have given us a remainder such as this. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:14",
"text": "Shall we again break your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who practice these detestable things? Would you not be angry with us until you destroy us with no remnant or remainder? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezra 9:15",
"text": "Yahweh, God of Israel, you are righteous, for we have been left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:1",
"text": " While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children from Israel gathered to him. And the people wept bitterly. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:2",
"text": "Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, \u201cWe ourselves have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, and even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:3",
"text": "So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all of these women and their offspring, according to the advice of my lord and those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:4",
"text": "Arise, for it is your task and we are with you. Be strong and do it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:5",
"text": "Then Ezra stood up and made the chief priests, Levites, and all of Israel swear to do according to what was said. So they swore this oath. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:6",
"text": " Ezra rose from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. He did not eat food nor drink water because he was mourning over the sin of the exiles. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:7",
"text": "And they sent a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem to all the \u231ereturned exiles\u231f to assemble in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:8",
"text": "Anyone who did not come within three days, by decision of the officials and elders, all of his possessions would be devoted to God, and he himself would be excluded from the assembly of exiles. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:9",
"text": " Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth day of the month. All the people sat in the public square of the house of God trembling because of this matter and from the rains. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:10",
"text": "Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, \u201cYou have broke faith and married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:11",
"text": "Now make a confession to Yahweh the God of your ancestors and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:12",
"text": " Then all the assembly answered with a great voice and said, \u201cIt is so. We must do according to your words. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:13",
"text": "But the people are many, and it is the time of rain; we are unable to stand outside. The task is not for one day or two, for we greatly rebelled in this matter. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:14",
"text": "Please let our leaders stand for the whole assembly, and let all that are in our cities who have married foreign women come at set times, and with them the elders of and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God because of this matter is averted from us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:15",
"text": "Only Jehonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah stood against this, and the Levites Meshullam and Shabbethai supported them. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:16",
"text": " The \u231ereturned exiles\u231f did so. Ezra the priest selected men, the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f according to the house of their fathers, all of them by name. They sat down to examine the matter on the first day of the tenth month. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:17",
"text": "They finished investigating all the men who married foreign women by the first day of the first month. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:18",
"text": " There was found from the sons of the priests those who had married foreign women, from the sons of Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:19",
"text": "\u231eThey pledged themselves\u231f to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:20",
"text": "From the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:21",
"text": "From the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:22",
"text": "From the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Eleasah. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:23",
"text": " From the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:24",
"text": "From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:25",
"text": " And from Israel, the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malkijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malkijah, and Benaiah. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:26",
"text": "From the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:27",
"text": "From the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:28",
"text": "From the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:29",
"text": "From the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:30",
"text": "From the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:31",
"text": "From the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshiah, Malkijah, Shemaiah, Simeon, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:32",
"text": "Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:33",
"text": "From the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:34",
"text": "From the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:35",
"text": "Benaiah, Bedeiah, Keluhi, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:36",
"text": "Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:37",
"text": "Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:38",
"text": "Bani, Binnui, Shimei, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:39",
"text": "Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:40",
"text": "Macnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:41",
"text": "Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:42",
"text": "Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:43",
"text": "From the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezra 10:44",
"text": "All of these had married foreign wives, and some from among the wives bore children. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Nehemiah",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1:1",
"text": " The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah. It happened in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year, that I myself was in the citadel in Susa, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1:2",
"text": "and one of my brothers, Hanani, came with some men from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had escaped the captivity and about Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1:3",
"text": "They replied to me, \u201cThe survivors in the province who have survived the captivity are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned in the fire.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1:4",
"text": " When I heard these words, I sat and wept and mourned for days, and I was fasting and praying before the God of the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1:5",
"text": "I said, \u201cO Yahweh God of the heavens, the great and awesome one who keeps the covenant and loyal love for the ones who love him and for those who keep his commands. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1:6",
"text": "Please, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying before you by day and by night for your servants, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, and confessing the sins of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f that we have sinned against you. I and my father\u2019s house have sinned. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1:7",
"text": "We have certainly offended you and have not kept the commands, regulations, and judgments that you have commanded your servant Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1:8",
"text": "Please, remember the word that you have commanded to your servant Moses, saying, \u2018If you act unfaithfully I will scatter you all among the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1:9",
"text": "But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, even though all of your outcasts are at the furthest parts of heaven, I will gather them and bring them to the place which I have chosen to make my name dwell.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1:10",
"text": "They are your servants and your people whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nehemiah 1:11",
"text": "O Lord, please let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight to revere in your name. Please, let your servant be successful this day and give him compassion before this man.\u201d I was cupbearer for the king. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:1",
"text": " It happened in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king. And I had never been sad before the king. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:2",
"text": "So the king said to me, \u201cWhy is your face sad since you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.\u201d And I was very much afraid. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:3",
"text": "I said to the king, \u201cMay the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad when the city of my ancestors\u2019 burial site is ruined and her gates are consumed by fire?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:4",
"text": "Then the king said to me, \u201cWhat is your request?\u201d So I prayed to the God of the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:5",
"text": "Then I said to the king, \u201cIf it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your presence, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my ancestors\u2019 burial sites, so that I may rebuild it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:6",
"text": " With the queen sitting beside him, the king said to me, \u201cHow long will your journey be and when will you return?\u201d So it pleased the king and he sent me, and I set for him an appointed time. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:7",
"text": "Then I said to the king, \u201cIf it is good for the king, let letters be given to me for the governors in the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass until I come to Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:8",
"text": "Also, a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king\u2019s land reserve, that he should give me timber for laying the beams for the gates of the citadel of the house and for the walls of the city, and for the house which I will enter.\u201d And the king gave permission to me, according to the good hand of God on me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:9",
"text": " I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and I gave them the letters of the king. Then the king sent troop commanders and horses with me. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:10",
"text": "But when Sanballat the Horonite and the Ammonite servant Tobiah heard this, \u231ethey were greatly displeased\u231f that a person had come to seek the welfare of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:11",
"text": " I came to Jerusalem and was there for three days. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:12",
"text": "I got up during the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anybody what my God put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. No animal was with me except the animal that I was riding on. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:13",
"text": "I went out during the night at the gate of the valley by the Dragon spring and to the Dung Gate. And I examined the walls in Jerusalem and its gates that had been destroyed by the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:14",
"text": "I crossed over to the Fountain Gate and to the King\u2019s Pool, but there was no place for \u231emy mount\u231f to cross over. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:15",
"text": "So I went up by the valley during the night and was examining the wall. Then I returned and came to the Valley Gate and returned. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:16",
"text": "The prefects did not know where I had gone and what I was doing. I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the prefects, and the rest of the workers. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:17",
"text": " Then I said to them, \u201cYou see the misery that we are in, that Jerusalem is ruined and its gates burned by the fire. Come, build the walls of Jerusalem and we shall no longer be a disgrace.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:18",
"text": "I told them of the good hand of my God that was upon me and surely the words of the king that were spoken to me. And they said, \u201cLet us arise and build!\u201d And they strengthened their hands for this good work. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:19",
"text": "But Sanballat the Horonite, the Ammonite servant Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard it, and they mocked and despised us, saying, \u201cWhat is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nehemiah 2:20",
"text": "Then I answered and said to them, \u201cThe God of the heavens himself will let us succeed, and we his servants shall arise and build. But for you there is no share, right, or memorial in Jerusalem.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:1",
"text": " Then Eliashib the high priest and his brothers the priests arose and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and erected its doors. They consecrated it up to the Tower of the Hundred and up to the Tower of Hananel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:2",
"text": "And \u231enext to him\u231f the men of Jericho built, and \u231enext to him\u231f Zaccur son of Imri built. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:3",
"text": " The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:4",
"text": "\u231eNext to them\u231f Meremoth son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz, repaired. \u231eNext to them\u231f Meshullam son of Berekiah, son of Meshezabel, repaired. \u231eNext to them\u231f Zadok son of Baana repaired. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:5",
"text": "\u231eNext to them\u231f the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles did not put their neck to the work of their lord. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:6",
"text": " Jehoiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam repaired the old Yeshanah Gate. They laid its beams and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:7",
"text": "\u231eNext to them\u231f Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and Mizpah who were under the rule of the governor of the province Beyond the River, repaired. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:8",
"text": "\u231eNext to him\u231f Uzziel son of Harhaiah (goldsmiths) repaired. \u231eNext to him\u231f Hananiah son of the perfume-makers repaired. They restored Jerusalem up to the Broad Wall. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:9",
"text": "\u231eNext to them\u231f Rephaiah son of Hur, commander of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:10",
"text": "\u231eNext to them\u231f Jedaiah son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. \u231eNext to him\u231f Hattush son of Hashabneiah repaired. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:11",
"text": " Malkijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-Moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:12",
"text": "\u231eNext to him\u231f Shallum son of Hallohesh, commander of half of the district of Jerusalem, repaired with his daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:13",
"text": " Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall up to the Dung Gate. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:14",
"text": " Malkijah son of Recab, commander of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:15",
"text": " Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, the commander of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and erected its doors, its bolts, its bars, and he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king\u2019s garden, right up to the steps going down from the city of David. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:16",
"text": "After him Nehemiah son of Azbuk, commander of half of the district of Beth Zur, repaired up to a point opposite the burial sites of David, and up to the artificial pool and to the house of the mighty warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:17",
"text": " After him the Levites repaired; Rehum son of Bani, and next to him Hashabiah, commander of half of the district of Keilah, repaired his district. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:18",
"text": "After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai son of Henadad, commander of half of the district of Keilah, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:19",
"text": "\u231enext to him\u231f Ezer son of Jeshua, commander of Mizpah, repaired a second section of a wall opposite of the ascent of the armory at the angle. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:20",
"text": "After him Baruch son of Zabbai zealously repaired a second section of a wall from the angle up to the doorway of the house of Eliashib the high priest. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:21",
"text": "After him Meremoth son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz, repaired a second section of a wall from the doorway of the house of Eliashib up to the end of the house of Eliashib. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:22",
"text": " After him the priests, men from the vicinity, repaired. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:23",
"text": "After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah, repaired beside his house. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:24",
"text": "After him Binnui son of Henadad repaired a second section of a wall from the house of Azariah up to the angle up to the corner. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:25",
"text": "Palal son of Uzai repaired opposite the Angle at the tower that juts out from the upper house of the king, at the courtyard of the guard. After him Pedaiah son of Parosh "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:26",
"text": "and the temple servants who were living on Ophel repaired up to opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:27",
"text": "After him the Tekoites repaired a second section of a wall opposite the projecting tower that goes out as far as the wall of Ophel. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:28",
"text": " Above the Horse Gate the priests repaired, each one opposite his house. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:29",
"text": "After them Zadok son of Immer repaired opposite his house. After him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, keeper of the East Gate, repaired. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:30",
"text": "After him Hananiah son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam son of Berekiah repaired the wall opposite his room. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:31",
"text": "After him Malkijah, \u231eone of the goldsmiths\u231f, repaired up to the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Enrollment Gate and up to the upper room of the corner. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nehemiah 3:32",
"text": "Between the upper room of the corner to the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and merchants repaired. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:1",
"text": " Now it happened when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he became angry and greatly provoked, and he mocked the Jews. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:2",
"text": "Then he said before his brothers and the army of Samaria, \u201cWhat are the feeble Jews doing? Will they restore these things for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the piles of rubble\u2014even those burned up?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:3",
"text": " Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him and said, \u201cTheir wall of stone that they are building would break down if a fox went on it!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:4",
"text": " Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn on their head and give them over to plunder in the land of captivity. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:5",
"text": "Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you. They have \u231eprovoked the builders to anger\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:6",
"text": " So we rebuilt the wall, and all of the wall was joined up to half its height. For the people had a heart to do it. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:7",
"text": " Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem were going forward and the gaps were being closed, they were very angry. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:8",
"text": "So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:9",
"text": "So we prayed to our God and set up a guard against them day and night. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:10",
"text": " But Judah said, \u201cThe strength of the carriers is failing, and there is too much dirt, and we are not able to build at the wall.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:11",
"text": "Then our enemies said, \u201cThey will not know nor see until we come upon them and will kill them and stop the work.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:12",
"text": "When the Jews who lived beside them came, they said to us ten times, \u201cFrom all of the places where they live, they will come up against us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:13",
"text": "I stationed the people behind the deepest part of the wall in the open places according to their families, with their swords, spears, and bows. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:14",
"text": "And I looked, got up, and said to the nobles, prefects, and the rest of the people, \u201cDo not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:15",
"text": " It happened when our enemies heard that their plan was known to us, that God had frustrated it, and we all returned to the wall\u2014each to his work. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:16",
"text": "From that day, half of my servants were working on craftsmanship, half were holding spears, small shields, bows, and breastplates. The commanders were behind the whole house of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:17",
"text": "The ones who were building the wall and the ones \u231ewho carried the materials\u231f were carrying in one hand while doing the task, and with the other hand were grasping a weapon. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:18",
"text": "Each of the builders had his sword tied to his side while building. And the man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:19",
"text": "I said to the nobles, to the prefects, and to the rest of the people, \u201cThe work is great and widespread, and we are spread out over the wall far from each other. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:20",
"text": "Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, come together to us there. Our God will fight for us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:21",
"text": " So we labored at the work, and half of them were holding the spears from dawn until the stars came out. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:22",
"text": "At the time I also said to the people, \u201cLet each man and his servant spend the night inside Jerusalem, so that they will be a guard for us in the night and work in the day.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Nehemiah 4:23",
"text": "So neither I nor my brothers nor my young men nor the men of the guard who were behind me took off our clothes. Each one kept his weapon even in the water. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:1",
"text": " Now there was a great cry of distress of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:2",
"text": "There were those who were saying, \u201cOur sons and daughters, we are many. We must get grain so that we may eat and live.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:3",
"text": "There were also those saying, \u201cWe have pledged our fields and our vineyards and our houses so that we can get grain in the famine.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:4",
"text": "And there were those who were saying, \u201cWe have borrowed money on our fields and our vineyards for the tax of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:5",
"text": "Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our sons are like their sons. Look, we are subduing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and there are some from our daughters being molested. \u231eWe are powerless\u231f, and our fields and vineyards belong to others.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:6",
"text": " I was very angry when I heard their shouts and these words. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:7",
"text": "I thought over this in my heart, and then I quarreled with the nobles and the prefects. I said to them, \u201cYou yourselves are taking interest from your own brother!\u201d So I called the great assembly against them, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:8",
"text": "and I said to them: \u201cWe ourselves have bought back our brothers the Jews who were sold to the nations as we were able. But now you yourselves have sold your brothers so they may be sold to us!\u201d They were silent and could not find a word to say. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:9",
"text": " So I said, \u201cThe thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God to prevent the disgrace from the nations, our enemies? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:10",
"text": "Also, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please stop taking this interest. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:11",
"text": "Please restore to them this day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, their houses, and the interest on the money, the grain, the grape juice, and the olive oil that you have been taking from them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:12",
"text": "So they said, \u201cWe will restore it and will not request anything more. So we will do as you say.\u201d Then I called the priests and made them take an oath to do this promise. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:13",
"text": "I also shook out my garment and said, \u201cThis is how God will shake out everyone from his house who will not keep this promise. So this is how his possessions will be shaken out and emptied.\u201d And all the assembly said, \u201cAmen!\u201d And they praised Yahweh, and the people kept this promise. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:14",
"text": " Moreover, from the appointed day I was made their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes\u2014twelve years. My brothers and I did not eat the food allowance of the governor. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:15",
"text": "The former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and they took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels. Also, their servants controlled the people, but I did not do so because of the fear of God. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:16",
"text": "I also devoted myself to the work of this wall, and we did not buy land. All of my servants were gathered for the work. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:17",
"text": "One hundred and fifty men, prefects and Jews, and those who came to us from the nations around us, were at my table. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:18",
"text": "Now what was prepared each day for me was one ox, six choice sheep, and birds. And every ten days all kinds of wine were made. But for this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor because the slavery was too heavy on this people. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Nehemiah 5:19",
"text": "Remember me for good, my God, all that I have done for this people. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:1",
"text": " Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that no gap was left in it\u2014though up to that time I had not erected doors in the gates\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:2",
"text": "Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, \u201cCome and let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono.\u201d But they planned to do evil to me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:3",
"text": "So I sent messengers to them, saying, \u201cI am doing a great work and I am not able to come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you all?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:4",
"text": "And they sent a message to me four times like this, and I returned an answer like this to them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:5",
"text": "And Sanballat sent his servant with an open letter, another word like this to me a fifth time, in his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:6",
"text": "In it was written, \u201cIt has been reported among the nations, and Gashmu also is saying it, that you and the Jews are considering rebellion. Therefore, truly you are building the wall and you are becoming their king, according to these words. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:7",
"text": "You have also set up prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning you, saying, \u2018There is a king in Judah.\u2019 And now it will be proclaimed to the king according to these words. Now, come and we will plan together.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:8",
"text": "So I sent to him saying, \u201cNone of these words you have spoken has happened. You are indeed saying things created in your own mind\u201d\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:9",
"text": "for all of them sought to frighten us, saying, \u201ctheir hands will not do the work.\u201d And now, God, strengthen my hands. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:10",
"text": " Now I went into the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined at home, and he said, \u201cLet us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple; for they are coming to kill you\u2014during the night they are coming to kill you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:11",
"text": "But I said, \u201cShould a man like me run away? And would a man like me go into the temple so that he can save his life? I will not go in!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:12",
"text": "Then I look and realized God had not sent him; rather, he had spoken the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:13",
"text": "For this reason he was hired: to frighten me so that I would act and sin, so that they would have a bad report so they could taunt me. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:14",
"text": "Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to their works, and also Noadiah the prophetess, and the remainder of the prophets who were frightening me. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:15",
"text": " So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:16",
"text": "When our enemies heard of this, all of the nations surrounding us were afraid and \u231elost their confidence\u231f. They knew that this work had been done with the help of our God. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:17",
"text": "Also, in those days the nobles of Judah increasingly sent their letters to Tobiah, and letters from Tobiah returned to them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:18",
"text": "For many in Judah were bound by oath to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah. His son Jehohanan took as a wife the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Nehemiah 6:19",
"text": "They also were speaking of his good deeds in my presence, and they were sending my words out to him. Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:1",
"text": "Now when the wall had been built and I had erected the doors and appointed the gatekeepers, singers, and the Levites, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:2",
"text": "I gave command over Jerusalem to my brother Hanani and Hananiah the commander of the citadel. For he was a faithful man and feared God more than many. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:3",
"text": "I said to them, \u201cDo not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While they are standing guard let them shut and fasten the doors. And appoint guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, one at his post and another opposite his house.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:4",
"text": "The city was widespread and large, but the people in it were few and no houses were rebuilt. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:5",
"text": " Then my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, the prefects, and the people to be enrolled. I found the book of the genealogy of those who first came back, and I found this written upon it: "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:6",
"text": " These are the people of the province who came up from captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each one to his city. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:7",
"text": "These came with Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:8",
"text": "the descendants of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:9",
"text": "The descendants of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:10",
"text": "The descendants of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:11",
"text": "The descendants of Pahath-Moab, of the descendants of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:12",
"text": "The descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:13",
"text": "The descendants of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:14",
"text": "The descendants of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:15",
"text": "The descendants of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:16",
"text": "The descendants of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:17",
"text": "The descendants of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:18",
"text": "The descendants of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:19",
"text": "The descendants of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:20",
"text": "The descendants of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:21",
"text": "The descendants of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:22",
"text": "The descendants of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:23",
"text": "The descendants of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:24",
"text": "The descendants of Hariph, one hundred and twelve. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:25",
"text": "The descendants of Gibeon, ninety-five. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:26",
"text": "The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred and eighty-eight. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:27",
"text": "The men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:28",
"text": "The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:29",
"text": "The men of Kiriath-Jearim, Kephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:30",
"text": "The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:31",
"text": "The men of Micmash, one hundred and twenty-two. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:32",
"text": "The men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred and twenty-three. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:33",
"text": "The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:34",
"text": "The people of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:35",
"text": "The people of Harim, three hundred and twenty. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:36",
"text": "The people of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:37",
"text": "The people of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:38",
"text": "The people of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:39",
"text": " The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:40",
"text": "The descendants of Immer, one thousand and fifty-two. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:41",
"text": "The descendants of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:42",
"text": "The descendants of Harim, one thousand and seventeen. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:43",
"text": " The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua, namely of Kadmiel of the descendants of Hodaviah, seventy-four. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:44",
"text": "The singers: the descendants of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:45",
"text": "The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, the descendants of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-eight. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:46",
"text": " The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:47",
"text": "the descendants of Keros, the descendants of Siaha, the descendants of Padon, "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:48",
"text": "the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagaba, the descendants of Shalmai, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:49",
"text": "the descendants of Hanan, the descendants of Giddel, the descendants of Gahar, "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:50",
"text": "the descendants of Reaiah, the descendants of Rezin, the descendants of Nekoda, "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:51",
"text": "the descendants of Gazzam, the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah, "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:52",
"text": "the descendants of Besai, the descendants of Meunim, the descendants of Nephushesim, "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:53",
"text": "the descendants of Bakbuk, the descendants of Hakupha, the descendants of Harhur, "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:54",
"text": "the descendants of Bazlith, the descendants of Mehida, the descendants of Harsha, "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:55",
"text": "the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah, "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:56",
"text": "the descendants of Neziah, the descendants of Hatipha. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:57",
"text": " The descendants of Solomon\u2019s servants: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida, "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:58",
"text": "the descendants of Jaala, the descendants of Darkon, the descendants of Giddel, "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:59",
"text": "the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Pochereth-Hazzebaim, the descendants of Amon. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:60",
"text": " All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon\u2019s servants were three hundred and ninety-two. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:61",
"text": " These were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their ancestral houses or their descent, whether they were from Israel: "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:62",
"text": "the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, the descendants of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:63",
"text": "And from the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, the descendants of Barzillai (who had taken as a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name). "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:64",
"text": "These sought their record among those enrolled in the genealogy, but it was not found there, so they were excluded as unclean from the priesthood. "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:65",
"text": "So the governor said to them that they could not eat the most holy food until a priest could come with Urim and Thummim. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:66",
"text": " All of the assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:67",
"text": "besides their servants and female slaves\u2014these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. And the male and female singers were two hundred and forty-five, "
},
{
"verse": 68,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:68",
"text": ""
},
{
"verse": 69,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:69",
"text": " there were four hundred and thirty-five camels and six thousand seven hundred and twenty male donkeys. "
},
{
"verse": 70,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:70",
"text": " Now some from the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f gave to the work. The governor gave to the storehouse one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly tunics. "
},
{
"verse": 71,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:71",
"text": "Now some of the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f gave to the storehouse of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas. "
},
{
"verse": 72,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:72",
"text": "And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly tunics. "
},
{
"verse": 73,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Nehemiah 7:73",
"text": " So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel settled in their cities. When the seventh month came, the \u231eIsraelites\u231f were in their cities. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:1",
"text": " All of the people gathered as one to the public square before the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses that Yahweh had commanded Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:2",
"text": "So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly for each man and woman to hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:3",
"text": "He read from it facing the public square before the Water Gate from dawn until noon that day, opposite the men, women, and those with understanding. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:4",
"text": "Then Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden podium that had been made for the occasion. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right. On his left was Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:5",
"text": "Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, because he was above all of the people. When he opened it all the people stood up. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:6",
"text": "Then Ezra blessed Yahweh the great God, and all of the people answered, \u201cAmen! Amen!\u201d while lifting their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped Yahweh with their noses to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:7",
"text": "And Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites were teaching the people from the law while the people were in their places. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:8",
"text": "So they read the book from the law of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that they could understand the reading. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:9",
"text": " Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all of the people, \u201cThis day is holy to Yahweh your God. Do not mourn nor weep.\u201d For all of the people wept when they heard the words of the law. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:10",
"text": "Then he said to them, \u201cGo, eat festive food and drink sweet drinks, and send a share to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our lord. Do not be grieved because the joy of Yahweh is your refuge.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:11",
"text": "So the Levites silenced all of the people, saying, \u201cSilence, for this day is holy. Do not be grieved.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:12",
"text": "All of the people went to eat, to drink, to send a share, and to have great joy because they understood the words that they had made known to them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:13",
"text": " On the second day the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f of all the people, the priests, and the Levites gathered together to Ezra the scribe to study the words of the law. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:14",
"text": "They found written in the law, which Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the \u231eIsraelites\u231f should live in booths during the festival of the seventh month, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:15",
"text": "and that they should proclaim and give voice in all of their cities in Jerusalem, saying, \u201cGo out to the hill and bring olive tree branches, olive oil wood branches, myrtle shrub branches, palm tree branches, and other leafy tree branches to make booths, as it is written.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:16",
"text": "So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, in their courtyards, in the courtyards of the house of God, in the public square of the Water Gate, and in the public square of the Gate of Ephraim. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:17",
"text": "And all of the assembly of those who returned from captivity made booths and lived in the booths because the \u231eIsraelites\u231f had not done it from the days of Jeshua son of Nun until that day. And there was very great joy. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Nehemiah 8:18",
"text": "And he read from the scroll of the law of God day by day from the first day up to the last day. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day there was an assembly according to the rule. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:1",
"text": " On the twenty-fourth day of this month the \u231eIsraelites\u231f gathered in fasting, in sackcloths, and with soil on them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:2",
"text": "Those of the seed of Israel separated themselves from all of the foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:3",
"text": "They stood up in their place and read from the book of the law of Yahweh their God for a fourth part of the day, and for a fourth they were confessing and worshiping Yahweh their God. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:4",
"text": "Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani stood on the platform of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to Yahweh their God. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:5",
"text": "Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, \u201cStand up, bless Yahweh your God from everlasting until everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name that is being exalted above all blessing and praise! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:6",
"text": " \u201cYou alone are Yahweh. You alone have made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, and all of their army, the earth and all that is in it, the waters and all that is in them. You give life to all of them, and the army of the heavens worship you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:7",
"text": "You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:8",
"text": "You found his heart faithful before you and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite\u2014to give it to his seed. And you have kept your word because you are righteous. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:9",
"text": " \u201cYou saw the misery of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their shout at the Red Sea. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:10",
"text": "You gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all of his servants, and all of the people of his land because you knew that they acted arrogantly against them. You made a name for yourself, as it is this day. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:11",
"text": "And you divided the sea before them, and they passed through the sea on dry ground, but their pursuers you threw into the depths like a stone into mighty waters. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:12",
"text": "You led them by day with a column of cloud and with a column of fire by night, to give them light on the way that they were to go. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:13",
"text": "Then you came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right judgments and true teachings, good regulations and commandments. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:14",
"text": "You made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments, regulations, and law by the hand of your servant Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:15",
"text": "You gave them bread from heaven for their starvation, and you caused water to go out from a rock for their thirst. You told them to go in order to take into possession the land that you have sworn by your hand to give to them. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:16",
"text": " \u201cBut they and our ancestors acted arrogantly and stiffened their neck and did not listen to your commandments. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:17",
"text": "They refused to listen and did not remember your wonders that you did among them. They stiffened their neck and in their rebellion \u231edetermined\u231f to return to their slavery. But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, \u231eslow to anger\u231f, abundant in loyal love, so you did not abandon them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:18",
"text": "Even when they made for themselves a molten idol of a calf and said, \u2018This is your God who brought you out from Egypt,\u2019 and committed great blasphemies. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:19",
"text": "But you in your many mercies did not abandon them in the desert. The column of cloud that was over them in the day did not cease to leave them on the way, and the column of fire by night that gave light to them on the way that they went. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:20",
"text": "And you gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:21",
"text": "Forty years you sustained them in the desert\u2014they were not in need. Their clothing did not wear out and their feet did not swell. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:22",
"text": "And you gave them kingdoms and nations and allotted them a portion. They took into possession the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:23",
"text": "You made their children numerous like the stars of the heavens and brought them to the land that you told their ancestors to enter in order to take possession. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:24",
"text": "So the children went in and took possession of the land. You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites; you gave them into their hand, and their kings and the nations of the land to do with them according to their pleasure. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:25",
"text": "And they captured fortified cities and a fertile land and took possession of houses filled with every good thing: hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive groves, and many fruit trees. They ate and became full, and they became fat and took delight in your great goodness. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:26",
"text": " \u201cBut they rebelled and were rebellious against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them to turn back to you, and they did great blasphemies. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:27",
"text": "Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemy, and they brought trouble to them. Then in the time of their trouble they cried out to you, and you heard from the heavens, and according to your great compassions, you gave them saviors, and you saved them from the hand of their enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:28",
"text": "But when they had rest they returned to doing evil before you, and you abandoned them in the hand of their enemies, and they ruled over them. Then they returned and cried out to you, and from the heavens you heard and many times rescued them according to your compassions. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:29",
"text": "You warned them so that they would return to your law. Yet they acted arrogantly and did not listen to your commandments but sinned against your judgments that a person must do so that they may live. They turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not listen. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:30",
"text": "You were patient toward them for many years, and you have warned them by your spirit through the hand of your prophets, but they did not listen. So you gave them into the hand of the nations of the lands. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:31",
"text": "But in your great compassions you did not put an end to them, and you did not abandon them. For you are a gracious and compassionate God. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:32",
"text": " \u201cAnd now our God, the great, mighty, and awesome God who keeps his covenant and loyal love, do not belittle in your presence all of the hardship that is found in us, our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all of our people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:33",
"text": "You are righteous in everything that has come on us, for you dealt faithfully, and we have acted wickedly. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:34",
"text": "Our kings, our officials, our priests, and our ancestors did not keep your law and did not listen to your commandments and statutes that you declared to them. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:35",
"text": "And in their kingdom and in the greatness you gave to them, and in the wide and fertile land that you gave before them, they did not serve you and did not turn from their evil deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:36",
"text": "Behold, we are slaves to this day, and the land that you have given to our ancestors to eat its fruits and enjoy its goodness\u2014behold, we are slaves in it! "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:37",
"text": "Its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have given over us because of our sins, and they are ruling over our dead bodies and our livestock at their pleasure. We are in great trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Nehemiah 9:38",
"text": " \u201cNow because of all of this we make a binding written agreement and are writing on the sealed documents the names of our commanders, our Levites, and our priests.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:1",
"text": " Upon the sealed documents: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah and Zedekiah; "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:2",
"text": "Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:3",
"text": "Pashhur, Amariah, Malkijah, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:4",
"text": "Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:5",
"text": "Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:6",
"text": "Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:7",
"text": "Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:8",
"text": "Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah\u2014these are the priests. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:9",
"text": "And the Levites: Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui from the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:10",
"text": "their brothers Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:11",
"text": "Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:12",
"text": "Zaccur, Shereiah, Shebanaih, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:13",
"text": "Hodiah, Bani, Beninu. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:14",
"text": "The heads of the people: Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:15",
"text": "Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:16",
"text": "Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:17",
"text": "Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:18",
"text": "Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:19",
"text": "Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:20",
"text": "Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:21",
"text": "Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:22",
"text": "Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:23",
"text": "Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:24",
"text": "Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:25",
"text": "Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:26",
"text": "Ahijah, Hanan, Anan, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:27",
"text": "Malluch, Harim, Baanah. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:28",
"text": " \u201cThe rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to observe the law of God\u2014their wives, their sons, their daughters, and all who know and understand\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:29",
"text": "are helping their brothers, their nobles, and entering into a solemn oath to walk in the law of God which was given by the hand of Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all of the commandments of Yahweh our Lord and his judgments and regulations. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:30",
"text": "We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land nor take their daughters for our sons. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:31",
"text": "And the peoples of the land who bring merchandise and any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not accept it from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. We will forego the crops of the seventh year and cancel every debt. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:32",
"text": " \u201cWe put on ourselves the commandment upon us to yearly give a third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:33",
"text": "for the rows of bread, the offering of the daily sacrifice, the continual burnt sacrifice, the Sabbaths, the new moon festivals, the appointed festival times, the holy objects, the sin offerings that make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:34",
"text": "And we have cast lots for the contributions of the wood offering of the priests, the Levites, and the people to bring it to the house of our God, by our fathers\u2019 houses, at designated times, year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God\u2014as it is written in the law. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:35",
"text": "We also bring the first fruits of our soil and the first fruits of all the fruit trees, year by year, for the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:36",
"text": "And the firstborn of our sons and beasts\u2014as it is written in the law\u2014and the firstborn of our cattle and sheep, to bring to the house of our God and to the priests serving in the house of our God. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:37",
"text": "And we bring the best of our dough, our offerings, the fruit of every tree, new wine, and olive oil to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring the tithe of our soil to the Levites, for the Levites receive the tithes in all of our rural towns. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:38",
"text": "And the priest, the descendant of Aaron, will be with the Levites during the tithe the Levites receive. The Levites will bring up a tithe of the tithes for the house of our God to the chambers of the storehouse. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Nehemiah 10:39",
"text": "For the \u231eIsraelites\u231f and the \u231eLevites\u231f will bring to the storerooms the offering of grain, new wine, and olive oil. These are the objects of the sanctuary and the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:1",
"text": " Now the commanders of the people lived in Jerusalem, but the remainder of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, the other nine\u2019s place was in the other cities. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:2",
"text": "And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:3",
"text": " These are the heads of the province who lived in Jerusalem, but in the cities of Judah each one lived on his property in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon\u2019s servants. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:4",
"text": "And some from the descendants of Judah and Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. From the descendants of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, from the descendants of Perez; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:5",
"text": "and Maaseiah son of Baruch, son of Col-Hozeh, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Jehoiarib, son of Zechariah, son of the Shilonite. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:6",
"text": "All of the descendants of Perez who were living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight able-bodied men. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:7",
"text": " These are the descendants of Benjamin: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:8",
"text": "And following after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:9",
"text": "And Joel son of Zicri, their chief officer; and Judah son of Hassenuah, second in command over the city. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:10",
"text": " From the priests: Jedaiah son of Jehoiarib, Jakin, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:11",
"text": "Seraiah son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub\u2014the leader of the house of God\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:12",
"text": "and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two. And Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malkijah, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:13",
"text": "and his brothers, heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f, two hundred and forty-two. And Amashai son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:14",
"text": "and their brothers; mighty warriors of strength, one hundred and twenty-eight. The chief officer over them was Zabdiel son of Hagedolim. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:15",
"text": " Now from the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, son of Bunni; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:16",
"text": "and Shabbethai and Jehozabad, leaders over the work of the Levites outside of the house of God; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:17",
"text": "Mattaniah son of Micah, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader to begin the thanksgiving prayer, and Bakbukiah the second of his brothers; Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:18",
"text": "All of the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:19",
"text": " The gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, the keepers of the gates, one hundred and seventy-two. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:20",
"text": "And the remainder of Israel, the priests and the Levites, in all of the cities of Judah, each in his inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:21",
"text": "But the temple servants were living on the Ophel; Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:22",
"text": " The chief officer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, from the descendants of Asaph, the singers over the work of the house of God. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:23",
"text": "For there was a command of the king concerning them and a regulation concerning the singers, required \u231eday by day\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:24",
"text": "And Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, from the descendants of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the hand of the king in all matters concerning the people. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:25",
"text": " As for the villages in their territories, some from the descendants of Judah lived in Kiriath-Arba and \u231eits settlements\u231f, Dibon and \u231eits settlements\u231f, Jekabzeel and \u231eits settlements\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:26",
"text": "Jeshua, Moladah, Beth Pelet, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:27",
"text": "Hazar Shual, Beersheba and \u231eits settlements\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:28",
"text": "Ziklad, Meconah and \u231eits settlements\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:29",
"text": "En-Rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuch, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:30",
"text": "Zanoah, Adullam and \u231etheir settlements\u231f, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and \u231eits settlements\u231f. So they camped from Beersheba up to the Valley of Hinnom. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:31",
"text": "The descendants of Benjamin from Geba, Micmash, Aija, Bethel and \u231etheir settlements\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:32",
"text": "Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:33",
"text": "Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:34",
"text": "Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:35",
"text": "Lod, and Ono the valley of the artisans. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Nehemiah 11:36",
"text": "And from the Levites the working groups of Judah were assigned to Benjamin. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:1",
"text": " These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:2",
"text": "Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:3",
"text": "Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:4",
"text": "Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:5",
"text": "Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:6",
"text": "Shemaiah, Jehoiarib, Jedaiah, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:7",
"text": "Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These are the heads of the priests and their brothers in the days of Jeshua. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:8",
"text": " And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah and his brothers who were in charge of the songs of thanksgiving. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:9",
"text": "And Bakbukiah, Unno, their brothers stood opposite them during service. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:10",
"text": "Jeshua fathered Jehoiakim; Jehoiakim fathered Eliashib; Eliashib fathered Jehoiada; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:11",
"text": "Jehoiada fathered Jehonathan; Jehonathan fathered Jaddua. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:12",
"text": " Now in the days of Jehoiakim the priests and the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f were: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:13",
"text": "of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:14",
"text": "of Melichu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:15",
"text": "of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:16",
"text": "of Adaia, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:17",
"text": "of Abijah, Zicri; of Miniamin; of Moadiah, Piltai; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:18",
"text": "of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:19",
"text": "of Jehoiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:20",
"text": "of Sallu, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:21",
"text": "of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; and of Jedaiah, Nethanel. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:22",
"text": " In the days of Eliashib, Jehoiada, Jehohanan, and Jaddua the Levites were recorded as heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f. So these were the priests during the reign of Darius the Persian. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:23",
"text": "The descendants of Levi and the heads of the \u231efamilies\u231f were recorded in the scroll of the Annals until the days of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:24",
"text": "And the heads of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their brothers opposite them, to praise and to give thanks by the command of David the man of God, section alongside section. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:25",
"text": "Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storerooms of the gates. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:26",
"text": "These were in the days of Jehoiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jehozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:27",
"text": " At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites from all of their places in order to bring them to Jerusalem to do the dedication with joy, thanksgivings, song and cymbals, stringed instruments and lyres. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:28",
"text": "The \u231esingers\u231f were gathered from the circuit all around Jerusalem and from the villages of Netophathite, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:29",
"text": "from Beth Gilgal, from the field of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers built for themselves villages all around Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:30",
"text": "And the priests and the Levites purified themselves and purified the people, the gates, and the wall. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:31",
"text": " Then I brought the commanders of Judah up on to the wall. I appointed two great choirs; one went in a procession to the right on the wall to the Dung Gate. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:32",
"text": "After them went Hoshaiah, half of the commanders of Judah, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:33",
"text": "Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:34",
"text": "Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:35",
"text": "and the \u231epriests\u231f with trumpets; Zechariah son of Jehonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph; "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:36",
"text": "and his brothers Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani with the instruments of the songs of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe went before them. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:37",
"text": "At the Fountain Gate opposite them they went up the steps of the city of David, at the assent to the wall, over the house of David, and up to the Water Gate to the east. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:38",
"text": " Then the second choir went the opposite way. I followed after them with half of the people on the wall, from over the Tower of the Ovens up to the Wide Wall "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:39",
"text": "and over the Gate of Ephraim, at the Old Gate, at the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, and to the Sheep Gate. And they stopped and stood at the Gate of the Guard. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:40",
"text": "So the two choirs stood in the house of God, and I and half of the prefects with me; "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:41",
"text": "and the priests Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah with the trumpets; "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:42",
"text": "Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malkijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jizrahiah the chief officer. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:43",
"text": "They offered on that day great sacrifices and rejoiced because God brought great joy to them. And the women and children also rejoiced. The joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:44",
"text": " On that day men were appointed for the storehouse rooms, the offerings, the first fruits, and the tithes, in order to gather in them from the fields of the cities the requirements of the law for the priests and Levites; for the joy of Judah was upon the priests and Levites standing there. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:45",
"text": "They kept the responsibility of their God and the responsibility of cleansing, and the singers and gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:46",
"text": "For in the days of David and Asaph from ancient times there was the head of the singers and a song of praise and thanksgiving to God. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Nehemiah 12:47",
"text": "So all of Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily food portions of the singers and gatekeepers. And they set apart that which was for the Levites, and the Levites set apart that which was for the descendants of Aaron. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:1",
"text": " On that day the book of Moses was read in the hearing of the people and it was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever come into the assembly of God "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:2",
"text": "because they did not come to meet the \u231eIsraelites\u231f with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them in order to curse them\u2014but our God changed the curse into a blessing. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:3",
"text": "So it happened when they heard the law that they separated all of the foreign people from Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:4",
"text": " Before this, Eliashib the priest who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God\u2014the one related to Tobiah\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:5",
"text": "prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had formerly put the grain offering, the frankincense, the temple objects, tithes of grain, wine, and oil commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the offerings of the priests. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:6",
"text": "During all of this, I was not in Jerusalem because in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. At the end of some days I asked permission from the king to leave. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:7",
"text": "So I came to Jerusalem. And I came to learn of the wrong that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by making him a room in the courtyard of the house of God. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:8",
"text": "It was very displeasing for me, and I threw all of the objects from the house of Tobiah outside of the chamber. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:9",
"text": "And I spoke in order, and they cleansed the chambers. Then I returned the objects of the house of God\u2014the grain offering and the frankincense. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:10",
"text": " And then I came to learn that the food of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, the doers of the work, had gone back each to his field. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:11",
"text": "So I quarreled with the prefects, and I said, \u201cWhy is the house of God forsaken?\u201d And I gathered them and set them at their station. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:12",
"text": "So all of Judah brought the tithe of grain, new wine, and olive oil into the storehouses. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:13",
"text": "I appointed as treasurer over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, Pedaiah from the Levites, and as their hand Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered faithful. The responsibility given to them was to distribute to their brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:14",
"text": "Remember me, my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my loyal acts which I have done in the house of my God and in his service. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:15",
"text": " In those days I saw in Judah people treading the wine press on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys along with wine, grapes and figs, and every kind of burden and bringing it all to Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath. And I warned them at that time against selling food. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:16",
"text": "Tyrian men who lived in Jerusalem brought fish and every kind of merchandise and sold it on the Sabbath to the descendants of Judah and in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:17",
"text": "So I quarreled with the nobles of Judah and said to them, \u201cWhat is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the day of the Sabbath? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:18",
"text": "Did not your ancestors do this also, and our God brought on us all of this disaster and on this city too? Now you are adding fierce wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:19",
"text": " So when it became dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors be shut and said that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I appointed some of my young men over the gates to prevent any \u231egoods\u231f being brought in on the day of the Sabbath. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:20",
"text": "So the merchants and the sellers of merchandise spent the night outside of Jerusalem once or twice. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:21",
"text": "But I warned them and said to them, \u201cWhy are you spending the night opposite the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands against you.\u201d From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:22",
"text": "And then I told two Levites that they must purify themselves and come to guard the gates in order to consecrate the day of the Sabbath. Remember this also, my God, and take pity on me according to the greatness of your loyal love. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:23",
"text": " Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:24",
"text": "Half of their children spoke Ashdodite and could not speak Judean, but only the tongues of other nations. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:25",
"text": "So I quarreled with them and cursed them and beat some of their men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath by God: \u201cDo not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:26",
"text": "Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in this way? And among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Yet the foreign women made even him sin. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:27",
"text": "Should we listen to you all and do this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:28",
"text": " One from the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, who was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonote was there. I chased him away from me. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:29",
"text": "Remember them, my God, because of their defilements of the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:30",
"text": " So I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established responsibilities for the priests and Levites, each in his own work, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Nehemiah 13:31",
"text": "a contribution of the wood offering at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Esther",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:1",
"text": " And it happened in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Cush\u2014over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:2",
"text": "In those days as King Ahasuerus was sitting on the throne of his kingdom, which was in the citadel of Susa, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:3",
"text": "he gave a banquet in the third year of his reign for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and officials of the provinces were in his presence "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:4",
"text": "as he displayed the wealth of the glory of his kingdom and the glorious splendor of his greatness for many days, one hundred and eighty days. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:5",
"text": " And when those days were completed, the king gave for all the people that were present at the citadel of Susa, both great and small, a banquet in the courtyard of the king\u2019s palace garden that lasted seven days. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:6",
"text": "There were curtains of finely woven linen and blue cloth tied with cords of fine white linen and purple cloth to silver curtain rings and pillars of alabaster, and couches of gold and silver on a paved floor of alabaster, precious stone, mother-of-pearl, and costly stones. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:7",
"text": "Drinks were served in goblets of gold and \u231egoblets of different kinds\u231f, and there was \u231eplentiful royal wine according to the bounty of the king\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:8",
"text": "There were no restrictions on the drinking, for the king had instructed every official of his palace to do as each one pleased. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:9",
"text": "Furthermore, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in \u231ethe palace\u231f that belonged to King Ahasuerus. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:10",
"text": " On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven of the eunuchs attending King Ahasuerus, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:11",
"text": "to bring Queen Vashti before the king \u231ewith her royal crown\u231f to show the people and the officials her beauty, \u231efor she was very attractive\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:12",
"text": "But Queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king that was \u231econveyed by\u231f the eunuchs. And the king became very angry, and his anger burned in him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:13",
"text": " And the king said to the wise men, \u231ethe ones who know the times\u231f\u2014for it was the procedure of the king before all those who knew law and rights; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:14",
"text": "and those next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media who \u231ehad access to the king\u231f and sat first in the kingdom\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:15",
"text": "\u201cAccording to the law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti, because she has not done the command of King Ahasuerus \u231econveyed by\u231f the eunuchs? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:16",
"text": "And Memucan said before the king and the officials, \u201cNot only has Queen Vashti done wrong to the king, but to all the officials and all of the people who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:17",
"text": "For this deed of the queen \u231ewill be known\u231f to all the women, causing them \u231eto look with contempt on their husbands\u231f, as they will say, \u2018King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him but she did not come!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:18",
"text": "This day the women of nobility from Persia and Media will respond to all the officials of the king and there will be no end to contempt and anger. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:19",
"text": "\u231eIf it pleases\u231f the king, let \u231ea royal edict\u231f go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media so that it will not be altered, that Vashti cannot come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to her neighbor who is better than she. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:20",
"text": "And let the king\u2019s decree that he will make be proclaimed in all his kingdom, because it is vast and all the women will honor their husbands, great and small.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:21",
"text": " \u231eThis advice pleased the king\u231f and the officials, and the king acted according to the word of Memucan. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Esther 1:22",
"text": "And he sent letters to all the provinces of the king, to each province according to its own script, and to every people in their own \u231elanguage\u231f, that every man should be the master of his house and who speaks in the \u231elanguage\u231f of his people. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:1",
"text": " After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:2",
"text": "And the king\u2019s servants attending him said, \u201cLet them seek attractive young virgins for the king. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:3",
"text": "Let the king appoint chief officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every attractive young virgin to the \u231eharem\u231f in the citadel of Susa \u231eunder the care of\u231f Hegai, the king\u2019s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let him give them their beauty treatment. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:4",
"text": "And let the young woman \u231ewho is pleasing\u231f in the king\u2019s eyes become queen in place of Vashti. The thing was good in the king\u2019s eyes, and he acted accordingly. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:5",
"text": " There was a Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:6",
"text": "who was deported from Jerusalem with the exiles who were deported with Jeconiah the king of Judah, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:7",
"text": "He was raising Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle\u2019s daughter, for she did not have a father or a mother; the young woman had a beautiful figure and was very attractive. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had taken her as his daughter. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:8",
"text": "And it happened, at the proclaiming of the edict of the king and his law, when many young women were being gathered to the citadel of Susa \u231eunder Hegai\u2019s care\u231f, Esther was taken to the \u231eking\u2019s palace\u231f \u231eunder the care of\u231f Hegai who was in charge of the women. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:9",
"text": "\u231eThe young woman pleased him\u231f and she won favor in his presence, and he quickly provided for her beauty treatment and her portion of food, with seven chosen maids to give to her from the \u231eking\u2019s palace\u231f, and he advanced her and her maids to the best part of the \u231eharem\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:10",
"text": "Esther did not disclose her people and her family because Modecai had charged her that she must not tell. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:11",
"text": "And every day Modecai would walk up and down in front of the courtyard of the \u231eharem\u231f to learn \u231ehow Esther was doing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:12",
"text": " When the turn came for each girl to go to King Ahasuerus, after the end of twelve months of being under the regulations of the women\u2014for the days of their beauty treatments had to be filled, six months with the oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and women\u2019s cosmetics\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:13",
"text": "in this way, the girl goes to the king and all that she asks is given to her \u231eto take\u231f with her from the \u231eharem\u231f to the \u231eking\u2019s palace\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:14",
"text": "In the evening she would go and in the morning she would return to the \u231esecond harem\u231f \u231eunder the care of\u231f Shaashgaz, the king\u2019s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not go back to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was called by name. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:15",
"text": " When the turn came near for Esther daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as a daughter, to go to the king, she did not ask anything except what Hegai the eunuch of the king who was in charge of the women, advised. And Esther carried favor in the eyes of everyone that saw her. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:16",
"text": "Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, to his \u231epalace\u231f, in the tenth month that is Tebeth in the seventh year of his reign. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:17",
"text": "And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won his favor and loyalty more than all the virgins, so he put a \u231eroyal crown\u231f on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:18",
"text": "And the king gave a great banquet, Esther\u2019s banquet, for all his officials and servants. And he granted a tax amnesty to the provinces and he gave gifts with royal liberality. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:19",
"text": " When the virgins were gathered a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the gate of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:20",
"text": "Esther had not made known her family and her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her; for Esther \u231edid what Mordecai told her\u231f, just as when she was brought up by him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:21",
"text": "In those days Mordecai was sitting at the gate of the king. Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king\u2019s eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold, became angry and they conspired \u231eto assassinate\u231f King Ahasuerus. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:22",
"text": "And the matter became known to Mordecai and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told it to the king in the name of Mordecai. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Esther 2:23",
"text": "And the matter was investigated and found to be so; and the two of them were hanged on the gallows, and it was written in the scroll of the events of the days before the presence of the king. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:1",
"text": " After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and he exalted him and set \u231ehis position\u231f above all the officials who were with him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:2",
"text": "And all of the king\u2019s servants who were at the gate of the king were kneeling and bowing down to Haman; for so the king had commanded concerning him, but Mordecai did not kneel and bow down. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:3",
"text": "And the king\u2019s servants who were at the gate of the king said to Mordecai, \u201cWhy are you transgressing the command of the king?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:4",
"text": "They spoke to him day after day, but he did not listen to them, and they informed Haman to see if \u231eMordecai\u2019s resolve would prevail\u231f; for he had told them that he was a Jew. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:5",
"text": "And Haman saw that Mordecai was not kneeling and bowing down to him, and he was filled with anger. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:6",
"text": "But \u231ehe considered it beneath him\u231f to lay hands on Mordecai only, for they told him of Mordecai\u2019s people, and Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were in the kingdom of Ahasuerus. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:7",
"text": " In the first month, that is, the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasurus, he cast pur\u2014that is, the lot\u2014before the presence of Haman \u231efor the day and for the month\u231f, until the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:8",
"text": "And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, \u201cThere is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all of the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from every other people, and they do not \u231eobserve\u231f the laws of the king; it is not appropriate for the king to tolerate them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:9",
"text": "If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:10",
"text": "So the king removed his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:11",
"text": "And the king said to Haman, \u201cThe money is given to you and to the people to do with it \u231eas you see fit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:12",
"text": " And the king\u2019s secretaries were called in the first month on the thirteenth day, and a decree was issued, according to all that Haman commanded, to the satraps of the king and to the governors who were over all the provinces, and to the officials of all the people, to each province according to its own script and to all people according to their own language; it was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and was sealed with the king\u2019s ring. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:13",
"text": "Letters were sent by couriers to all the provinces of the king to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, \u231eboth young and old\u231f, women and children, on one day, the thirteenth day of the month, that is Adar, and to plunder their goods. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:14",
"text": "A copy of the edict was presented as law in every province making it known to all the people to be ready for that day. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Esther 3:15",
"text": "The couriers went out quickly by order of the king, and the law was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; and the city of Susa was bewildered. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:1",
"text": " Mordecai learned all that had been done and he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes. And he went through the middle of the city and cried out a loud and bitter cry; "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:2",
"text": "he went up to the entrance of the gate of the king, for he could not go to the gate of the king in sackcloth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:3",
"text": "In every province each place where the king\u2019s edict and his law came, there was great mourning for the Jews with fasting, crying, wailing, and sackcloth; and ashes were spread out as a bed for them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:4",
"text": " And Esther\u2019s maids and her eunuchs came and they told her, and the queen was deeply distressed; she sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he might remove his sackcloth\u2014but he did not accept them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:5",
"text": "Then Esther called Hathach from the king\u2019s eunuchs \u231ewho regularly attended to her\u231f, and she ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what was happening and why. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:6",
"text": "So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the public square of the city, which was in front of the gate of the king, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:7",
"text": "and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman has promised to pay to the treasury of the king for the destruction of the Jews. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:8",
"text": "And he gave him a copy of the edict of the law that had been issued in Susa for their destruction to show Esther, and to inform her, and to charge her to go to the king and make supplication to him and entreat before him for her people. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:9",
"text": " And Hathach went back and told Esther the words of Mordecai. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:10",
"text": "And Esther spoke to Hathach and \u231eshe gave him a message for Mordecai\u231f: "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:11",
"text": "\u201cAll the king\u2019s servants and the people of the king\u2019s provinces know that if any man or woman who goes to the king to the inner courtyard, who is not called, he has one law, to be killed, except if the king extends to him the gold scepter so that he may live. I have not been called to come to the king \u231efor thirty days\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:12",
"text": "And they told Mordecai the words of Esther. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:13",
"text": "Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther: \u201cDo not think that your life will be saved in the palace of the king more than all the Jews. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:14",
"text": "For if indeed you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and the family of your father will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to a royal position for a time such as this.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:15",
"text": "Esther replied to Mordecai: "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:16",
"text": "\u201cGo, gather all the Jews that are found in Susa and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, both night and day. I and my young girls will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king, which is not according to the law; if I perish, I perish. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Esther 4:17",
"text": "And Mordecai went away and he did everything that Esther commanded him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:1",
"text": " And it happened, on the third day, and Esther put on royal clothes, and she stood in the inner courtyard of the \u231eking\u2019s palace\u231f, opposite the \u231eking\u2019s palace\u231f; the king was sitting on his royal throne in the \u231ethrone room\u231f opposite the doorway of the palace. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:2",
"text": "When the king saw Queen Esther standing in the courtyard she found favor in his eyes, and the king held out the gold scepter that was in his hand to Esther, and Esther approached and touched the top of the scepter. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:3",
"text": "And the king said to her, \u201cWhat is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It will be given to you\u2014even half the kingdom.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:4",
"text": "And Esther said, \u201cIf it is good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:5",
"text": "And the king said, \u201cBring Haman quickly \u231eto fulfill\u231f the request of Esther.\u201d So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:6",
"text": "And the king said to Esther \u231ewhile they were drinking wine\u231f, \u201cWhat is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even half the kingdom, it will done. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:7",
"text": "And Esther answered and said, \u201cThis is my petition and my request. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:8",
"text": "If I have found favor in the eyes of the king, and if it is good to the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them tomorrow, and I will do according to the word of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:9",
"text": " And Haman went out on that day rejoicing and \u231efeeling good\u231f. But when Haman saw Mordecai at the gate of the king, and he did not rise or tremble before him, Haman was filled \u231ewith rage toward\u231f Mordecai. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:10",
"text": "But Haman controlled himself and went to his house, and he sent for and brought his friends and Zeresh his wife. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:11",
"text": "And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his wealth and the number of his sons and all the ways that the king had honored him and promoted him above the officials and king\u2019s servants. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:12",
"text": "\u231eAnd Haman added\u231f, \u201cEsther the Queen did not let just anyone come to the banquet that she prepared with the king except me, and I am also invited tomorrow to her banquet with the king. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:13",
"text": "But all this \u231efails to satisfy me\u231f \u231ewhen\u231f I see Mordecai the Jew setting at the gate of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Esther 5:14",
"text": "And Zeresh his wife and all of his friends said to him, \u201cLet them make a gallows fifty cubits high, and in the morning tell the king, \u201cLet them hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet happily.\u201d The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:1",
"text": " During that night the king\u2019s sleep escaped him, and he gave orders to bring the \u231escroll of records and chronicles\u231f, and they were read before the king. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:2",
"text": "And it was found written how Mordecai had reported concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king\u2019s eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold who had conspired \u231eto assassinate\u231f King Ahasuerus. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:3",
"text": "And the king asked, \u201cWhat has been done to bestow honor to Mordecai for this?\u201d And the king\u2019s servants who attended him said, \u201cNothing has been done for him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:4",
"text": "And the king asked, \u201cWho is in the courtyard?\u201d Haman had just come to the courtyard of the king\u2019s outer palace to tell the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:5",
"text": "And the king\u2019s servants said to him, \u201cLook! Haman is standing in the courtyard.\u201d And the king said, \u201cLet him come.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:6",
"text": "And Haman came, and the king said to him, \u201cWhat is to be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?\u201d And Haman thought to himself, \u201cWhom would the king wish to honor more than me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:7",
"text": "So Haman said to the king, \u201cFor a man whom the king wishes to honor, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:8",
"text": "let them bring \u231eroyal clothing\u231f with which the king has clothed himself, and a horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal head-dress has been given. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:9",
"text": "And let the clothing and the horse be given \u231eto the man\u231f by the officials of the king\u2019s nobles; let them cloth the man whom the king wishes to honor, and let him ride on his horse through the public square of the city, and let them proclaim before him, \u2018Thus, it will be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:10",
"text": "Then the king said to Haman, \u201cQuickly, take the clothing and the horse, just as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the gate of the king; you must not leave out anything from what you have said.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:11",
"text": "So Haman took the clothing and the horse, and he clothed Mordecai and let him ride through the public square of the city; and he proclaimed before him, \u201cThus, it is done to the man whom the king wishes to honor.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:12",
"text": " Then Mordecai returned to the gate of the king, and Haman rushed to his house mournful and with his head covered. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:13",
"text": "And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends all that had happened to him. And his advisers and Zeresh his wife said to him, \u201cIf Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is \u231efrom the descendants of the Jews\u231f, you will not prevail against him, but will certainly fall before him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Esther 6:14",
"text": "As they were still speaking with him the king\u2019s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Esther 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Esther 7:1",
"text": " So the king and Haman went \u231eto dine\u231f with Queen Esther. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Esther 7:2",
"text": "And the king again said to Esther, on the second day \u231ewhile they were drinking\u231f, \u201cWhat is your petition, Queen Esther? It will be given to you. What is your request? It will be given to you\u2014even half the kingdom.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Esther 7:3",
"text": "Then Queen Esther answered, and she said, \u201cIf I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it is good to the king, let my life be given to me at my petition and my people at my request; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Esther 7:4",
"text": "I and my people have been sold to be destroyed and killed, to be annihilated. If we had been sold as male and female slaves I would have kept quiet, because this is not a need sufficient to trouble the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Esther 7:5",
"text": "And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, \u201cWho is he, and where is he, who \u231egave himself the right to do this\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Esther 7:6",
"text": "And Esther said, \u201cThe adversary and enemy is this evil Haman!\u201d And Haman was terrified before the king and queen. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Esther 7:7",
"text": " The king rose in his anger \u231efrom the banquet\u231f and went to the palace garden, and Haman stood to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for \u231ehe realized that the king was determined to make an end to his life\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Esther 7:8",
"text": "And the king returned from the palace garden to the \u231ebanquet hall\u231f, where Haman was lying prostrate on the couch that Esther was on, and the king said, \u201cWill he also molest the queen with me in the house?\u201d As the words went from the king\u2019s mouth they covered Haman\u2019s face. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Esther 7:9",
"text": "And Habrona, one of the eunuchs in the presence of the king, said, \u201cLook, the same gallows that Haman had prepared for Mordecai who spoke good for the sake of the king stands at Haman\u2019s house, fifty cubits high.\u201d And the king said, \u201cHang him on it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Esther 7:10",
"text": "And they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the anger of the king was abated. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:1",
"text": " On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:2",
"text": "And the king removed his signet ring that he had taken away from Haman, and he gave it to Mordecai. So Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:3",
"text": " And Esther again spoke before the king, and she fell before his feet and wept, pleading for his grace to avert Haman the Agagite\u2019s evil plan and the plot that he devised against the Jews. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:4",
"text": "And the king held out to Esther the scepter of gold, and Esther rose and stood before the king, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:5",
"text": "and she said, \u201cIf it is good to the king, and if I have found favor before him, and if the king is pleased with this matter, and \u231eI have his approval\u231f, let an edict be written to revoke the letters of the plans of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the provinces of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:6",
"text": "For \u231ehow can I bear\u231f to look on the disaster that will find my people, and \u231ehow can I bear\u231f to look on the destruction of my family?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:7",
"text": "And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, \u201cLook, I have given Haman\u2019s house to Esther, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he \u231eplotted against\u231f the Jews. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:8",
"text": "Write \u231eas you see fit\u231f concerning the Jews in the name of the king, and seal it with the king\u2019s signet ring; for a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king\u2019s signet ring cannot be revoked.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:9",
"text": " And the secretaries of the king were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is in the month of Sivan on the twenty-third day, and an edict was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the governors and satraps and officials of the provinces from India to Cush\u2014one hundred and twenty-seven provinces\u2014each province according to its own script and to every people in their own \u231elanguage\u231f, and to the Jews in their own script and language. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:10",
"text": "And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and he sealed the letters with the king\u2019s signet ring and sent them by couriers on horses, riding on royal horses \u231ebred by\u231f racing mares. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:11",
"text": "In them the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and \u231edefend their lives\u231f, to destroy and kill and annihilate any army of any people or province attacking them, including women and children, and to plunder their spoil, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:12",
"text": "in one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:13",
"text": "A copy of the \u231eedict\u231f was to be given as law in each province to inform all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves from their enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:14",
"text": "The mounted couriers on the royal horses went out without delay, urged by the king\u2019s word. The law was given in the citadel of Susa. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:15",
"text": " Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in \u231eroyal clothing\u231f of blue cloth and white linen, and a great crown of gold and a robe of fine white linen and purple, and the city of Susa was shouting and rejoicing. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:16",
"text": "For the Jews, there was light and gladness, joy and honor. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Esther 8:17",
"text": "In every province and city, wherever the king\u2019s edict and his law came, there was gladness and joy for the Jews, a banquet and a \u231eholiday\u231f, and many of the people from the country were posing as Jews because the fear of the Jews had fallen on them. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:1",
"text": " In the twelfth month, that is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, on which the edict of the king arrived and his law was enacted, on the day in which the enemies of the Jews had hoped to gain power over them but was overturned, and the Jews gained power against their enemies, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:2",
"text": "the Jews gathered in their cities in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus \u231eto strike against\u231f those who sought their destruction, and no one could withstand them, as the fear of them fell on all the people. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:3",
"text": "All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, governors, and \u231ethose who did the work of the king\u231f were supporting the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:4",
"text": "For Mordecai was high-ranking in the \u231eking\u2019s palace\u231f and his fame spread throughout all the provinces as \u231eMordecai grew more and more powerful\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:5",
"text": "The Jews struck down all their enemies with \u231ethe sword\u231f, killing and destroying them; and they did as they pleased with those that hated them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:6",
"text": "And in the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:7",
"text": "and Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:8",
"text": "Portha, Adalia, Aridatha, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:9",
"text": "Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:10",
"text": "the ten sons of Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews; but they did not \u231etouch\u231f the plunder. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:11",
"text": " On that day the number of those being killed in the citadel of Susa \u231ewas reported to\u231f the king. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:12",
"text": "And the king said to Queen Esther, \u201cIn the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king\u2019s provinces? What is your petition? It will be granted to you. And what further is your request? It will be done.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:13",
"text": "Esther replied, \u201cIf it is good to the king, let tomorrow also be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the edict of today; and let them hang Haman\u2019s ten sons on the gallows.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:14",
"text": "And the king said to do so. And a decree was issued in Susa and Haman\u2019s ten sons were hanged. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:15",
"text": "And the Jews were gathered who were in Susa, and on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed in Susa three hundred men, but they did not \u231etouch\u231f the plunder. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:16",
"text": " The rest of the Jews who were in the king\u2019s provinces gathered and \u231edefended their lives\u231f and \u231efound repose\u231f from their enemies. And they killed seventy-five thousand of those that hated them, but they did not \u231etouch\u231f the plunder. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:17",
"text": "This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. They rested on the fourteenth day and made it a day of feasting and joy. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:18",
"text": "But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day, and rested on the fifteenth day. And they made it a day of feasting and joy. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:19",
"text": "Therefore the Jews in the rural areas, living in the rural towns, made the fourteenth month of Adar a day of joy and feasting, a festive day of giving gifts to each other. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:20",
"text": " Mordecai wrote down these things and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all of the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:21",
"text": "to impose on them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day, \u231eevery year\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:22",
"text": "as the day that the Jews \u231efound relief\u231f from their enemies, and the month which changed for them from sorrow to joy, and from a mourning ceremony to a \u231efestive day\u231f; to make them days of feasting and joy, and giving gifts to each other and to the poor. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:23",
"text": "And the Jews adopted what they had begun to do and what Mordecai had written to them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:24",
"text": " For Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and he had cast pur, that is the lot, to rout them out and destroy them. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:25",
"text": "But when it came \u231eto the attention of\u231f the king, he \u231egave orders in writing\u231f that his evil plot that he had devised against the Jews should return on his head, and they hung him and his sons on the gallows. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:26",
"text": "Therefore they called these days Purim, because of the name Pur. Thus because of all the words of this letter, and of what they faced concerning this, and of what had happened to them, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:27",
"text": "the Jews established and adopted it for themselves and for their offspring, and for all who joined them. They did not neglect \u231eto observe\u231f these two days every year as it was written and appointed to them. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:28",
"text": "These days are to be remembered and are to be kept in every generation, and in family, province, and city; and these days of Purim are not to be neglected among the Jews, and their memory shall not come to an end among their offspring. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:29",
"text": " So Queen Esther the daughter of Abihail and Mordecai the Jew wrote in full authority to confirm this second letter of Purim. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:30",
"text": "He sent letters of words of peace and truth to all the Jews, to the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of Ahasuerus\u2019 kingdom, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:31",
"text": "to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had imposed, and just as they had imposed on themselves and their offspring regulations of the fast and their lament. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Esther 9:32",
"text": "And the command of Esther established these practices of Purim, and it was written on the scroll. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Esther 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Esther 10:1",
"text": " King Ahasuerus imposed forced labor on the land and islands of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Esther 10:2",
"text": "All the work of his authority and his \u231epowerful deeds\u231f, and the full accounting of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written on the scroll of the \u231echronicles\u231f of the kings of Media and Persia? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Esther 10:3",
"text": "For Mordecai the Jew was second-in-command to King Ahasuerus. He was great for the Jews and popular with many of his brothers, for he sought good for his people, \u231einterceding for the welfare of all his descendants\u231f. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Job",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:1",
"text": " There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:2",
"text": "And seven sons and three daughters were born to him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:3",
"text": "Then his livestock came to be seven thousand sheep and goats and three thousand camels and five hundred pairs of oxen and five hundred female donkeys, and he had very many slaves, and that man was greater than all the people of the east. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:4",
"text": "And his sons used to go and hold a feast \u231eat each other\u2019s house\u231f on his day, and they would send, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:5",
"text": "\u231eThen when\u231f the days of the feast had run their course, \u231eJob would send\u231f, and he would sanctify them. Thus he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of all of them, because Job thought, \u201cPerhaps my children have sinned and \u231ecursed\u231f God in their heart.\u201d This is what Job used to do \u231eall the time\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:6",
"text": " And it happened \u231eone day\u231f \u231ethat\u231f the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:7",
"text": "So Yahweh said to Satan, \u201cFrom where have you come?\u201d Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, \u201cFrom roaming on the earth and from walking about in it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:8",
"text": " So Yahweh said to Satan, \u201cHave you \u231econsidered\u231f my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth\u2014a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:9",
"text": " Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, \u201cDoes Job fear God for nothing? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:10",
"text": "Have you not put a fence around him and his household and around \u231eall that belongs to him\u231f \u231eon every side\u231f? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock has increased in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:11",
"text": "But, on the other hand, stretch out your hand and touch \u231eall that belongs to him\u231f and see \u231ewhether\u231f he will \u231ecurse\u231f you to your face.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:12",
"text": " So Yahweh said to Satan, \u201cLook, \u231eall that belongs to him\u231f is in your \u231epower\u231f. Only do not stretch out your hand \u231eagainst\u231f him.\u201d So Satan went out from Yahweh\u2019s \u231epresence\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:13",
"text": " And then there was one day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother\u2019s house. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:14",
"text": "And a messenger came to Job and said, \u201cThe oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding \u231ebeside them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:15",
"text": "Then the Sabeans \u231eattacked\u231f, and they took them, and they slew the servants \u231eby the edge of the sword\u231f. But I escaped, even I alone, to tell you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:16",
"text": " While this one was still speaking, \u231eanother\u231f came and said, \u201cThe fire of God fell from the heavens, and it blazed up against the sheep and goats and against the servants, and it consumed them. But I escaped, even I alone, to tell you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:17",
"text": " While this one was still speaking, \u231eanother\u231f came and said, \u201cThe Chaldeans formed three divisions, and they made a raid on the camels, and they carried them away, and they struck your servants \u231eby the edge of the sword\u231f, but I escaped, even I alone, to tell you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:18",
"text": " At the time this one was speaking, \u231eanother\u231f came and said, \u201cYour sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother\u2019s house. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:19",
"text": "And behold, a great wind came from across the desert, and it struck the four corners of the house \u231eso that\u231f it fell upon the young people, and they died. But I escaped, even I alone, to tell you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:20",
"text": " Then Job arose and tore his outer garment and shaved his head; \u231ethen\u231f he fell upon the ground and he worshiped. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:21",
"text": "Then he said, \u201cNaked I came out from my mother\u2019s womb, and naked I will return there. Yahweh gives, and Yahweh takes. Let Yahweh\u2019s name be blessed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Job 1:22",
"text": "In all this, Job did not sin and did not \u231echarge God with wrongdoing\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:1",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f one day the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst to present himself before Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:2",
"text": "So Yahweh \u231easked\u231f Satan, \u201cFrom where have you come?\u201d And Satan answered Yahweh and said, \u201cFrom roaming on the earth and from walking about in it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:3",
"text": " So Yahweh \u231easked\u231f Satan, \u201cHave you \u231econsidered\u231f my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth\u2014a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness \u231eeven though\u231f you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:4",
"text": " Then Satan answered him and said, \u201cSkin for skin! All that \u231ethat\u231f man has he will give for his life. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:5",
"text": "But stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and see \u231ewhether\u231f he will \u231ecurse\u231f you to your face.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:6",
"text": " So Yahweh said to Satan, \u201c\u231eAll right\u231f, he is in your \u231epower\u231f. Only spare his life.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:7",
"text": " So Satan went out from \u231eYahweh\u2019s presence\u231f, and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:8",
"text": "\u231eSo\u231f he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:9",
"text": " Then his wife said to him, \u201cAre you still persisting in your blamelessness? \u231eCurse\u231f God and die.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:10",
"text": " So he said to her, \u201cYou speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?\u201d In all this, Job did not sin with his lips. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:11",
"text": " Thus Job\u2019s three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:12",
"text": " Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads \u231etoward the sky\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Job 2:13",
"text": "Then they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that \u231ehis\u231f suffering was very great. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:1",
"text": " \u231eAfterward\u231f Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:2",
"text": "Thus Job \u231espoke up\u231f and said, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:3",
"text": " \u201cLet the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, \u2018A man-child is conceived.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:4",
"text": " Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:5",
"text": " Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds settle on it; let them terrify it with the blackness of day. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:6",
"text": " Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:7",
"text": " Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:8",
"text": " Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:9",
"text": " Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but there be none, and let it not see the eyelids of dawn "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:10",
"text": " because it did not shut the doors of my mother\u2019s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:11",
"text": " \u201cWhy did I not die at birth? Why did I not come forth from the womb and expire? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:12",
"text": " Why did the knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:13",
"text": " For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then \u231eI would be at rest\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:14",
"text": " with kings and counselors of the earth, who \u231erebuild\u231f ruins for themselves, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:15",
"text": " or with high officials \u231ewho have gold\u231f, who fill up their houses with silver. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:16",
"text": " Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants who did not see the light? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:17",
"text": " There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the \u231eweary\u231f are at rest; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:18",
"text": " the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the oppressor\u2019s voice. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:19",
"text": " The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his masters. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:20",
"text": " \u201cWhy does he give light to one in misery and life to those bitter of soul, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:21",
"text": " who wait for death, but \u231eit does not come\u231f, and search for it more than for treasures, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:22",
"text": " who rejoice \u231eexceedingly\u231f, and they are glad when they find the grave? "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:23",
"text": " Why does he give light to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in all around? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:24",
"text": " For my sighing comes \u231ebefore\u231f my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:25",
"text": " because the dread that I \u231efeel\u231f has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Job 3:26",
"text": " I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:1",
"text": " Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:2",
"text": " \u201cIf someone would test a word with you, would you be offended? But who can refrain from speaking? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:3",
"text": " Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:4",
"text": " Your words have raised up the one who stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:5",
"text": " But now it has come to you, and you are worn out; it touches you, and you are horrified. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:6",
"text": " Is not your fear in God your confidence? Is not your hope even the integrity of your ways? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:7",
"text": " \u201c\u231eThink\u231f now, who has perished who is innocent? Or where are the upright destroyed? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:8",
"text": " Just as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:9",
"text": " By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they come to an end. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:10",
"text": " The roar of the lion and the voice of a lion in its prime, and the teeth of the young lions are broken. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:11",
"text": " The lion is perishing without prey, and the lion\u2019s whelps are scattered. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:12",
"text": " \u201cAnd a word came stealing to me, and my ear received the whisper from it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:13",
"text": " Amid troubling thoughts from night visions, at the falling of deep sleep on men, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:14",
"text": " dread met me, and trembling, and it made many of my bones shake. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:15",
"text": " And a spirit glided before my face; the hair of my flesh bristled. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:16",
"text": " It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form was \u231ebefore\u231f my eyes; there was a hush, and I heard a voice: "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:17",
"text": " \u2018Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:18",
"text": " Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:19",
"text": " How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust? They are crushed like a moth. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:20",
"text": " \u231eBetween morning and evening\u231f they are destroyed; without anyone regarding it they perish forever. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Job 4:21",
"text": " Is not their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, but not in wisdom.\u2019 "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:1",
"text": " \u201cCall now, is there anyone answering you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:2",
"text": " For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill the simple. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:3",
"text": " I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:4",
"text": " His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:5",
"text": " whose harvest the hungry eats, and he takes it \u231efrom behind\u231f the thorns; and the thirsty pants after their wealth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:6",
"text": " Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:7",
"text": " But a human being is born to trouble, and \u231ethey soar aloft\u231f like \u231esparks\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:8",
"text": " \u201cBut I myself will seek God, and to God I would commit my cause. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:9",
"text": " He is doing great and \u231eunsearchable\u231f things, marvelous things \u231ewithout number\u231f\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:10",
"text": " the one who is giving rain on the \u231esurface of\u231f the earth and is sending water on the \u231esurface of\u231f the fields, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:11",
"text": " to set the lowly on high, and those mourning are lifted to safety. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:12",
"text": " He is frustrating the devices of the crafty, and their hands do not achieve success. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:13",
"text": " He is capturing the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are rushed. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:14",
"text": " In the daytime they meet with darkness, and they grope at noon as in the night. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:15",
"text": " And he saves from the sword of their mouth, \u231eeven\u231f the poor from the hand of the strong. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:16",
"text": " So there is hope for the powerless, and wickedness shuts its mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:17",
"text": " \u201cLook, happy is the human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:18",
"text": " for he himself wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:19",
"text": " \u231eFrom\u231f six troubles he will deliver you, and in seven evil shall not touch you. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:20",
"text": " In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the \u231epower of\u231f the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:21",
"text": " From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden, and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:22",
"text": " At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and you shall not fear the wild animals of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:23",
"text": " For your covenant will be with the stones of the field, and the wild animals of the field will be at peace with you. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:24",
"text": " And you shall know that your tent is safe, and you will inspect your fold, and you shall not be missing anything. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:25",
"text": " And you shall know that your offspring are many, and your descendants like the vegetation of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:26",
"text": " You shall come in maturity to the grave, as the raising up of a stack of sheaves in its season. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Job 5:27",
"text": " \u201cLook, we have searched this out\u2014it is true; hear it and know it \u231eyourself\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:1",
"text": " \u00a0Then Job answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:2",
"text": " \u201cIf only my vexation could be well weighed, and my calamity could be lifted up together with it in the balances, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:3",
"text": " for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:4",
"text": " for the arrows of Shaddai are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:5",
"text": " Does the wild ass bray over grass, or the ox bellow over its fodder? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:6",
"text": " Can tasteless food be eaten without salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:7",
"text": " \u231eI refused\u231f to touch them; they are like \u231efood that will make me ill\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:8",
"text": " \u201c\u231eO that\u231f my request may come, and that God may grant my hope, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:9",
"text": " that God would decide that he would crush me, that he would let loose his hand and \u231ekill me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:10",
"text": " But it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in \u231eunrelenting\u231f pain, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:11",
"text": " What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that \u231eI should hold out\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:12",
"text": " Or is my strength like the strength of stones? Or is my flesh bronze? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:13",
"text": " \u231eIndeed\u231f, my help is not in me, and any success is driven from me. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:14",
"text": " \u201cLoyal love should come for the afflicted from his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of Shaddai. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:15",
"text": " My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:16",
"text": " which are growing dark because of ice upon them, it will pile up snow. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:17",
"text": " In time they dry up, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:18",
"text": " The paths of their way wind around; they go up into the wasteland, and they perish. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:19",
"text": " The caravans of Tema looked; the traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:20",
"text": " They are disappointed, because they trusted; they came \u231ehere\u231f and they are confounded. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:21",
"text": " \u201cFor now you have become \u231esuch\u231f; you see terrors, and you fear. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:22",
"text": " Is it because I have said, \u2018Give to me,\u2019 or, \u2018Offer a bribe for me from your wealth\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:23",
"text": " or, \u2018Save me from the foe\u2019s hand,\u2019 or, \u2018Ransom me from the tyrants\u2019 hand\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:24",
"text": " Teach me, and I myself will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:25",
"text": " How painful are \u231eupright words\u231f! But what does \u231eyour reproof\u231f reprove? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:26",
"text": " Do you intend to reprove my words and consider the words of a desperate man as wind? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:27",
"text": " Even over the orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:28",
"text": " \u201c\u231eTherefore\u231f be prepared, turn to me, and I surely will not lie to your face. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:29",
"text": " Please turn, let no injustice happen; indeed, turn, \u231emy righteousness is still intact\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Job 6:30",
"text": " Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamity? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:1",
"text": " \u201cDoes not \u231ea human being have hard service\u231f on earth? And are not his days like the days of a laborer? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:2",
"text": " Like a slave he longs for the shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:3",
"text": " So \u231eI had to inherit\u231f months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:4",
"text": " When I lie down, I say, \u2018When shall I rise?\u2019 But the night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:5",
"text": " My body is clothed with maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way again. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:6",
"text": " \u201cMy days are swifter than a weaver\u2019s shuttle, and they come to an end \u231ewithout hope\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:7",
"text": " Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will not return to see good. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:8",
"text": " The eye of the one seeing me will not see me; your eyes are upon me, but \u231eI will be gone\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:9",
"text": " A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will not come up. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:10",
"text": " He does not return again to his house, and his place does not recognize him again. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:11",
"text": " \u201cEven I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit\u2019s anguish; I will complain in my inner self\u2019s bitterness. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:12",
"text": " Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:13",
"text": " When I say, \u2018My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:14",
"text": " then you terrify me with dreams, and with visions you terrify me. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:15",
"text": " So my inner self will choose strangling\u2014 death more than my \u231eexistence\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:16",
"text": " I loathe my life; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days are a breath. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:17",
"text": " \u201cWhat is a human being that you make him great and that \u231eyou fix your mind on him\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:18",
"text": " so that you visit him \u231eevery morning\u231f, you test him \u231eevery moment\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:19",
"text": " \u231eHow long\u231f will you not turn away from me? Or not leave me alone until I swallow my spit? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:20",
"text": " If I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Job 7:21",
"text": " And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my guilt? For now I shall lie in the dust, and you will seek me, but \u231eI will be no more\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:1",
"text": " Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:2",
"text": " \u201c\u231eHow long\u231f will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:3",
"text": " Does God pervert justice, \u231eor\u231f Shaddai pervert righteousness? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:4",
"text": " If your children sinned against him, then he sent them into the \u231epower\u231f of their transgression. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:5",
"text": " If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:6",
"text": " If you are pure and upright, indeed, now he will rouse himself for you, and he will restore your righteous abode. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:7",
"text": " Though your beginning was small, your end will be very great. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:8",
"text": " \u201cIndeed, please inquire of former generations, and consider \u231ewhat their ancestors have found\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:9",
"text": " for we are of yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth are a shadow. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:10",
"text": " Will they themselves not teach you and \u231etell you\u231f and \u231eutter\u231f words from their heart? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:11",
"text": " Can papyrus grow tall where there is not a marsh? Will reeds flourish without water? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:12",
"text": " While it is in its flower and is not plucked, yet it withers \u231ebefore\u231f all grass. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:13",
"text": " So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless will perish, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:14",
"text": " whose confidence is cut off and \u231ewhose trust\u231f is a spider\u2019s house. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:15",
"text": " He will lean himself against his house, but it will not stand; he will take hold of it, but it will not endure. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:16",
"text": " He is \u231ethriving\u231f \u231ebefore\u231f the sun, and his plant shoots spread over his garden. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:17",
"text": " His roots twine over a stone heap; he sees a house of stone. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:18",
"text": " If he destroys him from his place, then it deceives him, saying, \u2018I have never seen you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:19",
"text": " Look, this is the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:20",
"text": " \u201cLook, God will not reject the blameless, and he will not uphold the hand of evildoers. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:21",
"text": " Yet he will fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with a shout of joy. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Job 8:22",
"text": " Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked \u231ewill be no more\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:1",
"text": " Then Job answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:2",
"text": " \u201cTruly I know that it is so, but how can a human being be just before God? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:3",
"text": " If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:4",
"text": " He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:5",
"text": " \u201cHe is the one who moves mountains, and they do not know how, who overturns them in his anger. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:6",
"text": " He is the one who shakes the earth from its place, and its pillars tremble. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:7",
"text": " He is the one who commands the sun, and it does not rise, \u231eand he seals up the stars\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:8",
"text": " He is the one who alone stretches out the heavens and who tramples on the waves of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:9",
"text": " He is the one who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:10",
"text": " He is the one who does great things \u231ebeyond understanding\u231f and marvelous things \u231ebeyond number\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:11",
"text": " \u201c\u231eIf\u231f he passes by me, \u231eI would not see him\u231f; and if he should move on, \u231eI would not recognize him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:12",
"text": " \u231eIf\u231f he would snatch away, who could turn him? Who could say to him, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:13",
"text": " God will not turn back his anger; beneath him the helpers of Rahab bow. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:14",
"text": " \u231eHow much less\u231f can I myself answer him? How can I choose my words with him, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:15",
"text": " whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From my judge I must implore grace. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:16",
"text": " If I summon him, and he should answer me, I do not believe that he will listen to my voice\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:17",
"text": " who crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:18",
"text": " He will not allow me to \u231ecatch\u231f my breath; rather, he will fill me with bitterness. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:19",
"text": " If \u231eit is a matter of\u231f strength, look, he is mighty. But if \u231eit is a matter of\u231f justice, who can summon me? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:20",
"text": " Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; even though I am blameless, yet it would pronounce me guilty. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:21",
"text": " \u201cI am blameless; I do not care about myself; I loathe my life. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:22",
"text": " It is all one; therefore I say, \u2018He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:23",
"text": " When the whip kills suddenly, he mocks at the despair of the innocent. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:24",
"text": " The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the face of its judge\u2014 if it is not he, then who is it? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:25",
"text": " \u201cAnd my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:26",
"text": " They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on its prey. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:27",
"text": " Though \u231eI say\u231f, \u2018I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:28",
"text": " I become afraid of all my sufferings; I know that you do not consider me innocent. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:29",
"text": " If I shall be declared guilty, why then should I labor in vain? "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:30",
"text": " If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:31",
"text": " then you plunge me into the slime pit, and my clothes abhor me. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:32",
"text": " \u201cFor he is not a mortal like me that I can answer him, that \u231ewe can come to trial together\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:33",
"text": " There is no arbiter between us that he might lay his hand on both of us. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:34",
"text": " May he remove his rod from me, and let his dread not terrify me; "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Job 9:35",
"text": " then I would speak and not fear him, for \u231ein myself I am not fearful\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:1",
"text": " \u201cMy inner self loathes my life; \u231eI want to give vent to my complaint\u231f; I want to speak out of the bitterness of my inner self. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:2",
"text": " I will say to God, \u2018You should not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:3",
"text": " Is it good for you that you oppress, that you despise the labor of your hands, and you smile over the schemes of the wicked? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:4",
"text": " \u231eDo you have eyes of flesh\u231f? Or \u231edo you see as human beings see\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:5",
"text": " Are your days as the days of human beings, or your years as the days of man, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:6",
"text": " that you seek out my iniquity, and you search for my sin "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:7",
"text": " because of your knowledge that I am not guilty, and there is no escaping from your hand? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:8",
"text": " Your hands fashioned me and made me \u231ealtogether\u231f, then you destroyed me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:9",
"text": " Please remember that you made me like clay, but you turn me into dust again? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:10",
"text": " Did you not pour me out like milk and \u231ecurdle me\u231f like cheese? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:11",
"text": " You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit me together with bones and sinews. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:12",
"text": " You have granted me life and loyal love, and your care has preserved my spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Yet you hid these things in your heart; I know that this \u231ewas your purpose\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:14",
"text": " If I had sinned, then you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:15",
"text": " If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; I am filled with shame, and just look at my misery! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:16",
"text": " And if my head grows bold, you would hunt me as the lion in its prime; \u231eand you repeat your exploits against me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:17",
"text": " You renew your witnesses against me, and you increase your vexation against me; \u231erelief forces\u231f are against me. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:18",
"text": " So why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, \u231eand no eye should have seen me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:19",
"text": " I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from the womb to the grave. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:20",
"text": " Are not my days few? Let him leave me alone; let him turn from me, and let me rejoice a little. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:21",
"text": " Before I go\u2014and I will not return\u2014 to the land of darkness and deep shadow, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Job 10:22",
"text": " to the land of darkness, like the darkness of a deep shadow and \u231echaos\u231f, so that it shines forth like darkness.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:1",
"text": " Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:2",
"text": " \u201cShould an abundance of words go unanswered, or \u231ea man full of talk\u231f be vindicated? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:3",
"text": " Should your loose talk put people to silence? \u231eAnd when you mock, shall no one put you to shame\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:4",
"text": " For you say, \u2018My teaching is pure, and I am clean in your sight.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:5",
"text": " But, \u231eO that\u231f God might speak, and that he would open his lips to you, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:6",
"text": " and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom, for \u231einsight has many sides\u231f. And know that God \u231eon your behalf\u231f has forgotten \u231esome of\u231f your guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:7",
"text": " \u201cCan you find out the essence of God, or can you find out \u231ethe ultimate limits\u231f of Shaddai? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:8",
"text": " \u231eIt is higher than the heaven\u231f; what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol; what can you know? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:9",
"text": " Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:10",
"text": " \u201cIf he passes through and imprisons someone \u231eand summons the assembly\u231f, then who can hinder him? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:11",
"text": " For he knows \u231ethose who are worthless\u231f; \u231ewhen he sees\u231f iniquity, \u231ehe will not consider it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:12",
"text": " But \u231ean empty-headed person\u231f will get understanding when a wild donkey\u2019s colt is born as a human being. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:13",
"text": " \u201cIf you yourself direct your heart and stretch out your hands to him\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:14",
"text": " if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and you must not let wickedness reside in your tents\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:15",
"text": " surely then you will lift up your face without blemish, and you will be firmly established and will not fear. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:16",
"text": " For you yourself will forget your misery; you will remember it as water that has flowed past. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:17",
"text": " \u201c\u231eAnd your life will be brighter than noon\u231f; its darkness will be like the morning. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:18",
"text": " And you will have confidence because there is hope; and you will be well protected\u2014\u231eyou will sleep in safety\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:19",
"text": " And you will lie down, and \u231eno one will make you afraid\u231f; \u231eand many will entreat your favor\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Job 11:20",
"text": " But the eyes of the wicked will fail; and refuge will be lost to them, and their hope is \u231eto breathe their last breath\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:1",
"text": " \u00a0Then Job answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:2",
"text": " \u201cTruly indeed you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:3",
"text": " \u231eI also have insight\u231f like you; I am not more inferior than you. And \u231ewho does not know things like these\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:4",
"text": " I am a laughingstock to my friends: \u2018He calls on God, and he answers him.\u2019 A righteous, blameless man is a laughingstock. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:5",
"text": " \u231eThose at ease have contempt\u231f for the thought of \u231edisaster\u231f, but it is ready for those unstable of foot. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:6",
"text": " The tents of the destroyers are at peace, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whom God brings into his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:7",
"text": " \u201cBut ask the animals, and they will teach you, and the birds of the heaven, and they will tell you; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:8",
"text": " or ask the earth, and it will teach you, and the fishes of the sea will declare to you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:9",
"text": " Who among all of these does not know that Yahweh\u2019s hand has done this? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:10",
"text": " In whose hand is the life of all living things and \u231ethe breath of every human being\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:11",
"text": " Does not the ear test words and the palate taste food for itself? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:12",
"text": " Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding is in length of days. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:13",
"text": " \u201cWith him are wisdom and powerful deeds, and to him belong counsel and understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:14",
"text": " If he tears down, then it will not be rebuilt; if he shuts a man in, then he cannot be freed. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:15",
"text": " Look, if he withholds the water, then they dry up; and if he sends them out, then they overwhelm the land. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:16",
"text": " \u201cStrength and sound wisdom are with him; the deceived and the deceiver are his. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:17",
"text": " He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes fools of judges. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:18",
"text": " He loosens the fetters of kings, and he binds a loincloth on their loins. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:19",
"text": " He leads priests away stripped, and he overthrows \u231ethe members of ancient families\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:20",
"text": " He deprives the trustworthy of speech, and he takes away the discretion of elders. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:21",
"text": " He pours contempt on noblemen, and he loosens the girdle of the mighty. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:22",
"text": " \u201cHe uncovers mysteries out of darkness, and he brings deep shadow to the light. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:23",
"text": " He makes the nations great, then he destroys them; he expands the nations, then he guides them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:24",
"text": " He strips away the insight of the heads of the earth\u2019s people, and he makes them wander in \u231ea pathless wasteland\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Job 12:25",
"text": " They grope in the dark \u231ewithout\u231f light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:1",
"text": " \u201cLook, my eye has seen everything; my ear has heard and has understood it. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:2",
"text": " \u231eWhat you know\u231f, I myself also know\u2014 I am not more inferior than you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:3",
"text": " But I would speak to Shaddai, and I desire to argue with God. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:4",
"text": " \u201cBut you \u231ewhitewash with lies\u231f; all of you are \u231eworthless healers\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:5",
"text": " \u231eO that\u231f you would keep completely silent, and that it would become wisdom for you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:6",
"text": " Please hear my argument, and listen attentively to the pleadings of my lips. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:7",
"text": " \u201cWill you speak falsely for God? And will you speak deceitfully for him? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:8",
"text": " \u231eWill you show partiality for him\u231f? Or do you want to plead God\u2019s case? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:9",
"text": " Will it be well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:10",
"text": " \u201cSurely he will rebuke you if \u231eyou show partiality\u231f in secret. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:11",
"text": " Will not his majesty terrify you, and his dread fall upon you? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:12",
"text": " Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:13",
"text": " \u201c\u231eLet me have silence\u231f, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever may. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:14",
"text": " Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:15",
"text": " Look, though he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways \u231ebefore him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:16",
"text": " Moreover, this is salvation to me, that the godless would not come \u231ebefore him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:17",
"text": " \u201cListen carefully to my words, and let my exposition be in your ears. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:18",
"text": " Please look, I have prepared my case; I know that I myself will be vindicated. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:19",
"text": " Who is he who will contend with me? For \u231ethen\u231f I would be silent, and I would pass away. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:20",
"text": " \u201cOnly you must not do these two things to me; then I will not hide from your face: "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:21",
"text": " withdraw your hand from me, and let not your dread terrify me. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:22",
"text": " Then call, and I myself will answer; or let me speak, then reply to me. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:23",
"text": " \u201c\u231eHow many\u231f are my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:24",
"text": " Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:25",
"text": " Will you terrify a blown leaf? And will you pursue dry stubble? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:26",
"text": " \u201cIndeed, you write bitter things against me, and you make me reap the iniquities of my childhood. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:27",
"text": " And you put my feet in the block, and you watch all my paths; you carve a mark on the soles of my feet. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Job 13:28",
"text": " And he himselfwastes away like something rotten, like a garment that the moth has eaten. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:1",
"text": " \u201cA human being born of a woman is short of days and full of troubles. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:2",
"text": " Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:3",
"text": " Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:4",
"text": " \u201cWho can bring a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:5",
"text": " If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:6",
"text": " Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:7",
"text": " \u201cIndeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:8",
"text": " though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:9",
"text": " at the scent of water it will bud, and it will put forth branches like a young plant. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:10",
"text": " \u201cBut a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus a human being passes away, and where is he? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:11",
"text": " As water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:12",
"text": " \u231eso\u231f a man lies down, and he does not arise. \u231eUntil the heavens are no more\u231f, they will not awaken, and they will not be roused out of their sleep. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:13",
"text": " \u201c\u231eO that\u231f you would conceal me in Sheol, that you would hide me \u231euntil your wrath is past\u231f, that you would appoint a set time for me and remember me. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:14",
"text": " If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:15",
"text": " You would call, and I myself would answer you; you would long for the work of your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:16",
"text": " For then you would count my steps, but you would not keep watch over my sin. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:17",
"text": " My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and you would cover over my guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:18",
"text": " \u201cBut a mountain falls; it crumbles away, and a rock moves away from its place. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:19",
"text": " Water wears away stones; its torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of human beings. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:20",
"text": " You overpower him forever, and he passes away; you change \u231ehis countenance\u231f, \u231ethen\u231f you send him away. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:21",
"text": " His children may come to honor, but he does not know it; or they may become lowly, but he does not realize it. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Job 14:22",
"text": " He feels only the pain of his own body, and his inner self mourns for him.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:1",
"text": " Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:2",
"text": " \u201cShould the wise answer with windy knowledge, and should he fill his stomach with the east wind? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:3",
"text": " Should he argue in talk that is not profitable or in words with which he cannot do good? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:4",
"text": " \u201c\u231eWhat is worse\u231f, you yourself are doing away with fear, and you are lessening meditation \u231ebefore\u231f God. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:5",
"text": " For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:6",
"text": " Your mouth condemns you, and not I; and your lips testify against you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:7",
"text": " \u201cWere you born the firstborn of the human race? And were you brought forth \u231ebefore\u231f the hills? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:8",
"text": " Have you listened in God\u2019s confidential discussion? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:9",
"text": " What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:10",
"text": " Both the gray-haired and the old are among us\u2014 \u231ethose older than your father\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:11",
"text": " \u201cAre the consolations of God too small for you, a word spoken gently with you? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:12",
"text": " Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:13",
"text": " that you turn your spirit against God, and you let such words go out of your mouth? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:14",
"text": " \u201cWhat is a human being, that he can be clean, or that one born of a woman can be righteous? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:15",
"text": " Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:16",
"text": " \u231eHow much less\u231f he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:17",
"text": " \u201cI will show you, listen to me; and what I have seen, I will tell\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:18",
"text": " what wise men have told, and they have not hidden that which is from their ancestors, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:19",
"text": " \u231eto whom alone\u231f the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:20",
"text": " \u201cAll of the wicked one\u2019s days he is writhing, even through the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:21",
"text": " Sounds of terror are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come against him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:22",
"text": " \u231eHe cannot trust that he will return\u231f from darkness, and he himself is destined for the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:23",
"text": " \u201cHe is wandering for bread, saying, \u2018Where is it?\u2019 He knows that a day of darkness is ready \u231eat hand\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:24",
"text": " Anguish and distress terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for the battle. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:25",
"text": " Because he stretched out his hand against God, and he was arrogant to Shaddai; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:26",
"text": " he \u231estubbornly\u231f runs against him \u231ewith his thick-bossed shield\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:27",
"text": " \u201cBecause he has covered his face with his fat and has gathered fat upon his loins, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:28",
"text": " \u231ehe will dwell\u231f in desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:29",
"text": " He will not become rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possessions will not stretch across the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:30",
"text": " \u201cHe will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:31",
"text": " Let him not trust in emptiness\u2014he will be deceiving himself\u2014 for worthlessness will be his recompense. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:32",
"text": " It will be paid in full \u231ebefore his time\u231f, and his branch will not flourish. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:33",
"text": " \u201cHe will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree; "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:34",
"text": " for the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Job 15:35",
"text": " They conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:1",
"text": " Then Job answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:2",
"text": " \u201cI have heard many things like these; all of you are \u231emiserable comforters\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:3",
"text": " Is there a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:4",
"text": " I myself also could talk as you, if \u231eyou were in my place\u231f; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:5",
"text": " I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would ease the pain. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:6",
"text": " If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I cease, how much will leave me? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:7",
"text": " \u201cSurely now he has worn me out; you have devastated all my company. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:8",
"text": " Thus you shriveled me up; it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:9",
"text": " His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:10",
"text": " They gaped at me with their mouth; they struck my cheeks with disgrace; they have massed themselves together against me. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:11",
"text": " God delivers me to an evil one, and he casts me into the hands of the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:12",
"text": " \u201cI was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized me by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:13",
"text": " His archers surround me; he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:14",
"text": " He breached me \u231ebreach upon breach\u231f; he rushes at me like a warrior. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:15",
"text": " \u201cI have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted \u231emy pride\u231f in the dust. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:16",
"text": " My face is red because of weeping, and deep shadows are on my eyelids, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:17",
"text": " \u231ealthough\u231f violence is not on my hands, and my prayer is pure. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:18",
"text": " \u201cO earth, you should not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my cry for help. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:19",
"text": " So now look, my witness is in the heavens, and he who vouches for me is in the heights. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:20",
"text": " My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:21",
"text": " and it argues for a mortal with God, and as \u231ea human\u231f for his friend. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Job 16:22",
"text": " Indeed, after \u231ea few years\u231f have come, then I will go the way from which I will not return. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:1",
"text": " \u201cMy spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; the graveyard is for me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:2",
"text": " \u231eSurely\u231f mockery is with me, and my eye \u231erests\u231f on their provocation. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:3",
"text": " Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is he who will give security for my hand? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:4",
"text": " Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let them triumph. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:5",
"text": " He denounces friends for reward, so his children\u2019s eyes will fail. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:6",
"text": " \u201cAnd he has made me a proverb for the peoples, \u231eand I am one before whom people spit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:7",
"text": " And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body are all like a shadow. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:8",
"text": " The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent excites himself over the godless. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:9",
"text": " But the righteous holds on to his way, and \u231ehe who has clean hands\u231f increases in strength. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:10",
"text": " But \u231eall of you must return\u231f\u2014\u231eplease come\u231f! But I shall not find a wise person among you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:11",
"text": " \u201cMy days are past; my plans are broken down\u2014 even the desires of my heart. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:12",
"text": " They make night into day, saying, \u2018Light is \u231enear to darkness\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:13",
"text": " If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in the darkness, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:14",
"text": " if I call to the pit, \u2018You are my father,\u2019 to the maggot, \u2018You are my mother or my sister,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:15",
"text": " where then is my hope? And \u231ewho will see my hope\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Job 17:16",
"text": " Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:1",
"text": " Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:2",
"text": " \u201c\u231eHow long\u231f \u231ewill you hunt for words\u231f? Consider, and afterward we shall speak. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:3",
"text": " Why are we considered as animals? Why are we taken as stupid in your eyes? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:4",
"text": " \u201cYou who are tearing \u231eyourself\u231f in your anger, will the earth be forsaken because of you? Or will the rock be removed from its place? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:5",
"text": " Furthermore, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire will not shine. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:6",
"text": " The light becomes dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:7",
"text": " \u201c\u231eHis strong steps\u231f are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:8",
"text": " for he is thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:9",
"text": " A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare takes hold of him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:10",
"text": " His rope is hidden in the ground, and his trap on the path. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:11",
"text": " \u201cSudden terrors terrify him all around, and they chase him at his heels. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:12",
"text": " His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:13",
"text": " It consumes parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:14",
"text": " He is torn from his tent \u231ein which he trusted\u231f, and it brought him to the king of terrors. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:15",
"text": " \u201c\u231eNothing\u231f remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:16",
"text": " His roots dry up \u231ebelow\u231f, and its branches wither away above. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:17",
"text": " His remembrance perishes from the earth, and there is not a name for him on the street. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:18",
"text": " \u201cThey thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from the world. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:19",
"text": " There is no offspring for him nor a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:20",
"text": " Those of the west are appalled over \u231ehis fate\u231f, and those of the east \u231eare seized with horror\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Job 18:21",
"text": " Surely these are the dwellings of the godless, and this is the dwelling place of him who knows not God.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:1",
"text": " \u00a0Then Job answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:2",
"text": " \u201c\u231eHow long\u231f will you torment me and crush me with words? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:3",
"text": " These ten times you have disgraced me; you are not ashamed that you have attacked me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:4",
"text": " And what is more, if I have truly erred, my error remains with me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:5",
"text": " If indeed you must magnify yourselves against me, and you must let my disgrace argue against me, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:6",
"text": " know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me with his net. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:7",
"text": " \u201cLook, I cry out, \u2018Violence!\u2019 but I am not answered; I cry out, but there is no justice. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:8",
"text": " He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:9",
"text": " He has taken my glory from me, and he has removed the crown of my head. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:10",
"text": " He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:11",
"text": " and he has kindled his wrath against me, and \u231ehe has counted me as one of his foes\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:12",
"text": " His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart against me and have encamped around my tent. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:13",
"text": " \u201cHe has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:14",
"text": " My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:15",
"text": " The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:16",
"text": " I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must \u231epersonally\u231f plead with him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:17",
"text": " My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to \u231emy own family\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:18",
"text": " Little boys also despise me; when I rise, then they talk against me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:19",
"text": " All \u231emy intimate friends\u231f abhor me, and these whom I have loved have turned against me. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:20",
"text": " My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:21",
"text": " \u201cPity me, pity me, you my friends, for God\u2019s hand has touched me. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:22",
"text": " Why do you pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh? "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:23",
"text": " \u201c\u231eO that\u231f my words could be written down! \u231eO that they could be inscribed in a scroll\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:24",
"text": " That with a pen of iron and with lead they might be engraved on a rock forever! "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:25",
"text": " But I myself know that my redeemer is alive, and at the last he will stand up upon \u231ethe earth\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:26",
"text": " And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:27",
"text": " whom \u231eI will see for myself\u231f, and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger. \u231eMy heart faints within me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:28",
"text": " \u201cIf you say, \u2018How will we persecute him?\u2019 And \u2018The root of the trouble is found\u2019 in me, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Job 19:29",
"text": " be afraid for yourselves \u231ebecause of the sword\u231f, for wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:1",
"text": " \u00a0Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:2",
"text": " \u201cTherefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back \u231efor the sake of\u231f my inward excitement. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:3",
"text": " I hear discipline that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:4",
"text": " \u201cDid you know this from of old, since the setting of the human being on earth, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:5",
"text": " that the rejoicing of the wicked is \u231eshort\u231f, and the joy of the godless \u231elasts only a moment\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:6",
"text": " Even though his stature mounts up to the heaven, and his head reaches to the clouds, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:7",
"text": " he will perish forever like his dung; those who have seen him will say, \u2018Where is he?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:8",
"text": " He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of the night. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:9",
"text": " The eye that saw him \u231ewill not see him again\u231f, and his place will no longer behold him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:10",
"text": " His children will seek favors from the poor, and his hands will return his wealth. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:11",
"text": " His bones were full of his vigor, but it will lie down with him on the dust. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:12",
"text": " \u201cThough wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, and he hides it under his tongue, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:13",
"text": " though he spares it and does not let it go and holds it back in the midst of his palate, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:14",
"text": " in his bowels his food is turned, the venom of horned vipers is \u231ewithin him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:15",
"text": " He swallows riches, but he vomits them up; God drives them out from his stomach. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:16",
"text": " He will suck the poison of horned vipers; the viper\u2019s tongue will kill him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:17",
"text": " \u231eHe will not enjoy the streams\u231f, the torrents of honey and curds. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:18",
"text": " Returning the products of his toil, he will not swallow; according to the profit of his trade, \u231ehe will not enjoy\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:19",
"text": " for he has oppressed; he has abandoned the poor; he has seized a house but did not build it. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:20",
"text": " Because he has not known satisfaction in his stomach, \u231ehe lets nothing escape that he desires\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:21",
"text": " \u231eThere is nothing left after he has eaten\u231f; therefore his prosperity will not endure. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:22",
"text": " In the fullness of his excess \u231ehe will be in distress\u231f; all of misery\u2019s power will come upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:23",
"text": " \u231eWhen his stomach fills up\u231f, God will send \u231ehis burning anger\u231f upon him, and he will let it rain down upon him as his food. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:24",
"text": " \u201cHe will flee from an iron weapon, but an arrow of bronze will pierce him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:25",
"text": " He draws it forth, and it comes out from his body, and the glittering point comes from his gall-bladder; terrors come upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:26",
"text": " \u231eTotal darkness\u231f is hidden for his treasures; \u231ean unfanned fire\u231f will devour him; the remnant \u231ewill be consumed\u231f in his tent. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:27",
"text": " The heavens will reveal his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:28",
"text": " The products of his house will be carried away like gushing waters on the day of his wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Job 20:29",
"text": " This is a wicked human being\u2019s portion from God and the inheritance of his decree from God.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:1",
"text": " Then Job answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:2",
"text": " \u201cListen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:3",
"text": " Bear with me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:4",
"text": " As for me, is my complaint for human beings? And if so, why cannot I be impatient? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:5",
"text": " Turn to me and be appalled, and place your hand on your mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:6",
"text": " And when I think of it, I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:7",
"text": " \u201cWhy do the wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty in power? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:8",
"text": " With them their offspring are established \u231ebefore them\u231f, and their descendants before their eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:9",
"text": " Their houses are safe without fear, and the rod of God is not upon them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:10",
"text": " His bull breeds and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:11",
"text": " They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:12",
"text": " They \u231esing\u231f to the tambourine and lyre, and they rejoice to the sound of the long flute. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:13",
"text": " They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:14",
"text": " And they say to God, \u2018Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:15",
"text": " Who is Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:16",
"text": " Look, their prosperity is not in their hands; the schemes of the wicked are repugnant to me. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:17",
"text": " \u201cHow often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He distributes pains in his anger. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:18",
"text": " How often are they like straw \u231ebefore\u231f the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:19",
"text": " \u2018God stores up his iniquity for his children\u2019? Then let him repay it to him that he may know. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:20",
"text": " Let his eyes see his decay, and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:21",
"text": " for what \u231edoes he care for\u231f his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:22",
"text": " Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones? "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:23",
"text": " This one dies \u231ein full prosperity\u231f, \u231ecompletely\u231f at ease and secure. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:24",
"text": " His vats are full with milk and the marrow of his bones is moist. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:25",
"text": " Yet another dies with a bitter inner self and has not tasted prosperity. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:26",
"text": " They lie down together in the dust, and maggots cover them. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:27",
"text": " \u201cLook, I know your thoughts and the schemes you devise against me. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:28",
"text": " For you say, \u2018Where is the nobleman\u2019s house, and where are \u231ethe tents in which the wicked dwell\u231f?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:29",
"text": " Do you not ask those traveling the roads, and do you not take notice of their accounts? "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:30",
"text": " Indeed, the wicked is spared from the day of disaster; he is delivered from the day of wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:31",
"text": " Who denounces his way to his face? And who repays him for what he has done? "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:32",
"text": " When he is brought to the grave, then someone stands guard over the tomb. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:33",
"text": " The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and \u231ebefore\u231f him \u231ethey are innumerable\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Job 21:34",
"text": " So how will you comfort me with emptiness, when fraud is left in your answers?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:1",
"text": " Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:2",
"text": " \u201cCan a man be of use to God? Yes, can the wise be of use to him? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:3",
"text": " Is it a pleasure to Shaddai if you are righteous, or a gain if you make your ways blameless? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:4",
"text": " Does he reprove you because of your reverence or enter into judgment with you? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:5",
"text": " Is not your wickedness great, and there is no end to your iniquities? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:6",
"text": " \u201cIndeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off the clothes of the naked. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:7",
"text": " You have given no water for the weary to drink, and you withheld food from the hungry. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:8",
"text": " And the land \u231ebelongs to the man of power\u231f, and \u231ethe favored\u231f lives in it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:9",
"text": " You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of orphans were crushed. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:10",
"text": " Therefore trapping nets are all around you, and panic suddenly terrifies you, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:11",
"text": " or it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:12",
"text": " \u201cIs not God in the height of the heavens? But see how lofty are \u231ethe highest stars\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:13",
"text": " And you ask, \u2018What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:14",
"text": " Thick clouds are a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on the dome of heaven.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:15",
"text": " Will you keep to the way of old that the people of mischief have trod, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:16",
"text": " who were snatched away \u231ebefore their time\u231f, whose foundation was washed away by a current? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:17",
"text": " Those who said to God, \u2018Turn away from us,\u2019 and \u2018What can Shaddai do to us?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:18",
"text": " Yet he himself filled up their houses with good things, but the schemes of the wicked are repugnant to me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:19",
"text": " The righteous see, and they rejoice, but the innocent one mocks at them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:20",
"text": " \u231eSurely\u231f our foe perishes, and fire has consumed their remainder. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:21",
"text": " \u201cPlease reconcile yourself with him, and be at peace; \u231ein this way\u231f, good will come to you. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:22",
"text": " Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:23",
"text": " If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; if you remove wickedness from your tent, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:24",
"text": " and if you put gold ore in the dust, and the gold of Ophir in the rock of wadis, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:25",
"text": " then Shaddai will be your gold ore and \u231eyour precious silver\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:26",
"text": " Indeed, then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and \u231eyou will expect that God will be good to you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:27",
"text": " You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:28",
"text": " And you will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:29",
"text": " When they are humiliated, \u231eyou say\u231f, \u2018It is pride,\u2019 for he saves \u231ethe humble\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Job 22:30",
"text": " He will deliver the guilty, and he will escape because of the cleanness of your hands.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:1",
"text": " Then Job answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:2",
"text": " \u201cEven today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy in addition to my groaning. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:3",
"text": " \u231eO that\u231f I knew and that I might find him; O that I might come to his dwelling. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:4",
"text": " I would lay my case \u231ebefore him\u231f, and I would fill my mouth with arguments. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:5",
"text": " I want to know the words with which he would answer me, and I want to understand what he would say to me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:6",
"text": " Would he contend with me in the greatness of his strength? No, but he himself would give heed to me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:7",
"text": " There an upright person could reason with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:8",
"text": " \u201cWhen I go forward, \u231ehe is not there\u231f, or backward, I cannot see him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:9",
"text": " \u231eWhen he works\u231f on the left, \u231eI cannot perceive\u231f him; he turns to the right, but I cannot see him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:10",
"text": " But he knows \u231ethe way that I take\u231f; he tests me\u2014I shall come out like gold. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:11",
"text": " My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:12",
"text": " From the commandment of his lips, indeed I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:13",
"text": " \u201cBut he is \u231ealone\u231f, and who can dissuade him? And \u231ewhatever he desires\u231f, \u231eindeed\u231f, he does it. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:14",
"text": " For he will carry out \u231ewhat he appoints for me\u231f, and many things like these are with him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:15",
"text": " Therefore, I am horrified because of his presence; when I consider, I tremble because of him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:16",
"text": " Indeed, God has made my heart faint, and Shaddai has terrified me. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Job 23:17",
"text": " Indeed, I have not been silenced \u231ebecause of darkness\u231f, and because of me he conceals thick darkness. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:1",
"text": " \u201cWhy are not times kept by Shaddai, and why do not those who know him see his days? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:2",
"text": " They remove border stones; they seize flocks, and they pasture them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:3",
"text": " They drive away the donkey of orphans; they take the widow\u2019s ox as a pledge. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:4",
"text": " They thrust the poor off the road; the needy of the earth hide themselves together. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:5",
"text": " \u201cLook, like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor as searchers for the prey; the wilderness is \u231etheir\u231f food for the young. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:6",
"text": " They reap their fodder in the field, and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:7",
"text": " They spend the night naked, \u231ewithout\u231f clothing, and they have no garment in the cold. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:8",
"text": " They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains, and they cling to the rock \u231ewithout\u231f refuge. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:9",
"text": " \u201cThey snatch the orphan from the breast, and they take a pledge against the needy. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:10",
"text": " They go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaves. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:11",
"text": " Between their terraces they press out oil; they tread the presses, but they are thirsty. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:12",
"text": " From the city people groan, and the throat of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not \u231eregard it as unseemly\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:13",
"text": " \u201cThose are among the ones rebelling against the light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:14",
"text": " \u231eAt dusk\u231f the murderer rises; he kills the needy and the poor, and in the night he is like a thief. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:15",
"text": " And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk, saying, \u231e\u2018No eye will see me,\u2019\u231f and he places a covering on his face. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:16",
"text": " He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in\u2014 they do not know the light "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:17",
"text": " because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:18",
"text": " \u201cHe himself is swift on the water\u2019s surface; their portion is cursed in the land. \u231eNo one turns toward the path of their vineyards\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:19",
"text": " Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters, like Sheol snatches away those who have sinned. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:20",
"text": " The womb forgets him. The maggot feasts on him until he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a tree. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:21",
"text": " He feeds on the barren, who does not have a child, and does no good to the widow. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:22",
"text": " Yet he carries off the tyrants by his strength; if he rises up, then he cannot be certain of life. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:23",
"text": " He gives security to him, and he is supported, but his eyes are upon their ways. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:24",
"text": " They are exalted a little while, then \u231ethey are gone\u231f. And they are brought low; they are cut off like all others, and like the heads of grain they wither away. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Job 24:25",
"text": " \u201cAnd if it is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my word to nothing?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Job 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Job 25:1",
"text": " Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and \u231esaid\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Job 25:2",
"text": " \u201cDomination and dread are with him who makes peace in his high heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Job 25:3",
"text": " Is there a number to his troops? And upon whom does his light not rise? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Job 25:4",
"text": " \u201cIndeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Job 25:5",
"text": " Look, even the moon \u231eis not bright\u231f, and the stars are not pure in his sight. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Job 25:6",
"text": " \u231eHow much less\u231f for a human being who is a maggot, and \u231ea human\u231f who is a worm?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:1",
"text": " Then Job answered and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:2",
"text": " \u201cHow you have helped \u231eone who has no power\u231f! How you have assisted the arm \u231ethat has no strength\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:3",
"text": " How you have advised \u231eone who has no wisdom\u231f! And what sound wisdom you have made known \u231ein abundance\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:4",
"text": " \u231eWith whose help\u231f have you uttered words, and whose breath has come forth from you? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:5",
"text": " \u201cThe spirits of the dead tremble below the waters and their inhabitants. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:6",
"text": " Sheol is naked before him, and there is no covering for Abaddon. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:7",
"text": " He stretches out the north over emptiness; he hangs the earth \u231eover nothing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:8",
"text": " He ties up the water in its clouds, and the cloud is not torn open beneath it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:9",
"text": " He covers the face of the full moon; he spreads his cloud over it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:10",
"text": " \u231eHe has described a circle\u231f on the face of the water \u231ebetween light and darkness\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:11",
"text": " \u201cThe pillars of heaven tremble, and they are astounded at his rebuke. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:12",
"text": " By his power he stilled the sea, and by his understanding he struck down Rahab. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:13",
"text": " By his breath \u231ethe heavens were made clear\u231f; his hand pierced the fleeing snake. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Job 26:14",
"text": " Look, these are the outer fringes of his ways, and \u231ehow faint is the word\u231f that we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:1",
"text": " Then Job again took up his discourse and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:2",
"text": " \u201c\u231eAs God lives\u231f, he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self bitter. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:3",
"text": " For \u231eas long as\u231f my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:4",
"text": " my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:5",
"text": " Far be it from me that \u231eI would say that you are right\u231f; until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:6",
"text": " I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame any of my days. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:7",
"text": " \u201cLet my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unrighteous, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:8",
"text": " for what is the hope of the godless when he cuts them off, when God takes away his life? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:9",
"text": " Will God hear his cry of distress when distress comes upon him? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:10",
"text": " Or, in Shaddai will he find delight? Will he call upon God at all times? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:11",
"text": " \u201cI will teach you about God\u2019s hand; I will not conceal that which is with Shaddai. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:12",
"text": " Look, you all have seen, and \u231ewhy in the world\u231f \u231ehave you become altogether vain\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:13",
"text": " \u201cThis is the portion of the wicked human being with God, and they receive from Shaddai the inheritance of the ruthless. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:14",
"text": " If their children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring \u231edo not have enough to eat\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:15",
"text": " Their survivors are buried through the plague, and their widows do not weep. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:16",
"text": " If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:17",
"text": " he makes it ready, and the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:18",
"text": " \u201cHe builds his house like the moth, and like a booth that a watchman has made. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:19",
"text": " He goes to bed with wealth, but \u231ehe will do so no more\u231f; he opens his eyes, and \u231eit is gone\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:20",
"text": " Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off in the night. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:21",
"text": " The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:22",
"text": " And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Job 27:23",
"text": " It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:1",
"text": " \u201cIndeed, there is a mine for silver and a place \u231efor gold to be refined\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:2",
"text": " Iron is taken from dust, and he pours out copper from ore. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:3",
"text": " He puts an end to darkness, and he searches out the farthest limits for the ore in gloom and deep shadow. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:4",
"text": " He breaks open a mine shaft \u231eaway from where people dwell\u231f; those who are forgotten \u231eby travelers\u231f, they dangle, they sway far away from human beings. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:5",
"text": " As for the earth, from it comes food, but underneath it, it is turned up as by fire. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:6",
"text": " Its stones are the place of sapphire, and the earthen dirt \u231ehas\u231f gold. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:7",
"text": " \u201cIt is a path a bird of prey does not know and the black kite\u2019s eye has not seen. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:8",
"text": " \u231eProud wild animals\u231f have not trodden it; the lion in its prime has not prowled over it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:9",
"text": " He puts his hand on the hard rock; he overturns mountains by the roots. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:10",
"text": " He cuts out tunnels in the rocks, and his eye sees every treasure. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:11",
"text": " He dams up rivers from their sources, and he brings secret things to the light. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:12",
"text": " \u201cBut from where will wisdom be found? And \u231ewhere in the world\u231f is the place of understanding? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:13",
"text": " A human being does not know its proper value, and it is not found in the land of the living. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:14",
"text": " The deep says, \u2018It is not in me,\u2019 and the sea says, \u2018It is not with me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:15",
"text": " \u201cRefined gold cannot be gotten in its place, and silver cannot be weighed out as its price. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:16",
"text": " It cannot be bought for the gold of Ophir, for precious onyx or sapphire. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:17",
"text": " Gold and glass cannot be compared with it, and its substitution cannot be an ornament of refined gold. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:18",
"text": " Black corals and crystal will not be mentioned, and wisdom\u2019s price is more than red corals. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:19",
"text": " The topaz of Cush cannot be compared with it; it cannot be bought for pure gold. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:20",
"text": " Indeed, from where does wisdom come? And \u231ewhere in the world\u231f is the place of understanding? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:21",
"text": " It is hidden from the eyes of all living, and it is concealed from the birds of the heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:22",
"text": " Abaddon and Death say, \u2018We heard its rumor with our ears.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:23",
"text": " \u201cGod understands its way, and he knows its place, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:24",
"text": " for he himself looks to the end of the earth; he sees under all the heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:25",
"text": " \u231eWhen he gave\u231f weight to the wind and he apportioned the waters by measure, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:26",
"text": " \u231ewhen he made\u231f a rule for the rain and a way for the thunder\u2019s lightning bolt, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:27",
"text": " then he saw it and talked about it; he established it, and moreover, he explored it. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Job 28:28",
"text": " And to the human beings he said, \u2018Look, the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:1",
"text": " Then Job again took up his discourse and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:2",
"text": " \u201c\u231eO that I were\u231f as in the months before, as in the days when God watched over me, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:3",
"text": " when his shining lamp was over my head\u2014 by his light I walked through darkness\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:4",
"text": " as when I was in the days of my prime, when God\u2019s confiding was over my \u231ehouse\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:5",
"text": " when Shaddaiwas still with me, my children were all around me, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:6",
"text": " when my paths were washed in sour milk, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:7",
"text": " \u201cAt my going out the gate to the city, I secured my seat in the square. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:8",
"text": " Young men saw me and stepped aside, and the aged rose up and stood. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:9",
"text": " Officials refrained from talking, and they laid their hand on their mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:10",
"text": " The voices of nobles were hushed, and their tongue stuck to their palate. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:11",
"text": " \u201cWhen the ear heard and commended me, and the eye saw and testified in support of me "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:12",
"text": " because I saved the needy who cried for help, and I saved the orphan for whom there was no helper. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:13",
"text": " The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow\u2019s heart to sing for joy. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:14",
"text": " I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a headband. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:15",
"text": " \u201cI was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:16",
"text": " I was a father to the poor, and I investigated \u231ethe stranger\u2019s\u231f legal dispute. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:17",
"text": " And I broke the evil one\u2019s jaw bones, and I made his prey drop from his teeth. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:18",
"text": " \u201cAnd I thought, \u2018I will pass away in my nest, and like the phoenix I shall multiply my days. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:19",
"text": " My roots were open to water, and dew spent the night on my branches; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:20",
"text": " My glory was new with me, and \u231eI was revitalized regularly\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:21",
"text": " \u201cThey listened to me and waited, and they kept silent for my counsel. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:22",
"text": " After my word, they did not speak again, and my word dropped down like dew upon them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:23",
"text": " And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:24",
"text": " I smiled for them when they had no confidence in anything, and they did not extinguish the light of my face. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Job 29:25",
"text": " I chose their way, and I sat as head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like one who comforts mourners. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:1",
"text": " \u201cBut now those younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:2",
"text": " Moreover, \u231ewhat use to me is the strength of their hands\u231f? With them, vigor is destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:3",
"text": " Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing in the dry region in the darkness of desolation and waste. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:4",
"text": " They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes, and the roots of broom trees to warm themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:5",
"text": " They were driven out from fellow people; they shout at them as at a thief, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:6",
"text": " \u231eso that they dwell\u231f in holes of the ground and in the rocks. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:7",
"text": " They bray among the bushes; they are gathered under the nettles. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:8",
"text": " \u231eA senseless crowd\u231f, yes, \u231ea disreputable brood\u231f, they were cast out from the land. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:9",
"text": " \u201cBut now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:10",
"text": " They abhor me; they keep aloof from me, and they do not withhold spit from my face "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:11",
"text": " because he has loosened his bowstring and humbled me, and they have thrown off restraint \u231ein my presence\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:12",
"text": " On the right hand the brood rises up; \u231ethey put me to flight\u231f, and they build up their \u231esiege ramps\u231f against me. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:13",
"text": " They destroy my path; they promote my destruction; they have no helper. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:14",
"text": " As through a wide breach they come; amid a crash they rush on. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:15",
"text": " Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:16",
"text": " \u201cAnd now my life is poured out onto me; days of misery have taken hold of me. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:17",
"text": " \u231eAt night I am in great pain\u231f; my pains do not take a rest. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:18",
"text": " He seizes my clothing with \u231egreat power\u231f; he grasps me by my tunic\u2019s collar. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:19",
"text": " He has cast me into the dirt, and I have become like dust and ashes. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:20",
"text": " I cry to you for help, but you do not answer me; I stand, and you merely look at me. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:21",
"text": " You have turned cruel to me; you persecute me with your hand\u2019s might. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:22",
"text": " You lift me up to the wind\u2014you make me ride it, and you toss me about in the storm. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:23",
"text": " Indeed, I know that you will bring me to death and to the house of assembly for all the living. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:24",
"text": " \u201cSurely someone must not send a hand against the needy when, in his misfortune, there is a cry of help for them. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:25",
"text": " Have I not wept for \u231ethe unfortunate\u231f, and grieved myself over the poor? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:26",
"text": " Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:27",
"text": " My bowels are in turmoil, and they are not still; days of misery come to confront me. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:28",
"text": " I go about in mourning garb, but not in sunlight; I stand up in the assembly, and I cry for help. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:29",
"text": " I am a companion for the jackals and a companion for \u231eostriches\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:30",
"text": " My skin turns black on me, and my bones burn with heat. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Job 30:31",
"text": " So my lyre came to be used for mourning, and my flute for the voice of those who weep. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:1",
"text": " \u201cI made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:2",
"text": " And what is the portion of God from above or the heritage of Shaddai from on high? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:3",
"text": " Is not disaster for the evil one and ruin for the workers of mischief? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:4",
"text": " Does he not see my ways and count all my steps? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:5",
"text": " \u201cIf I have walked with falseness, and my foot has hastened to deceit, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:6",
"text": " let him weigh me in the balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:7",
"text": " If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:8",
"text": " let me sow, and let another eat, and let my crops be rooted out. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:9",
"text": " \u201cIf my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor\u2019s doorway I have lain in wait, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:10",
"text": " let my wife grind for another, and let other men kneel over her, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:11",
"text": " for that is a shameful act, and that is \u231ea criminal offense\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:12",
"text": " Indeed, that is a fire that will consume up to Abaddon, and it would uproot all my crop. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:13",
"text": " \u201cIf I have rejected my male or female slave\u2019s case when their complaint was against me, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:14",
"text": " then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:15",
"text": " Did not he who made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:16",
"text": " \u201cIf I have withheld the desire of the poor from them, or I have caused the widow\u2019s eyes to fail, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:17",
"text": " or I have eaten my morsel \u231ealone\u231f, and the orphan has not eaten from it "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:18",
"text": " (for from my childhood he \u231egrew up with\u231f me like a father, and from my mother\u2019s womb I guided her), "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:19",
"text": " if I have seen the one who perishes because of no clothing or that there is no covering for the poor, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:20",
"text": " if his loins have not blessed me, or by means of my sheep\u2019s fleece he has warmed himself, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:21",
"text": " if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:22",
"text": " then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:23",
"text": " Indeed, the disaster from God was a dread for me, and \u231eI was powerless\u231f because of his majesty. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:24",
"text": " \u201cIf I have made gold my trust, or I have called fine gold my security, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:25",
"text": " if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great or because my hand found a fortune, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:26",
"text": " if I looked at the sun when it shone or at the moon moving in splendor, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:27",
"text": " and \u231eI was secretly enticed\u231f, and \u231emy hand threw them a kiss\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:28",
"text": " this also is an iniquity to be judged, for I have deceived God above. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:29",
"text": " \u201cIf I have rejoiced at the ruin of the one who hated me or have exulted when evil overtook him\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:30",
"text": " no, I have not allowed my mouth to sin, to ask his life with a curse. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:31",
"text": " \u231eHave the people of my tent not said\u231f, \u2018\u231eO that\u231f someone had not been satisfied with his meat\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:32",
"text": " An alien has not lodged in the street; I have opened my door to the traveler. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:33",
"text": " \u231eHave I concealed\u231f my transgressions as other human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:34",
"text": " because I dreaded the great multitude, and the contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of the doorway? "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:35",
"text": " \u231eO that\u231f \u231eI had\u231f someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! \u231eAs for\u231f the written communication that \u231emy adversary\u231f has written, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:36",
"text": " I would \u231esurely\u231f carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me like a crown. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:37",
"text": " I would give him an account of my steps; I would approach him like a noble. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:38",
"text": " If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:39",
"text": " if I have eaten its yield without payment, or I have caused the breath of its owners to die, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Job 31:40",
"text": " let thorns grow in place of wheat and noxious weeds in place of barley.\u201d The words of Job are ended. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:1",
"text": " Then these three men ceased from answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:2",
"text": "So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, \u231ebecame angry\u231f. \u231eHe became angry\u231f at Job because he justified himself rather than God, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:3",
"text": "and \u231ehe became angry\u231f at his three friends because they had not found an answer, and they had declared Job guilty. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:4",
"text": "Thus Elihu had waited for Job \u231eto speak\u231f because \u231ethey were older than he\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:5",
"text": "When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, \u231ehe became angry\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:6",
"text": "Then Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite \u231espoke up\u231f and said, \u201c\u231eI am young\u231f, but you are old; therefore I feared and became afraid of explaining my knowledge to you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:7",
"text": " I thought, \u2018Let days speak, and let many years teach wisdom.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:8",
"text": " \u201cTruly, it is a spirit in a human being, and the breath of Shaddai teaches them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:9",
"text": " It is not \u231ethe aged\u231f who are wise, or it is not the elders who understand justice. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:10",
"text": " Therefore I say, \u2018Listen to me; let me also declare my knowledge myself.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:11",
"text": " \u201cLook, I waited for your words; I listened for your insight, until you searched out \u231ewhat to say\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:12",
"text": " And I directed my attention to you; and, look, there is no one for Job who refuted, answering his words among you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:13",
"text": " So do not say, \u2018We have found wisdom; let God refute him, not a man.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:14",
"text": " But he did not direct his words to me, and I will not answer him with your words. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:15",
"text": " \u201cThey are dismayed; they no longer answer; \u231ethey have nothing to say\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:16",
"text": " And I have waited because they do not speak, because they stand there and no longer answer. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:17",
"text": " I myself will answer my share also; I myself will declare my knowledge also, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:18",
"text": " for I am full of words; \u231ethe spirit within me\u231f urges me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:19",
"text": " \u201cLook, my internal organs are like unopened wine, like new wineskins it is ready to burst open. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:20",
"text": " Let me speak \u231ethat I may find relief\u231f; let me open my lips, and let me answer. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:21",
"text": " \u231ePlease let me not show partiality to anyone\u231f, and let me not show flattery to human beings, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Job 32:22",
"text": " for I do not know how \u231eto flatter\u231f, else my Maker would \u231esoon\u231f put an end to me. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:1",
"text": " \u201cBut now, please hear my speeches, Job, and hear all my words. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:2",
"text": " Please look, I open my mouth; my tongue in my mouth speaks. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:3",
"text": " My words declare my heart\u2019s uprightness, and my lips sincerely speak \u231ewhat my lips know\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:4",
"text": " The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of Shaddai gives life to me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:5",
"text": " \u201cIf you are able, answer me. Present your argument \u231ebefore me\u231f; take your stand. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:6",
"text": " Look, before God \u231eI am like you\u231f; I myself was also formed from clay. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:7",
"text": " Look, dread of me should not terrify you, and my hand will not be heavy upon you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:8",
"text": " \u201cSurely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words: "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:9",
"text": " \u2018I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no guilt in me. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:10",
"text": " Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:11",
"text": " he puts my feet in the block; he watches all my paths.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:12",
"text": " \u201cLook, in this you are not right\u2014I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:13",
"text": " Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person\u2019s words? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:14",
"text": " Indeed, God speaks in one way, even in two, yet someone does not perceive it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:15",
"text": " \u201cIn a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on their bed, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:16",
"text": " then he opens the ear of men, and \u231ehe frightens them with a warning\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:17",
"text": " to turn human beings aside from their deeds, and he keeps man from pride. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:18",
"text": " He spares his life from the pit and his life from passing over the river of death. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:19",
"text": " \u201cAnd he is reproved with pain on his bed, even with the strife of his bones continually, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:20",
"text": " \u231eso that\u231f his life loathes bread, and his inner self loathes \u231eappetizing food\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:21",
"text": " His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, which are invisible, are bared. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:22",
"text": " And \u231ehe\u231f draws near to the pit and his life to the killers. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:23",
"text": " \u201cIf there is a messenger beside him, a mediator, one of a thousand, to declare to a human being his uprightness "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:24",
"text": " \u231eso that\u231f he is gracious to him, and he says, \u2018Deliver him from descending into the pit; I have found a ransom.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:25",
"text": " His flesh is renewed with his youth; he returns to the days of his youthful strength. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:26",
"text": " He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:27",
"text": " \u201cHe will sing to men, and he will say, \u2018I have sinned and have perverted what is right, and it was not paid back to me. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:28",
"text": " He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, so \u231eI will enjoy the light\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:29",
"text": " Look, God does all these things twice, three times with a person "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:30",
"text": " to bring his life back from the pit \u231eso that he may enjoy the light of life\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:31",
"text": " \u201cListen attentively, Job; listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:32",
"text": " If \u231eyou have anything to say\u231f, \u231eanswer me\u231f; speak, for I desire \u231eto justify you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Job 33:33",
"text": " If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:1",
"text": " Thus Elihu \u231espoke up\u231f and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:2",
"text": " \u201cHear my words, you wise men, and listen to me, you who know, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:3",
"text": " for the ear tests words, and the palate tastes \u231efood\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:4",
"text": " Let us choose justice for ourselves; let us determine among ourselves what is good\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:5",
"text": " for Job has said, \u2018I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:6",
"text": " Should I lie concerning my justice? Though I am without transgression, my wound caused by an arrow is incurable.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:7",
"text": " What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:8",
"text": " And he goes on the road in company with instigators of mischief, and walks with men of wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:9",
"text": " Indeed, he says, \u2018A man does not profit when he takes delight in God.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:10",
"text": " \u201cTherefore, listen to me, \u231epeople who have sense\u231f: far be it from God \u231ethat he should commit wickedness\u231f and that Shaddai \u231eshould do wrong\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:11",
"text": " Indeed, he will repay according to a human being\u2019s deeds, and according to a man\u2019s way he will let it happen to him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:12",
"text": " What\u2019s more, God truly does not act wickedly, and Shaddai does not pervert justice. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:13",
"text": " Who gave him charge over the earth? Or who laid on him the whole world? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:14",
"text": " If he should set his heart to it, and he should gather his spirit and his breath to himself, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:15",
"text": " all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:16",
"text": " \u201cBut if you have understanding, hear this; listen to \u231ewhat I say\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:17",
"text": " Shall he who hates justice really govern? Or will you declare the Righteous One, the Mighty, guilty?\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:18",
"text": " the one who says to a king, \u2018You worthless man,\u2019 to noblemen, \u2018You wicked man,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:19",
"text": " who \u231eshows no partiality to officials\u231f and who \u231edoes not take note of the noble more than of the insignificant\u231f, for all of them are the work of his hands? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:20",
"text": " In a moment they die, and in the middle of the night the people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away the mighty \u231eeffortlessly\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:21",
"text": " \u201cIndeed, his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his steps. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:22",
"text": " There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:23",
"text": " Indeed, he has not yet appointed a time for man to go to God in the judgment. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:24",
"text": " He shatters the mighty without investigation, and he sets others in their place. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:25",
"text": " Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night \u231eso that\u231f they are crushed. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:26",
"text": " He strikes them \u231ewhere the wicked stood\u231f, \u231ewhere there are onlookers\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:27",
"text": " because they have turned aside from him and have not understood any of his ways, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:28",
"text": " so that they cause the cry of distress from the helpless to come to him, and he hears the cry of distress from the needy, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:29",
"text": " but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides his face, and who can behold him? Yet he is over a nation and over a person alike, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:30",
"text": " so that godless human beings should not reign, nor those who ensnare the people. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:31",
"text": " \u201cIndeed, does anyone say to God, \u2018I have endured chastisement; I will not act corruptly again; "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:32",
"text": " teach me yourself \u231ewhat I cannot see\u231f; if I have done wrong, I will not repeat it\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:33",
"text": " \u231eAccording to your judgment\u231f, must he repay it because you rejected this? Indeed, you must choose, and not I, so declare what you know. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:34",
"text": " \u231eThose who have sense\u231f say to me, and the wise man hearing me says: "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:35",
"text": " \u2018Job speaks without knowledge, and his words are without insight. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:36",
"text": " Would that Job were tested up to the end because his answers are like those from men of mischief, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Job 34:37",
"text": " for he adds transgression to his sin; he claps hands among us, and he multiplies his words against God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:1",
"text": " Moreover, Elihu \u231espoke up\u231f and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:2",
"text": " \u201cDo you think this is justice when you say, \u2018\u231eI am right\u231f before God\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:3",
"text": " If you ask what it profits you: \u2018How do I benefit \u231eby refraining from my sin\u231f?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:4",
"text": " I myself \u231ewill give answer to you\u231f and to your friends with you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:5",
"text": " \u201cLook at the heavens, and see; and observe the clouds that are higher than you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:6",
"text": " If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:7",
"text": " If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:8",
"text": " Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness affects humans. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:9",
"text": " \u201cBecause of the multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of the arm of the mighty. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:10",
"text": " But no one says, \u2018Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:11",
"text": " who teaches us more than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:12",
"text": " There they cry out, but he does not answer \u231ebecause of the pride of evildoers\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:13",
"text": " \u201cSurely God does not hear an empty plea, and Shaddai does not regard it. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:14",
"text": " \u231eHow much less\u231f when you say that you do not see him, that the case is \u231ebefore him\u231f, and you are waiting for him! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:15",
"text": " But now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not acknowledge the transgression at all, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Job 35:16",
"text": " \u231etherefore\u231f Job opens his mouth in empty talk\u2014 without knowledge he multiplies words.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:1",
"text": " Then Elihu continued and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:2",
"text": " \u201cBear with me a little longer, and \u231eI will explain\u231f, for \u231eI still have something to say on God\u2019s behalf\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:3",
"text": " I will bring my knowledge from far away, and I will ascribe righteousness to my maker, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:4",
"text": " for truly my words are not falsehood; one who has perfect knowledge is with you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:5",
"text": " Look, God is mighty but does not despise anyone; he is mighty and \u231egood in understanding\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:6",
"text": " He does not keep the wicked alive but grants justice to the afflicted. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:7",
"text": " He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings on the throne, and they are exalted. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:8",
"text": " \u201cAnd if they are tied up with fetters, if they are caught in the cords of misery, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:9",
"text": " then he declares their work to them, and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:10",
"text": " So he opens their ear to the discipline, and he commands that they return from mischief. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:11",
"text": " If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:12",
"text": " But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword, and they pass away without knowledge. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:13",
"text": " And the godless of heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:14",
"text": " \u231eThey die in their youth\u231f, and their life ends among the male shrine prostitutes. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:15",
"text": " He delivers the afflicted by his misery, and he opens their ears by the adversity. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:16",
"text": " And what\u2019s more, he allured you \u231eout of distress\u231f into a broad place, where in place of it was no constraint; and what was set on your table is full of fatness. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:17",
"text": " But you are obsessed with the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:18",
"text": " Yes, it is wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let the ransom\u2019s greatness turn you aside. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:19",
"text": " Will your cry for help sustain you without distress, or all the efforts of your strength? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:20",
"text": " You must not long for the night, to cut off people \u231ein their place\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:21",
"text": " Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:22",
"text": " \u201cLook, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him? "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:23",
"text": " Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who says, \u2018You have done wrong\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:24",
"text": " Remember that you should extol his work, of which people have sung. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:25",
"text": " All human beings have looked on it; everyone watches from afar. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:26",
"text": " \u201cLook, God is exalted, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:27",
"text": " Indeed, he draws up the drops of water; he distills the rain into its mist, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:28",
"text": " which the clouds pour down; they shower abundantly on human beings. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:29",
"text": " \u201cMoreover, \u231ecan anyone understand\u231f the spreading of clouds, the thundering of his dwelling place? "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:30",
"text": " Look, he scatters his lightning around him, and he covers the roots of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:31",
"text": " Indeed, he judges people by them; he gives food \u231ein abundance\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:32",
"text": " He covers his hands with lightning, and he commands it the place at which to strike. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Job 36:33",
"text": " His thundering tells about him; the livestock also tell \u231econcerning what rises\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:1",
"text": " \u201cAbout this also my heart trembles, and it leaps from its place. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:2",
"text": " Listen carefully to his voice\u2019s thunder and the rumbling that goes out from his mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:3",
"text": " He lets it loose under all the heavens, and his lightning to the earth\u2019s corners. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:4",
"text": " After it, his voice roars; it thunders \u231ewith his majestic voice\u231f, and he does not restrain it when his voice is heard. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:5",
"text": " \u201cGod thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things, and we cannot comprehend. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:6",
"text": " For to the snow he says, \u2018Fall on the earth\u2019; and \u231ethe shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain\u231f\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:7",
"text": " \u231ehe stops all human beings from working\u231f \u231eso that everyone whom he has made may know it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:8",
"text": " Then the animal goes into its den, and it remains in its den. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:9",
"text": " \u201cThe storm wind comes from its chamber and cold from the north wind. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:10",
"text": " By God\u2019s breath, ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:11",
"text": " Also, he loads down thick clouds with moisture; his lightning scatters the clouds. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:12",
"text": " And \u231ethey\u231f turn around by his guidance to accomplish all that he has commanded them on the face of \u231ethe habitable world\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:13",
"text": " Whether as \u231ecorrection\u231f or for his land, or as loyal love, he lets it happen. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:14",
"text": " \u201cHear this, Job; stand still and consider carefully God\u2019s wondrous works. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:15",
"text": " Do you know \u231ehow God commands them\u231f and how he causes his cloud\u2019s lightning to shine? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:16",
"text": " Do you know about the hovering of the clouds, \u231ethe marvelous works of the one with perfect knowledge\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:17",
"text": " You whose garments are hot, when the earth is being still because of the south wind, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:18",
"text": " with him can you spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:19",
"text": " \u201cTeach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of the presence of darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:20",
"text": " Should he be told that I want to speak? Or did a man say that he would be communicated with? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:21",
"text": " So then, they do not look at the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and has cleansed them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:22",
"text": " From the north comes gold\u2014 awesome majesty is around God. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:23",
"text": " As for Shaddai, we cannot attain him; he is exalted in power, and he does not oppress justice and abundant righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Job 37:24",
"text": " Therefore people revered him; he does not regard any \u231ewho think that they are wise\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:2",
"text": " \u201cWho is this darkening counsel by words without knowledge? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:3",
"text": " \u231ePrepare yourself for a difficult task like a man\u231f, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:4",
"text": " \u201cWhere were you at my laying the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:5",
"text": " Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched the measuring line upon it? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:6",
"text": " On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:7",
"text": " when the morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:8",
"text": " \u201cOr who shut the sea in with doors at its bursting, when it went out of the womb, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:9",
"text": " at my making the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:10",
"text": " and I prescribed my rule for it, and I set bars and doors, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:11",
"text": " and I said, \u2018You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set a boundary \u231efor your proud surging waves\u231f\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:12",
"text": " \u201cHave you \u231eever in your life\u231f commanded the morning? Have you made the dawn know its place, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:13",
"text": " to take hold of the earth\u2019s skirts so that the wicked might be shaken off from it? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:14",
"text": " It is changed like clay under a seal, and they appear like a garment. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:15",
"text": " And their light is withheld from the wicked, and their uplifted arm is broken. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:16",
"text": " \u201cHave you entered into the sea\u2019s sources? Or have you walked around in the recesses of the deep? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:17",
"text": " Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of deep shadow? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:18",
"text": " Have you considered closely the earth\u2019s vast expanse? Declare it, if you know all of it. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:19",
"text": " \u201cWhere then is the way where the light dwells? And where then is its place, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:20",
"text": " that you may take it to its territory, and that you might discern the paths to its home? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:21",
"text": " You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:22",
"text": " Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:23",
"text": " which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:24",
"text": " Where then is the way where the light is distributed, where he scatters the east wind upon the earth? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:25",
"text": " \u201cWho has cut open a channel for the torrents and a way for the \u231ethunder bolts\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:26",
"text": " to bring rain on a land \u231ewhere no one lives\u231f, a desert \u231ewhere no humans live\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:27",
"text": " to satisfy desert and wasteland, and to cause the ground to put forth the rising of grass? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:28",
"text": " Is there a father for the rain, or who fathered the drops of dew? "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:29",
"text": " From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who fathered the frost of heaven? "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:30",
"text": " Like stone the waters become hard, and the faces of the deep freeze. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:31",
"text": " \u201cCan you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or can you loosen the cords of Orion? "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:32",
"text": " Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, or can you lead the Bear with its children? "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:33",
"text": " Do you know heaven\u2019s statutes, or can you establish their rule on the earth? "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:34",
"text": " Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water may cover you? "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:35",
"text": " Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? And will they say to you, \u2018Here we are\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:36",
"text": " Who has put wisdom in the ibis, or who has given understanding to the rooster? "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:37",
"text": " Who can number the clouds with wisdom? Or who can tilt heaven\u2019s jars, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:38",
"text": " at the flowing of the dust into a cast and the clods cling together? "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:39",
"text": " \u201cCan you hunt prey for the lion? And can you satisfy the hunger of strong lions "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:40",
"text": " when they are crouched in the dens, when they lie in the thicket in an ambush? "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Job 38:41",
"text": " Who prepares for the crow its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and they wander around \u231efor lack of food\u231f? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:1",
"text": "\u201cDo you know the time when the goats of the rocks give birth? Do you observe the doe deer\u2019s giving birth? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:2",
"text": " Can you number the months they fulfill, and do you know the time of its giving birth? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:3",
"text": " When they crouch, they bring forth their young ones; they get rid of their labor pains. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:4",
"text": " Their young ones grow strong; they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:5",
"text": " \u201cWho has sent forth the wild ass free? And who has released the wild donkey\u2019s bonds, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:6",
"text": " to which I have given the wilderness as its house and the salt flat as its dwelling place? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:7",
"text": " It scorns the city\u2019s turmoil; it does not hear the driver\u2019s shouts. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:8",
"text": " It explores the mountains as its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:9",
"text": " \u201cIs the wild ox willing to serve you, or will he spend the night at your feeding trough? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:10",
"text": " Can you tie the wild ox with its rope to a furrow, or will it harrow the valleys after you? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:11",
"text": " Can you trust it because its strength is great, or will you hand your labor over to it? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:12",
"text": " Can you rely on it that it will return your grain and that it will gather it to your threshing floor? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:13",
"text": " \u201cThe wings of the female ostrich flap\u2014 are they the pinions of the stork or the falcon? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:14",
"text": " Indeed, it leaves its eggs to the earth, and it lets them be warmed on the ground, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:15",
"text": " and it forgets that a foot might crush an egg, and \u231ea wild animal\u231f might trample it. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:16",
"text": " It deals cruelly with its young ones, as if they were not its own, as if without fear that its labor were in vain, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:17",
"text": " because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:18",
"text": " When it spreads its wings \u231ealoft\u231f, it laughs at the horse and its rider. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:19",
"text": " \u201cDo you give power to the horse? Do you clothe its neck with a mane? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:20",
"text": " Do you make it leap like the locust? The majesty of its snorting is terrifying. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:21",
"text": " They paw in the valley, and it exults with strength; it goes out to meet the battle. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:22",
"text": " It laughs at danger and is not dismayed, and it does not turn back from \u231ebefore\u231f the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:23",
"text": " Upon it the quiver rattles along with the flash of the spear and the short sword. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:24",
"text": " With roar and rage \u231eit races over the ground\u231f, and it cannot stand still at the sound of the horn. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:25",
"text": " \u231eWhenever\u231f a horn sounds, it says, \u2018Aha!\u2019 And it smells the battle from a distance\u2014 the thunder of the commanders and the war cry. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:26",
"text": " \u201cDoes the hawk soar by your wisdom? Does it spread its wings to the south? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:27",
"text": " Or does the eagle fly high at your command and construct its nest high? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:28",
"text": " It lives on the rock and spends the night \u231eon the rock point and the mountain stronghold\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:29",
"text": " From there it spies out the prey; its eyes look from far away. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Job 39:30",
"text": " And its young ones lick blood greedily, and where the dead carcasses are, there they are.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:1",
"text": "Then Yahweh answered Job and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:2",
"text": " \u201cShall a faultfinder contend with Shaddai? Anyone who argues with God must answer it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:3",
"text": " So Job answered Yahweh and said, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:4",
"text": " \u201cLook, I am insignificant. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:5",
"text": " Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; even twice, but I will not proceed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:6",
"text": " Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:7",
"text": " \u201c\u231ePrepare yourself for a difficult task like a man\u231f, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:8",
"text": " \u201cIndeed, would you annul my justice? Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:9",
"text": " Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:10",
"text": " Adorn yourself with pride and dignity, and clothe yourself with splendor. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:11",
"text": " Pour out the overflowing of your anger, and look at all the proud, and humble them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:12",
"text": " Look at all the proud, humble them, and tread down the wicked \u231ewhere they stand\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:13",
"text": " Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in the grave. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:14",
"text": " And I will also praise you, that your own right hand can save you. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:15",
"text": " \u201cLook, Behemoth, which I have made just as I made you; it eats grass like the ox. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:16",
"text": " Look, its strength is in its loins and its power in the muscles of its stomach. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:17",
"text": " It keeps its tail straight like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:18",
"text": " Its bones are tubes of copper, its limbs like rods of iron. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:19",
"text": " \u201cIt is the first of God\u2019s actions; the one who made him furnishes it with his sword. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:20",
"text": " Yes, the mountains yield produce for it, and all \u231ewild animals\u231f play there. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:21",
"text": " Under the lotus tree it lies, in the hiding place of the reeds and in the marsh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:22",
"text": " The lotus trees cover it with their shade; the wadi\u2019s poplar trees surround it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:23",
"text": " Look, if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident even though the Jordan rushes against its mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Job 40:24",
"text": " Can anyone take it by its eyes? Can he pierce its nose with a snare? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:1",
"text": " \u201cCan you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or \u231ecan you tie down its mouth with a cord\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:2",
"text": " Can you put a rope in its nose? Or can you pierce its jawbone with a hook? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:3",
"text": " Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:4",
"text": " Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:5",
"text": " Will you play with it as with birds and put it on a leash for your girls? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:6",
"text": " Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:7",
"text": " Can you fill its kin with harpoons or its head with fish spears? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:8",
"text": " Lay your hands on it; think about the battle\u2014you will not do it again! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:9",
"text": " \u201cLook, \u231ethe hope of capturing it\u231f is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:10",
"text": " Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who then is he who would stand \u231ebefore it\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:11",
"text": " Who has come to confront me, that I should repay him? Under all the heavens, \u231eit belongs to me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:12",
"text": " \u201cI will not keep quiet concerning its limbs or concerning the extent of its might and the gracefulness of its frame. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:13",
"text": " Who can strip off \u231eits outer covering\u231f? Who can penetrate its double harness? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:14",
"text": " Who can open the doors of its face? Its teeth all around are fearsome. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:15",
"text": " Its back has scales of shields; it is shut up closely as with a seal. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:16",
"text": " They are close \u231eto one another\u231f\u2014 even the air cannot come between them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:17",
"text": " They are joined \u231eone to another\u231f; they cling together and cannot be separated. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:18",
"text": " \u201cIts snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes are \u231ered like dawn\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:19",
"text": " Torches go from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:20",
"text": " Smoke comes from its nostrils as from a kettle boiling and burning bulrushes. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:21",
"text": " Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:22",
"text": " \u201cStrength abides in its neck, and dismay dances \u231ebefore it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:23",
"text": " Its flesh\u2019s folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it\u2014it will not be moved. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:24",
"text": " Its heart is cast as stone; yes, it is cast as the lower millstone. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:25",
"text": " \u231eWhen it raises itself\u231f, the mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:26",
"text": " Reaching it with the sword does not avail, nor with the spear, the dart, or the javelin. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:27",
"text": " It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:28",
"text": " \u231eAn arrow\u231f will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:29",
"text": " Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at the short sword\u2019s rattle. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:30",
"text": " \u201cIts underparts are shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud like a threshing sledge. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:31",
"text": " It makes the deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes the sea like a pot of ointment. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:32",
"text": " Behind it, \u231eit leaves a glistening wake\u231f; one would think that the deep has gray hair. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:33",
"text": " \u201c\u231eOn the ground it has no equal\u231f\u2014 a creature without fear. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Job 41:34",
"text": " It observes all the lofty; it is king \u231eover all that are proud\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:1",
"text": " Then Job answered Yahweh and said, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:2",
"text": " \u201cI know that you can do all things, and any scheme from you will not be thwarted. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:3",
"text": " \u2018Who is this darkening counsel without knowledge?\u2019 Therefore I uttered, but I did not understand; \u231ethings too wonderful for me\u231f, but I did not know. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:4",
"text": " \u2018Hear and I will speak; I will question you, then inform me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:5",
"text": " By the ear\u2019s hearing I heard of you, but now my eye has seen you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:6",
"text": " Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:7",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, \u201c\u231eMy wrath has been kindled\u231f against you and against the two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:8",
"text": "\u231eSo then\u231f, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for \u231eI will certainly accept his prayer\u231f, so that it will not be done with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:9",
"text": " So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and \u231eYahweh accepted Job\u2019s prayer\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:10",
"text": " Then Yahweh returned Job\u2019s fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased \u231eall that Job had twice as much as before\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:11",
"text": "So all his brothers and all his sisters and all those who had known him \u231ebefore\u231f came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one gave to him one ornamental ring of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:12",
"text": " So Yahweh blessed Job\u2019s latter days more than his beginning. \u231eThus he had\u231f fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:13",
"text": "\u231eAnd he had\u231f seven sons and three daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:14",
"text": "And he called the name of the first Jemimah and the name of the second Keziah and the name of the third Qeren-Happuk. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:15",
"text": "And beautiful women were not found in all the land like Job\u2019s daughters, and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:16",
"text": " And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his \u231egrandsons\u231f for four generations. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Job 42:17",
"text": "Then Job died old and full of days. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Psalms",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Psalms 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Psalms 1:1",
"text": " Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of the wicked; nor does he stand in the way of sinners; nor does he sit in the assembly of mockers. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Psalms 1:2",
"text": " Instead, in the law of Yahweh is his delight, and on his law he meditates day and night. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Psalms 1:3",
"text": " And so, he is like a tree planted by streams of water that gives its fruit in its season; its leaf also does not wither. Therefore all that he does prospers. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Psalms 1:4",
"text": " Not so the wicked. Instead, they are like the chaff that the wind scatters. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Psalms 1:5",
"text": " Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Psalms 1:6",
"text": " for Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:1",
"text": " Why are nations in tumult, and countries plotting in vain? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:2",
"text": " The kings of the earth establish themselves, and the rulers conspire together against Yahweh and his anointed: "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:3",
"text": " \u201cLet us tear off their bonds, and cast their cords from us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:4",
"text": " He who sits enthroned in the heavens laughs. The Lord derides them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:5",
"text": " Then he speaks to them in his wrath, and in his fury he terrifies them: "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:6",
"text": " \u201cBut as for me, I have set my king on Zion, my holy mountain.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:7",
"text": " I will tell the decree; Yahweh said to me: \u201cYou are my son; today I have begotten you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:8",
"text": " Ask from me and I will make the nations your heritage, and your possession the ends of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:9",
"text": " You will break them with an iron rod. Like a potter\u2019s vessel you will shatter them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:10",
"text": " So then, O kings, be wise. Be warned, O rulers of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:11",
"text": " Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Psalms 2:12",
"text": " Kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish on the way, for his anger burns quickly. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Psalms 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Psalms 3:1",
"text": " Yahweh, how many are my enemies; many are rising against me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Psalms 3:2",
"text": " Many are saying about my soul, \u201cThere is no deliverance for him from God. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Psalms 3:3",
"text": " But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory and the one who lifts up my head. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Psalms 3:4",
"text": " With my voice I call to Yahweh and he answers me from \u231ehis holy hill\u231f. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Psalms 3:5",
"text": " I lay down and slept; I woke up because Yahweh sustains me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Psalms 3:6",
"text": " I am not afraid of the ten thousands of people who all around have set themselves against me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Psalms 3:7",
"text": " Rise up, O Yahweh; deliver me, O my God; for you strike all my enemies on the cheek. The teeth of the wicked you break. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Psalms 3:8",
"text": " To Yahweh belongs deliverance; may your blessing be over your people. Selah "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Psalms 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Psalms 4:1",
"text": " When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness. In trouble \u231edeliver me\u231f. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Psalms 4:2",
"text": " O sons of man, how long will my honor be a disgrace? How long will you love vanity? How long will you seek lies? Selah "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Psalms 4:3",
"text": " But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself the faithful one. Yahweh hears when I call to him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Psalms 4:4",
"text": " Be disturbed but do not sin. Commune in your heart on your bed and be silent. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Psalms 4:5",
"text": " Offer correct sacrifices, and \u231etrust in\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Psalms 4:6",
"text": " Many are saying, \u201cWho will show us something good?\u201d Lift up over us the light of your face, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Psalms 4:7",
"text": " You have put gladness in my heart more than \u231ewhen\u231f their grain and their wine abound. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Psalms 4:8",
"text": " In peace I will lie down and sleep \u231eat once\u231f, for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:1",
"text": " Hear my words, O Yahweh. Give heed to my sighing. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:2",
"text": " Listen to the sound of my pleading, my king and my God, for to you I pray. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:3",
"text": " O Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will set forth my case to you and I will watch. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:4",
"text": " For you are not a God who desires wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:5",
"text": " The boastful do not stand before your eyes. You hate all evildoers. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:6",
"text": " You destroy speakers of lies. \u231eA man of bloodshed\u231f and deceit Yahweh abhors. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:7",
"text": " \u231eBut as for me\u231f, through the abundance of your steadfast love I will enter your house. I will bow down toward \u231eyour holy temple\u231f in awe of you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:8",
"text": " O Yahweh, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight before me your way. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:9",
"text": " For there is not anything reliable in his mouth; their inner part is destruction. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongue they speak deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:10",
"text": " Treat them as guilty, O God; let them fall because of their plans. Because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:11",
"text": " But let all who take shelter in you rejoice. Let them ever sing for joy, \u231ebecause\u231f you spread protection over them; And let those who love your name exult in you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Psalms 5:12",
"text": " For you bless the righteous. O Yahweh, like a shield you surround him with good favor. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Psalms 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Psalms 6:1",
"text": " A psalm of David. O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger, and do not discipline me in your wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Psalms 6:2",
"text": " Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, because I am feeble. Heal me, O Yahweh, for my bones are terrified. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Psalms 6:3",
"text": " My soul is also very terrified. But you, O Yahweh, how long? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Psalms 6:4",
"text": " Turn, O Yahweh; deliver my life. Save me for the sake of your steadfast love. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Psalms 6:5",
"text": " For there is no remembrance of you in death. In Sheol, who will give thanks to you? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Psalms 6:6",
"text": " I am weary with my groaning; \u231eI flood\u231f my bed every night. With my tears \u231eI drench\u231f my couch. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Psalms 6:7",
"text": " My eye wastes away because of vexation; it grows old because of all my oppressors. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Psalms 6:8",
"text": " Depart from me, all workers of evil, for Yahweh has heard the sound of my weeping. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Psalms 6:9",
"text": " Yahweh has heard my plea; Yahweh has accepted my prayer. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Psalms 6:10",
"text": " All my enemies shall be ashamed and shall be very terrified. They shall turn back; they shall suddenly be ashamed. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:1",
"text": " on account of Cush, a Benjaminite. O Yahweh, my God, in you I have taken refuge. Save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:2",
"text": " Or else he will tear me apart like a lion, ripping to pieces, with none to deliver. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:3",
"text": " O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:4",
"text": " if I have repaid \u231emy ally\u231f with harm, or if I have plundered my enemy without cause, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:5",
"text": " let the enemy of my soul pursue, and overtake and trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:6",
"text": " Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger, and lift yourself up against the wrath of my oppressors, and awake for me, since you have commanded judgment. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:7",
"text": " And let the assembly of peoples surround you, and over it return on high. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:8",
"text": " Yahweh judges the nations. O Yahweh, vindicate me according to my innocence and according to my integrity within me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:9",
"text": " Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:10",
"text": " My shield is with God who saves the upright of heart. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:11",
"text": " God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:12",
"text": " If he does not repent, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has \u231estrung\u231f it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:13",
"text": " And he has prepared for him weapons of death. He has made his arrows fiery shafts. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:14",
"text": " See, he travails with evil. He is pregnant with trouble, and he gives birth to deception. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:15",
"text": " He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in the trap he has made. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:16",
"text": " His trouble comes back on his head, and his violence comes down on his skull. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Psalms 7:17",
"text": " I will thank Yahweh according to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of Yahweh, the Most High. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Psalms 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Psalms 8:1",
"text": " Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who put your splendor above the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Psalms 8:2",
"text": " From the mouth of children and infants you have founded strength on account of your enemies, to silence the enemy and the avenger. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Psalms 8:3",
"text": " When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Psalms 8:4",
"text": " what is a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Psalms 8:5",
"text": " And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings, and with glory and with majesty you crowned him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Psalms 8:6",
"text": " You make him over the works of your hands; all things you have placed under his feet: "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Psalms 8:7",
"text": " sheep and cattle, all of them, and also the wild animals of the field, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Psalms 8:8",
"text": " the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, everything that passes along the paths of seas. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Psalms 8:9",
"text": " Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all of the earth! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:1",
"text": " I will thank Yahweh with all my heart. I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:2",
"text": " I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing the praise of your name, O Most High. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:3",
"text": " When my enemies turn back, they will stumble and perish because of your presence. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:4",
"text": " For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne judging correctly. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:5",
"text": " You have rebuked the nations; you have destroyed the wicked. Their name you have blotted out forever and ever. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:6",
"text": " The enemies are destroyed in ruins forever, and you have uprooted their cities; their very memory has perished. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:7",
"text": " But Yahweh sits enthroned forever. He has established his throne for judgment. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:8",
"text": " And he will judge the world with righteousness. He will judge the peoples with equity. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:9",
"text": " And Yahweh will be a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of distress. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:10",
"text": " And those who know your name will trust in you, for you do not forsake those who seek you, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:11",
"text": " Sing praises to Yahweh who sits enthroned in Zion. Tell his deeds among the peoples, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:12",
"text": " for he who \u231eavenges bloodshed\u231f remembers them. He does not forget the distressed cry of the afflicted. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:13",
"text": " Be gracious to me, O Yahweh. See my suffering from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:14",
"text": " so that I may tell of all your praises. In the gates of the daughter of Zion let me rejoice in your salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:15",
"text": " The nations have fallen in the pit that they made; their foot is caught in the net that they hid. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:16",
"text": " Yahweh has made himself known; he has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his hands. Higgaion Selah "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:17",
"text": " The wicked shall turn back to Sheol, all the nations forgetting God, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:18",
"text": " for the needy shall not always be forgotten; the hope of the poor shall never perish. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:19",
"text": " Rise up, O Yahweh, let not humans prevail; let the nations be judged before you. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Psalms 9:20",
"text": " O Yahweh, put them in fear. Let the nations know they are merely human. Selah "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:1",
"text": " Why, O Yahweh, do you stand far off? Why do you hide during times of distress? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:2",
"text": " In arrogance the wicked persecutes the poor. Let them be caught in the schemes that they devised, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:3",
"text": " for the wicked boasts about the desire of his \u231eheart\u231f, and the one greedy for gain curses and treats Yahweh with contempt. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:4",
"text": " \u231eWith bald-faced pride\u231f the wicked will not seek God. There is no God in any of his thoughts. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:5",
"text": " His ways endure at all times. Your judgments are aloof from him. As for all his enemies, he scoffs at them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:6",
"text": " He says in his heart, \u201cI shall not be moved \u231ethroughout all generations\u231f, during which I will have no trouble.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:7",
"text": " His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:8",
"text": " He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills the innocent. His eyes \u231elurk\u231f for the helpless. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:9",
"text": " He lies in ambush \u231esecretly,\u231f like a lion in a thicket. He lies in ambush to seize the poor; he seizes the poor by catching him in his net. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:10",
"text": " He is crushed; he is bowed down; so the helpless host falls by his \u231emight\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:11",
"text": " He says in his heart, \u201cGod has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:12",
"text": " Rise up, O Yahweh; O God, lift up your hand. Do not forget the afflicted. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:13",
"text": " Why does the wicked treat God with contempt? He says in his heart, \u201cYou will not call me to account.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:14",
"text": " But you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief to take it into your hand. The helpless abandons himself upon you; you have been the helper for the orphan. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:15",
"text": " Break the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man\u2014 seek out his wickedness until you find none. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:16",
"text": " Yahweh is king forever and ever; the nations have perished from his land. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:17",
"text": " The longing of the afflicted you have heard, O Yahweh. You will make their heart secure. You will \u231elisten attentively\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Psalms 10:18",
"text": " to render judgment for the fatherless and the oppressed so that a mere mortal from the earth will no longer cause terror. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Psalms 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Psalms 11:1",
"text": " In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, \u201cFlee to your mountain like a bird\u201d? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Psalms 11:2",
"text": " For look: The wicked \u231estring the bow\u231f. They have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot from the darkness at the upright of heart. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Psalms 11:3",
"text": " When the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Psalms 11:4",
"text": " Yahweh is in his holy temple; Yahweh is in the heavens on his throne. His eyelids see; they test the children of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Psalms 11:5",
"text": " Yahweh tests the righteous, but the wicked and the lover of violence his soul hates. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Psalms 11:6",
"text": " He will rain coals on the wicked. Burning sulfur and scorching wind will be the portion of their cup. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Psalms 11:7",
"text": " For Yahweh is righteous; he loves righteous deeds. The upright shall see his face. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Psalms 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Psalms 12:1",
"text": " Save, O Yahweh, for the pious have ceased to be; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Psalms 12:2",
"text": " They speak falseness \u231eto each other\u231f. With flattering lips, with \u231ea double heart\u231f they speak. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Psalms 12:3",
"text": " May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, the tongue speaking great boasts\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Psalms 12:4",
"text": " those who say, \u201cWith our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are on our side. Who is master over us?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Psalms 12:5",
"text": " \u201cBecause of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the poor, now I will rise up,\u201d Yahweh says. \u201cI shall put them in the safety for which they long.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Psalms 12:6",
"text": " The words of Yahweh are pure words like silver refined in the crucible on the ground, refined seven times. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Psalms 12:7",
"text": " You, O Yahweh, will protect them. You will preserve him from this generation always. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Psalms 12:8",
"text": " The wicked prowl about when vileness is exalted among the children of humankind. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Psalms 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Psalms 13:1",
"text": " How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Psalms 13:2",
"text": " How long must I take counsel in my soul, and sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Psalms 13:3",
"text": " Consider and answer me, O Yahweh my God. Give light to my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Psalms 13:4",
"text": " and lest my enemy should say, \u201cI have overcome him,\u201d lest my enemies rejoice because I am shaken. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Psalms 13:5",
"text": " But as for me, I have trusted in your steadfast love. My heart will rejoice in your deliverance. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Psalms 13:6",
"text": " I will sing to Yahweh because he has dealt bountifully with me. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Psalms 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Psalms 14:1",
"text": " The fool says in his heart, \u201cThere is no God.\u201d They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Psalms 14:2",
"text": " Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Psalms 14:3",
"text": " All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Psalms 14:4",
"text": " All who do evil\u2014do they not know, they who eat my people as though they were eating bread? They do not call on Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Psalms 14:5",
"text": " There \u231ethey are very fearful\u231f because God is with the generation of the righteous. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Psalms 14:6",
"text": " You would put to shame the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Psalms 14:7",
"text": " \u231eOh that from Zion\u231f would come salvation for Israel! When Yahweh returns the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be happy. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Psalms 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Psalms 15:1",
"text": " O Yahweh, who may reside in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Psalms 15:2",
"text": " He who walks blamelessly and does what is right. He who speaks honestly in his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Psalms 15:3",
"text": " He does not slander with his tongue. He does not harm his friend, nor \u231ebring up\u231f a disgrace against his neighbor. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Psalms 15:4",
"text": " In his eyes a rejected one is contemptible, but he honors those who respect Yahweh. He takes an oath to his own injury and does not retract it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Psalms 15:5",
"text": " He does not lend his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16:1",
"text": " Protect me, O God, for I take refuge in you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16:2",
"text": " Oh my soul you have said to Yahweh, \u201cYou are my Lord. I have no good apart from you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16:3",
"text": " With regard to the saints who are in the land, they are the noble ones in whom is all my desire. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16:4",
"text": " Those who hurry after another god increase their sorrows. I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood, nor take up their names on my lips. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16:5",
"text": " Yahweh is the portion which is my share and my cup. You hold my lot. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16:6",
"text": " The measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Yes, my inheritance is delightful for me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16:7",
"text": " I will bless Yahweh who advises me; yes, at night my \u231einnermost being\u231f instructs me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16:8",
"text": " I have set Yahweh before me always. Because he is at my right hand I will not be shaken. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16:9",
"text": " Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices. Yes, my body will dwell in safety, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16:10",
"text": " for you will not abandon my soul to Sheol; you will not give your faithful one to see the grave. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Psalms 16:11",
"text": " You will make known to me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forever. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:1",
"text": " O Yahweh, hear a just cause. Hear my cry; heed my prayer I make without deceitful lips. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:2",
"text": " Let my vindication come forth from you; let your eyes see fairness. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:3",
"text": " You have tried my heart; you have examined me by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided that my mouth will not transgress. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:4",
"text": " As for the works of humankind, by the word of your lips, I have kept from the ways of the violent. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:5",
"text": " I have held my steps in your path My feet will not slip. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:6",
"text": " As for me, I have called on you because you will answer me, O God. Incline your ear to me. Hear my words. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:7",
"text": " Show wondrously your acts of loyal love, O Savior of those who take refuge at your right hand from those who rise up against them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:8",
"text": " Keep me as \u231ethe apple of your eye\u231f. Hide me in the shadow of your wings "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:9",
"text": " from the \u231epresence\u231f of the wicked who destroy me, those enemies against my life, they that surround me. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:10",
"text": " They have shut off their calloused heart; with their mouth they speak arrogantly. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:11",
"text": " Now they surround us at our every step. They \u231eintend\u231f \u231eto pin\u231f me to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:12",
"text": " \u231eHe is like\u231f a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:13",
"text": " Rise up, O Yahweh, confront \u231ehim\u231f. Make him bow down. Rescue with your sword my life from the wicked, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:14",
"text": " from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of this world. Their share is in \u231ethis life\u231f, and you fill their stomach with your treasure. They are satisfied with children. They bequeath their excess to their children. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Psalms 17:15",
"text": " By contrast, I in righteousness shall see your face. Upon awakening I will be satisfied seeing your form. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:1",
"text": " who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song \u231ewhen\u231f Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. And he said: \u201cI love you, O Yahweh, my strength.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:2",
"text": " Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:3",
"text": " I called upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised, and I was saved from my enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:4",
"text": " The ropes of death encircled me, and streams of ruin overwhelmed me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:5",
"text": " The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:6",
"text": " In my trouble I called on Yahweh, and to my God I cried for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help came up before his presence into his ears. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:7",
"text": " Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled, and they staggered because he was angry. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:8",
"text": " Smoke went forth from his nose, and fire from his mouth consumed. Burning coals blazed from him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:9",
"text": " So he bowed the heavens and came down with a thick cloud under his feet. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:10",
"text": " And he mounted a cherub and flew, and he swooped down on wings of wind. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:11",
"text": " He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering was a darkness of waters, \u231ethick clouds\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:12",
"text": " From the brightness before him his clouds passed over with hail and coals of fire. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:13",
"text": " And Yahweh thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice with hail and coals of fire. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:14",
"text": " And he shot his arrows and scattered them, and many lightning bolts and routed them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:15",
"text": " Then the channels of the sea became visible, and the foundations of the world were uncovered by your rebuke, O Yahweh, by the \u231eblast\u231f of the wind of your nose. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:16",
"text": " He reached from on high; he seized me. He drew me from many waters. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:17",
"text": " He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me because they were stronger than I. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:18",
"text": " They confronted me on the day of disaster, but Yahweh was my support. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:19",
"text": " So he brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:20",
"text": " Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:21",
"text": " Because I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not acted wickedly against my God, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:22",
"text": " because all his ordinances are before me, and his statutes I have not removed from me, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:23",
"text": " and I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:24",
"text": " Therefore Yahweh has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:25",
"text": " To the loyal you show yourself loyal. To the blameless you show yourself blameless. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:26",
"text": " To the pure you show yourself pure. but to the wicked you show yourself shrewd. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:27",
"text": " For you deliver humble people, but haughty eyes you humiliate. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:28",
"text": " For you light my lamp; Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:29",
"text": " For with you I can charge a troop, and with my God I can scale a wall. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:30",
"text": " This God\u2014his way is blameless. The word of Yahweh is flawless. He is a shield for all those who take refuge in him. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:31",
"text": " For who is God apart from Yahweh, and who is a rock except our God? "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:32",
"text": " The God who girded me with strength, and made safe my way, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:33",
"text": " he made my feet like the deer\u2019s, and on my high places he makes me stand. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:34",
"text": " He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:35",
"text": " You also gave me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your humility made me great. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:36",
"text": " You enlarged my step under me, and my ankles did not slip. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:37",
"text": " I chased my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were finished off. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:38",
"text": " I struck them and they were not able to stand up; they fell under my feet. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:39",
"text": " And you girded me with strength for the battle; those rising against me you made to kneel under me. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:40",
"text": " And you \u231emade my enemies turn their backs\u231f, then I destroyed those who hated me. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:41",
"text": " They cried out but there was no rescuer, even to Yahweh, but he did not answer them. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:42",
"text": " And I ground them like dust \u231ein the wind\u231f, I emptied them out like mud of the streets. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:43",
"text": " You rescued me from strife with people; you set me as head (over) nations. People I did not know served me; "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:44",
"text": " as soon as \u231ethey heard\u231f, they obeyed me. The children of a foreign land feigned obedience before me. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:45",
"text": " The children of a foreign land \u231elost heart\u231f, and they came trembling from their strongholds. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:46",
"text": " Yahweh lives, and blessed be my rock, and may the God of my salvation be exalted\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:47",
"text": " the God who executed vengeance for me, and subdued peoples under me, "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:48",
"text": " who delivered me from my enemies. Indeed, you exalted me higher than those who rose against me. You delivered me from the man of violence. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:49",
"text": " Therefore I will give thanks to you among the nations, O Yahweh, and I will sing the praise of your name: "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Psalms 18:50",
"text": " the one who makes great victories for his king, and who shows loyal love for his anointed, to David and to his descendants forever. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:1",
"text": " The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:2",
"text": " \u231eEvery day\u231f they pour forth speech, and \u231eevery night\u231f they tell knowledge. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:3",
"text": " There is no speech and there are no words; their sound is inaudible. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:4",
"text": " Yet in all the world their line goes out, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has pitched a tent for the sun, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:5",
"text": " and it is like a bridegroom who comes out of his bridal chamber. It is glad like a strong man to run its course. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:6",
"text": " Its rising is from one end of the heavens and its circuit to the other end of them; and nothing is hidden from its heat. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:7",
"text": " The law of Yahweh is perfect, reviving life. The testimony of Yahweh is firm, making wise the simple. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:8",
"text": " The precepts of Yahweh are right, making the heart rejoice. The command of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:9",
"text": " The fear of Yahweh is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of Yahweh are true; they are righteous altogether, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:10",
"text": " more desirable than gold, even much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, even honey in the comb. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:11",
"text": " Moreover, your servant is warned by them; in keeping them is great reward. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:12",
"text": " Who can perceive his errors? Acquit me from hidden faults. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:13",
"text": " Also, keep back your servant from arrogant sins; let them not rule over me. Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of great transgression. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Psalms 19:14",
"text": " Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your presence, O Yahweh, my rock and my redeemer. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Psalms 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Psalms 20:1",
"text": " May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of Jacob\u2019s God protect you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Psalms 20:2",
"text": " May he send you help from the sanctuary, and from Zion may he sustain you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Psalms 20:3",
"text": " May he remember all your offerings, and your burnt offering may he \u231eregard favorably\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Psalms 20:4",
"text": " May he give to you \u231eyour heart\u2019s desire\u231f, and your every plan may he fulfill. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Psalms 20:5",
"text": " May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God may we set up banners. May Yahweh fulfill all your requests. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Psalms 20:6",
"text": " Now I know that Yahweh will help his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven with the victorious power of his right hand. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Psalms 20:7",
"text": " \u231eSome boast in chariots and others in horses\u231f, but we boast in the name of Yahweh, our God. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Psalms 20:8",
"text": " They will collapse and fall, and we will rise and stand firm. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Psalms 20:9",
"text": " Rescue, O Yahweh. Let the king answer us when we call. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:1",
"text": " O Yahweh, the king will rejoice in your strength, and how greatly he will delight in your help. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:2",
"text": " You have given him the desire of his heart, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:3",
"text": " For you meet him with blessings of good things. You set on his head a crown of fine gold. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:4",
"text": " He asked life from you; you gave it to him\u2014 length of days forever and ever. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:5",
"text": " His honor is great because of your help. Splendor and majesty you have bestowed upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:6",
"text": " For you set on him blessings forever. You make him glad with the joy of your presence. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:7",
"text": " Because the king trusts Yahweh, and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:8",
"text": " Your hand will find all your enemies; your right hand will find those who hate you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:9",
"text": " You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:10",
"text": " You will destroy their \u231eoffspring\u231f from the earth, and their \u231edescendants\u231f from among the children of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:11",
"text": " Though they have \u231eplotted\u231f evil against you, though they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:12",
"text": " For you will \u231eturn them to flight\u231f; you will aim arrows on your bowstrings at their faces. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Psalms 21:13",
"text": " Be exalted, O Yahweh, in your strength, and we sing and praise your power. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:1",
"text": " My God, my God why have you forsaken me? Why are you far from helping me, far from the words of my groaning? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:2",
"text": " O my God, I call by day and you do not answer, and by night but I have no rest. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:3",
"text": " Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:4",
"text": " Our ancestors trusted you; they trusted and you delivered them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:5",
"text": " They cried to you and were saved; they trusted you and were not ashamed. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:6",
"text": " But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:7",
"text": " All who see me mock me. They open wide their lips; they shake the head, saying: "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:8",
"text": " \u201c\u231eHe trusts Yahweh\u231f. Let him rescue him. Let him deliver him because he delights in him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:9",
"text": " Yet you took me from the belly; you made me trust while on my mother\u2019s breasts. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:10",
"text": " On you I was cast from the womb. From my mother\u2019s belly you have been my God. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:11",
"text": " Do not be far from me because trouble is near; because there is no helper. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:12",
"text": " Many bulls have encircled me; mighty bulls of Bashan have surrounded me. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:13",
"text": " They open their mouth against me like a lion tearing and roaring. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:14",
"text": " I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted \u231ewithin me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:15",
"text": " My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking to my jaws; and you have placed me in the dust of death. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:16",
"text": " Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion they are at my hands and my feet. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:17",
"text": " I can count all my bones; they gaze, they look at me. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:18",
"text": " They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:19",
"text": " But you, O Yahweh, do not remain distant. O my help, hasten to help me. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:20",
"text": " Rescue my life from the sword, my only life from the power of the dogs. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:21",
"text": " Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the wild oxen answer me. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:22",
"text": " I will tell your name to my brothers; inside the assembly I will praise you. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:23",
"text": " You who revere Yahweh, praise him! Glorify him, all you seed of Jacob, and be in awe of him, all you seed of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:24",
"text": " because he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and has not hid his face from him; but he listened to him when he cried for help. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:25",
"text": " From you is my praise. In the great assembly, I will pay my vows before those who revere him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:26",
"text": " The afflicted will eat and will be satisfied. Those who seek him will praise Yahweh. May your heart live forever. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:27",
"text": " All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh. All the families of the nations will worship before you. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:28",
"text": " Because the kingship belongs to Yahweh, and he rules over the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:29",
"text": " All the \u231ehealthy ones\u231f of the earth will eat and worship. Before him all of those descending into the dust will kneel, even he who cannot keep his soul alive. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:30",
"text": " Descendants will serve him. Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the next generation. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Psalms 22:31",
"text": " They will come and tell his saving deeds to a people yet to be born, that he has done it. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Psalms 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Psalms 23:1",
"text": " Yahweh is my shepherd; I will not lack for anything. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Psalms 23:2",
"text": " In grassy pastures he makes me lie down; by quiet waters he leads me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Psalms 23:3",
"text": " He restores my life. He leads me in \u231ecorrect paths\u231f for the sake of his name. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Psalms 23:4",
"text": " Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Psalms 23:5",
"text": " You prepare before me a table in the presence of my oppressors. You anoint my head with oil; my cup is overflowing. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Psalms 23:6",
"text": " Surely goodness and loyal love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will stay in the house of Yahweh \u231efor a very long time\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Psalms 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Psalms 24:1",
"text": " The earth is Yahweh\u2019s, with its fullness, the world and those who live in it, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Psalms 24:2",
"text": " because he has founded it on the seas, and has established it on the rivers. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Psalms 24:3",
"text": " Who may ascend the mountain of Yahweh? And who may stand in his holy place? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Psalms 24:4",
"text": " He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Psalms 24:5",
"text": " He will receive blessing from Yahweh, and justice from the God of his salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Psalms 24:6",
"text": " Such is the sort of those who seek him, those who seek your face, even Jacob. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Psalms 24:7",
"text": " Lift up your heads, O gates, and rise up, O ancient doorways, that the king of glory may enter. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Psalms 24:8",
"text": " Who is the king of glory? Yahweh, strong and mighty; Yahweh, mighty in war! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Psalms 24:9",
"text": " Lift up your heads, O gates, and lift up, O ancient doorways, that the king of glory may enter. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Psalms 24:10",
"text": " Who is the king of glory? Yahweh of hosts, He is the king of glory! Selah "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:1",
"text": " To you, O Yahweh, I lift up my soul. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:2",
"text": " O my God, I trust you; let me not be put to shame. Do not let my enemies exult over me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:3",
"text": " Indeed, none who wait for you should be put to shame. Those who betray without cause should be put to shame. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:4",
"text": " Make me know your ways, O Yahweh. Teach me your paths. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:5",
"text": " Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me, because you are the God of my salvation. I await you \u231eall day long\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:6",
"text": " Remember your compassion, O Yahweh, and your acts of loyal love, because they are from of old. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:7",
"text": " Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions. According to your loyal love remember me if you will, for the sake of your goodness, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:8",
"text": " Good and right is Yahweh; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:9",
"text": " He causes the humble to walk in justice, and teaches the humble his way. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:10",
"text": " All the paths of Yahweh are loyal love and faithfulness for those who keep his covenant and statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:11",
"text": " Also, for the sake of your name, O Yahweh, forgive my sin, because it is great. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:12",
"text": " Who is the man fearing Yahweh? He will instruct him in the way he should choose. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:13",
"text": " His soul will lodge in prosperity, and his offspring will possess the land. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:14",
"text": " Intimate fellowship with Yahweh is for those who fear him, and he makes known his covenant to them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:15",
"text": " My eyes are continually toward Yahweh, because he will take my feet from the net. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:16",
"text": " Turn to me and have mercy on me because I am lonely and afflicted. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:17",
"text": " Remove the troubles of my heart; bring me out from my distresses. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:18",
"text": " Consider my affliction and trouble, and forgive all my sins. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:19",
"text": " Consider that my enemies are many, and they hate me with violent hatred. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:20",
"text": " Protect my life and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, because I take shelter in you. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:21",
"text": " Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for you. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Psalms 25:22",
"text": " O God, redeem Israel from all its troubles. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:1",
"text": " Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:2",
"text": " Prove me, O Yahweh, and test me. Try my \u231einnermost being\u231f and my \u231emind\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:3",
"text": " Because your loyal love is before my eyes, and I walk about in your faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:4",
"text": " I do not sit with deceitful people, nor will I go about with hypocrites. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:5",
"text": " I hate the crowd of evildoers, and with the wicked I will not sit. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:6",
"text": " I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will walk about your altar, O Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:7",
"text": " to declare with a voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:8",
"text": " O Yahweh, I love the dwelling of your house, and \u231ethe place where your glory abides\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:9",
"text": " Do not destroy me with the sinners, nor my life with men of bloodshed, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:10",
"text": " in whose hands is an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:11",
"text": " But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me and be gracious to me. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Psalms 26:12",
"text": " My foot stands on level ground. In assemblies I will bless Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:1",
"text": " Yahweh is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the refuge of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:2",
"text": " When evildoers drew near against me to eat my flesh\u2014 my adversaries and my enemies who drew near to me\u2014 they themselves stumbled and fell. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:3",
"text": " Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war arise against me, even in this I will remain confident. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:4",
"text": " One thing I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to consider his temple. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:5",
"text": " Because he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:6",
"text": " And now my head will be high over my enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:7",
"text": " Hear, O Yahweh, my voice when I call, and be gracious to me and answer me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:8",
"text": " On your behalf my heart says, \u201cSeek my face.\u201d Your face, O Yahweh, I do seek. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:9",
"text": " Do not hide your face from me; do not turn your servant away in anger. You have been my help; do not abandon nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:10",
"text": " If my father or my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will receive me. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:11",
"text": " Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:12",
"text": " Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and each breathing out violence. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:13",
"text": " Surely I believe that I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Psalms 27:14",
"text": " Wait for Yahweh. Be strong and let your heart show strength, and wait for Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Psalms 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Psalms 28:1",
"text": " To you, O Yahweh, I call. O my rock, do not be deaf to me. Or else, if you are silent to me, then I will become like those descending to the pit. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Psalms 28:2",
"text": " Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Psalms 28:3",
"text": " Do not drag me away with the wicked or with the workers of evil, who speak of peace with their neighbors, while evil is in their heart. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Psalms 28:4",
"text": " Give to them according to their work, even according to the evil of their deeds. Give to them according to the work of their hands; repay them their rightful due. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Psalms 28:5",
"text": " Because they do not regard the works of Yahweh, nor the work of his hands, he will destroy them and not rebuild them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Psalms 28:6",
"text": " Blessed is Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my supplications. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Psalms 28:7",
"text": " Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts him and I am helped. So my heart rejoices, and with my song I will give thanks to him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Psalms 28:8",
"text": " Yahweh is their strength, and he is the refuge for the salvation of his anointed one. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Psalms 28:9",
"text": " Save your people and bless your heritage. Shepherd them also and carry them always. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29:1",
"text": " Ascribe to Yahweh, O sons of God, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29:2",
"text": " Ascribe to Yahweh the glory \u231edue\u231f his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29:3",
"text": " The voice of Yahweh is over the waters; the God of glory thunders. Yahweh is over many waters. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29:4",
"text": " The voice of Yahweh is powerful. The voice of Yahweh is majestic. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29:5",
"text": " The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yahweh shatters even the cedars of Lebanon. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29:6",
"text": " And he makes them skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29:7",
"text": " The voice of Yahweh flashes flames of fire. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29:8",
"text": " The voice of Yahweh shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29:9",
"text": " The voice of Yahweh causes deer to give birth and strips the forests bare. And at his temple all in it say, \u201cGlory!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29:10",
"text": " Yahweh sits enthroned at the flood, and Yahweh sits as king forever. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Psalms 29:11",
"text": " May Yahweh give strength to his people. May Yahweh bless his people with peace. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:1",
"text": " I will exalt you, O Yahweh, because you have drawn me up, and have not made my enemies rejoice over me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:2",
"text": " O Yahweh, my God, I cried for help to you, and you healed me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:3",
"text": " O Yahweh, you have brought my life up from Sheol. You preserved me alive from among those going down to the pit. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:4",
"text": " Sing praises to Yahweh, you his faithful ones, and give thanks \u231eto his holy fame\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:5",
"text": " For there is a moment in his anger; there is a lifetime in his favor. Weeping lodges for the evening, but in the morning comes rejoicing. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:6",
"text": " But as for me, I had said in my prosperity, \u201cI shall not be moved ever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:7",
"text": " O Yahweh, by your favor you caused my strong mountain to stand. You hid your face. I was bewildered. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:8",
"text": " To you, O Yahweh, I called, and to the Lord I pleaded for grace saying, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:9",
"text": " \u201cWhat gain is there in my \u231edeath\u231f, in my going down into the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:10",
"text": " \u201cO Yahweh, hear and be gracious to me. O Yahweh, be my helper.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:11",
"text": " You have turned my wailing into my dancing. You have removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Psalms 30:12",
"text": " so that \u231eI\u231f may sing praises to you and not be quiet. O Yahweh, my God, I will give thanks to you forever. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:1",
"text": " In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge. Let me not be put to shame ever. Deliver me by your righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:2",
"text": " Incline your ear to me. Quickly deliver me. Become my rock of refuge, \u231ea fortified keep\u231f to save me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:3",
"text": " For you are my rock and my fortress. So, for the sake of your name, lead me and guide me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:4",
"text": " Bring me out of the net that they have secretly set for me, for you are my refuge. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:5",
"text": " Into your hand I commit my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, faithful God. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:6",
"text": " I hate those devoted to useless idols, but I trust Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:7",
"text": " I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love. Because you have seen my misery, you know the distresses of my life. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:8",
"text": " And you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a broad place. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:9",
"text": " Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, along with my soul and my \u231ebody\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:10",
"text": " For my life is at an end with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength stumbles because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:11",
"text": " Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace, especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. Those who see me in the street flee from me. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:12",
"text": " I have become forgotten like one dead, out of \u231emind\u231f. I am like a destroyed vessel. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:13",
"text": " For I hear the rumor of many, \u201cTerror on every side!\u201d When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:14",
"text": " But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh. I say, \u201cYou are my God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:15",
"text": " My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:16",
"text": " Shine your face upon your servant. Save me by your loyal love. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:17",
"text": " O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them go silently to Sheol. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:18",
"text": " Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against the righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:19",
"text": " How abundant is your goodness that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you perform for those who take refuge in you before the children of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:20",
"text": " You will hide them in the protection of your presence from the plots of man. You will hide them in a shelter from the strife of tongues. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:21",
"text": " Blessed is Yahweh, because he has worked marvelously his loyal love to me in a besieged city. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:22",
"text": " As for me, I said in my alarm, \u201cI am cut off from before your eyes.\u201d However you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you for help. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:23",
"text": " Love Yahweh, all you his faithful ones. Yahweh preserves the faithful but repays abundantly the one who acts arrogantly. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Psalms 31:24",
"text": " Be strong and let your heart show strength, all you who wait for Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32:1",
"text": " Happy is he whose transgression is taken away, whose sin is covered. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32:2",
"text": " Happy is a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is not deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32:3",
"text": " When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32:4",
"text": " For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into the dry heat of summer. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32:5",
"text": " I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover. I said, \u201cI will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh,\u201d and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32:6",
"text": " Therefore let all the faithful pray to you at the time for finding you. Surely at the flood of many waters they will not reach him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32:7",
"text": " You are my hiding place; from trouble you preserve me. With cries of deliverance you surround me. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32:8",
"text": " I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go. I will advise you with my eye upon you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32:9",
"text": " Do not be like a horse or like a mule, without understanding; that needs his tackle\u2014bridle and rein\u2014for restraint or he would not come near you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32:10",
"text": " Many are the pains of the wicked, but for the one who trusts Yahweh loyal love surrounds him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Psalms 32:11",
"text": " Be glad in Yahweh and rejoice, you righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright of heart. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:1",
"text": " Exult in Yahweh, O you righteous, for praise is fitting for the upright. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:2",
"text": " Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre; with a harp of ten strings play to him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:3",
"text": " Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with jubilant shout. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:4",
"text": " For the word of Yahweh is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:5",
"text": " He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loyal love of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:6",
"text": " By the word of Yahweh the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:7",
"text": " He gathered the waters of the sea like a heap. He put the deeps in storehouses. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:8",
"text": " Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:9",
"text": " For \u231ehe himself spoke\u231f and it came to pass. \u231eHe himself commanded\u231f and it stood firm. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:10",
"text": " Yahweh brings to nothing the plan of nations; he frustrates the intents of peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:11",
"text": " The plan of Yahweh stands firm forever, the intents of his heart \u231efrom one generation to the next\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:12",
"text": " Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people he has chosen for his inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:13",
"text": " From heaven Yahweh looks; he sees all the children of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:14",
"text": " From his dwelling place he gazes on all the inhabitants of the earth, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:15",
"text": " he who fashions altogether their heart, he who understands all their works. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:16",
"text": " The king is not saved by the greatness of an army. The warrior is not delivered by the greatness of strength. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:17",
"text": " The horse is a false hope for victory, nor can it save by the greatness of its power. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:18",
"text": " Behold, the eye of Yahweh is on those who fear him, on those who hope for his loyal love "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:19",
"text": " to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:20",
"text": " Our soul waits for Yahweh; he is our help and our shield. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:21",
"text": " For in him our heart rejoices because in his holy name we trust. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Psalms 33:22",
"text": " Let your loyal love, O Yahweh, be upon us, \u231eeven as\u231f we hope in you. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:1",
"text": " so that he drove him out, and so he departed. I will bless Yahweh at all times; his praise shall be in my mouth continually. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:2",
"text": " My soul makes its boast in Yahweh; let the humble hear and be glad. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:3",
"text": " Magnify Yahweh with me, and let us exalt his name together. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:4",
"text": " I sought Yahweh and he answered me, and from all my terrors he delivered me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:5",
"text": " They looked to him and were radiant, and their faces shall not be ashamed. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:6",
"text": " This poor man called and Yahweh heard, and saved him from all his troubles. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:7",
"text": " The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and he rescues them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:8",
"text": " Taste and see that Yahweh is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:9",
"text": " Fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack for those who fear him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:10",
"text": " The young lions are in want and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh will not lack for any good thing. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:11",
"text": " Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:12",
"text": " Who is the man who desires life, who loves many days in order to see good? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:13",
"text": " Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:14",
"text": " Turn from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:15",
"text": " The eyes of Yahweh are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry for help. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:16",
"text": " The face of Yahweh is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:17",
"text": " They cry out and Yahweh hears and delivers them from all of their troubles. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:18",
"text": " Yahweh is near to those who are heartbroken and saves those who are crushed in spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:19",
"text": " Many are the distresses of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:20",
"text": " He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:21",
"text": " Evil will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will incur guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Psalms 34:22",
"text": " Yahweh redeems the life of his servants, and none who take refuge in him will incur guilt. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:1",
"text": " Contend, O Yahweh, with my contenders; fight those who fight me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:2",
"text": " Grasp buckler and shield and rise to my aid. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:3",
"text": " And draw the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me. Say to my soul, \u201cI am your salvation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:4",
"text": " Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated. Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:5",
"text": " Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of Yahweh \u231edriving them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:6",
"text": " Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of Yahweh pursuing them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:7",
"text": " For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug it for my life. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:8",
"text": " Let \u231eunforeseen ruin\u231f come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him. Let him fall into it in ruin. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:9",
"text": " Then my soul will rejoice in Yahweh; it will rejoice in his salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:10",
"text": " All of my bones shall say, \u201cO Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from one stronger than he and the poor and needy from the one who robs him?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:11",
"text": " Violent witnesses rise up; they ask me concerning what I do not know. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:12",
"text": " They repay me evil in place of good. It is bereavement to my soul. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:13",
"text": " But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I weakened my soul with fasting, and my prayer \u231ereturned to me unanswered\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:14",
"text": " I \u231ebehaved\u231f as though he were a friend or as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down in mourning. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:15",
"text": " But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:16",
"text": " Among the ungodly of the mockers at feasts, they gnashed at me with their teeth. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:17",
"text": " My Lord, how long will you watch? Restore my life from their ravages, my only life from the young lions. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:18",
"text": " I will give thanks to you in the great assembly; among the mighty people I will praise you. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:19",
"text": " Let not those who are wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me. Nor let those who hate me without cause wink the eye. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:20",
"text": " For they do not speak peace, but against the quiet ones of the land they plan deceitful words. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:21",
"text": " They also made wide their mouths against me. They said, \u201cAha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:22",
"text": " You have seen, O Yahweh. Do not be deaf. O Lord, do not be far from me. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:23",
"text": " Wake up and rouse yourself for my right, for my cause, O my God and my Lord. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:24",
"text": " Vindicate me according to your righteousness, O Yahweh my God, and do not let them rejoice over me. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:25",
"text": " Do not let them say in their hearts, \u201cAha, our desire.\u201d Let them not say, \u201cWe have swallowed him up.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:26",
"text": " Let them be shamed and abashed altogether, who rejoice at my misfortune. Let them put on shame and insult, who magnify themselves against me. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:27",
"text": " Let them shout for joy and be glad, who delight in my vindication; and let them say continually, \u201cYahweh is great, who delights in the welfare of his servant.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Psalms 35:28",
"text": " Then my tongue will proclaim your righteousness, and your praise all day. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:1",
"text": " An oracle: the wicked has rebellion in the midst of his heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:2",
"text": " For he flatters himself in his eyes, hating to detect his iniquity. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:3",
"text": " The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight and to do good. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:4",
"text": " He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way that is not good. He does not reject evil. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:5",
"text": " O Yahweh, your loyal love extends into the heavens, your faithfulness unto the clouds. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:6",
"text": " Your righteousness is \u231elike the mighty mountains\u231f, your judgments like the great deep. You save man and beast, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:7",
"text": " How precious is your loyal love, O God, and the children of humankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:8",
"text": " They are refreshed with the \u231efullness\u231f of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:9",
"text": " For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:10",
"text": " Prolong your loyal love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:11",
"text": " Do not let a foot of pride come against me, nor let a wicked hand make me to wander homeless. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Psalms 36:12",
"text": " There doers of evil have fallen; they are thrust down and not able to rise. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:1",
"text": " Do not fret because of evildoers; do not be envious of doers of wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:2",
"text": " For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:3",
"text": " Trust Yahweh and do good. Abide in the land and feed on faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:4",
"text": " Take pleasure in Yahweh as well, and he will give to you the requests of your heart. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:5",
"text": " \u231eCommit to\u231f Yahweh your way; Trust also on him and he will act. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:6",
"text": " Then he will bring forth your righteousness like the light, and your justice like the noonday. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:7",
"text": " Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him. Do not fret about one who succeeds in his way, about a man making plots. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:8",
"text": " Refrain from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret; it only brings evil. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:9",
"text": " For evildoers will be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh\u2014 they will possess the land. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:10",
"text": " And yet a little while and the wicked will not be, and you will look carefully upon his place, but he will not be. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:11",
"text": " But the afflicted will possess the land, and they will take pleasure in an abundance of peace. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:12",
"text": " The wicked plans evil against the righteous, and gnashes at him with his teeth. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:13",
"text": " The Lord laughs at him, for he sees that his day is coming. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:14",
"text": " The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow to throw down the poor and the needy, to kill those upright in their way. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:15",
"text": " Their sword will enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:16",
"text": " The little belonging to the righteous is better than the wealth of many wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:17",
"text": " For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh supports the righteous. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:18",
"text": " Yahweh knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will be forever. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:19",
"text": " They will not be put to shame in distressing times, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:20",
"text": " But the wicked will perish, and the enemies of Yahweh will be like the splendor of the pastures. They vanish; in smoke they vanish. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:21",
"text": " The wicked borrows and does not repay, but the righteous is gracious and gives. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:22",
"text": " For those blessed by him shall possess the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:23",
"text": " The steps of a man are established by Yahweh, and he takes pleasure in his way. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:24",
"text": " Though he fall, he will not be cast headlong, for Yahweh supports him with his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:25",
"text": " I was a youth, but I am now old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children \u231ebegging for\u231f bread. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:26",
"text": " All the day he is gracious and lends, and his children are a blessing. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:27",
"text": " Turn aside from evil and do good and so abide forever. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:28",
"text": " For Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake his faithful ones. They are protected forever. But the children of the wicked will be cut off. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:29",
"text": " The righteous will possess the land and abide in it forever. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:30",
"text": " The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:31",
"text": " The law of his God is in his heart. His steps will not slip. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:32",
"text": " The wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to kill him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:33",
"text": " Yahweh will not abandon him into his hand, and he will not let him be condemned when he is judged. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:34",
"text": " Wait for Yahweh and keep his way, and he will exalt you to possess the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:35",
"text": " I have seen the wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:36",
"text": " Then he passed on and behold, he was not. And I sought him, but he could not be found. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:37",
"text": " Observe the blameless and look at the upright, for there is a future for a man of peace. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:38",
"text": " But transgressors shall be destroyed altogether. The future of the wicked shall be cut off. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:39",
"text": " And the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh, their refuge in the time of trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Psalms 37:40",
"text": " And Yahweh helps them and he rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:1",
"text": " O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:2",
"text": " For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:3",
"text": " There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:4",
"text": " For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:5",
"text": " My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:6",
"text": " I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly. All the day I go about mourning. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:7",
"text": " For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:8",
"text": " I am faint and crushed greatly; I groan because of the roaring of my heart. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:9",
"text": " O Lord, all my longing is before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:10",
"text": " My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:11",
"text": " My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:12",
"text": " Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:13",
"text": " But as for me, like the deaf I cannot hear, and I am like the mute who cannot open his mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:14",
"text": " And so I am like a man who hears not, and in whose mouth there are no retorts. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:15",
"text": " Rather for you I wait, O Yahweh. You will answer, O Lord my God. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:16",
"text": " For I said, \u201cHelp, lest they rejoice over me, lest they boast against me when my foot slips.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:17",
"text": " For I am ready to stumble, and my pain is before me continually. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:18",
"text": " For my iniquity I confess; I am anxious because of my sin. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:19",
"text": " And my enemies without cause are numerous, and those who hate me wrongfully are many. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:20",
"text": " And those who repay evil in return for good accuse me in return for my pursuing good. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:21",
"text": " Do not forsake me, O Yahweh. O my God, do not be far from me. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Psalms 38:22",
"text": " Hurry to help me, O Lord, my salvation. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:1",
"text": " I said, \u201cI will guard my ways \u231ethat I may not sin\u231f with my tongue. I will keep a muzzle over my mouth as long as the wicked are before me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:2",
"text": " I was mute with silence. I was silent even from saying good things, and my pain was stirred up. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:3",
"text": " My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:4",
"text": " \u201cLet me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:5",
"text": " Look, you have made my days mere handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm is complete vanity. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:6",
"text": " Surely a man walks about as a mere \u231eshadow\u231f; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up possessions but does not know who will gather them in. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:7",
"text": " And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is for you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:8",
"text": " From all my transgressions deliver me; do not make me the taunt of the fool. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:9",
"text": " I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:10",
"text": " Remove from me your affliction. By the opposition of your hand I perish. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:11",
"text": " When with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you \u231econsume\u231f like a moth his delightful things. Surely everyone is a mere vapor. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:12",
"text": " Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I am an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Psalms 39:13",
"text": " Look away from me that I may be cheerful, before I depart and I am no more. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:1",
"text": " I waited patiently for Yahweh, And he inclined to me and heard my cry for help. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:2",
"text": " And so he brought me up from the roaring pit, from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:3",
"text": " Then he put a new song in my mouth, a praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and will trust Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:4",
"text": " Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust and does not turn to the proud and to those who fall away to a lie. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:5",
"text": " Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done\u2014 your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us. There is none to compare with you. If I tried to proclaim and tell of them, they would be too numerous to count. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:6",
"text": " A sacrifice and offering you do not desire. \u231eMy ears you have opened\u231f. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:7",
"text": " Then I said, \u201cLook, I come. In the scroll of the book it is written concerning me: "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:8",
"text": " \u2018I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law is \u231edeep within me\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:9",
"text": " I have brought good tidings of righteousness in the great congregation. Look, I have not shut my lips. O Yahweh, \u231eyou surely know that\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:10",
"text": " Your righteousness I have not hidden in the midst of my heart. I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loyal love or your faithfulness from the great congregation. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:11",
"text": " As for you, O Yahweh, do not withhold your mercies from me. Let your loyal love and your faithfulness continually preserve me. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:12",
"text": " For evils without number have encompassed me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:13",
"text": " Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me. O Yahweh, hurry to help me. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:14",
"text": " Let them be shamed and abashed altogether who seek to take away my life. Let them be repulsed and humiliated who desire my harm. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:15",
"text": " Let them be appalled because of their shame, those who say to me, \u201cAha! Aha!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:16",
"text": " Let them rejoice and be glad in you, all those who seek you. Let them say continually, \u201cYahweh is great!\u201d \u2014those who love your salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Psalms 40:17",
"text": " But I am poor and needy. Let my Lord consider me. You are my help and my deliverer. O my God, do not delay. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:1",
"text": " Blessed is the one who has regard for the poor; in the day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:2",
"text": " Yahweh protects him and keeps him alive; he is blessed in the land, and you do not give him into the will of his enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:3",
"text": " Yahweh sustains him on his sick bed. In his illness, you \u231erestore to health\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:4",
"text": " As for me, I said, \u201cO Yahweh, be gracious to me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:5",
"text": " My enemies speak evil about me, \u201cWhen will he die and his name perish?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:6",
"text": " And when one comes to see me, he speaks falsely; his heart gathers disaster for itself. He goes out to the street; he speaks. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:7",
"text": " All who hate me speak together against me. Against me they assume the \u231eworst\u231f for me: "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:8",
"text": " \u201cA ruinous thing is poured out on him, and now that he lies down, he will not rise up again.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:9",
"text": " Even \u231emy close friend\u231f, whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:10",
"text": " But you, O Yahweh, be gracious to me and raise me up that I may repay them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:11",
"text": " By this I know that you delight in me: because my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:12",
"text": " As for me, you have upheld me in my integrity, and you have set me in your presence forever. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Psalms 41:13",
"text": " Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42:1",
"text": " As a deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42:2",
"text": " My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42:3",
"text": " My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, \u201cWhere is your God?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42:4",
"text": " These I remember and I pour out my soul within me: that I would go with the multitude; I led them in procession to the house of God, with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving, a crowd celebrating a festival. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42:5",
"text": " Why are you \u231ein despair\u231f, O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, for the salvation of his presence. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42:6",
"text": " O my God, within me my soul is \u231ein despair\u231f; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the heights of Hermon, from the mountain of Mizar. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42:7",
"text": " Deep is calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42:8",
"text": " By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42:9",
"text": " I say to God, my rock, \u201cWhy have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42:10",
"text": " As with a shattering in my bones my oppressors taunt me, while they say to me \u231eall day\u231f, \u201cWhere is your God?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Psalms 42:11",
"text": " Why are you \u231ein despair\u231f, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I shall again praise him, \u231emy salvation\u231f and my God. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Psalms 43",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Psalms 43:1",
"text": " Judge me, O God, and plead my case against an unfaithful nation. From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Psalms 43:2",
"text": " because you are the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Psalms 43:3",
"text": " Send your light and your truth; they shall lead me. They shall bring me to \u231eyour holy mountain\u231f and to your dwelling places. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Psalms 43:4",
"text": " Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, \u231emy surpassing joy\u231f, and I will praise you with lyre, O God, my God. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Psalms 43:5",
"text": " Why are you \u231ein despair\u231f, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, \u231emy salvation\u231f and my God. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:1",
"text": " O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestors have told us of work you worked in their days, in days of old. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:2",
"text": " You with your hand drove out the nations, but them you planted. You harmed the peoples, but them you let spread out. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:3",
"text": " For not with their sword did they possess the land, and their arm did not give them victory. Rather it was your right hand and your arm and the light of your presence, because you delighted in them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:4",
"text": " You are my king, O God. Command victories for Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:5",
"text": " By you we push down our enemies; by your name we tread down those who rise up against us. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:6",
"text": " For I do not trust my bow, and my sword cannot give me victory. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:7",
"text": " Rather you have saved us from our enemies, and have humiliated those who hate us. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:8",
"text": " In God we boast all the day, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:9",
"text": " Surely you have rejected and disgraced us, and have not gone out with our armies. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:10",
"text": " You have caused us to pull back from the enemy, and so those who hate us have plundered for themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:11",
"text": " You have given us as sheep for food, and among the nations you have scattered us. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:12",
"text": " You have sold your people \u231echeaply\u231f, and did not profit by their price. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:13",
"text": " You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:14",
"text": " You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:15",
"text": " \u231eAll day long\u231f my disgrace is before me, and the shame of my face covers me, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:16",
"text": " because of the voice of the taunter and the reviler, because of the enemy and the avenger. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:17",
"text": " All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:18",
"text": " Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have not turned aside from your way. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:19",
"text": " But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:20",
"text": " If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands in prayer to a foreign god, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:21",
"text": " would not God discover this, for he knows the secrets of the heart? "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:22",
"text": " Rather, on account of you we are killed \u231eall day long\u231f; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:23",
"text": " Wake up! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject forever. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:24",
"text": " Why do you hide your face? Have you forgotten our misery and our oppression? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:25",
"text": " For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our \u231ebody\u231f clings to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Psalms 44:26",
"text": " Rise up! Be a help for us, and redeem us for the sake of your loyal love. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:1",
"text": " A maskil. A song of love. My heart is moved with a good word; I recite my \u231ecompositions\u231f to the king. My tongue is the pen of a skilled scribe. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:2",
"text": " You are the most handsome of the sons of humankind; grace is poured out on your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:3",
"text": " Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and your majesty. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:4",
"text": " And in your majesty \u231eride victoriously\u231f, because of truth and humility and righteousness. And let your right hand teach you awesome deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:5",
"text": " Your arrows are sharp; peoples fall under you in the midst of the king\u2019s enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:6",
"text": " Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:7",
"text": " You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you from among your companions with festive oil. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:8",
"text": " All your robes are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From palaces of ivory stringed instruments gladden you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:9",
"text": " Kings\u2019 daughters are among your noble ladies. The queen stands at your right hand in gold of Ophir. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:10",
"text": " Hear, O daughter, and \u231ediscern\u231f and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father\u2019s house. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:11",
"text": " Let the king desire your beauty. Because he is your lord, therefore bow down to him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:12",
"text": " Even the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift. The rich from among people will seek your \u231efavor\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:13",
"text": " The king\u2019s daughter is all glorious within; her garment is of gold embroidered cloth. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:14",
"text": " She is brought to the king in colorful garments. The young women behind her, her attendants, are being brought to you. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:15",
"text": " They are led with joy and gladness. They enter the palace of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:16",
"text": " In place of your fathers will be your sons. You will make them princes in all the land. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Psalms 45:17",
"text": " I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore peoples will praise you forever and ever. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46:1",
"text": " According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, a very sufficient help in troubles. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46:2",
"text": " Therefore we will not fear though the earth change, and though the mountains totter into the \u231emidst\u231f of the sea, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46:3",
"text": " though its waters roar and foam, though mountains shake with its surging water. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46:4",
"text": " There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holiest of the dwellings of the Most High. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46:5",
"text": " God is in the midst of her; she will not be made to totter. God will help her \u231eat daybreak\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46:6",
"text": " Nations roar, kingdoms shake; he utters his voice, the earth melts. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46:7",
"text": " Yahweh of hosts is with us; our high stronghold is the God of Jacob. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46:8",
"text": " Come, see the works of Yahweh, who has placed desolations on the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46:9",
"text": " He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and cuts off the spear. The wagons of war he burns with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46:10",
"text": " Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Psalms 46:11",
"text": " Yahweh of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high stronghold. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Psalms 47",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Psalms 47:1",
"text": " All you peoples, clap your hands. Shout to God with a voice of rejoicing. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Psalms 47:2",
"text": " For Yahweh Most High is awesome, a great king over all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Psalms 47:3",
"text": " He subdues peoples under us and nations under our feet. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Psalms 47:4",
"text": " He chooses for us our inheritance, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Psalms 47:5",
"text": " God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Psalms 47:6",
"text": " Sing praises to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our king, sing praises. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Psalms 47:7",
"text": " For God is king of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Psalms 47:8",
"text": " God reigns over nations; God sits on his holy throne. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Psalms 47:9",
"text": " The princes of the peoples are gathered together with the people of Abraham\u2019s God. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is very exalted. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:1",
"text": " Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise in the city of our God, in his \u231eholy mountain\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:2",
"text": " Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is \u231eMount Zion\u231f, \u231ein the far north\u231f, the city of the great king. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:3",
"text": " God is in her citadels; he is known as a high stronghold. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:4",
"text": " For see, the kings assembled; they advanced together. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:5",
"text": " \u231eThey themselves saw\u231f it, so they were astonished. They were terrified; they ran off. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:6",
"text": " Trembling seized them there\u2014 pain as of a woman in labor. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:7",
"text": " With an east wind you shatter the ships of Tarshish. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:8",
"text": " As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of Yahweh of hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish her forever. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:9",
"text": " We have pondered your loyal love, O God, in the midst of your temple. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:10",
"text": " As is your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:11",
"text": " Let \u231eMount Zion\u231f rejoice; let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:12",
"text": " Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:13",
"text": " \u231eConsider well\u231f her ramparts. Go through her citadels so that you can tell the next generation "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Psalms 48:14",
"text": " that this is God, our God forever and ever. \u231eHe himself\u231f will guide us until death. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:1",
"text": " Hear this, all you peoples; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:2",
"text": " both low and high, rich and poor together. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:3",
"text": " My mouth will speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will be understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:4",
"text": " I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will \u231epropound\u231f my riddle on a lyre. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:5",
"text": " Why should I fear in \u231etimes of calamity\u231f, when iniquity surrounds me at my heels, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:6",
"text": " those who trust their wealth and boast about the abundance of their riches? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:7",
"text": " Surely a man cannot redeem a brother. He cannot give to God his ransom "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:8",
"text": " (since the redemption price for their life is costly and it always fails), "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:9",
"text": " so that he may stay alive forever and not see the pit. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:10",
"text": " For he sees that the wise die, together with the fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next generation. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:11",
"text": " Within them they think their houses are forever, their dwelling places from generation to generation. They \u231ename\u231f their lands by their own names. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:12",
"text": " But man cannot continue in his pomp. He is like the beasts that perish. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:13",
"text": " This is the journey of those who have foolish confidence, and those after them who accept their sayings. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:14",
"text": " Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms will be for Sheol to consume, far from his lofty abode. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:15",
"text": " Surely God will ransom my life from the \u231epower\u231f of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:16",
"text": " Do not fear when a man becomes rich, when the wealth of his house increases, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:17",
"text": " because when he dies he will not take away any of it. His wealth will not follow down after him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:18",
"text": " Though he congratulated his soul while he was living \u2014and people will praise you when you do well for yourself\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:19",
"text": " it will go to the generation of his fathers. Never will they see light. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Psalms 49:20",
"text": " Humankind in its pomp, but does not understand, is like the beasts that perish. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:1",
"text": " The Supreme God, God, Yahweh, has spoken and summoned the earth, from the rising of the sun to its setting. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:2",
"text": " From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:3",
"text": " Our God comes and he is not silent. Before him fire devours, and around him it is very tempestuous. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:4",
"text": " He summons the heavens above and the earth that he might judge his people: "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:5",
"text": " \u201cGather to me my loyal ones, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:6",
"text": " And the heavens declare his righteousness, because God himself is judge. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:7",
"text": " \u201cHear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:8",
"text": " It is not concerning a lack of your sacrifices that I rebuke you, and your burnt offerings are before me continually. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:9",
"text": " I will not take from your house a bull or from your stalls a he-goat, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:10",
"text": " because every animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:11",
"text": " I know every bird of the mountains, and every moving creature in the field is mine. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:12",
"text": " If I were hungry I would not tell you, because the world and its fullness are mine. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:13",
"text": " Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:14",
"text": " Offer to God a thank offering and pay your vows to the Most High. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:15",
"text": " And call me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:16",
"text": " But to the wicked God says, \u201cWhat right have you to recite my statutes and \u231emention my covenant with your mouth\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:17",
"text": " while you yourself hate discipline, and cast my words behind you? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:18",
"text": " When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association is with adulterers. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:19",
"text": " You give your mouth free rein for evil, and you harness your tongue to deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:20",
"text": " You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother\u2019s son. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:21",
"text": " These things you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present an argument before your eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:22",
"text": " Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there will be none to deliver. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Psalms 50:23",
"text": " He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me, and he who orders his way; I will show him the salvation of God.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:1",
"text": " When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love. According to your abundant mercies, blot out my transgressions. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:2",
"text": " Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and from my sin cleanse me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:3",
"text": " For \u231eI myself know\u231f my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:4",
"text": " Against you, only you, I have sinned and have done this evil in your eyes, so that you are correct when you speak, you are blameless when you judge. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:5",
"text": " Behold, in iniquity I was born, and in sin my mother conceived me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:6",
"text": " Behold, you delight in truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden parts you make me to know wisdom. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:7",
"text": " Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:8",
"text": " Make me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:9",
"text": " Hide your face from my sins, and all my iniquities blot out. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:10",
"text": " Create a clean heart for me, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit \u231ewithin me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:11",
"text": " Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:12",
"text": " Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and with a willing spirit sustain me. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:13",
"text": " Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:14",
"text": " Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; then my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:15",
"text": " O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will proclaim your praise. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:16",
"text": " For you do not delight in sacrifice or I would give it. With a burnt offering you are not pleased. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:17",
"text": " The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:18",
"text": " Do good in your favor toward Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Psalms 51:19",
"text": " Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices, burnt offering and whole burnt offering. Then bulls will be offered on your altar. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Psalms 52",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Psalms 52:1",
"text": " When Doeg the Edomite came and informed Saul. And he said to him, \u201cDavid has come to the house of Ahimelech.\u201d Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The loyal love of God endures \u231econtinually\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Psalms 52:2",
"text": " Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Psalms 52:3",
"text": " You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking \u231ewhat is right\u231f. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Psalms 52:4",
"text": " You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Psalms 52:5",
"text": " but God will pull you down forever. He will snatch you and tear you away from your tent, and he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Psalms 52:6",
"text": " And the righteous will see and fear, and will laugh at him, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Psalms 52:7",
"text": " \u201cLook, the man who would not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth; he took refuge in his destructiveness.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Psalms 52:8",
"text": " But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God. I trust the loyal love of God forever and ever. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Psalms 52:9",
"text": " I will give thanks to you forever, because of what you have done, and I will wait on your name, because it is good, in the presence of your faithful ones. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Psalms 53",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Psalms 53:1",
"text": " A maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, \u201cThere is no God.\u201d They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Psalms 53:2",
"text": " God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Psalms 53:3",
"text": " \u231eAll of them\u231f have turned back. They are altogether corrupt. There is none who does good; there is not even one. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Psalms 53:4",
"text": " Do not evildoers know, they who eat my people as though they were eating bread? They do not call on God. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Psalms 53:5",
"text": " There \u231ethey are very fearful\u231f where no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Psalms 53:6",
"text": " \u231eOh, that from Zion\u231f would come salvation for Israel! When God returns the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Psalms 54",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Psalms 54:1",
"text": " A maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and said to Saul, \u201cIs not David hiding himself among us?\u201d O God, by your name save me, and by your power vindicate me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Psalms 54:2",
"text": " O God, hear my prayer; heed the words of my mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Psalms 54:3",
"text": " For foreigners have risen against me, and ruthless men seek my life. They have not set God before them. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Psalms 54:4",
"text": " See, God is my helper; The Lord is with those who sustain my life. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Psalms 54:5",
"text": " He will repay my enemies for their evil; in your faithfulness destroy them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Psalms 54:6",
"text": " I will freely sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, O Yahweh, because it is good. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Psalms 54:7",
"text": " Because he has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has looked with satisfaction on my enemies. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:1",
"text": " A maskil of David. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my plea. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:2",
"text": " Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my lamenting and I groan, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:3",
"text": " because of the voice of an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge against me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:4",
"text": " My heart trembles within me, and deathly terrors fall on me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:5",
"text": " Fear and trembling come on me, and horror overwhelms me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:6",
"text": " So I say, \u201c\u231eOh, that\u231f I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:7",
"text": " Look, I would flee far away. I would dwell in the wilderness. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:8",
"text": " I would hurry to my refuge from the raging wind and storm.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:9",
"text": " Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:10",
"text": " Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are in its midst. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:11",
"text": " Destruction is within it, and oppression and deceit do not depart from its public square. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:12",
"text": " For it is not an enemy that taunts me, or I could bear it. It is not one who hates me that magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:13",
"text": " But it is you, a man my equal, my friend and confidant. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:14",
"text": " We who would take sweet counsel together; in the house of God we would walk with the throng. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:15",
"text": " Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive, because evil is in their home and \u231eheart\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:16",
"text": " As for me, I will call to God, and Yahweh will save me. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:17",
"text": " \u231eMorning, noon and night\u231f I will lament and groan loudly, and he will hear my voice. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:18",
"text": " He safely redeems my life from the battle against me, because those standing against me are among many. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:19",
"text": " God will hear and answer them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah Because they do not change, and they do not fear God. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:20",
"text": " He has put forth his hands against \u231ehis friends\u231f; he has defiled his covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:21",
"text": " The \u231ebuttery words\u231f of his mouth were smooth, but there was battle in his heart. His words were smoother than oil, but they were drawn swords. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:22",
"text": " Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Psalms 55:23",
"text": " But you, O God, you will bring them down to the pit of corruption. The men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:1",
"text": " Of David. A miktam. When the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me; fighting all the day he oppresses me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:2",
"text": " My enemies trample all day, because many are attacking me proudly. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:3",
"text": " \u231eWhen\u231f I fear, I trust you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:4",
"text": " God, whose word I praise, God I trust; I do not fear. What can mere flesh do to me? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:5",
"text": " All day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:6",
"text": " They attack, they hide, they watch my \u231esteps\u231f, as they lie in wait for my life. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:7",
"text": " Because of iniquity will they escape? In anger cast down the peoples, O God. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:8",
"text": " You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; are they not in your book? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:9",
"text": " Then my enemies will turn back \u231ewhen\u231f I call. This I know because God is for me. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:10",
"text": " God, whose word I praise, Yahweh, whose word I praise, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:11",
"text": " God I trust; I do not fear. What can mere humankind do to me? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:12",
"text": " My vows to you, O God, are binding upon me. I will pay thank offerings to you, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Psalms 56:13",
"text": " because you have delivered my soul from death. Have you not kept my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57:1",
"text": " Of David. A miktam. When he fled from Saul into the cave. Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, because in you my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of your wings I will take refuge until destruction passes by. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57:2",
"text": " I will call to God Most High, to God who accomplishes things concerning me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57:3",
"text": " He will send from heaven and save me; he will reproach the one who tramples me. Selah God will send his loyal love and his faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57:4",
"text": " My soul is among lions. I lie down among those who devour\u2014 the children of humankind whose teeth are spears and arrows and whose tongues are sharp swords. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57:5",
"text": " Be exalted above the heavens, O God. Let your glory be above all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57:6",
"text": " They have set a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me; they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57:7",
"text": " My heart is steadfast, O God; My heart is steadfast. I will sing and give praise. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57:8",
"text": " Awake, my glory; Awake, harp and lyre. I will awake the dawn. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57:9",
"text": " I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Lord; I will give you praise among the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57:10",
"text": " Because your loyal love is high to the heavens, and your faithfulness to the clouds. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Psalms 57:11",
"text": " Be exalted above the heavens, O God. Let your glory be above all the earth. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58:1",
"text": " Of David. A miktam. Do you really speak what is right when silent? Do you judge fairly the children of humankind? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58:2",
"text": " No, in your heart you plan injustices; in the land you weigh out the violence of your hands. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58:3",
"text": " The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray from the belly, speaking lies. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58:4",
"text": " Their venom is like snake venom; They are like a deaf viper that closes its ear "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58:5",
"text": " so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or the skilled caster of spells. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58:6",
"text": " O God, break their teeth in their mouth. Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58:7",
"text": " Let them run away like water that runs off. When he bends the bow, let his arrows be as though they were cut off. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58:8",
"text": " Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes; like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58:9",
"text": " Before your pots can feel the heat of a thornbush, whether green or \u231edry\u231f, he will sweep it away. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58:10",
"text": " The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Psalms 58:11",
"text": " And people will say, \u201cSurely there is a \u231ereward\u231f for the righteous. Surely there is a God who judges in the land.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:1",
"text": " Of David. A miktam. When Saul dispatched men and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God. Protect me from those who rise up against me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:2",
"text": " Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and from men of bloodshed save me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:3",
"text": " For look, they lie in wait for my life. The mighty attack against me, not because of my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:4",
"text": " Without guilt on my part they run and ready themselves. Awake to meet me and see. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:5",
"text": " And you, Yahweh, God of hosts, are the God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations. Do not be gracious to any who treacherously plot evil. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:6",
"text": " They return at evening; they howl like dogs while they prowl the city. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:7",
"text": " Look, they pour out talk with their mouth. Swords are on their lips, for they say, \u201cWho hears?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:8",
"text": " But you, O Yahweh, will laugh at them; you will mock all the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:9",
"text": " O my strength, I will watch for you, because you, O God, are my (high) stronghold. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:10",
"text": " My God of loyal love will meet me; God will cause me to look in triumph on my enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:11",
"text": " Do not kill them, lest my people forget. Make them to wander by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:12",
"text": " By the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, even in their pride, let them be trapped, and for the curses and lies they proclaim. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:13",
"text": " Destroy in anger; destroy so they are no more, so that they may know that God is ruling in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:14",
"text": " They return at evening; they howl like dogs while they prowl the city. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:15",
"text": " As for them, they wander for food. If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:16",
"text": " But as for me, I will sing of your strength, and I will hail your loyal love in the morning, because you have been my high stronghold and a refuge in my \u231etime\u231f of trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Psalms 59:17",
"text": " O my strength, to you I will give praise, because God is my high stronghold, my God of loyal love. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:1",
"text": " A miktam of David. To teach. When he fought Mesopotamia and Aram Zobah, and Joab returned and struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, twelve thousand persons. O God, you have rejected us. You have broken us. You have been angry. Restore us! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:2",
"text": " You have made the land quake. You have split it open. Heal its fissures, because it totters. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:3",
"text": " You have shown your people hard things; You have given us wine that staggers. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:4",
"text": " You have rallied those who fear you round a banner \u231eout of bowshot\u231f, Selah "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:5",
"text": " so that your beloved ones may be rescued. Save by your right hand and answer us. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:6",
"text": " God has spoken in his holiness, \u201cI will rejoice; I will divide up Shechem, and portion out the valley of Succoth. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:7",
"text": " Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the \u231ehelmet for\u231f my head; Judah is my scepter. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:8",
"text": " Moab is my washing pot; over Edom, I will cast my sandal. On account of me, O Philistia, raise a shout.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:9",
"text": " Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:10",
"text": " Have not you yourself rejected us, O God, and not gone out with our armies, O God? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:11",
"text": " Give us help against the adversary, for the help of humankind is futile. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Psalms 60:12",
"text": " Through God we will do \u231evaliantly\u231f, and it is he who will tread down our enemies. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Psalms 61",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Psalms 61:1",
"text": " Hear, O God, my cry; attend to my prayer. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Psalms 61:2",
"text": " From the end of the earth I call to you when my heart grows faint. You will lead me to a rock that is higher than I. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Psalms 61:3",
"text": " For you have been my refuge, a strong tower from the enemy. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Psalms 61:4",
"text": " Let me reside in your tent forever. Let me take refuge under the covering of your wings. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Psalms 61:5",
"text": " For you, O God, you have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Psalms 61:6",
"text": " You will add days to the days of the king, his years like those of \u231emany generations\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Psalms 61:7",
"text": " May he live forever in the presence of God. Appoint loyal love and faithfulness to preserve him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Psalms 61:8",
"text": " So I will sing the praise of your name forever, that I may fulfill my vows \u231edaily\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:1",
"text": " A psalm of David. Only for God my soul waits in silence. From him is my salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:2",
"text": " Only he is my rock and my salvation, my high stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:3",
"text": " How long will you attack a man? All of you will be shattered like a leaning wall, a tottering fence. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:4",
"text": " They only plan to thrust him down from his high position; they are pleased with deception. With their mouths they bless, but \u231einwardly\u231f they curse. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:5",
"text": " Only for God wait in silence, O my soul, because my hope is from him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:6",
"text": " Only he is my rock and my salvation, my high stronghold; I shall not be shaken. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:7",
"text": " On God rests my salvation and my glory; God is my strong rock, my refuge. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:8",
"text": " Trust him at all times, O people; pour out before him your heart. God is a refuge for us. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:9",
"text": " Only a vapor are men of low degree, a deception are men of high degree. \u231eWeighed\u231f in a balance, together they are lighter than a vapor. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:10",
"text": " Do not trust in extortion, and do not put vain confidence in robbery. If wealth increases, do not set your heart on it. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:11",
"text": " Once God has spoken; twice I have heard this: that strength belongs to God. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Psalms 62:12",
"text": " And to you belongs loyal love, O Lord, because you will render to each according to his work. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63:1",
"text": " O God, you are my God; I will seek you diligently. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you as in a dry and weary land without water. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63:2",
"text": " Thus I have seen you in the sanctuary, beholding your strength and glory. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63:3",
"text": " Because your loyal love is better than life, my lips will praise you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63:4",
"text": " So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my \u231ehands\u231f in your name. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63:5",
"text": " My soul will be satisfied as with the best and richest food, and with joyful lips my mouth will praise. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63:6",
"text": " When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in the night watches. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63:7",
"text": " Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63:8",
"text": " My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63:9",
"text": " But as for them who seek my life for ruin, they will go into the depths of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63:10",
"text": " They who would \u231edeliver him to the sword\u231f will become a portion for jackals. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Psalms 63:11",
"text": " However, the king will rejoice in God. Everyone who swears an oath by him will boast, because the mouth of the liars will be stopped. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Psalms 64",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Psalms 64:1",
"text": " Hear my voice, O God, in my lamenting. Preserve my life from the fear of the enemy. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Psalms 64:2",
"text": " Hide me from the secret plots of evildoers, from the unrest of those who do iniquity, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Psalms 64:3",
"text": " who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend their bow to shoot their arrows\u2014bitter words, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Psalms 64:4",
"text": " to shoot from their hiding places at the blameless. Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Psalms 64:5",
"text": " They encourage themselves in the evil matter. They talk of secretly laying snares. They say, \u201cWho will see them?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Psalms 64:6",
"text": " \u231eThey carefully plot\u231f injustices saying, \u201cWe have perfected \u231ethe perfect plot\u231f!\u201d Both the \u231einner thought\u231f and heart of a man are deep. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Psalms 64:7",
"text": " But God will shoot them; with an arrow they will suddenly be wounded. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Psalms 64:8",
"text": " And they who would cause him to stumble, their own tongue will be against them. All who gaze on them will shake. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Psalms 64:9",
"text": " And then all men will fear, and will declare the working of God, and will understand his doing. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Psalms 64:10",
"text": " The righteous will rejoice in Yahweh and take refuge in him, and all the upright in heart will boast. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:1",
"text": " Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion, and to you the vow shall be fulfilled. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:2",
"text": " O you who hear prayer, to you all flesh will come. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:3",
"text": " Iniquities prevail over me. As for our transgressions, you will \u231eforgive\u231f them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:4",
"text": " Blessed is one whom you choose and bring near, that he may abide in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:5",
"text": " By awesome deeds in righteousness you will answer us, O God of our salvation, you who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of the far-off seas, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:6",
"text": " who established the mountains by his strength, the one who is girded with might, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:7",
"text": " who stills the roar of the seas, the roar of their waves, and the commotion of the peoples, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:8",
"text": " so that the inhabitants of the farthest reaches are in awe of your signs. You make the dawn and sunset sing for joy. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:9",
"text": " You care for the land and water it; you greatly enrich it. The stream of God is filled with waters. You provide their grain, for so you have established it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:10",
"text": " You drench its furrows, penetrating its ridges. With rains you soften it; its growth you bless. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:11",
"text": " You crown the year with your \u231ebounty\u231f, and your wagon paths drip with \u231erichness\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:12",
"text": " They drop on the pastures of the wilderness, and the hills gird themselves with joy. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Psalms 65:13",
"text": " The pasturelands put on flocks, and the valleys clothe themselves with grain. They shout in triumph; they even sing. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:1",
"text": " Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:2",
"text": " Sing the glory of his name. \u231eSet forth his glorious praise\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:3",
"text": " Say to God, \u201cHow awesome are your works! Because of the greatness of your strength, your enemies will cringe before you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:4",
"text": " All the earth will bow in worship to you, and sing praise to you. They will sing the praise of your name.\u201d Selah "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:5",
"text": " Come and \u231econsider\u231f the works of God; he is awesome in his dealings with the children of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:6",
"text": " He turned the sea into dry ground; they passed through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:7",
"text": " He rules by his might forever; his eyes keep watch on the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:8",
"text": " Bless our God, O peoples, and cause the sound of his praise to be heard, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:9",
"text": " the one who has kept our soul among the living, and has not allowed our foot to slip. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:10",
"text": " For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:11",
"text": " You brought us into the net; you placed a \u231eheavy burden\u231f on our backs. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:12",
"text": " You let men ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you have brought us out to the place of abundance. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:13",
"text": " I will come into your house with burnt offerings. I will pay to you my vows "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:14",
"text": " that my lips uttered, and my mouth spoke in my distress. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:15",
"text": " Burnt offerings of fat animals I will offer to you, with the smoke of rams. I will do cattle with rams. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:16",
"text": " Come and hear, all you God-fearers, and I will tell what he has done for me. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:17",
"text": " I called to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:18",
"text": " If I had considered evil in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:19",
"text": " However, God has listened; he has attended to the sound of my prayer. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Psalms 66:20",
"text": " Blessed be God, who has not turned aside my prayer, or his loyal love from me. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 67,
"name": "Psalms 67",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 67,
"name": "Psalms 67:1",
"text": " May God be gracious to us and bless us. May he cause his face to shine toward us, Selah "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 67,
"name": "Psalms 67:2",
"text": " that your way may be known on the earth, your salvation among all nations. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 67,
"name": "Psalms 67:3",
"text": " Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all of the peoples praise you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 67,
"name": "Psalms 67:4",
"text": " Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, because you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations on the earth. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 67,
"name": "Psalms 67:5",
"text": " Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 67,
"name": "Psalms 67:6",
"text": " The earth has yielded its produce. God, our God, will bless us. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 67,
"name": "Psalms 67:7",
"text": " God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:1",
"text": " God will arise; his enemies will be scattered, and those who hate him will flee from before him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:2",
"text": " As smoke is driven off, you will drive them off. As wax melts before fire, the wicked will perish before God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:3",
"text": " But the righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God, and will rejoice with joy. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:4",
"text": " Sing to God, sing praises to his name. Lift up a song to the rider on the clouds\u2014his name is Yah\u2014 and rejoice before him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:5",
"text": " A father to orphans and a judge for widows is God in his holy habitation. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:6",
"text": " God settles the lonely in a home; he brings prisoners out into prosperity. But the rebellious abide in a barren land. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:7",
"text": " O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the desert, Selah "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:8",
"text": " the earth shook; the heavens also dripped rain at the presence of God who was at Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:9",
"text": " You caused abundant rain to fall, O God. When your inheritance was weary you revived it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:10",
"text": " Your community dwelled in it. You provided in your goodness for the poor, O God. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:11",
"text": " The Lord gives the word. Great is the company of women who announce: "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:12",
"text": " \u201cThe kings of armies flee, they flee, and she who remains at home divides the spoil. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:13",
"text": " Though you men lie down between the sheepfolds, you will be like the wings of a dove covered in silver and its pinions in yellow gold.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:14",
"text": " When Shaddai scattered kings on it, on Zalmon it snowed. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:15",
"text": " A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:16",
"text": " Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains? This mountain God desires for his dwelling. Yes, Yahweh will abide in it forever. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:17",
"text": " The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, with thousands doubled. The Lord is among them at Sinai, distinctive in victory. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:18",
"text": " You have ascended on high; you have led away captives. You have received gifts from among humankind, and even from the rebellious, so that Yah God may dwell there. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:19",
"text": " Blessed be the Lord. Daily he loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:20",
"text": " Our God is a God of deliverances, and to the Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:21",
"text": " But God will shatter the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of the one who \u231econtinues on\u231f in his guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:22",
"text": " The Lord said, \u201cI will bring them back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the sea, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:23",
"text": " so that your foot may shatter them bloody for the tongues of your dogs to have their share from the enemies.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:24",
"text": " They have seen your processions, O God, the processions of my God, my king, distinctive in victory. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:25",
"text": " Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last, between them young women playing tambourines. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:26",
"text": " Bless God in the assemblies, Yahweh from the fountain of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:27",
"text": " There is little Benjamin ruling them, with the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:28",
"text": " Your God has commanded your strength. Show yourself strong, O God, by what you perform for us. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:29",
"text": " Because your temple is above Jerusalem, kings will bring tribute to you. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:30",
"text": " Rebuke the beasts in the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples, trampling the pieces of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in battles. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:31",
"text": " Ambassadors will come from Egypt; Cush will quickly stretch out her hands to God. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:32",
"text": " O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praise to the Lord, Selah "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:33",
"text": " to the one who rides in the highest heavens of old. See, he gives forth his voice, a mighty voice. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:34",
"text": " Ascribe strength to God. His majesty is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 68,
"name": "Psalms 68:35",
"text": " Awesome are you, O God, from your sanctuary. The God of Israel, it is he who gives strength and might to the people. Blessed be God. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:1",
"text": " Save me, O God, because waters have come up to my neck. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:2",
"text": " I sink in the mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths, and the torrent floods over me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:3",
"text": " I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:4",
"text": " More numerous than the hairs of my head are those hating me without a cause. Those who are destroying me\u2014my enemies wrongfully\u2014 are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:5",
"text": " O God, \u231eyou yourself know\u231f my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:6",
"text": " Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh of hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:7",
"text": " Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:8",
"text": " I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother\u2019s sons, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:9",
"text": " because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:10",
"text": " When I wept in the fasting of my soul, it became reproaches for me. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:11",
"text": " When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became for them a byword. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:12",
"text": " Those sitting at the gate talk about me as also the songs of the drunkards. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:13",
"text": " But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time, O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love. Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:14",
"text": " Deliver me from the mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me and from the watery depths. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:15",
"text": " Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or the deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:16",
"text": " Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love is good; according to your abundant mercies, turn to me, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:17",
"text": " and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:18",
"text": " Draw near to my soul; redeem it. Because of my enemies, ransom me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:19",
"text": " You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace. \u231eFully known\u231f to you are all my adversaries. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:20",
"text": " Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:21",
"text": " They also gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:22",
"text": " Let their table before them be a trap, and their times of peace a snare. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:23",
"text": " Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see, and make their loins continually tremble. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:24",
"text": " Pour out your indignation on them, and let your burning anger overtake them. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:25",
"text": " Let their camp be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:26",
"text": " because they persecute those whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of those you have wounded. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:27",
"text": " \u231eAdd guilt on top of their guilt\u231f, and do not let them \u231ebe acquitted\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:28",
"text": " Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be recorded with the righteous. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:29",
"text": " But as for me, though I am afflicted and pained, your salvation will protect me, O God. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:30",
"text": " I will praise the name of God in song, and magnify him with thanksgiving. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:31",
"text": " For Yahweh it will be better than an ox or bull, horned and hoofed. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:32",
"text": " The afflicted will see and rejoice. O God seekers, let your heart revive, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:33",
"text": " because Yahweh hears the needy and does not despise his own who are prisoners. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:34",
"text": " Let heavens and earth praise him, the seas and all that moves in them, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:35",
"text": " because God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 69,
"name": "Psalms 69:36",
"text": " And the offspring of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will abide in it. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 70,
"name": "Psalms 70",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 70,
"name": "Psalms 70:1",
"text": " O God, make haste to deliver me. O Yahweh, make haste to help me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 70,
"name": "Psalms 70:2",
"text": " Let them be ashamed and abashed who seek my life. Let them be repulsed and humiliated who desire my harm. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 70,
"name": "Psalms 70:3",
"text": " let them turn back because of their shame, those who say, \u201cAha! Aha!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 70,
"name": "Psalms 70:4",
"text": " Let them rejoice and be glad in you, all those who seek you. Let them say continually, \u201cGod is great!\u201d those who love your salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 70,
"name": "Psalms 70:5",
"text": " But I am poor and needy; O God hasten to me. You are my help and my deliverer. O Yahweh, do not delay. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:1",
"text": " In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:2",
"text": " In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:3",
"text": " Be for me a rock of refuge to resort to always; you have ordained to save me, because you are my rock and my fortress. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:4",
"text": " My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked, from the \u231egrasp\u231f of the evildoer and the oppressor, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:5",
"text": " because you are my hope, O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:6",
"text": " Upon you I have leaned \u231efrom birth\u231f. It was you who \u231etook\u231f me from the womb of my mother. My praise is of you continually. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:7",
"text": " I have become a wonder to many, but you are my strong refuge. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:8",
"text": " My mouth is filled with your praise, with your glory all the day. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:9",
"text": " Do not cast me away in the time of old age; when my strength fails do not abandon me. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:10",
"text": " For my enemies talk concerning me, and those who watch for my life conspire together, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:11",
"text": " saying, \u201cHis God has abandoned him. Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:12",
"text": " O God, do not be far from me. My God, hurry to help me. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:13",
"text": " Let them be ashamed; let them perish who are \u231emy adversaries\u231f. Let them wrap themselves with scorn and disgrace who seek my harm. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:14",
"text": " But as for me, I will hope continually and increase your praise. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:15",
"text": " My mouth will tell of your righteousness, your salvation \u231eall day long\u231f, though I do not know the full sum of them. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:16",
"text": " I will come in to tell the mighty deeds of Lord Yahweh. I will \u231emake known\u231f your righteousness, yours only. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:17",
"text": " O God, you have taught me from my youth, and up to now I have proclaimed your wonderful deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:18",
"text": " And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me until I proclaim your \u231estrength\u231f to this generation, your power to every one that comes after. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:19",
"text": " And your righteousness, O God, is to the height of heaven. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:20",
"text": " You who have caused me to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me. And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:21",
"text": " You will increase my greatness, and you will comfort me all around. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:22",
"text": " On my part, I will praise you with a stringed instrument, and your faithfulness, O my God. I will sing praises to you with a lyre, O Holy One of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:23",
"text": " My lips will sing for joy when I sing praises to you, and my soul, which you have redeemed. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 71,
"name": "Psalms 71:24",
"text": " My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:1",
"text": " O God, give your judgments to the king, and your righteousness to the king\u2019s son. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:2",
"text": " May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:3",
"text": " Let the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills in righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:4",
"text": " May he provide justice for the poor of the people, save the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:5",
"text": " May he live long \u231ewhile the sun endures\u231f \u231eas long as the moon\u231f \u231efor all generations\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:6",
"text": " May he descend like rain on mown grass, like showers watering the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:7",
"text": " May what is right blossom in his days and an abundance of peace, until the moon is no more. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:8",
"text": " And may he rule from sea up to sea, and from the River to the edges of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:9",
"text": " Let the desert dwellers bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:10",
"text": " Let the kings of Tarshish and the islands bring tribute. Let the kings of Sheba and Seba present gifts, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:11",
"text": " and let all kings bow down to him. Let all nations serve him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:12",
"text": " Indeed he will deliver the needy who is crying for help, and the afflicted who has no helper. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:13",
"text": " He will take pity on the helpless and needy, and the lives of the needy he will save. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:14",
"text": " From oppression and from violence he will redeem their lives, and their blood will be precious in his eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:15",
"text": " So may he live, and may gold from Sheba be given to him, and may prayers be offered for him continually. May blessings be invoked for him \u231eall day long\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:16",
"text": " May there be an abundance of grain in the land even on the top of the mountains. May his crop sway like the trees of Lebanon, and may those from the city blossom like the grass of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:17",
"text": " May his name endure forever. May his name increase \u231eas long as the sun shines\u231f, and let them be blessed in him. Let all nations call him blessed. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:18",
"text": " Blessed be Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonderful things. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:19",
"text": " And blessed be his glorious name forever, and may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 72,
"name": "Psalms 72:20",
"text": " The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are completed. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:1",
"text": " Surely God is good to Israel, to those pure of heart. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:2",
"text": " But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled. My steps had nearly slipped, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:3",
"text": " because I envied the boastful when I saw the well-being of the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:4",
"text": " For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies are \u231ehealthy\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:5",
"text": " They do not have \u231eordinary trouble\u231f, and they are not plagued as other people. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:6",
"text": " Therefore pride is their necklace; an outfit of violence covers them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:7",
"text": " Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow their heart. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:8",
"text": " They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak as though from on high. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:9",
"text": " They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:10",
"text": " Therefore his people turn there, and abundant waters are slurped up by them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:11",
"text": " And they say, \u201cHow does God know?\u201d and, \u201cDoes the Most High have knowledge?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:12",
"text": " See, these are the wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:13",
"text": " Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:14",
"text": " And I have been plagued all day and rebuked \u231eevery morning\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:15",
"text": " If I had said, \u201cI will speak thus,\u201d behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children\u2019s generation. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:16",
"text": " When I thought about how to understand this, it was troubling in my eyes "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:17",
"text": " until I went into the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their fate. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:18",
"text": " Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:19",
"text": " How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:20",
"text": " Like a dream upon awakening, when you wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:21",
"text": " When my heart was embittered and I felt stabbed in my kidneys, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:22",
"text": " then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was like the beasts. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:23",
"text": " But I am continually with you; you have hold of my right hand. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:24",
"text": " You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me into honor. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:25",
"text": " Whom do I have in the heavens except you? And with you I have no other desire on earth. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:26",
"text": " My flesh and heart failed, but God is the \u231estrength\u231f of my heart and my reward forever. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:27",
"text": " For indeed, those distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 73,
"name": "Psalms 73:28",
"text": " But as for me, the approach to God is for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh as my refuge, in order to tell all your works. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:1",
"text": " Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:2",
"text": " Remember your congregation that you bought long ago, when you redeemed the tribe of your inheritance. Remember \u231eMount Zion\u231f where you have dwelt. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:3",
"text": " Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins, to all that the enemy has ruined in the sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:4",
"text": " Your enemies have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they have set up their signs for signs. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:5",
"text": " They are known to be like those who \u231ewield\u231f axes in a thicket of trees. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:6",
"text": " And now its carved works altogether they have smashed with axe and hammer. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:7",
"text": " They have set fire to your sanctuary. They have defiled to the ground, the dwelling place for your name. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:8",
"text": " They have said in their heart, \u201cWe will completely oppress them.\u201d They burned all the meeting places of God in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:9",
"text": " We do not see our signs, and there is no longer a prophet. No one with us knows how long. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:10",
"text": " How long, O God, will the adversary taunt? Will the enemy treat your name with contempt forever? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:11",
"text": " Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your bosom; destroy them! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:12",
"text": " But God has been my king from long ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:13",
"text": " You split open the sea by your strength; You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:14",
"text": " You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food to the desert dwelling creatures. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:15",
"text": " You split open spring and wadi. You dried up ever-flowing rivers. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:16",
"text": " Yours is the day, yours is the night also. You established light and the sun. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:17",
"text": " You defined all the boundaries of the earth; Summer and winter\u2014you formed them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:18",
"text": " O Yahweh, remember this: the enemy taunts, and foolish people treat your name with contempt. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:19",
"text": " Do not give to beasts the life of your dove; do not ever forget the life of your afflicted ones. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:20",
"text": " Have regard for the covenant, because the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:21",
"text": " Do not let the oppressed turn back humiliated; let the poor and needy praise your name. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:22",
"text": " Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember the reproaching of you by the foolish \u231eall day long\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 74,
"name": "Psalms 74:23",
"text": " Do not forget the sound of your adversaries, the roar of those rising up against you ascending continually. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 75,
"name": "Psalms 75",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 75,
"name": "Psalms 75:1",
"text": " A psalm of Asaph. A song. We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, and your name is near. Your wonderful deeds are told. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 75,
"name": "Psalms 75:2",
"text": " \u201cI will indeed set an appointed time; I will judge fairly. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 75,
"name": "Psalms 75:3",
"text": " The earth and all its inhabitants are shaking; I steady its columns. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 75,
"name": "Psalms 75:4",
"text": " I say to the boastful, \u2018Do not boast!\u2019 and to the wicked, \u2018Do not lift up your horn! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 75,
"name": "Psalms 75:5",
"text": " Do not lift up high your horn. Do not speak with \u231earrogant pride\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 75,
"name": "Psalms 75:6",
"text": " For it is not from the east or the west and not from the south that lifting up comes, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 75,
"name": "Psalms 75:7",
"text": " rather God is the judge; one he brings low, and another he lifts up. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 75,
"name": "Psalms 75:8",
"text": " For there is a cup in the hand of Yahweh with wine that foams, fully mixed, and he pours out from this. Surely all the wicked of the land \u231ewill quaff it down to its dregs\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 75,
"name": "Psalms 75:9",
"text": " But as for me, I will proclaim forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 75,
"name": "Psalms 75:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd all the horns of the wicked I will cut off. The horns of the righteous will be lifted up.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:1",
"text": " A psalm of Asaph. A song. God is known in Judah. His name is great in Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:2",
"text": " His den has been in Salem, his lair in Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:3",
"text": " There he broke the flames of the bow, the shield and sword and battle. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:4",
"text": " Radiant you are, majestic, from the mountains of prey. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:5",
"text": " The stouthearted are plundered; they sleep their sleep, and all the able men cannot \u231euse\u231f their hands. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:6",
"text": " At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse slumber. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:7",
"text": " \u231eYou, indeed, are to be feared\u231f, and who can stand before you when you are angry? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:8",
"text": " From heaven you proclaimed judgment. The earth feared and was still "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:9",
"text": " when God rose for justice, to save all the afflicted of the land. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:10",
"text": " For the anger of humankind will praise you. You will put on the remnant of anger. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:11",
"text": " Make vows and fulfill them to Yahweh, your God; let all surrounding him bring tribute to the one to be feared. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 76,
"name": "Psalms 76:12",
"text": " He cuts off the spirit of leaders. He is to be feared by the kings of the earth. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:1",
"text": " Of Asaph. A psalm. I cry out with my voice to God; with my voice to God, that he may hear me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:2",
"text": " In the day I have trouble, I seek the Lord. At night my hand stretches out \u231econtinually\u231f; my soul refuses to be comforted. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:3",
"text": " I remember God and I groan loudly; I meditate and my spirit grows faint. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:4",
"text": " You hold open my eyelids. I am troubled and cannot speak. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:5",
"text": " I think about the days from long ago, the years of ancient times. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:6",
"text": " I remember my song in the night. With my heart I meditate, and my spirit searches to understand. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:7",
"text": " Will the Lord reject us forever, and will he never be pleased with us again? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:8",
"text": " Has his loyal love ceased forever? Is his promise ended throughout generations? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:9",
"text": " Has God forgotten to have compassion? Or has he closed off his mercies in anger? Selah "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:10",
"text": " So I said, \u201cThis pierces me\u2014 the right hand of the Most High has changed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:11",
"text": " I will remember the deeds of Yah. Surely I will remember your wonders from long ago. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:12",
"text": " I will also muse on all your work, and meditate on your deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:13",
"text": " O God, your way is distinctive. Who is a great god like our God? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:14",
"text": " You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:15",
"text": " With your arm you redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:16",
"text": " Waters saw you, O God; waters saw you and they trembled. Surely the deeps shook. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:17",
"text": " The clouds poured out water. The skies \u231ethundered\u231f. Your arrows also \u231eflew about\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:18",
"text": " The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind; lightnings lit the world; the earth shook and quaked. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:19",
"text": " Your way was through the sea, and your path through many waters. Yet your footprints were not discerned. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 77,
"name": "Psalms 77:20",
"text": " You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:1",
"text": " Listen, O my people, to my teaching. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:2",
"text": " I will offer a parable with my mouth. I will pour out riddles from long ago, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:3",
"text": " that we have heard and known, and our ancestors have told us. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:4",
"text": " We will not hide them from their children, telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:5",
"text": " For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:6",
"text": " so that the next generation might know\u2014 children yet to be born\u2014 that they might rise up and tell their children, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:7",
"text": " that they might set their confidence in God, and not forget the deeds of God, but keep his commandments, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:8",
"text": " and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful to God. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:9",
"text": " The sons of Ephraim, \u231earmed with archers\u231f, turned back on the day of battle. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:10",
"text": " They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:11",
"text": " They also forgot his deeds, and his wonders that he had shown them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:12",
"text": " In front of their ancestors he did a wonder, in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:13",
"text": " He split the sea and caused them to go over, and he caused waters to stand like a heap. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:14",
"text": " And he led them with the cloud by day, and all night with a fiery light. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:15",
"text": " He caused rocks to split in the wilderness and provided drink abundantly as from the depths. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:16",
"text": " And he brought streams out of the rock and caused water to flow down like rivers. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:17",
"text": " But they sinned still further against him by rebelling against the Most High in the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:18",
"text": " And they tested God in their heart by asking food \u231efor their craving\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:19",
"text": " And they spoke against God. They said, \u201cIs God able to prepare a table in the wilderness? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:20",
"text": " Yes, he struck the rock and water flowed and streams gushed out, but can he also give food or provide meat for his people?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:21",
"text": " Therefore Yahweh heard and he was very angry, and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and his anger also rose up against Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:22",
"text": " because they did not believe God, and they did not trust his salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:23",
"text": " Nevertheless, he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:24",
"text": " and rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:25",
"text": " Humankind ate the bread of \u231eangels\u231f. He sent them food enough to be satisfied. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:26",
"text": " He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens and drove along the south wind by his strength. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:27",
"text": " Then he rained meat on them like dust, even winged birds like the sand of the seas. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:28",
"text": " He caused them to fall in the midst of his camp, all around his dwellings. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:29",
"text": " So they ate and were well filled, and he brought about what they craved. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:30",
"text": " They had not yet turned aside from their craving, while their food was still in their mouth, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:31",
"text": " the anger of God rose against them, and he killed some of the stoutest of them, even the young men of Israel he caused to bow down in death. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:32",
"text": " In spite of all this they sinned further and did not believe his wonders. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:33",
"text": " And he consumed their days with futility their years with terror. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:34",
"text": " When he killed some of them, then they sought him, and repented and earnestly sought God. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:35",
"text": " And they remembered that God was their rock, and God Most High their redeemer. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:36",
"text": " But they enticed him with their mouth and lied to him with their tongue. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:37",
"text": " For their heart was not steadfast with him, nor were they faithful to his covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:38",
"text": " But he was compassionate; he pardoned their guilt and did not destroy them. And many times he turned back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:39",
"text": " for he remembered that they were flesh, a passing wind that does not return. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:40",
"text": " How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in the wasteland! "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:41",
"text": " So they again tested God and distressed the Holy One of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:42",
"text": " And they did not remember his \u231epower\u231f \u231ewhen\u231f he redeemed them from the enemy, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:43",
"text": " how he performed his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the region of Zoan, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:44",
"text": " when he turned their rivers to blood so they could not drink from their streams. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:45",
"text": " He sent among them flies that devoured them and frogs that destroyed them. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:46",
"text": " And he gave their crop to the locusts and their labor to the locust. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:47",
"text": " He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with sleet. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:48",
"text": " He also handed their cattle over to the hail and their livestock to the lightning bolts. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:49",
"text": " He sent against them his fierce anger, rage and indignation and trouble, a band of \u231edestroying\u231f angels. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:50",
"text": " He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but handed their life over to the plague. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:51",
"text": " And he struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the first of their virility in the tents of Ham. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:52",
"text": " Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them like a herd in the wilderness. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:53",
"text": " And he led them safely and they were not afraid, but the sea covered their enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:54",
"text": " So he brought them to his holy territory, this mountain his right hand acquired. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:55",
"text": " And he drove out nations before them and allocated them for an inheritance by boundary line, and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:56",
"text": " But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:57",
"text": " And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors. They twisted like a crooked bow. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:58",
"text": " For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images. "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:59",
"text": " God heard and he was very angry and rejected Israel utterly. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:60",
"text": " So he abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh, the tent he had placed among humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:61",
"text": " And he gave his strength into captivity and his splendor into the hand of the enemy. "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:62",
"text": " He also handed his people over to the sword, and he was very angry with his inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:63",
"text": " Fire devoured his young men, and his young women were not praised. "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:64",
"text": " His priests fell by the sword, and his widows did not weep. "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:65",
"text": " Then the Lord awoke like one who had been asleep, awoke like a warrior who had been drunk with wine. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:66",
"text": " And he beat back his enemies; he gave them over to perpetual scorn. "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:67",
"text": " And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not chose the tribe of Ephraim, "
},
{
"verse": 68,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:68",
"text": " but chose the tribe of Judah, \u231eMount Zion\u231f that he loved. "
},
{
"verse": 69,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:69",
"text": " And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever. "
},
{
"verse": 70,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:70",
"text": " And he chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds. "
},
{
"verse": 71,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:71",
"text": " He brought him from following nursing ewes to shepherd Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 72,
"chapter": 78,
"name": "Psalms 78:72",
"text": " And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skillfulness of his hands. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:1",
"text": " O God, the nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:2",
"text": " They have given the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:3",
"text": " They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:4",
"text": " We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:5",
"text": " How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:6",
"text": " Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call on your name, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:7",
"text": " because they have devoured Jacob and have laid waste his habitation. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:8",
"text": " Do not remember against us former iniquities; let your mercies meet us quickly because we are brought very low. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:9",
"text": " Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; and deliver us and forgive our sins for the sake of your name. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:10",
"text": " Why should the nations say, \u201cWhere is their God?\u201d Let it be known among the nations before our eyes, by the avenging of the blood of your servants that was poured out. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:11",
"text": " Let the groaning of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your \u231epower\u231f, spare the children appointed to death. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:12",
"text": " And return to our neighbors sevenfold \u231eupon them\u231f their taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 79,
"name": "Psalms 79:13",
"text": " Then we, your people and the flock of your pasture, we will give thanks to you forever. \u231eGeneration after generation\u231f we will tell of your praise. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:1",
"text": " A testimony. Of Asaph. A psalm. Give ear, O shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock. Shine forth, you who sits enthroned above the cherubim. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:2",
"text": " Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your power and come for our salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:3",
"text": " O God, restore us, and cause your face to shine that we may be saved. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:4",
"text": " O Yahweh God of hosts, \u231ehow long will you be angry\u231f against the prayer of your people? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:5",
"text": " You have fed them the bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:6",
"text": " You have made us an object of strife to our neighbors, and our enemies mock among themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:7",
"text": " O God of hosts, restore us and cause your face to shine that we may be saved. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:8",
"text": " You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:9",
"text": " You prepared a place before it, and \u231eit took deep root\u231f and filled the land. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:10",
"text": " The mountains were covered with its shade, and the mighty cedars with its boughs. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:11",
"text": " It spread its branches to the sea and its shoots to the river. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:12",
"text": " Why have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass on the road pluck fruit from it? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:13",
"text": " Swine from the forests devour it and creatures of the field feed on it. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:14",
"text": " Please return, O God of hosts. Observe from heaven and see, and pay attention to this vine, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:15",
"text": " eventhe stalk that your right hand planted, and concerning the shoot you strengthened for yourself. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:16",
"text": " It is burned with fire, cut down. They perish at the rebuke of your face. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:17",
"text": " Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of humankind whom you made strong for yourself. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:18",
"text": " Then we will not turn back from you. Restore us to life, and we will proclaim your name. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 80,
"name": "Psalms 80:19",
"text": " O Yahweh God of hosts, restore us; cause your face to shine that we may be saved. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:1",
"text": " Shout out to God our strength; shout joyfully to the God of Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:2",
"text": " Lift up a song and strike the tambourine, the pleasant lyre, together with the harp. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:3",
"text": " Blow the horn at new moon, at full moon, for our feast day, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:4",
"text": " because it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:5",
"text": " He made it a statute in Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt, where I heard a language I did not know. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:6",
"text": " \u201cI removed his shoulder from a burden. His hands were freed from the basket. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:7",
"text": " In this trouble you called, and I rescued you. Within the secret place of thunder I answered you; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:8",
"text": " Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:9",
"text": " There shall be no strange god among you, and you shall not bow down to a foreign god. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:10",
"text": " I am Yahweh your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:11",
"text": " But my people did not listen to my voice, and Israel did not yield to me. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:12",
"text": " So I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart; they walked in their counsels. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:13",
"text": " Oh that my people would listen to me; that Israel would walk in my ways. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:14",
"text": " I would subdue their enemies quickly, and turn my hand against their adversaries. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:15",
"text": " Those who hate Yahweh would cringe before him, and their fate would be forever. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 81,
"name": "Psalms 81:16",
"text": " But he would feed him from the choicest wheat, and I would satisfy you with honey from a rock.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 82,
"name": "Psalms 82",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 82,
"name": "Psalms 82:1",
"text": " God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of the gods. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 82,
"name": "Psalms 82:2",
"text": " \u201cHow long will you judge unjustly and \u231eshow favoritism to the wicked\u231f? Selah "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 82,
"name": "Psalms 82:3",
"text": " Judge on behalf of the helpless and the orphan; provide justice to the afflicted and the poor. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 82,
"name": "Psalms 82:4",
"text": " Rescue the helpless and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 82,
"name": "Psalms 82:5",
"text": " They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, so that all the foundations of the earth are shaken. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 82,
"name": "Psalms 82:6",
"text": " I have said, \u201cYou are gods, and sons of the Most High, all of you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 82,
"name": "Psalms 82:7",
"text": " However, you will die like men, and you will fall like one of the princes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 82,
"name": "Psalms 82:8",
"text": " Rise up, O God, judge the earth, because you shall inherit all the nations. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:1",
"text": " O God, do not rest silently. Do not keep silent or be still, O God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:2",
"text": " For look, your enemies roar, and those who hate you have lifted their head. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:3",
"text": " They devise cunning schemes against your people, and consult together against your protected ones. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:4",
"text": " They say, \u201cCome, let us annihilate them from being a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:5",
"text": " For they have consulted together \u231ewith a unified purpose\u231f. They have made a covenant against you: "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:6",
"text": " the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:7",
"text": " Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:8",
"text": " Assyria also has joined with them. They \u231eprovide help\u231f to the children of Lot. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:9",
"text": " Do to them as you did with Midian, as with Sisera, as with Jabin at the wadi of Kishon. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:10",
"text": " They were destroyed at En-dor; they became dung for the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:11",
"text": " Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their chiefs like Zebah and Zalmunna, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:12",
"text": " who said, \u201cLet us take as our possession the pastures of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:13",
"text": " O my God, make them like the tumbleweed, like the chaff before wind. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:14",
"text": " As fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets afire mountains, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:15",
"text": " so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:16",
"text": " Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:17",
"text": " Let them be ashamed and terrified forever, and let them be humiliated and perish "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 83,
"name": "Psalms 83:18",
"text": " that they may know that you, whose name is Yahweh, you alone, are the Most High over the whole earth. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:1",
"text": " Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. How lovely are your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:2",
"text": " My soul longs and even fails for the courtyards of Yahweh. My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:3",
"text": " Even a bird finds a home, and a swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, near your altars, O Yahweh of hosts, my king and my God. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:4",
"text": " Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they can ever praise you. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:5",
"text": " Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; in their heart are the highways to Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:6",
"text": " Passing through the Valley of Baca, they make it a spring. The early rain covers it with blessings as well. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:7",
"text": " They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:8",
"text": " O Yahweh, God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:9",
"text": " Look at our shield, O God, and have regard for the face of your anointed one. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:10",
"text": " Because better is a day in your courtyards than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be at the threshold of the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:11",
"text": " Because Yahweh God is a sun and a shield; Yahweh gives grace and honor. He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 84,
"name": "Psalms 84:12",
"text": " O Yahweh of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts you. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:1",
"text": " O Yahweh, you favored your land. You restored the fortunes of Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:2",
"text": " You took away the guilt of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:3",
"text": " You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your burning anger. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:4",
"text": " Restore us, O God of our salvation, and annul your vexation with us. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:5",
"text": " Will you be angry against us forever? Will you prolong your anger generation after generation? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:6",
"text": " Will you not again revive us, that your people might rejoice in you? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:7",
"text": " Show us, O Yahweh, your loyal love, and grant us your salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:8",
"text": " I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, because he will speak peace to his people, even his faithful ones, but let them not return to folly. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:9",
"text": " Surely his salvation is near for those who fear him, that glory may abide in our land. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:10",
"text": " Loyal love and faithfulness will meet one another; righteousness and peace will kiss. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:11",
"text": " Faithfulness will sprout from the ground, and righteousness will look down from heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:12",
"text": " Yes, Yahweh will give what is good, and our land will give its produce. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 85,
"name": "Psalms 85:13",
"text": " Righteousness will go before him, and it will make his steps a pathway. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:1",
"text": " Incline, O Yahweh, your ear and answer me, because I am poor and needy. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:2",
"text": " Watch over my life because I am faithful. You are my God; save your servant. I am the one who trusts you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:3",
"text": " Be gracious to me, O Lord, because I call to you \u231eall day long\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:4",
"text": " Make glad the soul of your servant, because \u231eI desire you\u231f, O Lord. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:5",
"text": " For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, and abundant in loyal love for all who call to you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:6",
"text": " Heed, O Yahweh, my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:7",
"text": " In the day of my trouble I call to you, because you answer me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:8",
"text": " There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, and there are no works like yours. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:9",
"text": " All the nations that you have made will come and bow down before you, O Lord, and glorify your name. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:10",
"text": " For you are great and doing wondrous things; you alone are God. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:11",
"text": " Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, that I may walk in your truth. Unite my heart to fear your name. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:12",
"text": " I will give you thanks, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and glorify your name forever, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:13",
"text": " because your loyal love is great toward me, and you will have delivered my life from Sheol below. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:14",
"text": " O God, arrogant men have risen up against me, even a gang of ruthless men seek my life, but they do not set you before them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:15",
"text": " But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, \u231eslow to anger\u231f and abundant in loyal love and faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:16",
"text": " Turn to me and be gracious to me. Give your strength to your servant, and grant victory to the son of your maidservant. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 86,
"name": "Psalms 86:17",
"text": " Do a sign that benefits me, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame, because you, O Yahweh, have helped me and comforted me. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 87,
"name": "Psalms 87",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 87,
"name": "Psalms 87:1",
"text": " His foundation is on the holy mountains. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 87,
"name": "Psalms 87:2",
"text": " Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 87,
"name": "Psalms 87:3",
"text": " Glorious things are spoken about you, O city of God. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 87,
"name": "Psalms 87:4",
"text": " I will record those who know me in Rahab and Babylon, behold in Philistia and Tyre with Cush, \u201cThis one was born there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 87,
"name": "Psalms 87:5",
"text": " But with respect to Zion it shall be said, \u201c\u231eEach one\u231f was born in her,\u201d for the Most High himself will establish her. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 87,
"name": "Psalms 87:6",
"text": " Yahweh will record in writing the peoples, \u201cThis one was born there.\u201d Selah "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 87,
"name": "Psalms 87:7",
"text": " And while dancing, singers will sing, \u201cAll my springs are in you.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:1",
"text": " For the music director; according to Mahalath Leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O Yahweh, God of my salvation, I cry out by day and through the night before you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:2",
"text": " Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:3",
"text": " For my soul is full with troubles, and my life approaches Sheol. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:4",
"text": " I am reckoned with those descending to the pit. I am like a man without strength, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:5",
"text": " set free among the dead, like the slain lying in the grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:6",
"text": " You have set me in the pit below, in dark places, in the depths. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:7",
"text": " Your wrath presses upon me, and you afflict me with all your waves. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:8",
"text": " You have removed my acquaintances far from me. You have made me detestable to them. I am confined and cannot go out. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:9",
"text": " My eye languishes from misery. I call on you, O Yahweh, every day; I spread out my hands to you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:10",
"text": " Do you work wonders for the dead? Or do the departed spirits rise up to praise you? Selah "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:11",
"text": " Is your loyal love told in the grave, or your faithfulness in the underworld? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:12",
"text": " Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:13",
"text": " But as for me, I cry for help to you, O Yahweh, and in the morning my prayer comes before you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:14",
"text": " Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh? Why do you hide your face from me? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:15",
"text": " I am afflicted and perishing from my youth. I bear your terrors. I am distraught. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:16",
"text": " Your burning anger has passed over me; your sudden fears have destroyed me. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:17",
"text": " They surround me like water all the day; they circle about me altogether. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 88,
"name": "Psalms 88:18",
"text": " You have removed loved one and friend far from me, my acquaintances far from my darkness. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:1",
"text": " I will sing forever of Yahweh\u2019s acts of loyal love. \u231eFrom generation to generation\u231f I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:2",
"text": " For I say, \u201cForever your loyal love is built up. The heavens you have established with your faithfulness in them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:3",
"text": " \u201cI made a covenant with my chosen one; I swore an oath to David my servant: "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:4",
"text": " \u2018I will establish your descendants forever, and I will build up your throne \u231efrom generation to generation\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d Selah "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:5",
"text": " And so the heavens will praise your wonderful deed, O Yahweh, even your faithfulness, in the assembly of the holy ones. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:6",
"text": " For who in the sky is equal to Yahweh? Who is like Yahweh among the sons of God, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:7",
"text": " a God feared greatly in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all surrounding him? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:8",
"text": " O Yahweh God of hosts, who is mighty like you, O Yah, with your faithfulness surrounding you? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:9",
"text": " You are ruling the surging of the sea. When its waves rise, \u231eyou yourself still\u231f them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:10",
"text": " \u231eYou yourself crushed\u231f Rahab like one who is slain; you scattered your enemies with your strong arm. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:11",
"text": " The heavens are yours, the earth yours as well, the world with its fullness, because you founded them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:12",
"text": " North and south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon shout joyfully over your name. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:13",
"text": " You have a mighty arm; Your hand is strong; your right hand reaches high. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:14",
"text": " Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulness come before your face. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:15",
"text": " Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout; O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:16",
"text": " In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they rise up. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:17",
"text": " For you are the glory of their strength, and by your favor our horn rises up, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:18",
"text": " because our shield belongs to Yahweh, and our king to the Holy One of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:19",
"text": " Formerly you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, \u201cI have bestowed help on a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from the people. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:20",
"text": " I have found David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:21",
"text": " with whom my hand will be steadfast. Surely my arm will strengthen him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:22",
"text": " The enemy will not deceive him, and no \u231eevil man\u231f will afflict him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:23",
"text": " But I will crush his adversaries before him, and I will strike those who hate him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:24",
"text": " And so my faithfulness and my loyal love will be with him, and in my name his horn will rise up. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:25",
"text": " And I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:26",
"text": " He will call out to me, \u2018You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:27",
"text": " I will also make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:28",
"text": " Forever I will keep my loyal love for him, and my covenant will be reliable for him. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:29",
"text": " I will also establish his offspring forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:30",
"text": " If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:31",
"text": " if they defile my statutes and do not keep my commandments, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:32",
"text": " then I will punish their transgression with a rod, and their guilt with wounds. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:33",
"text": " But I will not break off my loyal love from him, and I will not be false against my faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:34",
"text": " I will not defile my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:35",
"text": " Once I have sworn by my holiness, \u2018I will surely not lie to David, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:36",
"text": " His offspring will endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:37",
"text": " Like the moon it will be steadfast forever, and like an enduring witness in the sky.\u2019\u00a0\u201d Selah "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:38",
"text": " But you have spurned and rejected; you are very angry with your anointed one. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:39",
"text": " You have repudiated the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dirt. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:40",
"text": " You have broken down all his walls; you have made his fortifications a ruin. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:41",
"text": " All passing along the road plunder him; he has become a taunt to his neighbors. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:42",
"text": " You have raised the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all his enemies rejoice. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:43",
"text": " You have also turned back the edge of his sword and have not helped him stand his ground in the battle. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:44",
"text": " You have made his splendor to cease, and cast his throne to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:45",
"text": " You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:46",
"text": " How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire forever? "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:47",
"text": " Remember what my lifespan is. Remember for what vanity you have created all the children of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:48",
"text": " What man can live on and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the \u231epower\u231f of Sheol? Selah "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:49",
"text": " Where are your former acts of loyal love, O Lord, that you swore to David by your faithfulness? "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:50",
"text": " Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants, how I bear in my bosom the taunts of all the many peoples, "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:51",
"text": " by which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh, by which they taunt the steps of your anointed one. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 89,
"name": "Psalms 89:52",
"text": " Blessed be Yahweh forever. Amen and Amen. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:1",
"text": " O Lord, you have been our help \u231ein all generations\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:2",
"text": " Before the mountains were born and you brought forth the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:3",
"text": " You return man to the dust, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cReturn, O sons of man.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:4",
"text": " For a thousand years in your eyes are like yesterday when it passes, or like a watch in the night. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:5",
"text": " You sweep them away like a flood. They fall asleep. In the morning they are like grass that sprouts anew. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:6",
"text": " In the morning it blossoms and sprouts anew; by evening it withers and dries up. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:7",
"text": " For we are brought to an end by your anger, and we hasten off by your wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:8",
"text": " You have put our iniquities before you, our hidden sins into the light of your countenance. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:9",
"text": " For all of our days dwindle away in your rage; we complete our years like a sigh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:10",
"text": " As for the days of our years, within them are seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride is trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly away. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:11",
"text": " Who knows the strength of your anger, and your rage consistent with the fear due you? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:12",
"text": " So teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:13",
"text": " Return, O Yahweh. How long? And have compassion on your servants. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:14",
"text": " Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:15",
"text": " Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen calamity. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:16",
"text": " Let your work be visible to your servants, and your majesty to their children. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 90,
"name": "Psalms 90:17",
"text": " And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish for us the work of our hands, yes, the work of our hands, establish it. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:1",
"text": " One who lives in the secret place of the Most High will lodge in the shadow of Shaddai. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:2",
"text": " I will say to Yahweh, \u201cYou are my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:3",
"text": " For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, from the plague of destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:4",
"text": " With his feathers he will cover you, and under his wings you can take refuge. His faithfulness will be a shield and a buckler. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:5",
"text": " You need not fear the terror of the night, or the arrow that flies by day, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:6",
"text": " or the plague that spreads in the darkness, or the destruction that devastates at noon. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:7",
"text": " A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:8",
"text": " You will only look with your eyes, and see the punishment of the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:9",
"text": " For you, O Yahweh, are my refuge. You have made the Most High your dwelling place. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:10",
"text": " No harm will befall you, and no plague will come near your tent. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:11",
"text": " For he will command his angels concerning you, to watch over you in all your ways. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:12",
"text": " In their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:13",
"text": " You will tread on lion and viper; you will trample young lion and serpent. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:14",
"text": " Because he loves me, therefore I will deliver him; I will protect him because he knows my name. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:15",
"text": " He will call upon me and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue and honor him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 91,
"name": "Psalms 91:16",
"text": " With \u231elong life\u231f I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:1",
"text": " It is good to give thanks to Yahweh, and to sing praise concerning your name, O Most High; "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:2",
"text": " to declare in the morning your loyal love and your faithfulness in the night, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:3",
"text": " on the ten string, and on the harp, with a melody on the lyre. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:4",
"text": " For you, O Yahweh, have made me glad by your work; by the deeds of your hands I sing for joy. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:5",
"text": " How great are your deeds, O Yahweh; how very deep are your thoughts. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:6",
"text": " The brutish man does not know, and the fool cannot understand this. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:7",
"text": " When the wicked flourish like grass and all the workers of evil blossom, it is so they can be destroyed forever. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:8",
"text": " But you are on high forever, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:9",
"text": " For behold, your enemies, O Yahweh, for behold, your enemies will perish. All the workers of evil will be scattered. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:10",
"text": " But you have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; you have anointed me with fresh oil. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:11",
"text": " And so my eye looks on my enemies. My ears hear those evildoers who rise up against me. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:12",
"text": " The righteous will flourish like the date palm. They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:13",
"text": " Planted in the house of Yahweh, they will flourish in the courts of our God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:14",
"text": " They will still prosper in old age. They will be fat and luxuriant, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 92,
"name": "Psalms 92:15",
"text": " to declare that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no injustice in him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 93,
"name": "Psalms 93",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 93,
"name": "Psalms 93:1",
"text": " Yahweh is king; he clothes himself with majesty. Yahweh clothes himself; he girds himself with might. Yes, the world is established so that it will not be moved. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 93,
"name": "Psalms 93:2",
"text": " Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 93,
"name": "Psalms 93:3",
"text": " The rivers have lifted up, O Yahweh; the rivers have lifted up their \u231erumbling\u231f; the rivers have lifted up their pounding. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 93,
"name": "Psalms 93:4",
"text": " Mightier than the rumblings of many waters, mightier than the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 93,
"name": "Psalms 93:5",
"text": " Your testimonies are fully reliable. Holiness is fitting for your house, O Yahweh, \u231eforever\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:1",
"text": " O Yahweh, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:2",
"text": " Rise up, O Judge of the earth. Repay upon the proud what is their rightful due. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:3",
"text": " How long will the wicked, O Yahweh, how long will the wicked exult? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:4",
"text": " \u231eThey gush words\u231f unrestrained. All the evildoers boast. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:5",
"text": " They crush your people, O Yahweh; they oppress your inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:6",
"text": " They kill widow and stranger, and they murder orphans, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:7",
"text": " while they say, \u201cYah does not see,\u201d and \u201cThe God of Jacob does not pay attention.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:8",
"text": " You pay attention, O brutes among the people. And you fools, when you will show insight? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:9",
"text": " Will the one who planted the ear not hear? Will the one who formed the eye not see? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:10",
"text": " Will the one who instructs nations not rebuke, the one who teaches humankind knowledge? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:11",
"text": " Yahweh knows the thoughts of humankind, that \u231ethey are to no purpose\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:12",
"text": " Blessed is the man, O Yah, whom you instruct and teach from your law, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:13",
"text": " to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:14",
"text": " For Yahweh will not abandon his people, nor forsake his inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:15",
"text": " For judgment will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow after it. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:16",
"text": " Who rose up for me against the wicked? Who stood up for me against the workers of iniquity? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:17",
"text": " If Yahweh had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in silence. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:18",
"text": " When I thought, \u201cMy foot is slipping,\u201d your loyal love, O Yahweh, supported me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:19",
"text": " When my troubled thoughts were many \u231ewithin me\u231f, your consolations cheered my soul. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:20",
"text": " Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:21",
"text": " They band together against the life of the righteous, and declare the blameless guilty of blood. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:22",
"text": " But Yahweh has become my high stronghold, and my God has become my rock of refuge. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 94,
"name": "Psalms 94:23",
"text": " And he will repay on them their iniquity, and by their evil he will destroy them. Yahweh our God will destroy them. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95:1",
"text": " Come, let us sing for joy to Yahweh; let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95:2",
"text": " Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; with songs let us shout joyfully to him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95:3",
"text": " For Yahweh is the great God, and the great king over all gods, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95:4",
"text": " in whose hand are the unexplored places of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95:5",
"text": " to whom belongs the sea that he made, and the dry land that his hands formed. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95:6",
"text": " Come in, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95:7",
"text": " For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. \u231eToday\u231f if you will hear his voice: "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95:8",
"text": " \u201cDo not harden your heart as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95:9",
"text": " when your ancestors tried me. They put me to the test, even though they had seen my work. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95:10",
"text": " For forty years I loathed that generation, and said, \u2018They are a people whose heart wanders. And my ways they do not know.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 95,
"name": "Psalms 95:11",
"text": " Therefore I swore in my anger, \u2018They shall surely not enter into my rest.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:1",
"text": " Sing to Yahweh a new song; sing to Yahweh, all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:2",
"text": " Sing to Yahweh; bless his name. Announce his salvation from day to day. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:3",
"text": " Tell his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:4",
"text": " For Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:5",
"text": " For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:6",
"text": " Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:7",
"text": " Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of the peoples, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:8",
"text": " Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due his name; bring an offering and come into his courts. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:9",
"text": " Worship Yahweh in holy array; tremble before him, all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:10",
"text": " Say among the nations, \u201cYahweh is king! Yes, the world is established so that it will not be moved. He will judge the peoples fairly.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:11",
"text": " Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice. Let the sea with its fullness roar. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:12",
"text": " Let the field with all that is in it exult. Then all the trees of the forests will sing for joy "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 96,
"name": "Psalms 96:13",
"text": " before Yahweh, for he is coming; for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his faithfulness. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:1",
"text": " Yahweh is king! Let the earth rejoice; let many coastlands be glad. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:2",
"text": " Cloud and thick darkness are surrounding him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:3",
"text": " Fire goes before him, and devours his enemies round about. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:4",
"text": " His lightnings light the world; the earth sees and trembles. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:5",
"text": " The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:6",
"text": " The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:7",
"text": " Let all who serve an image be ashamed, those who boast about idols. Worship him, all you gods. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:8",
"text": " Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:9",
"text": " For you, O Yahweh, are most high over all the earth. You are highly exalted above all gods. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:10",
"text": " You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He protects the lives of his faithful; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:11",
"text": " Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 97,
"name": "Psalms 97:12",
"text": " Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous, and give thanks \u231eto his holy name\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 98,
"name": "Psalms 98",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 98,
"name": "Psalms 98:1",
"text": " Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done wonders. His right hand and his holy arm have secured his victory. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 98,
"name": "Psalms 98:2",
"text": " Yahweh has made known his salvation; to the eyes of the nations he has revealed his righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 98,
"name": "Psalms 98:3",
"text": " He has remembered his loyal love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 98,
"name": "Psalms 98:4",
"text": " Shout joyfully to Yahweh, all the earth. Be cheerful and sing for joy and sing praises. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 98,
"name": "Psalms 98:5",
"text": " Sing praises to Yahweh with lyre, with lyre and melodious sound. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 98,
"name": "Psalms 98:6",
"text": " With trumpets and sound of horn, shout joyfully before the king, Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 98,
"name": "Psalms 98:7",
"text": " Let the sea with its fullness roar, the world and those who live in it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 98,
"name": "Psalms 98:8",
"text": " Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the hills sing joyfully together "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 98,
"name": "Psalms 98:9",
"text": " before Yahweh, for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 99,
"name": "Psalms 99",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 99,
"name": "Psalms 99:1",
"text": " Yahweh is king; let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned between the cherubim. Let the earth shake. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 99,
"name": "Psalms 99:2",
"text": " Yahweh is great in Zion, and he is exalted over all the peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 99,
"name": "Psalms 99:3",
"text": " Let them praise your great and fearful name. He is holy. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 99,
"name": "Psalms 99:4",
"text": " And the strength of the king loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 99,
"name": "Psalms 99:5",
"text": " Exalt Yahweh our God, and worship at his footstool. He is holy. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 99,
"name": "Psalms 99:6",
"text": " Moses and Aaron were among his priests; Samuel also was among those who called on his name. They called to Yahweh, and he answered them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 99,
"name": "Psalms 99:7",
"text": " He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies and the statute he gave to them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 99,
"name": "Psalms 99:8",
"text": " O Yahweh our God, you answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrong deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 99,
"name": "Psalms 99:9",
"text": " Exalt Yahweh our God, and worship at his holy mountain, for Yahweh our God is holy. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 100,
"name": "Psalms 100",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 100,
"name": "Psalms 100:1",
"text": " Shout in triumph to Yahweh, all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 100,
"name": "Psalms 100:2",
"text": " Serve Yahweh with joy; come into his presence with exultation. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 100,
"name": "Psalms 100:3",
"text": " Know that Yahweh, he is God; he made us and we are his. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 100,
"name": "Psalms 100:4",
"text": " Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise. Give thanks to him; bless his name. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 100,
"name": "Psalms 100:5",
"text": " For Yahweh is good; his loyal love is forever, and his faithfulness is \u231efrom generation to generation\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 101,
"name": "Psalms 101",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 101,
"name": "Psalms 101:1",
"text": " I will sing of loyal love and justice; I will sing praises to you, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 101,
"name": "Psalms 101:2",
"text": " I will give attention to the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will walk in the integrity of my heart in the midst of my house. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 101,
"name": "Psalms 101:3",
"text": " I will not set before my eyes any wicked thing. I hate the work of those who fall away; it will not cling to me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 101,
"name": "Psalms 101:4",
"text": " A perverse heart will depart from me; I will not know evil. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 101,
"name": "Psalms 101:5",
"text": " One who slanders his neighbor in secret, him I will destroy. One haughty of eyes and \u231earrogant\u231f of heart, him I will not endure. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 101,
"name": "Psalms 101:6",
"text": " My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may live with me. He who walks in the way of integrity, he shall minister to me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 101,
"name": "Psalms 101:7",
"text": " There will not live in the midst of my house a worker of deceit. One who speaks lies will not remain before my eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 101,
"name": "Psalms 101:8",
"text": " \u231eEach morning\u231f, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, cutting off from the city of Yahweh all evildoers. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:1",
"text": " and pours out his lament before Yahweh. O Yahweh, hear my prayer, and let my cry for help come to you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:2",
"text": " Do not hide your face from me in the day of my trouble. Incline your ear to me. In the day I call, answer me quickly, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:3",
"text": " for my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are charred like a hearth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:4",
"text": " My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:5",
"text": " Because of the sound of my groaning my bones cling to my skin. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:6",
"text": " I am like an owl of the wilderness; I am like a little owl of the ruins. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:7",
"text": " I lie awake and I am like a lone bird on a roof. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:8",
"text": " All the day my enemies reproach me; those who mock me swear oaths against me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:9",
"text": " Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:10",
"text": " because of your indignation and anger, for you have picked me up and thrown me away. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:11",
"text": " My days are like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:12",
"text": " But you, O Yahweh, abide forever, and your remembrance \u231efrom generation to generation\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:13",
"text": " You rise up and take pity on Zion, because it is time to favor it, for the appointed time has come. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:14",
"text": " Your servants take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to its dust. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:15",
"text": " Then the nations will fear the name of Yahweh, and all the kings of the earth your glory. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:16",
"text": " For Yahweh will rebuild Zion; he will appear in his glory. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:17",
"text": " He will turn his attention to the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:18",
"text": " Let this be written for the next generation, so that a people yet to be created may praise Yah, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:19",
"text": " that he looked down from his holy height. Yahweh looked from heaven over the earth "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:20",
"text": " to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to liberate \u231ethose destined to die\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:21",
"text": " so that they may make known in Zion the name of Yahweh, and his praise in Jerusalem, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:22",
"text": " when the peoples assemble, together with kingdoms, to serve Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:23",
"text": " He has broken my strength along the way; he has cut short my days. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:24",
"text": " I say, \u201cMy God, do not carry me off from my life in the middle of my days.\u201d Your years continue throughout all generations. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:25",
"text": " Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:26",
"text": " They will perish, but you will endure. And like a garment they will all wear out, you will replace them like clothing, and they will be set aside. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:27",
"text": " But you are the same, and your years do not end. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 102,
"name": "Psalms 102:28",
"text": " The children of your servants will continue, and their \u231edescendants\u231f will be established before you. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:1",
"text": " Bless Yahweh, O my soul, and all within me, bless his holy name. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:2",
"text": " Bless Yahweh, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits: "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:3",
"text": " who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:4",
"text": " who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with loyal love and mercies, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:5",
"text": " who satisfies your life with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle\u2019s. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:6",
"text": " Yahweh does deeds of justice and judgments for all who are oppressed, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:7",
"text": " who made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the \u231epeople\u231f of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:8",
"text": " Yahweh is compassionate and gracious, \u231eslow to anger\u231f and abundant in loyal love. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:9",
"text": " He does not dispute continually, nor keep his anger forever. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:10",
"text": " He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:11",
"text": " For as the heavens are high above the earth, so his loyal love prevails over those who fear him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:12",
"text": " As far as east is from west, so he has removed far from us the guilt of our transgressions. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:13",
"text": " As a father pities his children, so Yahweh pities those who fear him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:14",
"text": " For he knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:15",
"text": " As for man, his days are like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:16",
"text": " When the wind passes over it, it is no more, and its place knows it no longer. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:17",
"text": " But the loyal love of Yahweh is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to their children\u2019s children, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:18",
"text": " to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:19",
"text": " Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:20",
"text": " Bless Yahweh, you his angels, you mighty heroes who do his word by \u231eobeying\u231f the sound of his word. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:21",
"text": " Bless Yahweh, all you his hosts, you his attendants who do his will. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 103,
"name": "Psalms 103:22",
"text": " Bless Yahweh, all his works, in all the places of his dominion. Bless Yahweh, O my soul. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:1",
"text": " Bless Yahweh, O my soul. O Yahweh my God, you are very great. You clothe yourself with splendor and majesty, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:2",
"text": " you who cover yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a tent curtain, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:3",
"text": " the one who sets beams in the waters for his upper chambers, who makes clouds his chariot, who rides on the wings of the wind, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:4",
"text": " who makes his messengers the winds, his attendants a flame of fire. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:5",
"text": " He established the earth on her foundations, so that it will not be moved forever and ever. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:6",
"text": " You covered it with the deep as with a garment. The waters stood above the mountains. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:7",
"text": " At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they ran off. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:8",
"text": " They ascended the mountains and drained though the valleys to the place that you established for them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:9",
"text": " You set a boundary that they may not cross over, so that they would not return to cover the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:10",
"text": " You are the one who sends forth springs into the valleys; they flow between the mountains. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:11",
"text": " They give drink for every beast of the field. The wild donkeys \u231equench\u231f their thirst. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:12",
"text": " Along them the birds of the heavens abide. From among the branches they \u231esing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:13",
"text": " You are the one who \u231ewaters\u231f the mountains from his upper chambers. The earth is full with the fruit of your labors: "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:14",
"text": " who causes grass to grow for the cattle and herbs for the service of humankind, to bring forth food from the earth, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:15",
"text": " and wine that makes glad the heart of man, so that their faces shine from oil, and bread that strengthens the heart of man. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:16",
"text": " The trees of Yahweh drink their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:17",
"text": " where birds make their nest. The stork has its home in the fir trees. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:18",
"text": " The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:19",
"text": " He made the moon for appointed times; the sun knows its time for setting. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:20",
"text": " You make darkness, and it is night, when all the animals of the forest creep about. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:21",
"text": " The young lions are roaring for the prey and seeking their food from God. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:22",
"text": " When the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:23",
"text": " Humankind goes out to its work, and to its labor until evening. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:24",
"text": " How many are your works, O Yahweh; all of them you have done in wisdom. The earth is full of your creatures. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:25",
"text": " This is the great and \u231ewide\u231f sea, in which are moving animals without number, living things small and great. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:26",
"text": " There the ships sail. Leviathan is there that you formed to play with. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:27",
"text": " They all wait for you to give them their food \u231eat the proper time\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:28",
"text": " You give to them; they gather it. You open your hand, they are filled with what is good. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:29",
"text": " You hide your face, they are terrified. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:30",
"text": " You send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:31",
"text": " May the glory of Yahweh endure forever. May Yahweh be glad in his works, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:32",
"text": " the one who looks at the earth and it quakes, and touches the mountains and they smoke. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:33",
"text": " I will sing to Yahweh throughout my life; I will sing praise to my God while \u231eI remain alive\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:34",
"text": " May my meditation be pleasing to him. I will be glad in Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 104,
"name": "Psalms 104:35",
"text": " Let sinners perish completely from the earth, and the wicked \u231enot remain alive\u231f. Bless Yahweh, O my soul. Praise Yah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:1",
"text": " Give thanks to Yahweh; proclaim his name; make known his deeds among the peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:2",
"text": " Sing to him; sing praises concerning him; tell of all his wonderful works. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:3",
"text": " Boast about his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:4",
"text": " Make supplication to Yahweh and his might; seek his face continually. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:5",
"text": " Remember his wonders that he has done, his signs and the judgments of his mouth, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:6",
"text": " O offspring of Abraham his servant, you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:7",
"text": " He is Yahweh our God; his judgments are in all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:8",
"text": " He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded for a thousand generations, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:9",
"text": " that he made with Abraham, and by his oath swore to Isaac. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:10",
"text": " He then confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:11",
"text": " saying, \u201cTo you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment that is your inheritance.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:12",
"text": " When they were \u231efew in number\u231f\u2014 a trifle\u2014and were sojourners in it, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:13",
"text": " and they wandered about \u231eamong the nations\u231f, from one kingdom to another people, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:14",
"text": " he allowed no one to oppress them, and he rebuked kings on account of them, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:15",
"text": " \u201cDo not touch my anointed ones, nor harm my prophets.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:16",
"text": " Then he called for a famine upon the land; he broke every \u231esupply\u231f of bread. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:17",
"text": " He sent a man on ahead of them; Joseph was sold as a slave. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:18",
"text": " They clamped his feet in fetters. His neck went into irons. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:19",
"text": " Until the time his word came about, the word of Yahweh tested him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:20",
"text": " The king sent and he freed him; the ruler of the peoples sent and let him loose. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:21",
"text": " He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:22",
"text": " to obligate his officials \u231eas he saw fit\u231f and teach his elders wisdom. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:23",
"text": " Then Israel came to Egypt, and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Ham. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:24",
"text": " And he made his people very fruitful. He also made them stronger than their enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:25",
"text": " He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal deceitfully against his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:26",
"text": " He sent his servant Moses, together with Aaron whom he had chosen. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:27",
"text": " They set before them the words concerning his signs and portents in the land of Ham. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:28",
"text": " He sent darkness and made it dark, and they did not rebel against his words. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:29",
"text": " He turned their waters into blood and it killed their fish. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:30",
"text": " Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:31",
"text": " He spoke, and there came flies and gnats throughout all their territory. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:32",
"text": " He gave hail for their rains and the fire of lightning in their land. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:33",
"text": " And he struck their vines and fig trees, and shattered the trees of their territory. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:34",
"text": " He spoke and there came locusts and young locusts without number. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:35",
"text": " And they ate up all the vegetation in their land, and they ate up the fruit of their ground. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:36",
"text": " And he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the first of all their virility. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:37",
"text": " Then he brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:38",
"text": " Egypt was glad when they departed, because the fear of them had fallen upon them. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:39",
"text": " He spread out a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light at night. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:40",
"text": " They asked, and he brought quail, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:41",
"text": " He opened the rock and waters flowed; they coursed through the dry places like a river. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:42",
"text": " For he remembered his holy \u231epromise\u231f; he remembered Abraham his servant. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:43",
"text": " And so he brought out his people with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:44",
"text": " And he gave to them the lands of the nations, and they inherited the labor of the peoples, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 105,
"name": "Psalms 105:45",
"text": " so that they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise Yah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:1",
"text": " Praise Yah. Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loyal love is forever. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:2",
"text": " Who can utter the mighty deeds of Yahweh, or proclaim all his praise? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:3",
"text": " Blessed are those who observe justice, he who does righteousness at all times. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:4",
"text": " Remember me, O Yahweh, when you show favor to your people. Look after me when you deliver, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:5",
"text": " that I may see the good done your chosen ones, to be glad in the joy of your nation, to glory together with your inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:6",
"text": " We have sinned along with our ancestors. We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:7",
"text": " Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand your wonderful works. They did not remember your many acts of loyal love, and so they rebelled by the sea at \u231ethe Red Sea\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:8",
"text": " Yet he saved them for the sake of his name, to make known his might. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:9",
"text": " So he rebuked \u231ethe Red Sea\u231f, and it dried up, and he led them through the deep as through a desert. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:10",
"text": " Thus he saved them from the hand of the hater and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:11",
"text": " But waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:12",
"text": " Then they believed his words; they sang his praise. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:13",
"text": " They quickly forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:14",
"text": " And they \u231ecraved intensely\u231f in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:15",
"text": " So he gave to them their request, but he sent leanness into their souls. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:16",
"text": " And they were jealous of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:17",
"text": " The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and it covered over the gang of Abiram. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:18",
"text": " Also fire burned in their assembly; the flame devoured the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:19",
"text": " They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:20",
"text": " And so they exchanged their glory for an image of an ox that eats grass. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:21",
"text": " They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:22",
"text": " wonders in the land of Ham, awesome deeds by \u231ethe Red Sea\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:23",
"text": " So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to reverse his wrath from destroying them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:24",
"text": " Then they refused the desirable land; they did not believe his word, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:25",
"text": " but grumbled in their tents. They did not obey the voice of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:26",
"text": " So \u231ehe made an oath\u231f against them, to make them drop in the wilderness, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:27",
"text": " and to disperse their \u231edescendants\u231f among the nations and to scatter them among the lands. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:28",
"text": " They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:29",
"text": " Thus they provoked to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:30",
"text": " Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and so the plague was stopped, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:31",
"text": " and it was reckoned to him as righteousness \u231ethroughout all generations\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:32",
"text": " They also angered God at the waters of Meribah, and it went badly for Moses on account of them, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:33",
"text": " because they rebelled against his Spirit, and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:34",
"text": " They did not exterminate the peoples, as Yahweh had commanded them, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:35",
"text": " but they mingled with the nations and learned their works, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:36",
"text": " and served their idols, which became a snare to them. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:37",
"text": " They even sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:38",
"text": " and they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and so the land was defiled with the blood. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:39",
"text": " And they became unclean by their works, and were unfaithful in their deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:40",
"text": " So Yahweh\u2019s anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:41",
"text": " Then he gave them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:42",
"text": " And their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their hand. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:43",
"text": " Many times he delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel, and were brought low by their iniquity. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:44",
"text": " Yet he looked upon their distress when he heard their cry. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:45",
"text": " And he remembered his covenant with them, and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:46",
"text": " And he \u231elet them find compassion\u231f before all their captors. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:47",
"text": " Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from the nations, so that we may give thanks to your holy name and boast in your praise. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 106,
"name": "Psalms 106:48",
"text": " Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. And let all the people say, \u201cAmen!\u201d Praise Yah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:1",
"text": " Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loyal love is forever. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:2",
"text": " Let the redeemed of Yahweh declare it, those whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:3",
"text": " and gathered from the lands, from east and from west, from north and from south. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:4",
"text": " They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no way to a city to inhabit. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:5",
"text": " Hungry and thirsty, their soul grew faint within them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:6",
"text": " Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble. He delivered them from their distresses "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:7",
"text": " and led them by a straight way to get to a city to inhabit. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:8",
"text": " Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love, and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:9",
"text": " for he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:10",
"text": " Those who sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:11",
"text": " because they rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:12",
"text": " he therefore humbled their heart with trouble. They stumbled and there was no helper. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:13",
"text": " Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble; he saved them from their distresses. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:14",
"text": " He brought them out of darkness and gloom, and tore off their bonds. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:15",
"text": " Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:16",
"text": " for he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts through the bars of iron. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:17",
"text": " Fools, because of their rebellious way and their iniquities, were afflicted. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:18",
"text": " Their soul abhorred all food, and they approached the gates of death. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:19",
"text": " Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble. He saved them from their distresses. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:20",
"text": " He sent his word and healed them, and he delivered them from their pits. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:21",
"text": " Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love, and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:22",
"text": " and let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his works with rejoicing. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:23",
"text": " Those who went down to the sea into ships, doing business on the \u231ehigh seas\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:24",
"text": " they saw the works of Yahweh, and his wonderful deeds in the deep. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:25",
"text": " For he spoke and raised up a stormy wind, and it whipped up its waves. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:26",
"text": " They rose to the heavens; they plunged to the depths. Their soul melted in their calamity. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:27",
"text": " They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and \u231ethey were at their wits\u2019 end\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:28",
"text": " Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distresses. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:29",
"text": " He made the storm be still and their waves became calm. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:30",
"text": " Then they were glad because they grew silent, so he guided them to their desired harbor. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:31",
"text": " Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:32",
"text": " and let them exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:33",
"text": " He turns rivers into a wilderness and springs of water into thirsty ground, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:34",
"text": " a fruitful land into a salty place, because of the evil of its inhabitants. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:35",
"text": " He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry land into springs of water. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:36",
"text": " And he settles the hungry there, so that they may establish a city to inhabit, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:37",
"text": " and sow fields and plant vineyards, \u231ethat they may yield fruit at harvest\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:38",
"text": " And he blesses them and they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle become few. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:39",
"text": " When they become few and they are bent down from the oppression of calamity and grief, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:40",
"text": " he pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in a trackless waste. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:41",
"text": " But he protects the needy from misery, and he makes their families like a flock. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:42",
"text": " The upright see it and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 107,
"name": "Psalms 107:43",
"text": " Whoever is wise, then let him observe these things, and let them consider Yahweh\u2019s acts of loyal love. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:1",
"text": " My heart is steadfast, O God. I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:2",
"text": " Awake, harp and lyre. I will awake the dawn. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:3",
"text": " I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Yahweh; I will give you praise among the nations, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:4",
"text": " because your loyal love is great above the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:5",
"text": " Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and let your glory be above all the earth, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:6",
"text": " so that your beloved ones may be rescued. Save by your right hand and answer me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:7",
"text": " God has spoken in his holiness, \u201cI will exult, I will divide up Shechem, and portion out the valley of Succoth. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:8",
"text": " Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. And Ephraim is the \u231ehelmet for\u231f my head. Judah is my scepter; "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:9",
"text": " Moab is my washing pot. Over Edom I will cast my sandal; Over Philistia I will shout in triumph.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:10",
"text": " Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:11",
"text": " Have you not rejected us, O God, and not gone out with our armies, O God? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:12",
"text": " Give us help against the enemy, for the help of humankind is futile. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 108,
"name": "Psalms 108:13",
"text": " Through God we will do valiantly, and it is he who will tread down our enemies. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:1",
"text": " O God of my praise, do not keep silent, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:2",
"text": " for \u231ewicked and deceitful mouths\u231f have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:3",
"text": " They also surround me with words of hate, and fight me without cause. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:4",
"text": " In return for my love they accuse me, though I am in prayer. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:5",
"text": " So they inflicted evil against me in return for good and hatred in return for my love. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:6",
"text": " Appoint over him a wicked man, and let an accuser stand at his right hand. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:7",
"text": " When he is judged, let him come out guilty, and let his prayer become as sin. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:8",
"text": " Let his days be few; let another take his office. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:9",
"text": " Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:10",
"text": " and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:11",
"text": " Let the creditor seize all that is his, and let strangers plunder his property. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:12",
"text": " Let there be none who extend to him loyal love, nor any who pities his orphans. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:13",
"text": " Let his descendants be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in the next generation. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:14",
"text": " Let the iniquity of his ancestors be remembered before Yahweh, and let the sin of his mother not be blotted out. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:15",
"text": " Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:16",
"text": " because he did not remember to show loyal love, but he pursued anyone, poor or needy or brokenhearted, to slay them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:17",
"text": " Because he loved cursing, let it come upon him. Because he did not delight in blessing, let it be far from him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:18",
"text": " Because he wore a curse as his robe, let it enter \u231ehis body\u231f like water, and into his bones like oil. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:19",
"text": " May it be for him like a garment in which he wraps, and a belt \u231ehe continually wears\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:20",
"text": " Let this be the punishment for my accusers from Yahweh, even those who speak evil against my life. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:21",
"text": " But you, O Yahweh my Lord, deal with me for your name\u2019s sake. Because your loyal love is good, deliver me, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:22",
"text": " for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:23",
"text": " Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:24",
"text": " My knees \u231ebuckle\u231f from fasting, and my body grows lean without fat. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:25",
"text": " And so I am a disgrace to them; when they see me, they shake their heads. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:26",
"text": " Help me, O Yahweh my God; save me according to your loyal love, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:27",
"text": " that they may know that this is your hand, that you, O Yahweh, you have done it. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:28",
"text": " Let them curse, but you bless. When they arise, let them be put to shame, that your servant may be glad. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:29",
"text": " Let my accusers put on disgrace, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a robe. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:30",
"text": " I will give thanks to Yahweh exceedingly with my mouth, and in the midst of many I will praise him, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 109,
"name": "Psalms 109:31",
"text": " for he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those judging his life. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 110,
"name": "Psalms 110",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 110,
"name": "Psalms 110:1",
"text": " A declaration of Yahweh to my lord, \u201cSit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 110,
"name": "Psalms 110:2",
"text": " Yahweh will send out your mighty scepter from Zion; rule in the midst of your enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 110,
"name": "Psalms 110:3",
"text": " Your people \u231ewill volunteer\u231f in the day of your power. In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, you will have the dew of your youth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 110,
"name": "Psalms 110:4",
"text": " Yahweh has sworn and he will not change his mind, \u201cYou are a priest forever according to the manner of Melchizedek.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 110,
"name": "Psalms 110:5",
"text": " O Lord, at your right hand he will shatter kings in the day of his anger. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 110,
"name": "Psalms 110:6",
"text": " He will judge among the nations; he will fill them with corpses. He will shatter the \u231erulers\u231f of many countries. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 110,
"name": "Psalms 110:7",
"text": " He will drink from the stream by the road; therefore he will lift up his head. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 111,
"name": "Psalms 111",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 111,
"name": "Psalms 111:1",
"text": " Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart, in the assembly of the upright and the congregation. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 111,
"name": "Psalms 111:2",
"text": " The works of Yahweh are great, studied by all who delight in them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 111,
"name": "Psalms 111:3",
"text": " Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 111,
"name": "Psalms 111:4",
"text": " He has made his wonders \u231eto be remembered\u231f; Yahweh is gracious and compassionate. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 111,
"name": "Psalms 111:5",
"text": " He gives food to those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 111,
"name": "Psalms 111:6",
"text": " He has declared the power of his works for his people, by giving to them the inheritance of the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 111,
"name": "Psalms 111:7",
"text": " The works of his hands are faithfulness and justice; all his precepts are reliable. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 111,
"name": "Psalms 111:8",
"text": " They are sustained forever and ever, done with faithfulness and uprightness. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 111,
"name": "Psalms 111:9",
"text": " He has sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever; holy and fearful is his name. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 111,
"name": "Psalms 111:10",
"text": " The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom; all who do them have a good understanding. His praise endures forever. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 112,
"name": "Psalms 112",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 112,
"name": "Psalms 112:1",
"text": " Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh; he takes great delight in his commands. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 112,
"name": "Psalms 112:2",
"text": " His \u231edescendants\u231f will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 112,
"name": "Psalms 112:3",
"text": " Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 112,
"name": "Psalms 112:4",
"text": " His light rises in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious and compassionate and righteous. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 112,
"name": "Psalms 112:5",
"text": " It goes well for a man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his \u231ebusiness properly\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 112,
"name": "Psalms 112:6",
"text": " For he will not be shaken forever; the righteous \u231ewill be remembered forever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 112,
"name": "Psalms 112:7",
"text": " He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is steadfast, secure in Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 112,
"name": "Psalms 112:8",
"text": " His heart is sustained; he will not be afraid, until he looks in triumph on his enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 112,
"name": "Psalms 112:9",
"text": " \u231eHe gives lavishly\u231f to the needy; his righteousness endures forever. His horn rises high in honor. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 112,
"name": "Psalms 112:10",
"text": " The wicked sees it and is vexed. He gnashes his teeth and \u231ebecomes weak\u231f. The desire of the wicked perishes. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 113,
"name": "Psalms 113",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 113,
"name": "Psalms 113:1",
"text": " Praise Yah! Praise, O servants of Yahweh, praise the name of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 113,
"name": "Psalms 113:2",
"text": " Let the name of Yahweh be blessed, from now until forever. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 113,
"name": "Psalms 113:3",
"text": " From the rising of the sun to its setting, let the name of Yahweh be blessed. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 113,
"name": "Psalms 113:4",
"text": " Yahweh is high above all nations; his glory is above the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 113,
"name": "Psalms 113:5",
"text": " Who is like Yahweh our God, who is enthroned on high, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 113,
"name": "Psalms 113:6",
"text": " who \u231econdescends to look at\u231f what is in the heavens and in the earth? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 113,
"name": "Psalms 113:7",
"text": " He raises the helpless from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 113,
"name": "Psalms 113:8",
"text": " to seat them with princes, with the princes of his people. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 113,
"name": "Psalms 113:9",
"text": " He causes the barren woman of the house to dwell as the happy mother of children. Praise Yah! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 114,
"name": "Psalms 114",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 114,
"name": "Psalms 114:1",
"text": " When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 114,
"name": "Psalms 114:2",
"text": " Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 114,
"name": "Psalms 114:3",
"text": " The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 114,
"name": "Psalms 114:4",
"text": " The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like \u231elambs\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 114,
"name": "Psalms 114:5",
"text": " What\u2019s with you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 114,
"name": "Psalms 114:6",
"text": " O mountains, that you skipped like rams? O hills, like lambs? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 114,
"name": "Psalms 114:7",
"text": " At the presence of the Lord writhe, O earth, at the presence of the God of Jacob, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 114,
"name": "Psalms 114:8",
"text": " who turned the rock into a pool of water, flinty stone into a spring of water. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:1",
"text": " Not to us, O Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, because of your loyal love, because of your faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:2",
"text": " Why should the nations say, \u201cWhere, \u231epray tell\u231f, is their God?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:3",
"text": " But our God is in the heavens; all that he desires, he does. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:4",
"text": " Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:5",
"text": " They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:6",
"text": " they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:7",
"text": " they have their hands, but they cannot feel, their feet, but they cannot walk; they cannot utter a sound in their throats. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:8",
"text": " Those who make them become like them, as does everyone who trusts in them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:9",
"text": " O Israel, trust Yahweh; he is their help and their shield. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:10",
"text": " O house of Aaron, trust in Yahweh; he is their help and their shield. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:11",
"text": " You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh; he is their help and their shield. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:12",
"text": " Yahweh remembers us; he will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:13",
"text": " He will bless those who fear Yahweh, the small with the great. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:14",
"text": " May Yahweh give you increase, you and your children. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:15",
"text": " May you be blessed by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:16",
"text": " The heavens are Yahweh\u2019s heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:17",
"text": " The dead do not praise Yah, nor any descending into silence. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 115,
"name": "Psalms 115:18",
"text": " It is we, we will bless Yah from now until forever. Praise Yah! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:1",
"text": " I love him, because Yahweh has heard \u231ethe voice of my supplications\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:2",
"text": " Because he has inclined his ear to me, I will call \u231eall my days\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:3",
"text": " The ropes of death encircled me, and the distresses of Sheol found me. I found trouble and grief. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:4",
"text": " Then I called on the name of Yahweh: \u201cO Yahweh, please save my life!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:5",
"text": " Gracious is Yahweh and righteous, and our God is merciful. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:6",
"text": " Yahweh watches over the simple. I was brought low, but he gave me victory. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:7",
"text": " Return, O my soul, to your repose, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:8",
"text": " For you have rescued me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:9",
"text": " I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:10",
"text": " I believed when I spoke, \u201cI am afflicted greatly.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:11",
"text": " I said in my haste, \u201c\u231eEveryone\u231f is a liar.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:12",
"text": " What shall I give back to Yahweh for all his benefits to me? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:13",
"text": " I will lift up the cup of salvation and proclaim the name of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:14",
"text": " I will pay my vows made to Yahweh in the presence of all his people. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:15",
"text": " Costly \u231ein Yahweh\u2019s view\u231f is the death of his faithful ones. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:16",
"text": " Ah, Yahweh, I am indeed your servant; I am your servant, the child of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:17",
"text": " I will offer to you a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and proclaim the name of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:18",
"text": " I will pay my vows made to Yahweh in the presence of all his people, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 116,
"name": "Psalms 116:19",
"text": " in the courts of the house of Yahweh, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise Yah! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 117,
"name": "Psalms 117",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 117,
"name": "Psalms 117:1",
"text": " Praise Yahweh, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 117,
"name": "Psalms 117:2",
"text": " For his loyal love is mighty on our behalf, and the faithfulness of Yahweh is forever. Praise Yah! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:1",
"text": " Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good, for his loyal love is forever. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:2",
"text": " Let Israel say, \u201cHis loyal love is forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:3",
"text": " Let the house of Aaron say, \u201cHis loyal love is forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:4",
"text": " Let those who fear Yahweh say, \u201cHis loyal love is forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:5",
"text": " Out of my distress I called to Yah. Yah answered me, setting me in a broad place. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:6",
"text": " Yahweh is for me; I do not fear. What can mere humans do to me? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:7",
"text": " Yahweh is for me as my helper, and so I will look in triumph on those who hate me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:8",
"text": " It is better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust in humans. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:9",
"text": " It is better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust princes. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:10",
"text": " All nations surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:11",
"text": " They surrounded me; yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:12",
"text": " They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:13",
"text": " You pushed me hard to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:14",
"text": " Yah is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:15",
"text": " The sound of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of Yahweh has done valiantly. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:16",
"text": " The right hand of Yahweh has exalted; the right hand of Yahweh has done valiantly. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:17",
"text": " I will not die but live, and tell of the works of Yah. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:18",
"text": " Yah has disciplined me severely, but he did not consign me to death. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:19",
"text": " Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to Yah. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:20",
"text": " This is the gate of Yahweh, through which the righteous will enter. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:21",
"text": " I will give thanks to you for you have answered me, and you have become my salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:22",
"text": " The stone the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:23",
"text": " This is from Yahweh; it is wonderful in our eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:24",
"text": " This is the day Yahweh has worked; let us rejoice and be glad in him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:25",
"text": " O Yahweh, please save; O Yahweh, please grant success. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:26",
"text": " Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh. We bless you from the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:27",
"text": " Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:28",
"text": " You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God; I will exalt you. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 118,
"name": "Psalms 118:29",
"text": " Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good, for his loyal love is forever. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:1",
"text": " Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:2",
"text": " Blessed are those who keep his testimonies; they seek him with a whole heart. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:3",
"text": " They also do no wrong; they walk in his ways. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:4",
"text": " You have commanded your precepts, that we should keep them diligently. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:5",
"text": " Oh that my ways were steadfast, to keep your statutes! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:6",
"text": " Then I would not be ashamed when I look to all your commands. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:7",
"text": " I will give you thanks with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous laws. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:8",
"text": " I will heed your statutes; do not utterly forsake me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:9",
"text": " How can a young man keep his way pure? By taking heed according to your word. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:10",
"text": " With my whole heart I have sought you; do not let me stray from your commands. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:11",
"text": " In my heart I have hidden your word, so that I may not sin against you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:12",
"text": " Blessed are you, O Yahweh. Teach me your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:13",
"text": " With my lips I have told of all the ordinances of your mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:14",
"text": " In the way of your testimonies I have rejoiced as I would over all riches. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:15",
"text": " I will meditate on your precepts and look at your ways. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:16",
"text": " I will take delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:17",
"text": " Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and heed your word. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:18",
"text": " Uncover my eyes, that I may look at wonderful things from your law. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:19",
"text": " I am a sojourner on the earth; do not hide your commands from me. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:20",
"text": " My soul is crushed with longing for your ordinances at all times. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:21",
"text": " You rebuke the arrogant, the accursed, who stray from your commands. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:22",
"text": " \u231eRemove from\u231f me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:23",
"text": " Even though princes sit and speak against me, your servant meditates on your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:24",
"text": " Your testimonies are my delight, \u231emy counselors\u231f. "
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{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:25",
"text": " My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to your word. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:26",
"text": " I told of my ways, and you answered me; teach me your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:27",
"text": " Make me understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on your wonderful things. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:28",
"text": " My soul weeps because of grief; strengthen me according to your word. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:29",
"text": " Remove from me the deceptive way, and graciously give me your law. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:30",
"text": " I have chosen the faithful way; I have set your ordinances before me. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:31",
"text": " I cling to your testimonies; O Yahweh, do not let me be put to shame. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:32",
"text": " I will run the way of your commands, for you will enlarge my heart. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:33",
"text": " Teach me, O Yahweh, the way of your statutes, and I will keep it to the end. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:34",
"text": " Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and heed it with my whole heart. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:35",
"text": " Cause me to walk in the path of your commands, for I delight in it. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:36",
"text": " Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to dishonest gain. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:37",
"text": " Turn away my eyes from looking at what is worthless; revive me in your ways. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:38",
"text": " Fulfill your word to your servant, which is to bring about a reverence for you. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:39",
"text": " Turn away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:40",
"text": " Look, I have longed for your precepts; revive me in your righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:41",
"text": " Let your acts of loyal love also come to me, O Yahweh, your salvation according to your word. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:42",
"text": " Then I will have an answer for the one who taunts me, for I trust your word. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:43",
"text": " And do not snatch the word of truth utterly from my mouth, for I hope in your ordinances. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:44",
"text": " So I will heed your law continually, forever and ever. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:45",
"text": " And I will go about \u231efreely\u231f, for I have sought your precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:46",
"text": " And I will speak of your testimonies before kings, and will not be ashamed. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:47",
"text": " And I will take delight in your commands, which I love. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:48",
"text": " And I will lift up my hands to your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:49",
"text": " Remember your word to your servant, upon which you have caused me to hope. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:50",
"text": " This is my comfort in my misery: that your word preserves my life. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:51",
"text": " The arrogant utterly deride me; I have not turned aside from your law. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:52",
"text": " I remember your ordinances of old, O Yahweh, and I take comfort. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:53",
"text": " Rage seizes me because of the wicked, those who forsake your law. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:54",
"text": " Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:55",
"text": " I remember your name in the night, O Yahweh, and I heed your law. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:56",
"text": " This has been mine, that I have kept your precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:57",
"text": " Yahweh is my portion; I intend to heed your words. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:58",
"text": " I \u231eseek your favor\u231f with my whole heart; be gracious to me according to your word. "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:59",
"text": " I think about my ways, and turn my feet to your testimonies. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:60",
"text": " I hurry and do not delay to heed your commands. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:61",
"text": " The cords of the wicked surround me, but I do not forget your law. "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:62",
"text": " In the middle of the night I rise to give you thanks, because of your righteous ordinances. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:63",
"text": " I am a companion of all who fear you and heed your precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:64",
"text": " The earth, O Yahweh, is full of your loyal love. Teach me your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:65",
"text": " You have dealt well with your servant, O Yahweh, according to your word. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:66",
"text": " Teach me good discernment and knowledge, for I believe your commands. "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:67",
"text": " Before I was afflicted, I was going astray, but now I heed your word. "
},
{
"verse": 68,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:68",
"text": " You are good and do good; teach me your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 69,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:69",
"text": " The arrogant smear me with lies; I keep your precepts with my whole heart. "
},
{
"verse": 70,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:70",
"text": " Their heart is insensitive like fat; As for me, I take delight in your law. "
},
{
"verse": 71,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:71",
"text": " It is good for me that I was afflicted, so that I might learn your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 72,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:72",
"text": " The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver coins. "
},
{
"verse": 73,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:73",
"text": " Your hands have made me and established me; give me understanding that I may learn your commands. "
},
{
"verse": 74,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:74",
"text": " Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I hope in your word. "
},
{
"verse": 75,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:75",
"text": " I know, O Yahweh, that your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness you afflicted me. "
},
{
"verse": 76,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:76",
"text": " Please let your loyal love comfort me, according to your word to your servant. "
},
{
"verse": 77,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:77",
"text": " Let your mercies come to me, that I may live, for your law is my delight. "
},
{
"verse": 78,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:78",
"text": " Let the arrogant be put to shame, because they have wronged me with lies. As for me, I will meditate on your precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 79,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:79",
"text": " Let those who fear you turn to me, even those who know your testimonies. "
},
{
"verse": 80,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:80",
"text": " May my heart be blameless in your statutes, so that I may not be ashamed. "
},
{
"verse": 81,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:81",
"text": " My soul languishes for your salvation; I hope in your word. "
},
{
"verse": 82,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:82",
"text": " My eyes long for your word, saying, \u201cWhen will you comfort me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 83,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:83",
"text": " For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 84,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:84",
"text": " How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute justice against those who persecute me? "
},
{
"verse": 85,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:85",
"text": " The arrogant have dug pits for me, which is not according to your law. "
},
{
"verse": 86,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:86",
"text": " All your commands are faithful. They persecute me deceitfully; help me! "
},
{
"verse": 87,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:87",
"text": " They have almost destroyed me on the earth, but I have not forsaken your precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 88,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:88",
"text": " According to your loyal love preserve me alive, so that I may heed the testimony from your mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 89,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:89",
"text": " Forever, O Yahweh, your word \u231eis settled\u231f in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 90,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:90",
"text": " Your faithfulness endures \u231ethroughout all generations\u231f. You have established the earth and it stands. "
},
{
"verse": 91,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:91",
"text": " By your ordinances they stand today, for all are your servants. "
},
{
"verse": 92,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:92",
"text": " Unless your law had been my delight, then I would have perished in my misery. "
},
{
"verse": 93,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:93",
"text": " I will not ever forget your precepts, for by them you revive me. "
},
{
"verse": 94,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:94",
"text": " I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 95,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:95",
"text": " For me the wicked lie in wait to destroy me. I give attention to your testimonies. "
},
{
"verse": 96,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:96",
"text": " I have seen a limit to every perfection; your command is very broad. "
},
{
"verse": 97,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:97",
"text": " How I love your law! The whole day it is my meditation. "
},
{
"verse": 98,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:98",
"text": " Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, because they are ever with me. "
},
{
"verse": 99,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:99",
"text": " I have more insight than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. "
},
{
"verse": 100,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:100",
"text": " I understand more than the elders, for I keep your precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 101,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:101",
"text": " I have restrained my feet from every evil way, so that I may heed your word. "
},
{
"verse": 102,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:102",
"text": " I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me. "
},
{
"verse": 103,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:103",
"text": " How smooth are your words to my palate, more than honey in my mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 104,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:104",
"text": " From your precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way. "
},
{
"verse": 105,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:105",
"text": " Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. "
},
{
"verse": 106,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:106",
"text": " I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to heed \u231eyour righteous ordinances\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 107,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:107",
"text": " I am very much afflicted; O Yahweh, revive me according to your word. "
},
{
"verse": 108,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:108",
"text": " Please accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Yahweh, and teach me your ordinances. "
},
{
"verse": 109,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:109",
"text": " My life is \u231ein danger\u231f continually, yet I do not forget your law. "
},
{
"verse": 110,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:110",
"text": " The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I do not wander from your precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 111,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:111",
"text": " I have taken as my own your testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart. "
},
{
"verse": 112,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:112",
"text": " I have inclined my heart to do your statutes forever, to the end. "
},
{
"verse": 113,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:113",
"text": " I hate \u231ethe double-minded\u231f, but I love your law. "
},
{
"verse": 114,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:114",
"text": " You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word. "
},
{
"verse": 115,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:115",
"text": " Turn aside from me, you evildoers, for I will keep the commands of my God. "
},
{
"verse": 116,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:116",
"text": " Sustain me according to your word, that I may live, and do not let me be ashamed of my hope. "
},
{
"verse": 117,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:117",
"text": " Uphold me, that I may be delivered, and have regard for your statutes continually. "
},
{
"verse": 118,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:118",
"text": " You reject all who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is a breach of faith. "
},
{
"verse": 119,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:119",
"text": " You remove all the wicked of the earth like dross, therefore I love your testimonies. "
},
{
"verse": 120,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:120",
"text": " My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments. "
},
{
"verse": 121,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:121",
"text": " I have done justice and righteousness; do not leave me to my oppressors. "
},
{
"verse": 122,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:122",
"text": " Pledge good for your servant; do not let the arrogant oppress me. "
},
{
"verse": 123,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:123",
"text": " My eyes long for your salvation, and your righteous word. "
},
{
"verse": 124,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:124",
"text": " Deal with your servant according to your loyal love, and teach me your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 125,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:125",
"text": " I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 126,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:126",
"text": " It is time for Yahweh to act, for they have broken your law. "
},
{
"verse": 127,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:127",
"text": " Therefore I love your commands more than gold, even fine gold. "
},
{
"verse": 128,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:128",
"text": " Therefore all your precepts of everything I regard as right; I hate every false way. "
},
{
"verse": 129,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:129",
"text": " Your testimonies are miracles, therefore my soul keeps them. "
},
{
"verse": 130,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:130",
"text": " The unfolding of your words gives light, giving understanding to the simple. "
},
{
"verse": 131,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:131",
"text": " I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commands. "
},
{
"verse": 132,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:132",
"text": " Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is proper for those who love your name. "
},
{
"verse": 133,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:133",
"text": " Direct my steps in your word, and do not let any iniquity gain power over me. "
},
{
"verse": 134,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:134",
"text": " Redeem me from the oppression of humankind, that I may heed your precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 135,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:135",
"text": " Shine your face on your servant, and teach me your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 136,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:136",
"text": " Streams of water flow down from my eyes, because people do not heed your law. "
},
{
"verse": 137,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:137",
"text": " You are righteous, O Yahweh, and your ordinances are upright. "
},
{
"verse": 138,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:138",
"text": " You have ordained your testimonies in righteousness, and in exceeding faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 139,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:139",
"text": " My zeal consumes me, because my enemies have forgotten your words. "
},
{
"verse": 140,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:140",
"text": " Your word is very pure, and your servant loves it. "
},
{
"verse": 141,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:141",
"text": " I am small and despised, yet I do not forget your precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 142,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:142",
"text": " Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is truth. "
},
{
"verse": 143,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:143",
"text": " Trouble and anguish have found me; your commands delight me. "
},
{
"verse": 144,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:144",
"text": " The righteousness of your testimonies is forever; give me understanding that I may live. "
},
{
"verse": 145,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:145",
"text": " I call with my whole heart; answer me, O Yahweh. I will keep your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 146,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:146",
"text": " I call to you. Save me, and I will heed your testimonies. "
},
{
"verse": 147,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:147",
"text": " I rise early in the dawn and cry for help; I hope in your word. "
},
{
"verse": 148,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:148",
"text": " My eyes anticipate the night watches, that I may meditate on your word. "
},
{
"verse": 149,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:149",
"text": " Hear my voice according to your loyal love; O Yahweh, preserve my life according to your justice. "
},
{
"verse": 150,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:150",
"text": " Those who pursue a wicked purpose draw near; they are far from your law. "
},
{
"verse": 151,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:151",
"text": " You are near, O Yahweh, and all your commands are truth. "
},
{
"verse": 152,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:152",
"text": " Concerning your testimonies, I knew long ago that you have established them forever. "
},
{
"verse": 153,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:153",
"text": " See my misery and rescue me, for I do not forget your law. "
},
{
"verse": 154,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:154",
"text": " Plead my cause and redeem me; preserve my life according to your word. "
},
{
"verse": 155,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:155",
"text": " Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 156,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:156",
"text": " Your mercies are great, O Yahweh; preserve my life according to your ordinances. "
},
{
"verse": 157,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:157",
"text": " My persecutors and enemies are many, yet I do not turn aside from your testimonies. "
},
{
"verse": 158,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:158",
"text": " I see the treacherous and I feel disgust, because they do not heed your word. "
},
{
"verse": 159,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:159",
"text": " Consider that I love your precepts; O Yahweh, according to your loyal love preserve my life. "
},
{
"verse": 160,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:160",
"text": " The \u231ewhole\u231f of your word is truth, and your every righteous judgment endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 161,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:161",
"text": " Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart trembles because of your word. "
},
{
"verse": 162,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:162",
"text": " I am rejoicing over your word, like one who finds great spoil. "
},
{
"verse": 163,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:163",
"text": " I hate and abhor falsehood; I love your law. "
},
{
"verse": 164,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:164",
"text": " I praise you seven times in the day for your righteous ordinances. "
},
{
"verse": 165,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:165",
"text": " Great peace is for those who love your law, and they do not have a cause for stumbling. "
},
{
"verse": 166,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:166",
"text": " I hope for your salvation, O Yahweh, and do your commands. "
},
{
"verse": 167,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:167",
"text": " My soul heeds your testimonies, and I love them exceedingly. "
},
{
"verse": 168,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:168",
"text": " I heed your precepts and testimonies, because all my ways are before you. "
},
{
"verse": 169,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:169",
"text": " Let my cry come before you, O Yahweh; give me understanding according to your word. "
},
{
"verse": 170,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:170",
"text": " Let my plea come before you; Deliver me according to your word. "
},
{
"verse": 171,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:171",
"text": " Let my lips pour out praise, because you teach me your statutes. "
},
{
"verse": 172,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:172",
"text": " Let my tongue sing of your word, because all your commands are right. "
},
{
"verse": 173,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:173",
"text": " Let your hand be my help, because I have chosen your precepts. "
},
{
"verse": 174,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:174",
"text": " I long for your salvation, O Yahweh, and your law is my delight. "
},
{
"verse": 175,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:175",
"text": " Let my soul live that it may praise you, and let your ordinances help me. "
},
{
"verse": 176,
"chapter": 119,
"name": "Psalms 119:176",
"text": " I have wandered like a lost sheep; seek your servant, because I do not forget your commands. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 120,
"name": "Psalms 120",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 120,
"name": "Psalms 120:1",
"text": " In my distress I called to Yahweh, and he answered me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 120,
"name": "Psalms 120:2",
"text": " \u201cDeliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 120,
"name": "Psalms 120:3",
"text": " What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, deceitful tongue? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 120,
"name": "Psalms 120:4",
"text": " The sharpened arrows of a warrior, with burning charcoals from broom trees. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 120,
"name": "Psalms 120:5",
"text": " Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 120,
"name": "Psalms 120:6",
"text": " Too long my soul has had its dwelling near one who hates peace. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 120,
"name": "Psalms 120:7",
"text": " I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 121,
"name": "Psalms 121",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 121,
"name": "Psalms 121:1",
"text": " I lift up my eyes to the mountains; whence will my help come? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 121,
"name": "Psalms 121:2",
"text": " My help is from Yahweh, maker of heaven and earth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 121,
"name": "Psalms 121:3",
"text": " He will not allow your foot to be moved; he who protects you will not slumber. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 121,
"name": "Psalms 121:4",
"text": " Look, he will not slumber and he will not sleep\u2014 he who protects Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 121,
"name": "Psalms 121:5",
"text": " Yahweh is your protector; Yahweh is your shade at your right hand. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 121,
"name": "Psalms 121:6",
"text": " The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 121,
"name": "Psalms 121:7",
"text": " Yahweh will protect you from all evil; he will protect your life. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 121,
"name": "Psalms 121:8",
"text": " Yahweh will protect your going out and your coming in from now until forever. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 122,
"name": "Psalms 122",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 122,
"name": "Psalms 122:1",
"text": " I rejoiced in those who said to me, \u201cLet us go to the house of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 122,
"name": "Psalms 122:2",
"text": " Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 122,
"name": "Psalms 122:3",
"text": " Jerusalem that is built as a city that is joined together, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 122,
"name": "Psalms 122:4",
"text": " where the tribes go up, the tribes of Yah as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 122,
"name": "Psalms 122:5",
"text": " For there the thrones sit for judgment, thrones of David\u2019s house. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 122,
"name": "Psalms 122:6",
"text": " Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: \u201cMay those who love you be at ease. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 122,
"name": "Psalms 122:7",
"text": " May peace be within your walls, security within your palaces.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 122,
"name": "Psalms 122:8",
"text": " For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will say, \u201cPeace be within you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 122,
"name": "Psalms 122:9",
"text": " For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 123,
"name": "Psalms 123",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 123,
"name": "Psalms 123:1",
"text": " I lift up my eyes to you, the one enthroned in the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 123,
"name": "Psalms 123:2",
"text": " Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to Yahweh our God, until he is gracious to us. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 123,
"name": "Psalms 123:3",
"text": " Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us, for long enough we have had our fill of contempt. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 123,
"name": "Psalms 123:4",
"text": " For long enough our soul has had its fill of the derision of the self-confident, the contempt of the arrogant. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 124,
"name": "Psalms 124",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 124,
"name": "Psalms 124:1",
"text": " \u201cIf it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,\u201d do let Israel say, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 124,
"name": "Psalms 124:2",
"text": " \u201cIf it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 124,
"name": "Psalms 124:3",
"text": " then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger was kindled against us. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 124,
"name": "Psalms 124:4",
"text": " Then the waters would have flooded over us, the torrent would have passed over our soul. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 124,
"name": "Psalms 124:5",
"text": " Then over our soul would have passed the raging waters.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 124,
"name": "Psalms 124:6",
"text": " Blessed be Yahweh, who has not made us prey for their teeth. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 124,
"name": "Psalms 124:7",
"text": " Our soul has escaped like a bird from the snare of fowlers. The snare is broken, and we have escaped. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 124,
"name": "Psalms 124:8",
"text": " Our help is in the name of Yahweh, maker of heaven and earth. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 125,
"name": "Psalms 125",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 125,
"name": "Psalms 125:1",
"text": " Those who trust in Yahweh are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 125,
"name": "Psalms 125:2",
"text": " As mountains are round about Jerusalem, so Yahweh is round about his people, from now until forever. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 125,
"name": "Psalms 125:3",
"text": " For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the \u231eland\u231f of the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 125,
"name": "Psalms 125:4",
"text": " Do good, O Yahweh, to the good, and to those upright in their hearts. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 125,
"name": "Psalms 125:5",
"text": " But regarding those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 126,
"name": "Psalms 126",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 126,
"name": "Psalms 126:1",
"text": " When Yahweh restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like dreamers. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 126,
"name": "Psalms 126:2",
"text": " Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing. Then they said among the nations, \u201cYahweh has done great things for these people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 126,
"name": "Psalms 126:3",
"text": " Yahweh has done great things for us; we are glad. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 126,
"name": "Psalms 126:4",
"text": " Restore, O Yahweh, our fortunes like the streams in the Negeb. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 126,
"name": "Psalms 126:5",
"text": " Those who sow with tears shall reap with rejoicing. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 126,
"name": "Psalms 126:6",
"text": " He who diligently goes out with weeping, carrying the seed bag, shall certainly come in with rejoicing, carrying his sheaves. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 127,
"name": "Psalms 127",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 127,
"name": "Psalms 127:1",
"text": " Unless Yahweh builds a house, its builders labor at it in vain. Unless Yahweh guards a city, a guard watches in vain. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 127,
"name": "Psalms 127:2",
"text": " It is in vain for you who rise early and sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, when thus he provides for his beloved in his sleep. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 127,
"name": "Psalms 127:3",
"text": " Look, children are the heritage of Yahweh; the fruit of the womb is a reward. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 127,
"name": "Psalms 127:4",
"text": " Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one\u2019s youth. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 127,
"name": "Psalms 127:5",
"text": " Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them. They shall not be put to shame when they speak with enemies at the gate. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 128,
"name": "Psalms 128",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 128,
"name": "Psalms 128:1",
"text": " Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 128,
"name": "Psalms 128:2",
"text": " You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands; you will be happy and it will be well with you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 128,
"name": "Psalms 128:3",
"text": " Your wife will be like a fruitful vine \u231ewithin\u231f your house. Your children will be like olive shoots about your table. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 128,
"name": "Psalms 128:4",
"text": " Look, for thus shall a man be blessed \u231ewho fears Yahweh\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 128,
"name": "Psalms 128:5",
"text": " May Yahweh bless you from Zion, that you may see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 128,
"name": "Psalms 128:6",
"text": " and that you may see your children\u2019s children. May peace be upon Israel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 129,
"name": "Psalms 129",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 129,
"name": "Psalms 129:1",
"text": " \u201cToo often they have attacked me from my youth.\u201d Let Israel say, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 129,
"name": "Psalms 129:2",
"text": " \u201cToo often they have attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 129,
"name": "Psalms 129:3",
"text": " On my back plowmen have plowed. They have made their furrows long.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 129,
"name": "Psalms 129:4",
"text": " Yahweh is righteous. He has cut the ropes of the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 129,
"name": "Psalms 129:5",
"text": " Let all be put to shame and repulsed who hate Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 129,
"name": "Psalms 129:6",
"text": " Let them be like grass on the housetops, that withers before it grows up, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 129,
"name": "Psalms 129:7",
"text": " with which a reaper cannot fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his \u231earms\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 129,
"name": "Psalms 129:8",
"text": " so that passersby do not say, \u201cThe blessing of Yahweh be upon you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 130,
"name": "Psalms 130",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 130,
"name": "Psalms 130:1",
"text": " Out of the depths I call to you, O Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 130,
"name": "Psalms 130:2",
"text": " \u201cO Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 130,
"name": "Psalms 130:3",
"text": " If you, O Yah, should \u231ekeep track of\u231f iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 130,
"name": "Psalms 130:4",
"text": " But with you is forgiveness, so that you may be feared.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 130,
"name": "Psalms 130:5",
"text": " I await Yahweh; my soul awaits, and I wait for his word. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 130,
"name": "Psalms 130:6",
"text": " My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning. Yes, more than watchmen for the morning. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 130,
"name": "Psalms 130:7",
"text": " O Israel, wait for Yahweh. For with Yahweh there is loyal love, and with him there is abundant redemption. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 130,
"name": "Psalms 130:8",
"text": " And he will redeem Israel from all its iniquities. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 131,
"name": "Psalms 131",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 131,
"name": "Psalms 131:1",
"text": " My heart is not haughty nor my eyes \u231earrogant\u231f. And I do not \u231econcern myself\u231f with things too great and difficult for me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 131,
"name": "Psalms 131:2",
"text": " Rather I have soothed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like the weaned child is my soul with me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 131,
"name": "Psalms 131:3",
"text": " O Israel, hope in Yahweh from now until forever. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:1",
"text": " O Yahweh, remember with regard to David all his affliction. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:2",
"text": " How he swore to Yahweh, he vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:3",
"text": " \u201cI will not enter into the tent of my house, I will not go up to the couch of my bed, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:4",
"text": " I will give no sleep to my eyes, no slumber to my eyelids, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:5",
"text": " until I find a place for Yahweh, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:6",
"text": " Look, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found her in the fields of Jaar. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:7",
"text": " Let us go to his dwelling places; Let us worship at his footstool. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:8",
"text": " Arise, O Yahweh, to your resting place, you and your mighty ark. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:9",
"text": " Let your priests clothe themselves with righteousness, and let your faithful sing for joy. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:10",
"text": " For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:11",
"text": " Yahweh swore in truth to David; he will not turn back from it. \u201cOne from the fruit of your \u231ebody\u231f I will set on your throne. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:12",
"text": " If your sons will heed my covenant and my testimonies that I will teach them, their sons also forever will sit on your throne.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:13",
"text": " For Yahweh has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:14",
"text": " \u201cThis is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:15",
"text": " I will bless its provisions abundantly; I will satisfy its poor with bread. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:16",
"text": " I will also clothe its priests with salvation, and its faithful will shout exuberantly for joy. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:17",
"text": " There I will cause a horn to grow for David; I will set a lamp for my anointed one. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 132,
"name": "Psalms 132:18",
"text": " I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on him his crown will flourish.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 133,
"name": "Psalms 133",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 133,
"name": "Psalms 133:1",
"text": " Look, how good and how pleasant it is when brothers dwell together in unity. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 133,
"name": "Psalms 133:2",
"text": " It is like the fragrant oil upon the head, running down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, that runs down upon the edges of his robes. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 133,
"name": "Psalms 133:3",
"text": " It is like the dew of Hermon that runs down upon the mountains of Zion, because there Yahweh commanded the blessing\u2014 life forever. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 134,
"name": "Psalms 134",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 134,
"name": "Psalms 134:1",
"text": " Look, bless Yahweh, all you the servants of Yahweh, who \u231eserve\u231f in the house of Yahweh by night. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 134,
"name": "Psalms 134:2",
"text": " Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 134,
"name": "Psalms 134:3",
"text": " May Yahweh bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:1",
"text": " Praise Yah! Praise the name of Yahweh. Praise him, O servants of Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:2",
"text": " who stand in the house of Yahweh, in the courts of the house of our God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:3",
"text": " Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises concerning his name, for it is pleasant. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:4",
"text": " For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his special possession. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:5",
"text": " For I know that Yahweh is great, and our Lord is greater than all gods. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:6",
"text": " All that Yahweh desires, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the depths. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:7",
"text": " He causes clouds to rise from the edge of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain; he brings out the wind from his storehouses. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:8",
"text": " Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of humans and animals. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:9",
"text": " He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:10",
"text": " Who struck many nations and killed mighty kings\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:11",
"text": " Sihon the king of the Amorites, and Og the king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:12",
"text": " and he gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance for his people Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:13",
"text": " O Yahweh, your name endures forever, your \u231erenown\u231f \u231ethroughout all generations\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:14",
"text": " for Yahweh will plead the cause of his people and will have compassion on his servants. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:15",
"text": " The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of the hands of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:16",
"text": " They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:17",
"text": " they have ears, but cannot hear; there is not even breath in their mouths. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:18",
"text": " Those who make them become like them, as does everyone who trusts in them. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:19",
"text": " O house of Israel, bless Yahweh. O house of Aaron, bless Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:20",
"text": " O house of Levi, bless Yahweh. You who fear Yahweh, bless Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 135,
"name": "Psalms 135:21",
"text": " Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise Yah! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:1",
"text": " Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:2",
"text": " Give thanks to the God of gods, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:3",
"text": " Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:4",
"text": " To him who alone does great wonders, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:5",
"text": " To him who made the heavens with skill, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:6",
"text": " To him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:7",
"text": " To him who made the great lights, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:8",
"text": " The sun to rule the day, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:9",
"text": " The moon and stars to rule the night, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:10",
"text": " To him who struck Egypt through their firstborn, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:11",
"text": " And he brought Israel out from among them, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:12",
"text": " With a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:13",
"text": " To him who divided the \u231eRed Sea\u231f in two, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:14",
"text": " And he let Israel cross over through the midst of it, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:15",
"text": " But he tossed Pharaoh and his army into the \u231eRed Sea\u231f, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:16",
"text": " To him who led his people through the wilderness, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:17",
"text": " To him who struck great kings, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:18",
"text": " And he killed mighty kings, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:19",
"text": " Sihon the king of the Amorites, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:20",
"text": " And Og the king of Bashan, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:21",
"text": " And he gave their land as an inheritance, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:22",
"text": " An inheritance to Israel his servant, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:23",
"text": " Who remembered us in our low estate, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:24",
"text": " And he rescued us from our enemies, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:25",
"text": " The one who gives food to all flesh, for his loyal love endures forever. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 136,
"name": "Psalms 136:26",
"text": " Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his loyal love endures forever. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 137,
"name": "Psalms 137",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 137,
"name": "Psalms 137:1",
"text": " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 137,
"name": "Psalms 137:2",
"text": " On the willows in her midst, we hung up our lyres. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 137,
"name": "Psalms 137:3",
"text": " For there our captors asked of us words of a song, and our tormentors asked of us jubilation, \u201cSing for us from a song of Zion.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 137,
"name": "Psalms 137:4",
"text": " How could we sing the song of Yahweh in \u231ea foreign land\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 137,
"name": "Psalms 137:5",
"text": " If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 137,
"name": "Psalms 137:6",
"text": " Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if do not I exalt Jerusalem above my highest joy. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 137,
"name": "Psalms 137:7",
"text": " Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, the ones who said, \u201cLay it bare! Lay it bare to its foundation!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 137,
"name": "Psalms 137:8",
"text": " O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated, happy shall be he who pays back to you \u231ewhat you paid out to us\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 137,
"name": "Psalms 137:9",
"text": " Happy shall be he who seizes and smashes your children against the rock. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 138,
"name": "Psalms 138",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 138,
"name": "Psalms 138:1",
"text": " I give you thanks with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 138,
"name": "Psalms 138:2",
"text": " I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have magnified your word according to all your name. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 138,
"name": "Psalms 138:3",
"text": " \u231eWhen\u231f I called and you answered me, you emboldened me in my soul with strength. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 138,
"name": "Psalms 138:4",
"text": " All the kings of the earth will praise you, O Yahweh, when they have heard the words of your mouth, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 138,
"name": "Psalms 138:5",
"text": " and they will sing of the ways of Yahweh, because Yahweh\u2019s glory is great. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 138,
"name": "Psalms 138:6",
"text": " Though Yahweh is high, yet he sees the lowly, but the proud he perceives at a distance. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 138,
"name": "Psalms 138:7",
"text": " Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve me alive. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my enemies, and you save me with your right hand. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 138,
"name": "Psalms 138:8",
"text": " Yahweh accomplishes things for my benefit. O Yahweh, your loyal love endures forever; do not abandon the works of your hands. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:1",
"text": " O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:2",
"text": " You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought from afar. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:3",
"text": " You search out my wandering and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:4",
"text": " For there is not a word yet on my tongue, but behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:5",
"text": " You barricade me behind and in front, and set your hand upon me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:6",
"text": " Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is set high; I cannot prevail against it. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:7",
"text": " Where I can go from your Spirit, or where can I flee from your presence? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:8",
"text": " If I ascend to heaven, there you are, and if I make my bed in Sheol, look! There you are. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:9",
"text": " If I lift up the wings of the dawn, and I alight on the far side of the sea, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:10",
"text": " even there your hand would lead me, and your right hand would hold me fast. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:11",
"text": " And if I should say, \u201cSurely darkness will cover me, and the light around me will be as night,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:12",
"text": " even the darkness is not too dark for you, and the night shines as the day\u2014 the darkness and the light are alike for you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:13",
"text": " Indeed you created my \u231einward parts\u231f; you wove me in my mother\u2019s womb. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:14",
"text": " I praise you, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it well. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:15",
"text": " My \u231eframe\u231f was not hidden from you, when I was created secretly, and intricately woven in the depths of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:16",
"text": " Your eyes saw my embryo, and in your book they all were written\u2014 days fashioned for me when there was not one of them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:17",
"text": " And to me, how precious are your thoughts, O God; how vast is their sum. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:18",
"text": " If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. I awaken, and I am still with you. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:19",
"text": " If only you would kill the wicked, O God\u2014 so get away from me, you \u231ebloodthirsty men\u231f\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:20",
"text": " who speak against you deceitfully. Your enemies take your name in vain. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:21",
"text": " Do I not hate those who hate you, O Yahweh? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:22",
"text": " I hate them with a complete hatred; they have become my enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:23",
"text": " Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 139,
"name": "Psalms 139:24",
"text": " And see if there is in me \u231ethe worship of false gods\u231f, and lead me in the way everlasting. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:1",
"text": " Rescue me, O Yahweh, from evil men. Preserve me from violent men, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:2",
"text": " who plan evil things in their heart. They stir up wars continually. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:3",
"text": " They sharpen their tongue as sharp as a snake\u2019s; the venom of a viper is under their lips. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:4",
"text": " Protect me, O Yahweh, from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from violent men, who have planned to \u231emake me stumble\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:5",
"text": " The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords. They have spread out a net along the \u231eside\u231f of the path. They have set snares for me. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:6",
"text": " I say to Yahweh, \u201cYou are my God.\u201d Listen, O Yahweh, to the voice of my supplications. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:7",
"text": " O Yahweh, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:8",
"text": " Do not grant, O Yahweh, the desires of the wicked. Do not allow them to attain their plan, lest they be exalted. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:9",
"text": " With respect to the head of those who surround me, may the harm of their lips cover them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:10",
"text": " Let burning coals fall on them; let them be dropped into the fire, into bottomless pits from which they cannot rise. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:11",
"text": " Do not let a \u231eslanderer\u231f be established in the land; as for the man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:12",
"text": " I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 140,
"name": "Psalms 140:13",
"text": " Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name; the upright will dwell in your presence. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 141,
"name": "Psalms 141",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 141,
"name": "Psalms 141:1",
"text": " I call on you, O Yahweh; hasten to me. Listen to my voice when I call to you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 141,
"name": "Psalms 141:2",
"text": " Let my prayer be set before you as incense, the lifting up of my palms as the evening offering. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 141,
"name": "Psalms 141:3",
"text": " Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 141,
"name": "Psalms 141:4",
"text": " Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked deeds with men who do iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 141,
"name": "Psalms 141:5",
"text": " Let a righteous one strike me in kindness, and let him chasten me. It is oil for my head; let not my head refuse. For still my prayer is against their evil deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 141,
"name": "Psalms 141:6",
"text": " When their judges are thrown down the sides of a cliff, then they will understand that my words were pleasant. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 141,
"name": "Psalms 141:7",
"text": " As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 141,
"name": "Psalms 141:8",
"text": " But my eyes are toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord; I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 141,
"name": "Psalms 141:9",
"text": " Protect me from the \u231egrasp\u231f of the trap they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 141,
"name": "Psalms 141:10",
"text": " Let the wicked fall into their nets, while I escape altogether. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 142,
"name": "Psalms 142",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 142,
"name": "Psalms 142:1",
"text": " When he was in the cave. A prayer. I cry out with my voice to Yahweh; I implore favor with my voice to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 142,
"name": "Psalms 142:2",
"text": " I pour out my complaint before him; I declare my trouble before him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 142,
"name": "Psalms 142:3",
"text": " When my spirit faints within me, you know my way. On the path where I walk, they have hidden a trap for me; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 142,
"name": "Psalms 142:4",
"text": " look to my right and see. There is no one looking out for me; there is no escape for me; no one cares for my soul. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 142,
"name": "Psalms 142:5",
"text": " I cry out to you, O Yahweh. I say, \u201cYou are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 142,
"name": "Psalms 142:6",
"text": " Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my pursuers, for they are stronger than I. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 142,
"name": "Psalms 142:7",
"text": " Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will encircle me, because you will deal bountifully with me. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:1",
"text": " O Yahweh, hear my prayer; listen to my supplications. In your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:2",
"text": " And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive is righteous before you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:3",
"text": " For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in dark places like those long dead. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:4",
"text": " And so my spirit grows faint within me; my heart \u231ewithin\u231f me is desolate. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:5",
"text": " I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your doings. I muse on the labor of your hands. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:6",
"text": " I stretch out my hands to you; my soul longs for you like a dry land. Selah "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:7",
"text": " Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I will become like those descending to the pit. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:8",
"text": " Cause me to hear your loyal love in the morning, for I trust you. Cause me to know the way that I should go, for I lift up my soul to you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:9",
"text": " Deliver me from my enemies, O Yahweh. I take refuge in you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:10",
"text": " Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; your Spirit is good. Lead me onto level ground. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:11",
"text": " For your name\u2019s sake, O Yahweh, preserve my life; in your righteousness bring me out of trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 143,
"name": "Psalms 143:12",
"text": " And in your loyal love destroy my enemies, and exterminate all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:1",
"text": " Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, the one who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:2",
"text": " my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoples under me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:3",
"text": " O Yahweh, what is humankind that you take knowledge of him, or the son of man that you take thought of him? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:4",
"text": " Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:5",
"text": " O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:6",
"text": " Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:7",
"text": " Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of foreigners, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:8",
"text": " whose mouth speaks falsely, and their right hand is a false right hand. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:9",
"text": " O God, I will sing a new song to you. With a lyre of ten strings I will sing praise to you, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:10",
"text": " who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the evil sword. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:11",
"text": " Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks falsely, and whose right hand is a false right hand, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:12",
"text": " that our sons may be like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:13",
"text": " that our granaries may be full, providing produce of all kinds, that our sheep may produce by the thousands, by the tens of thousands in our open fields, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:14",
"text": " that our cattle may be pregnant; that there be no breach in our walls, and no going out in exile, and no outcry in our plazas. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 144,
"name": "Psalms 144:15",
"text": " Blessed are the people who have it thus. Blessed are the people whose God is Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:1",
"text": " I will exalt you, my God, O king, and I will bless your name forever and ever. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:2",
"text": " Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:3",
"text": " Great is Yahweh, and very worthy of praise, and his greatness is unsearchable. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:4",
"text": " One generation will laud your works to another, and will declare your mighty deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:5",
"text": " On the splendor of the glory of your majesty, and on your wonderful deeds, I will meditate. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:6",
"text": " And they will speak of the power of your awesome deeds, and I will tell of your greatness. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:7",
"text": " They will utter the renown of your abundant goodness, and they will proclaim with joy your righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:8",
"text": " Yahweh is gracious and compassionate, \u231eslow to anger\u231f and great in loyal love. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:9",
"text": " Yahweh is good to all, and his mercies are over all his works. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:10",
"text": " All your works will praise you, O Yahweh, and your faithful ones will bless you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:11",
"text": " They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk of your power, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:12",
"text": " to make known to the children of humankind his mighty deeds, and the glory of the majesty of his kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:13",
"text": " Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures \u231ethroughout all generations\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:14",
"text": " Yahweh upholds all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:15",
"text": " The eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due time, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:16",
"text": " opening your hand, and satisfying the desire of every living creature. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:17",
"text": " Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and loyal in all his works. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:18",
"text": " Yahweh is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:19",
"text": " He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry for help, and saves them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:20",
"text": " Yahweh protects all those who love him, but all the wicked he will exterminate. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 145,
"name": "Psalms 145:21",
"text": " My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh, and all flesh will bless his holy name forever and ever. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 146,
"name": "Psalms 146",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 146,
"name": "Psalms 146:1",
"text": " Praise Yah. Praise Yahweh, O my soul. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 146,
"name": "Psalms 146:2",
"text": " I will praise Yahweh while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I am still alive. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 146,
"name": "Psalms 146:3",
"text": " Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 146,
"name": "Psalms 146:4",
"text": " His breath departs; he returns to his plot; on that day his plans perish. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 146,
"name": "Psalms 146:5",
"text": " Blessed is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is on Yahweh as his God, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 146,
"name": "Psalms 146:6",
"text": " who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, the one who keeps faith forever, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 146,
"name": "Psalms 146:7",
"text": " who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food for the hungry. Yahweh sets prisoners free; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 146,
"name": "Psalms 146:8",
"text": " Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind; Yahweh raises up those bowed down; Yahweh loves the righteous; "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 146,
"name": "Psalms 146:9",
"text": " Yahweh protects the strangers. He helps up the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he \u231ethwarts\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 146,
"name": "Psalms 146:10",
"text": " Yahweh will reign forever, Your God, O Zion, \u231ethroughout all generations\u231f. Praise Yah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:1",
"text": " Praise Yah. For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; praise is fitting. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:2",
"text": " Yahweh is building Jerusalem; he gathers the scattered ones of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:3",
"text": " He is the one who heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:4",
"text": " He counts the number of the stars; he gives names to all of them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:5",
"text": " Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is unlimited. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:6",
"text": " Yahweh helps the afflicted up; he brings the wicked down to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:7",
"text": " Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving; sing praises to our God with lyre, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:8",
"text": " who covers the heavens with clouds, who provides rain for the earth, who causes grass to grow on the mountains. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:9",
"text": " He gives to the animal its food, and to the young ravens that cry. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:10",
"text": " He does not delight in the strength of the horse; he takes no pleasure in the legs of the man. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:11",
"text": " Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, the ones who hope for his loyal love. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:12",
"text": " Laud Yahweh, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:13",
"text": " for he strengthens the bars of your gates. He blesses your children within you; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:14",
"text": " he makes your border peaceful; he satisfies you with the \u231efinest of wheat\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:15",
"text": " He sends out his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:16",
"text": " He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:17",
"text": " he throws his hail like crumbs. Who can stand before his cold? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:18",
"text": " He sends out his word and melts them; he blows his breath, the water flows. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:19",
"text": " He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 147,
"name": "Psalms 147:20",
"text": " He has not done so for any nation, and they do not know his ordinances. Praise Yah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:1",
"text": " Praise Yah. Praise Yahweh from the heavens; praise him in the heights. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:2",
"text": " Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:3",
"text": " Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all stars of light. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:4",
"text": " Praise him, \u231ehighest heavens\u231f, and waters above the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:5",
"text": " Let them praise the name of Yahweh, because he commanded and they were created. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:6",
"text": " And he put them in place forever and ever, by a decree he gave that will not pass away. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:7",
"text": " Praise Yahweh from the earth\u2014 great sea creatures and all deeps, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:8",
"text": " fire and hail, snow and cloud, stormy wind doing his bidding, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:9",
"text": " the mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:10",
"text": " beasts and all cattle, creeping things and \u231eflying birds\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:11",
"text": " kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of the earth, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:12",
"text": " young men and young women as well, the old together with the young\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:13",
"text": " let them praise the name of Yahweh, because his name alone is is exalted. His splendor is above earth and heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 148,
"name": "Psalms 148:14",
"text": " And he has raised high a horn for his people, praise for all his faithful\u2014 for the children of Israel, a people close to him. Praise Yah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 149,
"name": "Psalms 149",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 149,
"name": "Psalms 149:1",
"text": " Praise Yah. Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 149,
"name": "Psalms 149:2",
"text": " Let Israel be glad in its maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their king. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 149,
"name": "Psalms 149:3",
"text": " Let them praise his name with dancing; let them sing praises to him with tambourine and lyre. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 149,
"name": "Psalms 149:4",
"text": " For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people; he glorifies the afflicted with salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 149,
"name": "Psalms 149:5",
"text": " Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 149,
"name": "Psalms 149:6",
"text": " Let the extolling of God be in their throat, and a double-edged sword in their hand, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 149,
"name": "Psalms 149:7",
"text": " to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 149,
"name": "Psalms 149:8",
"text": " to bind their kings with chains and their \u231enobles\u231f with fetters of iron, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 149,
"name": "Psalms 149:9",
"text": " to execute on them the judgment that is decreed. This will be honor for all his faithful ones; Praise Yah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 150,
"name": "Psalms 150",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 150,
"name": "Psalms 150:1",
"text": " Praise Yah. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty firmament. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 150,
"name": "Psalms 150:2",
"text": " Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to the abundance of his greatness. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 150,
"name": "Psalms 150:3",
"text": " Praise him with blast of horn; praise him with harp and lyre. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 150,
"name": "Psalms 150:4",
"text": " Praise him with tambourine and dancing; praise him with strings and flute. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 150,
"name": "Psalms 150:5",
"text": " Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with clashing cymbals. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 150,
"name": "Psalms 150:6",
"text": " Every breathing thing, let it praise Yah. Praise Yah. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Proverbs",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:1",
"text": " Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:2",
"text": " To know wisdom and instruction, to understand sayings of understanding, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:3",
"text": " to gain \u231einsightful instruction\u231f, righteousness and justice and equity, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:4",
"text": " to give shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and purpose to the young, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:5",
"text": " may the wise hear and increase learning, and the one who understands gain direction, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:6",
"text": " to understand a proverb and an expression, words of wisdom and their riddles. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:7",
"text": " Fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; wisdom and instruction, fools despise. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:8",
"text": " My child, may you keep your father\u2019s instruction, and do not reject your mother\u2019s teachings, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:9",
"text": " for they are a garland of favor for your head, and pendants for your neck. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:10",
"text": " My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:11",
"text": " If they say, \u201cCome with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:12",
"text": " Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive and whole, \u231elike those who descend to the pit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:13",
"text": " We shall find all precious wealth, we shall fill our houses with booty, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:14",
"text": " you shall throw your lot in our midst, there will be one purse for all of us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:15",
"text": " My child, do not walk in their way. Keep your foot from their paths, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:16",
"text": " for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:17",
"text": " for \u201cin vain is the net scattered, in the sight of any \u231ewinged bird\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:18",
"text": " They lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:19",
"text": " Thus are the ways of all who are greedy for gain\u2014 it will take the life of its possessors. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:20",
"text": " Wisdom calls out in the streets, in the squares she raises her voice. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:21",
"text": " On a \u231ebusy corner\u231f she cries out, at the entrances of the gates in the city, she speaks her sayings: "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:22",
"text": " \u201c\u231eHow long\u231f, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge? "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:23",
"text": " May you turn to my argument! Behold, I shall pour out my spirit upon you; I will make my words known to you. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:24",
"text": " Because I called out and you refused me, I stretched out my hand, yet there is none who heeds. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:25",
"text": " You have ignored all my counsel, and my reproof you are not willing to accept. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:26",
"text": " I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic comes upon you. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:27",
"text": " When your panic comes like a storm, and your calamity arrives like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:28",
"text": " then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:29",
"text": " Since they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:30",
"text": " they were not willing to accept my counsel, they despised all my reproof. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:31",
"text": " They shall eat from the fruit of their way, and they shall be sated from their own schemes, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:32",
"text": " for the waywardness of the simple ones will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Proverbs 1:33",
"text": " Whoever listens to me will dwell in security and rest securely from dread and disaster.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:1",
"text": " My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:2",
"text": " in order to incline your ear toward wisdom, then you shall apply your heart to understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:3",
"text": " For if you cry out for understanding, if you lift your voice for insight, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:4",
"text": " if you seek her like silver and search her out \u231elike treasure\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:5",
"text": " then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and the knowledge of God you will find. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:6",
"text": " For Yahweh will give wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:7",
"text": " For the upright, he stores sound judgment, a shield for those who walk uprightly, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:8",
"text": " in order to guard paths of justice and keep the way of his faithful ones. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:9",
"text": " Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness\u2014every good course\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:10",
"text": " for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:11",
"text": " Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:12",
"text": " in order to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:13",
"text": " those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:14",
"text": " those who are happy to do evil, for they delight in the deviousness of evil, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:15",
"text": " \u231ewho are crooked in their ways\u231f, and devious in their paths; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:16",
"text": " in order to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman who flatters with her sayings, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:17",
"text": " she who forsakes the partner of her youth and has forgotten the covenant of her God, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:18",
"text": " for her house sinks to death, and to the dead are her paths. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:19",
"text": " Of all who go to her, none shall return, nor do they reach paths of life. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:20",
"text": " So that you will walk on the road of those who are good, and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:21",
"text": " For those who are upright will dwell in the land, and those who are blameless will remain in it. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Proverbs 2:22",
"text": " And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:1",
"text": " My child, do not forget my instruction, and may your heart guard my commands. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:2",
"text": " For length of days, years of life, and peace they shall add to you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:3",
"text": " May loyal love and truth not forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them upon your heart. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:4",
"text": " And you shall find favor and good sense in the eyes of God and humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:5",
"text": " \u231eTrust Yahweh\u231f with all your heart; do not lean toward your own understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:6",
"text": " In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will straighten your paths. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:7",
"text": " Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Yahweh and retreat from evil. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:8",
"text": " There shall be healing for your \u231eflesh\u231f, and refreshment for your body. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:9",
"text": " Honor Yahweh from your substance, and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:10",
"text": " and your barns shall be full of plenty, and your vats shall burst with new wine. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:11",
"text": " Do not despise the discipline of Yahweh, my child. Do not be weary of his reproof "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:12",
"text": " because whomever Yahweh will love, he will rebuke, as a father delights in his son. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:13",
"text": " Happy is \u231ethe one\u231f who finds wisdom, and one who obtains understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:14",
"text": " For her income is better than the income of silver, and her revenue than that of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:15",
"text": " She is more precious than rubies, and all your desires shall not compare with her. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:16",
"text": " Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:17",
"text": " Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:18",
"text": " She is a tree of life for those who seize her; those who take hold of her are considered happy. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:19",
"text": " Yahweh in wisdom founded the earth; he established the heavens in understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:20",
"text": " With his knowledge, depths broke open, and clouds dropped dew. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:21",
"text": " My child, may they not escape from your \u231esight\u231f; may you keep sound wisdom and prudence. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:22",
"text": " They shall be life for your soul and adornment for your neck. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:23",
"text": " Then you will walk in the confidence of your ways, and your foot will not stumble. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:24",
"text": " If you sit down, you will not panic, and if you lie down, then your sleep shall be sweet. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:25",
"text": " Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or the storm of wickedness that will come. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:26",
"text": " Yahweh will be \u231eyour confidence\u231f and guard your foot from capture. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:27",
"text": " Do not withhold good from its owner when it is in the power of your hand to do. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:28",
"text": " Do not say to your neighbor, \u201cGo and return and tomorrow I will give it,\u201d \u231ewhen it is with you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:29",
"text": " Do not plot harm against your neighbor who dwells in confidence beside you. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:30",
"text": " Do not quarrel with anyone without cause, when he did not do you harm. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:31",
"text": " Do not envy a man of violence, and do not choose any of his ways, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:32",
"text": " for he who is perverse is an abomination of Yahweh, but those who are upright are his confidence. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:33",
"text": " The curse of Yahweh is on the house of the wicked, and the abode of the righteous ones he blesses. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:34",
"text": " With those who scorn, he is scornful, but to those who are humble, he gives favor. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Proverbs 3:35",
"text": " They will inherit the honor of the wise, but stubborn fools, disgrace. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:1",
"text": " Children, listen to the instruction of a father, and be attentive in order to know insight. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:2",
"text": " For I have given you good instruction; do not forsake my teaching. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:3",
"text": " When I was a son to my father, tender and alone before my mother, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:4",
"text": " he taught me and said to me, \u201cMay your heart hold fast to my words; guard my commandments and live. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:5",
"text": " Get wisdom and insight; do not forget and do not turn from the sayings of my mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:6",
"text": " Do not forsake her\u2014then she will guard you; love her and she will keep you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:7",
"text": " The beginning of wisdom: Get wisdom! With all that is in your possession, gain insight. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:8",
"text": " Cherish her and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:9",
"text": " She will give a garland for your head; she shall bestow a crown of glory upon you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:10",
"text": " Listen, my child, take my sayings, and the years of your life shall be great. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:11",
"text": " In the way of wisdom I have instructed you; I have led you in the path of uprightness. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:12",
"text": " \u231eWhen you walk\u231f, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:13",
"text": " Seize the instruction! Do not let go! Guard her, for she is your life. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:14",
"text": " In the path of the wicked do not go; do not walk in the way of those who do evil. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:15",
"text": " Avoid it; do not transgress it; turn away from it and pass by. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:16",
"text": " For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:17",
"text": " For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:18",
"text": " But the path of the righteous ones is like the light of dawn, leading and shining until the day \u231eis full\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:19",
"text": " The way of the wicked ones is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:20",
"text": " My child, be attentive to my words; to my sayings incline your ear. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:21",
"text": " May they not escape from your \u231esight\u231f; keep them in the midst of your heart. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:22",
"text": " For they are life to those who find them and healing \u231eto the entire body\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:23",
"text": " With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it comes the source of life. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:24",
"text": " Remove from yourself \u231edeceitful speech\u231f, and abolish \u231edevious talk\u231f from yourself. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:25",
"text": " May your eyes look forward and your gaze be straight before you. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:26",
"text": " May the path of your foot be balanced and all your ways be sure. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Proverbs 4:27",
"text": " Do not swerve right or left; remove your foot from evil. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:1",
"text": "My child, be attentive to my wisdom, and to my understanding incline your ear; "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:2",
"text": " in order to keep prudence, and knowledge will guard your lips. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:3",
"text": " For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:4",
"text": " But her end is bitter as the wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:5",
"text": " Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold of Sheol. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:6",
"text": " She does not observe the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:7",
"text": " Now, O children, listen to me; do not depart from the sayings of my mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:8",
"text": " Keep your paths far from her, and do not go near to the door of her house, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:9",
"text": " lest you give your honor to the others, and your years to the merciless, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:10",
"text": " lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:11",
"text": " and you groan at your end, when your flesh and body are consumed, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:12",
"text": " and say \u201cHow I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:13",
"text": " and \u201cI did not listen to the voice of my teachers, and I did not incline my ear to my instructors! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:14",
"text": " I was almost at utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:15",
"text": " Drink water from your own cistern and flowing waters from inside your own well. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:16",
"text": " Shall your springs be scattered outward? In the streets, shall there be streams of water? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:17",
"text": " May they be yours alone, and not for strangers who are with you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:18",
"text": " May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:19",
"text": " She is a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you \u231ealways\u231f; by her love may you be intoxicated continually. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:20",
"text": " Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreigner? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:21",
"text": " For before the eyes of Yahweh are \u231ehuman ways\u231f, and all his paths he examines. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:22",
"text": " His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer, and in the vanity of his sin he shall be caught. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Proverbs 5:23",
"text": " He shall die \u231efor lack of\u231f discipline, and in the greatness of his folly he shall be lost. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:1",
"text": " My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, if you have bound \u231eyourself\u231f to the stranger, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:2",
"text": " if you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, if you are caught by the sayings of your mouth, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:3",
"text": " do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into \u231ethe palm of your neighbor\u2019s hand\u231f: Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:4",
"text": " Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:5",
"text": " Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:6",
"text": " Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:7",
"text": " It has no chief, officer, or ruler. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:8",
"text": " In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:9",
"text": " How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:10",
"text": " A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:11",
"text": " like a \u231erobber\u231f shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:12",
"text": " A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with \u231edeceitful speech\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:13",
"text": " Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:14",
"text": " perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:15",
"text": " Upon \u231esuch a man\u231f, suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:16",
"text": " There are six things Yahweh hates, and seven things are abominations of his soul: "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:17",
"text": " haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:18",
"text": " a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:19",
"text": " a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:20",
"text": " My child, keep the commandment of your father, and do not disregard the instruction of your mother. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:21",
"text": " Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:22",
"text": " \u231eWhen you walk\u231f, she will lead you, \u231eWhen you lie down\u231f, she will watch over you, and when you awake, she will converse with you. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:23",
"text": " For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light, and the way of life is the reproof of discipline, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:24",
"text": " in order to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of the tongue of \u231ean adulteress\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:25",
"text": " Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:26",
"text": " For the price of a woman, a prostitute, is the price of a loaf of bread, but the \u231ewoman belonging to a man\u231f hunts precious life. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:27",
"text": " Can a man carry fire in his lap, and his clothes not burn? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:28",
"text": " If a man walks upon the hot coals, will his feet not be burned? "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:29",
"text": " Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:30",
"text": " People do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:31",
"text": " But if he is found, he will pay sevenfold, every possession of his house he shall give. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:32",
"text": " He who commits adultery with a woman lacks \u231esense\u231f, he destroys himself who does it. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:33",
"text": " A wound and dishonor he will find, and his disgrace will not be wiped out. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:34",
"text": " For jealousy is the fury of a husband, and he will not show restraint on the day of revenge. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Proverbs 6:35",
"text": " He will not accept \u231eany compensation\u231f, and he will not be willing, though the bribe is large. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:1",
"text": " My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:2",
"text": " Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like the \u231eapple of your eye\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:3",
"text": " Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:4",
"text": " Say to wisdom, \u201cyou are my sister,\u201d and you shall call insight, \u201c\u231eintimate friend\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:5",
"text": " In order to guard yourself from \u231ean adulteress\u231f, from the foreigner who \u231emakes her words smooth\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:6",
"text": " For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked down. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:7",
"text": " And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking \u231esense\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:8",
"text": " passing on the street \u231eat\u231f her corner, and he takes the road to her house, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:9",
"text": " at twilight, at the day\u2019s evening, in the midst of night and the darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:10",
"text": " Then behold! A woman comes to meet him with the garment of a prostitute and \u231ea secret heart\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:11",
"text": " She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at her house. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:12",
"text": " Now in the street, now in the square, \u231eat\u231f every corner she lies in wait. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:13",
"text": " She took hold of him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:14",
"text": " \u201cSacrifices of peace offerings are upon me; \u231etoday\u231f I completed my vows. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:15",
"text": " So I have come out to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:16",
"text": " With coverings I have adorned my couch, spreads of the linen of Egypt; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:17",
"text": " I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:18",
"text": " Come, let us take our fill of love making, until the morning let us delight in love. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:19",
"text": " For there is no man in his home; he has gone on a \u231elong journey\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:20",
"text": " The bag of money he took in his hand, for on the day of the full moon he will come home.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:21",
"text": " She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:22",
"text": " He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:23",
"text": " until an arrow pierces his \u231eentrails\u231f, like a bird rushing into a snare, but he does not know that \u231eit will cost him his life\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:24",
"text": " And now, my children, listen to me, and be attentive to the sayings of my mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:25",
"text": " May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:26",
"text": " For many slain she has laid low, and countless are all of her killings. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Proverbs 7:27",
"text": " The ways of Sheol are her house, descending to chambers of death. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:1",
"text": " Does not wisdom call, and understanding raise its voice? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:2",
"text": " \u231eAtop the heights\u231f beside the road, at the crossroads she stands. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:3",
"text": " Beside gates, before towns, at the entrance of doors, she cries out: "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:4",
"text": " \u201cTo you, O \u231epeople\u231f, I call, and my cry is to the children of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:5",
"text": " Learn prudence, O simple ones; fools, learn \u231eintelligence\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:6",
"text": " Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:7",
"text": " My mouth will utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:8",
"text": " All sayings of my mouth are in righteousness; none of them are twisted and crooked. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:9",
"text": " All of them are straight to him who understands, and upright to those who find knowledge. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:10",
"text": " Take my teaching and not silver; may you choose knowledge rather than choice gold. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:11",
"text": " For wisdom is better than jewels, and all desires shall not compare with her. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:12",
"text": " I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:13",
"text": " The fear of Yahweh is hatred of evil, pride, and arrogance and an evil way. And I hate a mouth of perversity. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:14",
"text": " \u231eAdvice and sound judgment\u231f are mine; I am understanding, \u231estrength is mine\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:15",
"text": " By me kings reign, and rulers decree righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:16",
"text": " By me rulers rule, and nobles\u2014all judges of righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:17",
"text": " I love \u231ethose who love me\u231f, and those who seek me diligently shall find me. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:18",
"text": " Fortune and glory are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:19",
"text": " My fruit is better than gold, even refined gold, and my yield than choice silver. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:20",
"text": " In the way of righteousness I walk, in the midst of paths of justice, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:21",
"text": " in order to endow those who love me with wealth, and I will fill their treasuries. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:22",
"text": " \u201cYahweh possessed me, the first of his ways, before his acts \u231eof old\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:23",
"text": " From eternity, I was set up from the first, from the beginning of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:24",
"text": " When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs of \u231eabounding\u231f water. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:25",
"text": " Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:26",
"text": " When he had not yet made earth and fields, or the first dust of the world, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:27",
"text": " \u231ewhen he established\u231f the heavens, there I was, \u231ewhen he drew\u231f a circle upon the face of the deep, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:28",
"text": " \u231ewhen he made\u231f skies from above, when he founded fountains of the deep, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:29",
"text": " \u231ewhen he assigned\u231f his limits to the sea, that waters shall not transgress his \u231ecommand\u231f, \u231ewhen he marked\u231f the foundations of the earth, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:30",
"text": " I was \u231ebeside\u231f him, a master workman, and I was delighting day by day, rejoicing before him \u231ealways\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:31",
"text": " rejoicing in the world of his earth, and my delight was with the children of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:32",
"text": " \u201cAnd now, children, listen to me; happy are those who will keep my ways. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:33",
"text": " Hear teaching and be wise; do not neglect it. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:34",
"text": " Happy is the person who listens to me, in order to keep watch at my doors day by day, in order to guard the frames of my entrances. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:35",
"text": " For he who finds me is he who finds life, and he obtains favor from Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Proverbs 8:36",
"text": " But he who misses me injures himself. All those who hate me love death.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:1",
"text": " Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:2",
"text": " She has slaughtered her slaughtering, mixed her wine, and also set her table. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:3",
"text": " She has sent her servant girls, she calls upon the wings of the high places of town, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:4",
"text": " \u201cWhoever is simple, let him turn here.\u201d As for the one who lacks \u231esense\u231f, she says to him, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:5",
"text": " \u201cCome, eat with my bread; drink with the wine I have mixed. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:6",
"text": " Lay aside simplicity and live; walk in the way of understanding.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:7",
"text": " He who corrects a scoffer gains abuse for himself, and he who rebukes the wicked \u231egets hurt\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:8",
"text": " Do not rebuke a scoffer, lest he hate you; rebuke the wise and he will love you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:9",
"text": " Give to a wise one and he will become more wise; \u231eteach\u231f a righteous one and he will increase learning. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:10",
"text": " The start of wisdom is fear of Yahweh, and knowledge of the Holy One, insight. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:11",
"text": " For by me your days shall increase, and years of life shall multiply for you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:12",
"text": " If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, alone you shall bear it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:13",
"text": " A woman of foolishness is loud, simple, and does not know \u231eit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:14",
"text": " She sits at the door of her house, upon a throne at the high places of town, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:15",
"text": " in order to call to those who pass by the road, those who go straight on their way: "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:16",
"text": " \u201cWhoever is simple, may he turn here!\u201d As for he who lacks \u231esense\u231f, she says to him, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:17",
"text": " \u201cStolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Proverbs 9:18",
"text": " But he does not know that the dead are there, in the depths of Sheol are her guests. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:1",
"text": " The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:2",
"text": " Treasures of wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:3",
"text": " Yahweh will not cause a righteous person to go hungry, but the craving of the wicked he will thwart. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:4",
"text": " A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent enriches. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:5",
"text": " He who gathers in the summer is a child who is prudent; he who sleeps at the harvest is a child who brings shame. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:6",
"text": " Blessings belong to the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:7",
"text": " The memory of righteousness is like a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:8",
"text": " A heart of wisdom will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:9",
"text": " Whoever walks in integrity will walk securely, but whoever follows perversity, his ways will be made known. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:10",
"text": " The winking of an eye causes trouble, and the foolishness of lips comes to ruin. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:11",
"text": " A fountain of life is a mouth of righteousness, and a mouth of wickedness conceals violence. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:12",
"text": " Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers over all offenses. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:13",
"text": " On the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who lacks \u231esense\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:14",
"text": " Those who are wise lay up knowledge, but to the mouth of the fool, ruin draws near. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:15",
"text": " The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength; the ruin of the poor is their poverty. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:16",
"text": " The wage of the righteous leads to life; the gain of the wicked to sin. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:17",
"text": " On the path to life is he who guards instruction, but he who rejects rebuke goes astray. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:18",
"text": " He who conceals hatred has lips of deceit, and he who utters slander\u2014he is a fool. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:19",
"text": " In many words, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:20",
"text": " Choice silver is a tongue of righteousness, a heart of wickedness is \u231eof little worth\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:21",
"text": " Lips of righteousness feed many, but fools \u231edie for lack of sense\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:22",
"text": " The blessing of Yahweh makes one rich, and he does not increase sorrow with it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:23",
"text": " It is like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:24",
"text": " The dread of the wicked will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:25",
"text": " With the passing of the tempest, there is no wickedness, but the righteous have a foundation forever. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:26",
"text": " Like vinegar to the tooth and like smoke to the eyes, thus is the lazy to one who employs him. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:27",
"text": " The fear of Yahweh adds life, but the years of the wicked are shortened. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:28",
"text": " The hope of the righteous is gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nothing. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:29",
"text": " A stronghold for the upright is the way of Yahweh, but ruin belongs to \u231eevildoers\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:30",
"text": " The righteous one is forever; he will not be removed. But the wicked will not remain in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:31",
"text": " The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a tongue of perversity will be cut off. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Proverbs 10:32",
"text": " The lips of the righteous know the acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, the perverse. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:1",
"text": "Balances of deceit are an abomination of Yahweh, but \u231ean accurate weight\u231f delights him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:2",
"text": " Pride comes, then disgrace comes, but wisdom is with the humble. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:3",
"text": " The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:4",
"text": " Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:5",
"text": " The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:6",
"text": " The righteousness of the upright will save them, but by a scheme the treacherous will be taken captive. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:7",
"text": " With the death of a wicked person, hope will die, and the expectation of the godless perishes. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:8",
"text": " The righteous is delivered from trouble, but the wicked enters into it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:9",
"text": " With a mouth, the godless shall destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:10",
"text": " When good is with the righteous, the city rejoices, and with the perishing of the wicked, jubilation. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:11",
"text": " By the blessing of the upright, a city will be exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked, it will be overthrown. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:12",
"text": " He who lacks \u231esense\u231f belittles his neighbor, but a person of intelligence will remain silent. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:13",
"text": " A gossip walks about telling a secret, but the trustworthy in spirit keeps the matter. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:14",
"text": " Where there is no guidance, a nation shall fall, but there is safety in an abundance of counsel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:15",
"text": " He will suffer trouble when he loans to a stranger, but he who refuses a pledge is safe. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:16",
"text": " A woman of grace receives honor, but the ruthless gets wealth. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:17",
"text": " A person of kindness rewards himself, but a cruel person harms his own flesh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:18",
"text": " The wicked earns \u231edeceptive gain\u231f, but he who sows righteousness, a \u231etrue reward\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:19",
"text": " He who is steadfast in righteousness is to life as he who pursues evil is to death. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:20",
"text": " An abomination of Yahweh are the \u231ecrooked of heart\u231f, but his delight are \u231ethose with blameless ways\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:21",
"text": " \u231eRest assured\u231f, the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:22",
"text": " A ring of gold in the snout of a pig is a woman who is beautiful but without discretion. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:23",
"text": " The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked, wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:24",
"text": " There is one who gives yet \u231egrows richer\u231f, but he who withholds \u231ewhat is right\u231f only finds need. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:25",
"text": " A person of blessing will be enriched, and he who gives water also will be refreshed. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:26",
"text": " He who withholds grain, the people curse him, but a blessing is for the head of him who sells. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:27",
"text": " He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who inquires of evil, it will come to him. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:28",
"text": " He who trusts in his wealth is he who will fall, but like a green leaf the righteous will flourish. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:29",
"text": " He who brings trouble to his household, he will inherit wind, and a fool will serve the wise of heart. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:30",
"text": " The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, and he who captures souls is wise. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Proverbs 11:31",
"text": " If the righteous on earth will be repaid, \u231ehow much more\u231f the wicked and sinner. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:1",
"text": "He who loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates rebuke is stupid. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:2",
"text": " The good obtains favor from Yahweh, but anyone who schemes, he condemns. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:3",
"text": " A person will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:4",
"text": " A woman of strength is the crown of her master, but like rot in his bones is she who brings shame. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:5",
"text": " The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:6",
"text": " The words of the wicked are an ambush of blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:7",
"text": " The wicked are overthrown and \u231eare no more\u231f, but the house of the righteous shall stand. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:8",
"text": " For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse \u231emind\u231f will be despised. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:9",
"text": " It is better to be lowly and a servant \u231eto someone\u231f than self-glorifying and lacking food. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:10",
"text": " The righteous knows the life of his animal, but the compassion of the wicked is cruel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:11",
"text": " He who works his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows worthless things lacks \u231esense\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:12",
"text": " The wicked covets the proceeds of evil, but the root of the righteous \u231ebears fruit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:13",
"text": " By the transgression of lips, evil is ensnared, but the righteous escapes from trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:14",
"text": " From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he is filled with good, and the reward of \u231ea man\u2019s labor\u231f will return to him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:15",
"text": " The way of a fool is upright in his own eyes, but he who listens to advice is wise. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:16",
"text": " As for a fool, \u231eon that very day\u231f he makes his anger known, but he who ignores an insult is prudent. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:17",
"text": " He who will speak truth will reveal righteousness, but the witness of falsehood, deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:18",
"text": " There is one who speaks rashly, like the thrust of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:19",
"text": " A lip of truth endures forever, but a tongue of deception lasts only a moment. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:20",
"text": " Deceit is in the heart of \u231ethose who plan\u231f evil, but to \u231ethose who plan\u231f peace, there is joy. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:21",
"text": " \u231eNo evil will happen\u231f to the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:22",
"text": " An abomination of Yahweh are lips of deceit, but they who act faithfully are his delight. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:23",
"text": " A clever person conceals knowledge, but the heart of a fool announces folly. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:24",
"text": " The hand of the diligent ones will rule, but the lazy will belong to forced labor. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:25",
"text": " Anxiety in the heart of a man will weigh him down, but a good word will cheer him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:26",
"text": " A righteous person will seek out his neighbor, but the way of the wicked will lead them astray. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:27",
"text": " The lazy will not roast his game, but diligence is the precious wealth of a man. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Proverbs 12:28",
"text": " On the road of righteousness is life, and on the way of the path, may there be no death. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:1",
"text": "A wise child hears the discipline of a father, but a scoffer does not listen to a rebuke. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:2",
"text": " From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he shall eat what is good, but the desire of the treacherous, wrongdoing. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:3",
"text": " He who keeps his mouth guards his life; he who opens his lips, ruin belongs to him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:4",
"text": " The soul of the lazy craves, but there is nothing, but the person of diligence is richly supplied. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:5",
"text": " The righteous hates a word of falsehood; the wicked will bring shame and \u231edisgrace\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:6",
"text": " Righteousness will guard the upright of way, but wickedness will overthrow sin. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:7",
"text": " There is one who acts rich but \u231ehas nothing\u231f; another who pretends to be poor but has wealth. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:8",
"text": " The ransom of the life of a man is his wealth, but the poor does not receive a threat. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:9",
"text": " The light of the righteous will rejoice, but the lamp of the wicked will die out. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:10",
"text": " Only by insolence is strife set up, and wisdom is with those who take advice. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:11",
"text": " Wealth gained from haste will dwindle, but he who gathers \u231elittle by little\u231f will increase it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:12",
"text": " Hope that is deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:13",
"text": " He who despises a word will bring destruction on himself, but he who respects a commandment will be rewarded. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:14",
"text": " The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, in order to avoid the snares of death. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:15",
"text": " Good sense grants favor, but the way of the faithless is coarse. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:16",
"text": " Anyone who is clever will act with intelligence, but the fool will display folly. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:17",
"text": " A messenger of wickedness will fall into trouble, but an envoy of the faithful brings healing. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:18",
"text": " Poverty and disgrace belong to him who ignores instruction, but he who guards reproof will be honored. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:19",
"text": " A desire \u231efulfilled\u231f will be sweet to the soul, but an abomination of fools is turning from evil. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:20",
"text": " Walk with the wise and be wise, but as for the companion of fools, he will suffer harm. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:21",
"text": " Misfortune will pursue sinners, but the righteous \u231ewill be rewarded with prosperity\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:22",
"text": " He who is good will leave an inheritance to \u231ehis grandchildren\u231f, and stored up for the righteous is the wealth of a sinner. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:23",
"text": " There is much food in the field of the poor, but \u231eit is swept away\u231f by \u231einjustice\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:24",
"text": " He who withholds his rod hates his child, but he who loves him \u231egives him\u231f discipline. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Proverbs 13:25",
"text": " The righteous eats to satisfy his life, but the belly of the wicked will lack. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:1",
"text": "The \u231ewisest of women\u231f builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her hands. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:2",
"text": " He who walks in uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is devious in his ways displeases him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:3",
"text": " In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride, but the lips of the wise preserve them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:4",
"text": " \u231eWhen there are no\u231f oxen the manger is empty, but an abundance of crops comes by the strength of an ox. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:5",
"text": " A faithful witness does not lie, but he who breathes out falsehood is a witness of deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:6",
"text": " A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge \u231ecomes easily to him who understands\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:7",
"text": " Leave \u231ethe presence of a foolish man\u231f, for you will not come to know \u231ewords of knowledge\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:8",
"text": " The wisdom of the clever is understanding his ways, but the folly of fools is deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:9",
"text": " Fools mock the guilt offering, but among the upright, it is favorable. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:10",
"text": " The heart knows the bitterness of its soul, but in its joy, it will not share itself with a stranger. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:11",
"text": " The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:12",
"text": " There is a way that seems upright \u231eto\u231f a man, but its end is the way of death. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:13",
"text": " Even in laughter, a heart may be sad, and the end of joy may be grief. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:14",
"text": " From his ways, the perverse of heart will be satisfied, and \u231efrom his own\u231f, so shall a good man. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:15",
"text": " The simple will believe every word, but the clever will consider his step. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:16",
"text": " The wise is cautious and turns from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is confident. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:17",
"text": " He who is short of \u231etemper\u231f will act foolishly, and the man who schemes will be hated. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:18",
"text": " The simple are adorned with folly, but the clever are crowned with knowledge. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:19",
"text": " The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:20",
"text": " The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the lovers of the rich are many. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:21",
"text": " He who despises his neighbor is a sinner, but he who has mercy on the poor blesses him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:22",
"text": " Have they not erred, those who plan evil? But loyalty and faithfulness belong to those who plan good. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:23",
"text": " In all toil, there is profit, but the \u231etalk\u231f of lips leads only to poverty. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:24",
"text": " The crown of the wise is their wealth; the folly of fools is folly. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:25",
"text": " He who saves lives is a witness of truth, but he who utters lies is a betrayer. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:26",
"text": " In the fear of Yahweh, there is confidence of strength, and for his children, there will be refuge. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:27",
"text": " The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, in order to turn from the snares of death. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:28",
"text": " In the multitude of people is the glory of the king, but without a population, a prince is ruined. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:29",
"text": " He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the hasty of spirit exalts folly. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:30",
"text": " A heart of tranquility is life to the flesh, but causes bones of passion to rot. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:31",
"text": " He who oppresses the poor insults him who made him, but he who has mercy on the poor honors him. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:32",
"text": " By his evildoing, the wicked will be overthrown, and the righteous will find refuge in his death. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:33",
"text": " In the heart of him who has understanding, wisdom rests, but even in the midst of fools it becomes known. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:34",
"text": " Righteousness will exalt a nation, but sin is a reproach to a people. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Proverbs 14:35",
"text": " The favor of a king is for the servant who deals wisely, but his wrath will be on him who acts shamefully. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:1",
"text": "A soft answer will turn away wrath, but a word of trouble will stir \u231eanger\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:2",
"text": " The tongue of the wise will dispense knowledge, but the mouth of fools will pour out folly. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:3",
"text": " In every place, the eyes of Yahweh keep watch over the evil and the good. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:4",
"text": " Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it causes a break in spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:5",
"text": " A fool will despise the instruction of his father, but he who guards reproof is prudent. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:6",
"text": " In the house of the righteous there is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:7",
"text": " The lips of the wise will spread knowledge, but the heart of fools, not so. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:8",
"text": " The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:9",
"text": " An abomination of Yahweh is the way of the wicked, but he who pursues righteousness he will love. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:10",
"text": " Severe discipline belongs to him who forsakes the way; he who hates a rebuke will die. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:11",
"text": " Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh, \u231ehow much more\u231f the hearts of the children of men! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:12",
"text": " A scoffer does not like \u231ehis rebuke\u231f; to the wise he will not go. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:13",
"text": " A heart of gladness will make good \u231ecountenance\u231f, but in sorrow of heart a spirit is broken. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:14",
"text": " The heart of him who understands will seek knowledge, but the faces of fools, they will feed on folly. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:15",
"text": " All the days of the poor are hard, but goodness of heart is a continuous feast. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:16",
"text": " Better is little with the fear of Yahweh than great treasure and trouble with it. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:17",
"text": " Better is a dinner of vegetables when love is there than a fattened ox and hatred with it. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:18",
"text": " A man who is hot-tempered will stir up strife, but he who is slow to \u231eanger\u231f, he will calm contention. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:19",
"text": " The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:20",
"text": " A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a \u231efoolish person\u231f, he despises his mother. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:21",
"text": " Folly is a joy to him who lacks \u231esense\u231f, and a person of understanding \u231ewill walk upright\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:22",
"text": " Plans go wrong when there is no counsel, but with many advisors it will succeed. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:23",
"text": " Joy belongs to a man with answers in his mouth, and a word in its time, how good it is! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:24",
"text": " The path of life leads upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:25",
"text": " The house of the proud, Yahweh will tear it down, but he will maintain the \u231eproperty line\u231f of the widow. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:26",
"text": " Plans of evil are an abomination of Yahweh, but gracious words are pure. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:27",
"text": " He who makes trouble for his house is he who is greedy for unjust gain, but he who hates bribes will live. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:28",
"text": " A heart of righteousness will ponder the answer, but a mouth of wickedness will pour out deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:29",
"text": " Yahweh is far from the wicked, but the prayers of the righteous he will hear. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:30",
"text": " From the light of the eyes, the heart will rejoice, and good news will enliven the bones. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:31",
"text": " The ear of him who listens to admonitions of life, in the midst of the wise it will lodge. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:32",
"text": " He who ignores instruction despises himself, but he who hears admonition gains heart. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Proverbs 15:33",
"text": " Fear of Yahweh is the instruction of the wise, and before honor comes humility. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:1",
"text": "To mortals belong the plans of the heart, but from Yahweh comes the answer of the tongue. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:2",
"text": " All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:3",
"text": " Commit your work to Yahweh, and your plans will be established. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:4",
"text": " All Yahweh has made is for his purpose, and even the wicked for the day of trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:5",
"text": " An abomination of Yahweh are all who are arrogant of heart; \u231erest assured\u231f, he will not go unpunished. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:6",
"text": " By loyalty and faithfulness, iniquity will be covered over, and by fear of Yahweh \u231eone turns\u231f from evil. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:7",
"text": " When the ways of a man are pleasing to Yahweh, even his enemies he will cause to make peace with him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:8",
"text": " Better is little with righteousness than great income with no justice. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:9",
"text": " The \u231emind\u231f of a person will plan his ways, and Yahweh will direct his steps. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:10",
"text": " A decision is upon the lips of a king; in judgment his mouth will not sin. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:11",
"text": " A balance and scales of justice belong to Yahweh; all the weights of the bag are his work. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:12",
"text": " An abomination to kings is doing evil, for by righteousness the throne will be established. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:13",
"text": " The delight of kings are the lips of righteousness, and he who speaks what is upright he will love. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:14",
"text": " The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but one who is wise will appease it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:15",
"text": " In the light of the face of the king there is life, and his favor is like a cloud of spring rain. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:16",
"text": " Getting wisdom: \u231ehow much\u231f better than gold! And getting understanding: it is chosen \u231eover\u231f silver. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:17",
"text": " The highway of the upright, it turns from evil, he who guards himself keeps his way. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:18",
"text": " Before destruction comes pride, and before a fall, a haughty spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:19",
"text": " Better a lowly spirit with the poor than dividing the spoil with the proud. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:20",
"text": " He who is attentive to a matter will find goodness, and he who trusts in Yahweh, his own happiness. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:21",
"text": " The wise of heart is called perceptive, but he who is pleasant of lips will increase persuasiveness. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:22",
"text": " A fountain of life is wisdom for its owner, but the instruction of fools is folly. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:23",
"text": " The heart of the wise will make his mouth judicious, and upon his lips, it will add persuasiveness. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:24",
"text": " Pleasant sayings are a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and healing to the bones. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:25",
"text": " There is a way that seems upright \u231eto\u231f a man, but its end is the way of death. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:26",
"text": " The life of a worker works for him, for his \u231ehunger\u231f urges him. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:27",
"text": " A man of wickedness concocts evil, and his lips are like a scorching fire. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:28",
"text": " A person of perversity will spread dissent, and he who whispers separates a close friend. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:29",
"text": " A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way that is not good. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:30",
"text": " He who winks his eyes does so in order to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:31",
"text": " A crown of glory is gray hair; by a righteous life it is gained. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:32",
"text": " He who is slow to anger is better than him who is mighty, and he who controls his spirit than him who captures a city. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Proverbs 16:33",
"text": " The lot will be cast into the lap, but all of its decisions are from Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:1",
"text": "Better a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house filled with feasts of strife. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:2",
"text": " A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully, and in the midst of brothers he will share his inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:3",
"text": " A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace is for the gold, but Yahweh will test hearts. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:4",
"text": " He who does evil listens to lips of wickedness, and the liar gives heed to the tongue of mischief. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:5",
"text": " He who mocks the poor insults him who made him; he who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:6",
"text": " The crown of the elderly are \u231egrandchildren\u231f, and the glory of children is their fathers. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:7",
"text": " \u231eFine speech\u231f is not becoming a fool, \u231estill less\u231f is \u231efalse speech\u231f for a ruler. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:8",
"text": " The bribe is a stone of magic in the eyes of its owner; \u231eeverywhere\u231f he will turn, he will prosper. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:9",
"text": " He who forgives an affront fosters love, but he who waits on a matter will alienate a friend. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:10",
"text": " A rebuke strikes him who understands deeper than one hundred blows to a fool. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:11",
"text": " An evil person will seek only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:12",
"text": " May a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring and not a fool in his folly. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:13",
"text": " For he who returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:14",
"text": " Like the release of water is the beginning of strife; before it breaks out, stop the quarrel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:15",
"text": " He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, the two of them are both abominations of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:16",
"text": " Why is this? A price in the hand of a fool, in order to buy wisdom where there is no \u231esense\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:17",
"text": " The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:18",
"text": " A person who lacks \u231esense\u231f \u231epledges\u231f; he becomes security before his neighbor. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:19",
"text": " He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:20",
"text": " He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:21",
"text": " He who begets a fool, there is trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:22",
"text": " A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:23",
"text": " The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, in order to pervert the ways of justice. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:24",
"text": " He who understands sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:25",
"text": " A grief to his father is the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:26",
"text": " Also, imposing a fine on the righteous is not good, nor to flog nobles for uprightness. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:27",
"text": " He who spares his sayings knows knowledge, and a cool spirit is a man of understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Proverbs 17:28",
"text": " Even a fool who keeps silent \u231eshall be considered wise\u231f; he who closes his lips is intelligent. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:1",
"text": "He who is selfish seeks a craving; against all sound judgment he shows contempt. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:2",
"text": " A fool will not take pleasure in understanding, but in expressing his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:3",
"text": " With the coming of wickedness comes contempt also, and with dishonor, disgrace. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:4",
"text": " Deep waters are words of the mouth of a man; a gushing stream is a fountain of wisdom. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:5",
"text": " Being partial to faces of evil is not good, nor to subvert the righteous at the judgment. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:6",
"text": " The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:7",
"text": " The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:8",
"text": " The words of a whisper are like delicious morsels, and they themselves go down to inner parts of the body. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:9",
"text": " Even he who is slack in his work, he is brother to a master of destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:10",
"text": " A tower of strength is the name of Yahweh; into him the righteous will run and be safe. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:11",
"text": " The wealth of the rich is \u231ehis strong city\u231f, and like a wall, it is high in his imagination. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:12",
"text": " In the presence of destruction, the heart of a man will be haughty, but in the presence of honor, humble. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:13",
"text": " He who returns a word before he will hear, folly itself belongs to him as well as shame. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:14",
"text": " The spirit of a man will endure his sickness, but a broken spirit, who may bear it? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:15",
"text": " An intelligent \u231emind\u231f will acquire knowledge, and the ear of the wise will seek knowledge. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:16",
"text": " The gift of a person will open doors for him, and before the great, it gives him access. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:17",
"text": " The first in his dispute is deemed righteous, but his neighbor will come and examine him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:18",
"text": " The lot will put an end to disputes, and between powerful contenders it will decide. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:19",
"text": " A brother who is offended is worse than a city of strength, and quarrels are like the bars of a fortification. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:20",
"text": " From the fruit of a man\u2019s mouth, his stomach will be satisfied, as for the yield of his lips, it will satisfy. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:21",
"text": " Death and life are in the \u231epower\u231f of the tongue, and those who love her will eat of her fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:22",
"text": " He who finds a wife finds good, and he will obtain favor from Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:23",
"text": " The poor may speak entreaties, but the rich will answer roughly. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Proverbs 18:24",
"text": " A man of many friends will come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:1",
"text": "Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse \u231ein his speech\u231f and is a fool. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:2",
"text": " Also, a life without knowledge is not good, and he who moves quickly with his feet \u231emisses the mark\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:3",
"text": " As for the folly of humankind, its way leads to ruin, and against Yahweh his heart will rage. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:4",
"text": " Wealth adds many friends, but the poor will be left by his friends. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:5",
"text": " A witness of falsehood will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will not escape. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:6",
"text": " Many will seek favor before the generous, and everyone is the friend of a man of gifts. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:7",
"text": " All the brothers of the poor, if they hate him, how much more will his friends keep away from him. He pursues them with words, and they are gone. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:8",
"text": " He who acquires wisdom loves himself; he who guards understanding loves to find good. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:9",
"text": " A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will perish. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:10",
"text": " For a fool living in luxury is not fitting, any more than it is for a slave to rule over princes. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:11",
"text": " The understanding of a person makes him slow to his \u231eanger\u231f, and his glory overlooks offense. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:12",
"text": " The rage of a king growls like a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:13",
"text": " A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:14",
"text": " A house and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, but from Yahweh comes a woman who is prudent. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:15",
"text": " Laziness will bring on a deep sleep, and a person of idleness will suffer hunger. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:16",
"text": " He who guards commandments guards his life; he who is careless of his ways will be killed. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:17",
"text": " He who lends to Yahweh is he who is kind to the poor, and his benefits he will repay to him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:18",
"text": " Discipline your child, for there is hope, but on his destruction do not set your desire. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:19",
"text": " A hot-tempered person pays a penalty; if you rescue him, you will do it yet again. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:20",
"text": " Listen to advice and accept instruction so that you will gain wisdom for your \u231efuture\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:21",
"text": " Many plans are in the heart of a man, but the purpose of Yahweh will be established. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:22",
"text": " The craving of a man is his steadfast loyalty, and it is better to be poor than a \u231eliar\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:23",
"text": " Fear of Yahweh leads to life; he who is filled with it will rest\u2014he will not suffer harm. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:24",
"text": " A lazy person buries his hand in the dish, and even to his mouth he will not bring it back. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:25",
"text": " The scoffer you shall strike, and the simple, may they learn prudence, and reprove the intelligent and he will gain knowledge. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:26",
"text": " He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother, is a child who causes shame and brings reproach. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:27",
"text": " Cease to listen to instruction, my child, \u231eand you will stray\u231f from sayings of knowledge. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:28",
"text": " A worthless witness will mock justice, and the mouth of the wicked will devour iniquity. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Proverbs 19:29",
"text": " Judgments are prepared for the scoffers, and flogging for the back of fools. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:1",
"text": "Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and any who go astray by it are not wise. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:2",
"text": " Roaring like the lion is the dreaded anger of a king; he who provokes him forfeits his life. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:3",
"text": " It is honorable for the man to refrain from strife, but every fool will be quick to quarrel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:4",
"text": " The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there will be nothing. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:5",
"text": " Deep waters are like purpose in the heart of a man, and a man of understanding will draw it out. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:6",
"text": " Many a person will proclaim his loyalty for himself, but a man who is trustworthy, who can find? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:7",
"text": " He who walks in his integrity is righteous; happy are his children who follow him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:8",
"text": " A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:9",
"text": " Who will say \u201cI have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin\u201d? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:10",
"text": " Stone and stone, measure and measure, \u231eboth of them\u231f are an abomination of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:11",
"text": " Even by his acts, a \u231eyoung man\u231f will make himself known, whether his acts are pure and upright. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:12",
"text": " The ear that hears and the eye that sees, Yahweh has made \u231ethem both\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:13",
"text": " Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes and have plenty bread. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:14",
"text": " \u201cBad, bad,\u201d the buyer will say, but when one goes to him, then he will boast. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:15",
"text": " There is gold and many costly stones, but precious jewels are lips of knowledge. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:16",
"text": " Take his garment, for he has given security to a stranger, and on behalf of a foreigner\u2014take it as pledge. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:17",
"text": " Bread gained by deceit is sweet for the man, but afterward, his mouth will be filled with gravel. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:18",
"text": " A plan will be established by advice, and with guidance make war. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:19",
"text": " He reveals a secret, he who walks about with gossip, and do not associate with a babbler\u2019s lips. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:20",
"text": " He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished \u231ein the midst of darkness\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:21",
"text": " An inheritance acquired hastily \u231eat the beginning\u231f will not be blessed at its end. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:22",
"text": " Do not say \u201cI will repay evil\u201d; wait for Yahweh and he will deliver you. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:23",
"text": " An abomination of Yahweh is \u231ea stone and a weight\u231f, and scales of falsehood are not good. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:24",
"text": " Away from Yahweh are the steps of a strong man, and how will humankind understand his ways? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:25",
"text": " It is a snare to humankind to say rashly \u201cIt is holy,\u201d and after vows, to scrutinize. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:26",
"text": " A wise king winnows the wicked, and he will drive a wheel over them. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:27",
"text": " The lamp of Yahweh is the spirit of humankind, he who searches every \u231einnermost part\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:28",
"text": " Loyalty and faithfulness will preserve a king, and he is upheld with the righteousness of his throne. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:29",
"text": " The glory of young men is their strength, but the beauty of the aged is gray hair. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Proverbs 20:30",
"text": " The blows of a wound will cleanse evil, as will beatings of the \u231einnermost part\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:1",
"text": "Streams of water are the heart of a king in the hand of Yahweh; \u231ewherever\u231f he will desire, he will turn. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:2",
"text": " Every way of a man is upright in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs hearts. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:3",
"text": " Doing righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:4",
"text": " Haughtiness of the eyes and pride of heart, the lamp of the wicked are sin. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:5",
"text": " The plans of the diligent only lead to abundance, but all who are hasty, only to want. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:6",
"text": " He who makes treasure by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and seeker of death. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:7",
"text": " The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, for they refuse to do justice. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:8",
"text": " Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner, but the pure is upright in his conduct. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:9",
"text": " Better to dwell on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a woman of contention. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:10",
"text": " The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:11",
"text": " With the punishment of a scoffer, the simple will become wise, and with the instruction of the wise, he will obtain knowledge. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:12",
"text": " The righteous observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked to ruin. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:13",
"text": " He who closes his ear from the cry of the poor, he also will cry out and not be heard. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:14",
"text": " A gift in secret will avert \u231eanger\u231f, and a \u231econcealed bribe\u231f, strong wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:15",
"text": " It is a joy to the righteous to do justice, but dismay to those who do evil. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:16",
"text": " Whoever wanders from the way of understanding, in the assembly of the dead he will rest. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:17",
"text": " A man of want is he who loves pleasure; he who loves wine and oil will not become rich. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:18",
"text": " A ransom for the righteous is the wicked, and the faithless instead of the upright. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:19",
"text": " Better to live in a land of wilderness than with a wife of quarrels and provocation. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:20",
"text": " Precious treasure and oil are in the house of the wise, but the foolish person will devour them. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:21",
"text": " He who pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:22",
"text": " To a city of warriors, the wise ascends, and he will bring down the stronghold\u2014its object of trust. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:23",
"text": " He who guards his mouth and his tongue, he guards his life from danger. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:24",
"text": " The proud, haughty one: \u201cscoffer\u201d is his name; he acts with arrogance of pride. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:25",
"text": " The craving of a lazy person will kill him, for his hands refuse to work. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:26",
"text": " \u231eAll day\u231f he craves a craving, but the righteous will give and not hold back. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:27",
"text": " The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it in divisiveness! "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:28",
"text": " A false witness will perish, but a man who listens will testify with success. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:29",
"text": " A wicked man is strong in \u231ehis countenance\u231f, but the upright will appoint his paths. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:30",
"text": " There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel to oppose Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Proverbs 21:31",
"text": " A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but to Yahweh belongs the victory. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:1",
"text": "A \u231ereputation\u231f is to be chosen \u231erather than\u231f great riches; \u231efavor is better than silver and gold\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:2",
"text": " Rich and poor have much in common; Yahweh is the maker of all of them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:3",
"text": " The clever sees danger and hides, but the simple go on and suffer. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:4",
"text": " The reward of humility is the fear of Yahweh\u2014 wealth and honor and life. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:5",
"text": " Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep away from them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:6",
"text": " Train the child \u231econcerning his way\u231f; even when he is old, he will not stray from it. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:7",
"text": " The rich will rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave of \u231ethe lender\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:8",
"text": " He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his anger will fail. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:9",
"text": " He who \u231eis generous\u231f will be blessed, for he gives to the poor from his own bread. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:10",
"text": " Drive out a scoffer and strife will go out; quarrel and abuse will cease. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:11",
"text": " He who loves purity of heart and has\u231egracious speech\u231f, his friend is the king. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:12",
"text": " The eyes of Yahweh keep watch over knowledge, but he will overthrow the words of the faithless. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:13",
"text": " A lazy person says \u201cA lion in the street! In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:14",
"text": " A deep pit is the mouth of an \u231eadulteress\u231f, he with whom Yahweh is angry will fall there. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:15",
"text": " Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; the rod of discipline will drive it from him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:16",
"text": " He who oppresses the poor in order to enrich himself, or gives to the rich, \u231ewill come to poverty\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:17",
"text": " Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise; you shall apply your heart to my teaching. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:18",
"text": " For it is pleasant if you guard them \u231ewithin you\u231f; together they will be ready upon your lips. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:19",
"text": " In order for your trust to be in Yahweh, I have made them known to you \u231etoday\u231f\u2014even you. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:20",
"text": " Have I not written for you thirty sayings with admonitions and knowledge? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:21",
"text": " In order to show you what is right\u2014sayings of truth\u2014 in order to return a true saying to him who sent you. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:22",
"text": " Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate; "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:23",
"text": " For Yahweh will plead their case and despoil those who despoil them of life. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:24",
"text": " Do not befriend an owner of \u231eanger\u231f, and with a man of wrath you shall not associate; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:25",
"text": " lest you learn his way and become entangled in a snare to yourself. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:26",
"text": " Do not be with those who \u231egive a pledge\u231f \u231eby becoming\u231f surety. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:27",
"text": " If there is nothing for you to pay, why will he take your bed from under you? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:28",
"text": " Do not remove an ancient boundary marker which your ancestors made. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Proverbs 22:29",
"text": " A man who is skillful in his work, you shall see: before kings, he will serve; he will not serve before the commoners. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:1",
"text": "When you sit to eat with a ruler, you shall surely observe what is before you, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:2",
"text": " and you shall put a knife to your throat if you have a \u231ebig appetite\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:3",
"text": " Do not desire his delicacies, for it is food of deception. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:4",
"text": " Do not tire in order to become rich; out of your understanding, may you desist. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:5",
"text": " Your eyes will \u231ealight\u231f on it, but there is nothing to it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted in the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:6",
"text": " Do not eat the bread of \u231ethe stingy\u231f, and do not desire his delicacies. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:7",
"text": " For, like hair in his \u231ethroat\u231f, so it is. \u201cEat and drink!\u201d he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:8",
"text": " Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will waste your pleasant words. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:9",
"text": " In the ears of a fool do not speak, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:10",
"text": " Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:11",
"text": " For their redeemer is strong, he himself will plead their cause against you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:12",
"text": " Apply your heart to instruction, and your ear to sayings of knowledge. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:13",
"text": " Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:14",
"text": " As for you, with the rod you shall beat him, and his life you will save from Sheol. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:15",
"text": " My child, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad\u2014even me! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:16",
"text": " And my \u231einsides\u231f will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:17",
"text": " May your heart not envy the sinners, but live in fear of Yahweh \u231eall day\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:18",
"text": " \u231eSurely\u231f there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:19",
"text": " You, my child, hear and be wise, and direct your heart on the road. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:20",
"text": " Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of \u231etheir meat\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:21",
"text": " For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:22",
"text": " Listen to your father\u2014he who \u231egave you life\u231f, and do not despise your mother when she is old. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:23",
"text": " Buy truth and do not sell it, wisdom and instruction and understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:24",
"text": " The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:25",
"text": " May your father and your mother be glad, and may she who bore you rejoice. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:26",
"text": " My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:27",
"text": " For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is \u231ean adulteress\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:28",
"text": " She is also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:29",
"text": " To whom is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom are quarrels? To whom is complaint? To whom are wounds without cause? To whom is redness of the eyes? "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:30",
"text": " To those who linger over wine, to those who come to try mixed wine. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:31",
"text": " Do not look at wine when it is red, when it \u231esparkles\u231f on the cup, going down smoothly. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:32",
"text": " \u231eIn the end\u231f, it will bite like a serpent, and it will sting like an adder. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:33",
"text": " Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:34",
"text": " And you will be like him who lies down in the heart of the sea, and like him who lies down on top of a mast. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Proverbs 23:35",
"text": " \u201cThey struck me; I was not hurt. They beat me; I did not know it. When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:1",
"text": "Do not envy men of evil, and do not desire to be with them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:2",
"text": " For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak mischief. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:3",
"text": " By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:4",
"text": " And by knowledge, rooms are filled with all riches, precious and pleasant. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:5",
"text": " The warrior of wisdom is in strength, and a man of knowledge is strong in power. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:6",
"text": " For with wise guidance you shall make war for yourself, and victory is in an abundance of counsel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:7",
"text": " Wisdom is too high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:8",
"text": " He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call him \u201cmaster of mischief.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:9",
"text": " Devising folly is a sin, and an abomination to humankind is a scoffer. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:10",
"text": " If you faint on the day of adversity, little is your strength. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:11",
"text": " Rescue those who are led away to the death and those who stagger to the slaughter. If you hold back, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:12",
"text": " if you say, \u201cLook, we do not know this,\u201d does not he who weighs hearts perceive it? And he who keeps your soul, he knows and will repay humankind according to his deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:13",
"text": " My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the dripping of the honeycomb is sweet to your taste. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:14",
"text": " Thus know wisdom for the sake of your soul, if you find it, then there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:15",
"text": " Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do not do violence to his dwelling place. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:16",
"text": " For seven times the righteous will fall, but he will rise, but the wicked will be overthrown by calamity. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:17",
"text": " While your enemies are falling, do not rejoice; when he trips himself, may your heart not be glad "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:18",
"text": " lest Yahweh see and it be evil in his eyes, and turn his anger away from him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:19",
"text": " Do not fret because of the evildoers; do not envy the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:20",
"text": " For there will not be a future for the evil; the lamp of the wicked will die out. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:21",
"text": " Fear Yahweh, my son, and the king; with those who change, do not associate. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:22",
"text": " For suddenly their disaster will come, and the ruin of \u231eboth of them\u231f, who knows? "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:23",
"text": " These sayings are also for the wise: \u231ePartiality\u231f in judgment is not good. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:24",
"text": " Whoever says to the guilty, \u201cYou are righteous,\u201d the people will curse him; the nations will abhor him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:25",
"text": " But they who rebuke will have delight, and upon them blessings of goodness will come. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:26",
"text": " He will kiss the lips, he who gives an honest answer. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:27",
"text": " Prepare your work in the street and get it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, then you shall build your house. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:28",
"text": " Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor nor deceive with your lips. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:29",
"text": " Do not say, \u201cJust as he has done to me, so shall I do to him; I will pay back the man according to his deed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:30",
"text": " I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking \u231esense\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:31",
"text": " and behold, it was overgrown\u2014all of it was covered with thorns, its surface with nettles, and \u231eits stone wall\u231f was broken down. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:32",
"text": " Then I myself saw and my heart considered; I looked, and I took hold of instruction: "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:33",
"text": " A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Proverbs 24:34",
"text": " and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:1",
"text": " These are also proverbs of Solomon which officials of Hezekiah king of Judah copied: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:2",
"text": " The glory of God conceals things, but the glory of kings searches out things. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:3",
"text": " As heaven is to height and the earth is to depth, so is the heart of kings\u2014there is no searching. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:4",
"text": " Remove the dross from silver, and it will become a vessel for the smith. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:5",
"text": " Remove the wicked before a king, and his throne will be established in righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:6",
"text": " Do not promote yourself before the king, and in the place of the great ones do not stand. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:7",
"text": " For it is better that he say to you, \u201cAscend here,\u201d than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:8",
"text": " do not hastily bring out to court, for what will you do at its end, when your neighbor puts you to shame? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:9",
"text": " Argue your argument with your neighbor himself, the secret of another do not disclose, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:10",
"text": " lest he who hears shame you and your ill repute will not end. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:11",
"text": " Apples of gold in a setting of silver is a matter spoken at its proper time. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:12",
"text": " A ring of gold and an ornament of fine gold is a rebuke of the wise to the ear of a listener. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:13",
"text": " Like the cold of snow on a day of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him, and the soul of his master is refreshed. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:14",
"text": " Like clouds and wind when there is no rain, so too is a man who boasts in a gift of deception. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:15",
"text": " \u231eWith patience\u231f a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:16",
"text": " If you find honey, eat what is sufficient for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it out. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:17",
"text": " Make your foot scarce in the house of your neighbor, lest he become weary of you and hate you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:18",
"text": " Like a club and sword and a sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:19",
"text": " A bad tooth and a lame foot is the trust of a faithless person \u231ein a time\u231f of trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:20",
"text": " Like one who removes a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar on natron, is he who sings songs to a heavy heart. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:21",
"text": " If your enemy is hungry, feed him bread, and if thirsty, let him drink water. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:22",
"text": " For coals of fire you will heap upon his head, and Yahweh will reward you. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:23",
"text": " The wind of the north produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry faces. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:24",
"text": " Better to live upon the corner of a roof than with a woman of contention and in a shared house. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:25",
"text": " Like cold water upon a weary soul, so too is good news from a distant place. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:26",
"text": " Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous who gives way before the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:27",
"text": " To eat much honey is not good, nor is seeking one\u2019s honor honorable. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Proverbs 25:28",
"text": " A breached city where there is no wall is like a man who \u231ehas no\u231f self-control for his spirit. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:1",
"text": "Like snow in the summer and like rain at the harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:2",
"text": " Like the sparrow is to fluttering and like the swallow is to flying, so an undeserved curse does not go forth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:3",
"text": " A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:4",
"text": " Do not answer a fool according to his folly lest you become like him\u2014even you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:5",
"text": " Answer a fool according to his folly, or else he will be wise in his own eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:6",
"text": " Like cutting off feet or drinking violence, so is he who sends messages in the hand of a fool. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:7",
"text": " Like legs that hang limp from a lame person, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:8",
"text": " Like binding a stone in a sling, so is giving honor to a fool. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:9",
"text": " Like a thorn that goes up in the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:10",
"text": " Like an archer who wounds everyone, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires passersby. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:11",
"text": " Like a dog returning to his vomit is a fool reverting to his folly. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:12",
"text": " Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:13",
"text": " A lazy person says \u201cA lion is in the road! A lion among the streets!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:14",
"text": " The door turns on its hinge, and a lazy person on his bed. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:15",
"text": " A lazy person buries his hands in the dish; he is too tired to return it to his mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:16",
"text": " A lazy person is wiser in his eyes than seven who answer discreetly. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:17",
"text": " Grabbing onto the ears of a dog passing by is one who meddles in a quarrel that is not his own. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:18",
"text": " Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:19",
"text": " so is a man who deceives his neighbor, but says \u201cAm I not joking?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:20",
"text": " For lack of wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling will cease. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:21",
"text": " As charcoal is to hot embers and wood is to fire, so a man of quarrels is to kindling strife. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:22",
"text": " The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels, and they go down to the inner parts of the body. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:23",
"text": " Like \u231eimpure silver\u231f which overlays an earthen vessel, so are smooth lips and an evil heart. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:24",
"text": " On his lips, an enemy will pretend, but \u231einside\u231f he will harbor deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:25",
"text": " When he makes his voice gracious, do not believe him, for seven abominations are in his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:26",
"text": " Though hatred is covered with guile, its evil will be exposed in the assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:27",
"text": " He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Proverbs 26:28",
"text": " A tongue of deceit hates its victim, and a flattering mouth makes ruin. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:1",
"text": "Do not boast \u231eabout tomorrow\u231f, for you do not know what the day will bring. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:2",
"text": " May another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:3",
"text": " Heavy is a stone and weighty is sand, but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:4",
"text": " Cruel is wrath and overwhelming is anger, but who will stand before jealousy? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:5",
"text": " Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:6",
"text": " The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:7",
"text": " An \u231eappetite\u231f that is sated spurns honey, but to an \u231eappetite\u231f that is ravenous, all bitterness is sweet. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:8",
"text": " Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:9",
"text": " Perfume and incense will gladden a heart, and the pleasantness of one\u2019s friend is \u231epersonal advice\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:10",
"text": " As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake them, and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:11",
"text": " Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, and I will answer him who reproaches me with a word. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:12",
"text": " When the clever sees danger, he hides; the simple go on and suffer. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:13",
"text": " Take his garment, for he gives surety to a stranger, and to \u231ean adulteress\u231f\u2014so take his pledge. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:14",
"text": " He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, a curse will be reckoned to him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:15",
"text": " Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:16",
"text": " In restraining her, he restrains wind, and his right hand will grasp oil. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:17",
"text": " As iron sharpens iron, so \u231eone man sharpens another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:18",
"text": " He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:19",
"text": " As the waters reflect \u231eface to face\u231f, so the heart of a person reflects the person. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:20",
"text": " Sheol and Abaddon will not be satisfied, and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied either. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:21",
"text": " A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace for the gold, but a man is tested by the mouth of him who praises him. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:22",
"text": " If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle \u231ealong with\u231f the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:23",
"text": " You will surely know the \u231econdition\u231f of your flock; your heart attends to the herds. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:24",
"text": " For riches are not forever, nor a crown for generation after generation. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:25",
"text": " When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:26",
"text": " Lambs will be your clothing, and goats the price of the field. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Proverbs 27:27",
"text": " And there will be enough goats\u2019 milk for your food, for the food of your household and the \u231enourishment\u231f of your maidservants. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:1",
"text": "The wicked flee, but no one pursues, but the righteous is bold like a lion. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:2",
"text": " By the rebellion of a land, her rulers increase, but by a person of intelligence who knows justice, it will last. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:3",
"text": " A man who is poor and oppresses the impoverished is a beating rain \u231ethat leaves\u231f no food. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:4",
"text": " Those who forsake instruction will praise the wicked, but they who guard instruction will struggle against them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:5",
"text": " Men of evil do not understand justice, but seekers of Yahweh understand completely. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:6",
"text": " Better to be poor and walking in one\u2019s integrity than to be crooked of ways when one is rich. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:7",
"text": " He who keeps instruction is a child of understanding, but the companion of gluttons will shame his father. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:8",
"text": " He who augments his wealth with interest and with usury gathers it for him who is kind to the poor. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:9",
"text": " He who turns his ear from listening to instruction, even his prayer is an abomination. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:10",
"text": " He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil, into his pits he will fall. But as for the blameless, they will inherit good. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:11",
"text": " A man of wealth is wise in his own eyes, but the intelligent poor sees through him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:12",
"text": " When the righteous triumphs, great is the glory, but with the rising of the wicked, a person will be hidden. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:13",
"text": " He who conceals his transgression will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes will obtain mercy. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:14",
"text": " Happy is the person who fears continuously, but he who is stubborn of heart, will fall into calamity. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:15",
"text": " Like a roaring lion and a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:16",
"text": " A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but those who hate unjust gain will have long days. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:17",
"text": " A person who is burdened with the blood of \u231eanother\u231f, until death he will flee; do not take hold of him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:18",
"text": " He who walks in integrity will be safe, but he who takes crooked paths will fall in one. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:19",
"text": " He who tills his ground will have plenty bread, but he who follows fantasies will have plenty of poverty. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:20",
"text": " A man of faithfulness has abundant blessings, but he who hurries to become rich will not go unpunished. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:21",
"text": " \u231eShowing partiality\u231f is not good, and over a morsel of bread, a strong man will do wrong. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:22",
"text": " He who hurries for wealth is \u231ea man with an evil eye\u231f, but he does not know that poverty will come upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:23",
"text": " He who rebukes a person will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:24",
"text": " He who robs his father and his mother and says, \u201cThere is no crime,\u201d is partner to a man who corrupts. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:25",
"text": " The \u231egreedy person\u231f will stir up strife, but he who trusts in Yahweh will be enriched. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:26",
"text": " He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be saved. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:27",
"text": " For he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking, but for he who turns his eyes, there are many curses. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Proverbs 28:28",
"text": " With the rising of the wicked, humankind will be hidden, and with their perishing, the righteous will multiply. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:1",
"text": "A man who is reproved, being stubborn of neck\u2014 suddenly he will be broken, and there will not be healing. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:2",
"text": " When the righteous are numerous, the people will rejoice, but when the wicked are ruling, people will groan. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:3",
"text": " A man who loves wisdom will make his parents glad, but the friend of prostitutes will squander his wealth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:4",
"text": " By justice a king gives stability to a land, but a man of bribes will ruin it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:5",
"text": " A strong man who flatters his neighbor is spreading a net for his feet. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:6",
"text": " In transgression, an evil man is a snare, but the righteous will sing and rejoice. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:7",
"text": " The righteous knows the case of the poor, but the wicked does not understand knowledge. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:8",
"text": " Men of scoffing set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:9",
"text": " If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, then there is rankling and ridicule, but there is no relief. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:10",
"text": " Men of blood hate the blameless, and they seek the life of the upright. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:11",
"text": " A fool gives all his breath, but the wise holds back in quiet. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:12",
"text": " A ruler listening to a word of falsehood, all his officials are wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:13",
"text": " The poor and a man of oppression have this in common: Yahweh gives \u231elight to the eyes of them both\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:14",
"text": " A king who judges with truthfulness to the poor, his throne will be established forever. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:15",
"text": " As for a rod and reproof, they will give wisdom, but a neglected child is disgraced by his mother. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:16",
"text": " With the increase of the wicked, transgression will increase, but the righteous will look on his downfall. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:17",
"text": " Discipline your children, and they will give you rest, and they will give delight to your soul. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:18",
"text": " When there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but as for he who guards instruction, happiness is his. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:19",
"text": " By words, a servant is not disciplined, for he will understand, but there is no giving heed. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:20",
"text": " You see a man who is hasty in his words: there is more hope for a fool than him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:21",
"text": " He who pampers his servant from childhood, \u231earrogance will be his end\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:22",
"text": " A man of anger will stir strife, and the owner of anger, much transgression. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:23",
"text": " The pride of a person will bring him humiliation, and the lowly of spirit will obtain honor. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:24",
"text": " Being a partner with a thief is hating one\u2019s life; a curse he will hear, but not disclose. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:25",
"text": " The fear of a person will lay a snare, but he who trusts in Yahweh will be secure. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:26",
"text": " Many are those who seek the \u231efavor\u231f of a ruler, but from Yahweh \u231eone obtains justice\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Proverbs 29:27",
"text": " A man of injustice is an abomination to the righteous, but the \u231eupright\u231f is an abomination to the wicked. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:1",
"text": " The words of Agur, son of Yakeh, the oracle. Thus says the man to Ithiel, to Ithiel, and Ucal: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:2",
"text": " Certainly I am more stupid than a man, and the understanding of humankind is not for me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:3",
"text": " And I have not learned wisdom, nor will I know knowledge of the Holy One. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:4",
"text": " Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of his hand? Who has wrapped water in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name and what is the name of his child? For surely you know. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:5",
"text": " Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield for him who takes refuge in him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:6",
"text": " Do not add to his words lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:7",
"text": " Two things I ask from you; do not deny me before I die: "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:8",
"text": " Keep falsehood and a \u231elying word\u231f far from me; do not give me poverty or wealth; provide me with food only for my need. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:9",
"text": " Or else I will be satisfied and will deny him and say \u201cWho is Yahweh?\u201d Or I will be poor and will steal and profane the name of my God. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:10",
"text": " Do not slander a servant to his master, or else he will curse you and you will be guilty. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:11",
"text": " There is a generation that will curse its father, and its mother it will not bless. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:12",
"text": " There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:13",
"text": " There is a generation\u2014how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids they will lift. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:14",
"text": " There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and its jawbones, knives, in order to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:15",
"text": " For the leech, there are two daughters; \u201cGive, give!\u201d they cry. As for three of these, they are not satisfied; as for four, they do not say enough. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:16",
"text": " Sheol and barrenness of womb, the land is not satisfied with water, and fire does not say \u201cenough!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:17",
"text": " The eye that mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother\u2014 the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:18",
"text": " Three of these are too wonderful for me, and four, I do not understand them: "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:19",
"text": " the way of the eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:20",
"text": " This is the way of a woman committing adultery: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says \u201cI have not done wrong.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:21",
"text": " Under three things the earth trembles, and under four, it is not able to bear up: "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:22",
"text": " under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied with food; "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:23",
"text": " under an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:24",
"text": " There are four small things on the earth, and they are \u231eexceedingly wise\u231f: "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:25",
"text": " The ants are a people who are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:26",
"text": " the badgers are a people who are not mighty, yet they set their house on the rock; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:27",
"text": " there is no king for the locust, yet it marches in rank; "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:28",
"text": " a lizard you can seize with hands, yet it is in palaces of kings. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:29",
"text": " There are three things that are magnificent of stride, and four that are magnificent when moving: "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:30",
"text": " a mighty lion among the beasts, but he will not turn back from \u231eany face\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:31",
"text": " a strutting rooster or he-goat, and a king whose army is with him. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:32",
"text": " If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, put your hand to your mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Proverbs 30:33",
"text": " For pressing milk produces curd, and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing \u231eanger\u231f produces strife. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:1",
"text": " The words of Lemuel, the king\u2014an oracle that his mother taught him: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:2",
"text": " What, my son? And what, my son in my womb? And what, son of my vows? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:3",
"text": " Do not give your strength to the women, and your ways to destroy kings. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:4",
"text": " It is not for the kings, O Lemuel; drinking wine is not for the kings, nor is strong drink for rulers. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:5",
"text": " Or else he will drink and forget what has been decreed, and he will pervert the rights of all the \u231eafflicted\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:6",
"text": " Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those \u231ein bitter distress\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:7",
"text": " He will drink and forget his poverty, and his misery he will not remember any more. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:8",
"text": " Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the \u231eneedy\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:9",
"text": " Open your mouth, judge righteousness, and defend the poor and needy. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:10",
"text": " A woman of excellence, who will find? For her worth is far more than precious jewels. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:11",
"text": " The heart of her husband trusts in her, and gain he will not lack. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:12",
"text": " She does him good, but not harm all the days of her life. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:13",
"text": " She seeks wool and flax, and she works with the diligence of \u231eher hands\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:14",
"text": " She is like the ships of a merchant; from far off she brings her food; "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:15",
"text": " And she arises while it is still night, and gives food to her household, and tasks to her servant girls. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:16",
"text": " She considers a field and buys it, from the fruit of \u231eher hand\u231f she plants a vineyard. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:17",
"text": " She girds her waist in strength, and makes her arms strong. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:18",
"text": " She perceives that her merchandise is good; her lamp does not go out in the night. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:19",
"text": " Her hands she puts onto the distaff, and her palms hold a spindle. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:20",
"text": " Her palm she opens to the poor, and her hand she reaches out to the needy. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:21",
"text": " She does not fear for her house when it snows, for \u231eher entire household\u231f is clothed in crimson. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:22",
"text": " She makes for herself coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:23",
"text": " Her husband is known at the gates, in his seat among the elders of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:24",
"text": " Linen garments she makes and sells, and she supplies sashes for the merchants. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:25",
"text": " Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs \u231eat the future\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:26",
"text": " She opens her mouth with wisdom, and instruction of kindness is upon her tongue. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:27",
"text": " She looks after the ways of her household, and the bread of idleness she will not eat. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:28",
"text": " Her children rise and consider her happy, her husband also, and he praises her; "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:29",
"text": " \u201cMany daughters have done excellence, but \u231eyou surpass\u231f all of them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:30",
"text": " Charm is deceit and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh shall be praised. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Proverbs 31:31",
"text": " Give to her from the fruit of her hand, and may they praise her works in the city gates. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Ecclesiastes",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:1",
"text": " The words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:2",
"text": " \u201cVanity of vanities!\u201d says the Teacher, \u201cVanity of vanities! All is vanity!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:3",
"text": " What does a person gain in all his toil with which he toils under the sun? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:4",
"text": " A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth stands forever. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:5",
"text": " The sun rises, and the sun goes down; to its place it hurries, and there it rises again. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:6",
"text": " The wind goes to the south and goes around to the north; around and around it goes, and on its circuit the wind returns. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:7",
"text": " All the streams flow to the sea, but the sea is never full; to the place where the streams flow, there they continue to flow. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:8",
"text": " All things toil continuously; no one can ever finish describing this. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, and the ear is never filled with hearing. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:9",
"text": " What has been\u2014it is what will be; what has been done\u2014it is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:10",
"text": " There is a thing of which it is said, \u201cLook at this! This is new!\u201d But it already existed in ages past before us. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:11",
"text": " There is neither remembrance of former generations, nor will there be remembrance of future generations. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:12",
"text": " I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:13",
"text": "I applied my mind to seek and to search by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. It is a grievous task God has given to \u231ehumans\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:14",
"text": "I saw all the works that are done under the sun. Look! Everything is vanity and chasing wind. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:15",
"text": " What is twisted cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:16",
"text": " \u231eI said to myself\u231f, \u201cLook! I have become great and have increased in wisdom more than anyone who \u231ehas preceded\u231f me over Jerusalem. \u231eI have acquired a great deal of wisdom and knowledge\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:17",
"text": "So \u231eI dedicated myself\u231f to learn about wisdom and to learn about delusion and folly. However, I discovered that this also is chasing wind. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 1:18",
"text": " For in much wisdom is much frustration, and whoever increases knowledge increases sorrow. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:1",
"text": " I said \u231eto myself\u231f, \u201cCome! I will test pleasure \u231eto see whether it is worthwhile\u231f.\u201d But look, \u201cThis also is vanity!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:2",
"text": "I said of laughter, \u201cIt is folly!\u201d and of pleasure, \u201c\u231eWhat does it accomplish?\u231f\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:3",
"text": "I also \u231eexplored\u231f \u231ethe effects of indulging my flesh\u231f with wine. My mind guiding me with wisdom, \u231eI investigated\u231f folly so that I might discover what is good under heaven for \u231ehumans\u231f to do \u231eduring the days of their lives\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:4",
"text": " \u231eI accomplished great things\u231f. I built for myself houses; I planted for myself vineyards. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:5",
"text": "I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted all sorts of fruit trees in them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:6",
"text": "I made for myself pools of water from which to irrigate a grove of flourishing trees. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:7",
"text": "I acquired male slaves and female slaves, as well as children born in my house. I also had livestock, cattle, and flocks more than anyone who was before me in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:8",
"text": "I also gathered to myself silver and gold\u2014the royal and provincial treasuries. I acquired for myself male and female singers, as well as the delight of \u231emen\u231f, \u231evoluptuous concubines\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:9",
"text": " Thus, \u231eI accomplished far more\u231f than anyone who was before me in Jerusalem\u2014indeed, my wisdom stood by me. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:10",
"text": "I neither withheld anything from my eyes that they desired, nor did I deprive any pleasure from my heart. My heart rejoiced in all my toil, for this was my reward from all my toil. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:11",
"text": "Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, \u201cEverything is vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:12",
"text": " Next, I considered wisdom, as well as delusion and folly. What can anyone do who will come after the king that has not already been done? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:13",
"text": "I realized that wisdom has an advantage over folly, just as light has an advantage over darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:14",
"text": "\u231eThe wise man can see where he is walking\u231f, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:15",
"text": "So I said \u231eto myself\u231f, \u201c\u231eIf I also suffer the same fate as the fool\u231f, \u231ewhat advantage is my great wisdom\u231f?\u201d So I said \u231eto myself\u231f, \u201cThis also is vanity!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:16",
"text": " Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in \u231efuture generations\u231f. When future days come, both will have been forgotten already. How is it that the wise man dies the same as the fool? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:17",
"text": "So I hated life because the work done under the sun is grievous to me. For everything is vanity and chasing wind! "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:18",
"text": " So I hated all my toil with which I have toiled under the sun, for I must leave it behind to someone who will be after me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:19",
"text": "And who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will exercise control of all the fruit of my toil with which I toiled wisely under the sun. This also is vanity! "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:20",
"text": " So \u231eI began to despair\u231f of all the toil with which I toiled under the sun. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:21",
"text": "For although a person may toil with great wisdom and skill, he must leave his reward to someone who has not toiled for it. This also is vanity and a great calamity. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:22",
"text": "For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun? "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:23",
"text": "All his days are painful, his labor brings grief, and his heart cannot rest at night. This also is vanity! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:24",
"text": " There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and \u231efind delight\u231f in his toil. For I also realized that this is from the hand of God! "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:25",
"text": "For who can eat and drink, and who can enjoy life apart from him? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 2:26",
"text": "For to the person who is good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give it to him who is pleasing to him. This also is vanity and chasing wind! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:1",
"text": " For everything there is an appointed time, a time for every matter under heaven: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:2",
"text": " a time to bear and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to root up what is planted; "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:3",
"text": " a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:4",
"text": " a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:5",
"text": " a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:6",
"text": " a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away; "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:7",
"text": " a time to tear and a time to sew; a time to be silent and a time to speak; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:8",
"text": " a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:9",
"text": " What does the worker gain in his toil? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:10",
"text": " I have seen the busyness God gives to \u231ehumans\u231f to preoccupy them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:11",
"text": "He has made everything suitable in its time. He also has put \u231ethe past\u231f in their hearts, yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:12",
"text": "So I realized that there is \u231enothing better\u231f for them than to \u231erejoice and enjoy themselves\u231f during their lives. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:13",
"text": "And for anyone to eat and drink, that is, \u231eto enjoy the fruit of all his toil\u231f, this also is a gift of God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:14",
"text": " I know everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing can be taken from it, for God so acts that humans might stand in awe before him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:15",
"text": " What is\u2014it already was, and what will be\u2014it already is, for \u231eGod will do what he has done.\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:16",
"text": " I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice there was evil; instead of righteousness there was wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:17",
"text": "So I said \u231eto myself\u231f, \u201cGod will surely judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time of judgment for every deed and every work.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:18",
"text": " I said to myself concerning \u231ehumans\u231f, \u201cGod sifts them in order to show them that they are like beasts.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:19",
"text": "For the fate of \u231ehumans\u231f and the fate of the beast is \u231ethe same\u231f. The death of the one is like the death of the other, for \u231eboth are mortal\u231f. Man has no advantage over the beast, for both are fleeting. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:20",
"text": "Both go to one place\u2014both came from dust and both return to dust. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:21",
"text": "For no one knows whether the spirit of a human ascends to heaven and whether the spirit of the beast descends to the ground! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 3:22",
"text": " So I concluded that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy the fruit of his labor, for this is his lot in life. \u231eFor no one knows what will happen in the future.\u231f "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:1",
"text": " I looked again, and I saw all the oppression that occurs under the sun. \u231eI saw the tears of the oppressed\u2014 no one comforts them! Those who oppress them are powerful\u2014 no one can comfort them\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:2",
"text": " So I deemed the dead who have already died more fortunate than the living who are still alive. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:3",
"text": " But better off than both of them is the one who has not yet been born and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:4",
"text": " I also realized that all of the toil and all of the skillful work that is done\u2014it is envy between one man and \u231eanother\u231f. This also is vanity and chasing wind! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:5",
"text": " \u231eThe fool refuses to work with his hands, so he has nothing to eat except his own skin\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:6",
"text": " Better is one handful with peace than two fists full with toil and chasing wind. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:7",
"text": " I turned again and saw another vanity under the sun. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:8",
"text": "Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. He laments, \u201cFor whom am I toiling and depriving \u231emyself\u231f of pleasure?\u201d This also is vanity\u2014it is an unhappy business! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:9",
"text": " Two are better than the one, for they enjoy a better reward for their toil. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:10",
"text": "For if one falls, his companion may help him up. But pity the one who falls and there is \u231eno one\u231f to help him up. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:11",
"text": "Also if two lie together, \u231ethey can keep each other warm\u231f. But how can one person be warm? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:12",
"text": "\u231eAlthough an assailant may overpower one person, two may withstand him\u231f. A threefold cord \u231eis not easily broken\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:13",
"text": " A poor but wise youth is better than an old but foolish king who no longer knows \u231ehow to receive advice\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:14",
"text": "For he came out of the prison house to reign, \u231esince he was born poor in his kingdom\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:15",
"text": "I saw all the living who move about under the sun with the youth; the second who will stand in his place. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 4:16",
"text": "There is no end to all the people, to all who were before him. Yet the later generation will not rejoice in him, for this also is vanity and chasing wind! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:1",
"text": " Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:2",
"text": " Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be quick to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth; therefore, let your words be few. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:3",
"text": " For a dream comes with many cares, and the voice of a fool with many words. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:4",
"text": " When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, for \u231ehe takes no pleasure\u231f in fools. Fulfill what you vow! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:5",
"text": " It is better that you not vow than that you vow and not fulfill it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:6",
"text": " Do not let your mouth lead your flesh into sin, and do not tell the messenger that it was a mistake. Why anger God at your words, so that he destroys the work of your hands? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:7",
"text": " For with many dreams come vanities and numerous words. Therefore, fear God! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:8",
"text": " Do not be surprised if you see the poor being oppressed with violence or do not see justice and righteousness in the province. For one official is watched by a higher official, and there are even higher officials over them! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:9",
"text": " The produce of the land is exploited by everyone; \u231eeven the king profits from the field of the poor\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:10",
"text": " Whoever loves money is not satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is not satisfied with profit. This also is vanity! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:11",
"text": " When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. \u231eSo its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:12",
"text": " The sleep of the laborer is pleasant, whether he eats little or much, but the wealth of the rich man does not allow him to rest. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:13",
"text": " There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth \u231ehoarded\u231f by its owner to his harm. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:14",
"text": "That wealth was lost in a bad venture. Although he has borne a child, \u231ehe has nothing to leave to him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:15",
"text": "Just as he came from his mother\u2019s womb naked, \u231ehe will depart\u231f just as he came; he will take nothing with him for his toil. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:16",
"text": "This also is a grievous illness. Exactly as he came, so he will go. What profit does he gain for all his toil for the wind? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:17",
"text": "Also, he eats in darkness all his days; he is frustrated in much sickness and resentment. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:18",
"text": " Look! I have discovered what is good and fitting: to eat and to drink and \u231eto enjoy\u231f all the fruit of the toil with which one toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life that God gives to him\u2014for this is his lot. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:19",
"text": "This indeed is a gift of God: everyone to whom God gives wealth and possessions, he also empowers him \u231eto enjoy them\u231f, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in the fruit of his toil. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 5:20",
"text": "For he does not remember the brief days of his life, for God keeps his heart preoccupied with enjoyment of life. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:1",
"text": " Here is another misfortune that I have seen under the sun, and it is prevalent among humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:2",
"text": "God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; yet God does not enable him to enjoy it\u2014instead someone else ends up enjoying it. This is vanity\u2014indeed, it is a grievous ill! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:3",
"text": " Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart is not satisfied with \u231ehis prosperity\u231f and \u231ehe does not receive a proper burial\u231f, I deem the stillborn better than him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:4",
"text": "For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:5",
"text": "He has neither seen nor known the sun, yet he has more rest than him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:6",
"text": "Even if a man lives a thousand years twice, if he does not enjoy \u231eprosperity\u231f, \u231eboth suffer the same fate\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:7",
"text": " All of a man\u2019s toil is for his mouth\u2014 yet his appetite is never satisfied. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:8",
"text": " So do the wise really have an advantage over fools? \u231eCan the poor really gain anything by knowing how to act in front of others\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:9",
"text": " \u231eBetter to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more\u231f. This also is vanity and chasing wind! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:10",
"text": " Whatever is\u2014it was already determined, \u231ewhat will be\u2014it has already been decided\u231f. As for man, he cannot argue against what is more powerful than him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:11",
"text": " \u231eIncreasing words only multiplies futility\u231f, how does that profit anyone? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 6:12",
"text": " For who knows what is good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen \u231ein the future\u231f under the sun? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:1",
"text": " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death is better than the day of one\u2019s birth. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:2",
"text": " Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for death is the end of every person, and the living should take it to his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:3",
"text": " Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made good. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:4",
"text": " The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:5",
"text": " Better to listen to the rebuke of the wise than for a man to listen to the song of fools. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:6",
"text": " Like the sound of thorns under a pot, so also the laughter of fools. This also is vanity! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:7",
"text": " Surely oppression makes a fool of the wise, and a bribe corrupts the heart. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:8",
"text": " The end of a matter is better than its beginning; \u231ebetter to be slow to anger than hot-headed\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:9",
"text": " Do not be quick in your spirit to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:10",
"text": " Do not say, \u201cWhy were the former days better than these?\u201d For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:11",
"text": " Wisdom is good with an inheritance; \u231eit benefits the living\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:12",
"text": " \u231eFor wisdom offers protection like money offers protection\u231f. But knowledge has an advantage\u2014wisdom restores life to its possessor. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:13",
"text": " Consider the work of God. For who is able to make straight what he made crooked? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:14",
"text": " In the day of prosperity, rejoice! But in the day of adversity, consider! For God made one in place of another so that mortals cannot find out what will happen \u231ein the future\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:15",
"text": " I have seen all these things in my vain life: Sometimes a righteous man perishes in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked man lives a long life in spite of his evil. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:16",
"text": " Do not be excessively righteous, and do not act excessively wise, lest you destroy yourself. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:17",
"text": " Do not act excessively wicked, and do not be a fool, lest you die before your time. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:18",
"text": " It is good to take hold of the one and also must not let go of the other; for whoever fears God will hold both of them secure. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:19",
"text": " Wisdom gives more strength to the wise than ten rulers who are in the city. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:20",
"text": " Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who continually does good and never sins. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:21",
"text": " Do not pay attention to everything people say, lest you hear your own servant curse you. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:22",
"text": " For your heart knows that you also have cursed others many times. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:23",
"text": " All this I have tested with wisdom. I said, \u201cI will be wise!\u201d but \u231eit was beyond my grasp\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:24",
"text": "\u231eWhatever is\u2014it is far beyond comprehension\u231f. Who can discover it? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:25",
"text": " I set my mind to try to seek wisdom and the plan, and to know that wickedness is foolishness and that folly is delusion. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:26",
"text": "I myself found that more bitter than death is the woman who is a trap, whose heart is a snare, and whose hands are bonds. The one who pleases God escapes from her, but the sinner is caught by her. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:27",
"text": "\u201cLook! I found this,\u201d said the Teacher, \u201cwhile trying to find how the plan fits together. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:28",
"text": "What my heart sought, I did not find. Although I found one righteous man among one thousand, I did not find one upright woman among all these. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 7:29",
"text": "Look! This alone I found: God made mankind upright, but they have devised many schemes.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:1",
"text": " Who is like the sage? Who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man\u2019s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:2",
"text": " Keep the command of the king \u231ebecause of your oath to God\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:3",
"text": " Do not be terrified of his presence! Go at once and do not delay when a matter is unpleasant, for he can do anything that he desires. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:4",
"text": " Since the word of the king is supreme, no one can say to him, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:5",
"text": " Whoever obeys his command will not suffer disaster. The wise mind knows the proper time and the right procedure. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:6",
"text": " For there is a proper time and right procedure for every matter, even though the trouble of man weighs heavy upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:7",
"text": " Surely no one knows what will be, so who can tell anyone what will happen? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:8",
"text": " Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind, so also no one can control the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not deliver the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:9",
"text": " I saw all this as I applied my heart to all the deeds done under the sun: \u231esometimes those in authority harm others\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:10",
"text": "Meanwhile, I saw the wicked being honorably buried, but those who came and went from the holy place were forgotten in the city, even though they had done so. This also is vanity! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:11",
"text": " Because sentence against an evil deed is not carried out quickly, the heart of \u231ehumans\u231f fills up within them to do evil. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:12",
"text": "Although the sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I also know that it will be good for those who fear God\u2014because they fear \u231ehis presence\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:13",
"text": "But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong their days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing \u231eGod\u2019s presence\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:14",
"text": "There is a vanity that happens on earth: sometimes the righteous suffer what the wicked deserve, and sometimes the wicked receive what the righteous deserve. I said, \u201cThis also is vanity!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:15",
"text": " So I recommend enjoyment. For there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to rejoice. This will accompany him in his toil the days of his life that God gives to him under the sun. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:16",
"text": " I applied my mind to know wisdom and to understand the business that is done on earth\u2014how neither day nor night one\u2019s eyes see sleep. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 8:17",
"text": "Then I saw all the work of God\u2014man is not able to discover the work that is done under the sun. Although man may toil in seeking, he cannot find it. Even if a wise man claims that he knows it, he cannot find it. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:1",
"text": " So all this I laid to my heart, and I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in the hand of God. So no one knows anything that will come to them, whether it will be love or hatred. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:2",
"text": "The same fate comes to everyone: to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the wicked, to the clean and to the unclean, to those who sacrifice and to those who do not sacrifice. As with the good man, so also to the sinner; as with those who swear an oath, so also those who fear oaths. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:3",
"text": " This is the \u231einjustice\u231f that is done under the sun: the same fate comes to everyone. Also the hearts of \u231ehumans\u231f are full of evil; delusion is in their hearts during their lives, and then they die. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:4",
"text": " Whoever is joined to all the living has hope. After all, even a live dog is better than a dead lion! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:5",
"text": "For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have a reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:6",
"text": "What they loved and hated, as well as what they desired, has already perished. They no longer have any share in what is done under the sun. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:7",
"text": " Go\u2014eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:8",
"text": "Always be clothed in white garments, and never let your head lack oil! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:9",
"text": "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which he gives you under the sun, because this is your lot in life and in the toil with which you toil under the sun. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:10",
"text": "Whatever your hand finds to do\u2014do it with all your might; for in Sheol\u2014where you are going\u2014no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:11",
"text": " I looked again and saw under the sun that the race does not belong to the swift, the battle does not belong to the mighty, food does not belong to the wise, wealth does not belong to the intelligent, and success does not belong to the skillful, for time and chance befalls all of them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:12",
"text": "For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also \u231ehumans\u231f are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:13",
"text": " I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:14",
"text": "There was a small city with few people in it. A great king came and besieged it, building great siege works against it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:15",
"text": "Now, a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:16",
"text": "So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, yet the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:17",
"text": " The words of the wise are heard in peace more than the shouting of a ruler is heard among the fools. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 9:18",
"text": " Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:1",
"text": "Dead flies cause a bad smell and ruin the ointment of the perfumer. So also a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:2",
"text": " The heart of the wise inclines to his right, but the heart of the fool inclines to his left. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:3",
"text": " Even when the fool walks along the road, he lacks sense; he tells everyone that he is a fool. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:4",
"text": " If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post, for calmness can undo great offenses. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:5",
"text": " There is an evil I have seen under the sun\u2014 it is an error that proceeds from a ruler! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:6",
"text": " The fool is set in many high places, but the rich sit in lowly places. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:7",
"text": " I have even seen slaves riding on horses and princes walking like slaves on the earth! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:8",
"text": " Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:9",
"text": " Whoever \u231equarries\u231f stones will be wounded by them. Whoever splits logs will be endangered by them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:10",
"text": " If the ax is blunt but one does not sharpen its edge, \u231ehe must exert more effort\u231f, but the advantage of wisdom is it brings success. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:11",
"text": " If the snake bites before the charming, \u231ethe snake charmer will not succeed\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:12",
"text": " The wise man wins favor by the words of his mouth, but the fool is devoured by his own lips. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:13",
"text": " He begins by saying what is foolish and ends by uttering what is wicked delusion. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:14",
"text": " The fool \u231etalks too much\u231f, for no one knows what will be. Who can tell anyone what will happen \u231ein the future\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:15",
"text": " The fool is so worn out by a hard day\u2019s work \u231ehe cannot even find his way home at night\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:16",
"text": " Woe to you, O land, when your king is a youth and your princes feast in the morning. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:17",
"text": " Blessed are you, O land, when your king is a son of nobility and your princes feast at the proper time\u2014 to gain strength and not to get drunk. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:18",
"text": " Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through idleness of hands the house leaks. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:19",
"text": " \u231eFeasts are held for celebration\u231f, wine cheers the living, and money answers everything. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 10:20",
"text": " Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, and do not curse the rich even in your own bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry your voice; a winged messenger may repeat your words. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 11:1",
"text": " Send out your bread on the water, for in many days you will find it. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 11:2",
"text": " Divide your share in seven or in eight, for you do not know what disaster will happen on the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 11:3",
"text": " When the clouds are full, they empty rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or whether it falls to the north, the place where the tree falls\u2014there it will be. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 11:4",
"text": " Whoever watches the wind will not sow; whoever watches the clouds will not reap. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 11:5",
"text": " Just as you do not know how the path of the wind goes, nor how the bones of a fetus form in a mother\u2019s womb, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 11:6",
"text": " Sow your seed in the morning, and do not let your hands rest in the evening, for you do not know what will prosper\u2014 whether this or that, or whether both of them alike will succeed. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 11:7",
"text": " The light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 11:8",
"text": " For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in all of them! Let him remember that the days of the darkness will be many\u2014 all that is coming is vanity! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 11:9",
"text": " Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes\u2014 but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 11:10",
"text": " Banish anxiety from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and vigor are vanity. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:1",
"text": " Remember your Creator in the days of your youth\u2014 before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, \u201cI find no pleasure in them!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:2",
"text": " Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars darken and the clouds return after the rain. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:3",
"text": " When the guards of the house tremble, and the men of strength are bent; the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows see dimly. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:4",
"text": " When the doors on the street are shut, when the sound of the grinding mill is low; one rises up to the sound of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:5",
"text": " They are afraid of heights, and terrors are on the road. The almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper draws itself along, and desire fails because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:6",
"text": " Before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is broken; and the jar at the foundation is broken, and the wheel at the cistern is broken. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:7",
"text": " And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:8",
"text": " \u201cVanity of vanity!\u201d says the Teacher. \u201cEverything is vanity!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:9",
"text": " The Teacher was full of wisdom, and he taught the people with knowledge. He carefully considered many proverbs and carefully arranged them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:10",
"text": "The Teacher sought to find delightful words, and he wrote what is upright\u2014truthful words. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:11",
"text": " The words of the wise are like cattle goads; the collections of the sages are like pricks inflicted by one shepherd. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:12",
"text": "My son, be careful \u231eabout anything beyond these things\u231f. For the writing of books is endless, and too much study \u231eis wearisome\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:13",
"text": " Now that all has been heard, here is the final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ecclesiastes 12:14",
"text": " For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Song of Solomon",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:1",
"text": " The Song of Songs, which is for Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:2",
"text": " \u231eMay you kiss me\u231f \u231epassionately with your lips\u231f, for your love is better than wine. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:3",
"text": " As fragrance, \u231eyour perfumes\u231f are \u231edelightful\u231f; your name is poured out \u231eperfume\u231f; therefore young women love you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:4",
"text": " Draw me after you, let us run! May the king bring me into his chambers! Let us be joyful and let us rejoice in you; let us extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:5",
"text": " I am black but beautiful, \u231eO maidens of Jerusalem\u231f, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:6",
"text": " Do not gaze at me because I am black, because the sun has stared at me. The sons of my mother were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own \u201cvineyard\u201d I did not keep. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:7",
"text": " Tell me, you whom my \u231eheart\u231f loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do your sheep lie down at the noon? \u231eFor why should I be like\u231f one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:8",
"text": " If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow \u231ethe tracks\u231f of the flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:9",
"text": " To a mare among the chariots of Pharaoh, I compare you, my beloved. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:10",
"text": " Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:11",
"text": " We will make ornaments of gold for you with studs of silver. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:12",
"text": " While the king was on his couch, my nard gave its fragrance. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:13",
"text": " My beloved is to me \u231ea pouch\u231f of myrrh, he spends the night between my breasts. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:14",
"text": " My beloved is to me a cluster of blossoms of henna in the vineyards of En Gedi. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:15",
"text": " Look! You are beautiful, my beloved. Look! You are beautiful; your eyes are doves. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:16",
"text": " Look! You are beautiful, my beloved, truly pleasant. Truly our couch is \u231everdant\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Song of Solomon 1:17",
"text": " the beams of our house are cedar; our rafter is cypress. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:1",
"text": " I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:2",
"text": " Like a lily among the thorns, so is my love among the maidens. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:3",
"text": " As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. In his shade \u231eI sat down with delight\u231f, and his fruit was sweet to my palate. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:4",
"text": " He brought me to the house of the wine, and his intention was love toward me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:5",
"text": " Sustain me with the raisins, refresh me with the apples, \u231efor I am lovesick\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:6",
"text": " His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:7",
"text": " I adjure you, \u231eO maidens of Jerusalem\u231f, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:8",
"text": " The voice of my beloved! Look! Here \u231ehe\u231f comes leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:9",
"text": " My beloved is like a gazelle or \u231ea young stag\u231f. Look! \u231eHe is\u231f standing behind our wall, gazing \u231ethrough\u231f the window, looking \u231ethrough\u231f the lattice. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:10",
"text": " My beloved answered and said to me, \u201c\u231eArise\u231f, my beloved! \u231eCome, my beauty\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:11",
"text": " For look! The winter is over; \u231ethe rainy season\u231f \u231ehas turned and gone away\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:12",
"text": " The blossoms \u231eappear\u231f \u231ein the land\u231f; \u231ethe time of singing has arrived\u231f; the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:13",
"text": " The fig tree puts forth her figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give fragrance. \u231eArise\u231f, my beloved! \u231eCome, my beauty\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:14",
"text": " My dove, in the clefts of the rock, \u231ein the secluded place\u231f \u231ein the mountain\u231f, Let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:15",
"text": " Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:16",
"text": " \u231eMy beloved belongs to me and I belong to him\u231f; he pastures his flock among the lilies. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Song of Solomon 2:17",
"text": " Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved! \u231eBe like\u231f a gazelle or \u231eyoung stag\u231f on the cleft mountains. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3:1",
"text": " On my bed in the night, I sought him whom my \u231eheart\u231f loves. I sought him, but I did not find him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3:2",
"text": " Now I will arise, and I will go about in the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my \u231eheart\u231f loves. I sought him, but I did not find him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3:3",
"text": " The sentinels who go about in the city found me. \u201cHave you seen the one whom my \u231eheart\u231f loves?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3:4",
"text": " \u231eScarcely had I passed\u231f by them when I found him whom my \u231eheart\u231f loves. I held him and I would not let him go until I brought him to the house of my mother, into the bedroom chamber of she who conceived me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3:5",
"text": " I adjure you, \u231eO maidens of Jerusalem\u231f, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3:6",
"text": " What is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3:7",
"text": " Look! It is Solomon\u2019s \u231eportable couch\u231f! Sixty mighty men surround \u231eit\u231f, the mighty men of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3:8",
"text": " All of them \u231ewield swords\u231f; they are \u231etrained in warfare\u231f, each with his sword at his thigh to guard \u231eagainst terror\u231f in the night. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3:9",
"text": " \u231eKing Solomon\u231f made for himself a sedan chair from the wood of Lebanon. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3:10",
"text": " He made its column of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its interior is inlaid with leather by \u231ethe maidens of Jerusalem\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Song of Solomon 3:11",
"text": " Come out and look, \u231eO maidens of Zion\u231f, at \u231eKing Solomon\u231f, at the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the joy of his heart! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:1",
"text": " \u231eOh my\u231f! You are beautiful, my beloved! \u231eOh my\u231f! You are beautiful! Your eyes are doves from behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats that move down from the mountains of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:2",
"text": " Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that came up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:3",
"text": " Your lips are like a thread of crimson, and your mouth is lovely. Your temple is like pomegranate from behind your veil. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:4",
"text": " Your neck is like the tower of David, built in courses; a thousand \u231eornaments\u231f are hung on it, all the shields of the warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:5",
"text": " Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle that feed among the lilies. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:6",
"text": " Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of the myrrh, to the hill of the frankincense. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:7",
"text": " You are completely beautiful, my beloved! \u231eYou are flawless\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:8",
"text": " Come with me from Lebanon, my bride! Come with me from Lebanon! Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the dwelling places of the lions, from the mountains of leopard. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:9",
"text": " You have stolen (my) heart, my sister bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance from your eyes, with one ornament from your necklaces. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:10",
"text": " How beautiful is your love, my sister bride! How better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:11",
"text": " Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your lips; the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:12",
"text": " A garden locked is my sister bride, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:13",
"text": " Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with \u231echoice fruit\u231f, henna with nard; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:14",
"text": " nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon spice with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes with all chief spices. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:15",
"text": " A garden fountain, a well of living water, flowing (streams) from Lebanon. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Song of Solomon 4:16",
"text": " Awake, O north wind! Come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden! Let its fragrances waft forth! Let my beloved come to his garden, let him eat his choice fruit! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:1",
"text": "I have come to my garden, my sister bride, I have gathered my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk! Eat, O friends! \u231eDrink and become drunk with love\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:2",
"text": " I was asleep but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved knocking! \u201cOpen to me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my perfect one! For my head is full of dew, \u231emy hair drenched from the moist night air\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:3",
"text": " I have taken off my tunic, \u231emust I put it on\u231f? I have bathed my feet, \u231emust I soil them\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:4",
"text": " My beloved thrust his hand into the opening, and my inmost yearned for him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:5",
"text": " I myself arose to open to my beloved; my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh upon the handles of the bolt. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:6",
"text": " I opened myself to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone; my heart sank when he turned away. I sought him, but I did not find him; I called him, but he did not answer me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:7",
"text": " The sentinels making rounds in the city found me; they beat me, they wounded me; they took my cloak away from me\u2014 \u231ethose sentinels on the walls\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:8",
"text": " I adjure you, \u231eO maidens of Jerusalem\u231f, if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him that I am \u231elovesick\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:9",
"text": " \u231eHow is your beloved better than another lover\u231f, O most beautiful among women? \u231eHow is your beloved better than another lover\u231f, that you adjure us thus? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:10",
"text": " My beloved is radiant and \u231eruddy\u231f, distinguished \u231eamong\u231f ten thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:11",
"text": " His head is gold, refined gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:12",
"text": " His eyes are like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, \u231eset like mounted jewels\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:13",
"text": " His cheeks are like beds of spice, a tower of fragrances; his lips are lilies dripping liquid myrrh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:14",
"text": " His arms are \u231erods\u231f of gold \u231eengraved with\u231f jewels; his belly is polished ivory covered with sapphires. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:15",
"text": " His legs are columns of alabaster, set on bases of gold; his appearance is like Lebanon, choice as \u231eits cedars\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Song of Solomon 5:16",
"text": " \u231eHis mouth\u231f is sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved; this is my friend, \u231eO young women of Jerusalem\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:1",
"text": "Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned that we may seek him with you? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:2",
"text": " My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the garden bed of the spice, to pasture his flock and to gather lilies in the garden. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:3",
"text": " \u231eI belong to my beloved and he belongs to me\u231f; he pastures his flock among the lilies. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:4",
"text": " You are beautiful, my beloved, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, \u231eoverwhelming as an army with banners\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:5",
"text": " Turn away your eyes from before me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of the goats that moves down from Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:6",
"text": " Your teeth are like a flock of the ewes that have come up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:7",
"text": " Your cheeks \u231ebehind\u231f your veil are like halves of a pomegranate. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:8",
"text": " Sixty queens there are, eighty concubines, and maidens beyond number. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:9",
"text": " My dove, \u231eshe is the one\u231f; my perfect, \u231eshe is the only one\u231f; she is \u231ethe favorite of\u231f her mother who bore her. Maidens see her and consider her fortunate; queens and concubines praise her: "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:10",
"text": " \u201cWho is this that looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, \u231ebright as the sun\u231f, \u231eoverwhelming as an army with banners\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:11",
"text": " I went down to the orchard of the walnut trees to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines have sprouted, whether the pomegranates have blossomed. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:12",
"text": " I did not know my \u231eheart\u231f set me in a chariot of my princely people. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Song of Solomon 6:13",
"text": " Turn, turn, O Shulammite! Turn, turn so that we may look upon you! Why do you look upon the Shulammite as at a dance of the two armies? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:1",
"text": " How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O royal princess! The curves of your \u231ethighs\u231f are like \u231ejewels\u231f, the work of the hands of a craftsman. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:2",
"text": " Your navel is \u231ea round wine-mixing bowl\u231f that does not lack mixed wine! Your belly is a heap of wheat encircled with lilies. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:3",
"text": " Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:4",
"text": " Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are pools in Heshbon at the gate of Beth Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon \u231elooking out over Damascus\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:5",
"text": " \u231eYour head crowns you like Carmel\u231f; the flowing locks of your head are like \u231epurple tapestry\u231f; a king is held captive in the tresses! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:6",
"text": " How beautiful you are and how pleasant, O loved one in the delights! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:7",
"text": " \u231eYour stature\u231f is like the palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:8",
"text": " I say, \u201cI will climb up the palm tree; I will lay hold of its fruit clusters.\u201d Let your breasts be pleasing like clusters of the vine and the scent of your breath like the apples. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:9",
"text": " Your palate is like the best wine that goes down for my beloved, smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:10",
"text": " \u231eI belong to my beloved\u231f, \u231eand he desires me\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:11",
"text": " Come, my beloved, let us \u231ego out to the countryside\u231f; let us spend the night in the villages. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:12",
"text": " Let us rise early to go to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has budded, whether the grape blossom has opened, and whether the pomegranates \u231eare in bloom\u231f; there I will give my love to you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Song of Solomon 7:13",
"text": " The mandrakes give off their fragrance, and \u231eover our doorway is every kind of delicious fruit\u231f; both \u231efresh and dried fruit I have stored up\u231f for you, O my beloved. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:1",
"text": " \u231eHow I wish that you were my little brother\u231f, who nursed \u231eupon my mother\u2019s breasts\u231f! If \u231eI met you outside\u231f, I would kiss you, \u231eand no one would despise me\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:2",
"text": " \u231eI would surely bring you\u231f to the house of my mother, \u231ewho would surely teach me\u231f; \u231eI would give you spiced wine to drink\u231f, the \u231esweet wine\u231f of my pomegranates. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:3",
"text": " His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:4",
"text": " I adjure you, \u231eO maidens of Jerusalem\u231f, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:5",
"text": " Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother \u231econceived you\u231f; there she who was in labor gave birth to you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:6",
"text": " Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death; passion is fierce as Sheol; its flashes are flashes of fire; it is a blazing flame. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:7",
"text": " Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house \u231efor love\u231f, he would be utterly scorned. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:8",
"text": " \u231eWe have a little sister\u231f, \u231eand she does not yet have any breasts\u231f. What should we do for our sister \u231eon the day when she is betrothed\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:9",
"text": " If she is a wall, \u231ewe will adorn her with a turret of silver\u231f; but if she is a door, we will barricade her with boards of cedar. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:10",
"text": " I was a wall, and my breasts were like the towers, \u231eso my betrothed viewed me with great delight\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:11",
"text": " \u231eSolomon had a vineyard\u231f at Baal-hamon; \u231ehe entrusted his vineyard to the keepers\u231f; \u231epeople paid a thousand silver pieces for its fruit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:12",
"text": " \u231eMy own \u201cvineyard\u201d belongs to me\u231f; the \u201cthousand\u201d are for you, O Solomon, \u231eand \u201ctwo hundred\u201d for those who tend its fruit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:13",
"text": " O you who dwell in the garden, my companions are listening to your voice. Let me hear it! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Song of Solomon 8:14",
"text": " Flee, my beloved! \u231eBe like a gazelle\u231f or \u231ea young stag\u231f upon \u231ethe perfumed mountains\u231f! "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Isaiah",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:1",
"text": " The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:2",
"text": " Hear, heavens, and listen, earth, for Yahweh has spoken: \u201cI reared children and I brought them up, but they rebelled against me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:3",
"text": " An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:4",
"text": " Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged and gone backward. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:5",
"text": " Why do you want to be beaten again? You continue in rebellion. The whole of the head is sick, and the whole of the heart is faint. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:6",
"text": " From the sole of the foot and up to the head there is no health in it; bruise and sore and bleeding wound have not been cleansed, and they have not been bound up and not softened with the oil. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:7",
"text": " Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; As for your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence, and it is desolate, like devastation by foreigners. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:8",
"text": " And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a city that is besieged. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:9",
"text": " If Yahweh of hosts had not left us survivors, we would have been as few as Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:10",
"text": " Hear the word of Yahweh, rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, people of Gomorrah! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:11",
"text": " What is the abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals and I do not delight in the blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:12",
"text": " When you come to appear before me, who asked for this from your hand: you trampling my courts? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:13",
"text": " You must not \u231econtinue\u231f to bring offerings of futility, incense\u2014it is an abomination to me; new moon and Sabbath, the calling of a convocation\u2014 I cannot endure iniquity with solemn assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:14",
"text": " Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like a burden, I am not able to bear them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:15",
"text": " And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not be listening. Your hands are full of blood. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:16",
"text": "Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil! "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:17",
"text": "Learn to do good! Seek justice! Rescue the oppressed! Defend the orphan! Plead for the widow! "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:18",
"text": " \u201cCome now, and let us argue,\u201d says Yahweh. \u201cEven though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; even though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:19",
"text": " If you are willing and you are obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:20",
"text": " But if you refuse and you rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:21",
"text": " How has a faithful city become like a whore? Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:22",
"text": " Your silver has become as dross; Your wine is diluted with waters. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:23",
"text": " Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan and the legal dispute of the widow does not come before them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:24",
"text": " Therefore, the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: \u201cAh, I will be relieved of my enemies, and I will avenge myself on my foes. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:25",
"text": " And I will turn my hand against you; I will purify your dross like lye, and I will remove all of your tin. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:26",
"text": " And I will restore your judges, as at the first, and your counselors, as at the beginning. After this \u231eyou will be called\u231f the city of righteousness, faithful city. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:27",
"text": " Zion will be redeemed by justice, and those of her who repent, by righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:28",
"text": " But the destruction of rebels and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh will perish. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:29",
"text": " For you will be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted, and you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:30",
"text": " For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Isaiah 1:31",
"text": " And the strong man shall become like tinder, and his work like a spark. And both of them shall burn together, and there is not one to quench them.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:1",
"text": " The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:2",
"text": " And it shall happen in the future of the days the mountain of the house of Yahweh shall be established; it will be among the highest of the mountains, and it shall be raised from the hills. All of the nations shall travel to him; "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:3",
"text": " many peoples shall come. And they shall say, \u201cCome, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob, and may he teach us part of his ways, and let us walk in his paths.\u201d For instruction shall go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:4",
"text": " He shall judge between the nations and he shall arbitrate for many peoples. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. A nation shall not lift up a sword against a nation, and they shall not learn war again. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:5",
"text": " House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:6",
"text": " For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob, because they are full from the east, and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and \u231ethey make alliances\u231f with the offspring of foreigners. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:7",
"text": " And its land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to its treasures; and its land is filled with horses, and there is no end to its chariots. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:8",
"text": " Its land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what they made with their fingers. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:9",
"text": " So humanity is humbled; everyone is humbled, and you must not forgive them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:10",
"text": " Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:11",
"text": " The \u231ehaughty eyes\u231f of humanity will be brought low, and the pride of everyone will be humbled, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:12",
"text": " For there is a day for Yahweh of hosts against all of the proud and the lofty and against all that is lifted up and humble, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:13",
"text": " and against all the lofty and lifted up cedars of Lebanon, and against all the large trees of Bashan, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:14",
"text": " and against all the high mountains, and against all the lofty hills, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:15",
"text": " and against every kind of high tower, and against every kind of fortified wall, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:16",
"text": " and against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the ships of desire. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:17",
"text": " And the haughtiness of the people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:18",
"text": " And the idols shall pass away entirely, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:19",
"text": " and they will enter into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the ground from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty \u231ewhen he rises\u231f to terrify the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:20",
"text": " On that day humanity will throw away its idols of silver and its idols of gold, which they made for it to worship, to the rodents and to the bats\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:21",
"text": " to enter into the crevices of the rocks and into the clefts of the crags from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty, \u231ewhen he rises\u231f to terrify the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Isaiah 2:22",
"text": " Turn away from humanity, who has breath in its nostrils, for by what is it esteemed? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:1",
"text": " For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing \u231eevery source of support\u231f from Jerusalem and from Judah: all of the supplies of bread and all of the supplies of water, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:2",
"text": " mighty warrior and man of war, judge and prophet, and diviner and elder, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:3",
"text": " captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank, and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:4",
"text": " And I will make boys their princes, and children shall rule over them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:5",
"text": " And the people will be oppressed \u231eby each other\u231f and a man by his neighbor. The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the dishonorable toward the honorable. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:6",
"text": " Indeed, a man will seize his brother in the house of his father: \u201c\u231eYou have a cloak\u231f; you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:7",
"text": " He will lift up his voice on that day, saying, \u201cI will not be a healer; in my house there is no bread and there is no cloak. You shall not make me the leader of the people!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:8",
"text": " For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:9",
"text": " The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:10",
"text": " Tell the innocent that it is good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:11",
"text": " Woe to the wicked! It is bad! For what is done by his hands will be done to him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:12",
"text": " My people\u2014children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading you, and they confuse the course of your paths. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:13",
"text": " Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case and takes his stand to judge the peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:14",
"text": " Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. \u201cAnd you! You have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:15",
"text": " \u231eWhy\u231f do you crush my people and grind the face of the poor?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:16",
"text": " And Yahweh said: \u201cBecause the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk with outstretched neck, and they give flirting glances with their eyes, \u231emincing along as they go\u231f, and \u231ewith their feet they rattle their bangles\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:17",
"text": " the Lord will make the heads of the daughters of Zion scabby, and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:18",
"text": " In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:19",
"text": " the pendants and the bracelets and the veils, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:20",
"text": " the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes, and the \u231eperfume boxes\u231f and the amulets, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:21",
"text": " the signet rings and the nose rings, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:22",
"text": " the festal robes and the mantles, and the cloaks and the handbags, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:23",
"text": " and the mirrors and the linen garments, and the turbans and the wraps. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:24",
"text": " And this shall happen: There will be a stench instead of perfume, and a rope instead of a sash, and baldness instead of a well-set hairdo, and a clothing wrap of sackcloth instead of a rich robe, branding instead of beauty. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:25",
"text": " Your men shall fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Isaiah 3:26",
"text": " And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished; she shall sit upon the ground. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Isaiah 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Isaiah 4:1",
"text": "And seven women shall grasp at one man on that day, saying, \u201cWe will eat our own bread, and we will wear our own clothing; only \u231elet us be called by your name\u231f! Take away our disgrace!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Isaiah 4:2",
"text": " On that day the branch of Yahweh shall become beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall become the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Isaiah 4:3",
"text": " And this shall happen: He who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone written for life in Jerusalem, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Isaiah 4:4",
"text": " when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the blood of Jerusalem from her midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Isaiah 4:5",
"text": " Then Yahweh will create over all of the site of \u231eMount Zion\u231f and over her assembly a cloud by day and smoke and the brightness of flaming fire by night. Indeed, over all the glory there will be a canopy, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Isaiah 4:6",
"text": " and it will be a shelter for shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and a hiding place from rainstorm and from rain. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:1",
"text": " Let me sing for my beloved a song of my love concerning his vineyard: \u231eMy beloved had a vineyard\u231f on \u231ea fertile hill\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:2",
"text": " And he dug it and cleared it of stones, and he planted it with choice vines, and he built a watchtower in the middle of it, and he even hewed out a wine vat in it, and he waited for it to yield grapes\u2014 but it yielded wild grapes. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:3",
"text": " And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:4",
"text": " What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why did I hope for it to yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:5",
"text": " And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation. I will break down its wall, and it shall become a trampling. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:6",
"text": " And I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned and hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thornbushes. And concerning the clouds, I will command \u231ethem not to send\u231f rain down upon it. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:7",
"text": " For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is the plantation of his delight. And he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:8",
"text": " Ah! Those who \u231ejoin\u231f house with house, they join field together with field until \u231ethere is no place\u231f and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:9",
"text": " Yahweh of hosts said in my ears: \u231eSurely\u231f many houses shall become a desolation, large and beautiful ones without inhabitant. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:10",
"text": " For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:11",
"text": " Ah! Those who rise early in the morning, they pursue strong drink. Those who linger in the evening, wine inflames them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:12",
"text": " And there will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts, but they do not look at the deeds of Yahweh, and they do not see the work of his hands. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:13",
"text": " Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge, and their nobles will be men of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:14",
"text": " Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat, and it has opened wide its mouth without limit, and her nobles will go down, and her multitude, her tumult and those who revel in her. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:15",
"text": " And humankind is bowed down, and man is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humiliated. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:16",
"text": " But Yahweh of hosts is exalted by justice, and the holy God shows himself holy by righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:17",
"text": " And then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and \u231efatlings, kids will eat among the sites of ruins.\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:18",
"text": " Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehood and sin as with rope of the cart, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:19",
"text": " those who say, \u201cLet him make haste; let him hurry his work so that we may see it and let it draw near and let the plan of the holy one of Israel come so that we may know it!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:20",
"text": " Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil, those who put darkness for light and light for darkness, those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:21",
"text": " Ah! Those who are wise in their own eyes and have understanding \u231ein their view\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:22",
"text": " Ah! Heroes at drinking wine, and men of capability at mixing strong drink! "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:23",
"text": " Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove the justice of the innocent from him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:24",
"text": " Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become like the stench, and their blossom will go up like the dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:25",
"text": " Therefore \u231eYahweh\u2019s wrath was kindled\u231f against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in the middle of the streets. In all of this his anger has not turned back, and still his hand is stretched out. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:26",
"text": " And he will raise a signal for a nation from afar, and he will whistle for it from the end of the earth. And look! It comes quickly, swiftly! "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:27",
"text": " None is weary, and none among him stumbles; none slumbers and none sleeps. And no loincloth on his waist is opened, and no thong of his sandals is drawn away. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:28",
"text": " Whose arrows are sharp, and all of his bows are bent. The hoofs of his horses are reckoned like flint, and his wheels like the storm wind. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:29",
"text": " His roaring is like the lion, and he roars like young lions. And he growls and seizes his prey, and he carries it off, and not one can rescue it. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Isaiah 5:30",
"text": " And he will roar over him on that day like the roaring of the sea, and if one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress! And the light grows dark with its clouds. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:1",
"text": " In the year of the death of Uzziah the king, I saw the Lord sitting on a high and raised throne, and the hem of his robe was filling the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:2",
"text": "Seraphs were standing above him. \u231eEach had six wings\u231f: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:3",
"text": " And the one called to the other and said, \u201cHoly, holy, holy is Yahweh of hosts! The \u231ewhole earth is full of his glory\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:4",
"text": " And the pivots of the thresholds shook from the sound of those who called, and the house was filled with smoke. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:5",
"text": " And I said, \u201cWoe to me! For I am destroyed! For I am a man \u231eof unclean lips\u231f, and I am living among a people \u231eof unclean lips\u231f, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:6",
"text": " Then one of the seraphs flew to me, and in his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:7",
"text": " And he touched my mouth, and he said, \u201cLook! This has touched your lips and has removed your guilt, and your sin is annulled.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:8",
"text": " Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, \u201cWhom shall I send? And who will go for us?\u201d And I said, \u201cI am here! Send me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:9",
"text": " And he said, \u201cGo and say to this people, \u2018Keep on listening and do not comprehend! And keep on looking and do not understand!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:10",
"text": " Make the heart of this people insensitive, and make its ears unresponsive, and shut its eyes so that it may not look with its eyes and listen with its ears and comprehend with its mind and turn back, and it may be healed for him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:11",
"text": " Then I said, \u201cUntil when, Lord?\u201d And he said, \u201cUntil the cities lie wasted without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is ruined and a waste, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:12",
"text": " and Yahweh sends the people far away, and the abandonment is great in the midst of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Isaiah 6:13",
"text": " And \u231eeven if only a tenth part remain\u231f, \u231eagain she will be destroyed\u231f like a terebinth or like an oak, which although felled, a tree stump remains in them. The seed of holiness will be her tree stump.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:1",
"text": " This happened in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah. Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem for warfare against it, but he was not able to fight against it. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:2",
"text": "When it was reported to the house of David, saying \u201cAram stands by Ephraim,\u201d his heart and the heart of his people shook like the shaking of the trees of the forest because of the wind. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:3",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, \u201cGo out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the washer\u2019s field. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:4",
"text": "And you must say to him, \u2018Take heed and be quiet! You must not fear, and your heart must not be faint because of these two stumps of smoldering firebrands, \u231ebecause of the fierce anger of\u231f Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:5",
"text": "Because Aram has plotted evil against you with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:6",
"text": "\u201cLet us go up against Judah and let us tear her apart, \u231eand let us lay it open and so bring it unto ourselves\u231f, and let us install the son of Tabeel as king in her midst.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:7",
"text": "Thus says the Lord Yahweh, \u201cIt shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:8",
"text": "For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:9",
"text": "And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe then you will not endure.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:10",
"text": " And Yahweh continued to speak to Ahaz, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:11",
"text": "\u201cAsk for a sign for yourself from Yahweh God; make it deep as Sheol or make it high as above.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:12",
"text": "But Ahaz said, \u201cI will not ask, and I will not put Yahweh to the test.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:13",
"text": " Then he said, \u201cHear, house of David! Is it too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:14",
"text": "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look! the virgin is with child and she is about to give birth to a son, and she shall call his name \u2018God with us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:15",
"text": "He shall eat curds and honey until he knows to reject the evil and to choose the good. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:16",
"text": "For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, \u231ethe land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:17",
"text": " \u201cYahweh will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your ancestor days that have not come since the day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:18",
"text": "And this shall happen: On that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the stream of Egypt and the bee that is in the land of Assyria. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:19",
"text": "And all of them will come and settle in the rivers of the cliffs and in the clefts of the rocks and on all of the thornbushes and watering places. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:20",
"text": "On that day, the Lord will shave the head and the hair of the feet with a razor of the one hired from beyond the river\u2014with the king of Assyria\u2014and it will even take off the beard. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:21",
"text": "And this shall happen: on that day, a young man will keep a young cow of the herd and two sheep alive. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:22",
"text": "And this shall happen: because of the abundance of milk production, he will eat curds, for every one that is left in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:23",
"text": "And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vines for a thousand silver pieces will become briers, and it will be thornbushes. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:24",
"text": "One will go there with arrows and bow, for all of the land will be briers and thornbushes. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Isaiah 7:25",
"text": "And as for all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, for fear of briers and thornbushes. And it will become like pastureland for cattle and overtrodden land for sheep. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to me, \u201cTake yourself a large tablet and write on it with a common stylus pen: Maher-Halal-Hash-Baz. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:2",
"text": "And I will require reliable witnesses as a witness for me: Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:3",
"text": "And I approached the prophetess, and she conceived, and she gave birth to a son. And Yahweh said to me, \u201cCall his name Maher-Halal-Hash-Baz. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:4",
"text": "For before the boy knows to call \u2018my father\u2019 and \u2018my mother,\u2019 one will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:5",
"text": " And Yahweh continued to speak to me again, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:6",
"text": " \u201cBecause this people has refused the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:7",
"text": "therefore look! The Lord is bringing up the waters of the great and mighty river against them, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And he will rise above all his channels, and he will flow over all his banks. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:8",
"text": " And he will sweep into Judah; he will overflow and he will flood up to the neck. He will reach, and \u231ehe will spread his wings out over your entire land\u231f, God with us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:9",
"text": " Be broken, you peoples, and be dismayed. And listen, all distant parts of the earth; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:10",
"text": " \u231eMake a plan\u231f, but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:11",
"text": " For Yahweh said this to me \u231ewhile his hand weighed heavily on me\u231f, and he \u231ewarned me not to walk\u231f in the way of this people, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:12",
"text": " \u201cYou must not call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy, and you must not \u231eshare its fear\u231f, and you must not be in dread. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:13",
"text": " You shall regard Yahweh of hosts as holy, and he is your fear, and he is your dread. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:14",
"text": " And he will become like a sanctuary and a stumbling-stone, and like a stumbling-rock for the two houses of Israel, like a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:15",
"text": " And many shall stumble among them, and they shall fall and they shall be broken, and they shall be ensnared and they shall be caught.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:16",
"text": " Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:17",
"text": " And I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will await him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:18",
"text": " Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me are like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:19",
"text": "Now if they tell you, \u201cConsult the ghosts and the spirits, those who chirp and those who mutter. Should not a people consult its gods, the dead on behalf of the living, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:20",
"text": "for teaching and for testimony?\u201d \u231esurely they who speak like this have no dawn\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:21",
"text": " And it will pass through it distressed and hungry, and this shall happen: when it is hungry, it will be enraged, and it will curse its king and its gods, and it will face upwar "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Isaiah 8:22",
"text": "or look to the earth. But look! Distress and darkness, the gloom of affliction! And it will be thrust into darkness! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:1",
"text": " \u231eBut there will be no gloom for those who were in distress\u231f. In former times he treated the land of Zebulun and Naphtali with contempt, but in the future he will honor the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:2",
"text": " The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; light has shined on those who lived in a land of darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:3",
"text": " You have made the nation numerous; you have not made the joy great. They rejoice in your presence as with joy at the harvest, as they rejoice when they divide plunder. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:4",
"text": " For you have shattered the yoke of its burden and the stick of its shoulder, the rod of its oppressor, on the day of Midian. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:5",
"text": " For every boot \u231ethat marches and shakes the earth\u231f and garment rolled in blood \u231ewill\u231f be for burning\u2014fire fuel. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:6",
"text": " For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:7",
"text": " \u231eHis dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end\u231f on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:8",
"text": " The Lord has sent out a word against Jacob, and it fell on Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:9",
"text": " And all of the people knew it, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria in pride and arrogance of heart, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:10",
"text": " \u201cThe bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stone. The sycamore-fig trees were felled, but we will replace them with cedars.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:11",
"text": " So Yahweh strengthened \u231ethe adversaries of Rezin\u231f against him, and he provoked his enemies\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:12",
"text": " Aram from the east and Philistines from the west\u2014 and they devoured Israel with the whole mouth. He has not turned away his anger in all of this, and his hand is still stretched out. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:13",
"text": " And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:14",
"text": " So Yahweh cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and reed in one day. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:15",
"text": " Elders and \u231ethe respectable\u231f are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:16",
"text": " And the leaders of this people were misleading them, and those who were led were confused. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:17",
"text": " Therefore the Lord did not rejoice over its young men, and he did not have compassion on its orphans and widows, for everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth was speaking folly. In all of this his anger did not turn away, and still his hand is stretched out. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:18",
"text": " For wickedness burned like fire; it consumed brier and thorn. And it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:19",
"text": " The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and the people became like fire fuel. \u231ePeople had no compassion toward each other\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:20",
"text": " They devoured on the right but still were hungry and devoured on the left but they were not satisfied. Each one devoured the flesh of his arm, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Isaiah 9:21",
"text": " Manasseh devoured Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they were against Judah. In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand is stretched out. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:1",
"text": " Ah! Those who decree decrees of evil, and writers who have written harm, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:2",
"text": " to guide the needy away from legal claims, and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:3",
"text": " And what will you do at the day of punishment, and at calamity? It comes from afar! To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:4",
"text": " \u231esave that they bow down under the prisoners and fall under the slain\u231f? In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand is stretched out. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:5",
"text": " Ah! Assyria, the rod of my anger, and a staff is in their hand: my wrath! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:6",
"text": " I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them a trampling place, like the clay of the streets. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:7",
"text": " But he does not think this, and his heart does not plan this. For it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off not a few nations. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:8",
"text": " For he says, \u201cAre not my commanders altogether kings? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:9",
"text": " Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:10",
"text": " As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols \u2014and their images were \u231egreater than those of\u231f Jerusalem and Samaria\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:11",
"text": " shall I not do to Jerusalem and its idols what I have done to Samaria and her idols?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:12",
"text": " And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against \u231eMount Zion\u231f and Jerusalem, \u201cI will punish the \u231earrogance\u231f of the king of Assyria and \u231ehis haughtiness\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:13",
"text": " For he says, \u201cI have done it by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom, for I have understanding, and I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and I have plundered their stores, and like a bull I have brought down \u231ethe inhabitants\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:14",
"text": " And my hand has found, like a nest, the wealth of the peoples, and like the gathering of forsaken eggs, I myself have gathered all the earth. And there was no fluttering wing or open mouth or chirp.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:15",
"text": " Does the ax boast against the one who cuts with it, or the saw magnify itself against the one who moves it to and fro? \u231eAs if a rod should move the one who lifts it\u231f! \u231eAs if a staff should lift up that which is not wood\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:16",
"text": " Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors, and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:17",
"text": " And the light of Israel will become like a fire, and his holy one like a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:18",
"text": " And he will destroy the glory of his forest and orchard \u231ecompletely\u231f, and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:19",
"text": " And the rest of the trees of his forest will be a small number, and a boy can write them down. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:20",
"text": " And this shall happen: on that day, the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will not continue to lean on the one who struck it but will lean on Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, in truth. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:21",
"text": " A remnant will return\u2014 the remnant of Jacob\u2014to the mighty God. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:22",
"text": " For though your people Israel was like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of it will return. Annihilation is determined, overflowing with righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:23",
"text": " For the Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to make a complete destruction and a determined end in the midst of all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:24",
"text": " Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh of hosts: \u201cMy people who live in Zion, you must not be afraid of Assyria. It beats you with the rod, and it lifts up its staff against you \u231eas the Egyptians did\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:25",
"text": " My indignation will come to an end \u231ein just a very little while\u231f, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:26",
"text": " And Yahweh of hosts is going to swing a whip against him, as when Midian was defeated at the rock of Oreb; and his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift him up \u231eas he did in Egypt\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:27",
"text": " And this shall happen: on that day, he will remove his burden from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck, \u231eand a yoke will be destroyed because of fat\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:28",
"text": " He has come to Aiath, he has passed through Migron; at Micmash he deposited his baggage. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:29",
"text": " They crossed over the pass; Geba is a place of overnight lodging for us. Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:30",
"text": " Daughter of Gallim, cry out with your voice; Laishah, listen! \u231eAnathoth is poor\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:31",
"text": " Madmenah flees! The inhabitants of Gebim bring themselves into safety! "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:32",
"text": " \u231eThis day\u231f \u231etaking a stand\u231f at Nob, he will shake his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:33",
"text": " Look! The Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to lop off the branches with great power, and \u231ethe towering trees\u231f will be felled, and the \u231etall trees\u231f will be brought low. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Isaiah 10:34",
"text": " And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with the axe, and Lebanon will fall by the mighty one. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:1",
"text": " And a shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from its roots will bear fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:2",
"text": " And the spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him\u2014 a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:3",
"text": " And his \u231ebreath\u231f is in the fear of Yahweh. And he shall judge not by his eyesight, and he shall rebuke not by \u231ewhat he hears with\u231f his ears. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:4",
"text": " But he shall judge the poor with righteousness, and he shall decide for the needy of the earth with rectitude. And he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and he shall kill the wicked person with the breath of his lips. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:5",
"text": " And righteousness shall be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his loins. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:6",
"text": " And a wolf shall \u231estay\u231f with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie down with a kid, and a calf and a lion and a fatling together \u231eas a small boy leads\u231f them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:7",
"text": " And a cow and a bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together. And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:8",
"text": " And \u231ean infant\u231f shall play over a serpent\u2019s hole, and \u231ea toddler\u231f shall put his hand on a viper\u2019s hole. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:9",
"text": " They will not injure and they will not destroy on all of my \u231eholy mountain\u231f, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:10",
"text": " And this shall happen on that day: the nations shall inquire of the root of Jesse, which shall be standing as a signal to the peoples, and his resting place shall be glorious. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:11",
"text": " And this shall happen on that day: The Lord will again extend his hand a second time to acquire the remnant of his people that is left, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coastlands of the sea, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:12",
"text": " and he will raise a signal for the nations. And he will gather the outcasts of Israel, and he will gather the scattered ones of Judah together from the four \u231ecorners\u231f of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:13",
"text": " And the jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and the enemies of Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not be an enemy of Ephraim. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:14",
"text": " But they shall \u231eswoop\u231f upon the Philistine shoulder, \u231ewestward\u231f. Together they shall plunder the sons of the east. Edom and Moab \u231ewill be under their command\u231f, and the sons of Ammon will be their subjugated people. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:15",
"text": " And Yahweh will divide the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and he will wave his hand over the river with his scorching wind; and he will strike it into seven streams, and he will \u231emake it passable by foot\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Isaiah 11:16",
"text": " So there shall be a highway from Assyria for the remnant of his people that remains, as there was for Israel \u231ewhen\u231f it went up from the land of Egypt. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Isaiah 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Isaiah 12:1",
"text": " And you will say on that day, \u201cI will give you thanks, Yahweh, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Isaiah 12:2",
"text": " Look! God is my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might is Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Isaiah 12:3",
"text": " And you will draw water from the wells of salvation in joy. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Isaiah 12:4",
"text": "And you will say on that day, \u201cGive thanks to Yahweh; call on his name. Make his deeds known among the peoples; bring to remembrance that his name is exalted. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Isaiah 12:5",
"text": " Sing praises to Yahweh, for he has done a glorious thing; this is known in all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Isaiah 12:6",
"text": " Inhabitant of Zion, shout out and sing for joy, for the holy one of Israel is great in your midst.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:1",
"text": " The oracle of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:2",
"text": " Raise a signal on a bare hill, lift up your voice to them; wave the hand and may they enter the gateways of the noblemen. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:3",
"text": " I myself I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have also summoned my mighty warriors concerning my anger, the \u231eones who exalt over\u231f my majesty. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:4",
"text": " A sound, a noise is on the mountains, the likeness of many people! A sound of the roar of the kingdoms, of nations gathering! Yahweh of hosts is mustering an army for battle. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:5",
"text": " They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy \u231ethe whole earth\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:6",
"text": " Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:7",
"text": " Therefore all hands will grow slack, and every human heart will melt, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:8",
"text": " and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize them; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. \u231eThey will stare at one another\u231f, \u231etheir faces flushing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:9",
"text": " Look! The day of Yahweh is coming, cruel and wrath and the burning of anger, to make the earth a desolation, and he will destroy its sinners from it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:10",
"text": " For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will keep back when it comes out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:11",
"text": " And I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and I will bring the haughtiness of tyrants low. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:12",
"text": " I will make humanity more rare than gold and humankind more than the gold of Ophir. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:13",
"text": " Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will quake from its place because of the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day his anger burns. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:14",
"text": " And this shall happen: like a hunted gazelle or sheep \u231ewith none to gather them\u231f, they will each turn to his own people, and they will each flee to his own land. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:15",
"text": " Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:16",
"text": " And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:17",
"text": " Look! I am stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:18",
"text": " And their bows will shatter young men. And they will not show mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not look compassionately on children. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:19",
"text": " And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans\u2019 pride, will be like \u231ewhen God overthrew\u231f Sodom and Gomorrah. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:20",
"text": " It will not be inhabited forever, and it will not be dwelled in \u231eforever\u231f; and no Arab will pitch a tent there, and shepherds will not allow their flocks to lie down there. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:21",
"text": " But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures, and the daughters of ostriches will live there, and goats will dance there. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Isaiah 13:22",
"text": " And hyenas will answer in its palaces, and jackals in the pleasure palaces; and its time \u231eis coming soon\u231f, and its days will not be prolonged. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:1",
"text": " But Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and he will again choose Israel and set them on their land, and the immigrant will join himself to them, and they will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:2",
"text": " And the nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will take possession of them in the land of Yahweh as slaves and female slaves. And this will happen: they will take their captors captive and rule over their oppressors. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:3",
"text": " And it shall happen on the day Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and hard labor which \u231eyou had to perform\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:4",
"text": " that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon, and you will say: \u201cHow the oppressor has ceased! his insolence has ceased. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:5",
"text": " Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:6",
"text": " that struck the peoples in wrath, a blow without ceasing, that ruled the nations in anger \u231ewith unrestrained persecution\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:7",
"text": " All of the earth rests and is quiet; they break forth into singing. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:8",
"text": " Even the cypresses rejoice over you, the cedars of Lebanon: \u2018Since you were laid down, no wood cutter comes up against us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:9",
"text": " Sheol below is getting excited over you, to meet \u231eyou when you come\u231f; it arouses the dead spirits for you, all of the leaders of the earth. It raises all of the kings of the nations from their thrones. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:10",
"text": " All of them will respond and say to you, \u2018You yourself also were made weak like us! You have become the same as us!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:11",
"text": " Your pride is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:12",
"text": " How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn! You are cut down to the ground, conqueror of nations! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:13",
"text": " And you yourself said in your heart, \u2018I will ascend to heaven; I will raise up my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of assembly on the summit of Zaphon; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:14",
"text": " I will ascend to the high places of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:15",
"text": " But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:16",
"text": " Those who see you will stare at you, they will look closely at you: \u2018Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who caused kingdoms to shake, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:17",
"text": " who made the world like the desert and destroyed its cities, who would not let his prisoners go home?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:18",
"text": " All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, each one in his house. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:19",
"text": " But as for you, you are thrown away from your grave, like an abhorrent shoot, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, those who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse that is trodden down. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:20",
"text": " You will not be united with them in burial because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. The descendants of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity! "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:21",
"text": " Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the sin of their ancestors. Let them not rise and take possession of the earth or fill up the face of the world with cities.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:22",
"text": " \u201cAnd I will rise up against them,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts, \u201cand I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon, and offspring and posterity,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:23",
"text": " \u201cAnd I will make her a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:24",
"text": " Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying, \u201c\u231eSurely\u231f just as I have intended, so it shall be. And just as I have planned, it shall stand: "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:25",
"text": " to break Assyria in my land, and I will trample him down on my mountains; and he shall remove his yoke from them, and he shall remove his burden from his shoulders.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:26",
"text": " This is the plan that is planned concerning all of the earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out over all of the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:27",
"text": " For Yahweh of hosts has planned, and who will frustrate it? And his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:28",
"text": " In the year of the death of king Ahaz there was this oracle: "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:29",
"text": " You must not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for a viper will come forth from the root of the snake, and its fruit will be a flying serpent. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:30",
"text": " And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy will lie down in security; but I will cause your root to die in famine, and it will kill your remnant. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:31",
"text": " Wail, gate! Cry, city! Melt, Philistia, all of you! For smoke is coming from the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Isaiah 14:32",
"text": " And what will one answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and the needy of his people will take refuge in it. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Isaiah 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Isaiah 15:1",
"text": " An oracle of Moab: Because Ar is devastated in a night, Moab is destroyed; because Kir of Moab is devastated in a night, it is destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Isaiah 15:2",
"text": " It has gone up to the house, and Dibon to the high places for weeping over Nebo, and Moab wails over Medeba. \u231eEvery head is bald\u231f, every beard is shaved. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Isaiah 15:3",
"text": " They gird themselves with sackcloth in its streets; on its roofs and public squares everyone wails, going down in weeping. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Isaiah 15:4",
"text": " And Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed ones of Moab cry out; its soul quivers for him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Isaiah 15:5",
"text": " My heart cries out for Moab; its fugitives flee up to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith it goes up it with weeping; for on the road of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Isaiah 15:6",
"text": " For the waters of Nimrim are wastelands; for the grass has withered, the vegetation has vanished, there is no greenness. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Isaiah 15:7",
"text": " Therefore they carry the abundance it has made and their store of goods over the river of the poplars. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Isaiah 15:8",
"text": " For a cry for help has encircled the territory of Moab, her wailing is heard as far as Eglaim, and her wailing as far as Beer Elim. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Isaiah 15:9",
"text": " For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; but I will place added things upon Dimon: a lion for the survivors of Moab and for the remnant of the land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:1",
"text": "Send a ram to the ruler of the land, from Sela across the desert to the mountain of \u231edaughter Zion\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:2",
"text": " And this shall be: like a bird fleeing from a thrust away nest shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of Arnon. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:3",
"text": " \u201cBring counsel, make a decision; make your shade like the night in the middle of noonday. Hide the outcasts; you must not betray the fugitive. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:4",
"text": " Let my outcasts of Moab dwell as aliens among you; be a hiding place for them from the presence of the destroyer.\u201d When the oppressor is no more, destruction has stopped, the \u231eone who tramples has\u231f disappeared from the land, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:5",
"text": " then a throne shall be established in steadfast love, and one shall sit on it in faithfulness, in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and zealous for righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:6",
"text": " We have heard of the pride of Moab\u2014exceedingly proud\u2014 of his arrogance, pride, and insolence; \u231ehis boasting is not true\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:7",
"text": " Therefore Moab wails; all of it wails for Moab, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth you moan, \u231eutterly devastated\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:8",
"text": " For Heshbon withers the fields, the vine of Sibmah; rulers of nations have broken down her tendrils, they reached up to Jazer, they wandered to the desert; her shoots spread abroad, they crossed over the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:9",
"text": " Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I drench you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh, for a jubilant shout has fallen over your summer fruit and harvest. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:10",
"text": " And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful land, and in the vineyards no one exults, no one shouts for joy; no treader treads wine in the presses; I have put to an end to the jubilant shout. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:11",
"text": " Therefore my \u231eheart moans\u231f like a harp for Moab and my inner parts for Kir-heres. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:12",
"text": " And this shall happen: when Moab appears, when it is weary upon the high place and it comes to its sanctuary to pray, it will not prevail. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:13",
"text": " This was the word that Yahweh spoke to Moab \u231ein the past\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Isaiah 16:14",
"text": "But now Yahweh speaks, saying, \u201cIn three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will become contemptible, with all of the great multitude, and the remnant will be a few, small, not strong. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:1",
"text": " An oracle of Damascus: \u201cLook! Damascus will cease being a city and will become a heap of ruins. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:2",
"text": " The cities of Aroer will be deserted; they will be for the flocks, and they will lie down and \u231eno one will frighten\u231f them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:3",
"text": " And the fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:4",
"text": " \u201cAnd this shall happen: On that day, the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will become lean. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:5",
"text": " And it shall be as \u231ewhen a reaper gathers\u231f standing grain and he reaps grain with his arm, and it shall be like one who gathers ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:6",
"text": " And gleanings will be left over in it, as \u231ewhen an olive tree is beaten\u231f, two or three ripe olive berries in the top of a branch, four or five on its fruitful branches,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:7",
"text": " On that day, mankind will look to its maker, and its eyes will look to the holy one of Israel; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:8",
"text": " it will not look to the altars, the work of its hands, and it will not see what its fingers made and the poles of Asherah worship and the incense altars. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:9",
"text": " On that day, \u231eits fortified cities\u231f will be like the \u231eabandonment of the wooded place and the summit\u231f, which they deserted because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:10",
"text": " For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you have not remembered the rock of your refuge; therefore you plant plants of pleasantness, and you \u231eplant\u231f a vine of a foreigner. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:11",
"text": " On your planting day you make them grow, and in the morning of your sowing you bring them into bloom, yet the harvest will flee in a day of sickness and incurable pain. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:12",
"text": " Ah! The noise of many peoples, they make a noise like the noise of the seas! And the roar of nations, they roar like the roar of mighty waters! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:13",
"text": " The nations roar like the roar of many waters, but he will rebuke him, and he will flee far away. And they are chased like chaff of the mountains before the wind and like tumbleweed before the storm. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Isaiah 17:14",
"text": " At the time of evening, and look, terror! Before morning he is no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who plunder us. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Isaiah 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Isaiah 18:1",
"text": " Ah! land of the whirring of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Isaiah 18:2",
"text": " that sends messengers by the sea and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a \u231etall\u231f and \u231esmooth\u231f nation, to a people feared \u231enear and far\u231f, a \u231emighty, mighty\u231f and trampling nation, whose land rivers divide. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Isaiah 18:3",
"text": " All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers of the earth, \u231ewhen a signal is raised on the\u231f mountains, you must look, and \u231ewhen a trumpet is blown\u231f, you must listen! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Isaiah 18:4",
"text": " For Yahweh said this to me: \u201cI will be quiet, and I will look from my dwelling place like \u231eclear heat because of light\u231f, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Isaiah 18:5",
"text": " For before the harvest, \u231ewhen the blossom is complete\u231f and a blossom becomes ripening fruit, and one cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and one removes, tears away the tendrils. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Isaiah 18:6",
"text": " They shall \u231eall be left\u231f for birds of prey of the mountains and for the animals of the earth. And the birds of prey will pass the summer on it, and every animal of the earth will winter on it. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Isaiah 18:7",
"text": " At that time, a gift will be brought to Yahweh of hosts from a \u231etall\u231f and \u231esmooth\u231f people, and from a people feared near and far, a mighty, mighty and trampling nation, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, the mountain of Zion. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:1",
"text": " An oracle of Egypt: Look! Yahweh is riding on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. And the idols of Egypt will tremble in front of him, and the heart of Egypt melts in his inner parts. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:2",
"text": " \u201cAnd I will stir up \u231eEgyptians\u231f against \u231eEgyptians\u231f, and each one will fight against his brother and each one against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:3",
"text": " And the spirit of \u231ethe Egyptians\u231f will be disturbed in his midst, and I will \u231econfuse\u231f his plans, and they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, and the ghosts and the spiritists. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:4",
"text": " And I will hand over \u231ethe Egyptians\u231f into the hand of a hard master, and a powerful king will rule over them,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:5",
"text": " And the waters will be dried up from the sea, and the river will be parched and dry. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:6",
"text": " And the rivers will become foul-smelling; the branches of the Nile of Egypt will become little and dry up; reed and rush will wither. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:7",
"text": " Bare places by the Nile will be dried up, by the edge of the Nile and all the sown land of the Nile; it will be driven about, and \u231eit will be no more\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:8",
"text": " And the fishers will mourn, and all of those who cast fishhooks in the Nile will lament, and those who spread out fishing nets on the \u231esurface\u231f of the water will languish. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:9",
"text": " And the workers of combed flax will be ashamed, and those who weave white linen. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:10",
"text": " And her weavers will be crushed; all the \u231ehired workers\u231f will be grieved of heart. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:11",
"text": " Surely the princes of Zoan are foolish; the wise of the counselors of Pharaoh give senseless counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, \u201cI myself am a son of sages, a \u231edescendant\u231f of ancient kings\u201d? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:12",
"text": " Where are your sages then? Now, let them tell you, and let them know what Yahweh of hosts has planned against Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:13",
"text": " The princes of Zoan have become foolish; the princes of Memphis are deceived; the leaders of her tribes have led Egypt astray. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:14",
"text": " Yahweh has mixed a spirit of confusion into her midst, and they have caused Egypt to stagger in all of its doings, as \u231ewhen a drunkard staggers\u231f in his vomit. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:15",
"text": " And \u231ethere will be nothing for Egypt to do\u231f, head or tail, palm branch or reed. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:16",
"text": " On that day, Egypt will be like women, and will tremble and be afraid before the waving hand of Yahweh of hosts that he is waving against it. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:17",
"text": "And the land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt, everyone to whom one mentions it will be afraid in himself because of the plan of Yahweh of hosts that he is planning against him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:18",
"text": " On that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the \u231elanguage\u231f of Canaan and swear an oath to Yahweh of hosts. One will be called \u201cCity of the Sun.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:19",
"text": " On that day, there will be an altar for Yahweh in in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a stone pillar for Yahweh at her border. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:20",
"text": "And it will be a sign and a witness to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt; when they cry out to Yahweh because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and a \u231edefender\u231f, and he will deliver them. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:21",
"text": "And Yahweh will make himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know Yahweh on that day, and they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to Yahweh, and they will fulfill them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:22",
"text": "And Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing; and they will return to Yahweh, and he will respond to their prayer, and he will heal them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:23",
"text": " On that day, there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and Egypt will worship together with Assyria. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:24",
"text": " On that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Isaiah 19:25",
"text": "whom Yahweh of hosts blessed, saying, \u201cMay Egypt my people be blessed, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and my inheritance, Israel.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Isaiah 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Isaiah 20:1",
"text": " In the year \u231ethe commander-in-chief came\u231f to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and he took it, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Isaiah 20:2",
"text": "at that time, Yahweh had spoken by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, \u201cGo and loosen the sackcloth from your loins, and take off your sandals from your feet,\u201d and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Isaiah 20:3",
"text": " Then Yahweh said, \u201cJust as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Isaiah 20:4",
"text": "so shall the king of Assyria lead the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, \u231ewith bared buttocks\u231f, the shame of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Isaiah 20:5",
"text": " And they shall be dismayed, and they shall be ashamed because of Cush, their hope, and because of Egypt, their pride. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Isaiah 20:6",
"text": " And the inhabitant of the coastland will say this on that day: \u2018Look! This is our hope to whom we fled for help, to be delivered \u231efrom\u231f the king of Assyria, and how shall we escape?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:1",
"text": " The oracle of the wilderness of the sea: As storm winds passing over in the Negev, \u231eit comes\u231f from the desert, from a frightful land. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:2",
"text": " A hard revelation is told to me; the treacherous deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; lay siege, Media! I put an end to all of her sighing. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:3",
"text": " Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman giving birth. I am \u231etoo bent to hear\u231f, I am \u231etoo dismayed to see\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:4",
"text": " My \u231emind\u231f staggers; fear terrifies me; the twilight \u231eI desired\u231f \u231ebrought\u231f me fear. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:5",
"text": " Set out the table in order! Spread out the rugs! Eat! drink! Rise up, commanders; smear the shield! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:6",
"text": " For the Lord said this to me: \u201cGo, set a watchman in position. He must announce what he sees. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:7",
"text": " When he sees riders, a pair of horsemen, riders of donkeys, riders of camels, \u231ethen\u231f he must listen attentively, paying attention, paying \u231especial\u231f attention.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:8",
"text": " Then the \u231ewatchman\u231f called, \u201cLord, I am standing on the watchtower continually by day, and I am standing at my post \u231ethroughout\u231f the night. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:9",
"text": " And look at this! A man\u2019s a chariot is coming, a pair of horsemen!\u201d Then he responded and said, \u201cIt has fallen! Babylon has fallen! And all the images of her gods are smashed on the ground!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:10",
"text": " My downtrodden people and the son of my threshing floor, I will announce to you what I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:11",
"text": " The oracle of Dumah: One is calling to me from Seir, \u201cWatchman, what \u231eof\u231f the night? Watchman, what \u231eof\u231f the night?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:12",
"text": " The watchman says, \u201cMorning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; \u231ecome back again\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:13",
"text": " An oracle \u231econcerning\u231f Arabia: You will spend the night in the thicket in a desert-plateau, caravans of Dedanites. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:14",
"text": " \u231eWhen you happen to meet\u231f the thirsty, bring water. Inhabitants of the land of Tema came to meet the fugitive with his bread. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:15",
"text": " For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword and the bent bow, and from the heaviness of the battle. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:16",
"text": " For the Lord said this to me: \u201c\u231eIn one more year\u231f, like the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Isaiah 21:17",
"text": " And the remainder of the number of the bows of the warriors of the sons of Kedar will be few.\u201d For Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:1",
"text": " The oracle of the valley of vision: \u231eWhat business do you have going\u231f up, all of you, to the roofs, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:2",
"text": " \u231enoisy\u231f, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor are they dead from battle. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:3",
"text": " All of your rulers have fled together without a bow; all of \u231eyou who were found\u231f were captured. They were captured together; they had fled far away. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:4",
"text": " Therefore I said, \u201cLook away from me, let me \u231eweep bitterly\u231f; you must not insist on comforting me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:5",
"text": " For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a tearing down of walls and a cry for help to the mountains. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:6",
"text": " And Elam lifted up the quiver, with chariots of men and cavalry. And Kir uncovered the shield. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:7",
"text": " And this happened: the choicest of your valleys were full of chariots, and the cavalry confidently stood at the gate. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:8",
"text": " And he uncovered the covering of Judah. And you looked, on that day, to the weapons of the House of the Forest, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:9",
"text": " and you saw that the breaches in the walls of the city of David were many, and you gathered the waters of the lower pool. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:10",
"text": " And you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:11",
"text": " And you made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the old pool, but you did not look to its maker, and you did not see \u231ethe one who created it long ago\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:12",
"text": " And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day for weeping and mourning, and for baldness and girding \u231ewith\u231f sackcloth. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:13",
"text": " But look! Joy and gladness, the killing of oxen and the slaughtering of sheep, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine! \u201cLet us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:14",
"text": " And it was revealed in my ears by Yahweh of hosts: \u201cSurely this sin will not be atoned for you until you die!\u201d says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:15",
"text": " The Lord, Yahweh of hosts, says this: \u201cGo! Go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the house: "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:16",
"text": " \u2018What \u231ebusiness do you have\u231f here, and who \u231edo you have\u231f here, that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself, carving his grave on the height, a dwelling place for him in the rock? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:17",
"text": " Look! Yahweh is about to \u231ereally hurl\u231f you, man! And he is about to grasp you firmly; "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:18",
"text": " he will wind a winding tightly around you like a ball, to a \u231ewide land\u231f. There you shall die, and there the chariots of your splendor will be, disgrace to your master\u2019s house! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:19",
"text": " And I will push you from your office, and he will throw you down from your position. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:20",
"text": " And this shall happen: On that day I will call to my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:21",
"text": " and I will clothe him with your tunic, and I will bind your sash firmly about him, and I will put your authority into his hand, and he shall be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:22",
"text": " And I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder, and he shall open and no one will be able to shut; and he shall shut and no one will be able to open. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:23",
"text": " And I will drive him in like a peg into a secure place, and he will become like a throne of glory to the house of his father. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:24",
"text": " And they will hang all of the heaviness of his father\u2019s house on him, the offspring and the offshoot, all of the small vessels, from the \u231ebowls to the jars\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Isaiah 22:25",
"text": " On that day, \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts, the peg that was driven will move away into a secure place, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on her will be cut off. For Yahweh has spoken.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:1",
"text": " The oracle of Tyre: Wail, ships of Tarshish, for \u231ethe house is destroyed so that no one can enter\u231f; it is announced to them from the land of Cyprus. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:2",
"text": " Be still, inhabitants of the coast, merchant of Sidon, who travels over the sea, they filled you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:3",
"text": " And on the great waters is the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile is its produce, and she was the merchandise of the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:4",
"text": " Be ashamed, Sidon, for the sea, the fortress of the sea said, saying, \u201cI was not in labor, and I have not given birth, and I have not reared young men, brought up young women.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:5",
"text": " When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report \u231eabout\u231f Tyre. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:6",
"text": " Cross over to Tarshish! Wail, inhabitants of the coast! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:7",
"text": " \u231eIs this your exultant one\u231f, her origin from the days of long ago? Her feet brought her to dwell afar as an alien. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:8",
"text": " Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, her traders the honored ones of the earth? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:9",
"text": " Yahweh of hosts has planned it: to defile the pride of all glory, to humble all the honored ones of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:10",
"text": " Cross over your own land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:11",
"text": " He has stretched his hand out over the sea; he has made kingdoms shake. Yahweh has commanded concerning Canaan to destroy her fortresses. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:12",
"text": " And he said, \u201cYou will not \u231econtinue\u231f to exult, crushed one, \u231evirgin\u231f daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus! There will be no rest for you even there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:13",
"text": " Look at the land of the Chaldeans! \u231eThis people no longer exists. Assyria destined\u231f it for wild animals. They erected its siege towers; they demolished its citadel fortresses. It made her like a ruin. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:14",
"text": " Wail, ships of Tarshish! For your fortress is destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:15",
"text": " And this will happen on that day: And Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute: "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:16",
"text": " \u201cTake a harp, go around the city, forgotten prostitute! Do it well, playing a stringed instrument! Make numerous songs, that you may be remembered.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:17",
"text": " And this shall happen: at the end of seventy years, Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she will return to her harlot\u2019s wages, and she will commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Isaiah 23:18",
"text": " And this shall happen: her merchandise and her harlot\u2019s wages will be set apart for Yahweh; it will not be stored up, and it will not be hoarded, but her merchandise will be for those who live before the \u231epresence\u231f of Yahweh, for eating to satiation and for fine clothing. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:1",
"text": " Look! Yahweh is about to lay the earth waste and is about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her inhabitants. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:2",
"text": " And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the one to whom he lends. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:3",
"text": " The earth shall be utterly laid waste, and it shall be utterly plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:4",
"text": " The earth dries up, it withers; the world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:5",
"text": " and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants. For they have transgressed laws; they have passed by statutes; they have broken the everlasting covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:6",
"text": " Therefore a curse devours the earth, and the inhabitants in it suffer for their guilt. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth burn, and \u231efew men are left\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:7",
"text": " The new wine dries up; the vine languishes. All the merry of heart sigh; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:8",
"text": " the joy of the tambourine has stopped. The noise of the jubilant has ceased; the joy of the lyre has stopped. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:9",
"text": " They do not drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:10",
"text": " The city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut \u231eso that no one can enter\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:11",
"text": " there is an outcry over the wine in the streets. All joy turns into \u231edarkness\u231f; the joy of the earth disappears. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:12",
"text": " Desolation is left in the city; the gate is crushed into a state of ruin. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:13",
"text": " For it shall be like this in the midst of the earth, among the nations, like the beating of an olive tree, like gleanings when a grape harvest is at an end. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:14",
"text": " They lift up their voices; they sing for joy; they shout out from the west over the majesty of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:15",
"text": " Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, the name of Yahweh the God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:16",
"text": " We hear songs from the \u231eedge\u231f of the earth: \u201cGlory to the righteous one!\u201d But I say, \u201cRuin to me! Ruin to me! Woe to me! The treacherous ones deal treacherously, and the treacherous ones deal treacherously with treachery!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:17",
"text": " Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, inhabitants of the earth! "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:18",
"text": " And this shall happen: The one who flees from the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and the one who goes up from \u231einside the pit\u231f shall be caught in the snare, for the windows from heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:19",
"text": " The earth is utterly broken; the earth is torn asunder; the earth is shaken violently. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:20",
"text": " The earth staggers to and fro like the drunkard, and it sways like a hut, and its transgression is heavy upon it, and it falls and does not rise again. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:21",
"text": " And this shall happen on that day: Yahweh will punish the host of heaven in heaven, and the kings of the earth on the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:22",
"text": " And they will be gathered in a gathering, like a prisoner \u231ein\u231f a pit. And they will be shut \u231ein\u231f a prison and be punished \u231eafter\u231f many days. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Isaiah 24:23",
"text": " And the full moon will be ashamed and the sun will be ashamed, for Yahweh of hosts will rule on \u231eMount Zion\u231f and in Jerusalem, and before his elders in glory. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:1",
"text": " Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans \u231eof old\u231f, in faithfulness, trustworthiness. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:2",
"text": " For you have \u231emade\u231f the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin, the palace of foreigners \u231eis no longer\u231f a city; it will \u231enever\u231f be rebuilt. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:3",
"text": " Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; a city of ruthless nations, they will fear you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:4",
"text": " For you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless was like a rainstorm against a wall, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:5",
"text": " the noise of foreigners like heat in a dry land. You subdued the heat with the shade of a cloud; the song of the ruthless was silenced. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:6",
"text": " And on this mountain Yahweh of hosts will make for all peoples a \u231erich feast\u231f, a feast of aged wines, fat filled with marrow, filtered aged wine. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:7",
"text": " And on this mountain he will \u231edestroy\u231f the face of the shroud, the shroud over all peoples, and the woven covering over all nations. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:8",
"text": " He will \u231edestroy\u231f death forever, and the Lord Yahweh will wipe off the tears from all faces, and he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:9",
"text": " And one will say, on that day, \u201cLook! This is our God! We have waited for him and he saved us! This is Yahweh; we waited for him! Let us be glad, and let us rejoice in his salvation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:10",
"text": " For the hand of Yahweh will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down under him as \u231ea heap of straw is trampled down\u231f in \u231ewaters of\u231f a dung heap. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:11",
"text": " And it will spread out its hands in the midst of it, just as the swimmer spreads out to swim, and its pride will be brought low with the movement of its hands. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Isaiah 25:12",
"text": " And he will throw down the fortification of the high point of your walls; he will bring it low; he will \u231esend it\u231f to the ground, to the dust. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:1",
"text": " On that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: \u201c\u231eWe have a strong city\u231f; he sets up victory like walls and ramparts! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:2",
"text": " Open the gates \u231eso that\u231f the righteous nation who keeps faithfulness may enter! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:3",
"text": " You will protect a firm inclination in peace, in peace because he trusts in you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:4",
"text": " Trust in Yahweh forever, for in Yah, Yahweh you have an everlasting rock. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:5",
"text": " For he has thrown down the inhabitants of the height, he lays low the lofty city. He lays it low to the ground; he throws her to the dust. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:6",
"text": " The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:7",
"text": " The way of the righteous is a straight path; \u231eyou clear the level path of the righteous\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:8",
"text": " Surely we wait for you in the path of your judgments, Yahweh, for your name and renown are the desire of the soul. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:9",
"text": " I desire you with all my soul in the night; also I seek you with my spirit within me, for when your judgments are \u231eupon\u231f the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:10",
"text": " Though the wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness; he acts unjustly in the land of uprightness, and he does not see the majesty of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:11",
"text": " Yahweh, though your hand reaches high, they do not see it. Let them see, and let them be ashamed of the zeal of people. Indeed, let the fire of your enemies consume them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:12",
"text": " Yahweh, you will establish peace for us, for you have done even all of our works for us. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:13",
"text": " Yahweh, our God, lords besides you ruled over us, \u231ebut we praise your name alone\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:14",
"text": " The dead do not live; dead spirits do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them, and you have destroyed all memory of them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:15",
"text": " You have added to the nation, Yahweh. You have added to the nation; you are honored. You have extended all the ends of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:16",
"text": " Yahweh, in distress they have visited you; they poured out an \u231eincantation\u231f; your discipline was on them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:17",
"text": " Like a pregnant woman on the point of giving birth, she writhes; she cries in her labor pains. So we were because of your presence, Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:18",
"text": " We became pregnant, we writhed; we gave birth to wind. We cannot bring about deliverance on the earth, and no inhabitants of the world are born. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:19",
"text": " Your dead shall live; \u231etheir corpses\u231f shall rise. Wake up and sing for joy, dwellers of the dust, for your dew is \u231ecelestial dew\u231f, and the earth will give birth to dead spirits. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:20",
"text": " Go, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide for \u231ea very little\u231f while, until the wrath has passed over. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Isaiah 26:21",
"text": " For look! Yahweh is about to come out from his place to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth against him, and the earth will disclose her blood and will no longer cover her slain. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:1",
"text": " On that day, Yahweh will punish with his cruel, great and strong sword Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and Leviathan, the twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:2",
"text": " On that day: \u201cA vineyard of beauty! Sing in praise of it! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:3",
"text": " I, Yahweh, am her keeper; I water it \u231eagain and again\u231f. Lest one afflict harm on it, I guard it night and day; "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:4",
"text": " \u231eI have no wrath\u231f. Whatever gives me thorns and briers, I will step forth against in battle. I will set it on fire altogether. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:5",
"text": " Or let it grasp at my protection; let it make peace with me; peace let it make with me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:6",
"text": " \u231eDays are coming\u231f, let Jacob take root; Israel will blossom and send out shoots, and they will fill the face of the world with fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:7",
"text": " Does he strike him \u231eas he struck down those who struck him\u231f? Or is he killed \u231eas those who killed him were killed\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:8",
"text": " By expelling her, by her sending away, you argue with her. He removed them with his strong wind, in the day of the east wind. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:9",
"text": " Therefore by this he will make atonement for the guilt of Jacob, and this will be all of the fruit of the removal of his sin: \u231ewhen he makes\u231f all the stones of the altar like crushed stones of chalk, no poles of Asherah worship or incense altars will stand. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:10",
"text": " For the fortified city is solitary, a settlement deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; the calf grazes there, lies down there and destroys its branches. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:11",
"text": " \u231eWhen its branches are dry\u231f, they are broken; women are coming and setting light to it. For it is not a people of understanding; therefore his maker will not have compassion on him, and his creator will not show him favor. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:12",
"text": " And this shall happen: on that day, Yahweh will thresh from the floodwaters of the Euphrates to the wadi of Egypt, and as for you, you will be gathered one by one, sons of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Isaiah 27:13",
"text": " And this shall happen: on that day, a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria will come, and those who were scattered in the land of Egypt, and they will bow down to Yahweh on the \u231eholy mountain\u231f at Jerusalem. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:1",
"text": " Ah! The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim and the withering flower of the glory of his beauty, which is at the head of \u231ethe rich valley\u231f, \u231eones overcome\u231f with wine! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:2",
"text": " Look! The Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a rainstorm of hail, a wind storm of destruction, like a rainstorm of mighty overflowing waters, he will put them to the earth with his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:3",
"text": " The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled by feet, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:4",
"text": " and the withering flower of the glory of its beauty which is at the head of \u231ethe rich valley\u231f will be like its early fig before summer, \u231ewhich the one who sees it swallows\u231f while it is still in his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:5",
"text": " In that day, Yahweh of hosts will become a garland of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of his people, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:6",
"text": " and a spirit of justice to the one who sits over judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:7",
"text": " And these also stagger because of wine and stagger because of strong drink; priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink; they are confused because of wine. They stagger because of strong drink; they err in vision. They stagger in the rendering of a decision, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:8",
"text": " for all the tables are full of disgusting vomit, \u231ewith no place left\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:9",
"text": " To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from milk, those taken from the breast? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:10",
"text": " For it is blah-blah upon blah-blah, blah-blah upon blah-blah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, a little here, a little there. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:11",
"text": " For he will speak with \u231estammering\u231f and another tongue to this people, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:12",
"text": "to whom he has said, \u201cThis is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose\u201d; yet they were not willing to hear. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:13",
"text": " And to them the word of Yahweh will be blah-blah upon blah-blah blah-blah upon blah-blah gah-gah upon gah-gah gah-gah upon gah-gah, a little here, a little there, so that they may go and stumble backward and be broken and ensnared and captured. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:14",
"text": " Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery, rulers of these people in Jerusalem: "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:15",
"text": " Because you have said, \u201cWe have \u231emade\u231f a covenant with death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol. The overwhelming flood, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves in falsehood.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:16",
"text": " Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: \u201cLook! I am laying a stone in Zion, a \u231etested\u231f stone, a precious cornerstone, a founded foundation: \u2018The one who trusts will not \u231epanic\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:17",
"text": " And I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will flood over the hiding place. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:18",
"text": " And your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; you will become a trampling place for the overwhelming flood when it passes through. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:19",
"text": " \u231eAs often as it passes through\u231f, it will take you, for \u231emorning by morning\u231f it will pass through, in the day and in the night, and understanding the message will be only terror.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:20",
"text": " For the bed is too short \u231eto stretch out on\u231f, and the covering is too narrow when wrapping oneself. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:21",
"text": " For Yahweh will rise up as at Mount Perazim; he will rave as in the valley at Gibeon to do his deed\u2014his deed is strange\u2014 and to work his work\u2014his work is alien! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:22",
"text": " And now you must not scoff, or your bonds will be strong, for I have heard from the Lord, Yahweh of hosts: complete destruction decreed upon all the land. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:23",
"text": " Listen, and hear my voice! Listen attentively, and hear my word! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:24",
"text": " Is it all day that the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:25",
"text": " When he has leveled its \u231esurface\u231f, does he not scatter dill, and sow cumin seed, and \u231eplant\u231f wheat in planted rows, and barley in an appointed place, and spelt grain as its border? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:26",
"text": " And his God instructs him about the prescription; he teaches him. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:27",
"text": " For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a wheel of a utility cart \u231erolled\u231f over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:28",
"text": " Grain is crushed fine, but certainly one does not thresh it forever; and one drives the wheel of his cart, but his horses do not crush it. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Isaiah 28:29",
"text": " This also comes forth from Yahweh of hosts. He is wonderful in advice; he makes great wisdom. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:1",
"text": " Ah! Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year, let festivals recur. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:2",
"text": " Yet I will inflict Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation, and it shall be to me like an altar hearth. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:3",
"text": " And I will encamp \u231ein a circle\u231f against you, and I will lay siege to you with towers and I will raise up siegeworks against you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:4",
"text": " Then you shall be low; you shall speak from the earth, and your words will be low, from dust. And your voice will be from the earth, like a ghost, and your word will whisper from the dust. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:5",
"text": " But the multitude of your strangers shall be like fine dust, and the multitude of tyrants like chaff that passes by. And it will happen in an instant, suddenly. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:6",
"text": " You will be punished by Yahweh of hosts with thunder and earthquake and great sound, storm wind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:7",
"text": " And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, all those who fight against her and her stronghold, and those who inflict her shall be like a dream, a vision of the night. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:8",
"text": " And it shall be as when the hungry person dreams\u2014look, he is eating! And he wakes up and his inner self is empty. Or as when the thirsty person dreams\u2014look, he is drinking! And he wakes up and look, he is faint, and his inner self is longing for water. So shall be the multitude of all the nations who fight against Mount Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:9",
"text": " Be astonished and be amazed! Blind yourselves and be blinded! They are drunk but not from wine; they stagger but not from strong drink. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:10",
"text": " For Yahweh has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and he has shut your eyes, the prophets, and he has covered your heads, the seers. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:11",
"text": " And the vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. When they give it to one who knows the document, saying, \u201c\u231eRead\u231f this now!\u201d He says, \u201cI am not able, for it is sealed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:12",
"text": "And if the document is given to one who does not \u231eknow how to read\u231f, saying, \u201c\u231eRead\u231f this now!\u201d he says, \u201cI do not \u231eknow how to read\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:13",
"text": " And the Lord said, \u201cBecause this people draw near with its mouth, and with its lips it honors me, and its heart is far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:14",
"text": " therefore look, I am again doing something spectacular and a spectacle with this spectacular people. And the wisdom of its wise men shall perish, and the discernment of its discerning ones shall keep itself hidden.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:15",
"text": " Ah! Those who make a plan deep, to hide it from Yahweh, and their deeds are in a dark place. And they say, \u201cWho sees us? And who knows us?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:16",
"text": " Your perversity! As if \u231ea potter\u231f shall be regarded as the clay! That the product of its maker says, \u201cHe did not make me,\u201d and the thing made into shape says of its \u231epotter\u231f, \u201cHe has no understanding.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:17",
"text": " \u231eIn a very little while\u231f shall not Lebanon change into a fruitful land, and the fruitful land be regarded as a forest? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:18",
"text": " And on that day, the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom and darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:19",
"text": " And the meek \u231ehave joy after joy\u231f in Yahweh, and the needy of the people shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:20",
"text": " For the tyrant shall be no more, and the scoffer shall come to an end. And all those lying in wait for evil shall be cut off; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:21",
"text": " those who mislead a person into sin with a word and set a trap for the \u231earbitrator\u231f in the gate and guide away the righteous by emptiness. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:22",
"text": " Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says this to the house of Jacob: \u201cJacob will no longer be ashamed, and his face will no longer grow pale. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:23",
"text": " For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will treat my name as holy, and they will treat the holy one of Jacob as holy, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Isaiah 29:24",
"text": " And those who err in spirit will \u231eacquire\u231f understanding, and those who grumble will learn instruction. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:1",
"text": " \u201cOh rebellious children!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cto make a plan, but not from me, and pour out a libation, but not from my Spirit, \u231eso as to add\u231f sin to sin. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:2",
"text": " Who go to go down to Egypt, but they do not ask of my mouth, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:3",
"text": " And the protection of Pharaoh shall be shame to you, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, humiliation. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:4",
"text": " For his officials are at Zoan, and his envoys reach to Hanes. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:5",
"text": " Everyone will start to stink because of a people that cannot profit them, not for help and not for profiting, but for shame and also for disgrace.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:6",
"text": " An oracle of the animals of the Negev: Through a land of trouble and distress, of lioness and lion, \u231eamong\u231f them are snake and flying serpent; they carry their wealth on the \u231ebacks\u231f of male donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:7",
"text": " For \u231eEgyptians\u231f help with vanity and emptiness, therefore I have called this one \u201cRahab, they are sitting.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:8",
"text": " Now go, write it on a tablet with them, and inscribe it on a scroll, \u231ethat\u231f it may be \u231efor the time to come\u231f, forever, forever. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:9",
"text": " For it is a people of rebellion, deceitful children, children who are not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:10",
"text": " who say to those who do see, \u201cYou must not see!\u201d and to the seers, \u201cYou must not see truth for us; speak smooth things to us, see illusions, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:11",
"text": " turn aside from the way, turn aside from the path, put an end to the holy one of Israel from our face.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:12",
"text": " Therefore the holy one of Israel says this: \u201cBecause you are rejecting this word and you trust in oppression and \u231ecunning\u231f and you rely on it, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:13",
"text": " therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall, bulging out on a high wall \u231ethat breaks\u231f suddenly, in an instant. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:14",
"text": " And he breaks it like a vessel of \u231ea potter\u231f breaks, that is crushed; he has no compassion, and no potsherd is found among its fragments \u231eto take fire\u231f from the hearth, or \u231eto skim\u231f water from the cistern.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:15",
"text": " For the Lord Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, said this: \u201cIn returning and rest you shall be saved; your strength shall be in quietness and in trust.\u201d But you were not willing, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:16",
"text": "and you said, \u201cNo! For we will flee on horses!\u201d Therefore you shall flee! And, \u201cWe will ride on swift horses!\u201d Therefore your pursuers shall be swift! "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:17",
"text": " One thousand \u231ebecause of\u231f a threat of one, \u231ebecause\u231f of a threat of five you shall flee, until you are left like a flagstaff on \u231etop\u231f of a mountain, and like a signal on a hill. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:18",
"text": " Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he will rise up to show you mercy, for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:19",
"text": " For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem, you will surely not weep. Surely he will be gracious to you; when he hears the sound of your cry, he will answer you. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:20",
"text": " And the Lord will give you the bread of distress and the water of oppression, but your teachers will not hide themselves any longer. And your eyes \u231eshall see\u231f your teachers. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:21",
"text": " And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying, \u201cthis is the way; walk in it,\u201d when you go to your right and when you go to your left. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:22",
"text": " And you will defile the plating of your silver idols and the covering of your gold image. You will scatter them like contaminated things; you will say to it, \u201cFilth!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:23",
"text": " And he will give rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and \u231efertile\u231f. On that day, your cattle will graze in broad pastures; "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:24",
"text": " and the oxen and the donkeys that till the ground will eat fodder, sorrel that has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:25",
"text": " And there will be streams on every high mountain and elevated hill, watercourses of water, on a day of great slaughter, when towers fall. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:26",
"text": " And the light of the full moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, on the day when Yahweh binds up the breakage of his people, and he heals the wound of his blow. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:27",
"text": " Look! The name of Yahweh comes from afar, burning with his anger and heaviness of cloud. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:28",
"text": " And his breath is like an overflowing river; it reaches up to the neck to shake the nations with the sieve of worthlessness; and a bridle that leads astray is on the jawbones of the peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:29",
"text": " \u231eYou shall have a song\u231f as in the night when a holy festival is kept, and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute, to go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the rock of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:30",
"text": " And Yahweh will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and he will cause the descent of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stones of hail. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:31",
"text": " Indeed, Assyria will be shattered by the voice of Yahweh; he strikes with the rod. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:32",
"text": " And every stroke of the staff of foundation that Yahweh lays will be on it with timbrels and lyres, and he will fight against it with battles of brandishing. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Isaiah 30:33",
"text": " For Topheth has been prepared from yesterday; indeed, it is made ready for the king. He makes its pile of wood deep and wide; he makes fire and wood \u231eabundant\u231f. The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Isaiah 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Isaiah 31:1",
"text": " Ah! Those who go down to Egypt for help! They rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very numerous, and they do not look to the holy one of Israel, and they do not consult Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Isaiah 31:2",
"text": " And indeed, he is wise, and he brings disaster, and he does not remove his words, and he will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of workers of iniquity. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Isaiah 31:3",
"text": " And the Egyptians are human and not God, and their horses are flesh and not spirit. And Yahweh stretches out his hand, and the helper will stumble, and the one being helped will fall, and together all of them will come to an end. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Isaiah 31:4",
"text": " For Yahweh said this to me: \u201cAs which a lion growls and a young lion over its prey when \u231ea full group\u231f of shepherds is called against him, it is not terrified by their voice, and to their noise it does not respond, so Yahweh of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Isaiah 31:5",
"text": " Like birds flying overhead, so Yahweh of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will pass over and rescue it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Isaiah 31:6",
"text": " Turn back to the one against whom the sons of Israel have made deep rebellion. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Isaiah 31:7",
"text": " For on that day, each one will reject his idols of silver and his idols of gold which your hands have made in sin for you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Isaiah 31:8",
"text": " And Assyria shall fall by a sword not of a man, and a sword not of a human shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Isaiah 31:9",
"text": " And his rock will pass over because of terror, and his officers will be terrified because of the flag,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, who has a fire in Zion and has a furnace in Jerusalem. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:1",
"text": " See, a king will rule according to righteousness, and princes will rule according to justice. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:2",
"text": " And each one will be like a hiding place from the wind and a covering from the rainstorm, like streams of water in a dry region, like the shade of a large rock in a weary land. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:3",
"text": " And the eyes of those who see will not gaze, and the ears of those who hear will listen. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:4",
"text": " And the \u231eminds\u231f of the rash will understand \u231eknowledge\u231f, and the tongues of stammerers will hasten to speak clearly. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:5",
"text": " A fool will no longer be called noble, and a scoundrel will not be said to be eminent. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:6",
"text": " For a fool speaks folly, and his \u231emind\u231f does iniquity: to \u231ebehave wickedly\u231f, and to speak error concerning Yahweh, to leave the throat of the hungry empty, and he deprives the thirsty of drink. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:7",
"text": " And a scoundrel, his weapons are evil; he plans evil devices to ruin the poor with words of deception even when the speech of the needy is right. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:8",
"text": " But the nobleman plans noble things, and he stands upon noble things. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:9",
"text": " Women who are at ease, rise up; hear my voice! Carefree daughters, listen to my word! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:10",
"text": " \u231eIn a year\u231f you will tremble, carefree ones, for the vintage will come to an end; the harvest will not come. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:11",
"text": " Tremble, you who are at ease; tremble, carefree ones; strip, and strip yourself, and gird yourself on your loins, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:12",
"text": " mourning over breasts, over fields of delight, over the fruitful vine, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:13",
"text": " over the soil of my people. It goes up in thorns and briers, indeed over all of the houses of joy in the jubilant city. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:14",
"text": " For the palace will be forsaken, the \u231ecrowded city\u231f deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become a cave forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture \u231efor\u231f flocks. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:15",
"text": " Until a spirit is poured out on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is reckoned as the forest. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:16",
"text": " Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will live in the fruitful field. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:17",
"text": " And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the work of righteousness, quietness and security forever. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:18",
"text": " And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace and in a dwelling place of security and in undisturbed resting places. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:19",
"text": " And it hails when \u231ethe forest comes down\u231f, and the city will become low in humiliation. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Isaiah 32:20",
"text": " Happy are you who sow by all waters, who let the foot of the ox and the donkey go free. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:1",
"text": " Ah, destroyer, and yourself not destroyed! And treacherous one, and no one has dealt treacherously with him! When you \u231ecease\u231f destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop dealing treacherously, one will deal treacherously with you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:2",
"text": " Yahweh, be gracious to us, we wait for you. Be our arm in the mornings, indeed our salvation in the time of trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:3",
"text": " At the sound of tumult, peoples fled; because of your exaltation, nations scattered. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:4",
"text": " And your spoil is gathered, as the gathering of the locust, as a swarm of locusts storming on it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:5",
"text": " Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high; he filled Zion with justice and righteousness, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:6",
"text": " and he will be the security of your times, an abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is his treasure. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:7",
"text": " Look! Their heroes cry out in the street; the messengers of peace weep bitterly. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:8",
"text": " Highways are deserted; the traveler on the road ceases. One breaks a treaty, he rejects the cities, he does not hold man in high regard. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:9",
"text": " The land mourns; it languishes. Lebanon feels abashed; it withers. Sharon is like the desert, and Bashan and Carmel \u231eare losing their leaves\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:10",
"text": " \u201cNow I will arise,\u201d says Yahweh. \u201cNow I will lift myself up proudly; now I will raise myself. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:11",
"text": " You conceive dry grass, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire; it will consume you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:12",
"text": " And the peoples will be burning to lime\u2014 they are burned like thorns that have been cut down in the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:13",
"text": " You who are far away, hear what I have done; and you who are near, know my might!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:14",
"text": " Sinners are afraid in Zion; trembling has seized the godless: \u201cWho of us can \u231elive\u231f with devouring fire? Who of us can \u231elive\u231f with everlasting consuming hearths?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:15",
"text": " He who walks in righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects the gain of extortion, who \u231erefuses\u231f a bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing \u231ebloodshed\u231f and shuts his eyes from seeing evil. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:16",
"text": " That one will live on the heights; the fortresses of rocks will be his refuge. His food will be given; his waters will endure. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:17",
"text": " Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will see a \u231edistant land\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:18",
"text": " Your \u231emind\u231f will meditate on the terror: \u201cWhere is the one who counted? Where is the one who weighed out? Where is the one who counted the towers?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:19",
"text": " You will not see the insolent people, the people \u231ewhose language is too obscure to understand\u231f, whose stammering of tongue \u231ecannot be understood\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:20",
"text": " Look on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed settlement, a tent \u231ethat is not moved\u231f. No one will ever pull out its tent pegs, and none of its ropes will be torn in two. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:21",
"text": " Rather, there Yahweh will be mighty for us, a place of rivers and \u231ebroad streams\u231f, a galley ship with oars cannot go in it, and a mighty ship cannot pass through it. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:22",
"text": " For Yahweh is our judge; Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king; he is the one who will save us. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:23",
"text": " Your riggings hang slack; they do not hold the base of their mast firm, they do not spread out the sail. Then the prey of spoil in abundance will be divided; the lame will take plunder. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Isaiah 33:24",
"text": " And no inhabitant will say, \u201cI am sick\u201d; the people who live in it, their iniquity will be taken away. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:1",
"text": " Come near, nations, to hear; and peoples, listen attentively! Let the earth hear, and that which fills it; the world and all its offspring. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:2",
"text": " For the anger of Yahweh is against all the nations, and his wrath is against all their armies; he has put them under a ban, he has given them up for slaughter. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:3",
"text": " And their slain shall be cast out; as for their corpses, their stench shall go up. And the mountains shall melt with their blood, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:4",
"text": " and all the host of heaven shall rot. And the skies shall roll up like a scroll, and all their host shall wither like the withering of a leaf from a vine, or like the withering from a fig tree. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:5",
"text": " When my sword is drenched in the heavens, look! It will descend upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, for judgment. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:6",
"text": " \u231eYahweh has a sword\u231f; it is full of blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for \u231eYahweh has a sacrifice\u231f in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:7",
"text": " And wild oxen shall go down with them, and steers with strong bulls. And their land shall be drenched with blood, and their soil shall be fattened with fat. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:8",
"text": " For \u231eYahweh has a day of vengeance\u231f, a year of retribution for the strife of Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:9",
"text": " And its streams shall be changed to pitch and its soil to sulfur, and its land shall become like burning pitch. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:10",
"text": " Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall be in ruins; forever and ever there will be no one who passes through her. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:11",
"text": " But the large bird and the hedgehog shall take possession of it, and the owl and the raven shall live in it. And he shall stretch the measuring line of confusion out over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:12",
"text": " Its nobles\u2014but no kingdom is there\u2014shall call, and all its princes shall be nothing. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:13",
"text": " And thorns shall go up her citadel fortress, weeds and thistle plants in her fortresses; and it shall be the settlement of jackals, green grass for the daughters of an ostrich. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:14",
"text": " And desert creatures shall meet with hyenas, and a goat-demon shall call to his neighbor; surely there Lilith shall repose, and she shall find a resting place for herself. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:15",
"text": " There the owl shall nest and lay and hatch and care for her chicks in her shadow; surely there the birds of prey shall be gathered, each one with her mate. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:16",
"text": " Seek from the book of Yahweh and \u231eread\u231f; none of these shall be missing; none shall miss her mate. For my mouth \u231eis the one that\u231f has commanded, and his spirit \u231eis the one that\u231f has gathered them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Isaiah 34:17",
"text": " And he \u231eis the one that\u231f has cast the lot for them, and his hand has apportioned it to them with the measuring line; they shall take possession of it forever, they shall live in it \u231efrom generation to generation\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Isaiah 35",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Isaiah 35:1",
"text": " Wilderness and dry land shall be glad, and desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Isaiah 35:2",
"text": " It shall blossom abundantly, and it shall rejoice indeed with rejoicing and exulting. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. \u231eThey are the ones who\u231f shall see the glory of Yahweh, the majesty of our God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Isaiah 35:3",
"text": " Strengthen the weak hands and make the staggering knees firm. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Isaiah 35:4",
"text": " Say to those who are hasty of heart, \u201cBe strong; you must not fear! Look! your God will come with vengeance, with \u231edivine retribution\u231f. He \u231eis the one who\u231f will come and save you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Isaiah 35:5",
"text": " Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be opened. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Isaiah 35:6",
"text": " Then the lame shall leap like the deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for joy, for waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Isaiah 35:7",
"text": " And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Her resting place is in a settlement of jackals; the grass shall become like reeds and rushes. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Isaiah 35:8",
"text": " And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. The unclean shall not travel through it, but it is for them, he who walks on the way; and fools shall not wander about. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Isaiah 35:9",
"text": " No lion shall be there, and no ferocious wild beast shall go up it. It shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Isaiah 35:10",
"text": " And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come to Zion with rejoicing. And everlasting joy shall be on their head; joy and gladness shall overtake them, and sorrow and sighing shall flee. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:1",
"text": " And this happened: In \u231ethe fourteenth year\u231f of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria went up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and he captured them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:2",
"text": "And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a large army, and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the field of the washer. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:3",
"text": "And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who \u231ewas in charge of the palace\u231f, came out to him, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the reminder. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:4",
"text": " And Rabshakeh said to them, \u201cNow say to Hezekiah, \u2018Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: \u201cWhat is this confidence in which you trust? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:5",
"text": "I said, \u2018Only a word of lips! \u231eWar has power and a plan\u231f!\u2019 Now, in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:6",
"text": "Look, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans on it, goes into his hand and bores through it! Such is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all those who trust in him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:7",
"text": "And if you say to me, \u2018We trust in Yahweh our God,\u2019 was it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed? And he said to Judah and to Jerusalem, \u2018You shall bow down in the \u231epresence\u231f of this altar.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:8",
"text": "And now please make a wager with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, that is, if you are able \u231eput\u231f riders for yourself on them! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:9",
"text": "But how can you drive back \u231eone governor among the least of my master\u2019s servants\u231f, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:10",
"text": "And now was it without Yahweh that I have come up against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, \u201cGo up against this land and destroy it!\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:11",
"text": " And Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, \u201cPlease speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we can understand it, and you must not speak to us in Judean in the \u231ehearing\u231f of the people who are on the wall.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:12",
"text": " But Rabshakeh said, \u201cHas my master sent me to speak these words to your masters and you? Was it not for the people who sit on the wall, to eat their dung and drink their urine with you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:13",
"text": " Then Rabshakeh stood and called in a great voice in Judean and said, \u201cHear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:14",
"text": "Thus says the king: \u2018Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:15",
"text": "And do not let Hezekiah make you rely on Yahweh, saying, \u201cSurely Yahweh will deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:16",
"text": "You must not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: \u201cMake a blessing with me, and come out to me, and each one will eat from his vine and from his fig tree and drink water from his cistern, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:17",
"text": "until \u231eI come\u231f and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:18",
"text": "lest Hezekiah mislead you, saying, \u2018Yahweh will save us!\u2019 Did the gods of the nations each save his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:19",
"text": "Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:20",
"text": "Who are there among all the gods of these countries who have saved their land from my hand, that Yahweh should save Jerusalem from my hand?\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:21",
"text": " But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the king was, \u201cYou must not answer him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Isaiah 36:22",
"text": "Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the \u231epalace\u231f, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the reminder, came to Hezekiah with torn garments and told him the words of Rabshakeh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:1",
"text": " And this happened: When King Hezekiah heard, he tore his garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:2",
"text": "And he sent Eliakim, who was \u231ein charge of\u231f the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and the elders of the priests \u231ecovered\u231f with sackcloth to Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:3",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cThus says Hezekiah: \u2018This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the cervical opening, and there is no strength to give birth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:4",
"text": "Maybe Yahweh your God heard the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to taunt the living God, and he will rebuke the words that Yahweh your God hears. And you must lift up a prayer for the benefit of the remnant that is found.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:5",
"text": " When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:6",
"text": "Isaiah said to them, \u201cYou must say this to your master: \u2018Thus says Yahweh: \u201cYou must not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:7",
"text": "Look! I am about to \u231eput\u231f a spirit in him \u231eso that\u231f he shall hear a rumor and he shall return to his land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:8",
"text": " And Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had left from Lachish. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:9",
"text": "Now he heard concerning Tirhakah the king of Cush, saying, \u201cHe has set out to fight against you.\u201d When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:10",
"text": "\u201cYou shall say this to Hezekiah, king of Judah: \u2018Do not let your God in whom you trust in him deceive you by saying, \u201cJerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:11",
"text": "Look! you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands to destroy them, and you\u2014shall you be delivered? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:12",
"text": "Did the gods of the nations that my \u231epredecessors\u231f destroyed deliver them\u2014Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:13",
"text": "Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:14",
"text": " And Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and he read it. Then he went up to the temple of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out before the \u231epresence\u231f of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:15",
"text": "And Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:16",
"text": "\u201cYahweh of hosts, God of Israel \u231ewho is enthroned on\u231f the cherubim, you are the one, God by yourself, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you are the one who made the heavens and the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:17",
"text": "Yahweh, extend your ear and hear! Yahweh, open your eyes and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to taunt the living God! "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:18",
"text": "Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands and their land, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:19",
"text": "to \u231eset\u231f their gods in the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of human hands, wood and stone, and they destroyed them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:20",
"text": "So now, Yahweh, our God, save us from his hand so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, you alone!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:21",
"text": " And Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, \u201cThus says Yahweh the God of Israel: \u2018Because you have prayed to me \u231econcerning\u231f Sennacherib, king of Assyria, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:22",
"text": "this is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: She shows contempt for you; she derides you, virgin daughter of Zion; she shakes her head behind you, daughter of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:23",
"text": " Whom have you taunted and blasphemed, and against whom have you raised up your voice and lifted your eyes upward? To the holy one of Israel! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:24",
"text": " By the hand of your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said, \u201cWith my many chariots, I myself have gone up the height of the mountains, to the remote areas of Lebanon. And I cut off \u231eits tall cedars\u231f, the choicest of its junipers. And I came to the height of its limit, the forest of its orchard. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:25",
"text": " I myself dug and drank waters, and I caused all the streams of Egypt to dry up by the sole of my feet.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:26",
"text": " Have you not heard from \u231ea long time ago\u231f? I have made it from days of primeval time, and I formed it. Now I have brought it about, and it is for fortified cities to collapse into heaps of destroyed stones. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:27",
"text": " And their inhabitants are \u231eweak\u231f; they are dismayed, and they are ashamed; they have become like plants of the field, and like greens of grass, like grass on the roofs and a cultivated field \u231ebefore\u231f the standing grain. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:28",
"text": " And I know your sitting down and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging \u231eagainst\u231f me. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:29",
"text": " Because you were enraged \u231eagainst\u231f me, and your noise has come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle on your lips, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:30",
"text": " And this shall be the sign for you: the eating of volunteer plants this year, and in the second year self-seeded plants, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:31",
"text": "And the remnant of the house of Judah that remain shall \u231egrow\u231f roots downwards and make fruit upwards. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:32",
"text": " For a remnant shall go out from Jerusalem and survivors from mountain Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:33",
"text": " Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria: \u2018He shall not come to this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow there, and he shall not meet it with a shield, and he shall not heap a siege ramp up against her. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:34",
"text": " He shall return by the way that he came, and he shall not come to this city,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:35",
"text": " \u2018And I will defend this city, to save it for my sake and for the sake of David, my servant.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:36",
"text": " And the angel of Yahweh set out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When they rose in the morning, look! All of them were dead corpses. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:37",
"text": "Then Sennacherib king of Assyria left, went, and returned and lived at Nineveh. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Isaiah 37:38",
"text": "And this happened: he was bowing in worship in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword. And they themselves escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-haddon his son reigned as king in his place. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:1",
"text": " In those days, Hezekiah became sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018Order your house, for you are about to die, and you shall not recover.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:2",
"text": "Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:3",
"text": "and he said, \u201cO Yahweh, please remember how I have walked before your \u231epresence\u231f in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!\u201d And Hezekiah wept with great weeping. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:4",
"text": " Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:5",
"text": "\u201cGo and say to Hezekiah, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor: \u201cI have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. \u231eLook, I am going to\u231f add fifteen years to your days. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:6",
"text": "And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:7",
"text": " And this is the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken: "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:8",
"text": "Look! I will cause the shadow of the steps, which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, to turn backwards ten steps.\u201d And the sun turned back ten steps on the steps which it had gone down. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:9",
"text": " A writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he was sick and had recovered from his sickness: "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:10",
"text": " I was the one who said, \u201cI must go in the quiet of my days; I am summoned through the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:11",
"text": " I said, \u201cI shall not see Yah! Yah in the land of the living! I shall no more look at humankind among the inhabitants of the world. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:12",
"text": " My dwelling place is pulled up and removed from me like the tent of my shepherd; I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the thrum; from day to night you bring me to an end. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:13",
"text": " I lie down until morning; like a lion, so he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:14",
"text": " Like a horse or a crane, so I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weak toward the height. Lord, I have oppression; lend me support! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:15",
"text": " What can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I will walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:16",
"text": " Lord, they live by them, and the life of my spirit belongs to all among them. And restore me to health and keep me alive! "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:17",
"text": " Look! Bitterness was bitter to me for peace. And you were the one who loved my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:18",
"text": " For Sheol cannot praise you; death cannot praise you. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:19",
"text": " The living, the living one praises you like me today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:20",
"text": " Yahweh, save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives at the temple of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:21",
"text": " And Isaiah said, \u201cLet them \u231etake\u231f a lump of figs, and let them rub it on the boil \u231eso that\u231f he may recover.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Isaiah 38:22",
"text": "And Hezekiah said, \u201cWhat is the sign that I shall go up to the temple of Yahweh?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Isaiah 39",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Isaiah 39:1",
"text": " At that time, Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and recovered. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Isaiah 39:2",
"text": "And Hezekiah rejoiced over them and showed them his house of aromatic gum, the silver, gold, spices, good oil, all the house of his weapons, and all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing that Hezekiah had not shown them in his house or in all his dominion. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Isaiah 39:3",
"text": "And Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, \u201cWhat did these men say, and from where did they come to you?\u201d And Hezekiah \u231eanswered\u231f, \u201cThey came to me from a distant country, from Babylon.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Isaiah 39:4",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWhat have they seen in your house?\u201d And Hezekiah \u231eanswered\u231f, \u201cThey have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing that I have not shown them in my storehouses.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Isaiah 39:5",
"text": " And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, \u201cHear the word of Yahweh of hosts: "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Isaiah 39:6",
"text": "\u2018Look! days are coming, and all that is in your house and that which your ancestors have stored up to this day shall be carried off to Babylon. Nothing shall be left,\u2019 says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Isaiah 39:7",
"text": "\u2018And some of your sons who go out from you, whom you fathered, shall be taken, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Isaiah 39:8",
"text": "And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, \u201cThe word of Yahweh that you have spoken is good,\u201d for he \u231ethought\u231f, \u201cSurely there will be peace and security in my days.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:1",
"text": " \u201cComfort; comfort my people,\u201d says your God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:2",
"text": " \u201cSpeak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, that her compulsory labor is fulfilled, that her sin is paid for, that she has \u231ereceived\u231f from the hand of Yahweh double for all her sins.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:3",
"text": " A voice is calling in the wilderness, \u201cClear the way of Yahweh! Make a highway smooth in the desert for our God! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:4",
"text": " Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall become low, And the rough ground shall be like a plain, and the rugged ground like a valley-plain. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:5",
"text": " And the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all \u231ehumankind\u231f together shall see it, for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:6",
"text": " A voice is saying, \u201cCall!\u201d And he said, \u201cWhat shall I call?\u201d All \u231ehumankind\u231f are grass, and all his loyalty is like the flowers of the field. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:7",
"text": " Grass withers; the flower withers when the breath of Yahweh blows on it. Surely the people are grass. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:8",
"text": " Grass withers; the flower withers, but the word of our God will stand forever. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:9",
"text": " \u231eGet yourself\u231f up to a high mountain, Zion, bringer of good news! Lift up your voice with strength, Jerusalem, bringer of good news! Lift it up; you must not fear! Say to the cities of Judah, \u201cHere is your God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:10",
"text": " Look! The Lord Yahweh comes with \u231estrength\u231f, and his arm rules for him. Look! His reward is with him, and his recompense \u231ein his presence\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:11",
"text": " He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arm, and he will carry them in his bosom; he will lead those who nurse. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:12",
"text": " Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, comprehended the dust of the earth in a third of a measure and weighed out the mountains in the scales, and the hills in a balance? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:13",
"text": " Who has measured up the spirit of Yahweh or informed him as \u231ehis counselor\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:14",
"text": " With whom has he consulted, that he enlightened him and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and made the way of understanding known to him? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:15",
"text": " Look! The nations are like a drop from a bucket, and they are counted like dust of the balances! Look! He weighs the islands like a thin covering. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:16",
"text": " And Lebanon is not enough to light a fire, and its animals not enough for a burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:17",
"text": " All the nations are like nothing before him; they are counted by him as nothing and emptiness. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:18",
"text": " And to whom will you liken God? And to what likeness will you compare him? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:19",
"text": " A craftsman pours out the idol, and a \u231egoldsmith\u231f overlays it with gold, and he smelts chains of silver. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:20",
"text": " The one who is too impoverished for a gift chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks a skillful artisan for himself to set up an image that will not be knocked over. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:21",
"text": " Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the \u231ebeginning\u231f? Have you not understood from the foundation of the earth? "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:22",
"text": " He is the one who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; the one who stretches out the heavens like a veil and spreads them out like a tent to live in, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:23",
"text": " the one who brings princes to nothing; he makes rulers of the earth like nothing. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:24",
"text": " Indeed, hardly are they planted; indeed, hardly are they sown; indeed, hardly has their shoot taken root in the earth when he blows on them and they wither, and the tempest carries them like stubble. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:25",
"text": " \u201cAnd to whom you will compare me, and am I equal?\u201d says the holy one. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:26",
"text": " Lift your eyes up on high, and see! Who created these? The one who brings out their host by number. He calls all them by name. Because he is great of power and mighty of power, no man is missing. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:27",
"text": " \u231eWhy\u231f do you say, Jacob, and you speak, Israel, \u201cMy way is hidden from Yahweh, and my judgment is passed over by my God?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:28",
"text": " Have you not known, or have you not heard? Yahweh is the God of eternity, the creator of the ends of the earth! He is not faint, and he does not grow weary! There is no searching his understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:29",
"text": " He gives power to the weary, and he increases power for \u231ethe powerless\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:30",
"text": " Even young people will be faint and grow weary, and the young will stumble, exhausted. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Isaiah 40:31",
"text": " But those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength. They shall go up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall walk and not be faint. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:1",
"text": " Listen to me in silence, coastlands, and let nations renew their strength. Let them approach, then let them speak; let us draw near together for judgment. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:2",
"text": " Who has roused salvation from the east, summoned him to his foot, gives nations \u231ein his presence\u231f, and subjugates kings? He makes them like the dust with his sword, like scattered stubble with his bow. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:3",
"text": " He pursues them and passes on in peace; he does not enter the path with his feet. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:4",
"text": " Who has accomplished and done this, calling the generations from the \u231ebeginning\u231f? I, Yahweh, am first; and I am the one with the last. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:5",
"text": " The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble. They have drawn near, and they have come. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:6",
"text": " Each one helps his neighbor; he says to his brother, \u201cTake courage!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:7",
"text": " And the artisan encourages the \u231egoldsmith\u231f, the one who makes smooth with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, \u201cIt is good!\u201d And they strengthen it with nails so it cannot be knocked over. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:8",
"text": " But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you, the \u231eoffspring\u231f of Abraham my \u231efriend\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:9",
"text": " you whom I grasped from the ends of the earth and called from its remotest parts and told, \u201cYou are my servant; I have chosen you and I have not rejected you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:10",
"text": " You must not fear, for I am with you; you must not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, indeed I will help you, indeed I will take hold of you with the right hand of my salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:11",
"text": " Look! All those who are angry with you shall be ashamed and humiliated; \u231eyour opponents\u231f shall be like nothing and shall become lost. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:12",
"text": " You shall seek them, but you shall not find them; \u231eyour opponents\u231f shall be like nothing, and the men of your war like nothing. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:13",
"text": " For I, Yahweh your God, am grasping your right hand; \u231eit is I who say\u231f to you, \u201cYou must not fear; I myself, I will help you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:14",
"text": " You must not fear, O worm of Jacob; people of Israel, I myself, I will help you,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand your redeemer is the holy one of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:15",
"text": " Look! I will make you into a new sharp threshing sledge, \u231ewith\u231f sharp edges. You shall thresh and crush the mountains, and you shall make the hills like chaff. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:16",
"text": " You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you yourself shall rejoice in Yahweh; you shall boast in the holy one of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:17",
"text": " The poor and the needy are seeking water and there is none; their tongue is dried up with thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:18",
"text": " I will open rivers on the barren heights and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness like a pool of water and the land of dryness like springs of water. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:19",
"text": " I will \u231eput\u231f the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive oil tree in the wilderness; I will set the cypress, elm, and box tree together in the desert "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:20",
"text": " so that they may see and know, and take to heart and understand together that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the holy one of Israel has created it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:21",
"text": " \u201cPresent your legal case,\u201d says Yahweh. \u201cBring your evidence,\u201d says the king of Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:22",
"text": " Let them bring them, and let them tell us what will happen. Tell us what the former things are \u231eso that\u231f we may take them to our heart and know their outcome. Declare to us the things to come; "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:23",
"text": " tell us the things coming \u231ehereafter\u231f, that we may know that you are gods. Indeed, do good or do evil, that we may be afraid and see together. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:24",
"text": " Look! you are nothing, and your work is something worthless; whoever chooses you is an abomination. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:25",
"text": " I stirred up one from the north, and he has come from the rising of the sun. He shall call on my name, and he shall come on officials as on mortar, and as the \u231epotter\u231f treads clay. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:26",
"text": " Who declared it from the \u231ebeginning\u231f \u231eso that\u231f we might know, and \u231ebeforehand\u231f \u231eso that\u231f we might say, \u201cHe is \u231eright\u231f!\u201d Indeed, there was no one who declared it; Indeed, there was no one who proclaimed it. Indeed there was no one who heard your words. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:27",
"text": " First to Zion, look! Look at them! And I give a herald of good tidings to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:28",
"text": " But I look and there is no man, and I look among these and there is no counselor, that I might ask them and they might answer a word. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Isaiah 41:29",
"text": " Look! All of them are deception; their works are nothing; their images are wind and emptiness. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:1",
"text": " Look! here is my servant; I hold him, my chosen one, in whom my soul delights. I have \u231eput\u231f my spirit on him; he will bring justice forth to the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:2",
"text": " He will not cry out and lift up and make his voice heard in the street. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:3",
"text": " He will not break a broken reed, and he not will extinguish a dim wick. He will bring justice forth in faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:4",
"text": " He will not grow faint, and he will not be broken until he has established justice in the earth. And the coastlands wait for his teaching. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:5",
"text": " Thus says the God, Yahweh, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:6",
"text": " \u201cI am Yahweh; I have called you in righteousness, and I have grasped your hand and watched over you; and I have given you as a covenant of the people, as a light of the nations, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:7",
"text": " to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoner out from the dungeon, those who sit in darkness from the house of imprisonment. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:8",
"text": " I am Yahweh; that is my name, and I do not give my glory to another, nor my praise to the idols. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:9",
"text": " Look! the former things have come, and I declare new things. I \u231eannounce\u231f them to you before they sprout up.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:10",
"text": " Sing a new song to Yahweh; praise him from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea and that which fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:11",
"text": " Let the desert and its towns lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy; let them shout loudly from the \u231etop\u231f of the mountains. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:12",
"text": " Let them give glory to Yahweh and declare his praise in the coastlands. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:13",
"text": " Yahweh goes forth like a mighty warrior; he stirs up zeal like a man of war. He raises the war cry, indeed he raises the battle shout; he prevails against his foes. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:14",
"text": " I have been silent for a long time; I have kept silent; I have restrained myself like one giving birth; I will moan, pant, and gasp together. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:15",
"text": " I will cause mountains and hills to dry up, and I will cause all their herbage to wither; and I will make rivers like islands, and I will cause pools to dry up. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:16",
"text": " And I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; I will cause them to tread on paths they have not known. I will make darkness \u231ein their presence\u231f into light and rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:17",
"text": " They shall turn back; they shall be \u231egreatly ashamed\u231f, those who trust in an image, who say to a cast image, \u201cYou are our gods.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:18",
"text": " Deaf people, listen! And blind people, look to see! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:19",
"text": " Who is blind but my servant or deaf like my messenger whom I sent? Who is blind like the one who is repaid or blind like the servant of Yahweh? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:20",
"text": " You see many things, but you do not observe. His ears are open, but he does not hear. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:21",
"text": " Yahweh was willing for the sake of his righteousness; he showed his teaching to be great and proved it to be glorious. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:22",
"text": " But this is a people plundered and looted; all of them are trapped in holes, and they are kept hidden in houses of imprisonment. They have become like plunder, and there is no one who saves; like booty, and there is no one who says, \u201cRestore!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:23",
"text": " Who among you will heed this, will listen attentively and listen, for \u231ethe time to come\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:24",
"text": " Who gave Jacob to a plunderer and Israel to those who plunder? Was it not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned? And they were not willing to walk in his ways, and they would not \u231eobey\u231f his law. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Isaiah 42:25",
"text": " So he poured the wrath of his anger upon him and the strength of war. And it set him afire all around, but he did not understand; and it burned him, but he did not take it to heart. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:1",
"text": " But now thus says Yahweh, he who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: \u201cYou must not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name; \u231eyou are mine\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:2",
"text": " When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not scorch you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:3",
"text": " For I am Yahweh, your God, the holy one of Israel, your savior. I give you Egypt as ransom, Cush and Seba in place of you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:4",
"text": " Because you are precious in my eyes, you are honored, and I myself love you, and I give people in place of you, and nations in place of your life. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:5",
"text": " You must not fear, for I am with you. I will bring your \u231eoffspring\u231f from the east, and I will gather you from the west. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:6",
"text": " I will say to the north, \u2018Give!\u2019 and to the south, \u2018You must not withhold!\u2019 Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the end of the earth\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:7",
"text": " everyone who is called by my name, and whom I created for my glory, whom I formed, indeed whom I made.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:8",
"text": " Bring out the people blind yet with eyes, and deaf, though they have ears. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:9",
"text": " Let all the nations gather together, and let the peoples assemble. Who among them has declared this, and \u231edeclared\u231f the former things to us? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be in the right, and let them hear and say, \u201cIt is true!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:10",
"text": " \u201cYou are my witnesses,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand my servant whom I have chosen so that you may know and believe \u231ein\u231f me and understand that I am he. No god was formed before \u231eme\u231f, and none shall be after me. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:11",
"text": " I myself am Yahweh, and there is no savior besides me! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:12",
"text": " I myself declared and saved, and I \u231eproclaimed\u231f. And there was no \u231estrange god\u231f among you. And you are my witnesses,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand I am God. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:13",
"text": " Indeed, from this day I am the one, and no one can deliver from my hand. I perform, and who can \u231ecancel it\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:14",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: \u201cFor your sake I will send to Babylon, and I will cause all of them to fall down as fugitives, and \u231ethe Chaldeans\u231f, their rejoicing on the ships. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:15",
"text": " I am Yahweh, your holy one, the creator of Israel, your king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:16",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, who \u231emakes\u231f a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:17",
"text": " who brings out chariot and horse, army and mighty one. Together they lie down; they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched like a wick. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:18",
"text": " \u201cYou must not remember the former things, and you not must consider the former things. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:19",
"text": " Look! I am about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive it? Indeed, I will \u231emake\u231f a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:20",
"text": " The animals of the field will honor me, jackals and daughters of the ostrich, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give a drink to my chosen people, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:21",
"text": " this people whom I formed for myself, so they might \u231emake known\u231f my praise. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:22",
"text": " But you did not call me, Jacob; for you have become weary of me, Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:23",
"text": " You have not brought me your sheep for a burnt offering nor honored me with your sacrifice. I have not made you serve with offerings, nor have I made you weary with frankincense. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:24",
"text": " You have not bought me spice reed with money or satisfied me with the fat of sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have made me weary with your iniquities. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:25",
"text": " I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember your sins. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:26",
"text": " Take me to court; let us enter into judgment together. You, \u231emake an account\u231f so that you may be in the right. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:27",
"text": " Your first ancestor sinned, and your \u231erepresentatives\u231f transgressed against me. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Isaiah 43:28",
"text": " And I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and I gave Jacob to destruction, and Israel to reviling. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:1",
"text": " \u201cBut now hear, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:2",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, who made you, and who formed you in the womb and will help you: you must not fear, my servant Jacob, and Jeshurun whom I have chosen. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:3",
"text": " For I will pour out water on a thirsty land and streams on dry ground. I will pour my spirit out on your descendants and my blessing on your offspring. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:4",
"text": " And they shall sprout \u231eamong\u231f the grass like willows by a watercourse of water. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:5",
"text": " This one will say, \u2018I belong to Yahweh!\u2019 And that one will be called by the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand \u2018Yahweh\u2019s\u2019 and \u231etake the name\u231f of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:6",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, the king of Israel, and its redeemer, Yahweh of hosts: \u201cI am the first, and I am the last, and there is no god besides me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:7",
"text": " And who is like me? Let him proclaim it! And let him declare it and set it in order for me \u231esince I established an eternal people\u231f and things that are to come, and let them tell them the things that are coming. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:8",
"text": " You must not tremble, and you must not be paralyzed with fear. Have I not made you hear from of old and declared it, and you are my witnesses? Is there a god besides me? And there is no rock! I know none!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:9",
"text": " All those who form an idol are nothing, and their delightful things do not profit. And their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be ashamed. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:10",
"text": " Who would form a god and cast an image of which he cannot profit? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:11",
"text": " Look! all his companions shall be ashamed, and the artisans are human! Let all of them assemble; let them stand up. They shall tremble; they shall be ashamed together. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:12",
"text": " The \u231eironsmith\u231f works in the coals with his tool and forms it with hammers. And he makes it with \u231ehis strong arm\u231f; indeed, he becomes hungry, and \u231ehe lacks\u231f strength; he does not drink water, and he is faint. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:13",
"text": " The \u231ewoodworker\u231f stretches out a line; he makes an outline of it with a marker. He makes it with a knife and makes an outline of it with a compass. He makes it like the image of a man, like the beauty of a human, to dwell in a temple. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:14",
"text": " Cutting down cedars for himself, he \u231echooses\u231f a holm tree and an oak, and he lets it grow strong for him among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar, and the rain makes it grow. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:15",
"text": " And it \u231ebecomes fuel for a human\u231f, and he takes some of it and grows warm; also, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also, he makes a god and bows in worship; he makes himself an image and bows down to it! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:16",
"text": " He burns half of it in the fire; he eats meat over half of it; he roasts a roast and is satisfied. Also he grows warm and says, \u201cAh! I am warm! I see the fire!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:17",
"text": " And he makes the remainder of it into a god! He bows down to his idol, and he bows in worship and prays to him, and he says, \u201cSave me, for you are my god!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:18",
"text": " They do not know, and they do not understand, for their eyes are besmeared \u231eso that they cannot see\u231f, their \u231eminds\u231f \u231eso that they have no insight\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:19",
"text": " And \u231eno one takes it to heart\u231f, and there is no knowledge and no understanding to say, \u201cI burned half of it in the fire and also I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat, and I have eaten. And I shall make the rest of it into an abomination! I shall bow down to a block of wood!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:20",
"text": " He feeds on ashes; a \u231edeceived mind\u231f misleads him. And he cannot save \u231ehimself\u231f, and he cannot say, \u201cIs this not an illusion in my right hand?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:21",
"text": " \u201cRemember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant: I formed you; you are my servant; Israel, you will not be forgotten by me! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:22",
"text": " I have wiped your transgressions out like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:23",
"text": " Sing for joy, heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, depths of the earth! Break forth, mountains, in rejoicing, forest and every tree in it, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and he will show his glory in Israel! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:24",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, and he who formed you in the womb: \u201cI am Yahweh, who made everything, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth\u2014who was with me?\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:25",
"text": " who frustrates the signs of oracle priests and makes a fool of diviners, who drives the wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:26",
"text": " who keeps the word of his servant and carries out the plan of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, \u2018It shall be inhabited,\u2019 and of the cities of Judah, \u2018They shall be rebuilt, and I will restore its ruins\u2019; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:27",
"text": " who says to the deep, \u2018Dry up! And I will cause your rivers to dry up\u2019; "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Isaiah 44:28",
"text": " who says of Cyrus, \u2018My shepherd,\u2019 and he shall carry out all my wishes; and saying of Jerusalem, \u2018It shall be rebuilt,\u2019 and the temple, \u2018It shall be founded.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:1",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subjugate nations before him, and I uncover the loins of kings to open doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:2",
"text": " \u201cI myself will go before you, and I will level the \u231emountains\u231f. I will break the doors of bronze and cut throughthe bars of iron. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:3",
"text": " And I will give you the treasures of darkness and treasures of secret places so that you may know that I am Yahweh, the one who calls you by your name, the God of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:4",
"text": " for the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen one. And I call you by your name; I give you a name of honor, though you do not know me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:5",
"text": " I am Yahweh, and there is none besides me; besides me there is no god. I gird you though you do not know me, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:6",
"text": " so that they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me; I am Yahweh and there is none besides me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:7",
"text": " I form light and I create darkness; I make peace and I create evil; I am Yahweh; I do all these things. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:8",
"text": " Trickle, O heavens, from above, and let clouds trickle with righteousness; let the earth open so that salvation may be fruitful, and let it cause righteousness to sprout along with it. I myself, Yahweh, have created it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:9",
"text": " Woe to the one who strives with his \u231emaker\u231f, a potsherd among potsherds of earth! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, \u2018What are you making?\u2019 and \u2018Your work has no hands\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:10",
"text": " Woe to the one who says to a father, \u2018What you are begetting?\u2019 or to a woman, \u2018With what are you in labor?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:11",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, and its \u231emaker\u231f: \u201cAsk me of the things to come \u231eabout\u231f my children, and you command me about the work of my hands. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:12",
"text": " I myself made the earth, and I created humankind upon it. I, my hands, stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:13",
"text": " I myself have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his paths smooth. He himself shall build my city, and he shall set my exiles free, not for price or a gift,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:14",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cThe acquisition of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush and the Sabeans, tall men, shall pass over to you; they shall be yours, and they shall walk behind you. They shall pass over in chains, and they shall bow down to you; they will pray to you: \u2018Surely God is with you, and there is no other. Besides him there is no God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:15",
"text": " Surely you are a God who keeps yourself hidden, God of Israel, the savior. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:16",
"text": " All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated; the craftsmen of idols go together in insult. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:17",
"text": " Israel is saved by Yahweh with everlasting salvation; you shall not be ashamed, and you shall not be humiliated \u231eto all eternity\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:18",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh, \u231ewho created\u231f the heavens, he is God, \u231ewho formed\u231f the earth and \u231ewho made\u231f it. He himself established it; he did not create it as emptiness\u2014 he formed it for inhabiting. \u201cI am Yahweh and there is none besides me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:19",
"text": " I have spoken not in secrecy, in a place, a land, of darkness, I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, \u2018Seek me \u231ein vain\u231f!\u2019 I, Yahweh, am speaking righteousness, declaring uprightness. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:20",
"text": " Assemble and come; draw near together, survivors of the nations! They do not know, those who carry \u231etheir wooden idols\u231f and pray to a god who cannot save. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:21",
"text": " Declare and present your case, also let them consult together! Who \u231emade this known\u231f from \u231eformer times\u231f, declared it from \u231eof old\u231f? Was it not I, Yahweh? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God besides me, and no savior besides me. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:22",
"text": " Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none besides me. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:23",
"text": " I have sworn by myself; a word that shall not return has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness: \u2018Every knee shall kneel down to me; every tongue shall swear.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:24",
"text": " \u2018Only in Yahweh,\u2019 one shall say to me, \u2018are righteousness and strength.\u2019 He shall come to him, and all those who were angry with him shall be ashamed. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Isaiah 45:25",
"text": " In Yahweh all the offspring of Israel shall be in the right, and they shall boast.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:1",
"text": " Bel bows down; Nebo is stooping. Their idols are \u231eon\u231f animals and \u231eon\u231f cattle; your \u231ecargo\u231f is carried as a burden \u231eon\u231f weary animals. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:2",
"text": " They stoop; they bow down together. They are not able to save the burden, but \u231ethey themselves go\u231f in captivity. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:3",
"text": " \u201cListen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel who have been carried from the belly, who have been carried from the womb: "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:4",
"text": " Even to your old age I am he; even to your advanced age I myself will support you. I myself have made you, and I myself will carry you, and I myself will support you, and I will save you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:5",
"text": " To whom will you liken me, and count as equal, and compare with me, as though we were alike? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:6",
"text": " Those who lavish gold from the purse and weigh out silver in the balance scales; hire \u231ea goldsmith\u231f and he makes him a god; they bow down, indeed they bow in worship. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:7",
"text": " They carry it on their shoulder; they support it and they set it in its place, and it stands in position. It cannot be removed from its place; even when he cries out to it, it does not answer. It does not save him from his trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:8",
"text": " Remember this and pluck up courage! Call to \u231emind\u231f, you transgressors! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:9",
"text": " Remember the former things from \u231ea long time ago\u231f, for I am God and there is none besides me, God and there is none like me, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:10",
"text": " who from the beginning declares the end, and from before, things that have not been done, who says, \u2018My plan shall stand,\u2019 and, \u2018I will accomplish all my wishes,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:11",
"text": " who calls a bird of prey from the east, the man of his plan from a country from afar. Indeed I have spoken; indeed I will bring it to being. I have formed it; indeed I will do it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:12",
"text": " Listen to me, strong of heart, far from righteousness! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Isaiah 46:13",
"text": " I bring my righteousness near; it is not far. And my salvation will not delay; and I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:1",
"text": " Come down and sit on the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of Chaldea! For \u231ethey shall no longer call\u231f you tender and delicate. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:2",
"text": " Take the pair of mill stones and grind flour! Uncover your veil, strip off your skirt, uncover your thigh, pass through the rivers! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:3",
"text": " Your nakedness shall be exposed; indeed, your shame shall become visible. I will take vengeance and I will not \u231espare\u231f a person. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:4",
"text": " Our redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the holy one of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:5",
"text": " Sit silently and go into the darkness, daughter of Chaldea, for \u231ethey shall no longer call\u231f you mistress of kingdoms. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:6",
"text": " I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand. You did not \u231egive\u231f them mercy; on the aged you made your yoke very heavy. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:7",
"text": " And you said, \u201cI shall be an eternal mistress forever!\u201d You did not set these things upon your heart; you did not remember its end. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:8",
"text": " Therefore now hear this, luxuriant one who sits in security, who says in her heart, \u201cI am, and besides me there is no one. I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know the loss of children.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:9",
"text": " And these two shall come to you in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood shall come on you \u231ecompletely\u231f, in spite of your many sorceries, in spite of the power of your great enchantments. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:10",
"text": " And you felt secure in your wickedness; you said, \u201c\u231eNo one\u231f sees me.\u201d Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, \u201cI am, and besides me there is no one.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:11",
"text": " And evil shall come upon you, you will not know; it will be on the lookout for her. And disaster shall fall upon you; you will not be able to \u231eavert\u231f it. And ruin shall come on you suddenly; you do not know. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:12",
"text": " Stand, now, in your enchantments, and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you may be able to benefit; perhaps you may \u231escare away\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:13",
"text": " You struggle with your many consultations; let them stand, now, and save you\u2014 those who see the stars, divide the \u231ecelestial sphere\u231f, who inform by new moons\u2014 from those things that are coming upon you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:14",
"text": " Look! They are like stubble; the fire burns them completely. They cannot deliver \u231ethemselves\u231f from the \u231epower\u231f of the flame; there is no coal \u231efor warming oneself\u231f, no fire before which to sit. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Isaiah 47:15",
"text": " So are to you those with whom you have labored, your traders from your youth. They wander, each to his side; there is no one who can save you. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:1",
"text": " Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and came out from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Yahweh, and \u231einvoke\u231f the God of Israel, but not in truth and not in righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:2",
"text": " For they call themselves \u231eafter the holy city\u231f, and they lean on the God of Israel\u2014 Yahweh of hosts is his name. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:3",
"text": " \u201cI declared the former things from \u231eof old\u231f, and they went out from my mouth. And I \u231eannounced\u231f them suddenly; I acted, and they came to pass, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:4",
"text": " because \u231eI know\u231f that you are obstinate, and your neck an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:5",
"text": " And I declared them to you from of old; I \u231e announced\u231f them to you before they came to pass so that you would not say, \u2018My idol did them, and my image and my cast image commanded them.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:6",
"text": " You have heard; see it all. And will you not declare it? I \u231eannounce\u231f new things to you from this time and hidden things that you have not known. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:7",
"text": " Now they are created, and not from \u231eof old\u231f, and before today, and you have not heard them so that you could not say, \u201cLook! I knew them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:8",
"text": " Neither have you heard, nor have you known, nor from \u231eof old\u231f has your ear been opened. For I knew you would deal treacherously, very treacherously, and you are called a rebel from the womb. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:9",
"text": " For the sake of my name I \u231erefrain from\u231f my anger, and for my praise I restrain it for you so as not to cut you off. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:10",
"text": " Look! I have refined you, but not like silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of misery. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:11",
"text": " For my own sake, for my own sake I do it; for why should it be defiled? And I will not give my glory to another.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:12",
"text": " \u201cListen to me, Jacob, and Israel, \u231ewhom I called\u231f: I am he. I am the first; also I am the last. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:13",
"text": " Indeed, my hand founded the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand in position together. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:14",
"text": " Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them declared these things? Yahweh loves him; he shall perform his wish against Babylon and his arm against \u231ethe Chaldeans\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:15",
"text": " I, I myself, I have spoken! Indeed, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will be successful in his way. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:16",
"text": " Draw near to me; hear this! I have not spoken in secrecy from the \u231ebeginning\u231f; from the time \u231eit came to be\u231f, there I have been; And now the Lord Yahweh has sent me and his Spirit.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:17",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: \u201cI am Yahweh your God, \u231ewho teaches\u231f you to profit, leads you in the way you should go. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:18",
"text": " O that you had listened attentively to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:19",
"text": " And your offspring would have been like the sand, and the descendants of your \u231ebody\u231f like its grains. It would not be cut off, and its name would not be destroyed from my presence.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:20",
"text": " Go out from Babylon! Flee from Chaldea! Proclaim it with a shout of rejoicing; proclaim this! \u231eSend it forth\u231f to the end of the earth; say, \u201cYahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:21",
"text": " And when he led them through the deserts, they were not thirsty; he made water flow from the rock for them, and he split the rock, and the water gushed out. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Isaiah 48:22",
"text": " \u201cThere is no peace,\u201d says Yahweh, \u201cfor the wicked.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:1",
"text": " Listen to me, coastlands, and listen attentively, peoples from far away! Yahweh called me from the womb; from the \u231ebody\u231f of my mother he made my name known. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:2",
"text": " And he \u231emade\u231f my mouth like a sharp sword; he hid me in the shadow of his hand, and he \u231emade\u231f me like an sharpened arrow; he hid me in his quiver. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:3",
"text": " And he said to me, \u201cYou are my servant, Israel, in whom I will show my glory.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:4",
"text": " But I myself said, \u201cI have labored in vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity! Nevertheless, my justice is with Yahweh, and my reward is with my God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:5",
"text": " And now Yahweh says, who formed me from the womb as a servant for him, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might not be gathered, for I am honored in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God has become my strength. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:6",
"text": " And he says, \u201cIt is trivial \u231efor you to be\u231f a servant for me, to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel. I will give you as a light to the nations, to be my salvation to the end of the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:7",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, the redeemer of Israel, his holy one, to the one who despises life, to the one who abhors the nation, to the slave of rulers: \u201cKings shall see and stand up; princes, and they shall bow down, for the sake of Yahweh, who is faithful, the holy one of Israel, and he has chosen you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:8",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cI have answered you in a time of favor, and helped you on a day of salvation, and watched over you, and given you as a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to give the desolate hereditary property as an inheritance, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:9",
"text": " saying to the \u231eprisoners\u231f, \u201cCome out!\u201d to those who are in darkness, \u201cShow yourselves!\u201d they shall feed \u231ealong\u231f the ways, and their pasturage shall be on all the barren heights. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:10",
"text": " They shall not be hungry or thirsty, and heat and sun shall not strike them, for he who takes pity on them will lead them, and he will guide them to springs of water. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:11",
"text": " And I will \u231emake\u231f all my mountains like a road, and my highways shall lead up. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:12",
"text": " Look! These shall come from afar, And look! These from the north and from the west and these from the land of Sinim.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:13",
"text": " Sing for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth! Mountains must break forth in rejoicing! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and he will take pity on his afflicted ones. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:14",
"text": " But Zion said, \u201cYahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:15",
"text": " Can a woman forget her suckling, refrain from having compassion on the child of her womb? Indeed, these may forget, but I, I will not forget you! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:16",
"text": " Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:17",
"text": " Your children hasten; your destroyers and those who laid you waste depart from you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:18",
"text": " Lift your eyes up all around and see; all of them gather; they come to you. \u231eAs surely as I live\u231f, \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, surely you shall put on all of them like an ornament, and you shall bind them on like a bride. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:19",
"text": " Surely your sites of ruins and desolate places and land of ruins, surely now you will be \u231etoo cramped for your\u231f inhabitants, and those who engulfed you will be far away. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:20",
"text": " Yet the children \u231eborn when you were bereaved\u231f will say in your \u231ehearing\u231f, \u201cThe place is too cramped for me; \u231emake room\u231f for me so that I can dwell.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:21",
"text": " Then you will say in your heart, \u201cWho has borne me these?\u201d And, \u201cI was bereaved and barren, exiled and thrust away; so who raised these? Look at me! I was left alone; \u231ewhere have these come from\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:22",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I will lift my hand up to the nations, and I will raise my signal to the peoples, and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:23",
"text": " And kings shall be your \u231eguardians\u231f, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, \u231efaces\u231f to the ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:24",
"text": " Can war-booty be taken from the mighty? or can a captive of a righteous person be rescued? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:25",
"text": " But thus says Yahweh: \u201cIndeed a captive of the mighty shall be taken, and the war-booty of the tyrant shall be rescued, for I myself will dispute with your opponent, and I myself will save your children. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Isaiah 49:26",
"text": " And I will feed your oppressors their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am Yahweh, your savior and redeemer, the strong one of Jacob.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50:1",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u201cWhere is this divorce document of your mother\u2019s divorce, with which I dismissed her? or to whom of my creditors did I sell you? Look! you were sold because of your sin, and your mother was dismissed because of your transgressions. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50:2",
"text": " Why was there no man when I came, no one who answered when I called? \u231eDo I lack the strength to save\u231f? Or is there no power in me to deliver? Look! by my rebuke I dry up the sea; I \u231emake\u231f the rivers a desert; their fish stink because there is no water, and they die because of thirst. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50:3",
"text": " I clothe the heavens with darkness, and I \u231emake\u231f their covering sackcloth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50:4",
"text": " The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of a pupil, to know how to help the weary with a word. He awakens \u231emorning by morning\u231f, awakens an ear for me to listen as do the pupils. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50:5",
"text": " The Lord Yahweh has opened an ear for me, and I, I was not rebellious. I did not turn backwards; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50:6",
"text": " I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out my \u231ebeard\u231f; I did not hide my face from insults and spittle. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50:7",
"text": " And the Lord Yahweh helps me, therefore I have not been put to shame; therefore I have set my face like flint. And I know that I shall not be ashamed; "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50:8",
"text": " he who obtains rights for me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is the master of my judgment? Let him approach me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50:9",
"text": " Look! The Lord Yahweh helps me. Who is the one who will declare me guilty? Look! All of them will be worn out like a garment; the moth will eat them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50:10",
"text": " Who among you is in fear of Yahweh, obeys the voice of his servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light, trusts in the name of Yahweh and depends on his God? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Isaiah 50:11",
"text": " Look! All of you are kindlers of fire, who gird yourselves with flaming arrows. Walk in the light of your fire, and among the flaming arrows you have kindled! You shall have this from my hand: you shall lie down in a place of torment. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:1",
"text": " \u201cListen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the excavation of the pit from which you were quarried. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:2",
"text": " Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah; she brought you forth. For I called him \u231ealone\u231f, but I blessed him and made him numerous.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:3",
"text": " For Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all its sites of ruins. And he will \u231emake\u231f its wilderness like Eden, and its desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the \u231esound\u231f of song. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:4",
"text": " \u201cListen attentively to me, my people, and my nation, listen to me! For a teaching will go out from me, and I will cause my justice to rest for a light to the peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:5",
"text": " My righteousness is near; my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they wait. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:6",
"text": " Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look to the earth beneath, for the heavens will be torn to pieces like smoke, and the earth will be worn out like a garment, and those who inhabit her will die like gnats. But my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be broken to pieces. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:7",
"text": " Listen to me, you who know righteousness, people who have my teaching in their heart; you must not fear the reproach of men, or be terrified because of their abuse. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:8",
"text": " For a moth will eat them like garments; a moth will devour them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for \u231egeneration after generation\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:9",
"text": " Awake! Awake; put on strength, O arm of Yahweh! Awake as in days of long ago, the generations of a long time back! Are you not the one who cut Rahab in pieces, the one who pierced the sea-dragon? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:10",
"text": " Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, the one who \u231emade\u231f the depths of the sea a way for those who are redeemed to cross over? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:11",
"text": " So the redeemed ones of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come to Zion with singing, and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. Joy and gladness shall \u231eappear\u231f; sorrow and sighing shall flee away! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:12",
"text": " \u201cI, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man? He dies! And of the son of humankind? He is \u231esacrificed\u231f as grass! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:13",
"text": " And you have forgotten Yahweh, your maker, who stretched out the heavens, and founded the earth. And you tremble continually, all day, because of the wrath of the oppressor when he \u231etakes aim\u231f to destroy. But where is the wrath of the oppressor? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:14",
"text": " The fettered one shall make haste to be freed. And he shall not die in the pit, and he shall not lack his bread. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:15",
"text": " For I am Yahweh, your God, who stirs up the sea, \u231eso that\u231f its waves roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:16",
"text": " And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, to plant the heavens and to found the earth, saying to Zion, \u2018You are my people.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:17",
"text": " Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself! Stand up, Jerusalem, who have drunk from the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunk the goblet, the cup of staggering; you have drained it out. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:18",
"text": " There is no one who guides her among all the children she has borne, and there is no one who grasps her by the hand among all the children she raised. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:19",
"text": " Two things here have happened to you\u2014who will \u231eshow sympathy\u231f for you?\u2014 devastation and destruction, famine and sword\u2014who will comfort you? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:20",
"text": " Your children have fainted; they lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a snare, those who are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:21",
"text": " Therefore hear now this afflicted one and drunken one but not from wine. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:22",
"text": " Thus says your Lord, Yahweh, and your God pleads the cause of his people: \u201cLook! I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering. You shall not \u231econtinue\u231f to drink the goblet, the cup of my wrath, any longer. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Isaiah 51:23",
"text": " And I will put it in the hand of your tormenters, who have said to \u231eyou\u231f, \u2018Bow down that we may \u231epass\u231f over you!\u2019 And you have \u231emade\u231f your back like the ground, and like the street for those who \u231epass\u231f over you.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:1",
"text": " Awake! Awake; put on your strength, Zion! Put on the garments of your beauty, Jerusalem, \u231eholy city\u231f! For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall not \u231econtinue to\u231f enter you any longer. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:2",
"text": " Shake yourself free from the dust! Rise up; sit, Jerusalem! Free yourselves from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:3",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh: \u201cYou were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:4",
"text": " For thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cMy people went down to Egypt in the beginning, to dwell as aliens there, and Assyria oppressed him \u231ewithout cause\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:5",
"text": "And now what do I have here?\u201d\u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cfor my people is taken without cause. Its rulers howl,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh\u2014\u201cand my name is reviled continually, all day. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:6",
"text": "Therefore my people shall know my name, therefore in that day, that I am the one who speaks. \u231eHere am I\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:7",
"text": " How delightful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, \u201cYour God reigns as a king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:8",
"text": " The voices of your watchmen! They lift up their voices; together they sing for joy; for they \u231eclearly\u231f see Yahweh\u2019s return to Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:9",
"text": " Break forth, sing for joy together, ruins of Jerusalem, for Yahweh has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:10",
"text": " Yahweh has bared \u231ehis holy arm\u231f to the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:11",
"text": " Depart, depart, go out from there! You must not touch any unclean thing. Go out from the midst of it, keep clean, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:12",
"text": " For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for Yahweh is going before you, and your rear guard is the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:13",
"text": " Look, my servant shall achieve success; he shall be exalted, and he shall be lifted up, and he shall be very high. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:14",
"text": " Just as many were appalled at you\u2014 such was his appearance beyond human disfigurement, and his form beyond the sons of mankind\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Isaiah 52:15",
"text": " so he shall sprinkle many nations; because of him, kings shall shut their mouths. For they shall see what has not been told them, and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:1",
"text": "Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:2",
"text": " For he went up like a shoot before him, and like a root from dry ground. He had no form and no majesty that we should see him, and no appearance that we should take pleasure in him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:3",
"text": " He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like \u231eone from whom others hide their faces\u231f, he was despised, and we did not hold him in high regard. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:4",
"text": " However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yet we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down by God and afflicted. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:5",
"text": " But he was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his wounds \u231ewe were healed\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:6",
"text": " All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:7",
"text": " He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was brought like a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers, so he did not open his mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:8",
"text": " He was taken by restraint of justice, and who concerned himself with his generation? For he was cut off from the land of the living; he received a blow because of the transgression of my people. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:9",
"text": " He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:10",
"text": " Yet Yahweh was pleased to crush him; he \u231emade him sick\u231f. If she places his life a guilt offering, he will see offspring. He will prolong days, and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:11",
"text": " From the trouble of his life he will see; he will be satisfied. In his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, shall declare many righteous, and he is the one who will bear their iniquities. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 53,
"name": "Isaiah 53:12",
"text": " Therefore, I will divide to him a portion among the many, and with the strong ones he will divide bounty, \u231ebecause\u231f he poured his life out to death and was counted with the transgressors; and he was the one who bore the sin of many and will intercede for the transgressors. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:1",
"text": " \u201cSing for joy, barren woman; who has not borne! Burst forth into rejoicing and rejoice, she who has not been in labor! For the children of the desolate woman are more than the children of the married woman,\u201d says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:2",
"text": " \u201cEnlarge the site of your tent, and let them stretch out the tent curtains of your dwelling place. You must not spare; make your tent cords long and strengthen your pegs, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:3",
"text": " for you will spread out to the right and to the left. And your descendants will be heir to the nations, and they will inhabit desolate towns. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:4",
"text": " You must not fear, for you will not be ashamed, and you must not be confounded, for you will not feel abashed, for you will forget the shame of your youth, and you will no longer remember the disgrace of your widowhood. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:5",
"text": " For your husband is your maker, his name is Yahweh of hosts; and your redeemer is the holy one of Israel, he is called the God of all of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:6",
"text": " For Yahweh has called you like a wife forsaken and hurt of spirit, like the wife of childhood when she is rejected, says your God. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:7",
"text": " I abandoned you \u231efor a short\u231f moment, but I will gather you with great compassion. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:8",
"text": " I hid my face from you for a moment, in the flowing of anger, but I will have compassion on you with everlasting faithfulness\u201d says your redeemer, Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:9",
"text": " \u201cFor this is like the waters of Noah to me, when I swore \u231ethat the waters of Noah would never again pass\u231f over the earth, so I swore \u231ethat I would not be\u231f angry at you and rebuke you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:10",
"text": " For the mountains may depart, and the hills may sway, but my faithfulness shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not sway,\u201d says Yahweh, who has compassion on you, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:11",
"text": " \u201cO afflicted one, driven away, who is not consoled. Look! I am about to set your stones in hard mortar, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:12",
"text": " And I will \u231emake\u231f your battlements of ruby, and your gates of stones of beryl, and all your wall of precious stones. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:13",
"text": " And all your children shall be pupils of Yahweh, and the peace of your children shall be great. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:14",
"text": " In righteousness you shall be established. Be far from oppression, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:15",
"text": " If indeed one attacks, it is not from me; whoever attacks you shall fall because of you. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:16",
"text": " Look! I myself have created the craftsman who blows the fire of coals, and who produces a weapon for his work; also I myself have created the destroyer to destroy. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 54,
"name": "Isaiah 54:17",
"text": " Every weapon formed against you shall not succeed, and you shall declare guilty every tongue that rises against you for judgment. This is the inheritance of the servants of Yahweh, and their \u231elegal right\u231f from me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:1",
"text": " \u201cHo! Everyone thirsty, come to the waters! And whoever has no money, come, buy and eat, and come, buy without money, wine and milk without price! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:2",
"text": " Why do you weigh out money for what is not food, and your labor for \u231ewhat cannot satisfy\u231f? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul take pleasure in \u231erich\u231f food. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:3",
"text": " Extend your ear, and come to me! Listen so that your soul may live, and I will \u231emake\u231f an everlasting covenant with you, the enduring proofs of \u231ethe mercies shown to\u231f David. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:4",
"text": " Look! I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and a commander for the peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:5",
"text": " Look! You shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that does not know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and the holy one of Israel, for he has glorified you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:6",
"text": " Seek Yahweh \u231ewhile he lets himself be found\u231f; call him \u231ewhile he is\u231f near. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:7",
"text": " Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of sin his thoughts. And let him return to Yahweh, that he may take pity on him, and to our God, for he will \u231eforgive manifold\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:8",
"text": " \u201cFor my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:9",
"text": " \u201cFor as the heavens are \u231ehigher\u231f than the earth, so my ways are \u231ehigher\u231f than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:10",
"text": " For just as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and they do not return there except they have watered the earth thoroughly and cause it to bring forth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:11",
"text": " so shall be my word that goes out from my mouth. It shall not return to me without success, but shall accomplish what I desire and be successful in the thing for which I sent it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:12",
"text": " For you shall go out in joy, and you shall be led in peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you, rejoicing and all the trees of the field shall clap hands. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 55,
"name": "Isaiah 55:13",
"text": " Instead of the thorn bush, the juniper shall go up; instead of the brier, the myrtle shall go up, and it shall serve as a memorial to Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:1",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cObserve justice and do righteousness, for my salvation is close to coming, and my justice to being revealed. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:2",
"text": " Happy is the man who does this, and the son of humankind who keeps hold of it, who keeps the Sabbath \u231eso as not to profane\u231f it, and who keeps his hand from doing any evil.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:3",
"text": " And do not let the \u231eforeigner\u231f who joins himself to Yahweh say, \u201cSurely Yahweh will separate me from his people.\u201d And do not let the eunuch say, \u201cLook! I am a dry tree!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:4",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh, \u201cTo the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose that in which I delight, and who keep hold of my covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:5",
"text": " And I will give them a monument and a name in my house and within my walls, better than sons and daughters; I will give him an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:6",
"text": " And the \u231eforeigners\u231f who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him and to love the name of Yahweh, to become his servants, every one who keeps the Sabbath, \u231eso as not to profane\u231f it, and those who keep hold of my covenant, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:7",
"text": " I will bring them to \u231emy holy mountain\u231f; I will make them merry in my house of prayer. their burnt offerings and their sacrifices \u231ewill be accepted\u231f on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:8",
"text": " \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, who gathers the scattered ones of Israel (still I will gather to him, to his gathered ones). "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:9",
"text": " All wild animals in the field, come, to devour, all wild animals in the forest! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:10",
"text": " His watchmen are blind, none of them know. They are all dumb dogs; they are unable to bark, panting, lying down, loving to slumber. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:11",
"text": " And the dogs \u231ehave a greedy appetite\u231f; they \u231eare never satisfied\u231f. And they are the shepherds! They do not have understanding. They all turn to their own way, each one for his own gain, \u231eevery one of them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 56,
"name": "Isaiah 56:12",
"text": " \u201cCome, let me take wine, and let us carouse with intoxicating drink, and tomorrow will be like today, \u231every great indeed\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:1",
"text": " The righteous one perishes, and there is no one who takes it to heart. And men of faithfulness are gathered, while there is no one who understands, for the righteous is gathered from the presence of wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:2",
"text": " he enters into peace; they will rest on their beds, walking straight ahead of him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:3",
"text": " \u201cBut you, come near here, you children of a soothsayer, offspring of an adulterer and she who commits fornication. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:4",
"text": " At whom do you make fun? At whom do you \u231eopen\u231f your mouth and \u231estick out\u231f your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deception, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:5",
"text": " who burn with lust among the oaks, under every leafy tree, who slaughter children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:6",
"text": " Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; they, they are your lot; indeed, to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a food offering. Shall I relent concerning these things? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:7",
"text": " You have set your bed upon a high and lofty mountain; indeed, you went up there to slaughter sacrifice. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:8",
"text": " And you have set your symbol behind the door and the doorpost; for you depart from me, and you go up; you make your bed wide, and you \u231emake a deal with\u231f them, you have loved their bed; you have seen their \u231egenitals\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:9",
"text": " And you climbed down to the king with oil, and you made your perfumes numerous, and you sent your envoys \u231efar away\u231f, and you \u231esent down deep\u231f to Sheol. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:10",
"text": " You grow weary by the greatness of your way, but you did not say, \u2018Despairing!\u2019 You found the \u231erenewal\u231f of your \u231estrength\u231f, therefore you do not grow weak. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:11",
"text": " And of whom were you afraid and feared, that you deceived and did not remember me? Did you not place it on your heart? Have I not been silent, even from long ago, and so you do not fear me? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:12",
"text": " I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:13",
"text": " When \u231eyou cry\u231f, let your collection deliver you, and the wind will carry all of them away; a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in me shall take possession of the land, and he shall inherit my \u231eholy mountain\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:14",
"text": " And one shall say, \u201cBuild up, build up! Clear the way! Remove the obstacles from the way of my people!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:15",
"text": " For thus says the high and lofty one who resides forever, and whose name is holy: \u201cI reside in a high and holy place, and with the \u231econtrite\u231f and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the \u231econtrite\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:16",
"text": " For I will not attack forever, and I will not be angry forever, for the spirit will grow faint before me, and the breaths that I myself I have made. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:17",
"text": " I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him; I hid and I was angry, but he walked apostate, in the ways of his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:18",
"text": " I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; and I will lead him and give him and his mourners comfort as a recompense, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:19",
"text": " creating fruit of lips. Peace, peace to the far and near,\u201d says Yahweh, \u201cand I will heal him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:20",
"text": " But the wicked are like the churning sea, that is not able to keep quiet, and its waters toss up mire and mud. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 57,
"name": "Isaiah 57:21",
"text": " There is no peace,\u201d says my God, \u201cfor the wicked.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:1",
"text": " \u201cCall with the throat; you must not keep back! lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their rebellion, and to the house of Jacob their sins. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:2",
"text": " Yet they seek me day by day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that \u231epracticed\u231f righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for \u231erighteous judgments\u231f, they desire the closeness of God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:3",
"text": " \u2018Why do we fast, and you do not see it? We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice it?\u2019 Look! You find delight on the day of your fast, and you oppress all your workers! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:4",
"text": " Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a \u231ewicked fist\u231f. You shall not fast as you do \u231etoday\u231f, to \u231emake your voice heard\u231f on the height. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:5",
"text": " Is the fast I choose like this, a day for humankind to humiliate \u231ehimself\u231f? To bow his head like a reed, and \u231emake\u231f his bed on sackcloth and ashes; you call this a fast and a day of pleasure to Yahweh? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:6",
"text": " Is this not the fast I choose: to release the bonds of injustice, to untie the ropes of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and \u231etear\u231f every yoke to pieces? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:7",
"text": " Is it not to break your bread for the hungry? You must bring \u231ehome\u231f the poor, the homeless. When you see the naked, you must cover him, and you must not hide yourself from your \u231erelatives\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:8",
"text": " Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall grow quickly. And your salvation shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh will be your rear guard. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:9",
"text": " Then you shall call, and Yahweh himself will answer. You shall cry for help, and he will say, \u2018Here I am!\u2019 If you remove from among you the yoke, the \u231efinger-pointing\u231f and \u231eevil speech\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:10",
"text": " if you offer your soul to the hungry, and you satisfy the appetite of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your darkness will be like noon. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:11",
"text": " And Yahweh will lead you continually, and satisfy your soul in a barren land, and he will strengthen your bones, and you shall be like a well-watered garden, and like a spring of water whose water does not fail. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:12",
"text": " And they shall rebuild ancient ruins from you; you shall erect the foundations of \u231emany generations,\u231f and \u231eyou shall be called\u231f the bricklayer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:13",
"text": " If you hold your foot back from the Sabbath, from doing your affairs on \u231emy holy day\u231f, if you call the Sabbath a pleasure, the holy day of Yahweh honorable, if you honor him \u231emore than\u231f doing your ways, than finding your affairs and speaking a word, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 58,
"name": "Isaiah 58:14",
"text": " then you shall take your pleasure in Yahweh, and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth, and I will feed you the heritage of Jacob your ancestor, for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:1",
"text": " Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short \u231eto save\u231f, and his ear is not too dull \u231eto hear\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:2",
"text": " Rather, your iniquities have been \u231ebarriers\u231f between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, from hearing. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:3",
"text": " For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:4",
"text": " There is nobody \u231ewho pleads with\u231f justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:5",
"text": " they hatch viper eggs, and they weave a spider web. One who eats their eggs dies, and that which is pressed is hatched as a serpent. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:6",
"text": " Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:7",
"text": " Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their highways. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:8",
"text": " They do not know the way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone \u231ewho walks\u231f in it knows no peace. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:9",
"text": " Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look! there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:10",
"text": " We grope like the blind along a wall, and we grope \u231eas without\u231f eyes. We stumble at noon as in the twilight; among the strong we are like the dead. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:11",
"text": " We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:12",
"text": " For our transgressions are numerous before you, and our sins \u231etestify\u231f against us. Indeed, our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities: "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:13",
"text": " transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning \u231eaway from following\u231f our God; speaking oppression and falsehood, conceiving and uttering words of deception from the heart. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:14",
"text": " And justice is pushed back, and righteousness stands afar; for truth stumbles in the public square, and straightforwardness is unable to enter, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:15",
"text": " and truth is missing, and he who turns aside from evil is plundered. And Yahweh saw, and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:16",
"text": " And he saw that there was no man, and he was appalled that there was no one who intercedes, so his arm came to assist him, and his righteousness \u231ewas what\u231f sustained him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:17",
"text": " And he put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head, and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and he wrapped himself in zeal as in a robe. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:18",
"text": " According to deeds, so he will repay; wrath to his enemies, requital to those who are his \u231eenemies\u231f. He will repay requital to the coastlands. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:19",
"text": " So they shall fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the sunrise, for he will come like a narrow stream; the wind of Yahweh drives it on. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:20",
"text": " \u201cAnd a redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn away from transgression,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 59,
"name": "Isaiah 59:21",
"text": " \u201cAnd as for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have placed in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your \u231echildren\u231f, or from the mouths of \u231eyour children\u2019s children\u231f,\u201d says Yahweh, \u201cfrom now on and forever.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:1",
"text": " \u201cArise, shine! For your light has come, and the glory of Yahweh has risen on you. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:2",
"text": " For look! darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples, but Yahweh will rise on you, and his glory will appear over you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:3",
"text": " And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the bright light of your sunrise. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:4",
"text": " Lift up your eyes all around and see! All of them gather; they come to you. Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be looked after on the hip. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:5",
"text": " Then you shall see and you shall be radiant; and your heart shall tremble and open itself wide, because the abundance of the sea shall fall upon you; the wealth of the nations shall come to you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:6",
"text": " A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young male camels of Midian and Ephah. All those from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and they shall proclaim the praise of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:7",
"text": " All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall serve you. They shall present a sacrifice for favor on my altar, and I will glorify \u231emy honorable house\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:8",
"text": " Who are these? They fly like a cloud, and like doves to their coops. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:9",
"text": " Because the coastlands wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish are first to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the holy one of Israel, because he has glorified you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:10",
"text": " And \u231eforeigners\u231f shall build your walls, and their kings shall serve you, for in my anger I struck you, but in my favor I have taken pity on you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:11",
"text": " And your gates shall continually be open, day and night they shall not be shut, to bring you the wealth of nations, and their kings shall be led. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:12",
"text": " For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you shall perish, and the nations shall be utterly devastated. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:13",
"text": " The glory of Lebanon shall come to you; the cypress, the plane, and the pine together, to glorify the place of my sanctuary, and I will do honor to the place of my feet. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:14",
"text": " And the children of those who oppressed you shall come to you bending low, and all those who treated you disrespectfully shall bow down at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you the city of Yahweh, Zion of the holy one of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:15",
"text": " Instead of you being forsaken and hated \u231ewith no one passing through,\u231f I will \u231emake\u231f you an everlasting \u231eobject of pride\u231f, a joy of \u231ecoming generations\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:16",
"text": " And you shall suck the milk of nations, and suck the breast of kings, and you shall know that I am Yahweh your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Strong One of Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:17",
"text": " Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. And I will \u231eappoint\u231f peace as your overseer, and righteousness as \u231eyour ruling body\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:18",
"text": " Violence shall no longer be heard in your land; devastation or destruction on your borders. And you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates, Praise. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:19",
"text": " The sun shall no longer be your light by day, and for bright light the moon shall not give you light, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God your glory. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:20",
"text": " Your sun shall no longer go down, and your moon shall not \u231ewane\u231f, for Yahweh himself will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall come to an end. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:21",
"text": " And all your people shall be righteous; they shall take possession of the land forever, the shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to show my glory. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 60,
"name": "Isaiah 60:22",
"text": " The small one shall become a tribe, and the smallest one a mighty nation. I am Yahweh; I will hasten it in its time.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61:1",
"text": " The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me, he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up \u231ethe brokenhearted\u231f, to \u231eproclaim\u231f release to the captives and liberation to those who are bound, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61:2",
"text": " to \u231eproclaim\u231f the year of Yahweh\u2019s favor, and our God\u2019s day of vengeance, to comfort all those in mourning, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61:3",
"text": " to \u231egive\u231f for those in mourning in Zion, to give them a head wrap instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit. And \u231ethey will be called\u231f oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, to show his glory. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61:4",
"text": " And they shall build the ancient ruins, they shall erect the former deserted places. And they shall restore the \u231edevastated cities\u231f, the deserted places of \u231emany generations\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61:5",
"text": " And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and \u231eforeigners\u231f shall be your farmers and vinedressers. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61:6",
"text": " But you shall be called the priests of Yahweh, \u231eyou will be called\u231f servers of our God. You shall eat the wealth of the nations, and you shall boast in their riches. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61:7",
"text": " Instead of your shame, a double portion, and instead of insult, they will rejoice over their portion. Therefore they will take a double portion in their land; \u231ethey shall possess everlasting joy\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61:8",
"text": " For I, Yahweh, love justice, hate robbery and injustice, and I will \u231efaithfully\u231f give their reward, and I will \u231emake\u231f an everlasting covenant \u231ewith\u231f them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61:9",
"text": " And their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All those who see them shall recognize them, that they are descendants whom Yahweh has blessed. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61:10",
"text": " I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns himself with a head wrap like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewelry. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 61,
"name": "Isaiah 61:11",
"text": " For as the earth \u231eproduces\u231f its sprout, and as a garden makes its plants sprout, so the Lord Yahweh will make righteousness sprout, and praise before all the nations. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:1",
"text": " For the sake of Zion I will not be silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not maintain a quiet attitude, until her righteousness goes out like the bright light, and her salvation burns like a torch. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:2",
"text": " And the nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and \u231eyou will be called\u231f a new name that the mouth of Yahweh will designate. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:3",
"text": " And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a headband of royalty in the hand of your God. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:4",
"text": " It shall no longer be said of you, \u201cForsaken,\u201d and it shall no longer be said of your land, \u201cDesolation!\u201d but \u231eyou will\u231f be called \u201cMy Delight Is In Her,\u201d and your land, \u201cMarried,\u201d for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:5",
"text": " For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you, and as is the joy of the bridegroom over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:6",
"text": " I have appointed watchmen upon your walls, Jerusalem; all day and all night they shall never be silent. You who profess Yahweh have no rest. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:7",
"text": " And you must not give him rest until he establishes, and until he \u231emakes\u231f Jerusalem \u231ean object of praise\u231f in the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:8",
"text": " Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by \u231ehis mighty arm\u231f, \u201cSurely I will never again give your grain as food to \u231eyour enemies\u231f, and surely \u231eforeigners\u231f shall not drink your new wine at which you have labored.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:9",
"text": " But those who gather it shall eat it, and they shall praise Yahweh, and those who gather it shall drink it in \u231emy holy courts\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:10",
"text": " Pass through, pass through the gates! Make the way clear \u231efor\u231f the people! Pile up, pile up the highway; clear it of stones! Lift up an ensign over the peoples! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:11",
"text": " Look! Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to daughter Zion, \u201cLook, your salvation is coming! Look, his reward is with him, and his reward before him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 62,
"name": "Isaiah 62:12",
"text": " And they shall call them \u201cThe \u231eHoly People\u231f, The Redeemed Of Yahweh,\u201d and \u231eyou\u231f shall be called \u201cSought After, A City Is Not Forsaken.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:1",
"text": " Who is this, coming from Edom, from Bozrah in bright red garments? Who is this honored in his garment, lying down in his great strength? \u201cIt is I, speaking in justice, \u231emighty\u231f to save!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:2",
"text": " Why are your garments red, and your garments like he who treads in the winepress? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:3",
"text": " \u201cI have trodden the winepress alone, and there was no man from the peoples with me. And I trod them in my anger, and I trampled them in my wrath, and spattered their juice on my garments, and stained all my clothing, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:4",
"text": " for the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my blood-vengeance has come! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:5",
"text": " And I looked, but there was no helper, and I was appalled, but there was no one who sustains, so my arm came to assist me, and my wrath \u231ewas what\u231f sustained me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:6",
"text": " And I trampled peoples in my anger, and I made them drunk in my wrath, and I brought their juice down to the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:7",
"text": " I will mention the loyal love of Yahweh, the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has done for us, and the greatness of goodness to the house of Israel that he has done to them according to his mercy and the abundance of his loyal love. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:8",
"text": " And he said, \u201cSurely my people are children; they will not break faith.\u201d And he became a Savior to them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:9",
"text": " In all their distress, \u231ethere was no distress\u231f, and the messenger of his \u231epresence\u231f saved them, in his love and compassion he himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all the days of old. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:10",
"text": " But they \u231ewere the ones who\u231f rebelled, and they grieved \u231ehis Holy Spirit\u231f, so he \u231ebecame an enemy to them\u231f; he himself fought against them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:11",
"text": " Then his people remembered the days of old, of Moses. Where is the one who led up them from the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who puts \u231ehis Holy Spirit\u231f inside him, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:12",
"text": " \u231ewho made\u231f his magnificent arm move \u231eat\u231f the right hand of Moses, \u231ewho divided\u231f the waters \u231ebefore them\u231f, to make an everlasting name for himself, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:13",
"text": " \u231ewho led\u231f them through the depths? They did not stumble like a horse in the desert; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:14",
"text": " like cattle in the valley that goes down, the Spirit of Yahweh \u231egave him rest\u231f, so you lead your people to make a magnificent name for yourself. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:15",
"text": " Look from heaven, and see from the lofty residence of your holiness and glory. Where are your zeal and strength? \u231eYour compassion\u231f and mercy to me hold themselves back. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:16",
"text": " For you are our father, although Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh are our father, Our Redeemer from of old is your name. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:17",
"text": " Why do you make us wander, Yahweh? You harden our heart from your ways \u231eso that we do not fear\u231f you. Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:18",
"text": " \u231eYour holy people\u231f took possession for a little while; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 63,
"name": "Isaiah 63:19",
"text": " We have been since antiquity; you did not rule them; \u231ethey were not called by your name\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:1",
"text": " Would that you would tear the heavens and come down; the mountains would quake before you, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:2",
"text": " as fire kindles brushwood, the fire causes water to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations might tremble from your \u231epresence\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:3",
"text": " When you did terrible deeds which we did not \u231eexpect\u231f, you came down; the mountains quaked because of your \u231epresence\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:4",
"text": " And since ancient times they have not heard, have not listened, no eye has seen a God except you; he \u231eacts\u231f for the one who waits for him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:5",
"text": " You meet with the one who rejoices, one who does righteousness. In your ways they remember you. Look! You were angry and we sinned against them in ancient times and we were saved. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:6",
"text": " And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:7",
"text": " And there is no one who calls on your name, who pulls himself up to keep hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us, and melted us into the hand of our iniquity. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:8",
"text": " Yet now Yahweh, you are our father; we are the clay and you are our \u231epotter\u231f, and we all are the work of your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:9",
"text": " You must not be exceedingly angry, Yahweh, and you must not remember iniquity forever! Look! Behold, now! We all are your people! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:10",
"text": " \u231eYour holy cities\u231f have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:11",
"text": " \u231eOur holy and beautiful temple\u231f, where our ancestors praised you has \u231ebeen burned\u231f by fire, and all our precious objects have become ruins. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 64,
"name": "Isaiah 64:12",
"text": " Will you control yourself because of these, Yahweh? Will you be silent? And will you oppress us exceedingly? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:1",
"text": " \u201cI let myself be sought by those who did not ask; I let myself be found by those who did not seek me. I said, \u2018Here I am; here I am!\u2019 to a nation that did not call on my name; "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:2",
"text": " I spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people, those who walk after their thoughts in the way that is not good, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:3",
"text": " the people \u231ewho provoke\u231f me to anger continually to my face, slaughtering for sacrifices in the garden, and making smoke offerings on bricks, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:4",
"text": " \u231ewho sit\u231f in graves and spend the night in \u231esecret places\u231f, \u231ewho eat\u231f the flesh of swine with a fragment of impurity in their vessels, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:5",
"text": " \u231ewho say\u231f, \u201c\u231eKeep to yourself\u231f! You must not come near me, for I am too holy for you!\u201d These are a smoke in my \u231enostrils\u231f, a fire burning all day. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:6",
"text": " Look! It is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will repay; and I will repay in the fold of their garment "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:7",
"text": " your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together, says Yahweh, because they made smoke offerings on the mountains and they taunted me on the hills, I will measure their punishment from the beginning into the fold of their garment.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:8",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cJust as the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say \u2018You must not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,\u2019 so I will do for the sake of my servants \u231eby\u231f not destroying \u231eeveryone\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:9",
"text": " And I will bring descendant s out from Jacob, and a \u231epeople\u231f from Judah to take possession of my mountain, and my chosen ones shall inherit it, and my servants shall settle there. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:10",
"text": " And Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting place for herds for my people who have sought me. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:11",
"text": " But you \u231ewho forsake\u231f Yahweh, forgetting \u231emy holy mountain\u231f, who set a table for Fortune, and who \u231epour out\u231f a jug of mixed wine for Destiny, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:12",
"text": " and I will remit you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not listen, but you did the evil in my eyes, and you chose that in which I do not delight.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:13",
"text": " Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! My servants shall eat but you, you shall be hungry. Look! My servants shall drink but you, you shall be thirsty. Look! My servants shall rejoice but you, you shall be ashamed. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:14",
"text": " Look! My servants shall shout \u231efor joy\u231f, but you, you shall cry out \u231efor pain\u231f and howl \u231efor sadness\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:15",
"text": " And you shall leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse, and the Lord Yahweh will kill you, and he will \u231egive\u231f his servants another name. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:16",
"text": " Whoever blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of trustworthiness, and the one who swears an oath in the land shall swear by the God of trustworthiness, because the former troubles are forgotten, and they are hidden from my eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:17",
"text": " For look! I am about to create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not \u231ecome to mind\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:18",
"text": " But rejoice and shout in exultation forever and ever over what I am about to create! For look! I am about to create Jerusalem as a source of rejoicing, and her people as a source of joy. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:19",
"text": " And I will shout in exultation over Jerusalem, and I will rejoice over my people, and the sound of weeping shall no longer be heard in it, or the sound of a cry for help. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:20",
"text": " There will no longer be a nursing infant \u231ewho lives only a few\u231f days, or an old man who does not fill his days, for the boy will die \u231ea hundred years old\u231f, and the one who \u231efails to reach\u231f \u231ea hundred years\u231f will be \u231econsidered\u231f accursed. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:21",
"text": " And they shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:22",
"text": " They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat. For the days of my people shall be like the days of a tree, and my chosen ones shall enjoy the work of their hands. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:23",
"text": " They shall not labor for nothing, and they shall not give birth to horror, for they \u231eshall be offspring blessed by\u231f Yahweh, and their descendants with them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:24",
"text": " And this will happen: before they call, I myself will answer; while still they are speaking, I myself will hear. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 65,
"name": "Isaiah 65:25",
"text": " The wolf and the lamb shall feed like one, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox, but dust shall be the serpent\u2019s food. They shall do no evil, and they shall not destroy on all \u231emy holy mountain\u231f,\u201d says Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:1",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cHeaven is my throne, and the earth is the footstool for my feet. Where is this house that you would build for me? And where is this resting place for me? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:2",
"text": " And my hand has made all these things, and all these \u231ecame to be\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cbut I look to this one: to the humble and the contrite of spirit and the one frightened at my word. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:3",
"text": " The one who slaughters a bull strikes a man; the one who slaughters a lamb for sacrifice breaks the neck of a dog. The one who offers an offering, the blood of swine; the one who offers frankincense blesses an idol. Indeed, they themselves have chosen their ways, and their soul delights in their abhorrence. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:4",
"text": " Indeed, I myself I will choose their ill treatment, and I will bring them objects of their dread, because I called, and \u231eno one answered\u231f; I spoke and they did not listen, but they did the evil in my eyes, and they chose that in which I do not delight.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:5",
"text": " Hear the word of Yahweh, you who are frightened at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for my name\u2019s sake have said, \u201cLet Yahweh be honored so that we may see your joy!\u201d But they themselves shall be ashamed. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:6",
"text": " A voice, an uproar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of Yahweh \u231epaying back\u231f his enemies! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:7",
"text": " Before she was in labor she gave birth; before labor pains came to her, she gave birth to a son. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:8",
"text": " Who has heard anything like this? Who has seen anything like these things? Can a land be born in one day? Or can a nation be born in a moment? Yet when she was in labor, Zion indeed gave birth to her children. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:9",
"text": " Shall I myself I break open and not \u231edeliver\u231f?\u201d says Yahweh, \u201cor I who \u231edelivers\u231f lock up the womb?\u201d says your God. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:10",
"text": " \u201cRejoice with Jerusalem and shout in exultation with her, all those who love her! Rejoice with her in joy, all those who mourn over her, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:11",
"text": " so that you may suck and be satisfied from her \u231econsoling breast\u231f, so that you may drink deeply and refresh yourselves from her \u231eheavy breast\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:12",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am about to spread prosperity out to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you shall suck and be carried on the hip; and you shall you shall be played with on the knees. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:13",
"text": " As a man whose mother comforts him, so I myself will comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:14",
"text": " And you shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall \u231eflourish\u231f like the grass, and the hand of Yahweh shall make itself known \u231eto\u231f his servants, and he shall curse his enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:15",
"text": " For look! Yahweh will come in fire, and his chariots like the storm wind, to \u231egive back\u231f his anger in wrath, and his rebuke in flames of fire. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:16",
"text": " For Yahweh enters into judgment on all flesh with fire and his sword, and \u231ethose slain by\u231f Yahweh shall be many. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:17",
"text": " Those who sanctify themselves and those who cleanse themselves \u231eto go into\u231f the gardens after the one in the middle, eating the flesh of swine and detestable things and rodents together shall come to an end!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:18",
"text": " \u201cAnd I\u2014their works and thoughts!\u2014am about to come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:19",
"text": " And I will set a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow; Tubal and Javan, the faraway coastlands that have not heard of my fame, and have not seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:20",
"text": "and bring all your countrymen from all the nations as an offering to Yahweh on horses and chariots and in litters and on mules and camels, to \u231emy holy mountain\u231f, Jerusalem,\u201d says Yahweh, \u201cjust as the sons of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:21",
"text": "And indeed, I will take some of them as priests and the Levites,\u201d says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:22",
"text": "\u201cFor just as the new heavens and earth that I am about to make shall stand before me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cso shall your descendants and your name stand. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:23",
"text": " And this shall happen: From \u231enew moon to new moon\u231f and from \u231eSabbath to Sabbath\u231f all flesh shall come to bow in worship before me,\u201d says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 66,
"name": "Isaiah 66:24",
"text": "\u201cAnd they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people \u231ewho have rebelled\u231f against me, for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.\u201d "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Jeremiah",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:1",
"text": " The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, among the priests who were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:2",
"text": "to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:3",
"text": "It came also in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:4",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:5",
"text": " \u201cBefore I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you came out from the womb I consecrated you; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:6",
"text": " Then I said, \u201cAh, Lord Yahweh! Look, I do not know how to speak, for I am a youth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:7",
"text": "But Yahweh said to me, \u201cYou must not say, \u2018I am a youth,\u2019 for to \u231ewhomever\u231f I send you, you will go, and \u231ewhatever\u231f I command you, you will speak. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:8",
"text": "\u231eDo not be afraid of them\u231f, for I am with you to deliver you,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:9",
"text": "Then Yahweh stretched out his hand and he touched my mouth, and Yahweh said to me, \u201cLook, I have put my words in your mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:10",
"text": " See, I appoint you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, and to destroy and to tear down, to build and to plant.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:11",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to me, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cWhat are you seeing, Jeremiah?\u201d And I said, \u201cI am seeing a branch of an almond tree.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:12",
"text": "Then Yahweh said to me, \u201cYou did well to see, for I am watching over my word to perform it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:13",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cWhat are you seeing?\u201d And I said, \u201cI am seeing a \u231eboiling\u231f pot, and its face is from the face of the north.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:14",
"text": "Then Yahweh said to me, \u201cFrom the north disaster will be unleashed on all the inhabitants of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:15",
"text": "For, look, I am calling to all the clans of the kingdoms of the north,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand they will come and set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its surrounding walls, and against all the cities of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:16",
"text": "And I will pass my judgments on them because of all their wickedness in that they have forsaken me, and they made sacrifices to other gods, and they bowed in worship to the works of their hands. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:17",
"text": "But you, you must gird your loins, and stand, and speak to them all that I command you. \u231eDo not be afraid of them\u231f, or I will shatter you \u231ebefore\u231f them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:18",
"text": "Now look, I have made you \u231etoday\u231f as a fortified city and as an iron pillar and a bronze wall against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jeremiah 1:19",
"text": "And they will fight against you but they will not prevail against you, for I am with you,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cto deliver you.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:2",
"text": "\u201cGo and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cI remember concerning you the loyal love of your childhood, the love of your betrothal-time, your going after me in the desert, in the land not sown. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:3",
"text": " Israel was holy to Yahweh, the first fruit of his produce. All those who ate it were held guilty; disaster came to them,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:4",
"text": " Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:5",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u201cWhat injustice did your ancestors find in me that they were far from me, and they went after the vanity, and they became vain? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:6",
"text": " And they did not say, \u2018Where is Yahweh, the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt, the one who led us in the desert, in a land of desert plains and gorges, in a land of dryness and deep darkness, in a land \u231ethat no one passes through\u231f, and no human lives there?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:7",
"text": " And I brought you to the land of the orchard, to eat its fruit, and its good things. But you entered and defiled my land, and my inheritance you made a detestable thing. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:8",
"text": " The priests did not say, \u2018Where is Yahweh?\u2019 and those who handle the law did not know me, and the shepherds have \u231erebelled against me\u231f, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went after things which do not profit. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:9",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f I again bring a lawsuit against you,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand with \u231eyour children\u231f I bring a lawsuit. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:10",
"text": " For go over to the coasts of Cyprus and look, and send to Kedar and consider very closely, and see if there has been a thing like this: "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:11",
"text": " Has a nation exchanged gods? And they are not gods! But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:12",
"text": " Be appalled, O heavens, at this, and shudder; be utterly desolate,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:13",
"text": " \u201cFor my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the source of living water, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:14",
"text": " Is Israel a slave? Or \u231ea slave born in a house\u231f? Why has he become plunder? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:15",
"text": " The young lions have roared against him, they have \u231eraised\u231f their voices. And they have made his land as horror; his cities are destroyed, \u231ewithout\u231f an inhabitant. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:16",
"text": " Moreover, people of Memphis and Tahpanhes will \u231eshave\u231f your skull. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:17",
"text": " Did you not do this to yourself, by forsaking Yahweh, your God, at the time of your leading in the way? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:18",
"text": " And now \u231ewhy do you go\u231f the way of Egypt to drink the waters of the Shihor? And \u231ewhy do you go\u231f the way of Assyria to drink the waters of the \u231eEuphrates\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:19",
"text": " Your wickedness will chastise you, and your apostasies will reprove you. Therefore know and see that it is evil and bitter, your forsaking of Yahweh, your God, and fear of me is not in you,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord, Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:20",
"text": " \u201cFor from long ago you have broken your yoke, you tore to pieces your bonds. And you said, \u2018I will not serve!\u2019 But on every high hill and under every leafy tree you were lying down as a prostitute. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:21",
"text": " Yet I planted you as a choice vine, all of it a seed of trustworthiness. How then have you altered before me into something that is degenerate, the foreign vine? "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:22",
"text": " For if you wash with natron, and you \u231euse much soap\u231f, your guilt is sticking as a stain \u231ebefore\u231f me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:23",
"text": " \u201cHow can you say, \u2018I have not defiled myself, I have not gone after the Baals?\u2019 Look at your way in the valley, know what you have done. You are a young she-camel, interweaving her ways. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:24",
"text": " A wild ass accustomed to the desert, in the desire of her soul. She gasps for wind in her rutting time. Who can quell her lust? All those who seek her will not grow weary, in her month they will find her. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:25",
"text": " Restrain your foot from being barefoot, and your throat from thirst. But you said, \u2018It is hopeless. No! For I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:26",
"text": " As the shame of a thief when he is caught in the act, so the house of Israel will be ashamed. They, their kings, their officials, and their priests, and their prophets. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:27",
"text": " Those who say to the tree, \u2018You are my father,\u2019 and to the stone, \u2018You gave birth to me.\u2019 For they have turned their \u231ebacks\u231f to me, and not their faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, \u2018Arise and save us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:28",
"text": " But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise if they can save you in the time of your trouble. For according to the number of your towns are your gods, O Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:29",
"text": " Why do you complain to me? All of you have \u231erebelled against me\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:30",
"text": " \u201cFor \u231ein vain\u231f I have struck your children. They accepted no discipline. Your sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening lion. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:31",
"text": " O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, \u2018We roam about freely, we will not come again to you\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:32",
"text": " Can a young woman forget her ornaments? Or a bride her sashes? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:33",
"text": " How well you do on your way to seek love! \u231eTherefore\u231f even to the wicked woman you can teach your ways. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:34",
"text": " Also on your skirts is found the blood of the life of the innocent, the poor. You did not find them in the act of breaking into a house. But in spite of all these things, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:35",
"text": " yet you say, \u2018But I am innocent, surely his anger has turned away from me.\u2019 Look, I am entering into judgment with you because of your saying, \u2018I have not sinned.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:36",
"text": " How you go about so much changing your way! Also by Egypt you will be put to shame, just as you were put to shame by Assyria. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jeremiah 2:37",
"text": " Also from there you will come out with your hands on your head, for Yahweh has rejected \u231ethose in whom you trust\u231f, and you will not prosper through them. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:1",
"text": "A \u231esaying\u231f: \u2018Look, if a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him \u231eand she becomes another man\u2019s wife\u231f, will he return to her again?\u2019 Will not that land be greatly defiled? And you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, would you now return to me?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:2",
"text": " \u201cLift up your eyes at the barren heights, and see where you have not been ravished. Beside the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the desert, and you have defiled the land with your fornication and with your wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:3",
"text": " Therefore rain showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come. Yet \u231eyou have\u231f the forehead of a woman prostitute, you refuse to be ashamed. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:4",
"text": " Have you not just now called to me, \u2018My father, you are the close friend of my youth? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:5",
"text": " Will he be angry \u231eforever\u231f? Will he maintain it \u231ealways\u231f\u2019? Look, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:6",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah, the king, \u201cHave you seen what apostate Israel has done? She has gone on every high hill and under every leafy tree and she has prostituted herself there. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:7",
"text": "And I thought, \u2018After her doing all these things to me she will return,\u2019 but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:8",
"text": "And I saw that \u231efor this very reason, that\u231f on account of apostate Israel committing adultery I divorced her and gave the letter of divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid and she went and prostituted herself also. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:9",
"text": "And it was because of the frivolity of her fornication that she defiled the land and committed adultery with the stone and with the tree. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:10",
"text": "Yet even in all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, \u231ebut only\u231f in pretense,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:11",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to me, \u201cApostate Israel has proved herself more upright than treacherous Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:12",
"text": "Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, \u2018Return, apostate Israel,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u2018I will not cause my \u231eanger\u231f to fall on you. For I am loyal,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u2018I will not be angry \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:13",
"text": " Only acknowledge your guilt, that against Yahweh your God you have rebelled, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every leafy tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:14",
"text": " \u201cReturn, apostate children,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cFor \u231eI am your master\u231f, and I will take you one from a city and two from a clan, and I will bring you to Zion. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:15",
"text": "Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart and they will feed you knowledge and insight. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:16",
"text": "And it will be when you have multiplied and become fruitful in the land in those days,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthey will no longer say, \u2018The ark of the covenant of Yahweh.\u2019 And \u231eit will not come to mind\u231f, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:17",
"text": "At that time they will call Jerusalem \u2018The Throne of Yahweh,\u2019 and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem, and they will no longer go after the stubbornness of their evil heart. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:18",
"text": "In those days the house of Judah will walk along with the house of Israel and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave as an inheritance to your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:19",
"text": " Then I thought, \u2018How I would set you among the children, and I would give you a land of desire, an inheritance of the glory of the hosts of nations.\u2019 And I thought, \u2018You would call me, \u201cMy father,\u201d and you would not turn back from \u231ebehind\u231f me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:20",
"text": " However, as a wife departs treacherously from her lover, so you have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:21",
"text": " \u201cA voice is heard on the barren heights, the weeping of the pleas for mercy of the children of Israel, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:22",
"text": " Return, O apostate children, I will heal your backsliding. \u2018Look, we come to you, for you are Yahweh our God. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:23",
"text": " Surely, an illusion comes from the hills, the turmoil on the mountains. Surely, in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:24",
"text": " But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our ancestors from our youth, their flocks, and their cattle, their sons and their daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jeremiah 3:25",
"text": " Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us. For against Yahweh our God we have sinned, we and our ancestors, from our youth and until this day. and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.\u2019 "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:1",
"text": "If you return, O Israel,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cyou return to me. And if you remove your abominations from my \u231epresence\u231f, and you do not wander, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:2",
"text": " and you swear, \u2018\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f,\u2019 in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations will be blessed by him, and in him they will boast.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:3",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, \u201cBreak up for yourselves prepared virgin soil, and you must not sow among thornbushes. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:4",
"text": " Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath goes forth like the fire and burns, and there is no one who extinguishes it, because of the evil of your deeds.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:5",
"text": " Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say, \u201cBlow a horn through the land, \u231ecall with a loud voice\u231f and say, \u2018Be gathered and let us go into the fortified cities.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:6",
"text": " Lift up a signal toward Zion, bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing, for I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:7",
"text": " A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has gone out from his place to make your land as a horror, your cities will go to ruin \u231ewithout\u231f inhabitant. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:8",
"text": " Because of this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail, for \u231ethe burning anger\u231f of Yahweh has not turned back from us. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:9",
"text": " And then on that day,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthe heart of the king and the heart of the officials will be destroyed, and the priests will be appalled, and the prophets will be astonished.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:10",
"text": " Then I said, \u201cAh, Lord Yahweh, surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, \u2018It will be peace for you,\u2019 while the sword reaches up to the throat.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:11",
"text": " At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, \u201c\u231eA hot wind from the barren heights\u231f in the desert, \u231ein the direction of\u231f the daughter of my people, not to winnow and not to cleanse, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:12",
"text": " \u231ea wind too strong for\u231f these will come for me, now also I speak judgments against them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:13",
"text": " Look, he comes up like the clouds, and his chariots are like the whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles, woe to us, for we are devastated. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:14",
"text": " Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. \u231eHow long\u231f will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:15",
"text": " For a voice is declaring from Dan, and is proclaiming disaster from the mountain of Ephraim. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:16",
"text": " \u201cReport to the nations, \u2018Here they are!\u2019 Proclaim against Jerusalem, \u2018Besiegers are coming \u231efrom a distant land\u231f, and they raise their voice against the cities of Judah.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:17",
"text": " Like watchers of a field they were against her from all around, because she has rebelled against me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:18",
"text": " \u201cYou obtained this for yourself because of your way and your deeds. This is your doom, for it is bitter, yes, it has reached up to your heart.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:19",
"text": " My bowels, my bowels! I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear in my inner self the sound of a horn, the alarm of war. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:20",
"text": " Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, for all of the land is devastated. Suddenly my tents are devastated, my tent curtains in a moment. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:21",
"text": " How long must I see the banner, and hear the sound of a horn? "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:22",
"text": " \u201cFor my people are foolish, they have not known me. They are foolish children, and they do not have insight. They are skillful at doing evil, and they do not know how to do good.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:23",
"text": " I looked at the earth, and behold, it was wasteland and emptiness, and to the heavens, and they were without their light. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:24",
"text": " I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all of the hills were jolted to and fro. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:25",
"text": " I looked and behold, there was no person, and all of the birds of the sky had fled. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:26",
"text": " I looked and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all of its cities were ruined before Yahweh, before the face of \u231ehis burning anger\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:27",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh, \u201cAll of the land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a complete desolation. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:28",
"text": " Because of this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will become dark. Because I have spoken, I have planned, and I have not relented, and I will not turn back from it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:29",
"text": " From the sound of a horseman and \u231ean archer\u231f every town flees, they enter in the thickets and among the rocks they climb. Every town is forsaken, and there is no person who lives in them. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:30",
"text": " And you, O devastated one, what do you do, that you put on crimson, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you make your eyes look bigger with the eye make-up? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers reject you; they seek your life. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jeremiah 4:31",
"text": " For I heard a voice like an ill woman, anxiety like a woman who bears her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath, she is spreading out her hands: \u201cWoe is me, for I am becoming tired before killers.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:1",
"text": "\u201cRoam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and look please, and take note, and search at its public squares, if you can find a person who does justice, who seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:2",
"text": " And though they say, \u2018\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f,\u2019 \u231etherefore\u231f they swear falsely.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:3",
"text": " O Yahweh, do not your eyes look for honesty? You have struck them, but they felt no pain, you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, they have refused to turn back. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:4",
"text": " Then I said, \u201cThey are just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:5",
"text": " Let me go to the great, and let me speak with them, for they know the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.\u201d However, they together have broken the yoke, they have torn to pieces the bonds. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:6",
"text": " Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them, A wolf from the desert plains will devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities, everyone who goes out from there will be torn, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are numerous. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:7",
"text": " \u201c\u231eHow\u231f can I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me, and they have sworn by those who are not gods. But I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and flocked to the house of a prostitute. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:8",
"text": " They were well-fed lusty horses, they neighed each to the wife of his neighbor. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:9",
"text": " Because of these things shall I not punish?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand on a nation who is like this, shall I not take revenge? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:10",
"text": " Go up through her vineyards and destroy, but you must not make complete destruction. Remove her branches, for they are not to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:11",
"text": " For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt utterly treacherously with me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:12",
"text": " \u201cThey have denied Yahweh, and have said, \u2018Not he, \u231efor\u231f evil will not come on us, we will see neither sword nor famine. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:13",
"text": " And the prophets are like wind, and the word is not in them.\u2019 Thus it will be done to them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:14",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, \u201cBecause you have spoken this word, look, I am making my words in your mouth like a fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:15",
"text": " Look, I am about to bring on you a nation from afar, O house of Israel,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cIt is an enduring nation, it is \u231ean ancient nation\u231f. A nation whose language you do not know, and you cannot understand what they speak. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:16",
"text": " Their quiver is like an open tomb, all of them are warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:17",
"text": " And they will eat your harvest and your food, they will eat your sons and your daughters, they will eat your flock and your herd, they will eat your vine and your fig tree, they will smash with the sword \u231eyour fortified cities\u231f, in which you trust. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:18",
"text": " \u201cBut even in those days,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cI will not make you a complete destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:19",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, when you people say, \u2018Why has Yahweh our God done all of these things to us?\u2019 Then you will say to them, \u2018As you have forsaken me and have served gods of a foreign land in your land, so will you serve strangers in \u231ea land that does not belong to you\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:20",
"text": " \u201cDeclare this in the house of Jacob, and proclaim it in Judah, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:21",
"text": " \u2018Hear this please, O foolish and \u231esenseless\u231f people, \u231ewho have eyes\u231f but do not see, \u231ewho have ears\u231f but do not hear.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:22",
"text": " Do you not revere me?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cDo you not tremble \u231ebefore me\u231f? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, \u231eas an everlasting limit\u231f, and it cannot pass over it, and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail, and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:23",
"text": " But for this people is a stubborn and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and have gone away. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:24",
"text": " And they do not say in their hearts, \u2018Let us fear please Yahweh our God, the one who gives the autumn rain and the spring rain in its season, \u231ethe set times of the harvest\u231f he keeps for us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:25",
"text": " Your iniquities have disturbed these, and your sins have kept away the good from you. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:26",
"text": " For wicked people are found among my people, they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers, they set up a trap, they catch humans. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:27",
"text": " Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of fraud. \u231eTherefore\u231f they have become great, and they have become rich. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:28",
"text": " They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, \u231etheir evil deeds have no limit\u231f. They do not judge with justice, the legal cause of the orphan, or allow it to succeed, and the legal case of the poor, they do not defend. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:29",
"text": " Because of these things shall I not punish?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand on a nation who is like this, shall I not take revenge? "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:30",
"text": " A horrific event and something horrible has happened in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Jeremiah 5:31",
"text": " The prophets prophesy \u231efalsely\u231f, and the priests rule \u231eby their own authority\u231f, and my people love it so much. But what will you do \u231ewhen the end comes\u231f? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:1",
"text": "Flee for safety, O children of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem. And in Tekoa blow a horn, and on Beth-haccherem lift up a signal, for evil looks down from the north, and a great destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:2",
"text": " The lovely and the delicate, the daughter of Jerusalem, I will destroy. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:3",
"text": " Shepherds and their flocks will come against her, they will pitch their tents against her all around, they will pasture, each his \u231eportion\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:4",
"text": " \u231eSanctify\u231f war against her. Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day turns, for the shadows of evening are lengthened. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:5",
"text": " Arise, and let us attack by night, and let us destroy her citadel fortresses.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:6",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cCut down trees and heap up a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This is the city that must be punished, its oppression is in its midst. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:7",
"text": " As a water well keeps its water cool, so she keeps cool her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard within her, sickness and wounds are continually \u231ebefore me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:8",
"text": " Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I turn away from you in disgust, lest I make you a desolation, a land that is not inhabited.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:9",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cThey will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine, turn back your hand over the branches like a grape-gatherer. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:10",
"text": " To whom shall I speak and admonish, that they may hear? Look, their ears are \u231eclosed\u231f, and they are not able to listen attentively. Look, the word of Yahweh is to them an object of scorn, they do not delight in it. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:11",
"text": " But I am full with the wrath of Yahweh, I struggle to hold it in. Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assemblies of young men at the same time. For even husband with wife will get trapped, the old with him who is full of days. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:12",
"text": " And their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and their wives together. For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:13",
"text": " \u201cFor from the smallest of them to the greatest of them, \u231eeveryone\u231f makes profit for unlawful gain. And from the prophet to the priest, \u231eeveryone\u231f practices deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:14",
"text": " And they have treated the wound of my people lightly, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Peace, peace,\u2019 but there is no peace. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:15",
"text": " Have they acted ashamed, for they have committed a detestable thing? Not at all, nor were they ashamed; they did not know to feel humiliated. \u231eTherefore\u231f they will fall among those who fall at the time I punish them, they will stumble,\u201d says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:16",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cStand at the roads and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the way of the good is, and walk in it, and find rest for your inner selves. But they said, \u2018We will not walk in it.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:17",
"text": " And I raised up watchmen over you: \u2018Listen attentively to the sound of a horn.\u2019 But they said, \u2018We will not listen attentively.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:18",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f hear, O nations, and know, O community, \u231ewhat will happen to them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:19",
"text": " Hear, O earth, look, I am about to bring disaster to this people, the fruit of their plans, because they have not listened attentively to my words, and my teaching, they have rejected it also. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:20",
"text": " What is this to me? Frankincense comes from Sheba, and the precious spice reed from a distant land. Your burnt offerings are not \u231eacceptable\u231f, your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:21",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh: \u201cLook, I am about to put before this people stumbling blocks, and they will stumble against them, fathers and children together, neighbor and his friend will perish.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:22",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cLook, a people is coming from the land of the north, a great nation is woken up from the farthest part of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:23",
"text": " The bow and the short sword they grasp are cruel, and they show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea, and on horses they ride, drawn up like a man for battle against you, O daughter of Zion.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:24",
"text": " We have heard news of it, our hands grow slack, anxiety has grasped us, pain as a woman who gives birth. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:25",
"text": " You must not go out into the field, and you must not walk on the road, for \u231ethe enemy has a sword\u231f, terror is all around. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:26",
"text": " O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, and roll about in the ashes in mourning, a mourning ceremony as for an only child. Make for yourself wailing of bitterness, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:27",
"text": " \u201cI have made you an assayer among my people, a fortification, so that you may know and put to the test their ways. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:28",
"text": " All of them are stubborn rebels, going about talking slander. They are bronze and iron, they are all behaving corruptly. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:29",
"text": " The bellows are burned up, lead is consumed by fire. \u231eIn vain\u231f \u231ehe keeps on refining\u231f, but the wicked are not torn apart. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Jeremiah 6:30",
"text": " \u231eThey are called\u231f rejected silver, For Yahweh has rejected them.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:1",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:2",
"text": "\u201cStand in the gate of the house of Yahweh and proclaim there this word, and say, \u2018Hear the word of Yahweh, all of Judah, those who enter through these gates to bow in worship to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:3",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u201cMake your ways and your deeds good and let me dwell with you in this place. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:4",
"text": "Do not trust in \u231ethe deceitful words\u231f, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, they are the temple of Yahweh.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:5",
"text": "For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do justice between a man and his neighbor, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:6",
"text": "you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and you do not go after other gods \u231eto your harm\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:7",
"text": "then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your ancestors \u231eforever and ever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:8",
"text": " Look, you are relying for yourselves on \u231edeceitful words\u231f without benefiting. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:9",
"text": "Will you steal? Will you murder? And will you commit adultery? And will you swear \u231efalsely\u231f? And will you make a smoke offering to the Baal? And will you go after other gods whom you have not known? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:10",
"text": "And then you come and you stand \u231ebefore\u231f me in this house, which is called \u231eby my name\u231f, and you say, \u2018we are safe \u231eto go on doing\u231f all of these detestable things.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:11",
"text": "Has this house, which is called \u231eby my name\u231f, become a cave of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I, have seen it,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:12",
"text": " \u201cFor go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell in the beginning, and see what I did to it \u231ebecause of\u231f the wickedness of my people Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:13",
"text": "And now, because of your doing all these things,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand \u231eI have spoken to you over and over again\u231f, and you have not listened, and I called you, and you have not answered, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:14",
"text": "therefore I will do to the house that is called \u231eby my name\u231f, in which you are trusting, and to the place that I gave to you and to your ancestors \u231ewhat\u231f I did to Shiloh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:15",
"text": "And I will cast you \u231eout of my sight\u231f just as I cast out all of your blood relatives, all of the offspring of Ephraim.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:16",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty or a prayer, and you must not plead with me, for I will not hear you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:17",
"text": "Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:18",
"text": "The children are gathering wood, and the fathers are kindling the fire, and the women are kneading dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out libations to other gods for the sake of provoking me to anger. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:19",
"text": "Are they provoking me to anger? \u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cIs it not themselves they hurt, for the sake of the shame of their faces?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:20",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f thus says the Lord Yahweh, \u201cLook, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on the humankind, and on the animal, and on the tree of the field, and on the fruit of the ground, and it will not be extinguished.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:21",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u201cAdd your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:22",
"text": "For I did not speak with your ancestors, nor did I command them in the day of bringing them out from the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offering and sacrifice. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:23",
"text": "But I only commanded them this word, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Obey my voice, and I will be to you God, and you will be to me people, and you must walk in all of the way that I command you, so that it goes well with you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:24",
"text": "Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and \u231ethey became worse instead of better\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:25",
"text": "From the day that your ancestors came out from the land of Egypt until this day I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, day after day, \u231esending again and again\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:26",
"text": "Yet they have not listened to me and they have not inclined their ear, but they have hardened their neck, they did more evil than their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:27",
"text": "So you shall speak to them all these words, but they will not listen to you, and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:28",
"text": " \u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018This is the nation that has not obeyed the voice of Yahweh their God, and they have not accepted discipline. The truth has perished, and it is cut off from their mouths. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:29",
"text": "Shear your hair and throw it away, and lift up a lament on the barren heights, for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:30",
"text": "For the people of Judah have done evil in my eyes,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cThey have set their abominations in the house that is called \u231eby my name\u231f, to defile it. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:31",
"text": "And they built the high place of Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I have not commanded, and it did not come into my mind. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:32",
"text": "Therefore look, days are about to come,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter, and they will bury in Topheth \u231euntil there is no more place\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:33",
"text": "And the dead bodies of this people will be as food for the birds of the heavens, and for the animals of the earth, without anyone to scare them away. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Jeremiah 7:34",
"text": "And I will cause to disappear from the towns of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, for the land will become a site of ruins. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:1",
"text": "\u201cAt that time,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthey shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its officials, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Judah from their graves. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:2",
"text": "And they shall spread them out before the sun, and before the moon, and before all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and which they have gone after, and which they have inquired about, and to which they have bowed in worship. They shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:3",
"text": "And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:4",
"text": " \u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018Thus asks Yahweh: \u201cDo men fall and not stand up? If one turns away does he not return? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:5",
"text": " Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in enduring apostasy? They have kept hold of deceit, they have refused to return. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:6",
"text": " I have listened attentively, and I have listened. They do not speak honestly, there is no man who regrets his wickedness, saying, \u2018What have I done?\u2019 All of them are turning to their ways of running, like a horse plunging into battle. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:7",
"text": " Even the stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and the turtledove, and the swallow, and the song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:8",
"text": " How can you say, \u2018We are wise and the law of Yahweh is with us\u2019? Look, surely \u231ethe lying stylus of the scribes\u231f has made it a lie. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:9",
"text": " The wise will be put to shame, they will be dismayed, and they will get taken. Look, they have rejected the word of Yahweh, and what is wisdom to them? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:10",
"text": " Therefore I will give their wives to others, their fields to conquerors, because from the smallest to the greatest, all of them make profit for unlawful gain, from prophet to priest, all of them practice deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:11",
"text": " And they have treated the wound of the daughter of my people lightly, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Peace, peace,\u2019 but there is no peace. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:12",
"text": " Were they ashamed, for they had committed a detestable thing? What\u2019s worse, they were not ashamed at all, and they did not know to feel humiliated. \u231eTherefore\u231f they will fall among those who fall; at the time of their punishment they will stumble,\u201d says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:13",
"text": " \u201c\u231eI will take away their harvest\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cThere are no grapes on the vine, and there are no figs on the fig tree, and the leaves wither, and what I gave to them passed over them.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:14",
"text": " Why are we sitting? Gather, and let us go into the fortified cities, and let us perish there, for Yahweh our God has caused us to perish, and has provided drink for us, water of poison, because we have sinned against Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:15",
"text": " We hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:16",
"text": " \u201cFrom Dan is heard the snorting of their horses, from the sound of the neighing of their stallions all the land quakes, for they come and devour the land, and that which fills the city, and those who live in it. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:17",
"text": " For look, I am letting loose among you snakes, adders for which there is no incantation, and they will bite you,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:18",
"text": " \u201cMy comfort is gone from me, sorrow is on me, my heart is sick. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:19",
"text": " Look, the sound of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a distant land, \u2018Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her king not in her?\u2019 Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with idols of a foreign land?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:20",
"text": " The harvest has passed, the summer has come to an end, and we have not received help. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:21",
"text": " \u201cBecause of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down, I mourn, horror has seized me. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Jeremiah 8:22",
"text": " Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why, then, has the healing of the daughter of my people not been restored? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:1",
"text": " \u231eOh that my head were waters\u231f, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, for the slain of the daughter of my people. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:2",
"text": " \u231eOh that I had\u231f in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers, that I may leave my people and go from them, for all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:3",
"text": " And they bend their tongue like their bow, for falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:4",
"text": " \u201cLet everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about with slander. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:5",
"text": " And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak the truth, they have taught their tongues to speak lies, they are tired from going astray. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:6",
"text": " Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit, upon deceit they refuse to know me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:7",
"text": " Therefore, thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cLook, I am about to refine them, and I will test them, for what else can I do, because of the \u231epresence\u231f of the daughter of my people? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:8",
"text": " Their tongue is a murderous arrow, it speaks deceit. With his mouth he speaks peace with his neighbor, but in his inner parts he sets up his ambush. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:9",
"text": " Because of these things shall I not punish them?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cOn a nation that is like this shall I not take revenge? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:10",
"text": " For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the desert a lament, because they are laid waste so that no man passes through. And the sounds of cattle are not heard, from the birds of heaven to the animals they have fled, they are gone. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:11",
"text": " And I will make Jerusalem as heaps of ruins, a lair of jackals, and the towns of Judah I will make a desolation, \u231ewithout inhabitants\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:12",
"text": " Who is the wise man that can understand this? And to whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, so that he may declare it? Why is the land destroyed? It is laid waste like the desert so that no one passes through.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:13",
"text": " And Yahweh said, \u201cBecause of their forsaking my law that I set \u231ebefore\u231f them, and they have not obeyed my voice, and have not walked in it, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:14",
"text": "but they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baals, which their ancestors taught them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:15",
"text": "Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u201cLook, I am feeding this people wormwood, and providing drink for them, water of poison, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:16",
"text": "and I will scatter them among the nations that they have not known, they and their ancestors, and I will send the sword after them until I bring them to an end.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:17",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cConsider closely, and call for the wailing women, so that they come, and for the skillful women, so that they come. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:18",
"text": " And let them hasten, and let them lift up wailing over us, so that our eyes may melt with tears, and our eyelids may flow with water. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:19",
"text": " For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion, \u2018How we are devastated! We are very ashamed because we have left the land, because they have overthrown our dwelling places.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:20",
"text": " For hear, O women, the word of Yahweh, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters a lamentation, and each woman her neighbor a lament. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:21",
"text": " For death has come into our windows, it has entered into our fortresses, to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the public squares. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:22",
"text": " Speak, \u2018thus \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh: \u201cThe dead body of the human will fall like dung upon the surface of the field, and like cut grain behind the reaper, and there is no one who gathers.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:23",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, \u201cThe wise man must not boast in his wisdom, and the warrior must not boast in his might, the wealthy man must not boast in his wealth. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:24",
"text": " \u231eBut only\u231f in this must the one who boasts boast, that he has insight, and that he knows me, that I am Yahweh, showing loyal love, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these things I delight,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:25",
"text": " \u201cLook, days are coming,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand I will call into account all those who are circumcised in the foreskin: "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Jeremiah 9:26",
"text": "Egypt, Judah, and Edom, and the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, and Moab, and all those who are trimmed to the side, those who live in the desert, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:1",
"text": "Hear the word that Yahweh speaks to you, O house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:2",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u201cYou must not learn the way of the nations, and you must not be dismayed by the signs of the heavens, for the nations are dismayed by them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:3",
"text": " For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, for it is a tree cut down from the forest, the work of the hands of a craftsman with the tool. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:4",
"text": " He decorates it with silver and gold, they strengthen it with nails and hammers, so that it does not stagger. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:5",
"text": " They are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, they cannot speak. Indeed, they must be carried, for they cannot march. You must not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil; furthermore, to do good is not in them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:6",
"text": " There is none like you, O Yahweh, you are great and your name is great in might. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:7",
"text": " Who would not revere you, O king of the nations? For you it is fitting. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:8",
"text": " \u231eAt the same time\u231f they are stupid and foolish, in the instruction of idols, it is wood. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:9",
"text": " Silver beaten from Tarshish is brought, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and the hands of the goldsmith. Blue and purple are their clothing, all of them are the work of skillful people. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:10",
"text": " But Yahweh is the true God, he is the living God, and \u231ean everlasting king\u231f. Because of his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his anger. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:11",
"text": " \u201c\u231eThus\u231f you shall say to them, \u2018Gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:12",
"text": " He is the maker of the earth by his power, who created the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:13",
"text": " \u231eWhen he utters his voice\u231f there is a noise of water in the heavens, and he causes the mist to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he causes the wind to go out from his storehouses. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:14",
"text": " \u231eEveryone\u231f is stupid, \u231ewithout knowledge\u231f, every goldsmith is ashamed by his divine image, for his cast image is an illusion, and there is no breath in them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:15",
"text": " They are vanity, a work of mockery, at the time of their punishment, they will perish. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:16",
"text": " The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the creator of everything, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance, Yahweh of hosts is his name. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:17",
"text": " Gather your bundle from the ground, you who live under the siege.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:18",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh, \u201cLook, I am about to sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress to them, so that they may feel it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:19",
"text": " Woe to me, because of my wound. My wound is incurable. But I said, \u201cSurely this is my sickness, and I must bear it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:20",
"text": " My tent is devastated, and all my tent cords are torn. My children have gone out from me, and they are not. There is no one who pitches my tent again, or one who puts up my tent curtains. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:21",
"text": " For the shepherds have become stupid, they do not seek Yahweh. \u231eTherefore\u231f they do not have insight, and all of their flock are scattered. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:22",
"text": " Listen, news: Look, it is coming, a great roar from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:23",
"text": " I know, O Yahweh, that to the human is not his own way, nor to a person is the walking and the directing of his own step. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:24",
"text": " Chastise me, O Yahweh, but in moderation, not in your anger, lest you eradicate me. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Jeremiah 10:25",
"text": " Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on the peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob, they have devoured and consumed him, and they have caused his settlement to be desolate. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:1",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:2",
"text": "\u201cHear the words of this covenant, and speak to the \u231epeople\u231f of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:3",
"text": "and say to them, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: \u201cThe man is cursed who does not obey the words of this covenant, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:4",
"text": "which I commanded your ancestors in the day of my bringing them from the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Listen to my voice and do according to all that I command you, \u231eso will you be my people, and I will be your God\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:5",
"text": "in order to keep the oath that I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d Then I answered and said, \u201c\u231eLet it be so\u231f, O Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:6",
"text": " And Yahweh said to me, \u201cProclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Hear the words of this covenant and do them, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:7",
"text": "for I solemnly admonished your ancestors in the day of my leading them out from the land of Egypt and up to this day, \u231eadmonishing persistently\u231f, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cObey my voice.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:8",
"text": "But they did not obey and they did not incline their ear. Instead each one walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore, I brought on them all the words of this covenant which I commanded them to do, and they did not do it.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:9",
"text": " And Yahweh said to me, \u201cA conspiracy is found among the \u231epeople\u231f of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:10",
"text": "They have turned back to the iniquities of their former ancestors, who refused to obey my words, and they have gone after other gods, to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I \u231emade\u231f with their ancestors.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:11",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh, \u201cI am about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:12",
"text": "Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they are making smoke offerings, but they will certainly not save them in the time of their trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:13",
"text": "For the number of your towns are your gods, O Judah, and the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful things, to make smoke offerings to Baal. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:14",
"text": "Therefore you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty, or a prayer, for I will not listen in the time of their calling to me, in the time of their trouble. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:15",
"text": " \u231eWhat rights has my beloved in my house\u231f when she has done many wicked things? Can the flesh of holiness pass over you? For \u231eyou engage in your wickedness\u231f, then you exult. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:16",
"text": " Yahweh called your name, \u2018A leafy olive tree, \u231ebeautiful with fine fruit\u231f.\u2019 With the sound of a great storm he will set fire to it, and its branches will be good for nothing. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:17",
"text": " And Yahweh of hosts, the one who planted you, has spoken evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, that they have done to themselves, to provoke me to anger by making smoke offerings to Baal.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:18",
"text": " Moreover, Yahweh let it be made known to me, and I knew. Then you showed me their deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:19",
"text": " And I was like a gentle ram-lamb that is brought to slaughter, and I did not know that they planned plans against me, saying, \u201cLet us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:20",
"text": " But O Yahweh of hosts, who judges in righteousness, who tests the \u231einmost being\u231f, and the \u231emind\u231f, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:21",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh concerning the people of Anathoth who seek your life, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cYou shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh \u231eor\u231f you will die by our hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:22",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cLook, I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by the famine. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Jeremiah 11:23",
"text": "And a remnant will not be left for them, for I will bring disaster to the people of Anathoth, the year of their punishment.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:1",
"text": " You will be in the right, O Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak my claims with you. Why does the way of the wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:2",
"text": " Not only do you plant them, they take root. They grow, but also they produce fruit. You are near in their mouths, but far from their \u231einmost beings\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:3",
"text": " But you, O Yahweh, you know me, you see me, and you test that my heart is with you. Tear them apart like sheep for the slaughtering, and set them apart for the day of slaughter. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:4",
"text": " \u231eHow long\u231f will the land mourn, and the vegetation of every field dry up, because of the wickedness of those who live in it? The animals and the birds are swept away, because they have said, \u201cHe does not see our future.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:5",
"text": " \u201cIf you run with foot soldiers and they have made you weary, then how will you compete with horses? If you have fallen in \u231ea peaceful land\u231f, then how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:6",
"text": " For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call \u231eloudly\u231f after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:7",
"text": " I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance. I have given the beloved one of my \u231eheart\u231f into the hand of her enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:8",
"text": " My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She has lifted up against me her voice; \u231etherefore\u231f I hate her. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:9",
"text": " The lair of the hyena is my inheritance to me, the birds of prey are all around her. Go, gather all of the animals of the field, bring them \u231eto come and devour\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:10",
"text": " Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my plot of land. They have made \u231emy pleasant field\u231f like the desert of desolation. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:11",
"text": " They have made it a desolation. Desolate, it mourns to me. All the land is made desolate, but there is no person taking it to heart. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:12",
"text": " Upon all the barren heights in the desert destroyers have come, for the sword of Yahweh devours, from one end of the land to the other end of the land, there is no peace for all flesh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:13",
"text": " They have sown wheat and they have reaped thorns. They are exhausted, they do not profit. And they will be ashamed of your produce, because of \u231ethe burning anger\u231f of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:14",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh concerning all of the evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I gave as an inheritance to my people Israel: \u201cLook, I am about to drive them out from their land, and the house of Judah I will drive out from among them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:15",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f after my driving them out, I will once again have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance, and each one to his land. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:16",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, if they diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, \u2018\u231eas Yahweh lives\u231f,\u2019 even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will live in the midst of my people. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Jeremiah 12:17",
"text": "But if they do not listen, then \u231eI will completely uproot and destroy that nation\u231f.\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:1",
"text": " Thus Yahweh said to me: \u201cGo and buy for yourself a loincloth of linen and put it on your loins, but you must not \u231eplace\u231f it in water.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:2",
"text": "So I bought the loincloth according to the word of Yahweh and I put it on my loins. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:3",
"text": " Now the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:4",
"text": "\u201cTake the loincloth that you bought, that is on your loins, and stand up, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:5",
"text": "So I went and hid it by the Euphrates just as Yahweh had commanded me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:6",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f, \u231eafter a long time\u231f, then Yahweh said to me, \u201cStand up, go to the Euphrates and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:7",
"text": "Then I went to the Euphrates and I dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it, and look, the loincloth was ruined; it was not good for anything. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:8",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f the word of Yahweh came to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:9",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018So I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:10",
"text": "This evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who go in the stubbornness of their hearts, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, let them be like this loincloth which is not good for anything. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:11",
"text": "For as the loincloth clings to the loins of a person, so I caused to cling to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018to be for me a people, and a name, and a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:12",
"text": " \u201cTherefore, you shall say to them this word, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: \u201cEvery jar must be filled with wine.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 And they will say to you, \u2018Do we not certainly know that every jar should be filled with wine?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:13",
"text": "Then you shall say to them, \u2018Thus says Yahweh: \u201cLook, I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings who sit on David\u2019s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with drunkenness. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:14",
"text": "And I will smash them, each one against his brother, and the fathers and the sons together,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cI will not have compassion, and I will not take pity, and I will not show compassion from destroying them.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:15",
"text": " Listen, and pay attention, you must not be haughty, for Yahweh has spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:16",
"text": " Give glory to Yahweh your God \u231ebefore\u231f he brings darkness, and \u231ebefore\u231f your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes it as thick darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:17",
"text": " But if you will not listen to it, my inner self will weep in secret places, because of \u231ethe presence of\u231f your pride. And my eyes will weep bitterly, and they will melt in tears, because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:18",
"text": " \u201cSay to the king and to the queen mother, \u2018\u231eTake a lower seat\u231f, for \u231eyour beautiful crown\u231f has come down from your head.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:19",
"text": " The towns of the Negev are shut up, and there is no one who opens them. All of Judah is deported; it is deported in completeness. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:20",
"text": " Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, \u231eyour magnificent flock\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:21",
"text": " What will you say when he sets over you\u2014 and you have taught them\u2014allies as head over you? Will not labor pains take hold of you, like a woman giving birth? "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:22",
"text": " And if you say in your heart, \u2018Why have these things happened to me?\u2019 Because of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered; your heels have endured violence. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:23",
"text": " Can a Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then you also will be able to do good, who are accustomed to doing evil. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:24",
"text": " And I will scatter them like stubble scattered by the wind of the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:25",
"text": " This is your lot, the portion of your measure from me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cbecause you have forgotten me, and you have trusted in the lie. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:26",
"text": " So in turn I will bare your skirts over your face, and your shame will become visible. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Jeremiah 13:27",
"text": " Your adulteries, and your neighings, the shameful behavior of your fornications on the hills in the countryside, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! \u231eHow long will you continue to be unclean\u231f?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:1",
"text": " That which came as the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah concerning the matter of the severe drought. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:2",
"text": " \u201cJudah mourns, and her gates languish, they are in mourning on the ground, and the cry of lament of Jerusalem goes up. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:3",
"text": " And their nobles send their servants for water. They come to the pits, they find no water. They return with their vessels \u231eempty\u231f. They are ashamed, and they are confounded, and they cover their heads. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:4",
"text": " Because of the ground, which is cracked because there was no rain on the ground. The farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:5",
"text": " For even the doe in the field gives birth and forsakes her young, because there is no green growth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:6",
"text": " And wild asses stand on the barren heights, they gasp for breath like the jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:7",
"text": " Although our iniquities testify against us, O Yahweh, act for the sake of your name. Yes, our apostasies are many; we have sinned against you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:8",
"text": " You are the hope of Israel, its savior in time of distress. Why should you be like an alien in the land, or like a traveler who spreads out his tent to spend the night? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:9",
"text": " Why should you be like a confused man, like a warrior who is not able to help? Yet you are in our midst, O Yahweh, and your name is called upon us. You must not leave us! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:10",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh concerning this people: \u201cThey have loved so much to wander, they have not spared their feet. Therefore Yahweh is not favorable to them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:11",
"text": " So Yahweh said to me, \u201cYou must not pray for this people, for their happiness. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:12",
"text": "Although they fast, I am not listening to their cry of entreaty. And although they present burnt offering and grain offering, I am not favorable to them. But by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague, I am about to destroy them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:13",
"text": "Then I said, \u201cAh, Lord Yahweh, look, the prophets are saying to them, \u2018You will not see the sword, and famine will not be yours, but reliable peace I will give to you in this place.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:14",
"text": "And Yahweh said to me, \u201cThe prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them, and I have not commanded them, and I have not spoken to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, and a divination, worthless, and the deceitfulness of their \u231eminds\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:15",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophecy in my name though I have not sent them, yet they are saying, \u201cSword and famine will not be in this land.\u201d\u00a0\u201cBy the sword and by the famine those prophets will perish. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:16",
"text": "And the people to whom they are prophesying will be cast out into the streets of Jerusalem \u231ebecause of\u231f the famine and the sword. And there will be no one who buries them, their wives, or their sons, or their daughters. And I will pour out on them their wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:17",
"text": " \u201cAnd you shall say to them this word, \u2018Let my eyes melt with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for with a great wound the virgin daughter of my people is broken, with a very incurable wound. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:18",
"text": " If I go out into the field, then look, those slain by the sword. And if I enter the city, then look, the sickness of the famine. For both prophet and priest wander around through the land, \u231ethey do not know what is going on\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:19",
"text": " Have you completely rejected Judah? Or has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us so that there is no healing for us? We hope for peace, but there is no good, and for a time of healing, but look, there is terror. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:20",
"text": " We know, O Yahweh, our wickedness, the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:21",
"text": " You must not spurn us for the sake of your name, you must not dishonor \u231eyour glorious throne\u231f. Remember us! You must not break your covenant with us. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Jeremiah 14:22",
"text": " Are there any among the idols of the nation who cause rain to pour? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Yahweh our God? Therefore, we hope in you, for you do all these things. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:1",
"text": " Then Yahweh said to me, \u201cEven if Moses and Samuel stood \u231ebefore me\u231f, my heart would not be to this people. Send them away from my \u231esight\u231f, and let them go out. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:2",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f if they say to you, \u2018Where shall we go?\u2019 Then you shall say to them, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cThose who are destined for the plague, to the plague, and those who are destined for the sword, to the sword, and those who are destined for the famine, to the famine, and those who are destined for the captivity, to the captivity.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:3",
"text": " \u201cAnd I will summon over them four types of calamity,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthe sword to kill, and the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth to devour and to destroy. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:4",
"text": "And I will make them a terror to all of the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, because of what he did in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:5",
"text": " \u201cFor who will have compassion on you, O Jerusalem, or who will show sympathy to you, or who will turn aside \u231eto ask about your welfare\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:6",
"text": " You have forsaken me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cYou go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you, and I have destroyed you. I am tired of becoming remorseful. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:7",
"text": " And I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land. I am bereaved. I have destroyed my people. They did not turn back from their ways. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:8",
"text": " Their widows will be more numerous before me than the sand of the seas. I have brought to them, against the mothers of young men, a destroyer at noon. I will suddenly drop on her anguish and horror. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:9",
"text": " She who gave birth to seven has withered away. She gasps her breath. Her sun \u231eset\u231f while still day. She has been put to shame and disgraced. And the remainder of them I will give to the sword \u231ebefore\u231f their enemies,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:10",
"text": " Woe to me, O my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of contention and quarreling \u231eto the whole land\u231f. I have not lent out and \u231eI have not borrowed\u231f. All of them are cursing me. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:11",
"text": " Yahweh said, \u201c\u231eSurely\u231f I will set you free \u231eto be good\u231f for you, \u231esurely\u231f I will cause the enemy to intercede with you in a time of trouble, and in a time of distress. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:12",
"text": " Can anyone break iron, iron from the north, or bronze? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:13",
"text": " I will give your wealth and your treasures as plunder without price, even because of all your sins, and throughout all your territories. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:14",
"text": " And I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for a fire will kindle in my anger. Upon you it will be kindled.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:15",
"text": " You who know, O Yahweh, remember me, and attend to me, and take revenge for me against my persecutors \u231ein your forbearance\u231f. You must take me away. Know that I am carrying disgrace because of you. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:16",
"text": " Your words were found and I ate them, and your words became to me as jubilation, even as the joy of my heart, for your name is called on me, O Yahweh God of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:17",
"text": " I sat not in the assembly of jokers, nor did I exult. Because of the \u231epresence\u231f of your hand I sat alone, for you filled me with indignation. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:18",
"text": " Why is my pain endless, and my wound incurable? It refuses to become healed. Truly you are to me like a deceitful brook, waters that are not trustworthy. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:19",
"text": " Therefore thus says Yahweh, \u201cIf you turn back, then I will take you back. You will stand \u231ebefore me\u231f. And if you utter what is precious and not what is worthless, you will be as my mouth. They will turn back to you, and you will not turn back to them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:20",
"text": " And I will make you to this people a wall of fortified bronze, and they will fight against you, but they will not prevail over you, for I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Jeremiah 15:21",
"text": " \u201cAnd I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you from the hand of the tyrant.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:2",
"text": "\u201cYou shall not take for yourself a wife, there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:3",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who gave birth to them, and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land: "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:4",
"text": "\u201cThey will die by diseases, they will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will perish by the sword and they will perish by the famine. And their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air, and for the wild animals of the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:5",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh, \u201cYou must not enter the house of the funeral meal, and you must not go to lament, and you must not show sympathy for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthe loyal love and the compassion. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:6",
"text": "Both the great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not mourn for them, and no one will cut himself with a blade, and no one will shave himself for them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:7",
"text": "And they will not break bread for the mourning ceremony for them, to comfort him because of the dead. And they will not give drink to them, the cup of desolation, for their fathers, or for their mothers. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:8",
"text": "And you shall not enter the house of the banquet, to sit with them, to eat and drink.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:9",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u201cLook, I am about to cause to disappear from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of jubilation, and the voice of joy, and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:10",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f when you tell this people all these words and they ask you, \u2018\u231eWhy\u231f has Yahweh pronounced against us all this great evil, and what is our iniquity, and what is our sin that we have sinned against Yahweh our God?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:11",
"text": "Then you shall say to them, \u2018\u231eBecause\u231f your ancestors have forsaken me,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and they have gone after other gods, and they have served them, and they have bowed down in worship to them, and they have forsaken me, and they have not kept my laws. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:12",
"text": "And \u231eyou have behaved badly\u231f more than your ancestors, and look, you are going each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to me. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:13",
"text": "So I will throw you from this land to the land that you have not known, you or your ancestors, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not show you favor. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:14",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f look, days are coming,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and it will no longer be said, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, who led up the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from the land of Egypt,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:15",
"text": "\u231ebut only\u231f \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, who led up the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from the land of the north, and from all the lands where he had driven them,\u201d for I will bring them back to their ground that I gave to their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:16",
"text": "Look, I am sending for many fishermen,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and they will fish them out, and \u231eafterward\u231f I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and from the clefts of the cliffs. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:17",
"text": "For my eyes are on all their ways, they are not hidden \u231efrom before me\u231f, and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:18",
"text": "And \u231eI will first doubly repay\u231f their iniquity and their sin because of their profaning my land with the dead bodies of their abhorrences, and with their abominations they have filled up my inheritance.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:19",
"text": " O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth, and they will say, \u201cOur ancestors have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:20",
"text": " Can a human make for himself gods? Yet they are not gods!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Jeremiah 16:21",
"text": " \u201c\u231eTherefore\u231f look, I am about to let them know, this time I am going to let them know my \u231epower\u231f and my might, and they will know that my name is Yahweh.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:1",
"text": " \u201cThe sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:2",
"text": " As the remembering of their children, so is the remembering of their altars and their poles of Asherah worship beside the leafy trees on the high hills. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:3",
"text": " O my mountain in the open country, I will give your wealth, all your treasures, for spoil, your high places, because of your sin, throughout all your territories. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:4",
"text": " And \u231eyou will let go your hand from your inheritance\u231f that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in the land that you do not know, for you kindled a fire in my anger, until eternity it will be kindled.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:5",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, \u201cCursed is the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his \u231estrength\u231f, and turns aside his heart from Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:6",
"text": " And he will be like a juniper in the wilderness, and he will not see when good comes, and he will dwell in the parched places in the desert, in a land of salt flats, where no one lives. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:7",
"text": " Blessed be the person who trusts in Yahweh, and Yahweh is his trust. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:8",
"text": " For he will be like a tree planted by water, and to the stream it sends its roots, and it will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves will be luxuriant, and in the year of drought it will not be anxious, and it will not cease from the bearing of fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:9",
"text": " The heart is deceitful more than anything else, and it is disastrous. Who can understand it? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:10",
"text": " I, Yahweh, examine the \u231emind\u231f, I test the \u231eheart\u231f, and give to each one according to his way, according to the fruit of his deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:11",
"text": " Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay is one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will prove to be a fool.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:12",
"text": " A lofty throne of glory from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:13",
"text": " O Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all those who forsake you will be put to shame, and those who turn aside from you in the earth will be recorded, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:14",
"text": " Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed, save me, and I will be saved, for you are my praise. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:15",
"text": " Look, they are saying to me, \u201cWhere is the word of Yahweh? Please let it come.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:16",
"text": " But I, I have not run away from being a shepherd \u231ewho follows you\u231f, and I have not desired the disastrous day. You, you know the pronouncement of my lips, it was before your face. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:17",
"text": " You must not become to me a terror, you are my refuge in the day of disaster. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:18",
"text": " Let my persecutors be put to shame, \u231ebut as for me\u231f, do not let me be put to shame. Let them be dismayed, \u231ebut as for me\u231f, do not let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of disaster, and with double destruction, destroy them. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:19",
"text": " Thus said Yahweh to me, \u201cGo, and you must stand in the \u231ePeople\u2019s Gate\u231f through which the kings of Judah enter, and through which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:20",
"text": "And you must say to them, \u2018Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem who enter through these gates. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:21",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh, \u201cBe on your guard for the sake of yourselves, that you must not carry a burden on the day of the Sabbath, and you must not bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:22",
"text": "And you must not carry a burden from your houses on the day of the Sabbath, and you must not do any work. But you must declare holy the day of Sabbath, just as I commanded your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:23",
"text": "Yet they did not listen, and they did not incline their ear, and they hardened their neck so as to not hear, nor to receive discipline. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:24",
"text": " \u201cAnd it will happen, if you carefully listen to me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cto bring no burden through the gates of this city on the day of the Sabbath, but to declare holy the day of Sabbath, not to do on it any work, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:25",
"text": "then kings and officials who sit on the throne of David will enter through the gates of this city riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their officials, the people of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:26",
"text": "And they will come from the towns of Judah, and from all around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the Shephelah, and from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and grain offerings, and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Jeremiah 17:27",
"text": "But if you do not listen to me, to declare holy the day of the Sabbath, and to not carry a burden and enter through the gates of Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be quenched.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:1",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:2",
"text": "\u201cStand up and go down to the house of the potter, and there I will let you hear my words.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:3",
"text": "So I went down to the house of the potter and look, there he was doing work at the potter\u2019s wheels. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:4",
"text": "And the vessel that he was making with the clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter, so \u231ehe made again\u231f another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:5",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:6",
"text": "\u201cLike this potter, am I not able to do to you, O house of Israel?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cLook, like the clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:7",
"text": "One moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot, and to tear down, and to destroy it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:8",
"text": "But if that nation turns back from its evil that I have threatened against it, then I will relent concerning the disaster that I planned to do to it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:9",
"text": "And the next moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:10",
"text": "But if it does evil in my sight, to not listen to my voice, then I will relent concerning the good that I said I would do to it. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:11",
"text": " \u201cSo now then, say, please, to the \u231epeople\u231f of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cLook, I am preparing evil against you, and I am planning a plan against you. Please turn back, each one from his evil way, and walk rightly in your ways and your deeds.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:12",
"text": "But they will say, \u2018It is hopeless, for we will go after our own plans, and each one of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:13",
"text": " \u201cTherefore thus says Yahweh, \u2018Please ask among the nations, \u201cWho has heard \u231ethe like of this\u231f?\u201d The virgin of Israel has done something very horrible. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:14",
"text": " Does the snow of Lebanon leave from the crags of Sirion? Or are the cold waters flowing from distant mountains dried up? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:15",
"text": " But my people have forgotten me. They make smoke offerings to the idols, and they caused them to stumble in their ways, the ancient ways, to go into \u231ebypaths\u231f, not one that is built up. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:16",
"text": " To make their land a horror, an object of whistling for eternity. All who pass by it will be appalled, and he will shake his head. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:17",
"text": " Like the wind from the east I will scatter them \u231ebefore\u231f the enemy. I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:18",
"text": " Then they said, \u201cCome and let us plan plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will not be lost from the priest, nor advice from the wise man, nor the word from the prophet. Come and \u231elet us bring charges against him\u231f, and let us not listen attentively to any of his words.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:19",
"text": " Listen attentively to me, O Yahweh, and listen to the voice of my opponents. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:20",
"text": " Should good be repaid in place of evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember my standing \u231ebefore you\u231f to speak good for them, to avert your wrath from them. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:21",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f give their children to the famine, and hand them over to the \u231epower\u231f of the sword, and let their wives be bereaved and widows, and let their men be killed by death, their young men struck dead by the sword in the battle. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:22",
"text": " Let a cry for help be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring upon them the raiding band, for they have dug a pit to catch me, and they have fixed secretly a trap for my feet. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Jeremiah 18:23",
"text": " But you, O Yahweh, you know \u231eall their plans of assassination against me\u231f. You must not make atonement for their iniquity, and you must not cause their sin to be blotted out from \u231ebefore you\u231f. But let them be overthrown \u231ebefore you\u231f. Deal with them in the time of your anger. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:1",
"text": " Thus said Yahweh, \u201cGo and buy a potter\u2019s earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people, and some of the leaders of the priests, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:2",
"text": "and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which is at the entrance of the Gate of the Potsherd, and proclaim there the words that I speak to you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:3",
"text": "And you shall say, \u2018Hear the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: \u201cLook, I am about to bring disaster upon this place so that \u231eeveryone who hears it\u231f, his ears will ring. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:4",
"text": "Because they have forsaken me, and they have defaced this place, and they have made smoke offerings in it to other gods whom they have not known, they, nor their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah, and they have filled up this place with the blood of the innocent, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:5",
"text": "and they have built the high places of Baal, to burn their children in the fire, burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, and I ordered not, and it did not come to my \u231emind\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:6",
"text": " \u201c\u231eTherefore\u231f look, days are about to come,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cwhen this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, \u231ebut\u231f the Valley of the Slaughter. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:7",
"text": "And I will lay waste the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will bring them to ruin by the sword \u231ebefore\u231f their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life, and I will give their dead bodies as food to the birds of heaven and to the animals of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:8",
"text": "And I will make this city a horror, and an object of hissing, everyone who passes by it will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its wounds. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:9",
"text": "And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each one will eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress which their enemies and those who seek their life inflict on them.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:10",
"text": " \u201cThen you shall break the jar before the eyes of the men who go with you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:11",
"text": "And you shall say to them, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cSo I will break this people and this city as one breaks the vessel of the potter, so that it is not able to be repaired again. And in Topheth they will bury \u231euntil there is no room to bury\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:12",
"text": "Thus will I do to this place,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand to its inhabitants, to make this city like Topheth. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:13",
"text": "And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be unclean like the place of Topheth, all the houses where they made smoke offerings upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and where they poured out libations to other gods.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:14",
"text": " Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh and said to all the people, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Jeremiah 19:15",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u2018Look, I am about to bring to this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their neck to not hear my words.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:1",
"text": " Now Pashhur, the son of Immer, the priest who was officer in charge in the temple of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:2",
"text": "Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:3",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f on the next day, when Pashhur brought Jeremiah out from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, \u201cYahweh will not call your name Pashhur, \u231ebut\u231f Terror From All Around. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:4",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh, \u2018Look, I am making you a terror to yourself and to all your friends, and they will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will be seeing it. And all Judah I will give into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will deport them to Babylon, and he will strike them with the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:5",
"text": "And I will give all the wealth of this city, and all its acquisitions, and all its precious items, and all of the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, and they will seize them, and they will bring them to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:6",
"text": "And you, Pashhur, and all those who live in your house will go into captivity, and you will go to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends to whom you have prophesied \u231efalsely\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:7",
"text": " You have persuaded me, O Yahweh, and I was persuaded. You have overpowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long. \u231eEveryone\u231f is mocking me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:8",
"text": " For \u231eas often as\u231f I speak, I must cry out violence and destruction. I must shout, for the word of Yahweh has become for me a disgrace and derision all day long. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:9",
"text": " But if I say, \u201cI will not mention him and I will no longer speak in his name,\u201d then it becomes in my heart like a fire burning, locked up in my bones, and I struggle to contain it, and I am not able. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:10",
"text": " For I hear the rumor of many, \u201cTerror is from all around, denounce him, yes, let us denounce him!\u201d \u231eAll my close friends\u231f are watchers of my stumbling, saying, \u201cperhaps he can be persuaded, and we can prevail over him, and we can take our revenge on him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:11",
"text": " But Yahweh is with me like a powerful warrior. \u231eTherefore\u231f my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be very ashamed, for they will not achieve success. Their \u231eeverlasting insult\u231f will not be forgotten. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:12",
"text": " Yet, O Yahweh of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the \u231eheart\u231f and the \u231emind\u231f, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:13",
"text": " Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the life of the poor from the hand of evildoers. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:14",
"text": " Cursed be the day on which I was born, let not the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:15",
"text": " Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cA child is born to you, a son!\u201d and he made him very glad. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:16",
"text": " And let that man be like the cities that Yahweh demolished without regret, and let him hear a cry for help in the morning, and an alarm at the time of noon. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:17",
"text": " Because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, and her womb would be pregnant forever. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Jeremiah 20:18",
"text": " \u231eWhy\u231f did I come out from the womb, to see toil, and sorrow, and to \u231eend my days in shame\u231f? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:1",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:2",
"text": "\u201cPlease inquire of Yahweh on behalf of us, for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon is fighting against us. Perhaps Yahweh will do with us according to all his miraculous acts, so that he may go up from against us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:3",
"text": " Then Jeremiah said to them, \u201cThus you shall say to Zedekiah: "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:4",
"text": "\u2018Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: \u201cLook, I am about to turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you are fighting against them, the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are laying siege to you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the center of this city. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:5",
"text": "And I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand, and with strong arm, and in \u231eanger\u231f, and in fury, and in great wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:6",
"text": "And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both humankind and animal; by a great plague they will die. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:7",
"text": "And \u231eafterward\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cI will give Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who remain in this city from the plague, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their lives, and he will strike them with the \u231eedge\u231f of the sword. He will not take pity on them, and he will not have compassion, nor will he show compassion.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:8",
"text": " \u201cAnd to this people you shall say, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cLook, I am setting \u231ebefore you\u231f the way of life and the way of death. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:9",
"text": "He who stays in this city will die by the sword, or by the famine, or by the plague. And he who goes out and goes over to the Chaldeans who are laying siege to you will live, and his life will be to him as booty. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:10",
"text": "For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:11",
"text": " \u201cAnd to the house of the king of Judah, \u2018Hear the word of Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:12",
"text": "O house of David, thus says Yahweh, \u201cExecute judgment in the morning, justice, and deliver the one who has been seized from the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath goes forth like the fire and it burns, and there is no one who quenches it because of the evil of your deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:13",
"text": " Look, I am against you, O inhabitants of the valley, O rock of the plain,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh; \u201cyou who say, \u2018Who can descend against us, or who can enter into our hiding place?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Jeremiah 21:14",
"text": " And I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cAnd I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it will devour all its surroundings.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:1",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u201cGo down to the house of the king of Judah and you must speak this word there. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:2",
"text": "And you must say, \u2018Hear the word of Yahweh, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter through these gates. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:3",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh, \u201cAct with justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been seized from the hand of the oppressor. And you must not oppress the immigrant, the orphan, and the widow. And you must not shed innocent blood in this place. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:4",
"text": "And if you indeed obey this word, then kings who sit for David on his throne will enter through the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:5",
"text": "But if you do not obey these words, I swear by myself,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthat this house will become a site of ruins.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:6",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah, \u201cYou are like Gilead to me, like the head of the Lebanon. \u231eSurely\u231f I will make you a desert, like cities that are not inhabited. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:7",
"text": " And I will consecrate against you destroyers, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down \u231eyour choicest cedars\u231f, and cast them on the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:8",
"text": " And many nations will pass by this city and they will say each one to his neighbor, \u2018\u231eWhy\u231f has Yahweh done in this manner to this great city?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:9",
"text": "Then they will answer, \u2018Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, and bowed down in worship to other gods, and served them.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:10",
"text": " You must not weep for the dead person, and you must not show sympathy for him. Weep bitterly for the one who goes away, for he will not return, or see the land of his birth again. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:11",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh concerning Shallum, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who reigned as king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: \u201cHe will not return here again. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:12",
"text": "But in the place where they have deported him, there he will die, and he will not see this land again. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:13",
"text": " Woe to the one who builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:14",
"text": " Who says \u2018I will build for myself a spacious house with large upper rooms,\u2019 and he cuts windows for it, and it is paneled with cedar, and he paints it with vermilion. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:15",
"text": " Do you reign as king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and he did justice and righteousness, then it was well with him? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:16",
"text": " He judged the legal cause of the needy and the poor, and then it was well. \u231eIs that not what it means to know me\u231f?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:17",
"text": " \u201cBut there is nothing in your eyes and your heart \u231eexcept\u231f your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:18",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: \u201cThey will not lament for him, \u2018Alas, my brother,\u2019 or \u2018Alas, sister.\u2019 They will not lament for him, \u2018Alas, lord,\u2019 or \u2018alas, his majesty.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:19",
"text": " He will be buried with the burial of a donkey. He will be dragged away and thrown \u231eoutside\u231f the gates of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:20",
"text": " Go up to Lebanon and cry out, and in Bashan lift up your voice, and cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are shattered. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:21",
"text": " I spoke to you \u231ein the times you were secure\u231f, and you said, \u2018I will not listen!\u2019 This was your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:22",
"text": " All your shepherds will shepherd the wind, and your lovers will go into captivity. Yes, then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:23",
"text": " Inhabitants of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when labor pains come to you, fear and pain as the woman who gives birth. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:24",
"text": " \u201cAs I live,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201csurely if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were the seal on my right hand, surely from there I would wrench you off. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:25",
"text": "And I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those from whom you are frightened by their presence, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:26",
"text": "And I will throw you and your mother who gave birth to you to another country where you were not born, and there you will die. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:27",
"text": "As for the land to which they are \u231elonging\u231f to return, they will not return. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:28",
"text": " Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel? Or a vessel in which there is no delight? Why are he and his offspring thrown far, and cast away to the land that they do not know?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:29",
"text": " O land, land, land, hear the word of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Jeremiah 22:30",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u201cRecord this man as childless, a man who will not succeed in his days, for no man from his offspring will succeed him, sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:1",
"text": " \u201cWoe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:2",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people, \u201cYou yourselves have scattered my flock, and you have driven them away, and you do not attend to them. Look, I will punish you for the evil of your deeds,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:3",
"text": "\u201cThen I myself will gather together the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their grazing place, and they will be fruitful, and they will become numerous. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:4",
"text": "And I will raise up over them shepherds, and they will shepherd them, and they will no longer fear, and they will not be dismayed, and they will not be missing,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:5",
"text": " \u201cLook, days are coming,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cwhen I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign as king, and he will achieve success, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:6",
"text": " In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell \u231ein safety\u231f, and this is his name by which he will be called: \u2018Yahweh is our righteousness.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:7",
"text": " \u201c\u231eTherefore\u231f look, days are coming,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cwhen they will no longer say, \u2018\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, who led up the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from the land of Egypt,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:8",
"text": "but \u2018\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, who led up, and who brought the offspring of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he had driven them.\u2019 Then they will live in their land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:9",
"text": " Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken in my midst. All my bones tremble. I have become like a drunken man, even like a man over whom wine has passed, because of Yahweh, and because of \u231ehis holy words\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:10",
"text": " For the land is full of adulterers; for the land mourns because of a curse. The pastures of the desert are dry, and their evil has been their way of running, and their power is not right. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:11",
"text": " \u201cFor both prophet as well as priest are godless, even in my temple I have found their wickedness,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:12",
"text": " \u201c\u231eTherefore\u231f their way will be to them like the slippery places, they will be pushed in the darkness, and they will fall into it, for I will bring disaster on them in the year of their punishment,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:13",
"text": " \u201cNow in the prophets of Samaria I saw a disgusting thing. They prophesied by Baal and they caused my people Israel to err. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:14",
"text": " And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible. They commit adultery, and they walk in lies, and they make strong the hands of evildoers, so that they have not turned back each from his wickedness. All of them have become to me like Sodom, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:15",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets, \u201cLook, I am going to let them eat wormwood and I will give them water of poison to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem went out ungodliness to all the land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:16",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cYou must not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are deluding you with visions of their \u231emind\u231f, They do not speak from the mouth of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:17",
"text": " They are continually saying to those who disregard the word of Yahweh, \u2018Peace it will be to you,\u2019 and to \u231eeach one\u231f who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they say, \u2018Calamity will not come upon you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:18",
"text": " For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he has seen and heard his word? Who has listened attentively to his word and heard it? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:19",
"text": " Look, the storm of Yahweh has gone forth in wrath, even a whirling tempest. It will whirl upon the head of the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:20",
"text": " The \u231eanger\u231f of Yahweh will not turn back until his doing and until his keeping the plans of his \u231emind\u231f. \u231eIn latter days\u231f you will look closely at it with understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:21",
"text": " I have not sent the prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:22",
"text": " But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have caused them to turn from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:23",
"text": " Am I a God from near,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand not a God from far? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:24",
"text": " Or can a person hide himself in secret places and I cannot see him?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cDo I not fill up the heaven and the earth?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:25",
"text": " \u201cI have heard what the prophets who prophesy lies have said in my name, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018I have dreamed! I have dreamed!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:26",
"text": "\u231eHow long\u231f will this be in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceitfulness of their hearts, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:27",
"text": "who plan to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell each one to his neighbor, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:28",
"text": "The prophet who has with him a dream, let him tell the dream. But the prophet who has my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. \u231eWhat is straw compared to wheat\u231f?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:29",
"text": "\u201cIs not my word like fire?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand like a blacksmith\u2019s hammer that breaks a rock into pieces? "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:30",
"text": " \u201c\u231eTherefore\u231f look, I am against the prophets,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cwho steal my words each one from his neighbor. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:31",
"text": "Look, I am against the prophets,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cwho take their tongues and declare as prophets, \u2018Yahweh \u231edeclares\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:32",
"text": "Look, I am against those who prophesy dreams of lies,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand tell them, and they caused my people to err through their lies, and in their recklessness, when I myself have not sent them nor commanded them, so they profit not this people at all,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:33",
"text": " \u201cNow when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, ask you, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018What is the burden of Yahweh?\u2019 then you shall say to them, \u2018\u231eYou are the burden\u231f, and I will forsake you,\u2019\u00a0\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:34",
"text": "\u201cAnd the prophet, and the priest, and the people who say, \u2018The burden of Yahweh,\u2019 I will punish that man and his house. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:35",
"text": "Thus you shall say, each one to his neighbor and each one to his brother: \u2018What has Yahweh answered?\u2019 or, \u2018What has Yahweh spoken?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:36",
"text": "But you shall not mention the burden of Yahweh, for the burden is to each one his word, and so you twist the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:37",
"text": "Thus you shall say to that prophet, \u2018What has Yahweh answered you?\u2019 or, \u2018What has Yahweh spoken?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:38",
"text": "But if you say, \u2018The burden of Yahweh,\u2019 \u231etherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh, \u2018because of your saying these words, \u201cThe burden of Yahweh,\u201d then I will send to you, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cYou shall not say, \u2018The burden of Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:39",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f look, here I am, and I will surely lift you up and forsake you and the city that I gave to you and to your ancestors from \u231emy presence\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Jeremiah 23:40",
"text": "and I will bring upon you \u231ean everlasting disgrace\u231f and \u231ean everlasting shame\u231f that will not be forgotten.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Jeremiah 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Jeremiah 24:1",
"text": " Yahweh showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs placed \u231ebefore\u231f the temple of Yahweh\u2014after Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had deported Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, with the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Jeremiah 24:2",
"text": "The one basket had very good figs, like \u231eearly figs\u231f, and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because of their bad quality. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Jeremiah 24:3",
"text": "And Yahweh asked me, \u201cWhat are you seeing, Jeremiah?\u201d And I said, \u201cFigs\u2014the good figs, very good, and the bad figs, very bad, that cannot be eaten because of their bad quality.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Jeremiah 24:4",
"text": " Then the word of Yahweh came to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Jeremiah 24:5",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, \u2018Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles of Judah whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Jeremiah 24:6",
"text": "For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them and not annihilate them, and I will plant them and not uproot them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Jeremiah 24:7",
"text": "And I will give to them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh, and \u231ethey will be my people\u231f, and \u231eI will be their God\u231f, for they will return to me with the whole of their heart. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Jeremiah 24:8",
"text": " But like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because of their bad quality\u2014for thus says Yahweh\u2014so I will treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Jeremiah 24:9",
"text": "And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Jeremiah 24:10",
"text": "And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, until they perish from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:1",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:2",
"text": "which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:3",
"text": "\u201cFrom the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, the king of Judah, even up to this day, these twenty-three years the word of Yahweh has come to me, and \u231eI have spoken to you over and over again\u231f, but you have not listened. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:4",
"text": "And though Yahweh has sent all his servants the prophets to you \u231eover and over again\u231f you have not listened, and you have not inclined your ear to hear, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:5",
"text": "\u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Turn back please, each one from his evil way, and from the evil of your deeds, and live on the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your ancestors from a long time back and until forever, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:6",
"text": "and you must not go after other gods to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, and you must not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, then I will not do something bad to you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:7",
"text": "\u2018Yet you have not listened to me,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018so that you have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands for your own harm.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:8",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh of hosts, \u2018Because you have not obeyed my words, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:9",
"text": "look, I am going to send and take all the clans of the north,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations all around, and I will destroy them, and I will make them a horror, and an object of hissing, and \u231eeverlasting ruins\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:10",
"text": "And I will exterminate from them the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:11",
"text": "And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:12",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it \u231ean everlasting waste\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:13",
"text": "And I will bring upon that land all my words that I have spoken against it, everything that is written in this scroll which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:14",
"text": "For many nations and great kings will let them work, even them, and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:15",
"text": "For thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me, \u201cTake this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and you must give it to all the nations to whom I am sending you to drink. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:16",
"text": "And they will drink, and they will stagger, and they will act like madmen because of the \u231epresence\u231f of the sword that I am sending among them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:17",
"text": " So I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and I gave it to all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me to drink: "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:18",
"text": "Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and its kings, and its officials, to make them a site of ruins, a horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:19",
"text": "Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his officials, and all his people; "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:20",
"text": "and all the other people; and all the kings of the land of Uz; and all the kings of the land of the Philistines\u2014Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:21",
"text": "Edom, and Moab, and the \u231eAmmonites\u231f; "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:22",
"text": "and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland that is across the sea; "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:23",
"text": "and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all those who are trimmed to the side; "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:24",
"text": "and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the other people who dwell in the desert; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:25",
"text": "and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:26",
"text": "and all the kings of the north, near and far, each one to his brother, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach, he will drink after them. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:27",
"text": " \u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u201cDrink and become drunk, and vomit, and fall, and you must not rise because of the \u231epresence\u231f of the sword that I am sending among you.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:28",
"text": "And it will happen, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cYou must certainly drink! "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:29",
"text": "For look, on the city that is called \u231eby\u231f my name I am beginning to inflict harm, and you indeed, will you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:30",
"text": " And you yourself shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them: \u2018Yahweh will roar from on high, and from \u231ehis holy dwelling place\u231f he will give his voice. He will roar mightily against his settlement, a jubilant shout like those who tread grapes, he will answer against all the inhabitants of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:31",
"text": " The rage of battle will resound to the end of the earth, for there is a lawsuit of Yahweh against the nations. He is entering into judgment with all wicked flesh, he will give them to the sword,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:32",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cLook, disaster is going out from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:33",
"text": " And the slain ones of Yahweh will be on that day from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, and they will not be mourned, and they will not be gathered, and they will not be buried. They will become like dung on the \u231esurface\u231f of the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:34",
"text": " Wail, you shepherds, and cry out. And roll about in mourning in the dust, O leaders of the flock. For your days of slaughter and your dispersions have arrived, and you will fall like a vessel of desire. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:35",
"text": " And flight will perish from the shepherds, and escape from the leaders of the flock. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:36",
"text": " A sound, the cry of distress of the shepherds and the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for Yahweh is despoiling their pasture. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:37",
"text": " And the \u231epeaceful settlements\u231f are devastated because of \u231ethe burning anger of Yahweh\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Jeremiah 25:38",
"text": " He has left his den like a lion, for their land has become a horror, because of the anger of the oppressors, and because of \u231ehis burning anger\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:1",
"text": " At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came from Yahweh, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:2",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018Stand in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh, and you must speak to all the cities of Judah that come to bow in worship in the house of Yahweh all the words that I command you to speak to them. You must not omit a word. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:3",
"text": "Perhaps they will listen and turn back each from his evil way, and I will relent of the disaster that I am planning to do to them because of their evil deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:4",
"text": "And you shall say to them, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set \u231ebefore you\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:5",
"text": "to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I have sent to you, \u231eover and over again\u231f, though you have not listened, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:6",
"text": "then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse for all the nations of the earth.\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:7",
"text": " And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:8",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f as Jeremiah finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cYou will die! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:9",
"text": "Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be in ruins, \u231ewithout\u231f inhabitant\u2019?\u201d And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:10",
"text": " When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the house of the king to the temple of Yahweh, and they sat in the entrance of the New Gate of Yahweh\u2019s temple. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:11",
"text": "Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201c\u231eThis man deserves the death sentence\u231f, because he has prophesied against this city as that which you have heard with your ears.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:12",
"text": " Then Jeremiah said to all the officials and to all the people, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cYahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:13",
"text": "Now \u231etherefore\u231f amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and Yahweh will relent of the disaster that he has spoken over you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:14",
"text": "But as for me, look, I am in your hand, do to me what is good and right in your eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:15",
"text": "Only you must certainly know that if you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves innocent blood, and on this city and on its inhabitants, for \u231etruly\u231f Yahweh sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:16",
"text": " Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, \u201c\u231eThis man does not deserve\u231f a sentence of death, for in the name of Yahweh our God, he has spoken to us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:17",
"text": "Then men from the elders of the land arose and said to all the assembly of the people, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:18",
"text": "\u201cMicah the Morashtite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah, \u231esaying\u231f: \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cZion will be plowed, and Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the \u231etemple\u231f as high places of wood.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:19",
"text": " Did Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and all Judah actually put him to death? Was he not in fear of Yahweh? And he entreated the face of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster that he had spoken against them. But we are about to do great disaster to ourselves.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:20",
"text": " Indeed, there also was a man prophesying in the name of Yahweh, Uriah, the son of Shemaiah, from Kiriath-Jearim, and he prophesied against this city and against this land like all the words of Jeremiah. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:21",
"text": "And when King Jehoiakim, and all his warriors, and all the officials heard his words, then the king sought to put him to death. But Uriah heard, and he was afraid, and he fled and went to Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:22",
"text": "Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt. Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and men with him went to Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:23",
"text": "And they brought out Uriah from Egypt and they brought him to King Jehoiakim, and he struck him down with the sword, and he threw his dead body into the burial sites of the sons of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Jeremiah 26:24",
"text": "However, the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not given into the hand of the people to put him to death. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:1",
"text": " In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, \u231esaying\u231f\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:2",
"text": "thus said Yahweh to me\u2014\u201cMake for yourself fetters and yokes and put them on your neck, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:3",
"text": "and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon in the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, the king of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:4",
"text": "And you must command them for their masters, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, this you shall say to your masters: "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:5",
"text": "\u201cI have made the earth with humankind and animals that are on the face of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I give it to whomever is right in my eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:6",
"text": "And now I myself have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and also the animals of the field I have given to him to serve him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:7",
"text": "And all the nations will serve him, and his son, and \u231ehis grandson\u231f, until the coming of the time of \u231ehis own\u231f land. Then many nations and great kings will let him work. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:8",
"text": " \u201cBut it will be that the nation or kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, and with the famine, and with the plague,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cuntil I have destroyed it with my hand. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:9",
"text": "And you, you must not listen to your prophets, and to your diviners, and to your dreamers, and to your interpreters of signs, and to your sorcerers who are \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018You will not serve the king of Babylon.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:10",
"text": "For they are prophesying to you a lie, so that you will be removed from your land, and I will drive you away, and you will perish. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:11",
"text": "But the nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and will serve him, yet will I leave it on its land,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand they will till it, and they will live in it.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:12",
"text": " And I spoke words like these to Zedekiah, the king of Judah, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cBring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:13",
"text": "Why should you die\u2014you and your people\u2014by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:14",
"text": "And you must not listen to the words of the prophets who are speaking to you, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018You must not serve the king of Babylon,\u2019 for they are prophesying a lie to you. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:15",
"text": "For I have not sent them,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cbut they are prophesying in my name \u231efalsely\u231f, so that I will drive them away. And you will perish\u2014you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:16",
"text": " Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cThus says Yahweh, \u2018You must not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cLook, the vessels of the house of Yahweh are about to be quickly brought back from Babylon\u201d, for they are prophesying a lie to you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:17",
"text": "And you must not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a site of ruins? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:18",
"text": "But if they are prophets, and if there is with them the word of Yahweh, let them please plead with Yahweh of hosts, that the vessels that are left over in the \u231etemple\u231f of Yahweh, and the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, must not go to Babylon.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:19",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the stands, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:20",
"text": "which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, did not take when he deported Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, \u231ealong with\u231f all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:21",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Jeremiah 27:22",
"text": "\u2018They will be brought to Babylon, and there they will stay until the day of my attending to them,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u2018Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:1",
"text": " And it was in that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azzur, the prophet who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of Yahweh before the eyes of the priests and all the people, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:2",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:3",
"text": "\u231eWithin two years\u231f I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the house of Yahweh which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon took away from this place and brought to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:4",
"text": "And Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, I will bring back to this place,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:5",
"text": " Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet before the eyes of the priests and before the eyes of all the people who were standing in the house of Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:6",
"text": "and Jeremiah the prophet said, \u201cAmen! May Yahweh do so; may Yahweh fulfill your words that you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the house of Yahweh and all the exiles from Babylon to this place. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:7",
"text": "Nevertheless listen please to this word that I am speaking in your \u231ehearing\u231f and in the \u231ehearing\u231f of all the people, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:8",
"text": "The prophets who were \u231ebefore\u231f me and \u231ebefore\u231f you from ancient times prophesied against many countries and against great kingdoms of war, and of disaster, and of plague. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:9",
"text": "The prophet who prophesies peace, at the coming of the word of the prophet, will become known as the prophet that Yahweh has \u231etruly\u231f sent.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:10",
"text": " Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:11",
"text": "Then Hananiah said before the eyes of all the people, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cThus says Yahweh, \u2018This is how I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, \u231ewithin two years\u231f, from the neck of all the nations.\u2019\u00a0\u201d And Jeremiah the prophet went on his way. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:12",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet broke the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:13",
"text": "\u201cGo, and you must say to Hananiah, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cYou have broken yoke bars of wood, but you have made in place of them yoke bars of iron.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:14",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u201cI have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, to serve Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and they will serve him, and I have even given the animals of the open field to him.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:15",
"text": " Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, \u201cPlease listen, Hananiah, Yahweh has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:16",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh, \u2018Look, I am going to send you from the face of the earth. This year you will die because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Jeremiah 28:17",
"text": "And Hananiah the prophet died in that same year in the seventh month. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:1",
"text": " And these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the exiles, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had deported from Jerusalem to Babylon, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:2",
"text": "after the going out of Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the court officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, and the artisans, and the smiths from Jerusalem, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:3",
"text": "by the hand of Elasah, the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah, the king of Judah, sent to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, to Babylon, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:4",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have deported from Jerusalem to Babylon, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:5",
"text": "\u2018Build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:6",
"text": "Take wives and father sons and daughters, and take for your sons wives, and give your daughters to men that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply there, and you must not be few. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:7",
"text": "And seek the prosperity of the city where I have deported you, and pray on behalf of it to Yahweh, for in its prosperity you will have prosperity.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:8",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u2018Do not let your prophets who are in your midst, and your diviners, deceive you, and you must not listen to your dreams that you are causing them to dream. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:9",
"text": "For they are prophesying \u231efalsely\u231f to you in my name; I have not sent them,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:10",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh, \u2018\u231eAs soon as the time has passed\u231f, seventy years for Babylon, I will attend to you, and I will fulfill my good word to you, to bring you back to this place. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:11",
"text": "For I know the plans that I am planning concerning you,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:12",
"text": "Then when you call me, and you come and pray to me, then I will listen to you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:13",
"text": "When you search for me, then you will find me, if you seek me with all your heart. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:14",
"text": "And I will let myself be found by you,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and I will restore your fortunes, and I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places to which I have driven you,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and I will bring you back to the place from which I deported you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:15",
"text": " Because you have said, \u2018Yahweh has raised up prophets for us in Babylon\u2019\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:16",
"text": "for thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David and concerning all the people who live in this city, your fellow kinsmen who did not go with you into the exile\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:17",
"text": "thus says Yahweh of hosts, \u2018Look, I am going to send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, and I will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten because of their bad quality. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:18",
"text": "And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague, and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse, and a horror, and an object of hissing, and a disgrace among all the nations to which I have driven them, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:19",
"text": "because they did not listen to my words,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018when I sent to them my servants the prophets, \u231esending over and over again\u231f, and they would not listen,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:20",
"text": " And you, hear the word of Yahweh, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:21",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you in my name a lie, \u2018Look, I am going to give them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and he will strike them before your eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:22",
"text": "And a curse will be taken up because of them by all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cMay Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:23",
"text": "because they have done a disgraceful thing in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors, and they have spoken words in my name, lies that I have not commanded them, and I am he who knows, and I am a witness,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:24",
"text": " And to Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall say, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:25",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Because you yourself sent a letter in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:26",
"text": "\u201cYahweh made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there are overseers in the house of Yahweh over any mad man who exhibits the behavior of a prophet, and you must put him into the stocks and into the neck iron, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:27",
"text": "and so then why have you not rebuked Jeremiah the Anathothite who exhibits the behavior of a prophet for you? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:28",
"text": "\u231eBecause\u231f he has sent to us in Babylon, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018It will be a long time, build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:29",
"text": "And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the \u231ehearing\u231f of Jeremiah the prophet. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:30",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:31",
"text": "\u201cSend to all the exiles, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: \u201cBecause Shemaiah prophesied to you, though I have not sent him, and he has made you trust in a lie,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Jeremiah 29:32",
"text": "\u231etherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh, \u201cLook, I am going to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. There will not be for him a man who lives in the midst of this people, and he will not see the good that I am going to do to my people,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cFor he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:1",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:2",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Write for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you in a scroll. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:3",
"text": "For look, days are coming,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018when I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah,\u2019 says Yahweh, \u2018and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestors and they will take possession of it.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:4",
"text": " Now these are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:5",
"text": "\u201cFor thus says Yahweh: \u2018We have heard a sound of trembling, terror, and there is no peace. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:6",
"text": " Ask please and see whether a male can bear a child. Why do I see every strong man with his hands on his loins like a woman giving birth? And why are all their faces changed to paleness? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:7",
"text": " Alas! For that day is great, \u231ethere is none like it\u231f. And it is a time of distress for Jacob, yet from it he will be delivered. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:8",
"text": " And it will happen on that day,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts, \u2018I will break his yoke from your neck and your bonds I will tear to pieces. And strangers will no longer let him work as a slave. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:9",
"text": " But they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:10",
"text": " But you must not fear, my servant Jacob,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and you must not be dismayed, Israel, for look, I am going to save you from far, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return, and he will be at rest, and he will be at ease, and there will be no one who makes him afraid. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:11",
"text": " For I am with you,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018to save you. For I will make a complete destruction of all the nations to which I scattered you, but you I will not make a complete destruction. And I will chastise you to the measure, and I will not leave you entirely unpunished.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:12",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh, \u2018Your injury is incurable, your wound is overcome by sickness. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:13",
"text": " There is no one who pleads your cause, for your boil there is no healing for you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:14",
"text": " All your lovers have forgotten you, they do not care for you. I have struck you with the blow of an enemy, the punishment of the cruel, because of the greatness of your guilt, your sins are numerous. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:15",
"text": " Why do you cry because of your wound? Your pain is incurable. Because of the greatness of your guilt\u2014your sins are vast\u2014 I have done these things to you. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:16",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f all those who devour you will be devoured, and all your foes, all of them will go into captivity, and those who plunder you will be as plunder, and all those who plunder you I will make as plunder. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:17",
"text": " For I will present healing to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u2018Because they have called you an outcast, saying, \u201cIt is Zion, there is no one who cares for her.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:18",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u2018Look, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob, and I will have compassion on his dwellings, and the city will be rebuilt upon its mound, and the citadel fortress will stand on its rightful site. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:19",
"text": " And thanksgiving and the sound of merrymakers will come out from them, and I will make them numerous, and they will not be few. And I will make them honored, and they will not be lowly. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:20",
"text": " And their children will be as of old, and their community will be established \u231ebefore me\u231f. And I will punish all their oppressors. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:21",
"text": " And their noble will be from them, and their ruler will come out from their midst. And I will bring him near and he will approach me. For who is he that would pledge his heart to approach me?\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:22",
"text": " \u2018And you will be to me a people, and I will be to you God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:23",
"text": " Look, the storm of Yahweh! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest. It will whirl upon the head of the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Jeremiah 30:24",
"text": " \u231eThe burning anger of Yahweh\u231f will not turn back until his doing, and until his accomplishing the plans of his \u231emind\u231f. In the last of the days you will understand it. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:1",
"text": "\u201cAt that time,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cI will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be to me a people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:2",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cThe people of the survivors of the sword found grace in the desert; Israel going to find their rest.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:3",
"text": " From afar Yahweh appeared to me, saying, \u201cI have loved you with an everlasting love. \u231eTherefore\u231f I have drawn you with loyal love. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:4",
"text": " I will again build you, and you will be built, O virgin Israel. You will again adorn yourself with your tambourines, and you will go forth in the dancing in a ring of the merrymakers. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:5",
"text": " You will again plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and they will enjoy it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:6",
"text": " For there will be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim, \u2018Stand up, and let us go up to Zion, to Yahweh our God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:7",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh, \u201cSing for joy for Jacob with gladness, and shout out for the head of the nations. Proclaim, praise, and say, \u2018Save, O Yahweh, your people, the remnant of Israel.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:8",
"text": " Look, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and I will gather them from the remotest part of the earth. Among them the blind, and the lame, those who are pregnant, and those who give birth, together, a great assembly, they will return here. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:9",
"text": " With weeping they will come, and with pleas for mercy I will bring them; I will let them walk by streams of water in a straight path. They will not stumble in it, for I have become to Israel a father, and Ephraim, he is my firstborn.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:10",
"text": " Hear the word of Yahweh, O nations, and declare in the coastlands from afar, and say, \u201cThe scatterer of Israel will gather him, and he will keep him as a shepherd his flock. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:11",
"text": " For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and he has redeemed him from the hand of the person \u231estronger\u231f than he. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:12",
"text": " And they will come, and they will sing for joy on the height of Zion, and they will be radiant over the goodness of Yahweh, over the grain, and over the wine, and over the olive oil, and over the young ones of the flock, and over the cattle. And their life will become like a well-watered garden, and they will never languish again.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:13",
"text": " \u201cThen the young woman will rejoice in the dancing in a ring, and the young men and the old men together. And I will turn their mourning to jubilation, and I will comfort them, and I will gladden them from their sorrow. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:14",
"text": " And I will saturate the appetite of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:15",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, \u201cA voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, the weeping of bitterness. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted because of her children, for they are no more.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:16",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cRestrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand they will return from the land of the enemy. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:17",
"text": " And there is hope for your future,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand your children will return to their territory. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:18",
"text": " Indeed I heard Ephraim pitying themselves, \u2018You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a calf that is not trained. Bring me back and let me return, for you are Yahweh my God. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:19",
"text": " For after my turning back I repented, and after coming to understand I struck my thigh. I was ashamed and also humiliated, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:20",
"text": " Is Ephraim my dear son, or the child of my delight? For \u231eas often as\u231f I have earnestly spoken against him, I still remember him. \u231eTherefore\u231f my bowels are turbulent for him, surely I will have compassion on him,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:21",
"text": " \u201cSet up for yourself road markers, make for yourself signposts, set your \u231emind\u231f to the main road, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these your cities. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:22",
"text": " \u231eHow long\u231f will you waver, O unfaithful daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing on the earth, a woman, she shelters a man.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:23",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u201cThey will again say these words in the land of Judah and in its towns at my restoring their fortunes, \u2018Yahweh bless you, O settlement of righteousness, O hill of holiness.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:24",
"text": " And Judah and all of its towns together will live in it, farmers and those who travel with the flocks. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:25",
"text": " For I will saturate the thirst of the weary, and every person who languishes I will replenish.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:26",
"text": " At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:27",
"text": " \u201cLook, the days are coming,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humankind, and with the seed of animals. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:28",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f as I have watched over them to pull up, and to tear down, and to annihilate, and to destroy, and to do evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:29",
"text": "\u201cIn those days they will say no longer, \u2018\u231eParents\u231f have eaten unripe fruit, and the teeth of the children \u231eare set on edge\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:30",
"text": "\u231eBut\u231f each will die because of his iniquity, \u231eeveryone\u231f who eats the unripe fruit, their teeth will \u231ebe set on edge\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:31",
"text": " Look, the days are coming,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand I will \u231emake\u231f a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:32",
"text": "not like the covenant that I \u231emade\u231f with their ancestors on the day of my grasping them by their hand, bringing them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they themselves broke, though I myself was a master over them,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:33",
"text": "\u201cBut this is the covenant that I will \u231emake\u231f with the house of Israel after those days,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh: \u201cI will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:34",
"text": "And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Know Yahweh,\u2019 for all of them will know me, from their \u231esmallest\u231f and up to their \u231egreatest\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cfor I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:35",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for light by day, the regulations of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar\u2014Yahweh of hosts is his name. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:36",
"text": "\u201cIf these rules would cease from \u231ebefore me\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201calso the offspring of Israel would cease from being a nation \u231ebefore me\u231f \u231eforever\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:37",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh, \u201cIf the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, also I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all that they have done,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:38",
"text": "\u201cLook, days are coming,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand the city will be rebuilt for Yahweh, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:39",
"text": "And \u231ethe measuring line\u231f will still go out immediately in front of it to the hill of Gareb, and it will turn to Goah. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Jeremiah 31:40",
"text": "And the whole of the valley of the corpses, and the ashes, and all the cultivated fields up to the wadi of Kidron, up to the corner of the Gate of the Horses toward the east will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be uprooted, and it will not be overthrown again \u231eforever\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:1",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah the king of Judah, that was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:2",
"text": "Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was laying siege to Jerusalem and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:3",
"text": "where Zedekiah, the king of Judah, had confined him, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cWhy are you prophesying, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cLook, I am going to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:4",
"text": "and Zedekiah, the king of Judah, will not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but surely he will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and \u231ehe will speak face to face with him\u231f and \u231ehe will see him eye to eye\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:5",
"text": "and to Babylon he will bring Zedekiah, and there he will be until my attending to him,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cIf you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not be successful\u201d\u00a0\u2019?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:6",
"text": " And Jeremiah said, \u201cThe word of Yahweh came to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:7",
"text": "\u2018Look, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your uncle, is going to come to you, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cBuy for yourself my field that is at Anathoth, for \u231eyou have\u231f the right of redemption to buy it.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:8",
"text": "Then Hanamel, the son of my uncle, came to me, to the courtyard of the guard \u231eaccording to\u231f the word of Yahweh, and he said to me, \u2018Please buy my field that is at Anathoth, that is in the land of Benjamin, for to you is the claim of possession, and to you the redemption; buy it for yourself.\u2019 Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:9",
"text": " And I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle, that was at Anathoth. And I weighed out to him the money, seventeen silver shekels. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:10",
"text": "And I signed on the letter and sealed it, and I called witnesses as witness, and I weighed out the money on a set of scales. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:11",
"text": "Then I took the deed of the purchase, the sealed copy containing the commandments and the rules, together with the one that was open. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:12",
"text": "And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, \u231ein the presence of\u231f Hanamel, the son of my uncle, and \u231ein the presence of\u231f the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, \u231ein the presence of\u231f the Judeans who were sitting in the courtyard of the guard. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:13",
"text": "And I commanded Baruch \u231ein their presence\u231f, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:14",
"text": "\u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u201cTake these deeds, this deed of the purchase, the sealed one, and this opened deed, and you must put them in an \u231eearthenware jar\u231f so that they may be kept preserved many days.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:15",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: \u201cHouses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:16",
"text": " And I prayed to Yahweh\u2014after giving my deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah\u2014\u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:17",
"text": "\u2018Ah Lord Yahweh! Look, you made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. \u231eNothing\u231f is too difficult for you, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:18",
"text": "showing loyal love to the thousands, and repaying the guilt of \u231eparents\u231f into the laps of their children after them. Powerful, great, mighty, his name is Yahweh of hosts, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:19",
"text": "great in counsel and great in deed, whose eyes are opened to all the ways of the children of humankind, to give to each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:20",
"text": "who accomplished signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, up to this day, and in Israel, and among humankind, and you have made for yourself a name, as it is this day. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:21",
"text": " And you brought out your people Israel from the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an arm stretched out, and with great terror. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:22",
"text": "And you gave to them this land, which you swore to their ancestors to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:23",
"text": "And they entered and took possession of it, but they did not listen to your voice, and they did not follow your law. They did nothing of all that you commanded to them to do, and you caused to happen to them all this disaster. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:24",
"text": "Look, the siege ramps have come up to the city to capture it, and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword, the famine, and the plague, and what you spoke happened, and look, you are seeing it. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:25",
"text": "Yet you have said to me, Lord Yahweh, \u201cBuy for yourself the field with the money, and call witnesses as witness,\u201d though the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:26",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:27",
"text": "\u201cLook, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh; is \u231eanything\u231f too difficult for me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:28",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh: \u201cLook, I am going to give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will capture it. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:29",
"text": "And the Chaldeans, who are fighting against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and they will burn it, and the houses where they have made smoke offerings on their roofs to Baal, and where they have devoted libations to other gods, in order to provoke me to anger. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:30",
"text": "For the people of Israel and the people of Judah were doing only evil in my eyes from their youth, for the people of Israel were only provoking me to anger by the work of their hands,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:31",
"text": " \u201cFor this city has been for me a cause of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even until this day, so I will remove it from my \u231esight\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:32",
"text": "because of all the evil of the people of Israel and the people of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger\u2014they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:33",
"text": "And they have turned to me their backs and not their faces, though \u231eI have taught them over and over again\u231f, but they were not listening to accept discipline. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:34",
"text": "And they set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:35",
"text": "And they built the high places of Baal that are in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to present as offerings their sons and their daughters to Molech, which I had not commanded them, and it had not come to my \u231emind\u231f to do this detestable thing in order to cause Judah to sin.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:36",
"text": " \u201cSo now \u231etherefore\u231f, thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, of which you are saying, \u2018It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague\u2019: "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:37",
"text": "Look, I am going to gather them from all the lands to which I driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath, and I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell \u231ein safety\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:38",
"text": "And they will be for me a people, and I will be for them God. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:39",
"text": "And I will give to them one heart and one way, to revere me \u231eforever\u231f, for good to them, and to their children after them. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:40",
"text": "And I will \u231emake\u231f with them \u231ean everlasting covenant\u231f that I will not turn away from them, my doing good to them, and my reverence I will put in their hearts so that they will not turn aside from me. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:41",
"text": "And I will rejoice over them to do good to them, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness with all my heart, and with all my inner self.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:42",
"text": " \u201cFor thus says Yahweh, \u2018Just as I have brought to this people all this great disaster, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise to them. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:43",
"text": "And the fields will be bought in this land of which you are saying, \u201cIt is a desolation, \u231ewithout humankind or animals\u231f. It has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Jeremiah 32:44",
"text": "They will buy fields with money, and they will sign the deeds, and they will seal them, and they will call witnesses as witness in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev, for I will restore their fortunes,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah a second time while he was still held back in the courtyard of the guard, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:2",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh who made the earth, Yahweh who formed it to establish it, Yahweh is his name: "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:3",
"text": "\u2018Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great things and inaccessible things that you have not known.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:4",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, that were torn down to make a defense against the siege ramps and against the sword: "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:5",
"text": "\u2018They are coming to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the corpses of the people whom I will strike in my anger and in my wrath, for whom I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:6",
"text": "Look, I am going to bring healing and health to it, and I will heal them, and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and reliability. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:7",
"text": "And I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and I will rebuild them as in the beginning. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:8",
"text": "And I will cleanse them from all their guilt that they sinned against me, and I will forgive all their iniquities that they sinned against me, and that they rebelled against me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:9",
"text": "And it will be to me a name of jubilation, a praise, and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear all the good that I will do for them, and they will fear, and they will tremble because of all the good, and because of all the prosperity that I will provide for it.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:10",
"text": " \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018Again will be heard in this place, of which you are saying, \u201cIt is a waste, \u231ewithout\u231f people and \u231ewithout\u231f animals,\u201d in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, \u231ewithout\u231f people and \u231ewithout\u231f inhabitants and \u231ewithout\u231f animals, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:11",
"text": "the voice of jubilation, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, \u201cPraise Yahweh of hosts, for Yahweh is good, for his loyal love is \u231eforever\u231f,\u201d the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of Yahweh, for I will restore the fortunes of the land as in the beginning,\u2019 says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:12",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018Again there will be in this waste place, \u231ewithout\u231f people and animals, and in all its towns, pasture for shepherds allowing their flock to lie down. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:13",
"text": "In the towns of the hill country, in the towns of the Shephelah, and in the towns of the Negev, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hands of the counter,\u2019 says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:14",
"text": " \u2018Look, days are coming,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and I will fulfill the good promise that I promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:15",
"text": "In those days and in that time I will make a branch of righteousness sprout for David, and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:16",
"text": "In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell \u231esafely\u231f, and this is what they shall call it: \u201cYahweh is our righteousness.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:17",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh: \u2018A man who sits on the throne of the house of Israel will not be cut off for David. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:18",
"text": "And for the priests, a man from the Levites who offers burnt offerings and who burns grain offerings and who brings sacrifices will not be cut off \u231ebefore me\u231f \u231eforever\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:19",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:20",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018If you could break my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their time, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:21",
"text": "then my covenant could be broken with David my servant, from \u231ehaving\u231f a son who could rule on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:22",
"text": "As the host of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will make numerous the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:23",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:24",
"text": "\u201cHave you not seen how these people speak, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018The two clans whom Yahweh chose, he has also rejected them\u2019? Thus they spurn my people from being a nation \u231ebefore them\u231f any longer. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:25",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u2018If my covenant with day and with night, the regulations of heaven and earth, I had not established, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Jeremiah 33:26",
"text": "then the offspring of Jacob and David my servant I would reject, from choosing rulers from his offspring over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will restore their fortunes and I will have compassion on them.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:1",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and all his army, with all the kingdoms of the earth under the dominion of his hand, and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:2",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: \u2018Go and say to Zedekiah the king of Judah, now you must say to him, \u201cThus says Yahweh: \u2018Look, I am going to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:3",
"text": "And you will not escape from his hand, but surely you will be captured, and into his hand you will be given, and \u231eyou will see the king of Babylon eye to eye\u231f, and \u231eyou will speak face to face with him\u231f, and to Babylon you will go.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:4",
"text": "However, hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah, the king of Judah. Thus says Yahweh concerning you: \u2018You will not die by the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:5",
"text": "In peace you will die, and as there was burning for your ancestors, the former kings who were \u231ebefore you\u231f, so they will burn for you, and they will lament for you, \u201cAlas, lord!\u201d For the word I have spoken,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:6",
"text": "Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Zedekiah the king of Judah all these words in Jerusalem "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:7",
"text": "when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left over\u2014Lachish and Azekah, for these remained among the cities of Judah, the cities of fortification. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:8",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after king Zedekiah \u231emade\u231f a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:9",
"text": "to let go each one his male slave and each one his female slave, the Hebrew and the free Hebrew, so that no one among the Judeans should enslave his fellow countryman. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:10",
"text": "And all the officials and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant to let go each one his male slave and each one his female slave, not enslaving them again, and they obeyed and they let them go. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:11",
"text": "But \u231eafterward\u231f they turned back and they brought back the male slaves and the female slaves whom they had let go free, and they subdued them as male slaves and female slaves. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:12",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:13",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: \u2018I \u231emade\u231f a covenant with your ancestors on the day of my bringing them out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:14",
"text": "\u201cAt the end of seven years you must let go each one his fellow countryman, the Hebrew who has been sold to you and who has served you six years, and you must let him go free from you.\u201d But your ancestors did not listen to me, and they did not incline their ears. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:15",
"text": "And you turned back \u231erecently\u231f and you did right in my eyes, to proclaim release each one to his neighbor, and you \u231emade\u231f a covenant \u231ebefore me\u231f in the house that is called \u231eby\u231f my name. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:16",
"text": "But you turned back and you profaned my name when you brought back each one his male slave and each one his female slave, whom you had let go free according to their desire, and you subdued them to be to you as male slaves and as female slaves.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:17",
"text": " \u201c\u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh, \u2018You have not listened to me to proclaim release each one to his fellow countryman and each one to his neighbor. Look, I am going to proclaim to you a release,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018to the sword, to the plague, and to the famine, and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:18",
"text": "And I will make the men who transgressed my covenant, who have not kept the words of the covenant that they \u231emade\u231f \u231ebefore me\u231f, like the calf which they cut in two and they passed between its parts\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:19",
"text": "the officials of Judah, and the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:20",
"text": "and I will give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of the seekers of their lives, and their dead bodies will become as food for the birds of the heavens and for the animals of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:21",
"text": "And Zedekiah the king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of the seekers of their lives, and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, who retreated from you. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Jeremiah 34:22",
"text": "Look, I am going to command,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and I will bring them back to this city, and they will fight against it, and they will capture it, and they will burn it with fire, and the towns of Judah I will make a desolation \u231ewithout\u231f an inhabitant.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:1",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:2",
"text": "\u201cGo to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of Yahweh into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:3",
"text": "So I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole of the house of the Rechabites, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:4",
"text": "and I brought them to the house of Yahweh, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was beside the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:5",
"text": " Then I \u231eset\u231f \u231ebefore\u231f the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine and cups, and I said to them, \u201cDrink wine.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:6",
"text": "But they answered, \u201cWe will not drink wine, for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our ancestor, commanded us, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018You shall not drink wine, you or your children, \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:7",
"text": "And you shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed, and you shall not plant a vineyard, and it shall not be for you, but in tents you shall live all your days, so that you may live many days on the surface of the land where you are dwelling as aliens.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:8",
"text": "And we obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our ancestor, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:9",
"text": "and not to build houses for our living, and there is not vineyard, or field, or seed for us. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:10",
"text": "But we have lived in tents, and we have obeyed, and we have done all that Jehonadab, our ancestor, commanded us. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:11",
"text": "\u231eBut then\u231f at the coming up against the land of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, then we said, \u2018Come and let us go to Jerusalem \u231ebefore\u231f the army of the Chaldeans, and \u231ebefore\u231f the army of the Arameans.\u2019 That is why we are living in Jerusalem.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:12",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:13",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: \u2018Go and say to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, \u201cCan you not learn a lesson to listen to my words?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:14",
"text": "\u201cThe words of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, that he commanded his descendants to not drink, have been carried out, and they have not drunk until this day, for they have obeyed the command of their ancestor. But \u231eI have spoken to you over and over again\u231f, and you have not listened to me. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:15",
"text": "And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, \u231eI have sent them over and over again\u231f, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Turn back please each one from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and you must not go after other gods to serve them, \u231eso that you may live\u231f on the land that I gave to you and to your ancestors.\u2019 But you did not incline your ear and you did not listen to me. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:16",
"text": "For the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, have carried out the command of their ancestor that he commanded them, but this people did not listen to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:17",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, \u201cLook, I am going to bring to Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem every disaster that I have spoken against them, because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, and I have called to them and they have not answered.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:18",
"text": "But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, \u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u2018Because you have listened to the command of Jonadab your ancestor, and you have kept all his commands, and you have done all that he commanded you,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Jeremiah 35:19",
"text": "\u231etherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: \u2018A man will not be cut off for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, to stand \u231ebefore me\u231f \u231ealways\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:1",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:2",
"text": "\u201cTake for yourself \u231ea scroll\u231f and you must write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day that I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, and until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:3",
"text": "Perhaps when the house of Judah hears all the disasters that I am planning to do to them, then they may turn back each one from his evil way, and I will forgive their guilt and their sin.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:4",
"text": " Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh that he had spoken to him on \u231ea scroll\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:5",
"text": "And Jeremiah instructed Baruch, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cI am held back, I am not able to enter the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:6",
"text": "So you must go and you shall read aloud from the scroll that you have written from my mouth the words of Yahweh in the hearing of the people in the temple of Yahweh on a day of fast, and also you shall read aloud in the hearing of all those of Judah who came from their towns. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:7",
"text": "Perhaps their plea will fall \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh and each one will turn away from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that Yahweh pronounced against this people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:8",
"text": "And Baruch the son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet instructed him, to read aloud from the scroll the words of Yahweh in the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:9",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:10",
"text": "Then Baruch read aloud from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the temple of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, the secretary, in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple of Yahweh in the hearing of all the people. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:11",
"text": " When Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of Yahweh from the scroll, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:12",
"text": "he went down to the house of the king, to the chamber of the secretary, and look, all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, and Delaiah, the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:13",
"text": "And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard at the reading aloud of Baruch from the scroll in the hearing of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:14",
"text": " Then all the officials sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cThe scroll that you read aloud from in the hearing of the people, take it in your hand and come.\u201d And Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and he came to them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:15",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cSit please and read it aloud in our hearing.\u201d So Baruch read aloud in their hearing. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:16",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, the moment of their hearing all the words, \u231ethey turned to one another in alarm\u231f and they said to Baruch, \u201cWe must certainly report all these words to the king!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:17",
"text": "Then they asked Baruch, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cTell us please, how did you write all these words, from his mouth?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:18",
"text": "And Baruch said to them, \u201cFrom his mouth. He dictated to me all these words and I was writing on the scroll with the ink.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:19",
"text": "Then the officials said to Baruch, \u201cGo, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and let not a man know where you are.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:20",
"text": " And they went to the king, to the courtyard, and they \u231eput\u231f the scroll for safe-keeping in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and they reported all the words in the hearing of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:21",
"text": "Then the king sent Jehudi to take the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and Jehudi read it aloud in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the officials who stood next to the king. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:22",
"text": "Now the king was sitting in the quarters of the winter in the ninth month, and a fire-pot was burning \u231ebefore\u231f him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:23",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, as Jehudi read three or four columns, he would cut it up in pieces with the knife of the scribe, and he would throw it into the fire that was in the fire-pot until the whole of the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire-pot. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:24",
"text": "And the king and any of his servants who heard all these words were not startled, and they did not tear their garments. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:25",
"text": "And even when Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:26",
"text": "And the king commanded Jerahmeel, the son of the king, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but Yahweh hid them. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:27",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after the king burned the scroll and the words that Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:28",
"text": "\u201c\u231eTake again\u231f for yourself another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, has burned. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:29",
"text": "And concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, you shall say, \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cYou have burned this scroll, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Why have you written in it, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cThe king of Babylon will certainly come and he will destroy this land, and he will cause to disappear from it humankind and animals\u201d?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:30",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, \u201cThere will not be for him one who sits on the throne of David. And his dead body will be thrown out to the heat in the day and to the frost in the night. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:31",
"text": "And I will punish him, and his offspring, and his servants for their guilt, and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the people of Judah all the disaster with which I have threatened them, but they would not listen.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Jeremiah 36:32",
"text": "Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the secretary, and he wrote on it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, had burned in the fire, and furthermore was added to them many words like these. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:1",
"text": " And king Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had made king, reigned as king in the land of Judah in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:2",
"text": "But he and his servants and the people of the land did not listen to the words of Yahweh that he spoke by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:3",
"text": "And king Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cPlease pray for us to Yahweh our God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:4",
"text": "Now Jeremiah was coming and going out in the midst of the people and they had not put him in the house of imprisonment. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:5",
"text": "And the army of Pharaoh had come out from Egypt, and the Chaldeans, who were laying siege to Jerusalem, heard their report and they withdrew from Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:6",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:7",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, \u2018This is what you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me, \u201cLook, the army of Pharaoh, which set out to help you, is going to return to his land Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:8",
"text": "And the Chaldeans will return, and they will fight against this city, and they will capture it, and they will burn it with fire.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:9",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u2018You must not deceive yourselves, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cSurely the Chaldeans will go from us,\u201d for they will not go. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:10",
"text": "For even if you struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and only men pierced through remained among them, each one in his tent, they would rise up and they would burn this city with fire.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:11",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f, at the withdrawing of the army of the Chaldeans from Jerusalem \u231ebefore\u231f the army of Pharaoh, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:12",
"text": "Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive a portion from there in the midst of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:13",
"text": "\u231eAnd when\u231f he was at the Gate of Benjamin, there was \u231ea sentry on duty\u231f whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cYou are deserting to the Chaldeans!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:14",
"text": "And Jeremiah said, \u201cThat is a lie! I am not deserting to the Chaldeans.\u201d But he would not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:15",
"text": "And the officials were angry at Jeremiah and they struck him. And they put him in \u231eprison\u231f, in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for they had converted it to the \u231eprison\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:16",
"text": "So Jeremiah came to the \u231edungeon\u231f, even to the vaulted cells, and Jeremiah stayed there many days. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:17",
"text": " Then King Zedekiah sent and fetched him. And the king questioned him in secrecy in his house, and he said, \u201cIs there a word from Yahweh?\u201d And Jeremiah said, \u201cThere is.\u201d And he said, \u201cYou will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:18",
"text": " Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, \u201cWhat did I do wrong to you, or to your servants, or to this people, that you have put me in \u231eprison\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:19",
"text": "And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:20",
"text": "Now then, my lord the king, please let my plea fall \u231ebefore you\u231f. You must not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, so that I will not die there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Jeremiah 37:21",
"text": "So King Zedekiah commanded, and they handed Jeremiah over in the courtyard of the guard, and they gave to him a round loaf of bread from the street of the bakers \u231eevery day\u231f until the finishing of all the bread from the city. And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:1",
"text": " Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:2",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh, \u2018The one who stays in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague. But the one who goes out to the Chaldeans will live. And his life will be for him as booty, and he will live.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:3",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh, \u2018Surely this city will be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:4",
"text": " Then the officials said to the king, \u201cPlease, this man must be killed, \u231ebecause\u231f he is making slack the hands of \u231ethe soldiers\u231f who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking to them words like these, for this man is not seeking for welfare to this people, \u231ebut only\u231f for harm.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:5",
"text": "And Zedekiah the king said, \u201cLook, he is in your hand, for the king is not able to do a thing against you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:6",
"text": "So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchiah, the son of the king, which was in the courtyard of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down by ropes. Now in the pit there was no water, \u231ebut only\u231f mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:7",
"text": " When Ebed-melech the Cushite, \u231ea eunuch\u231f who was in the house of the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the pit\u2014now the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:8",
"text": "Ebed-melech went out from the house of the king and spoke to the king, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:9",
"text": "\u201cMy lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, in that they have thrown him into the pit, and he will die \u231ethere\u231f \u231ebecause of\u231f starvation, for there is no longer any bread in the city.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:10",
"text": "Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cTake \u231ewith you\u231f these thirty men and pull Jeremiah the prophet up from the pit \u231ebefore\u231f he dies.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:11",
"text": " So Ebed-melech took the men \u231ewith him\u231f and went to the palace of the king, to a place beneath the storehouse, and he took from there \u231erags\u231f and \u231eworn-out clothes\u231f. And he let them down into the pit by ropes to Jeremiah. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:12",
"text": "Then Ebed-melech the Cushite said to Jeremiah, \u201cPlease put \u231ethe rags\u231f and \u231eworn-out clothes\u231f under the joints of your arms under the ropes,\u201d and Jeremiah did so. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:13",
"text": "And they pulled Jeremiah by the ropes and brought him up from the pit. And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:14",
"text": " And Zedekiah the king sent and made someone bring Jeremiah the prophet to him, to the third entrance that was at the \u231etemple\u231f of Yahweh. And the king said to Jeremiah, \u201cI am asking you \u231esomething\u231f, you must not hide \u231eanything\u231f from me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:15",
"text": "And Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, \u201cIf I tell you, will you not surely kill me? \u231eBesides\u231f, if I advise you, you will not listen to me. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:16",
"text": "So Zedekiah the king swore to Jeremiah in secret, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f, who has made for us this life, I will not kill you and I will not give you into the hand of these men who are seeking your life.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:17",
"text": " Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, \u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, \u2018If only you will go surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then \u231eyou\u231f will live, and this city will not be burned with fire, and you will live, you and your house. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:18",
"text": "But if you do not go surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you will not escape from their hand.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:19",
"text": " And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, \u201cI am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand and they abuse me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:20",
"text": "And Jeremiah said, \u201cThey will not give you over. Please obey the voice of Yahweh with regard to what I am saying to you, and it will go well with you, and \u231eyou\u231f will live. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:21",
"text": "But if you are refusing to surrender, this is the thing that Yahweh has shown me. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:22",
"text": "Now look, all the women who remain in the house of the king of Judah are being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon. And look, they are saying, \u2018\u231eYour trusted friends\u231f have misled you, and they have prevailed against you. Your feet are stuck in the mud, so they turned backward.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:23",
"text": " And all your wives and your children will be led out to the Chaldeans, and you will not escape from their hand, but by the hand of the king of Babylon you will be seized, and this city will burn with fire.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:24",
"text": " And Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, \u201cNo man must know about these words so that you will not die. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:25",
"text": "And if the officials hear that I have spoken with you, and they come to you and say to you, \u2018Please tell us what you said to the king. You must not conceal it from us so that we will not kill you. And what did the king say to you?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:26",
"text": "Then you shall say to them, \u2018I was presenting my plea \u231ebefore\u231f the king, to not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan to die there.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:27",
"text": "And all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, and he informed them like all these words that the king commanded. So they fell silent, for the \u231econversation\u231f was not heard. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Jeremiah 38:28",
"text": "And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was captured. And it happened that Jerusalem was captured. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:1",
"text": " In the ninth year of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:2",
"text": "In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was taken by assault. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:3",
"text": "And all the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the chief officer, Nergal-sharezer the high official, with all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:4",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f \u231ewhen\u231f Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all \u231ethe soldiers\u231f with him, they fled and went out at night from the city by the way of the garden of the king through the gate between the walls. And they went out toward the Jordan Valley. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:5",
"text": "But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And they took him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath. And he pronounced \u231esentence\u231f on him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:6",
"text": "And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also slaughtered all the nobles of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:7",
"text": "Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and tied him up with bronze fetters to bring him to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:8",
"text": "And the Chaldeans burned the palace of the king and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:9",
"text": " Then the rest of the people who were left in the city, and those deserting who had deserted to him, and the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, deported to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:10",
"text": "And some of the poor people, \u231ewho had nothing\u231f, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left in the land of Judah. And he gave them vineyards and fields on that day. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:11",
"text": " And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon commanded concerning Jeremiah \u231ethrough\u231f Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:12",
"text": "\u201cTake him and set your eyes on him. And you must not do something bad to him, \u231ebut only\u231f that which he speaks to you, so do with him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:13",
"text": "So Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, sent word, \u231ealong with\u231f Nebushazban the chief officer, and Nergal-sharezer the high official, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:14",
"text": "And they sent and took Jeremiah from the courtyard of the guard and gave him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him to the house, so he stayed in the midst of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:15",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah at his confinement in the courtyard of the guard, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:16",
"text": "\u201cGo and say to Ebed-melech the Cushite, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: \u201cLook, I am about to bring my words to pass against this city for evil and not for good. And they will be \u231ebefore you\u231f on that day. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:17",
"text": "But I will rescue you on that day,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand you will not be given into the hand of the men \u231eof whom you are frightened\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Jeremiah 39:18",
"text": "For surely I will save you, and you will not fall by the sword. But your life will be for you as booty because you have trusted in me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:1",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had let him go from Ramah, \u231ewhere he had been taken\u231f bound in chains in the midst of all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being deported to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:2",
"text": "And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, \u201cYahweh your God threatened this disaster to this place, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:3",
"text": "and now he has brought it about, and Yahweh has done \u231ejust as\u231f he threatened. Because you sinned against Yahweh and did not listen to his voice, so this thing has happened to you. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:4",
"text": "And so then look, I have released you \u231etoday\u231f from the chains that were on your hands. If it is good in your eyes to come with me to Babylon, then come, and \u231eI will take care of you\u231f. But if it is bad in your eyes to come with me to Babylon, then refrain. Look, the whole land is \u231ebefore you\u231f. To wherever it is good and right in your eyes to go, then go there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:5",
"text": "While he still had not turned back, Nebuzaradan added, \u201cReturn to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed in an official position over the towns of Judah, and stay with him in the midst of the people. Or to wherever it is right in your eyes to go, then go there.\u201d Then the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of provisions and a present, and let him go. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:6",
"text": "So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah and stayed with him in the midst of the people who were left in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:7",
"text": " When all the commanders of the armies who were in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam in an official position in the land, and that \u231ehe had put him in charge of\u231f men, and women, and little children, and of the poor of the land, of all those who had not been deported to Babylon, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:8",
"text": "then they went to Gedaliah at Mizpah\u2014Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, and Jehonathan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:9",
"text": "And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cYou must not be afraid of serving the Chaldeans. Stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:10",
"text": "\u231eAs for me\u231f, look, I am staying at Mizpah to represent you \u231ebefore\u231f the Chaldeans who come to us. But you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil, and put them in your vessels, and live in your towns that you have seized.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:11",
"text": "And also all the Judeans who were in Moab, and among the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, and in Edom, and who were in all the lands, when they heard that the king of Babylon had given a remnant to Judah and that he had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, in an official position over them, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:12",
"text": "then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they were scattered. And they came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and they gathered wine and summer fruit that yielded \u231ein great abundance\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:13",
"text": " And Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:14",
"text": "and said to him, \u201c\u231eAre you at all aware\u231f that Baalis, the king of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, to kill you?\u201d But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:15",
"text": "Then Johanan the son of Kareah said to Gedaliah in secrecy at Mizpah, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cPlease let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and \u231enobody\u231f will know. Why should he kill you, so that all of Judah who are gathered to you will be scattered, and the remnant of Judah will perish?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Jeremiah 40:16",
"text": "But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, \u201cYou must not do this thing, for you are telling a lie about Ishmael.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:1",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f in the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, from the offspring of the kingship, and one of the chief officers of the king, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam at Mizpah, \u231ealong with\u231f ten men. And they ate bread together there at Mizpah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:2",
"text": "And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah got up, \u231ealong with\u231f the ten men who were with him, and they struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword and killed him whom the king of Babylon had appointed in an official position over the land. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:3",
"text": "Then Ishmael killed all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, \u231ealong with\u231f the Chaldeans who were found there, \u231ethe soldiers\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:4",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f on the second day of the killing of Gedaliah\u2014and \u231eno one\u231f knew\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:5",
"text": "then men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men with shaven beards and torn garments, who had cut themselves with blades, \u231ehaving\u231f grain offerings and frankincense in their hands to bring to the \u231etemple\u231f of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:6",
"text": "And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah came out to meet them from Mizpah, \u231eweeping as he came\u231f. \u231eAnd then\u231f as he was meeting them, he said to them, \u201cCome to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:7",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, the moment of their coming to the middle of the city, then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, \u231ealong with\u231f the men who were with him, slaughtered them and threw them to the middle of the pit. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:8",
"text": "But ten men were found among them, and they said to Ishmael, \u201cYou must not kill us, for \u231ewe have\u231f hidden treasures in the field, wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey. So he refrained and he did not kill them in the midst of their fellow countrymen. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:9",
"text": "Now the pit into which Ishmael threw all the corpses of the men whom he had killed \u231ealong with\u231f Gedaliah was the same one that King Asa had made because of Baasha the king of Israel, who was against him. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain ones. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:10",
"text": " Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the daughters of the king and all the people who were left at Mizpah, over whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And Ishmael took them captive and set out to cross over to the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:11",
"text": " When Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were with him, heard all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:12",
"text": "then they took all the men and went to fight against Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. And they met him at the great pool that is in Gibeon. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:13",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, the moment that all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were with him, they were glad. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:14",
"text": "So all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and returned and went to Johanan the son of Kareah. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:15",
"text": "But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped with eight men \u231efrom\u231f Johanan, and they went to the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:16",
"text": " Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were with him took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, strong men, \u231esoldiers\u231f, and women, and little children, and eunuchs whom he brought back from Gibeon. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:17",
"text": "And they set out and stayed at the lodging place of Chimham that is near Bethlehem, \u231eintending\u231f to go to Egypt "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Jeremiah 41:18",
"text": "because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid \u231eof them\u231f, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed in an official position over the land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:1",
"text": " Then all the commanders of the armies, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the smallest to the greatest, approached "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:2",
"text": "and said to Jeremiah the prophet, \u201cMay our plea please fall \u231ebefore you\u231f, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes are seeing us. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:3",
"text": "And let Yahweh your God inform us the way in which we should go and the thing that we should do.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:4",
"text": "And Jeremiah the prophet said to them, \u201cI have heard. Look, I am going to pray to Yahweh your God according to your words, \u231eand then\u231f all the words that Yahweh answers you I will tell you; I will not withhold from you a word.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:5",
"text": "Then they said to Jeremiah, \u201cMay Yahweh be against us as \u231ea true and faithful witness\u231f if we do not do according to all the words that Yahweh sends you for us. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:6",
"text": "Whether good or bad, we will listen to the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of Yahweh our God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:7",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f at the end of ten days the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:8",
"text": "And he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the armies who were with him, and all the people from the smallest to the greatest, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:9",
"text": "and said to them, \u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to cause your plea to fall \u231ebefore him\u231f: "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:10",
"text": "\u2018If only you will stay in this land, then I will build you and I will not tear you down, and I will plant you and I will not pluck you up, for I relent of the disaster that I have brought to you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:11",
"text": "You must not be afraid \u231eof\u231f the king of Babylon whom you are \u231eafraid of\u231f. You must not be afraid of him,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018for I am with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:12",
"text": "And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and will restore you to your soil. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:13",
"text": " But if you are saying, \u201cWe will not stay in this land,\u201d so as to not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:14",
"text": "saying, \u201cNo, for we will go to the land of Egypt where we will not see war, and we will not hear the sound of a horn, and we will not be hungry for bread, and there we will stay,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:15",
"text": "then \u231etherefore\u231f hear the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: \u201c\u231eIf you are determined\u231f to go to Egypt, and you go to dwell as aliens there, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:16",
"text": "then it will be that the sword that you are in fear of will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine that you are anxious of will pursue after you there into Egypt, and there you will die. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:17",
"text": "So all the people who \u231eare determined\u231f to go to Egypt to dwell as aliens there will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, and there will not be for them an escapee or a survivor from the disaster that I am bringing upon them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:18",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: \u201cAs my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will pour out on you at your going to Egypt, and you will become a curse, and a horror, and a curse formula, and a disgrace, and you will no longer see this place.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:19",
"text": " Yahweh has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, \u2018You must not go to Egypt.\u2019 You must certainly know that I have warned you \u231etoday\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:20",
"text": "that \u231eyou have made a fatal mistake\u231f, for you sent me to Yahweh your God, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Pray for us to Yahweh our God, and all that Yahweh our God says, so tell us and we will do it.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:21",
"text": "So I have told you \u231etoday\u231f, and you have not listened to the voice of Yahweh your God, or of \u231eanything\u231f that he sent me for you. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Jeremiah 42:22",
"text": "Now then, certainly you must know that by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague you will die in the place where you desire to go, to dwell as aliens there.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:1",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, when Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, for which Yahweh their God had sent him to them with all these words, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:2",
"text": "Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the insolent men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, \u201cYou are telling a lie! Yahweh our God did not send you, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018You must not go to Egypt to dwell as aliens there.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:3",
"text": "But Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us in order to give us into the hand of the Chaldeans, to kill us and to deport us to Babylon.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:4",
"text": " So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies, and all the people did not listen to the voice of Yahweh to stay in the land of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:5",
"text": "But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies took all the remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations to which they had been scattered to dwell as aliens in the land of Judah\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:6",
"text": "the men, and the women, and the little children, and the daughters of the king, and \u231eeveryone\u231f whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the \u231eguard\u231f had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:7",
"text": "and they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh. And they came up to Tahpanhes. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:8",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:9",
"text": "\u201cTake in your hands large stones and bury them in the mortar in the clay floor that is at the entrance of the palace of Pharaoh in Tahpanhes before the eyes of the people of the Judeans, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:10",
"text": "and say to them, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: \u201cLook, I am going to send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he will spread out his canopy over them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:11",
"text": "And he will come and ravage the land of Egypt, and deliver those who are appointed for the plague, to the plague, and those who are appointed for the captivity, to the captivity, and those who are appointed for the sword, to the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:12",
"text": "Then he will kindle a fire in the \u231etemples\u231f of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. And he will wrap up the land of Egypt just as the shepherd wraps up his cloak. And he will go forth from there in peace. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Jeremiah 43:13",
"text": "And he will break the stone pillars of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt. And he will burn the \u231etemples\u231f of the gods of Egypt with fire.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:1",
"text": " The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who were living in the land of Egypt, who were living at Migdol, and Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in the land of Pathros, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:2",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: \u2018You yourselves have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the towns of Judah. And look, they are a site of ruins this day, and there is not in them an inhabitant, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:3",
"text": "\u231ebecause of\u231f their wickedness that they committed to provoke me to anger by going to make smoke offerings, serving other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, or your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:4",
"text": "And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, \u231esending over and over again\u231f, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cPlease, you must not do this detestable thing that I hate.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:5",
"text": "But they did not listen and they did not incline their ears to turn back from their wickedness, to not make smoke offerings to other gods. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:6",
"text": "So my wrath and my anger were poured out and burned in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became as a site of ruins, as a desolation, as they are this day.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:7",
"text": " So then, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, \u2018Why are you doing great harm to \u231eyourselves\u231f, to cut off for yourselves man and woman, child and suckling, from the midst of Judah, to not leave over for yourselves a remnant, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:8",
"text": "provoking me to anger with the works of your hands, to make smoke offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to dwell as aliens, so as to cut off yourselves, and so that you are becoming as a curse, and as a disgrace among all the nations of the earth? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:9",
"text": "Have you forgotten the wicked things of your ancestors, and the wicked things of the kings of Judah, and the wicked things of their wives, and your wicked things, and the wicked things of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:10",
"text": "They have not shown contrition up to this day, and they have not shown reverence, and they have not walked in my law and in my statutes that I set \u231ebefore you\u231f and \u231ebefore\u231f your ancestors.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:11",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: \u2018Look, \u231eI am determined to bring disaster on you\u231f, even to exterminate all Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:12",
"text": "And I will take away the remnant of Judah \u231ewho are determined\u231f to come to the land of Egypt to dwell as aliens there, and everyone will perish. They will fall in the land of Egypt by the sword; they will perish by the famine, from the smallest to the greatest. By the sword and by the famine they will die and become as a curse, as a horror, and as a curse, and as a disgrace. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:13",
"text": "So I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt just as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:14",
"text": "And there will not be a survivor or an escapee of the remnant of Judah, those who have come to dwell as an alien there in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Judah where they are \u231elonging\u231f to return to dwell there, for they will not turn back, \u231ebut only\u231f some survivors.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:15",
"text": " Then all the men who knew that their wives were making smoke offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, and all the people who lived in the land of Egypt in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:16",
"text": "\u201cConcerning the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to listen to you! "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:17",
"text": "But certainly we will do \u231eeverything\u231f that went out from our mouths, to make smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out to her libations just as we did, we, and our ancestors, our kings, and our officials, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, for then \u231ewe had enough to eat\u231f, and we were well-off, and we did not see disaster. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:18",
"text": "But \u231esince\u231f we stopped making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything, and by the sword and by the famine we have perished. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:19",
"text": "And indeed, when we were making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and \u231epouring out\u231f to her libations, was it not \u231ewith the consent of\u231f our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes \u231emarked with her image\u231f, and we poured out to her libations?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:20",
"text": " Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women, and to all the people who answered him a word, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:21",
"text": "\u201cThe offering that you made, smoke offerings in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you, and your ancestors, your kings, and your officials, and the people of the land, did not Yahweh remember them, and did it not come to his \u231emind\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:22",
"text": "And Yahweh was no longer able to bear it, \u231ebecause of\u231f the evil of your deeds, \u231ebecause of\u231f the detestable things that you committed. Thus your land became as a site of ruins, and as a horror, and as a curse, \u231ewithout\u231f inhabitants, as it is this day. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:23",
"text": "\u231eBecause of\u231f the fact that you made smoke offerings, and that you sinned against Yahweh, and you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you have not walked in his law, and in his statute, and in his legal provisions, \u231etherefore\u231f this disaster has happened to you, as it is this day.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:24",
"text": " Then Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the women, \u201cHear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:25",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018You and your wives have promised with your mouths and with your hands you have fulfilled, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cWe certainly will carry out our vows that we vowed, to make smoke offerings to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations.\u201d You must certainly keep your vows and you must certainly carry out your vows.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:26",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah, those who live in the land of Egypt: \u2018Look, I hereby swear by my great name,\u2019 says Yahweh, \u2018surely my name will no longer be called in the mouth of any man of Judah, saying, \u201c\u231eas the Lord Yahweh lives\u231f,\u201d in all the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:27",
"text": "Look, I am going to watch over them for harm and not for good, and all people of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will perish by the sword and by the famine until their perishing. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:28",
"text": "And the survivors of the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah \u231efew in number\u231f. And all the remnant of Judah who have come to the land of Egypt to dwell as aliens there will know whose word will endure, from me or from them. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:29",
"text": "And this will be to you the sign,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that surely my words will endure against you for evil.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Jeremiah 44:30",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u2018Look, I am going to give Pharaoh Hophra, the king of Egypt, into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life, just as I gave Zedekiah the king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, his enemy and the one who sought his life.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Jeremiah 45",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Jeremiah 45:1",
"text": " The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch, the son of Neriah, at his writing these words on a scroll from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Jeremiah 45:2",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Jeremiah 45:3",
"text": "\u2018You said, \u201cWoe please to me, for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary in my groaning and I do not find rest.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Jeremiah 45:4",
"text": "Thus you will say to him: \u2018Thus says Yahweh, \u201cLook, what I have built I am about to tear down, and what I have planted I am about to pluck up, it is all the land. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Jeremiah 45:5",
"text": "And you, do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek great things, for look, I am about to bring disaster upon all flesh,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cbut to you I will give your life as booty in all the places where you may go.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:1",
"text": " The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:2",
"text": "Concerning Egypt: Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, the king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:3",
"text": " \u201cPrepare small shield and shield, and approach for the battle! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:4",
"text": " Harness the horses and mount the steeds! And take your stand with helmets! Polish the spears! Put on the body armor! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:5",
"text": " Why do I see them terrified? They are turning back and their warriors are beaten down. And they have fled to a place of refuge and they do not turn back. Terror is from all around,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:6",
"text": " The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape. They have stumbled and they have fallen, by the bank of the Euphrates River. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:7",
"text": " Who is this that rises like the Nile, like the rivers whose waters surge? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:8",
"text": " Egypt rises like the Nile, even like the rivers whose waters surge. And he says, \u201cLet me rise, let me cover the earth, let me destroy cities, and the inhabitants in them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:9",
"text": " Go up, O horses, and drive madly, O chariots, and let the warriors go forth; Cush and Put, who wield the small shield, and Lud, who wield and bend the bow. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:10",
"text": " For that day is to the Lord Yahweh of hosts a day of retribution, to take revenge on his foes. And the sword will devour and be satisfied, and it will drink its fill of their blood, for a sacrifice is for the Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the north by the Euphrates River. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:11",
"text": " Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin of the daughter of Egypt. \u231eIn vain\u231f you make use of many medicines; there is no healing for you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:12",
"text": " The nations have heard your shame, and your cry of lament fills the earth. For warrior has stumbled against warrior, together they have fallen, the two of them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:13",
"text": " The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon to attack the land of Egypt: "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:14",
"text": " \u201cDeclare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol, and proclaim in Memphis and in Tahpanhes, say, \u2018Take your stand and be prepared, for the sword will devour those all around you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:15",
"text": " Why are your bulls defeated? He did not stand because Yahweh thrust him down. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:16",
"text": " He multiplied the ones stumbling. Furthermore, each one fell to his neighbor, and said, \u2018Stand up, and let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, \u231ebecause of\u231f the \u231epresence\u231f of the sword of the oppressor.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:17",
"text": " They will call there, \u2018Pharaoh, the king of Egypt is but a roar, \u231ehe missed the opportunity\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:18",
"text": " \u231eAs I live\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the king, Yahweh of hosts is his name, \u201cone will come like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:19",
"text": " Pack your baggage for exile, O inhabitants of the daughter of Egypt, for Memphis will become as a horror, and it will be destroyed, \u231ewithout\u231f inhabitant. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:20",
"text": " Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north will come against her. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:21",
"text": " Even her mercenaries in her midst are like calves of fattening, for they also have turned away, they have fled together. They stand not, for the day of their calamity has come, the time of their punishment. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:22",
"text": " Her sound is like a snake that glides away, for they march in force. And with axes they come to her like those who chop trees. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:23",
"text": " They will cut down her forest,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cfor \u231eit is impenetrable\u231f. Yes, they are more numerous than locusts, and \u231ethey are without number\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:24",
"text": " The daughter of Egypt will be ashamed, she will be given into the hand of the people of the north.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:25",
"text": " Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, said, \u201cLook, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:26",
"text": "And I will give them into the hand of the seekers of their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and into the hand of his troops. But \u231eafterward\u231f it will be inhabited, as in days of old,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:27",
"text": " \u201cBut as for you, my servant Jacob, you must not be afraid, and Israel, you must not be dismayed, for look, I am going to save you from far, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return, and he will be quiet, and he will be at ease, and without one who makes him afraid. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Jeremiah 46:28",
"text": " You must not be afraid, my servant Jacob,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cfor I am with you. For I will make a complete destruction in all the nations where I scattered you, but you I will not make a complete destruction, though I will chastise you to the measure, and I will certainly not leave you unpunished.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Jeremiah 47",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Jeremiah 47:1",
"text": " The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines \u231ebefore\u231f Pharaoh attacked Gaza. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Jeremiah 47:2",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u201cLook, waters are rising from the north, and they will become as a raging torrent, and they will overflow the land, and that which fills it, the city and those who live in it. And the people will cry out, and every inhabitant of the land will wail, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Jeremiah 47:3",
"text": " from the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, from the clattering of his chariots, the noise of their wheels. Fathers do not turn to their children because of the slackness of their hands. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Jeremiah 47:4",
"text": " Because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon every survivor who could help, for Yahweh is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Jeremiah 47:5",
"text": " Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is destroyed. O remnant of their valley, \u231ehow long\u231f will you cut yourself with a blade? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Jeremiah 47:6",
"text": " Ah, sword of Yahweh, \u231ehow long\u231f will you not be quiet? Gather to your sheath, keep quiet and stand still. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Jeremiah 47:7",
"text": " How can you be quiet when Yahweh has given an order to it? Against Ashkelon and against the shore of the sea, there he has appointed it.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:1",
"text": " Concerning Moab, thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: \u201cWoe to Nebo, for it is devastated. It is ashamed, Kiriathaim is captured. Misgab is ashamed, and it is filled with terror. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:2",
"text": " The glory of Moab is no longer. In Heshbon they planned evil against her. Come and let us cut her off from being a nation. Also, Madmen, you will be silent. After you will go the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:3",
"text": " The sound of a cry of distress arises from Horonaim, devastation and great destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:4",
"text": " Moab is broken, her little ones \u231emake heard\u231f a cry for help. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:5",
"text": " For the ascent of Luhith, in weeping they go weeping, For on the slope of Horonaim they have heard the distresses of the cry of distress of the destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:6",
"text": " Flee! Save your life! \u231eFor\u231f you must not be like the juniper tree in the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:7",
"text": " For because of your trusting in your works and in your treasures, even you yourselves will be taken, and Chemosh will go out into the exile, his priests and his officials together. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:8",
"text": " And the destroyer will come to every town, and a town will not escape. And the valley will be destroyed, and the plain will be destroyed, as Yahweh has spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:9",
"text": " Give salt for Moab, for certainly she will go to ruin, and her towns will become as a desolation, \u231ewithout\u231f an inhabitant in them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:10",
"text": " The one who does the work of Yahweh with slackness is cursed, and the one who keeps away blood from his sword is cursed. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:11",
"text": " Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has been quiet on his dregs, and he has not been poured out from vessel to vessel, and he has not gone into exile. \u231eTherefore\u231f his taste has remained unchanged, and his fragrance has not changed. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:12",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f look, days are coming,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand I will send to him \u231edecanters\u231f, and they will decant him, and his vessels they will empty out, and their jars they will smash. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:13",
"text": " Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel were ashamed of Bethel, their trust. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:14",
"text": " How can you say, \u2018we are warriors, and men of might for the battle.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:15",
"text": " Moab is destroyed, and his towns have gone up, and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughtering,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:16",
"text": " \u201cThe disaster of Moab is near to come, and his disaster \u231eapproaches very quickly\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:17",
"text": " Mourn for him, all his surroundings, and all those who knew his name. Say, \u2018How the staff of might is broken, the staff of glory.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:18",
"text": " Come down from glory and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant, daughter of Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your fortifications. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:19",
"text": " Stand by the road and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer. Ask the man who is fleeing and the woman who is escaping, say, \u2018What has happened?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:20",
"text": " Moab is ashamed, for it is filled with terror. Wail and cry out, tell it by Arnon that Moab is devastated. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:21",
"text": " Judgment has also come to the land of the plain, to Holon, and to Jahaz, and on Mephaath, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:22",
"text": "and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth-diblathaim, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:23",
"text": "and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:24",
"text": "and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, the far and the near. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:25",
"text": "The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:26",
"text": " \u201cMake him drunk, because he magnified himself against Yahweh, and let Moab wallow in his vomit. And he also will become a laughingstock. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:27",
"text": " Now was not Israel the laughingstock to you? Or was he found among thieves? For \u231eas often as\u231f you spoke over him you shook your head. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:28",
"text": " Leave the towns and dwell on the rock, O inhabitants of Moab, and be like the dove, it nests on the sides of the mouth of a ravine. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:29",
"text": " We have heard of the pride of Moab \u2014he is very proud\u2014 his height, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:30",
"text": " I know his insolence,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand his boastings are \u231efalse\u231f; they act \u231efalsely\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:31",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f over Moab I wail, and for all of Moab I cry out, for the people of Kir-heres I moan. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:32",
"text": " More than the weeping of Jazer I weep for you, O vine Sibmah. Your branches cross over the sea, up to the sea of Jazer they reach. Upon your summer fruit and upon your vintage the destroyer has fallen. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:33",
"text": " And joy and rejoicing have been taken away from the fruitful land, even from the land of Moab. And the wine from the wine presses I have caused to disappear. He will not tread with exuberant shouts. Exuberant shouts will not be exuberant shouts. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:34",
"text": " From the cry for help of Heshbon, up to Elealeh, up to Jahaz, they give their voice, from Zoar up to Horonaim, up to Eglath-shelishiyah, for even the waters of Nimrim have become as a desolation. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:35",
"text": " And I will cause to disappear for Moab,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthe one who presents a sacrifice at a high place, and the one who burns a smoke offering to his gods. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:36",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f my heart moans for Moab like the flute. It moans for the people of Kir-heres like the flute. \u231eTherefore\u231f the wealth they gained has perished. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:37",
"text": " For on every head is baldness, and every beard is trimmed. On all the hands, slashes, and on the loins, sackcloth. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:38",
"text": " On all the roofs of Moab, and in its public squares, there is wailing everywhere. For I have broken Moab like a vessel, there is no delight in it,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:39",
"text": " \u201cHow it is filled with terror! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back! He is disgraced! So Moab has become as a derision, and as a terror for all his surrounding peoples.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:40",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh, \u201cLook, like an eagle he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Moab. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:41",
"text": " Kerioth will be taken, and the strongholds will be conquered, and the hearts of the warriors of Moab will be on that day like the heart of a woman who is in labor. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:42",
"text": " And Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because against Yahweh he magnified himself. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:43",
"text": " Dread, and pit, and a trapping net are against you, O inhabitant of Moab,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:44",
"text": " \u201cHe who flees \u231ebefore\u231f the dread will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs up from the pit will be caught in the trapping net, for I will bring on Moab the year of their punishment,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:45",
"text": " \u201cIn the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stand without strength, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, and a flame from Sihon. And it has eaten the forehead of Moab, and the skulls of the people of tumult. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:46",
"text": " Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished. For your sons have been taken into captivity, and your daughters into captivity. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Jeremiah 48:47",
"text": " Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the last of the days,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u231eThus far\u231f is the judgment of Moab. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:1",
"text": " Concerning the \u231eAmmonites\u231f: Thus says Yahweh, \u201cAre there no sons for Israel? Or is there no heir for him? Why has Milcom taken possession of Gad, and his people dwelled in its towns? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:2",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f look, days are coming,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand I will sound against Rabbah, the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, the alarm of the war, and it will become as a mound of desolation, and its daughters will burn in the fire. Then Israel will dispossess his dispossessors,\u201d says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:3",
"text": " \u201cWail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated. Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth. Lament and run back and forth among the walls. For Milcom will go into exile, his priests and his officials together. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:4",
"text": " Why do you boast in your valleys? Your valleys are ebbing. O unfaithful daughter, who trusted in her treasures, who said, \u2018Who will come against me?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:5",
"text": " Look, I am going to bring dread on you,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Lord Yahweh of hosts, \u201cfrom all your surrounding neighbors. And you will be scattered, each one \u231ebefore it\u231f, and there is no one who gathers the fugitives. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:6",
"text": " Yet \u231eafterward\u231f I will restore the fortunes of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:7",
"text": " Concerning Edom, thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cIs there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel become lost from those who understand? Is their wisdom rotting? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:8",
"text": " Flee! Turn back! \u231eGet down low\u231f! O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau at the time when I will punish him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:9",
"text": " If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves in the night, they destroy only \u231eenough for them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:10",
"text": " But I have stripped Esau bare. I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to hide himself. His offspring are devastated, \u231ealong with\u231f his brothers, and his neighbors, and \u231ehe is no more\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:11",
"text": " Leave your orphans. I will let them live. And your widows, let them trust in me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:12",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh, \u201cLook, those \u231ewho are not condemned\u231f to drink the cup must certainly drink it. And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:13",
"text": "For I have sworn by myself,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthat Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be \u231eeverlasting sites of ruins\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:14",
"text": " I have heard a message from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent among the nations. \u201cGather and come against her, and rise for the battle.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:15",
"text": " \u201cFor look, I will make you small among the nations, despised by the humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:16",
"text": " Your terror has deceived you, the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, you who seize the height of the hill. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:17",
"text": " \u201cAnd Edom will become as a horror, \u231eeveryone who passes by it\u231f will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its blows. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:18",
"text": " As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors,\u201d says Yahweh, \u201c\u231eno one\u231f will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:19",
"text": " Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to \u231ea pastureland by a constantly flowing stream\u231f. So \u231eI will chase him away hurriedly\u231f from it. And whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like me, and who can summon me? And who is this, the shepherd who can stand \u231ebefore me\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:20",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Edom, and his plans that he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman. \u231eSurely\u231f they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. \u231eSurely\u231f he will cause to be desolated over them their grazing place. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:21",
"text": " The earth will quake from the sound of their falling. A cry of distress! Their voice will be heard at \u231ethe Red Sea\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:22",
"text": " Look, like an eagle he will go up and he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Bozrah. And the heart of the warriors of Edom will be in that day like the heart of a woman who is in labor. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:23",
"text": " Concerning Damascus: \u201cHamath and Arpad are ashamed, for they have heard bad news; they melt. There is concern in the sea. It is not able to keep quiet. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:24",
"text": " Damascus has grown slack. She has turned away to flee and panic. Anxiety has seized her, and labor pains have grasped her, like a woman in labor. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:25",
"text": " How the city of praise has not been abandoned! The city of my joy! "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:26",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f her young men will fall in her public squares, and all \u231ethe soldiers\u231f will perish in that day,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:27",
"text": " \u201cAnd I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Ben-hadad.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:28",
"text": " Concerning Kedar and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon defeated. Thus says Yahweh: \u201cRise up, go up against Kedar and destroy the people of the east. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:29",
"text": " They will take their tents, and their flocks, their tent curtains, and all their equipment, and their camels they will carry away for themselves, and they will call to them, \u2018Terror is from all around.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:30",
"text": " Flee! Wander far away! \u231eGet down low\u231f! O inhabitants of Hazor,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cFor Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has planned a plan against you. And he has schemed a scheme against you. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:31",
"text": " Rise up, go up against a nation which is at ease, living \u231esecurely\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cThere are no gates and there are no bars for them, they dwell alone. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:32",
"text": " And their camels will become as plunder, and the multitude of their livestock as spoil. And I will scatter to every wind those who are trimmed to the side, and from \u231eevery side\u231f I will bring their disaster,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:33",
"text": " \u201cAnd Hazor will become as a lair of jackals, a waste forever; no one will live there, and no son of humankind will dwell as an alien in it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:34",
"text": " The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the king of Judah, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:35",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018Look, I am going to break the bow of Elam, the first and best of their might. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:36",
"text": " And I will bring to Elam four winds, from the four corners of heaven, and I will scatter them to all these winds, and there will not be a nation where the scattered people of Elam will not go. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:37",
"text": " So I will shatter Elam \u231ebefore\u231f their enemies, and \u231ebefore\u231f the seekers of their life. And I will bring disaster upon them, \u231emy burning anger\u231f,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u2018And I will send after them the sword until I have destroyed them. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:38",
"text": " And I will set my throne in Elam and I will destroy from there king and officials,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 49,
"name": "Jeremiah 49:39",
"text": " \u2018\u231eAnd then\u231f in the last of the days I will restore the fortunes of Elam,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:1",
"text": " The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:2",
"text": " \u201cDeclare among the nations and proclaim, and lift up a banner. Proclaim, you must not conceal it. Say, \u2018Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is filled with terror, her idols are ashamed, her idols are filled with terror. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:3",
"text": " For a nation will come up against her from the north. It will make her land as a horror, and an inhabitant will not be in her. From humans to animals they all will wander off. They will go away. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:4",
"text": " In those days and in that time,\u2019\u00a0\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthe people of Israel will come, they and the people of Judah together. \u231eWeeping as they go\u231f, they will go, and Yahweh their God they will seek. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:5",
"text": " They will ask the way to Zion, turning their faces there. They will come and join themselves to Yahweh by \u231ean everlasting covenant\u231f that will not be forgotten. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:6",
"text": " My people have become lost sheep, their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They led them away to the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their resting place. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:7",
"text": " All those who found them have devoured them. And their foes have said, \u2018We are not guilty, \u231ebecause\u231f they have sinned against Yahweh, the \u231etrue pasture\u231f, even Yahweh, the hope of their ancestors.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:8",
"text": " Flee from the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans. Go out and be like he-goats \u231ebefore\u231f the flock. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:9",
"text": " For look, I am going to stir up, and I am going to bring against Babylon a contingent of great nations from the land of the north. And they will draw up a battle formation against her, from there she will be captured. Their arrows are like a warrior who has achieved success, he does not return without success. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:10",
"text": " And Chaldea will be as booty, all those who plunder her will be satisfied,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:11",
"text": " \u201cThough you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my inheritance, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass, and you neigh like the powerful stallions, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:12",
"text": " your mother will be very ashamed. She who gave birth to you will be humiliated. Look, she will be the least of the nations, a desert, dry land, and wilderness. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:13",
"text": " Because of the anger of Yahweh she will not be inhabited, but she will be a wasteland, all of her. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and will hiss because of all her wounds. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:14",
"text": " Draw up a battle formation at Babylon all around, all those who bend the bow, shoot at her. You must not spare arrows, for she has sinned against Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:15",
"text": " Raise a war cry against her on all sides. \u231eShe has surrendered\u231f. Her towers have fallen, her walls are ruined. For this is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take revenge on her. As she has done to others, so do to her. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:16",
"text": " Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who uses the sickle in the time of harvest. \u231eBecause of\u231f the sword of the oppressor each one will turn to their people, and each one will flee to their land. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:17",
"text": " Israel is a sheep scattered, lions drove them away. The first who devoured it was the king of Assyria, and now at the end Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, gnawed its bones.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:18",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u201cLook, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:19",
"text": " And I will restore Israel to its pasture, and it will feed on Carmel, and in Bashan, and on the hills of Ephraim, and in Gilead its hunger will be satisfied. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:20",
"text": " In those days and at that time,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthe guilt of Israel will be sought, but there is none, and the sins of Judah, but they will not be found, for I will forgive those I left behind. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:21",
"text": " To the land of Merathaim, go up against her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, massacre and destroy them,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand do according to all that I have commanded you. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:22",
"text": " The sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:23",
"text": " How the blacksmith\u2019s hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become as a horror among the nations! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:24",
"text": " I laid a bird snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon. But you yourself did not know. You were discovered and seized, because with Yahweh you measured yourself. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:25",
"text": " Yahweh has opened his armory, and he has brought out the weapons of his wrath, for it is a word for my Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:26",
"text": " Come against her from the end, open her granaries. Pile her up like heaps and destroy her. Let there be no remnant for her. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:27",
"text": " Massacre all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughtering. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:28",
"text": " There is the sound of fugitives and survivors from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance for his temple. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:29",
"text": " Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp all around her, there must not be for her an escape. Take revenge on her according to her deeds. According to all that she has done, so do to her. For against Yahweh she has behaved insolently, against the Holy One of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:30",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f her young men will fall in her public squares, and all \u231eher soldiers\u231f will perish on that day,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:31",
"text": " \u201cLook, I am against you, O arrogant one,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Lord Yahweh of hosts, \u201cfor your day has come, the time when I will punish you. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:32",
"text": " And the arrogant one will stumble and fall, and there is no one who raises him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour everything around him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:33",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cThe people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah likewise, \u231efor\u231f all their captors have seized them, they refuse to let them go free. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:34",
"text": " Their redeemer is strong, his name is Yahweh of hosts. Surely he will plead their case, in order to make peace for the earth, but to cause unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:35",
"text": " A sword against the Chaldeans,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials, and against her wise men. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:36",
"text": " A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become foolish. A sword against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:37",
"text": " A sword against his horses, and against his chariots, and against all the foreign troops who are in the midst of her, so that they may become as women. A sword against her treasures, so that they may be plundered. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:38",
"text": " A drought will come against her waters, and they will dry up, for it is a land of images, and because of the frightful objects, they act like madmen. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:39",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f desert creatures will live there with jackals, and daughters of ostriches will inhabit her. And she will not be inhabited again \u231eforever\u231f, and she will not be dwelt in \u231efor all generations\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:40",
"text": " As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cno one will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in her. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:41",
"text": " Look, a people is about to come from the north, and a great nation and many kings are woken up from the remotest part of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:42",
"text": " They keep hold of bow and short sword. They are cruel and they have no mercy. Their sound is like the sea, it roars, and upon horses they ride. Drawn up for battle as a man for the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:43",
"text": " The king of Babylon heard their report and his hands grew slack. Anxiety has seized him, fear and pain like the woman who gives birth. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:44",
"text": " Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan against \u231ea pastureland by a constantly flowing stream\u231f, so \u231eI will chase them away quickly\u231f from her, and I will appoint whoever is chosen over her. For who is like me, and who can summon me, and who is this shepherd who can stand \u231ebefore me\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:45",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Babylon, and his plans that he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans. \u231eSurely\u231f they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. \u231eSurely\u231f he will cause their grazing place to be desolate over them. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 50,
"name": "Jeremiah 50:46",
"text": " At the sound, \u2018Babylon has been captured,\u2019 the earth will quake, and a cry for help among the nations will be heard.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:1",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u201cLook, I am going to stir up against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai a destructive wind. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:2",
"text": " And I will send winnowers to Babylon, and they will winnow her, and they will lay waste her land, for they will be against her from all sides on the day of disaster. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:3",
"text": " Let not him who bends the bow shoot his bow, and let him not rise high in his body armor. And you must not spare her young men; destroy her whole army. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:4",
"text": " And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:5",
"text": " For neither Israel nor Judah is a widower from their God, from Yahweh of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:6",
"text": " Flee from the midst of Babylon and save each one his life. You must not perish because of her guilt. For this is the time of vengeance for Yahweh, he will repay her what is deserved. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:7",
"text": " Babylon was a cup of gold in the hand of Yahweh, making drunk all the earth. The nations drank of her wine. \u231eTherefore\u231f the nations acted like madmen. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:8",
"text": " Suddenly Babylon has fallen and she is shattered. Wail over her! Take balm for her wounds, perhaps she may be healed. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:9",
"text": " We tried to heal Babylon, and she was not healed. Forsake her and let us go each one to his country, for her judgment has reached to the heavens, and it has been lifted up to the skies. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:10",
"text": " Yahweh has brought forth our vindication. Come and let us make known in Zion the work of Yahweh our God. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:11",
"text": " Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. Because his plan concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance for his temple. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:12",
"text": " Against the walls of Babylon raise a banner; \u231epost a strong watch\u231f, post watchmen, prepare the ambushes, for Yahweh has both planned as well as performed what he has spoken concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:13",
"text": " O you who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, \u231ethe measure of your life\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:14",
"text": " Yahweh of hosts has sworn by himself, \u201cSurely I will fill you with troops like the creeping locusts, and they will sing over you a war cry.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:15",
"text": " He is the one who made the earth by his power, the one who created the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:16",
"text": " At the giving of his voice there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the patches of mist to go up from the end of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings out the wind from his storehouses. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:17",
"text": " All humankind turns out to be stupid, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by the divine image. For his cast image is a lie, and there is no breath in them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:18",
"text": " They are worthless, a work of mockery. At the time of their punishment, they will perish. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:19",
"text": " The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the creator of \u231eeverything\u231f, and the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of hosts is his name. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:20",
"text": " He says, \u201cYou are a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:21",
"text": " And I smash the horse with you, and its rider, and I smash the chariot with you, and its rider. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:22",
"text": " And I smash man and woman with you, and I smash the old man and the boy with you, and I smash the young man and the young woman with you. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:23",
"text": " And I smash the shepherd and his flock with you, and I smash the farmer and his team with you, and I smash the governors and the officials with you. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:24",
"text": " And I will repay Babylon, and all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their wickedness that they have done in Zion before your eyes,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:25",
"text": " \u201cLook, I am against you, O mountain of the destruction,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthe one that destroys the whole earth. And I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will roll you down from the cliffs, and I will make you as a mountain burned away. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:26",
"text": " They will not take from you a stone for a corner, and a stone for a foundation, for you will be \u231ean everlasting desolation\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:27",
"text": " Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon the nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horses like bristling creeping locusts. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:28",
"text": " Prepare the nations for holy war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and all their officials, and every land of their dominion. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:29",
"text": " And the land quakes and writhes, for the plans of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon as a horror, \u231ewithout\u231f inhabitant. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:30",
"text": " The warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight, they remain in the strongholds, their power has dried up, they have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire, her bars are broken. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:31",
"text": " one runner runs to meet another runner, and one messenger to meet another messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been captured, \u231efrom end to end\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:32",
"text": " And the fords have been seized, and the reed marshes have been burned with fire, and \u231ethe soldiers\u231f are horrified. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:33",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, \u201cThe daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trodden down, \u231ejust a little while\u231f and the time of the harvest will come for her.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:34",
"text": " Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me and sucked me dry; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has rinsed me. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:35",
"text": " \u201cMay the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon,\u201d the inhabitants of Zion will say; and \u201cMy blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,\u201d Jerusalem will say. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:36",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f thus says Yahweh, \u201cLook, I am going to contend your case, and I will avenge your vengeance, and I will cause her sea to dry up, and I will cause her fountain to dry up. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:37",
"text": " And Babylon will become as a heap of stones, a lair of jackals, an object of horror, and an object of hissing, \u231ewithout\u231f inhabitants. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:38",
"text": " They will roar together like the young lions, they will growl like the cubs of lions. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:39",
"text": " At their becoming hot I will set their banquets, and I will make them drunk, so that they will fall into a swoon, and they will sleep \u231ean everlasting sleep\u231f, and they will not wake up,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:40",
"text": " \u201cI will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and goats. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:41",
"text": " How Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an object of horror among the nations! "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:42",
"text": " The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:43",
"text": " Her cities have become as an object of horror, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no person lives, nor does a son of humankind pass through it. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:44",
"text": " And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will wrench out from his mouth \u231ewhat he has swallowed\u231f. And the nations will not stream towards him any longer \u231ewhat\u2019s worse\u231f, the wall of Babylon has fallen. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:45",
"text": " Come out from her midst, my people, and save each one his life from \u231ethe burning anger of\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:46",
"text": " Now \u231eso that you are not fainthearted\u231f, and you are afraid at the rumors that are heard in the land\u2014 and in the year the rumor comes, and in the year after it the rumor, and violence is in the land, with ruler against ruler\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:47",
"text": " \u231etherefore\u231f look, days are coming, and I will punish the images of Babylon, and all her land will be put to shame, and all her slain ones will fall in the midst of her. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:48",
"text": " Then the heaven and the earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon, for from the north the destroyers will come to it,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:49",
"text": " Babylon must fall not only because of the slain ones of Israel, but also because of Babylon the slain ones of all the earth have fallen. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:50",
"text": " Survivors of the sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your \u231emind\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:51",
"text": " We are ashamed, for we have heard taunts, disgrace covers our faces, for strangers have come to the holy places of the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:52",
"text": " \u201c\u231eTherefore\u231f look, days are coming,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cand I will punish her images, and the fatally wounded will sigh through all her land. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:53",
"text": " Though Babylon goes up to the heavens, and though she fortifies the high place of her strength, from me destroyers will come to her,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:54",
"text": " The sound of a cry for help from Babylon, and a great collapse from the land of the Chaldeans. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:55",
"text": " For Yahweh is devastating Babylon, and he obliterates her loud noise from her. Their waves roar like mighty waters, the roar of their voices resounds. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:56",
"text": " For a destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, and her warriors are captured. Their bows are broken; for Yahweh is a God of recompense, certainly he will repay. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:57",
"text": " \u201cAnd I will make drunk her officials, and her wise men, her governors, and her officials, and her warriors, and they will sleep \u231ean everlasting sleep\u231f, and they will not wake up,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:58",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cThe broad walls of Babylon will be utterly demolished, and her high gates will burn with fire, and the peoples will labor \u231efor nothing\u231f, and the nations \u231efor fire\u231f, and they will grow weary.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:59",
"text": " The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, at his going with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was the \u231equartermaster\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:60",
"text": "And Jeremiah wrote all the disasters that would come on Babylon in one scroll, all these words that are written concerning Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:61",
"text": "And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, \u201cAt your coming to Babylon, then you must see that you read aloud all these words. "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:62",
"text": "And you must say, \u2018Yahweh, you yourself spoke against this place, to destroy it, so that there will not be in it anything living, from humankind to animals, for it will be \u231ean everlasting desolation\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:63",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f when you finish reading aloud this scroll, you must tie a stone on it, and you must throw it into the middle of the Euphrates. "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 51,
"name": "Jeremiah 51:64",
"text": "And you must say, \u2018Babylon will sink, and she will not rise, \u231ebecause of\u231f the face of the disasters that I am bringing on her, and they will grow weary.\u2019\u00a0\u201d \u231eThus far\u231f the words of Jeremiah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:1",
"text": " Zedekiah was \u231etwenty-one years old\u231f at his beginning to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:2",
"text": "And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh like all that Jehoiakim had done. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:3",
"text": "For because of the \u231eanger\u231f of Yahweh this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until his casting them from his \u231epresence\u231f. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:4",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came against Jerusalem, he and all his army. And they laid siege to it, and built siege works against it all around. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:5",
"text": "So the city came \u231eunder siege\u231f until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:6",
"text": " In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine in the city became severe and there was no food for the people of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:7",
"text": "Then the city was breached, and all \u231ethe soldiers\u231f fled and went out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls that are at the garden of the king, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went in the direction of the Jordan Valley. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:8",
"text": "But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:9",
"text": "Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and \u231ehe passed sentence on him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:10",
"text": "And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:11",
"text": "Then he made blind the eyes of Zedekiah, and they tied him up with bronze fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon. And he put him in \u231eprison\u231f until the day of his death. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:12",
"text": " Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood \u231ebefore\u231f the king of Babylon, entered into Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:13",
"text": "And he burned the \u231etemple\u231f of Yahweh, and the palace of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he burned with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:14",
"text": "And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:15",
"text": "And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard deported some of the poor of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and the deserters who deserted to the king of Babylon, along with the rest of the craftsmen. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:16",
"text": "But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land to serve as vinedressers and farmers. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:17",
"text": " And the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the \u231etemple\u231f of Yahweh, and the kettle stands and the sea of bronze that were in the \u231etemple\u231f of Yahweh, and they carried all their bronze to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:18",
"text": "And they took with them the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pans, and all the vessels of bronze which were used in temple service. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:19",
"text": "And the captain of the guard took the bowls, and the firepans, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the pans, and the libation bowls, \u231ethose made of solid gold\u231f and \u231ethose made of solid silver\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:20",
"text": "The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze oxen that were under the kettle stands which King Solomon had made for the \u231etemple\u231f of Yahweh\u2014there was not a weight for the bronze of all these vessels! "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:21",
"text": "Now the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a thread of twelve cubits surrounded it, and its thickness was four fingers, hollowed out. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:22",
"text": "And a capital upon it was bronze and the height of the one capital was five cubits, and latticework and pomegranates were on the capital on all sides, all of bronze. And like these was the second pillar with pomegranates. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:23",
"text": "And there were ninety-six pomegranates \u231eon the sides\u231f; all the pomegranates on the latticework on all sides were a hundred. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:24",
"text": " Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah \u231ethe chief priest\u231f, and Zephaniah \u231ethe second priest\u231f, and three keepers of the threshold. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:25",
"text": "And from the city he took one high official who was chief officer over \u231ethe soldiers\u231f, and seven men of \u231ethe king\u2019s advisors\u231f who were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander of the army who levied for military service the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:26",
"text": "Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:27",
"text": "And the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah left from its land. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:28",
"text": " This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans; "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:29",
"text": "in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two persons from Jerusalem; "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:30",
"text": "in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, deported seven hundred and forty-five Judean persons; there were four thousand six hundred persons in all. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:31",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, the king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and brought him out from \u231eprison\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:32",
"text": "Then he spoke with him kindly and gave his seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:33",
"text": "So he changed the garments of his imprisonment and he ate food \u231ebefore him\u231f continually all the days of his life. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 52,
"name": "Jeremiah 52:34",
"text": "And his allowance, a continual allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon \u231eon a daily basis\u231f all the days of his life up to the day of his death. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Lamentations",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:1",
"text": " How desolate the city sits that was full of people! She has become like a widow, once great among the nations! Like a woman of nobility in the provinces, she has become a forced laborer. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:2",
"text": " She weeps bitterly in the night, her tears are on her cheeks; she has no comforter among all her lovers. All her friends have been unfaithful to her; they have become her enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:3",
"text": " Judah has gone into exile with misery and under hard servitude; she lives among the nations, she has not found a resting place; all her pursuers have overtaken her amidst her distress. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:4",
"text": " The roads of Zion are mourning because no one comes to the festival. All her gates are desolate, her priests groan; her young women are worried, and she herself suffers bitterly. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:5",
"text": " Her foes have become her \u231emaster\u231f, her enemies are at ease; Yahweh has made her suffer because of the greatness of her transgressions. Her children have gone away, captive before the foe. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:6",
"text": " All her majesty has gone away from the daughter of Zion; her princes have become like young stags that have not found pasture; they have gone away without strength, before the pursuer. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:7",
"text": " Jerusalem remembers the days of her misery and wanderings, all her treasures that were from the days of long ago. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, there was no one helping her; the enemies saw her, they mocked at her destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:8",
"text": " Jerusalem sinned grievously, thus she became an objection of derision; all those who honored her despise her because they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans and turns away. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:9",
"text": " Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she did not remember her future, she has descended beyond understanding, there is no comforter for her. See, O Yahweh, my persecution! My enemy has been made great! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:10",
"text": " The enemy has stretched out his hand over all her treasures; for she has seen the nations, they entered her sanctuary, those whom you commanded not to enter in your assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:11",
"text": " All her people groan, they are searching for bread. They give their treasures for food, to bring back life. See, O Yahweh, and look, how I am despised. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:12",
"text": " Is it nothing to you, \u231eall who pass by\u231f? Look and see if there is sorrow like my sorrow, which was dealt to me, which Yahweh inflicted on the \u231eday of his wrath\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:13",
"text": " From heaven he sent fire, into my bones he let it descend. He spread out a net for my feet; he turned me back, he gave me devastation, fainting all day. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:14",
"text": " My rebellion was bound as a yoke, with his hand it was fastened together; it was put on my neck and caused my strength to fail. The Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:15",
"text": " The Lord has rejected all my mighty ones in my midst. He called an assembly against me, to crush my young men; like in a wine press, the Lord has trodden on the virgin daughter of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:16",
"text": " For these things, I am weeping, \u231emy eyes flow with tears\u231f; because a comforter is far from me, one to restore my life. My sons are desolate because the enemy has prevailed. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:17",
"text": " Zion stretches out her hands; there is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded against Jacob, that those surrounding him should be his enemies; Jerusalem has become a defilement among them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:18",
"text": " Yahweh is righteous; I have rebelled against \u231ehis word\u231f. Please hear, all the nations, And see my pain; My young women and young men went into captivity. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:19",
"text": " I have called to my lovers, they themselves deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city when they sought food for themselves to revive their life. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:20",
"text": " See, O Yahweh, that \u231eI am in distress\u231f; \u231emy stomach\u231f is in torment, my heart has turned inside me because I have certainly rebelled. From outside a sword brings bereavement, inside the house it is like death. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:21",
"text": " They hear that I was groaning; there is no comforter for me. All my enemies have heard my misery, they are pleased that you have done it. Bring that day that you have proclaimed, And let them be like me. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Lamentations 1:22",
"text": " Let all their evil come before you; and deal with them just as you have dealt with me because of all my crimes; for my groaning is much and my heart is faint. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:1",
"text": " How, \u231ein his anger\u231f, the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud! He has thrown down from heavens to earth the splendor of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of \u231ehis anger\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:2",
"text": " The Lord has devoured; he has not shown mercy to all the dwellings of Jacob; he has broken down in his wrath the fortifications of the daughter of Judah; he has leveled to the ground, he has dishonored the kingdom and its commanders. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:3",
"text": " He has cut down \u231ein fierce anger\u231f all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn his right hand from the faces of the enemy, and he has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire, it has consumed all around. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:4",
"text": " He has bent his bow like an enemy; he has set his right hand like a foe, and he has slain all the treasures of the eye; in the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his anger like fire. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:5",
"text": " The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses; he has ruined all its fortifications and multiplied lamentation and mourning in the daughter of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:6",
"text": " He has broken down \u231ehis dwelling\u231f place like the garden; he has ruined his appointed feasts; Yahweh has made them forget in Zion \u231efestival\u231f and Sabbath, and he has despised in his anger king and priest. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:7",
"text": " The Lord has rejected his altar; he has rejected his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hands of the enemy the walls of its citadel fortresses. They have cried out in the house of Yahweh like a day of an appointed feast. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:8",
"text": " Yahweh has planned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He measured with a line; he has not restrained his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to mourn; together they have languished away. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:9",
"text": " Her gates have sunk into the earth; he has ruined and broken her bars, her kings and its princes are among the nations; there is no more law. Also, her prophets have not found a revelation from Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:10",
"text": " They sit on the ground, the elders of the daughter of Zion are silent. They cast dust on their head, they have put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their head down to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:11",
"text": " My eyes have \u231espent all their tears\u231f; \u231emy stomach\u231f is in torment, \u231emy heart\u231f is poured out on the earth because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because child and babe faint in the public squares of a city. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:12",
"text": " To their mothers they say, \u201cWhere is the bread and wine?\u201d as they faint like the wounded in the public squares of a city, as their life is being poured out onto the bosom of their mothers. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:13",
"text": " What can I say for you? What can I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you so that I can comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as vast as the sea; who can heal you? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:14",
"text": " Your prophets had a vision for you, false and worthless; they have not exposed your sin, to restore your fortune; they have seen oracles for you, false and misleading. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:15",
"text": " They clap hands over you, all who pass along the way; they hiss and they shake their head, at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city of which it is said, \u201cA perfection of beauty, a joy for all the earth?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:16",
"text": " They have opened their mouths against you, all your enemies. They hiss and gnash a tooth, and they say, \u201cWe have destroyed her! Surely this is the day we have hoped for; we have found it, we have seen it!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:17",
"text": " Yahweh has done what he has planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he ordained from the days of old; he has demolished and not shown mercy; he has made an enemy rejoice over you, he has exalted the \u231emight\u231f of your foes. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:18",
"text": " Their heart cried to the Lord, \u201cO wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a river; day and night, do not give yourself relief, do not give your eyes rest. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:19",
"text": " \u201cArise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:20",
"text": " See, Yahweh, and take note! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat their young children of tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:21",
"text": " They lie in the soil of the streets, young and old; my young women and young men, they have fallen by the sword; you have slain on the day of \u231eyour anger\u231f, you have slaughtered and not shown mercy. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Lamentations 2:22",
"text": " You have summoned my horror from all around, as if for a feast day; no one on the day of Yahweh\u2019s anger is a fugitive and a survivor; whoever I have cared for and reared, my enemy has destroyed. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:1",
"text": " I am a man who has seen misery, under the rod of his wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:2",
"text": " He has driven me along, he brought darkness and not light. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:3",
"text": " Surely he has turned his hand against me, all day long. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:4",
"text": " He has worn out my flesh and skin, he has broken my bones. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:5",
"text": " \u231eHe has besieged\u231f and engulfed me with bitterness and hardship. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:6",
"text": " In darkness he has let me dwell like the dead of long ago. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:7",
"text": " He has built a wall around me, I cannot go out; he has made my bronze fetters heavy. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:8",
"text": " Though I cry out for help, he shuts out my prayers. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:9",
"text": " He has blocked my ways with dressed stones; he has made my paths crooked. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:10",
"text": " To me he is like a bear lying in wait, a lion in hiding. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:11",
"text": " He has forsaken my way and torn me to pieces; he has caused me desolation. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:12",
"text": " He has bent his bow and set me as the target for the arrow. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:13",
"text": " He shot \u231ethe arrows of his quiver\u231f into my kidneys. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:14",
"text": " I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:15",
"text": " He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with wormwood. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:16",
"text": " He has broken my teeth on grit, he has trampled me down in ash. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:17",
"text": " My life has been removed from peace, I have forgotten goodness. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:18",
"text": " And I have said, \u201cMy glory is ruined, my expectation from Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:19",
"text": " Remember my misery and bitterness, the wormwood and venom! "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:20",
"text": " Surely my soul remembers and bows down within me. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:21",
"text": " This \u231eI have reminded myself\u231f, therefore I will hope. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:22",
"text": " The loyal love of Yahweh does not cease; his compassions do not come to an end. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:23",
"text": " They are new in the morning, great is your faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:24",
"text": " \u201cYahweh is my portion,\u201d says my soul, \u201cThus I will hope on him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:25",
"text": " Yahweh is good to those who wait on him, to the person that seeks him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:26",
"text": " It is good to wait in silence for the salvation of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:27",
"text": " It is good for a man who carries the yoke of his childhood. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:28",
"text": " Let him sit alone and be silent when he has laid it on him. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:29",
"text": " Let \u231ehim put\u231f his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:30",
"text": " Let him give a cheek to his smiter, let him be filled with disgrace. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:31",
"text": " For the Lord will not reject forever. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:32",
"text": " For even though he causes grief he has compassion according to the greatness of his royal love. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:33",
"text": " He does not \u231eafflict willingly\u231f, or grieve \u231eanyone\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:34",
"text": " To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth; "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:35",
"text": " \u231eto deprive one of justice\u231f before the face of the Most High; "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:36",
"text": " to subvert a person in a legal dispute \u2014the Lord has not found delight in these things. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:37",
"text": " \u231eWho can speak\u231f and it will happen if the Lord has not commanded it? "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:38",
"text": " Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that disaster and good will come? "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:39",
"text": " Why should any living person complain about his sin? "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:40",
"text": " Let us test and examine our ways; let us return to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:41",
"text": " Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:42",
"text": " We ourselves have transgressed and rebelled, you have not forgiven. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:43",
"text": " You have covered yourself \u231ein anger\u231f and pursued us, you have slain and not shown mercy. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:44",
"text": " You have covered yourself in a cloud \u231eso that prayer cannot pass through\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:45",
"text": " You have made us scum and refuse in the midst of the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:46",
"text": " All our enemies have opened their mouth against us. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:47",
"text": " Fear and a pit have come upon us, desolation and destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:48",
"text": " Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:49",
"text": " My eyes have poured down unceasingly without respite, "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:50",
"text": " until Yahweh looks down and sees from heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:51",
"text": " My eyes inflict my soul because of all the daughters of my city. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:52",
"text": " My enemies hunt me without cause, like a bird. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:53",
"text": " \u231eThey have silenced me in a pit\u231f, they have thrown a stone at me. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:54",
"text": " Water has flown over my head, I said, \u201cI am cut off.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:55",
"text": " I have called your name, O Yahweh, from the depths of the pit. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:56",
"text": " You have heard my cry, \u201cDo not shut your ear to my cry for help, for my relief!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:57",
"text": " You came near on a day when I called you, you said, \u201cDo not fear!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:58",
"text": " O Lord, you have pleaded for \u231emy cause\u231f, you have redeemed my life. "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:59",
"text": " You have seen my injustice, O Yahweh; judge my case. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:60",
"text": " You have seen all their vengeance, all there plans against me. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:61",
"text": " You have heard their disgrace, O Yahweh, all their plans against me. "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:62",
"text": " The lips and meditation of my assailants are against me all day long. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:63",
"text": " Look at their sitting and their standing, I am their mocking song. "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:64",
"text": " Return to them what is deserved, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands. "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:65",
"text": " Give them a stubborn heart; curse them! "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Lamentations 3:66",
"text": " Pursue them \u231ein anger\u231f and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:1",
"text": " How the gold has grown dim, the pure gold has changed. The stones of holiness are scattered at the head of every street. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:2",
"text": " The precious sons of Zion weighed against fine gold, how they are thought of as earthen vessels of clay, the work of the potter\u2019s hands. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:3",
"text": " Even the jackal bears the beast and nurses their cubs; but the daughter of my people has become ruthless, like ostriches in the wilderness. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:4",
"text": " The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg for food, \u231eno one lays it out before them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:5",
"text": " The ones who eat delicacies, they are ruined in the streets; the ones nurtured in purple lie on piles of trash. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:6",
"text": " The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom; it was overthrown in a moment and no hands were laid on her. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:7",
"text": " Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, sapphire their appearance. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:8",
"text": " Now their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones, it has become dry like wood. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:9",
"text": " Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of famine; they have pined away, very hungry for the crops of my field. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:10",
"text": " The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:11",
"text": " Yahweh has completed his anger, he has poured out \u231ehis fierce anger\u231f; he has kindled a fire in Zion, it consumed her foundations. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:12",
"text": " The kings of the earth did not believe, and all the inhabitants of the world, that a foe and an enemy could enter into the gates of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:13",
"text": " Because of the sins of her prophets, the guilt of her priests, who shed blood in her midst, of righteous people. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:14",
"text": " They wander blindly in the streets; they were defiled with the blood, their clothes could not be touched. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:15",
"text": " \u201cGo away! Defiled!\u201d they shout to them. \u201cGo away! Go away! Do not touch!\u201d so they left, they left; it was said among the nations, \u201c\u231eThey will no longer dwell with us\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:16",
"text": " The presence of Yahweh has scattered them, he will no longer watch over them; \u231ethey did not honor the priests\u231f, they did not show mercy to elders. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:17",
"text": " Still our eyes failed, looking for our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:18",
"text": " They hunted our steps, from walking in our streets; our end has come near, \u231eour days are finished\u231f, our end has come. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:19",
"text": " Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they have set an ambush for us in the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:20",
"text": " The breath of our nostrils, the anointed one of Yahweh, was captured in their pits; of whom we said, \u201cIn his shadow we will live among the nations.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:21",
"text": " Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup will pass, you will become drunk and strip yourself bare. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Lamentations 4:22",
"text": " The punishment of your iniquity is completed, O daughter of Zion, your exile will not continue; but he will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will reveal your sins. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:1",
"text": " Remember, O Yahweh, what has become of us; take note, and see our disgrace! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:2",
"text": " Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses, to foreigners. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:3",
"text": " We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:4",
"text": " \u231eWe pay for water with money\u231f, our wood comes to us at a price. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:5",
"text": " We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:6",
"text": " We have made a deal with Egypt and Assyria to be satisfied with food. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:7",
"text": " Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:8",
"text": " Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:9",
"text": " \u231eWe risk our life for food\u231f because of the sword of the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:10",
"text": " Our skin is hot like an oven because of the scorching famine. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:11",
"text": " They raped women in Zion, young women in the cities of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:12",
"text": " They hang princes by their hand; they do not show respect before elders. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:13",
"text": " Young men must carry a hand-mill and boys stumble under the wood. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:14",
"text": " Elders are no longer at the gate, young men no longer play stringed instruments. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:15",
"text": " The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:16",
"text": " The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:17",
"text": " Because of this, our heart has become faint, because of these, our eyes have become dim. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:18",
"text": " Because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, \u231efoxes tread on it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:19",
"text": " You, O Yahweh, will sit forever on your throne for generation to generation. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:20",
"text": " Why have you forgotten us forever? Why have you forsaken us \u231efor so long\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:21",
"text": " Restore us to you, O Yahweh, that we will be restored; renew our days as of old. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Lamentations 5:22",
"text": " Unless you have utterly rejected us, unless you are angry with us beyond measure. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Ezekiel",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:1",
"text": " And it was in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, and I was in the midst of the exiles by the \u231eKebar River\u231f. The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:2",
"text": "On the fifth day of the month\u2014it was the fifth year of the exile of the king Jehoiachin\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:3",
"text": "the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f clearly to Ezekiel the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans at the \u231eKebar River\u231f, and the hand of Yahweh was on him there. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:4",
"text": " And I looked, and look! A storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire flashing back and forth, and brightness around and \u231ewithin it\u231f, and from its midst it was like the outward appearance of amber stone from the midst of the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:5",
"text": "And from its midst was the likeness of four living creatures, and this was their appearance: \u231ea human form\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:6",
"text": "and \u231eeach had four faces\u231f, and \u231eeach of them had four wings\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:7",
"text": "And their legs were straight legs, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of the foot of a calf, and they were sparkling like the outward appearance of polished bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:8",
"text": "And under their wings were \u231ehuman hands\u231f on their four sides. And their faces and their wings for the four of them were as follows: "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:9",
"text": "\u231etheir wings were touching one another\u231f; \u231eeach of them went straight forward\u231f, \u231ewithout turning right or left\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:10",
"text": "The likeness of their faces was the face of a human in front, and the face of a lion on the right \u231eof each of them\u231f, and the face of an ox on the left \u231eof each of them\u231f, and the face of an eagle \u231efor each of them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:11",
"text": "So were their faces; their wings were spread out \u231eupward\u231f; each had two touching one another and two covering their bodies. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:12",
"text": "And each \u231ewent straight forward\u231f; \u231ewherever the spirit went\u231f they went, and \u231ethey did not turn as they went\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:13",
"text": "As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. It was moving to and fro between the living creatures, and \u231ethe fire was very bright\u231f and lightning was going out from the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:14",
"text": "And the living creatures \u231ewere speeding to and fro\u231f like the appearance of lightning. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:15",
"text": " And I saw the living creatures, and look! A wheel was on the earth beside \u231eeach of the living creatures that had four faces\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:16",
"text": "The appearance of the wheels and their construction was like the appearance of beryl, and \u231ethey all looked alike\u231f, and their appearance and their construction was \u231elike a wheel within a wheel\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:17",
"text": "When they moved, they went toward their four sides; they did not \u231eveer at all as they went\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:18",
"text": "And their rims \u231ewere high and awesome\u231f, and \u231eall four of\u231f their rims were full of eyes all around. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:19",
"text": "And at the going of the living creatures, the wheels next to them also went, and \u231ewhen the creatures were lifted from the ground\u231f the wheels also rose. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:20",
"text": "\u231eWherever\u231f the spirit went they would go there, and the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:21",
"text": "At their going, they go, and at their standing, they stood, and at their being lifted up from on the earth, the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:22",
"text": " Now the likeness above the heads of the living creatures was an expanse like the outward appearance of \u231eawesome\u231f \u231eice\u231f spread out above their heads \u231eupward\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:23",
"text": "And under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight \u231eone toward the other\u231f; each had two wings covering them, and each had two wings covering their bodies. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:24",
"text": "And I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the voice of Shaddai, and \u231ewhen they moved\u231f there was a sound of tumult like the sound of an army; \u231ewhen they stood still\u231f they lowered their wings. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:25",
"text": "And there was a sound from above the expanse that was above their heads, \u231eand when they stood\u231f they lowered their wings. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:26",
"text": "And from above the expanse that was above their heads there was the likeness of a throne, \u231elooking like a sapphire\u231f, and above the likeness of the throne was a likeness similar to the appearance of a human on it, but \u231eabove it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:27",
"text": "And I saw something like the outward appearance of amber, something like the appearance of fire, with a covering around it, from the likeness of his loins and \u231eupward\u231f. And from the likeness of his loins and \u231edownward\u231f I saw something like the appearance of fire, and \u231eit was radiant all around\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Ezekiel 1:28",
"text": "Like the appearance of a bow that is in the cloud on \u231ea rainy day\u231f, such was the radiance around it; thus was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. And I saw, and I fell on my face, and I heard a voice speaking. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezekiel 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezekiel 2:1",
"text": " And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, stand on your feet, so that I can speak with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezekiel 2:2",
"text": "And the Spirit came into me as he was speaking to me, and it set me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezekiel 2:3",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, I am sending you to the \u231eIsraelites\u231f, to nations who are rebelling, who rebelled against me, they and their ancestors, they transgressed against me \u231euntil this very day\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezekiel 2:4",
"text": "And the children are \u231eimpudent\u231f and \u231estubborn\u231f, and so I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezekiel 2:5",
"text": "And they, whether they listen or whether they fail to listen, for they are a rebellious house, they will know that a prophet was in their midst. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezekiel 2:6",
"text": "And you, son of man, you must not be afraid of them, and you must not be afraid of their words, because briers and thorns are with you, and you are sitting among scorpions. You must not be afraid of their words, and you must not be dismayed because of their \u231elooks\u231f, for they are a rebellious house. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezekiel 2:7",
"text": "And you must speak my words to them whether they listen or whether they fail to listen, for they are rebellious. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezekiel 2:8",
"text": "And you, son of man, hear what I am speaking to you: you must not be rebellious like the house of rebellion. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezekiel 2:9",
"text": "And I looked, and look! There was a hand stretched out to me, and look! In it was \u231ea scroll with writing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Ezekiel 2:10",
"text": "And he rolled it out \u231ebefore me\u231f, and it was written on the front and back, and there were written on it laments and mourning and wailing. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:1",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, what you find, eat! Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:2",
"text": "And I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:3",
"text": "and he said to me, \u201cSon of man, you must give your stomach this to eat, and you must fill your belly with this scroll that I am giving to you.\u201d And I ate, and it became \u231elike sweet honey\u231f in my mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:4",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, come! Go to the house of Israel, and you must speak to them with my words. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:5",
"text": "For you are sent to the house of Israel, not to a people \u231eof obscure speech\u231f and \u231eof a difficult language\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:6",
"text": "and not to many nations \u231eof obscure speech\u231f and \u231ea difficult language\u231f \u231ewhose words\u231f you do not understand, for if I had sent you to them they would have listened to you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:7",
"text": "And the house of Israel, they are not willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me, for all of the house of Israel is hard of forehead, and they are hard of heart. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:8",
"text": "But look, I have made your face hard \u231eagainst\u231f their faces and your forehead hard \u231eagainst\u231f their forehead. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:9",
"text": "Like a diamond \u231eharder than flint\u231f I have made your forehead; you must not fear them, and you must not be dismayed \u231eon account of them\u231f, for they \u231eare a rebellious house\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:10",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, all of my words that I shall speak to you, receive into your heart and hear with your ears. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:11",
"text": "And come, go to the exiles, to the children of your people, and you must speak to them, and say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh!\u2019 whether they listen or whether they fail to listen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:12",
"text": "And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great earthquake when the glory of Yahweh rose from its place. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:13",
"text": "And it was the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching lightly \u231eone against the other\u231f, and the sound of the wheels beside them and the sound of a great earthquake. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:14",
"text": "And the Spirit lifted me and took me, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:15",
"text": "And I went to the exiles at Tel Abib, who were dwelling near the \u231eKebar River\u231f, and I sat where they were dwelling. I sat there seven days in the midst of them, stunned. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:16",
"text": "And then it happened at the end of seven days, \u231ethe word of Yahweh came\u231f to me, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:17",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, I have appointed you as a watchman for the house of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, then you must warn them from me. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:18",
"text": "\u231eWhen I say\u231f to the wicked, \u2018Surely you will die,\u2019 and you do not warn him and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way \u231eso that he may live\u231f, that wicked person will die because of his guilt, and from your hand I will seek his blood. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:19",
"text": "And you, if you do warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness and from his wicked way, on account of his guilt he will die, and you yourself will have saved your life. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:20",
"text": "And \u231ewhen the righteous turns from his righteousness\u231f and does injustice, and I place a stumbling block \u231ebefore him\u231f, he will die, for you did not warn him. Because of his sin he will die, and his righteousness that he did will not be remembered, and his blood I shall seek from your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:21",
"text": "And if you warn him, the righteous, not to sin, and the righteous does not sin, surely he will live, for he heeded a warning. And you will have saved your life.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:22",
"text": " And the hand of Yahweh was on me there, and he said to me, \u201cRise up, go out to the valley, and there I will speak with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:23",
"text": "And I rose up, and I went to the valley, and, look, there the glory of Yahweh was standing, like the glory that I saw near the \u231eKebar River\u231f, and I fell on my face. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:24",
"text": "And the Spirit came into me, and it made me stand on my feet, and he spoke with me and said to me, \u201cCome, shut yourself \u231einside your house\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:25",
"text": "and you, son of man, look, they will place cords on you, and they will tie you up with them. Then you will not go out into the midst of them. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:26",
"text": "And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silenced, and you will not be a reproving man for them, for they \u231eare a rebellious house\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Ezekiel 3:27",
"text": "And when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you must say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cThe one hearing him, let him hear, and the one failing to hear, let him fail,\u201d\u00a0\u2019 for they \u231eare a rebellious house\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:1",
"text": " \u201cNow, son of man, take for yourself a brick, and you must put it \u231ebefore you\u231f, and you must portray on it a city, Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:2",
"text": "And you must build against it siege works, and you must build against it a bulwark, and you must heap against it a siege ramp, and you must set up against it camps and put against it a battering ram all around. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:3",
"text": "And take for yourself a plate of iron, and you must place it as a wall of iron between you and the city, and you must set your face against it, and it must be \u231eunder siege\u231f, and you must lay the siege against it; it is a sign for the house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:4",
"text": "And you, lie down on your left side, and you must put the guilt of the house of Israel on it. You will carry their guilt the number of days that you will lie on it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:5",
"text": "And I will give to you the years of their guilt according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days, and you must bear the guilt of the house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:6",
"text": "When you have completed these, then you must lie a second time on your right side; and you must bear the guilt of the house of Judah forty days, a day for each year, a day for each year I give it to you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:7",
"text": "And toward the siege of Jerusalem you must set your face and your bared arm; then you must prophesy against it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:8",
"text": "Now look! I will put on you cords, and you may not turn yourself from one side to your other side until you complete the days of your siege. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:9",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, take for yourself wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt, and you must put them in one vessel, and you must make them for yourself into a food during the number of days that you are lying on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:10",
"text": "And your food that you will eat will be according to weight; twenty shekels for each day \u231eat fixed times\u231f you shall eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:11",
"text": "And \u231ean amount of water\u231f you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; \u231eat fixed times\u231f you shall drink it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:12",
"text": "And as a bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and \u231ewith human excrement\u231f you shall bake it before their eyes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:13",
"text": "And Yahweh said, \u201cThus shall the \u231eIsraelites\u231f eat their unclean food among the nations \u231ewhere I will scatter them\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:14",
"text": "And I said, \u201cAh, Lord Yahweh! Look! I have not been defiling myself, and a dead body and mangled carcass I have not eaten from my childhood until now, and \u231eunclean meat\u231f has not come into my mouth!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:15",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSee I will give you \u231ecattle manure\u231f in the place of the feces of a human, and you may prepare your food on it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:16",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, look, I am going to break the \u231esupply\u231f of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, \u231eanxiously\u231f, and \u231erationed water\u231f, and they will drink with horror, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Ezekiel 4:17",
"text": "so that they will lack food and water, and they will be appalled \u231ewith one another\u231f, and they will waste away because of their guilt. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:1",
"text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, take for yourself a sword, sharp as \u231ea barber\u2019s razor\u231f. Take it for yourself, and you must cause it to pass over your head and over your beard, and you must take for yourself a set of scales for weighing, and you must divide them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:2",
"text": "A third you must burn with fire in the midst of the city at \u231ethe completion\u231f of the days of the siege, and you must take a third, and you must strike it with the sword around it, and a third you must scatter to the wind, and I will draw a sword behind them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:3",
"text": "And you must take from these a few in number, and you must tuck them in your hem. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:4",
"text": "And from them again you shall take some, and you must throw them in the middle of the fire, and you must burn them with fire; from it a fire will go out to all of the house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:5",
"text": "Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem in the midst of the nations where I have put her, and countries are around her. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:6",
"text": "But she has rebelled against my regulations to the point of wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they rejected my regulations, and as for my statutes, they did not walk in them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:7",
"text": "Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because of your commotion more than the nations that are around you\u2014you did not walk in my statutes, and you did not do my regulations, and according to the regulations of the nations that are around you, you did not do. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:8",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look! I, \u231eeven I\u231f, am against you, and I will execute judgment in the midst of you before the eyes of the nations, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:9",
"text": "and I will do with you that which I have not done, and which I will not do again, because of all of your detestable things. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:10",
"text": "Therefore parents will eat children in the midst of you, and children will eat their parents, and I will execute judgment in you, and I will scatter your entire remnant to every wind. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:11",
"text": "Therefore \u231eas surely as I live\u231f, \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u231eSurely\u231f because you have defiled my sanctuary with all of your vile idols and with all of your detestable things, \u231enow indeed I\u231f will reduce, and my eye will not take pity, and surely I will show no compassion. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:12",
"text": "A third of you will die because of the plague, and because of the famine they will perish in the midst of you, and a third will fall through the sword around you, and a third I will scatter to every direction of the wind, and I will draw the sword behind them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:13",
"text": "And my anger will come to an end, and I will place my rage on them, and I will relent, and they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my passion \u231ewhen I fully vent my rage against them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:14",
"text": "And I will make you into a desolate place and into a disgrace among the nations that surround you before the eyes of \u231eevery one who passes by\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:15",
"text": "And it will be an object of taunting and an object of mockery, a warning and a horror to the nations that are around you whenever I execute judgments against you in anger and in wrath and in furious punishments! I, Yahweh, have spoken! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:16",
"text": "When I send my arrows of deadly famine against them, which will be as destruction that I will send in order to destroy you, I will increase famine against you, and I will break \u231ethe supply of food\u231f for you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Ezekiel 5:17",
"text": "And I will send against you famine and fierce animals, and they will make you childless; and plague and blood will pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I, Yahweh, I have spoken!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face to the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:3",
"text": "and you must say, \u2018Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys: \u201cLook, I am bringing upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high places, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:4",
"text": "and your altars will be desolate, and your incense altars will be broken, and I will throw down your slain ones \u231ebefore\u231f your idols, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:5",
"text": "and I will place the corpses of the children of Israel \u231ebefore\u231f their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:6",
"text": "In all of your dwellings, the cities will be desolate and the high places will be ruined, so that your altars will be desolate and will suffer punishment. Your idols will be broken and will come to an end, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works will be destroyed, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:7",
"text": "and the slain one will fall in the midst of you, and then you will know that I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:8",
"text": "But I will spare some, \u231eso there will be\u231f for you fugitives from the sword among the nations \u231ewhen you are scattered\u231f in the countries. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:9",
"text": "And your fugitives will remember me among the nations to which they were taken captive, that I was shattered by \u231etheir adulterous heart\u231f which departed from me, and by \u231etheir adulterous eyes\u231f which went after their idols, and they will feel loathing \u231efor themselves\u231f, for the evil that they did, for all of their detestable things. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:10",
"text": "And they will know that I am Yahweh; not \u231ein vain\u231f I spoke to bring to them this evil.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:11",
"text": "Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Clap your hand and stamp with your foot, and say, \u201cAlas, for all of the detestable things of the evil of the house of Israel, \u231ebecause of which\u231f they will fall with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:12",
"text": "The one who is far away will die by the plague, and the one who is near will fall by the sword, and the one who is being left behind and being spared will die by the famine, and I will complete my rage on them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:13",
"text": "And you will know that I am Yahweh \u231ewhen their slain ones are in the midst of their idols\u231f around their altars at every high hill, on the tops of all the mountains and under every green tree and under every leafy oak\u2014the place at which they gave a pleasing scent for all of their idols. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Ezekiel 6:14",
"text": "And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land a desolation and a wasteland from the desert to Riblah in all of their dwellings, and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:2",
"text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel: \u2018The end comes, the end on the four corners of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:3",
"text": "Now the end is on you, and I will send my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring on you all your detestable things. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:4",
"text": "And my eye will not take pity on you, and I will not show compassion for your ways; on you I will bring your detestable things; they will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:5",
"text": "Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Look! Disaster after disaster is coming! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:6",
"text": "The end comes, comes the end! It has awakened against you! Look! It comes! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:7",
"text": "Doom is coming against you, the dweller of the land; the time comes, the day is near, panic and not joy is on the mountains. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:8",
"text": "\u231eSoon\u231f I will pour out my rage on you, and I will fully vent my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring on you all of your detestable things. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:9",
"text": "And my eye will not take pity, and I will not show compassion. According to your ways I will \u231edeal with you\u231f, and your detestable things will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I am Yahweh who strikes. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:10",
"text": "Look! The day is coming; doom goes out, the staff blossoms, pride sprouts. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:11",
"text": "Violence has grown to become a staff of wickedness; \u231enone\u231f from them will remain, and \u231enone\u231f from their abundance nor from their wealth; and prominence will not be among them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:12",
"text": "The time has come, the day has arrived; let not the buyer rejoice, and let the seller not mourn, for anger is on all their multitude. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:13",
"text": "For the seller will not return to the merchandise \u231ewhile they are still alive\u231f, for the vision is about all of its multitude; it will not change, and a man because of his guilt will not be able to hold onto his life. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:14",
"text": "They shall blow on the trumpet and prepare \u231eeverything\u231f, but there is no one going to the battle, for my anger is on all of their multitude. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:15",
"text": "The sword \u231eis outside\u231f, and the plague and the famine \u231eare inside\u231f; the one who is in the field will die by the sword, and the one who is in the city, famine and plague will devour him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:16",
"text": "And if their survivors will escape, they will be on the mountains, like the doves of the valley, all of them groaning, each because of his guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:17",
"text": "All of the hands will hang limp, and all of \u231ethe knees will be wet with urine\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:18",
"text": "And they will wear sackcloth, and horror will cover them, and on all of the faces will be shame, and baldness on all of their heads. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:19",
"text": "Their silver they will discard on the streets, and filth will be their gold; their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. They will not satisfy their \u231ehunger\u231f and their stomachs they will not fill, for their guilt will be their stumbling block. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:20",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And the beauty of its ornament \u231ehe made into a prideful thing\u231f and made with it their detestable things and their vile idols; therefore I will make it into an impure thing for them. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:21",
"text": "And I will give it into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked people of the earth as spoil, and they will defile it. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:22",
"text": "And I will turn my face from them, and they will defile my treasured place, and violent ones will enter and defile it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:23",
"text": "Make a chain for the land; it is full of \u231ebloody crimes\u231f and the city is full of violence. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:24",
"text": "And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will take possession of their houses, and I will put to an end the pride of the mighty ones, and their sanctuaries will be defiled. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:25",
"text": "Anguish comes, and they will seek peace, and there will be none. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:26",
"text": "Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor will be upon rumor. And they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from the priest and counsel from the elders. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Ezekiel 7:27",
"text": "The king will mourn, and the prince will be dressed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:1",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting \u231ebefore me\u231f. And the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell on me there, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:2",
"text": "and I saw, and look! A figure like the appearance of a man; from the appearance of his waist and below was fire, and from his waist and \u231eupward\u231f was like the appearance of brightness, like the \u231eoutward appearance of\u231f amber. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:3",
"text": "And he sent out the form of a hand, and he took me by a lock of hair of my head, and the Spirit lifted me between earth and heaven, and it brought me to Jerusalem in visions of God to the doorway of the inner gate \u231ethat faced north\u231f, at which there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which was making jealous. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:4",
"text": "And look! There was the glory of the God of Israel like the vision that I saw in the valley. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:5",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, lift up now your eyes \u231etoward the north\u231f.\u201d And I lifted up my eyes \u231etoward the north\u231f, and, look, there was to the north of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy at the entrance. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:6",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, \u201c\u231eDo you see\u231f what they are doing\u2014great detestable things that the house of Israel is committing here so as to drive me from my sanctuary, and yet \u231eyou will see again\u231f greater detestable things.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:7",
"text": "And he brought me to the doorway of the courtyard, and I saw, and look! A hole in the wall. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:8",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, dig now through the wall.\u201d And I dug through the wall, and look! There was a doorway. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:9",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cCome and see the detestable things, the evil that they are doing here. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:10",
"text": "And I came, and I saw, and look, all kinds of creatures and detestable beasts; and all of the idols of the house of Israel were carved on the wall \u231eall around\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:11",
"text": "And seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, was standing in the midst of them, and they were standing \u231ebefore them\u231f. Each one had his censer in his hand, and the fragrance of the cloud of the incense was going up. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:12",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cHave you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the inner rooms of his idol, for they are saying, \u2018Yahweh is not seeing us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:13",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cStill \u231eyou will see again\u231f greater detestable things that they are doing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:14",
"text": "And he brought me to the doorway of the gate of the house of Yahweh that is toward the north, and look! There were the women sitting weeping for Tammuz. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:15",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cHave you seen, son of man? Still \u231eyou will see again\u231f greater detestable things than these.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:16",
"text": "And he brought me to the inner courtyard of the house of Yahweh, and look, at the doorway of the temple of Yahweh, between the portico and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east, and they were bowing down toward the east before the sun. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:17",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cHave you seen, son of man? \u231eWas it too small a thing\u231f for the house of Judah \u231eto do\u231f the detestable things that they did here? For they filled up the land with violence, and \u231ethey provoked me to anger again\u231f, and look! They are putting the branch to their nose. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Ezekiel 8:18",
"text": "And so I will act in rage, and my eye will not take pity, and I will not have compassion, and they will cry in my ear with a loud voice, and I will not hear them.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9:1",
"text": " And he called in my ears with a loud voice, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cThey have come near, the punishers of the city, and each with his weapon of destruction in his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9:2",
"text": "And look! Six men coming from the way of \u231ethe upper gate\u231f that faced \u231enorthward\u231f, and each with his weapon for shattering in his hand; and one man was in the midst of them, dressed in linen, and the writing case of the scribe was at his side. And they came and stood beside the bronze altar. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9:3",
"text": "And the glory of the God of Israel lifted itself up from upon the cherub that he was on and went to the threshold of the house, and he called to the man who was clothed in linen \u231ewith a scribal writing case at his side\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9:4",
"text": "And Yahweh said to him, \u201cGo through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and you must place a mark on the foreheads of the men \u231ewho are groaning and lamenting\u231f about all of the detestable things \u231ethat are being done\u231f in the midst of her.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9:5",
"text": "And to the others he said in my hearing, \u201cGo through the city behind him and kill! Your eyes shall not take pity, and you shall not have compassion. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9:6",
"text": "You must kill \u231etotally\u231f old man, young man and young woman, and little children and women, but \u231econcerning\u231f every man \u231ewith the mark on him\u231f you must not approach; and from my sanctuary you must begin.\u201d And they began with the old men who \u231ewere before\u231f the house. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9:7",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cDefile the house and fill the courtyards with the dead; go out! And they went out, and they killed in the city. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9:8",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f \u231eas they were striking\u231f, and I was left behind, I fell on my face, and I cried out, and I said, \u201cAh, Lord Yahweh! \u201cWill you be destroying all of the remnant of Israel \u231ewhile you pour out your rage\u231f on Jerusalem?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9:9",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cThe guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is \u231eexceedingly\u231f great, and the land is filled with bloodguilt, and the city is full of injustice. For they say Yahweh abandoned the land, and \u231eYahweh does not see\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9:10",
"text": "And I, my eye will not take pity, and I will not have compassion; their way I will bring on their head.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Ezekiel 9:11",
"text": "And look! The man clothed in linen and \u231ewith a writing case at his side\u231f was bringing back a word, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cI have done all that you commanded me.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:1",
"text": " And I looked, and look! On the expanse that was above the head of the cherubim something like a stone of sapphire, and like the appearance of the shape of a throne it appeared above them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:2",
"text": "And he spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, \u201cGo \u231ein among the wheel area under the cherubim\u231f and fill the hollow of your hands with coals of fire from among the cherubim, and toss them on the city.\u201d And he went right before my eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:3",
"text": "Now the cherubim were standing on the south of the temple \u231ewhen the man went\u231f, and the cloud filled the inner courtyard. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:4",
"text": "And the glory of Yahweh rose up from on the cherub toward the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the courtyard was filled with the brightness of the glory of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:5",
"text": "And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard \u231eas far as\u231f the outer courtyard; it was like the voice of God Shaddai \u231ewhen he speaks\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:6",
"text": " And then at his command to the man clothed in linen, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cTake fire from among the wheel area from among the cherubim,\u201d he went and stood beside the wheel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:7",
"text": "Then the cherub stretched out his hand from among the cherubim toward the fire that was among the cherubim, and he lifted up and gave it into the hollow of the hand of the man clothed with linen, and he took it, and he went out. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:8",
"text": " And there appeared for the cherubim the form of \u231ea human hand\u231f under their wings. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:9",
"text": "And I saw, and look, four wheels beside the cherubim, \u231eone wheel beside each cherub\u231f, and the appearance of the wheels was like the outward appearance of \u231eturquoise stone\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:10",
"text": "Their appearance \u231ewas the same for each of the four of them\u231f, as if the wheel was in the midst of a wheel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:11",
"text": "\u231eWhen they went\u231f to the four of their directions that they went, they did not change direction \u231ewhen they went\u231f, for the place to which the head turned, they went behind him; they did not change direction at their going. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:12",
"text": "And \u231etheir whole body\u231f, and their rims, and their spokes, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around\u2014\u231ethe wheels for the four of them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:13",
"text": "Concerning the wheels, he was calling them \u201cthe wheelwork\u201d \u231ein my hearing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:14",
"text": "And \u231eeach one had four faces\u231f; the face of the one was the face of a cherub, and the face of the second was the face of a human, and the face of the third was the face of a lion, and the fourth was the face of an eagle. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:15",
"text": " And the cherubim rose; that is, the living creatures that I saw at the \u231eKebar River\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:16",
"text": "And \u231ewhen the cherubim went\u231f, the wheels beside them went; and \u231ewhen the cherubim lifted their wings to rise up from the earth\u231f, the wheels also did not turn aside from beside them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:17",
"text": "\u231eWhen they stood\u231f, they stood, and at their rising, they rose with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:18",
"text": "And the glory of Yahweh went out from the threshold of the temple, and it stood above the cherubim. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:19",
"text": "And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and they rose from the earth before my eyes. At their going out, the wheels were beside them. And he stood at the doorway of the eastern gate of the temple of Yahweh, and the glory of the God of Israel \u231ewas over them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:20",
"text": " This was the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel at the \u231eKebar River\u231f, and I knew that they were cherubim. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:21",
"text": "\u231eEach one had four faces\u231f, and there were four wings for each, and the likeness of \u231ehuman hands\u231f was under their wings. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Ezekiel 10:22",
"text": "And the likeness of their faces, they were the faces that I saw at the \u231eKebar River\u231f; thus was their appearance, and they each went \u231estraight ahead\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:1",
"text": " And the Spirit lifted me up, and it brought me to the eastern gate, the one facing east, of the temple of Yahweh. And look, there were twenty-five men in the doorway of the gate, and I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur in the midst of them, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the commanders of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:2",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, these are the men \u231ewho devise mischief\u231f, and who are offering bad counsel in this city, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:3",
"text": "who are saying, \u201cThe building of houses is not near; the city is the pot, and we are the flesh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:4",
"text": "Therefore prophesy against them! Prophesy, son of man!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:5",
"text": " And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, \u201cSay, \u2018thus says Yahweh: \u201cThis is what you think, house of Israel, and I myself know them, the thoughts of your spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:6",
"text": "You made your slain ones numerous in this city, and you have filled its streets with slain ones.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:7",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cYour slain ones whom you put in its midst, they are the flesh, and it is the pot, and I will bring you out from its midst. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:8",
"text": "The sword you have feared, and the sword I will bring against you!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:9",
"text": "\u201cAnd I will bring you out from its midst, and I will give you into the hand of strangers, and I will execute judgments against you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:10",
"text": "By the sword you will fall at the border of Israel; I will judge you, and you will know that I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:11",
"text": "It will not be as a pot to you, and so you would be in the midst of it as flesh, for at the border of Israel I will judge you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:12",
"text": "And you will know that I am Yahweh, whose rules you did not follow, and whose regulations you did not do, but according to the regulations of the nations that are around you, you acted.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:13",
"text": " And it happened that \u231eas I was prophesying\u231f, Pelatiahu the son of Benaiahu died! And I fell on my face, and I cried with a loud voice, and I said, \u201cAh, Lord Yahweh, you are making a complete destruction of the remnant of Israel!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:14",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:15",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, your brothers, your brothers, the men of your redemption, and all of the house of Israel, all of it, \u231ewho said concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem\u231f, \u2018They are far from Yahweh, therefore to us this land was given as a possession.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:16",
"text": "Therefore say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cThough I have removed them far away among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries \u231eto which they have gone\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:17",
"text": "Therefore say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cAnd I will assemble you from the peoples, and I will gather you from the countries to which you were scattered among them, and I will give the land of Israel to you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:18",
"text": "And when they come there, then they will remove all of its vile idols and all of its detestable things from it. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:19",
"text": "And I will give to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in their inner parts. And I will remove their heart of stone from their body, and I will give to them a heart of flesh, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:20",
"text": "so that they may walk in my statutes, and they will keep my regulations, and they will do them, and they will be to me a people, and I myself will be to them as God. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:21",
"text": "But to the heart of their abominations and the detestable things their heart is going. I will bring their way on their head,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:22",
"text": " Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and their wheels were beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel \u231ewas over them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:23",
"text": "And the glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and it stood still on the mountain that is to the east of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:24",
"text": "And the Spirit lifted me up, and it brought me to Chaldea, to the exiles, in the vision by the spirit of God; and the vision that I had seen \u231eleft me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Ezekiel 11:25",
"text": "And I spoke to the exiles all of the words of Yahweh that he had shown me. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, you are dwelling in the midst of the house of rebellion \u231ewho has eyes to see and they do not see\u231f; \u231ethey have ears to hear\u231f, and they do not hear, for they are a house of rebellion. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:3",
"text": "And you, son of man, prepare for yourself the baggage of an exile, and go into exile by day before their eyes. And you must go into exile from your place to another place before their eyes; perhaps they will see that they are a house of rebellion. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:4",
"text": "And you must bring out your baggage like the baggage of an exile by day before their eyes, and you must go out in the evening before their eyes like \u231ethose who go into exile\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:5",
"text": "Before their eyes dig through for yourself, through the wall, and you must bring the baggage out through it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:6",
"text": "Before their eyes, on your shoulder, you must lift up the baggage in the dusk, and your face you must cover, so that you may not see the land, for I make you as a sign to the house of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:7",
"text": "And I did \u231ejust as\u231f I was commanded; my baggage, like the baggage of an exile, I brought out by day, and in the evening I dug through for myself into the wall with my hand in the dusk; I brought the baggage on my shoulder; I carried it before their eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:8",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me in the morning, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:9",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, did not they, the house of Israel, the house of rebellion, say to you, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:10",
"text": "Say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cThis oracle is about the prince in Jerusalem and \u231ethe entire\u231f house of Israel \u231ewho are among them\u231f.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:11",
"text": "Say, \u2018I am your sign, and \u231ejust as\u231f I did, so will it be done to them in the exile; into captivity they will go.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:12",
"text": "And the prince who is in the midst of them, on his shoulder he will carry the baggage in the dusk, and he will go out; \u231ethe wall will be dug through\u231f to bring him through it; and he will cover his face so that he will not see the land with his eye. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:13",
"text": "And I will spread out my net on him, and he will be captured in my hunting snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it, and there he will die. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:14",
"text": "And all who are around him, his help and all of his troops I will scatter \u231ein every direction\u231f, and I will draw the sword behind them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:15",
"text": "And they will know that I am Yahweh \u231ewhen I scatter them\u231f among the nations and I scatter them in the countries. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:16",
"text": "But I will spare from them \u231ea few men\u231f from the sword, from the famine and from the plague, so that they may tell of all their abominations among the nations to which they will go, and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:17",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:18",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, you must eat your food with trembling, and your water with shuddering, and with anxiety you must drink. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:19",
"text": "And you must say to the people of the land, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the inhabitants of Jerusalem about the land of Israel: \u201cThey will eat their food with anxiety and their water they will drink with horror, because their land will be desolate from its fullness because of all the violence of \u231ethose who are dwelling in it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:20",
"text": "And \u231ethe inhabited cites will be desolate\u231f, and the land will be a desolation, and you will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:21",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:22",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, what is this proverb \u231eyou people have\u231f about the land of Israel, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018\u231eThe days are prolonged\u231f, and every vision has come to nothing.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:23",
"text": "Therefore say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cI will put an end to this proverb, and they will not quote it as a proverb again in Israel.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 But say to them, \u2018The days are near, and also the word of every vision.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:24",
"text": "For there will not be any longer \u231eany false vision\u231f or flattering divination in the midst of the house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:25",
"text": "For I, Yahweh, I will speak what I will speak as a word, and it will be done. It will not prolong itself any longer, for in your days, house of rebellion, I will speak a word and I will fulfill it!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:26",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:27",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, look! The house of Israel is saying, \u2018The vision that he is seeing is for many days from now, and for distant times he is prophesying.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Ezekiel 12:28",
"text": "Therefore say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cNone of my words will be prolonged any longer that I speak as a word, and it will be fulfilled!\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, prophesy to the prophets of Israel \u231ewho are prophesying\u231f, and you must say to those who are prophets out of their own \u231eimagination\u231f, \u2018Hear the word of Yahweh!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:3",
"text": "Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Alas, for the foolish prophets who are going after their own spirit, \u231eand they did not see anything\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:4",
"text": "Your prophets have been like foxes among ruins. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:5",
"text": "You did not go up into the breaches and repair a wall for the house of Israel to stand firm in the battle on the day of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:6",
"text": "They saw falseness and \u231ea lying divination\u231f, the ones saying, \u2018Declaration of Yahweh!\u2019 and Yahweh did not send them, and they wait \u231efor the confirmation of their word\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:7",
"text": "Have you not seen \u231ea false vision\u231f and spoken a \u231elying divination\u231f, and you said, \u2018Declaration of Yahweh!\u2019 but \u231eI myself did not speak\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:8",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Because of your speaking falseness and because you envisioned a lie, therefore, look! I am against you!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:9",
"text": "\u201cAnd it will be my hand against the prophets who are seeing falseness and who are practicing lying divination. They will not be in the council of my people, and they will not be written down in the record book of the house of Israel, and into the land of Israel they will not come, and then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:10",
"text": "Because, yes, because they led my people astray, \u231esaying\u231f \u2018Peace!\u2019 And there is not peace. And when anyone builds a flimsy wall, look, they coat it with whitewash. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:11",
"text": "Say to those covering it with whitewash that it will fall; there will be \u231ea torrent of rain\u231f, and I will give stones of hail; they will fall! And a \u231ewindstorm\u231f will burst forth! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:12",
"text": "And look! When the wall falls, will it not be said to you, \u2018Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:13",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018And so I will let burst forth a \u231ewindstorm\u231f in my rage, and \u231ethere will be a torrent of rain\u231f in my anger, and hailstones in my rage \u231efor complete destruction\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:14",
"text": "And I will break down the wall that you covered with whitewash, and I will knock it to the ground, and its foundation will be revealed, and it will fall, and you will come to an end in the midst of it, and you will know that I am Yahweh! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:15",
"text": "And I will fully vent my rage against the wall and against those covering it with whitewash, and I will say to you, \u201c\u231eThe wall is no more\u231f, and \u231ethe people covering it are no more\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:16",
"text": "that is, the prophets of Israel, the ones prophesying concerning Jerusalem and the ones seeing visions of peace, and there is not peace!\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:17",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, son of man, place your face toward the daughters of your people who prophesy from their \u231eimagination\u231f, and prophesy against them! "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:18",
"text": "And you must say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cWoe to \u231ethose who sew\u231f magic charm bands on all the wrists of the hands of my people and \u231ethose who make the veils\u231f that are on the head of people of every height, to ensnare people\u2019s lives! Will you ensnare the lives of my people \u231eand keep yourselves alive\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:19",
"text": "And you defiled me among my people for a handful of barley and for morsels of bread to kill persons who should not die and to keep alive persons who should not live by means of your lies to my people who are listening to your lies.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:20",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Look! I am against your magic charm bands \u231ewith which you are ensnaring persons\u231f as birds; I will tear them from your arms, and I will release the persons that you are ensnaring, treating persons as birds. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:21",
"text": "And I will tear off your veils, and I will deliver my people from your hand, and they will not any longer be in your hand as prey, and you will know that I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:22",
"text": "Because you disheartened the heart of the righteous by deception, and I have not caused him pain, and strengthened the hands of the wicked so that he did not turn from his wicked way to save his life. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Ezekiel 13:23",
"text": "Therefore falseness you will not see, and divination you will not practice any longer, and I will rescue my people from your hand, and you will know that I am Yahweh!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:1",
"text": " And men from the elders of Israel came to me, and they sat \u231ebefore me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:2",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:3",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, these men took up their idols into their heart and \u231ethey placed before themselves\u231f a stumbling block of their guilt. \u231eShould I really let myself be consulted by them\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:4",
"text": "Therefore speak with them, and you must say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cEvery person from the house of Israel who brings up his idols into his heart and \u231eplaces before himself\u231f a stumbling block of his guilt and yet he comes to the prophet, I Yahweh, I will respond to him through this act with respect to the multitude of his idols, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:5",
"text": "so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their heart, those who are estranged from me, all of them, through their idols.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:6",
"text": "Therefore say to the house of Israel, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cReturn, and turn away from your idols and from all of your detestable things! Turn away your faces!\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:7",
"text": "For \u231eeach person\u231f from the house of Israel, and from the alien who dwells as an alien in Israel, who separates himself \u231efrom following me\u231f and brings up his idols into his heart and \u231eplaces before himself\u231f a stumbling block of his guilt, and yet he comes to the prophet to consult him concerning me, I Yahweh will answer him myself. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:8",
"text": "And I will set my face against that person, and I will make him to be a sign and make him into the subject of proverbs; and I will cut him off from the midst of my people, and you will know I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:9",
"text": "And the prophet, if he is deceived and he speaks a word, I Yahweh, I have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and I will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:10",
"text": "And they will bear their guilt, like the guilt of the inquirer so the guilt of the prophet will be, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:11",
"text": "so that the house of Israel will not go astray again \u231efrom me\u231f, and they will not make themselves unclean again with all of their transgressions, and they will be for me a people, and I will be for them as God,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:12",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:13",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, when a land sins against me by \u231eacting very unfaithfully\u231f, then I will stretch out my hand against it, and I will break for it the \u231esupply of food\u231f, and I will send against it famine, and I will cut it off, both human and animal. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:14",
"text": "And if even the three of these men were in the midst of it\u2014Noah, Daniel, and Job\u2014they, through their righteousness, would save only \u231ethemselves\u231f!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:15",
"text": "\u201cIf a fierce animal I should let cross through the land, and it should make it childless and it will be a desolation, so that there will not be one crossing over the land \u231edue to\u231f the presence of the animal, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:16",
"text": "even if these three men were in the midst of it, \u231eas surely as I live\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u201csurely they will not save sons and daughters; \u231ethey themselves alone\u231f, they will be saved, but the land will be a desolation. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:17",
"text": "Or, if I bring a sword over that land, and I say, \u2018Sword, let it cross over into the land!\u2019 And I will cut off from it both human and animal. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:18",
"text": "And if these three men were in the midst of it, \u231eas surely as I live\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u201cthey will not save sons and daughters, but \u231ethey alone\u231f will be saved. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:19",
"text": "And if I were to send a plague to that land, and I pour out my rage on it with blood to cut it off, both human and animal, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:20",
"text": "and if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in the midst of her, \u231eas surely as I live\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u201csurely not a son, surely not a daughter will they save by their righteousness; they would save \u231ethemselves\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:21",
"text": "For thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cHow much more when I send my four punishments\u2014the evil sword, and famine, and a fierce animal, and a plague\u2014to Jerusalem to cut it off, both human and animal! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:22",
"text": "But look! A remnant will be left over in it, sons and daughters \u231ewho will be brought out\u231f. Look! They are coming out to you, and you will see their way, and with their deeds you will be consoled with respect to the evil that I brought over Jerusalem, all of it that I brought over it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Ezekiel 14:23",
"text": "And they will console you when you see their way and their deeds, and you will know that not for nothing I did all that I did in it,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Ezekiel 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Ezekiel 15:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Ezekiel 15:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, how will the wood of the vine be \u231ebetter than\u231f \u231eany of the wood of\u231f the branch which is among the trees of the forest? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Ezekiel 15:3",
"text": "Can wood be taken from it to make anything, or can they take a tent peg from it to hang on it any object? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Ezekiel 15:4",
"text": "Look! It is given to the fire as fuel. The fire will consume two of its ends, and its middle will be charred. Is it useful for anything? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Ezekiel 15:5",
"text": "Look! \u231eWhen it is in perfect condition\u231f, it will not be used for anything, \u231ehow much less\u231f \u231ewhen the fire has consumed it\u231f and it is charred; and then can it be used again for anything? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Ezekiel 15:6",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u231eJust like\u231f the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest which I gave to the fire for fuel, so I have given the inhabitants of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Ezekiel 15:7",
"text": "And I will set my face against them. From the fire they may\u231eescape\u231f, but the fire will yet consume them, and they will know that I am Yahweh \u231ewhen I set my face against them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Ezekiel 15:8",
"text": "And I will make the land a desolation because \u231ethey acted very unfaithfully\u231f!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, make known to Jerusalem its detestable things, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:3",
"text": "and you must say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were from the land of the Canaanites, your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:4",
"text": "And as for your birth, \u231eon the day you were born\u231f your umbilical cord was not cut, and \u231eyou were not thoroughly washed clean with water\u231f, and \u231eyou were not thoroughly rubbed with salt\u231f, and \u231eyou were not carefully wrapped in strips of cloth\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:5",
"text": "\u231eNo eye took pity on you\u231f to do to you one of these things to show compassion for you, and you were thrown \u231einto the open field\u231f in their despising of you \u231eon the day you were born\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:6",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And I passed by you, and I saw you kicking about in your blood, and I said to you in your blood, \u201cLive! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:7",
"text": "Grow up; I will make you like a plant of the field.\u201d And you grew up, and you became tall and \u231ereached full womanhood\u231f. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, but you were naked and bare. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:8",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And I passed by you, and I saw you, and look, \u231eyour time of lovemaking had come\u231f, and so I spread out my hem over you, and I covered your nakedness, and I swore to you, and I entered into a covenant with you,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u2018and \u231eyou became mine\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:9",
"text": "And I washed you with water, and I rinsed off your blood from on you, and I anointed you with oil. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:10",
"text": "And I clothed you with beautiful finished cloth, and I put sandals on you of fine leather, and I bound you in fine linen, and I covered you with costly fabric. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:11",
"text": "And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put a bracelet on your arms and a necklace on your neck. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:12",
"text": "And I put an ornamental ring on your nose and earrings on your ears and a \u231ebeautiful crown\u231f on your head. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:13",
"text": "And you adorned yourself with gold and silver, and your clothing was fine linen and costly fabric and beautiful finished cloth; you ate finely milled flour and honey and olive oil, and you became exceedingly beautiful; \u231eyou were fit to be a queen\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:14",
"text": "And a name went out for you among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my majesty that I bestowed on you,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:15",
"text": "\u2018And you trusted in your beauty, and you prostituted on account of your name, and you poured out your fornication on every one passing by, saying, \u201cLet it be his.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:16",
"text": "And you took from your clothes and you made for yourself colorful shrines, and you prostituted on them; \u231ethis had not happened before\u231f, and it \u231ewill not continue to happen\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:17",
"text": "And you took \u231eyour beautiful jewelry\u231f made from my gold and from my silver that I had given to you, and you made for yourself \u231emale images\u231f, and you prostituted with them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:18",
"text": "And you took the clothes of your beautiful finished cloth, and you covered them and my oil and my incense you set \u231ebefore them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:19",
"text": "And my bread that I gave to you, finely milled flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, then you set it \u231ebefore them\u231f as a \u231epleasing odor\u231f, and so it was,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:20",
"text": "\u2018And you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne for me, and you sacrificed them to them to be eaten, \u231eas if your whorings were not enough\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:21",
"text": "And you slaughtered my children, and you gave them \u231eto be sacrificed to them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:22",
"text": "And in all of your detestable things and your fornication you did not remember the days of your childhood \u231ewhen you were naked and bare\u231f, when you were kicking about in your blood. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:23",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And then after all of your evil! Woe, woe, to you!\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:24",
"text": "\u2018And then you built for yourself a mound, and you made for yourself a high place in every public square. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:25",
"text": "At the head of every street you built your high place and you disgraced your beauty and you spread your feet for every passerby, and you increased your whoring. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:26",
"text": "And you prostituted with the \u231eEgyptians\u231f, your neighbors \u231ewho were sexually aroused\u231f, and you increased your fornication to provoke me. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:27",
"text": "And look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I reduced your portion, and I gave you into the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed because of your lewd \u231econduct\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:28",
"text": "And you prostituted with the \u231eAssyrians\u231f on account of \u231eyour insatiable lust\u231f, and you prostituted with them, and still you were not satisfied. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:29",
"text": "And you increased your fornication to the land of traders, to Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:30",
"text": "How hot with fever was your heart!\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. \u2018\u231eWhen you did\u231f all of these actions \u231eof a headstrong female prostitute\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:31",
"text": "\u231ewhen you built\u231f your mound at the head of every street and your high place you made on every street, yet you were not like a prostitute, as you were scorning your harlot\u2019s wages. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:32",
"text": "O, adulterous woman! In the place of her husband she received strangers. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:33",
"text": "To all prostitutes they give a fee, but you, you gave your gifts to all of your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from all around in your whorings! "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:34",
"text": "And it was the opposite with you from the other women in your whorings; \u231eno one solicited you as a prostitute\u231f. \u231eYou gave\u231f a harlot\u2019s wages, and a harlot\u2019s wages were not given to you, and so it was just the opposite. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:35",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:36",
"text": "Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because of the pouring out of your shame and because your nakedness was revealed in your whoring with your lovers, and on account of all of the idols of your detestable things, and according to the blood of your children whom you gave to them, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:37",
"text": "therefore, look! I am gathering all of your lovers \u231ewhom you were pleased about\u231f, and all of whom you loved in addition to all of whom you hated, and I will gather them against you from \u231eeverywhere\u231f, and I will uncover your nakedness to them, and they will see all of your nakedness. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:38",
"text": "And I will judge you with the judgment of women committing adultery and shedding blood, and I will give you the blood of rage and jealousy. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:39",
"text": "And I will give you into their hand, and they will demolish your mound, and they will break down your high places, and they will strip you of your clothes, and they will take \u231eyour beautiful jewelry\u231f, and they will leave you naked and bare. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:40",
"text": "And they will bring up against you a crowd, and they will stone you with stones, and they will cut you to pieces with their swords. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:41",
"text": "And they will burn your houses with fire, and they will execute against you judgments \u231ebefore\u231f many women, and I will stop you from prostitution, and also a harlot\u2019s wages you will not give again. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:42",
"text": "And I will satisfy my rage on you, and my jealousy will turn away from you, and I will be calm, and I will not be angry any longer. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:43",
"text": "\u231eBecause\u231f you did not remember the days of your childhood and you made me angry with all of these. And in turn I, look, I will return your way upon your head,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u2018and did you not do wickedness in addition to all of your detestable things? "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:44",
"text": "Look! Everyone quoting a proverb against you, he will quote, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Like her mother is her daughter!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:45",
"text": "You are a daughter of your mother who abhorred her husband and her children, and you are a sister of your sisters who abhorred their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:46",
"text": "And your elder sister, she is Samaria, and her daughters, who are dwelling on your north, and your younger sister is the one dwelling on your south; she is Sodom and her daughters. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:47",
"text": "And you have not only gone in their ways, but you also did according to their detestable things. \u231eIn such a short time\u231f you behaved more corruptly than they in all of your ways. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:48",
"text": "\u231eAs surely as I live\u231f,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u2018surely your sister Sodom and her daughters did not do as you and your daughters did. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:49",
"text": "Look! This was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: Pride, abundance of food, and \u231eprosperous ease\u231f was to her and to her daughters, and \u231eshe did not sustain the needy and the poor\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:50",
"text": "And they were proud, and they did a detestable thing \u231ebefore me\u231f, and I removed them \u231ebecause\u231f I saw it. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:51",
"text": "And Samaria did not sin \u231eaccording to even half of your sins\u231f, and you caused your detestable things to increase more than they, and you made your sister righteous in comparison with all of your detestable things that you did. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:52",
"text": "Also, you bear your disgrace, by which you furnished justification to your sisters through your sins by which you acted more abominably than they; they were more righteous than you, and also, you be ashamed and bear your disgrace through your making your sister righteous. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:53",
"text": " And I will restore their fortune, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and even the fortunes of your captivity in the midst of them, "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:54",
"text": "in order that you may bear your disgrace and you may be put to shame because of all that you did at your consoling them. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:55",
"text": "And as for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your former state. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:56",
"text": "And was not Sodom, your sister, a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:57",
"text": "\u231ebefore\u231f your evil was uncovered? It was like the time of the scorn of the daughters of Aram and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who are despising you. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:58",
"text": "Your wickedness and your detestable things, you, you must bear them,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:59",
"text": "\u2018For thus says the Lord Yahweh: And I will do it to you \u231eaccording to what you have done\u231f, who despised the oath to break covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:60",
"text": "And I, I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you \u231ean everlasting covenant\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:61",
"text": "And you will remember your ways, and you will be ashamed when you take your sisters, \u231eboth the older and the younger\u231f, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of your covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:62",
"text": "And I, I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Ezekiel 16:63",
"text": "in order that you will remember, and you will be ashamed, and \u231eyou will not open your mouth again\u231f \u231ebecause of\u231f your disgrace when I forgive you for all that you have done!\u2019\u00a0\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, tell a riddle and quote a proverb to the house of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:3",
"text": "and you must say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201c\u231eThe great eagle with great wings and long feathers\u231f and \u231efull of variegated plumage\u231f came to Lebanon and he took the treetop of the cedar. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:4",
"text": "He plucked the top of its new plant shoot, and he brought it to the land of Canaan and put it in a city of merchants, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:5",
"text": "and he took from the seed of the land and placed it in \u231efertile soil\u231f on many waters; like a willow he planted it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:6",
"text": "And it sprouted, and \u231eit became a vine spreading out\u231f, low of height, turning its branches to him, and its roots were under it, and \u231eit became a vine\u231f, and it made branches, and it sent out foliage. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:7",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018\u00a0\u201cAnd there was another great eagle, great of wings and with abundant plumage, and look! This vine stretched out its roots toward him and extended its branches to him to water it from the garden bed \u231ewhere it was planted\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:8",
"text": "It was planted in a good field by many waters to produce branches and to bear fruit to become \u231ea beautiful vine\u231f.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:9",
"text": "Say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cWill it prosper? Will he not tear out its roots, and will he not make its fruit scaly, and it will wither, and all of the freshness of its vegetation will dry up? And to lift it from its roots \u231ewill not require great strength or many people\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:10",
"text": "And look! Though it is planted, will it prosper? \u231eWhen the east wind strikes it\u231f, will it not dry up completely? On the garden bed of its vegetation it will dry up!\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:11",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:12",
"text": "\u201cSay now to the rebellious house of Israel, \u2018Do you not know what these are?\u2019 Say, \u2018Look! The king of Babylon will come to Jerusalem, and he will take its king and its officials, and he will bring them to himself, to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:13",
"text": "And he took from the seed of the kingship, and he made with him a covenant, and \u231ehe brought him under oath\u231f, and he took the rulers of the land, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:14",
"text": "so that they would be a humble kingdom and not lift itself up to keep his covenant \u231ein order for it to stand\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:15",
"text": "But he rebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt to give to him horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Will he escape doing these things, and can he break the covenant and escape? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:16",
"text": "\u231eAs I live\u231f,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u2018\u231esurely\u231f in the place of the king \u231ewho made\u231f him king, who despised his oath and who broke his covenant with him\u2014in the midst of Babylon he will die. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:17",
"text": "And not with a great army and with a great crowd will Pharaoh work with him in the war, at the pouring out of a siege ramp and the building of siege works to destroy many lives. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:18",
"text": "And he despised the oath to break covenant. And, look, he gave his hand in pledge, and yet he did all of these things. He will not escape.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:19",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018\u231eAs I live\u231f, \u231esurely\u231f my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke I will return upon his head. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:20",
"text": "And I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my hunting net, and I will bring him to Babylon, and I will enter into judgment with him there about his infidelity that he displayed against me. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:21",
"text": "And all of his choice troops, among all of his troops, they will fall by the sword, and those who are remaining, they will be scattered to all the directions of the wind, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have spoken.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:22",
"text": "Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018And I will take, even I, from the treetop of the high cedar, and I will plant it, from the head of its new plant shoot I will pluck a tender one, and I will plant it, even I, on a high and lofty mountain. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:23",
"text": "On the height of the mountain of Israel I will plant it, and it will carry branches, and it will bear fruit, and \u231eit will become a noble cedar\u231f, and all of the birds of all wings will dwell under it in the shade of its branches. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Ezekiel 17:24",
"text": "And all of the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, I will bring low a high tree, and I will exalt a low, fresh tree, and I will make a dry tree flourish. I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will do it.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:2",
"text": "\u201c\u231eWhat do you mean by\u231f quoting this proverb about the land of Israel, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018The fathers, they ate unripe fruit, and the teeth of the child became blunt.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:3",
"text": "\u231eAs I live\u231f, \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, it will surely not any longer be \u231eappropriate for you\u231f to quote this proverb in Israel! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:4",
"text": "Look! \u231eAll lives are mine\u231f. \u231eThe lives of father and son alike are mine\u231f. The person sinning will die. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:5",
"text": "And if a man is righteous and does justice and righteousness, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:6",
"text": "and on the mountains he does not eat and he does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and the wife of his neighbor he does not defile and he does not approach a woman of menstruation, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:7",
"text": "and he oppresses \u231eno one\u231f and he returns a pledge for his loan \u231eand he commits no robbery\u231f and he gives his bread to the hungry and he covers a naked person with a garment, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:8",
"text": "and \u231ehe does not charge interest\u231f and he takes no usury, and he holds back his hand from injustice and he executes a judgment of fairness between \u231epersons\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:9",
"text": "and in my statutes he goes about and my regulations he keeps, \u231eperforming faithfully\u231f \u2014then he is righteous, and certainly he will live,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd now he has a son, a violent one, \u231ewho sheds blood\u231f \u231eand does any of these things\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:11",
"text": "(though he did not do all of these things), for the son also eats on the mountains and he defiles the wife of his neighbor. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:12",
"text": "He oppresses the needy and the poor, and \u231ehe commits robbery\u231f, and he does not return a pledge for a loan, and he lifts his eyes to the idols so he does a detestable thing. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:13",
"text": "\u231eHe charges interest\u231f and takes usury. Then, shall he live? He shall not live, for he did all of these detestable things. Surely he will die! His blood will be on him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:14",
"text": " \u201cAnd look! He has a son, and he sees all of the sin of his father that he did, and he sees it, but he does not do it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:15",
"text": "On the mountains he does not eat, and he does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and the wife of his neighbor he does not defile. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:16",
"text": "And he oppresses no one; he requires no pledge for a loan, and \u231ehe does not commit robbery\u231f; he gives his bread to the hungry, and he covers the naked person with a garment. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:17",
"text": "He brings back his hand from iniquity; he does not take interest and usury; he does my regulations; he goes in my statutes. He will not die because of the guilt of his father; he will surely live! "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:18",
"text": "Because his father \u231eoppressed severely\u231f; \u231ehe stole from his brother\u231f; that which is not good he did in the midst of his people, and look! He will die through his guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:19",
"text": " \u201cYet you say, \u2018Why does the son not bear the guilt of the father?\u2019 And since the son does justice and righteousness and he keeps all of my statutes and does them, he shall surely live! "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:20",
"text": "The person, the one sinning, will die. A son shall not bear the guilt of the father, and a father shall not bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him; the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:21",
"text": "But if the wicked returns from all of his sins that he has done and he keeps all of my statutes and he does justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:22",
"text": "All of his transgressions that he committed will not be remembered against him. Through his righteousness that he has done he shall live. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:23",
"text": "Have I delight by any means in the death of the wicked, \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, and not at his turning from his way, \u231eso that\u231f he lives? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:24",
"text": "And \u231ewhen the righteous turns\u231f from his righteousness, so that he does injustice, and does all of the detestable things that the wicked do, then will he live because of all of his righteousness that he did? Those things will not be remembered because of his infidelity that he displayed, and because of his \u231esin that he committed\u231f. Through them he shall die. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:25",
"text": " \u201cYet you say, \u2018The way of the Lord is not fair!\u2019 Listen, now, house of Israel, is my way not fair? Is it not your ways that are not fair? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:26",
"text": "When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and he does injustice, then he will die because of them; because of his injustice that he did he will die! "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:27",
"text": "And when the wicked turns from his wickedness that he did and he does justice and righteousness, \u231ehe will preserve his life\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:28",
"text": "And if he sees and he returns from all of his transgressions that he did, surely he will live; he will not die! "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:29",
"text": "And yet they, the house of Israel, say, \u2018The way of the Lord is not fair!\u2019 Are not my ways fair, house of Israel? \u231eAre not your ways unfair?\u231f "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:30",
"text": " \u201cTherefore I will judge you, house of Israel, each one according to his ways,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. \u201cRepent and turn around from all of your transgression, and it will not be as a stumbling block of iniquity to you. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:31",
"text": "Throw \u231eaway from yourselves\u231f all of your transgressions that you committed, and make \u231efor yourselves\u231f a new heart and new spirit, and so why will you die, house of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Ezekiel 18:32",
"text": "For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. \u201cAnd so repent and live!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:1",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, raise a lament about the leaders of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:2",
"text": "and you must say, \u2018What a lioness was your mother among the lions. She lay down in the midst of young lions, and she reared her lion cubs. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:3",
"text": " And she raised up one from her cubs; he became a fierce lion, and he learned to tear prey; he ate humans. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:4",
"text": " And nations heard about him; in their pit he was caught, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:5",
"text": " And she saw that she was waiting in vain; her hope was destroyed, and she took one from her cubs, and she made him a fierce lion. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:6",
"text": " And he walked about in the midst of lions; he became a fierce lion, and he learned to tear prey; he ate humans. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:7",
"text": " And he knew their widows, and he devastated their cities, and the land was appalled, and \u231eeveryone in it\u231f at the sound of his roar. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:8",
"text": " And nations set out against him \u231efrom the surrounding provinces\u231f, and they spread their net over him, and he was caught in their pit. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:9",
"text": " And they put him in a collar with hooks, and they brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into a prison, so that his voice would not be heard \u231eany longer\u231f on the mountains of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:10",
"text": " Your mother was like the vine in your vineyard; planted \u231efruitfully\u231f beside water, and it was full of branches from many waters. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:11",
"text": " And \u231eshe produced branches of strength\u231f to scepters of rulers; its height became tall between thick foliage, and it was seen because of its tallness among the abundance of its branches. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:12",
"text": " But it was uprooted in rage; it was thrown to the earth, and the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off, and its strong branch dried up; fire consumed it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:13",
"text": " And now it is planted in the desert, in a \u231edry and thirsty land\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Ezekiel 19:14",
"text": " And so fire has gone out from the stem of its branches; its fruit it has consumed, and there was not in it \u231ea strong branch\u231f, a scepter for ruling.\u2019\u00a0\u201d This is a lament, and \u231eit will be used as a lament\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:1",
"text": " And then in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, men from the elders of Israel came to consult Yahweh, and they sat \u231ebefore me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:2",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:3",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, speak with the elders of Israel, and you must say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cAre you coming to consult me? \u231eAs I live\u231f, I will surely not allow myself to be consulted by you!\u201d\u00a0\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:4",
"text": "Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man? Make known to them the detestable things of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:5",
"text": "And you must say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cOn the day of my choosing Israel \u231eI swore\u231f to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and I made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, and \u231eI swore\u231f to them, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018I am Yahweh your God.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:6",
"text": "On that day \u231eI swore\u231f to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt to the land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey\u2014it is the most beautiful of all of the lands. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:7",
"text": "Then I said to them, \u2018Let each one throw away the detestable things of his eyes, and you must not make yourselves unclean with the idols of Egypt! I am Yahweh your God.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:8",
"text": "But they rebelled against me, and they were not willing to listen to me; each one \u231edid not throw away\u231f the detestable things of their eyes; and \u231ethey did not abandon\u231f the idols of Egypt, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:9",
"text": " \u201cBut I acted for the sake of my name \u231eto keep it from being profaned\u231f before the eyes of the nations \u231eamong whom they lived\u231f, where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:10",
"text": "And I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and I brought them to the desert, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:11",
"text": "and I gave my statutes to them, and my regulations I made known to them, which, if a person does them, then he will live by them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:12",
"text": "And also my Sabbaths I gave to them to be a sign between me and between them \u231eso they would know\u231f that I, Yahweh, am the one sanctifying them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:13",
"text": " \u201cBut in the desert the house of Israel rebelled against me; \u231ethey did not walk in my statutes\u231f, and they rejected my regulations, which, if a person does them, he will live by them, and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths, and I decided to pour out my rage on them in the desert to destroy them, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:14",
"text": "and I acted for the sake of my name, that it not be profaned before the eyes of the nations \u231ebefore whom I brought them out\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:15",
"text": "And also \u231eI myself swore\u231f to them in the desert not to bring them into the land that I had given to them, flowing with milk and honey\u2014it is the most beautiful of all of the lands\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:16",
"text": "because they despised my judgments, and \u231ethey did not walk in my statutes\u231f, and my Sabbaths they profaned, for their heart was going after their idols. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:17",
"text": "But my eye took pity on them by not destroying them, and \u231eI did not completely destroy them\u231f in the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:18",
"text": " \u201cAnd I said to their children in the desert, \u2018You must not go in the statutes of your parents; you must not keep their regulations, and you must not make yourself unclean with their idols. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:19",
"text": "I, Yahweh, am your God, so go in my statutes and keep my regulations and do them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:20",
"text": "And treat my Sabbaths as holy, and they will be a sign between me and between you \u231ethat you may know\u231f that I, Yahweh, am your God.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:21",
"text": "But the children rebelled against me; \u231ethey did not walk in my statutes\u231f, and \u231ethey did not observe my regulations\u231f, which if a person does them, then he will live by them. My Sabbaths they desecrated, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to finish my anger against them in the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:22",
"text": "But I withheld my hand, and I acted for the sake of my name not to be profaned before the eyes of the nations before whom I had brought them out before their eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:23",
"text": "What is more, \u231eI swore\u231f to them in the desert to scatter them among the nations and to disperse them in the lands, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:24",
"text": "because they did not do my regulations, and my statutes they despised, and my Sabbaths they profaned, and their eyes were after the idols of their ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:25",
"text": "And in turn I gave to them rules that were not good and regulations \u231eby which they will not live\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:26",
"text": "And I defiled them through their gifts in sacrificing all of the first offspring of the womb, in order that I will cause them to be stunned, so that they will know that I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:27",
"text": " \u201cTherefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and you must say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cAgain in this your ancestors blasphemed me \u231eat their display of infidelity toward me\u231f.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:28",
"text": "And I brought them to the land that \u231eI swore\u231f to give to them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered their sacrifices, and they presented there the provocation of their offering, and they gave there their fragrant incense offering, and they poured out their libations there. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:29",
"text": "And I said to them, \u2018What is the high place to which you are going?\u2019 And \u231eit is called\u231f Bamah until this day. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:30",
"text": "Therefore thus say to the house of Israel, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cIn the way of your ancestors will you defile yourself, and after their vile idols will you prostitute yourselves? "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:31",
"text": "And \u231ewhen you lift up your gifts, sacrificing your children\u231f through the fire, you are defiling yourself through all of your idols until \u231etoday\u231f, and will I let myself be consulted by you, house of Israel?\u201d\u00a0\u2019 \u231eAs I live\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u201cI will not let myself be consulted by you! "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:32",
"text": "And \u231ewhat you are planning\u231f, surely it will not be\u2014that you are saying, \u2018Let us be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, \u231eserving wood and stone\u231f!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:33",
"text": " \u201c\u231eAs I live\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u201c\u231esurely\u231f with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with \u231erage pouring forth\u231f I will reign as king over you! "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:34",
"text": "And I will bring you from the peoples, and I will gather you from the countries to which you were scattered with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with rage poured out. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:35",
"text": "Then I will bring you to the desert of the peoples, and I will execute justice on you there face to face. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:36",
"text": "\u231eJust as\u231f I executed justice on your ancestors in the desert of the land of Egypt, likewise I will execute justice on you!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:37",
"text": "\u201cAnd I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:38",
"text": "And I will purge the rebels from among you and the ones transgressing against me; I will bring them out from the land \u231ewhere they are living as aliens\u231f, but into the land of Israel they will not come, and then you will know that I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:39",
"text": " And you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLet each one go serve his idols now and after, if you are not listening to me, but \u231emy holy name\u231f you will not profane any longer with your gifts and with your idols. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:40",
"text": " \u201cFor on \u231emy holy mountain\u231f, on the mountain of the height of Israel,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u201cthere all of the house of Israel will serve me, all of them, in the land. I will take pleasure in them, and there I will accept your contributions and the best of your portions with all of your holy objects. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:41",
"text": "I will accept you as \u231ea fragrant incense offering\u231f when I bring you out from the peoples and I gather you from the lands to which you were scattered, and I will show myself holy among you before the eyes of the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:42",
"text": "And you will know that I am Yahweh \u231ewhen I bring you\u231f to the land of Israel, to the land that \u231eI swore\u231f to give to your ancestors. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:43",
"text": "And you will remember there your ways, and all of your deeds \u231eby which you were made unclean\u231f, and you will feel a loathing \u231efor yourself\u231f for all of your evils that you have done. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:44",
"text": "And you will know that I am Yahweh \u231ewhen I deal with you\u231f for the sake of my name and \u231enot according to your evil ways\u231f or \u231eaccording to\u231f your corrupted deeds, house of Israel,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:45",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:46",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face toward the way of the south, and preach to the south, and prophesy against the forest of the territory of the Negev. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:47",
"text": "And you must say to the forest of the Negev, \u2018Hear the word of Yahweh, thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am kindling against you a fire, and it will devour in you every fresh tree and every dry tree; the blaze of the flame will not be quenched, and all the surfaces from the south to the north will be scorched by it. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:48",
"text": "And all creatures will see that I, Yahweh, I kindled it\u2014it will not be quenched!\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Ezekiel 20:49",
"text": "Then I said, \u201cAh, Lord Yahweh, they are saying about me, \u2018Is he not posing a parable?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach to the sanctuaries, and prophesy to the land of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:3",
"text": "And you must say to the land of Israel, \u2018Thus says Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am against you, and I will draw out my sword from its sheath, and I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:4",
"text": "Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword will go out from its sheath to all creatures from south to north. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:5",
"text": "And they will know, all creatures, that I, Yahweh, I will bring out my sword from its sheath; it will not return again!\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:6",
"text": "And you, son of man, groan \u231ewith shaking hips\u231f, and you must groan with bitterness before their eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:7",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f when they say to you, \u2018On account of what are you groaning?\u2019 then you must say, \u2018On account of the report, for it is coming, and every heart will be weak and all hands will hang limp and every spirit will be disheartened, and all knees will go like water.\u2019 Look! It is coming, and it will happen!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:8",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:9",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, prophesy, and you must say, \u2018Thus says the Lord,\u2019 say, \u2018A sword, a sword is sharpened and is also polished. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:10",
"text": "It is sharpened to slaughter a slaughter, \u231epolished to flash like lightning\u231f! Or will we rejoice? A rod, my son, is despising every tree. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:11",
"text": "And he gives it to be polished, \u231eto be seized by the hand\u231f. It is sharpened\u2014a sword\u2014and it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:12",
"text": "Cry and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all of the princes of Israel. They are thrown to the sword with my people; therefore \u231estrike your thigh\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:13",
"text": "For \u231eexamine\u231f! And what if also the rod will not be despising?\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:14",
"text": "And you, son of man, prophesy \u231eand clap your hands\u231f. And the sword will \u231estrike twice\u231f; let it happen a third time. It is a sword of the dead, the sword of the great dead that is surrounding them, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:15",
"text": "so that a heart melts, and the fallen \u231emultiply\u231f at all of their gates. I gave a sword for slaughter, and alas! It is made for flashing, it is grasped for slaughtering. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:16",
"text": "Gather together, strike to the right; cause to go to the left, where your \u231eedge\u231f is directed. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:17",
"text": "And also \u231eI myself\u231f will \u231eclap my hands\u231f, and I will satisfy my rage! I, Yahweh, I have spoken.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:18",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:19",
"text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, mark out for yourself two roads for the coming of the sword of the king of Babylon; they must \u231eboth\u231f go out from the same land. And hew out a \u231esignpost\u231f; hew it at the head of the road of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:20",
"text": "You must mark a road for the coming of the sword to Rabbah of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f and to Judah, in Jerusalem the fortified. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:21",
"text": "For the king of Babylon stands at the fork of the road at the head of the two roads to practice divination. \u231eHe shakes the arrows\u231f, he inquires with the teraphim, he \u231eexamines\u231f the liver. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:22",
"text": "In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem, to put up battering rams, to open a mouth for slaughter, \u231eto raise the battle cry\u231f, to put up battering rams against gates, to build a siege ramp, to build siege works. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:23",
"text": "And it will be to them like practicing divination falsely in their eyes; \u231ethey have sworn oaths for themselves\u231f. But he will bring their guilt to remembrance so as to seize them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:24",
"text": " \u201cTherefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Because you have brought to remembrance your guilt by the uncovering of your transgressions, so that your sins in all of your deeds appear\u2014because of your being remembered, you will be captured in the hand.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:25",
"text": "And as for you, profane one, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come with the time of the punishment of the end, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:26",
"text": "thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Remove the turban and lift off the crown; things are no longer the same. Exalt the low and bring low the high. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:27",
"text": "A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I will make it! Also this has not ever happened; it will remain until the coming of the one to whom the judgment belongs and I have given it to him.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:28",
"text": "And you, son of man, prophesy, and you must say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the \u231eAmmonites\u231f and concerning their disgrace,\u2019 and you must say, \u2018A sword, a sword is drawn for slaughtering; it is polished for holding, \u231efor flashing like lightning\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:29",
"text": "when seeing a false vision for you in vain, when practicing divination for you falsely, to give you on the neck of the profane ones of the wicked, \u231ewhose day has come\u231f, \u231ethe time of final punishment\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:30",
"text": "Return it to its sheath in the place where you were created. In the land of your origin I will judge you! "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:31",
"text": "And I will pour out my anger on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled craftsmen of destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Ezekiel 21:32",
"text": "You will be as fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the earth. You will not be remembered, for I, Yahweh, I have spoken.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:2",
"text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the \u231ebloody city\u231f? Then you must make known to her all of her detestable things! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:3",
"text": "And you must say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cA city pouring out blood in the midst of her; \u231eits time has come\u231f, and it made idols for itself, becoming unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:4",
"text": "By your blood that you poured out you have become guilty, and by your idols that you made you have become unclean, and you have brought your days near, \u231eand your appointed years have come\u231f. Therefore I have made you a disgrace for the nations and a laughingstock to all of the countries. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:5",
"text": "The people near and the people far from you will make fun of you, \u231ethe unclean and the terrified\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:6",
"text": "Look! The princes of Israel, each one according to his strength, they are in you \u231efor the shedding of blood\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:7",
"text": "They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; \u231ethey violated\u231f the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated the orphan and widow. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:8",
"text": "You despised my holy objects; my Sabbaths you profaned. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:9",
"text": "Slanderous men are \u231eamong you\u231f to shed blood, and they, \u231eamong you\u231f, eat upon the mountains; they do wickedness in the midst of you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:10",
"text": "They uncover the nakedness of a father among you; they violate a woman unclean of menstruation among you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:11",
"text": "And a man does a detestable thing with the wife of his neighbor, and a man defiles his daughter-in-law in wickedness, and a man sexually violates among you his sister, the daughter of his father. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:12",
"text": "They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain from your neighbors by extortion, and so you have forgotten me, \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:13",
"text": "And look! I strike my hand for your ill-gotten gain that you have made and at your blood that was in the midst of you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:14",
"text": "Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong at the days in which I am dealing with you? I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:15",
"text": "I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your uncleanness from you. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:16",
"text": "And I will be profaned by you before the eyes of the nations, and you will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:17",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:18",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them are as bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, even as silver dross, silver dross they became! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:19",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Because all of you have become as silver dross, therefore look! I am gathering you to the midst of Jerusalem, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:20",
"text": "like the gathering of silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin to the middle of a furnace to blow fire on it for melting. Thus I will gather in my anger and in my rage, and I will \u231edeposit\u231f you, and I will melt you. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:21",
"text": "And I will gather you, and I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and so I will melt you in the midst of her. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:22",
"text": "Thus you will be melted like the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have poured out my rage on you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:23",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:24",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, say to her, \u2018You are a land not cleansed; it is not rained upon in the day of indignation.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:25",
"text": "The conspiracy of its prophets in the midst of her is like a roaring lion that is tearing prey. They devour people, and they take wealth and treasure; they make its widows numerous in the midst of her. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:26",
"text": "Its priests treat my law violently, and they profane my holy objects; they do not distinguish between a holy object and what is unholy, or between the clean and the unclean. They do not teach the difference, and they hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and so I am profaned in the midst of them. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:27",
"text": "Its officials are like wolves tearing prey in its midst, to pour out blood, to destroy people, to make dishonest gain. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:28",
"text": "And for them its prophets plaster whitewash; they are seeing falseness and are practicing divination for them by lying, saying, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh,\u2019 and Yahweh has not spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:29",
"text": "They severely oppress the people of the land, and \u231ethey committed robbery\u231f, and they mistreated the needy and the poor, and they oppressed the alien \u231ewithout\u231f justice. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:30",
"text": "And so I sought for them somebody, one repairing the wall and standing in the breach \u231ebefore me\u231f on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find anyone, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Ezekiel 22:31",
"text": "and so I poured out my indignation on them. With the fire of my wrath I destroyed them; I returned their way upon their head,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:3",
"text": "and they prostituted themselves in Egypt in their childhood; they were prostituting themselves there, and their breasts were fondled, and there they caressed the bosoms of their virginity. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:4",
"text": "Now as for their names, the older was Oholah, and Oholibah was her sister. And \u231ethey became mine\u231f, and they bore sons and daughters, and their names are Samaria for Oholah, and Jerusalem for Oholibah. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:5",
"text": "And Oholah prostituted herself \u231ewhile she was still mine\u231f, and she lusted for her lovers, for Assyria who was nearby, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:6",
"text": "clothed in blue cloth, governors and prefects, \u231ehandsome young men\u231f and all of them horsemen, \u231eexperts on horseback\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:7",
"text": "And she bestowed her fornication on them, on the choice ones of the \u231eAssyrians\u231f, all of them, and with every one after which she lusted; with all of their idols she defiled herself. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:8",
"text": "And her whorings from the time of Egypt she did not abandon, for they slept with her in her childhood, and they caressed the bosoms of her virginity, and they poured out their fornication on her. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:9",
"text": "Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the \u231eAssyrians\u231f \u231eafter whom she lusted\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:10",
"text": "They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. And she became a name for the women, and they executed judgments against her. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:11",
"text": " \u201cAnd though Oholibah her sister saw, yet in her lust \u231eshe behaved more corruptly than her\u231f, and her whoring was more than the prostitution of her sister. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:12",
"text": "She lusted after the \u231eAssyrians\u231f, governors and prefects, warriors clothed in perfection, \u231eexpert horsemen\u231f, all of them \u231ehandsome young men\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:13",
"text": "And I saw that she was defiled; \u231ethey had both taken the same path\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:14",
"text": "And she increased her whorings, and she saw men carved on the wall, images of Chaldeans carved in red, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:15",
"text": "belted with a belt at their waist with turbans on their heads, all of them giving the appearance of adjutants, the image of the \u231eBabylonians\u231f; Chaldea was the land of their birth. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:16",
"text": "And she lusted for them \u231ewhen her eyes saw them\u231f, and she sent messengers to them at Chaldea. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:17",
"text": "And so the \u231eBabylonians\u231f came to her for the bed of lovemaking; and they defiled her with their fornication, and she was defiled by them, and she turned from them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:18",
"text": "And she revealed her whorings, and she revealed her nakedness, and so I turned from her \u231ejust as\u231f I turned from her sister. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:19",
"text": "Yet she increased her whorings, \u231erecalling\u231f the days of her childhood when she was prostituted in the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:20",
"text": "And she lusted after her male lovers whose genitalia were the genitalia of male donkeys and their seminal emission was the seminal emission of horses. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:21",
"text": "And you longed after the obscene conduct of your youth when your bosom was caressed by Egypt, fondling your young breasts. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:22",
"text": " \u201cTherefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Look! I am stirring up your lovers against you concerning whom you turned away, and I will bring them against you from all around: "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:23",
"text": "the \u231eBabylonians\u231f and all of the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all of the \u231eAssyrians\u231f along with them, \u231ehandsome young men\u231f, governors and prefects, all of them adjutants \u231eand excellent horsemen\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:24",
"text": "And they will come against you with an army chariot and wagon and with a crowd of peoples; they will set themselves against you from all around with large shield and small shield and helmet. And I will give \u231ebefore them\u231f judgment, and they will judge you with their judgments. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:25",
"text": "And I will direct my zeal against you, and they will deal with you in anger; your nose and your ears they will remove, and \u231ethose who are left\u231f, they will fall by the sword, and they will take your sons and your daughters, and \u231eyour remnant\u231f will be consumed by fire. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:26",
"text": "And they will strip you of your clothes, and they will take \u231eyour splendid jewelry\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:27",
"text": "And I will put an end to your obscene conduct coming from you and your fornication from the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them; and you will not remember Egypt again.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:28",
"text": "For thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Look! I am giving you into the hand of those you hated, into the hand of those from whom you turned away. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:29",
"text": "And they will deal with you in hatred, and they will take all of your acquisitions, and they will leave you naked and in bareness; and the nakedness of your fornication and your obscene conduct and your whorings will be exposed. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:30",
"text": "These things are accomplished against you since you prostituted yourself after the nations, and on account of that, you defiled yourself by their idols. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:31",
"text": "You went in the same way of your sister, and I will give her cup into your hand.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:32",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cYou will drink the deep and wide cup of your sister; you will be as laughter and as scorn; \u231ethe cup holds so much\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:33",
"text": "You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, for a cup of horror and desolation is the cup of your sister, Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:34",
"text": "And you will drink it, and you will drain it, and its potsherds you will gnaw, and you will tear out your breasts, for \u231eI myself\u231f spoke,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:35",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cBecause you have forgotten me, and you threw me behind your back, now in turn you bear your obscene conduct and your whorings.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:36",
"text": " And Yahweh said to me, \u201cSon of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah and declare their abominable deeds to them? "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:37",
"text": "For they committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and they committed adultery with their idols, and even their children that they had borne for me\u2014they sacrificed them as food! "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:38",
"text": "Also they did this to me: they defiled my sanctuary on that day, and they profaned my Sabbaths, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:39",
"text": "and when they slaughtered their children for their idols, they came to my sanctuary on that day to profane it. And look, \u231ethis is what they did in my house\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:40",
"text": "\u231eWhat is worse\u231f, they sent for men \u231ewho come\u231f from a distant place, to whom a messenger was sent to them, and look! They came! Men for whom you bathed and painted your eyes, and you adorned yourself with an ornament. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:41",
"text": "And you sat on a magnificent couch and a table prepared \u231ebefore her\u231f, and my incense and my olive oil you put on her. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:42",
"text": "And a sound of a carefree crowd was with it, and in addition to these men, \u231ea crowd of drunken men was brought in\u231f from the desert, and they put bracelets on their arms and a crown of splendor on their heads. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:43",
"text": "And I said to the one worn out with adulteries, \u2018Now they will prostitute her concerning her fornication, even her.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:44",
"text": "And so they went to her like going to a female prostitute; and thus they went to Oholah and to Oholibah, the women of obscene conduct. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:45",
"text": "But righteous men, they will judge them with the judgment of committing adultery, and with the judgment of shedding blood; for they were committing adultery, and blood was on their hands.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:46",
"text": " For thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cBring up against them an assembly, and make them as a thing of horror and as plunder. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:47",
"text": "And an assembly must stone them with stones, and they must cut them down. With their swords they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and with fire they shall burn their houses. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:48",
"text": "And \u231eI will cause obscene conduct to cease from the land\u231f, and all of the women will be warned, and they will not do according to your wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Ezekiel 23:49",
"text": "And they will repay your obscene conduct upon you, and the guilt of your idols you will bear, and you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, write for yourself the name of the day, \u231ethis very day\u231f. The king of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem on exactly this day! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:3",
"text": "And \u231edeliver a proverb\u231f to \u231ethe rebellious house\u231f, and you must say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cPlace the pot! Place it and also pour water into it. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:4",
"text": "Gather its pieces to it, every good piece, thigh and shoulder, fill it with choice bones; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:5",
"text": "take the choicest of the flock, and also pile the bones under it; \u231eboil it vigorously\u231f; indeed, its bones boiled in the midst of it.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:6",
"text": " Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cWoe to the city of bloodguilt! A pot that has its rust in it; \u231eits rust did not go out from it\u231f. Bring it out \u231epiece by piece\u231f; \u231eone is as good as another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:7",
"text": "For her blood was in the midst of her; \u231eshe put it on a bare rock\u231f; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:8",
"text": "To stir up rage, to avenge myself through vengeance, I placed its blood on the barrenness of a rock, \u231eso that it may not be covered\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:9",
"text": " Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cWoe to the city of bloodguilt! I, even I, will make the pile of wood great! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:10",
"text": "Pile up the logs; kindle the fire; finish cooking the meat, and mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:11",
"text": "And \u231emake it stand\u231f empty upon its burning coals so that it may become hot, and its copper may become molten and be melted in the midst of it, so that its uncleanness and its rust be consumed. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:12",
"text": "Through effort she has caused weariness; \u231eits thick rust\u231f went not out of it. Its rust! Into the fire with its rust! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:13",
"text": "In your uncleanness is obscene conduct, because I cleansed you, but you were not clean from your uncleanness; you will not be clean again until \u231eI fully vent my rage\u231f on you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:14",
"text": "I, Yahweh, I have spoken. It is coming, and I did it; I will not disregard, and I will not take pity, and I will not reconsider. According to your ways and according to your deeds they will judge you!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:15",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:16",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, look! I am taking from you what is pleasing to your eyes with a plague, but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not run down. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:17",
"text": "Sigh in silence for the dead; you shall not make a mourning ceremony. Bind your turban on you, and you must put your sandals on your feet. You must not cover your upper lip, and the bread of \u231emourners\u231f you shall not eat.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:18",
"text": "And I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening, and I did in the morning \u231ejust as\u231f I was commanded. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:19",
"text": "And the people said to me, \u201cWill you not make known to us what these things that you are doing mean for us?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:20",
"text": "And I said to them that the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:21",
"text": "\u201cSay to the house of Israel, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I will be profaning my sanctuary, the pride of your strength and the delight of your eyes and the object of your own affection; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind will fall by the sword, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:22",
"text": "and you shall do \u231ejust as\u231f I did: You shall not cover your upper lip, and you shall not eat the bread of \u231emourners\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:23",
"text": "And your turban must be on your heads, and your sandals must be on your feet. You shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, but you shall waste away because of your iniquities, and you shall groan \u231eto one another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:24",
"text": "And Ezekiel will be to you as a sign; \u231eeverything that he did\u231f you shall do; and when it comes you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:25",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, son of man, will it not be that on the day \u231ewhen I take from them\u231f their stronghold, the joy of their glory, the delight of their eyes, and the longing of their inner self, their sons and daughters\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:26",
"text": "on that day a survivor will come to you \u231ewith the news\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Ezekiel 24:27",
"text": "On that day your mouth shall be opened \u231eat the arrival of the fugitive\u231f, and you shall speak, and you shall not be silent any longer, and you shall be to them as a sign, and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face toward the \u231eAmmonites\u231f and prophesy against them, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:3",
"text": "and you must say to the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, \u2018Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cBecause of your saying, \u2018Ah!\u2019 to my sanctuary when it was profaned, and to the land of Israel when it was desolate, and to the house of Judah when they went into the exile, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:4",
"text": "therefore look! I am giving you to the people of the East as a possession, and they will set up their encampments in you, and they will make in you their dwelling places; \u231ethey themselves\u231f will eat your fruit and \u231ethey themselves\u231f will drink your milk. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:5",
"text": "And I will make Rabbah as a pasture of camels and the \u231eAmmonites\u231f as a haunt of flocks, and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:6",
"text": "For thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cBecause of clapping your hand and stamping with your foot, and because you rejoiced in yourself with all of your malice over the land of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:7",
"text": "therefore look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I will give you as plunder to the nations, and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will destroy you from the countries, and I will wipe you out, and you will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:8",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cBecause of Moab and Seir saying, \u2018The house of Judah is like all of the nations,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:9",
"text": "therefore, look! I am opening the side of Moab from the cities on its frontier, the glory of the land: Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:10",
"text": "I will give it to the people of the East in addition to the \u231eAmmonites\u231f as a possession, so that the \u231eAmmonites\u231f will not be remembered among the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:11",
"text": "And on Moab I will execute punishments, and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:12",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cBecause of the doings of Edom in avenging himself with vengeance for the house of Judah, and so they became very guilty and they avenged themselves on them,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:13",
"text": "therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cso I will stretch out my hand against Edom and I will cut off from it both human and animal, and I will make it a ruin from Teman and Dedan; they will fall by the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:14",
"text": "And I will exact my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my rage, and they will know my vengeance,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:15",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cBecause of the \u231eacting\u231f of the Philistines in vengeance, so that they avenged themselves relentlessly with malice in themselves for destruction \u231ewith everlasting hostility\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:16",
"text": "therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Look! I am stretching out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites, and I will destroy the remainder of \u231ethe seacoast\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Ezekiel 25:17",
"text": "And I will execute on them great vengeance with punishments of rage, and they will know that I am Yahweh when I exact my vengeance on them!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:1",
"text": " And it was in the \u231eeleventh\u231f year, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, \u2018Ah! The gates of the peoples are broken; it has swung open to me; I shall be filled, for it lies in ruins!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:3",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Look! I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring up against you many nations like the stirring up of the sea \u231estirring up its waves\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:4",
"text": "And I will destroy the walls of Tyre, and they will demolish its towers, and I will scrape away its earthen dirt from it, and I will make it into \u231ea bare rock\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:5",
"text": "It will become a place for spreading out dragnets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. \u2018And it will become as plunder for the nations, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:6",
"text": "and its daughters who are in the field with the sword, they will be killed; and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:7",
"text": " For thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am bringing to Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, from the north, the king of kings, with horse and with chariot and with horsemen and his assembly and many people. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:8",
"text": "Your daughters he will kill in the field with the sword, and he will place against you siege works, and he will build against you a siege ramp, and he will raise against you a shield, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:9",
"text": "and the thrust of his battering ram he will direct against your walls, and your towers he will break down with his weapons. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:10",
"text": "From the abundance of his horses he will cover you with their fine dust; at the sound of horseman and wheel and chariot your walls will shake, at his coming into your gates like the entrance of a city that is being broken through. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:11",
"text": "With the hooves of his horses he will trample all of your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and \u231eyour strong stone pillars\u231f will tumble down to the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:12",
"text": "And they will plunder your wealth, and they will loot your merchandise, and they will break down your walls, and the houses of your delight they will break down, and your stones and your timbers and your earthen dirt they will cast into the midst of the water. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:13",
"text": "And, I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your lyres will not be heard any longer. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:14",
"text": "And I will make you into \u231ea bare rock\u231f, a place for the spreading out of dragnets. You will not be built again, for I, Yahweh, I have spoken,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:15",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre, \u201cWill not the coastlands shake from the sound of your downfall, at the groaning of the wounded, \u231eat people being killed\u231f in the midst of you? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:16",
"text": "And all the princes of the sea will go down from their thrones, and they will remove their robes, and their \u231ebeautiful garments\u231f of finished cloth they will take off. With terror they will be clothed, and on the ground they will sit, and they will tremble \u231econtinually\u231f, and they will be appalled over you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:17",
"text": "And they will raise a lament over you, and they will say to you, \u2018How you have been lost who was inhabited from the seas; the city that was praised, that was strong. It is located on the sea, and its inhabitants imposed their terror \u231eon all of its inhabitants\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:18",
"text": " Now the coastlands will tremble at the day of your downfall, and the islands that are in the sea will be horrified because of your departure.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:19",
"text": " For thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cWhen I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when bringing up over you the deep, the \u231egreat surging waters\u231f will cover you. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:20",
"text": "And I will bring you down with those who are going down to the grave, \u231ean ancient people\u231f, and I will cause you to dwell in the world of the depths, in the ruins from of old with those who are going down to the grave, so that you will not be inhabited and \u231ehave a place\u231f in the land of the living. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Ezekiel 26:21",
"text": "Sudden terrors I will bring on you, and you shall no longer exist; and you will be sought, and you will not be found again \u231eforever\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:2",
"text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, raise a lament against Tyre. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:3",
"text": "And you must say to Tyre, the one who sits at the entrance of the sea as the merchant of the peoples to the many coastlands, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Tyre, \u231eyou yourself said\u231f \u201cI am perfect \u231ein beauty\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:4",
"text": " In the heart of the seas are your boundaries; your builders perfected your beauty. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:5",
"text": " They built with pine trees from Senir all of your boards for you; they took cedars from Lebanon to make a sailing mast \u231efor you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:6",
"text": " They made your oars with oaks from Bashan; your deck they made with inlaid ivory, with cypress trees from the coastlands of Cyprus. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:7",
"text": " Your sail was fine linen with colorful weaving from Egypt \u231eto serve as a banner for you\u231f; blue and purple cloth from the coastlands of Cyprus was your awning. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:8",
"text": " The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvan were your rowers; your \u231eskilled men\u231f, O Tyre, were \u231efrom your own people\u231f, and they were your seamen. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:9",
"text": " The elders of Gebal and its \u231eskilled men\u231f were \u231eamong you\u231f as the repairers of the seam of your boat; all of the ships of the sea and their mariners were \u231eamong you\u231f to barter your wares. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:10",
"text": " Persia and Lud and Put were \u231eamong your soldiers\u231f; small shield and helmet hung \u231eamong you\u231f and gave to you your adornment. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:11",
"text": " The people of Arvan and Helech were on your walls all around, and Gammadites were in your towers. They hung their quivers on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:12",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Tarshish was your trader; from the abundance of all of their wealth, with silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your merchandise. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:13",
"text": "Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; \u231ein exchange for people\u231f and an object of bronze they gave you your wares. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:14",
"text": "From Beth Togarmah they exchanged horses and war horses and mules for your wares. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:15",
"text": "The people of Dedan were trading with you, many coastlands composed the region of your \u231einfluence\u231f; they brought back horns of ivory and ebony as your payment. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:16",
"text": "Edom was trading with you because of the abundance of your products, trading with malachite, purple wool yarn and colorful weaving, and fine white fabric and black corals and rubies; all these they exchange for your merchandise. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:17",
"text": "Judah and the land of Israel were trading with you with wheat from Minnith and millet and honey and olive oil and balm; all these they gave for your wares. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:18",
"text": "Damascus was trading with you \u231ebecause of\u231f the abundance of your products, because of the abundance of all of your wealth, trading with the wine of Helbon and white wool. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:19",
"text": "Vedan and Javan from Uzal, they exchanged wrought iron, cinnamon, and reed spice for your merchandise; all this was for your wares. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:20",
"text": "Dedan was trading with you, with garments of woven material for riding. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:21",
"text": "Arabia and all of the leaders of Kedar were \u231eyour customers\u231f; with young rams and adult rams and goats they were trading with them with you. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:22",
"text": "The traders of Sheba and Raamah were trading with you, with the finest of every spice and with every precious stone and gold; they exchanged all these for your merchandise. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:23",
"text": "Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Assyria, and Kilmad were trading with you. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:24",
"text": "They were trading with you in finery, in mantles of blue cloth and colorful embroidered work and with rugs of variegated cloth in twisted cords and knotted tightly; \u231ethese were among your merchandise\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:25",
"text": "The ships of Tarshish were carrying for you your wares, and you were filled, and you became very heavy in the heart of the seas. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:26",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Into many waters the rowers brought you; but \u231ethe east wind\u231f wrecked you in the heart of the seas. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:27",
"text": " Your wealth and your merchandise, your wares, your mariners, and your seamen, your shipwrights and the barterers of your wares and all of \u231eyour soldiers\u231f who are in you, along with all of your crew who are in the midst of you, they will fall in the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:28",
"text": " At the sound of the shout of your seamen, the pasturelands will shake. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:29",
"text": " And they will go down from their ships, all of those holding an oar, mariners, all of the seamen of the sea will stand on the land, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:30",
"text": " and they will lament over you with their voice, and they will cry out bitterly, and they will throw dust on their heads, and they will roll in the dust. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:31",
"text": " \u231eThey will shave themselves bald for your sake\u231f, and they will dress themselves in sackcloth, and they will weep over you with a bitterness of soul and with bitter wailing. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:32",
"text": " And they will raise over you with their wailing a lament, and they will chant a lament over you: \u2018Who is like Tyre, like this destruction in the midst of the sea?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:33",
"text": " When your merchandise went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples with the abundance of your wealth, and by your wares you made rich the kings of the world. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:34",
"text": " Now you are broken by seas in the depths of waters; your wares and all of your crew in the midst of you have sunk. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:35",
"text": " All of the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled over you, and their kings \u231eshudder\u231f in horror; \u231ethey distort their faces\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Ezekiel 27:36",
"text": " The traders among the peoples hiss over you; you have become a horror, and \u231eyou shall be no more forever\u231f!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, say to the leader of Tyre, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cBecause your heart was haughty, and you said, \u2018I am a god; I sit in the seat of the gods, I sit in the heart of the seas!\u2019 But you are a human, not a god, and you gave your heart to be like the heart of a god. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:3",
"text": " Look, are you wiser than Daniel, so that \u231eno secret\u231f is hidden from you? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:4",
"text": " By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gained for yourself wealth, and you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:5",
"text": " By the abundance of your wisdom in your trading you have increased your wealth and your heart was proud in your wealth.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:6",
"text": " Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cBecause of your regarding your \u231emind\u231f like the \u231emind\u231f of a god, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:7",
"text": " therefore look! I am bringing strangers over you, the most ruthless of the peoples, and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:8",
"text": " They will thrust you down to the pit, and you will die \u231ea violent death\u231f in the heart of the seas. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:9",
"text": " \u231eWill you indeed still say\u231f \u201cI am a god!\u201d before the face of your killers? And in fact you are a human and not a god in the hand of \u231ethose who pierce you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:10",
"text": " You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for \u231eI myself\u231f have spoken!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:11",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:12",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and you must say to him, \u2018thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cYou were a perfect model of an example, full of wisdom and perfect of beauty. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:13",
"text": " You were in Eden, the garden of God, and every precious stone was your adornment: carnelian, topaz and moonstone, turquoise, onyx and jasper, sapphire, malachite and emerald. And gold was the craftsmanship of your settings and your mountings in you; on the day when you were created they were prepared. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:14",
"text": " You were an anointed guardian cherub, and I placed you on \u231eGod\u2019s holy mountain\u231f; you walked in the midst of stones of fire. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:15",
"text": " You were blameless in your ways from the day \u231ewhen you were created\u231f, until wickedness was found in you. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:16",
"text": " In the abundance of your trading, they filled the midst of you with violence, and you sinned; and I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I expelled you, the guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:17",
"text": " Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you ruined your wisdom because of your splendor. I threw you on the ground \u231ebefore\u231f kings; I have exposed you \u231efor viewing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:18",
"text": " From the abundance of your iniquities in the dishonesty of your trading, I profaned your sanctuaries and I brought fire from your midst; it consumed you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth \u231ebefore the eyes of everyone who sees you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:19",
"text": " \u231eAll who know you\u231f among the peoples are appalled over you; you have become as horrors, and \u231eyou shall cease to exist forever\u231f.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:20",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:21",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:22",
"text": "and you must say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am against you, Sidon, and I display my glory in the midst of you, and they will know that I am Yahweh \u231ewhen I execute my judgments\u231f, and I will show myself holy within it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:23",
"text": " And I will send into it a plague, and blood will be in its streets. And the dead will fall in the midst of her by the sword that is against it from all around; and they will know that I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:24",
"text": " And \u231ethere will not be any longer\u231f a painful thorn and a sharp thornbush for the house of Israel from \u231eanywhere around them\u231f from those \u231ewho are despising them\u231f, and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:25",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cWhen I gather the house of Israel from the peoples to which they were scattered about in them, and I show myself holy in them before the eyes of the nations, then they will live on their soil, which I gave to my servant Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Ezekiel 28:26",
"text": "And they will live on it in safety, and they will build houses, and they will plant vineyards, and they will live in safety when I execute my judgments on all \u231ethose who despise them from all around them\u231f, and then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:1",
"text": " In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the \u231etwelfth\u231f day of the month, the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against Egypt, all of it. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:3",
"text": "Speak, and you must say, \u2018thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great sea monster, the one lying down in the midst of his Nile streams, who says to me, \u201cIt is my Nile, and I made it for myself.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:4",
"text": " And so I will put hooks in your jawbones, and I will make the fish of your Nile streams stick to your scales, and I will bring you up from the midst of your Nile streams, and all of the fish of your Nile streams which cling to your scales. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:5",
"text": " And I will fling you to the desert, you and all the fish of your Nile streams. On the surface of the field you will fall; you will not be gathered, and you will not be assembled. To the animals of the field and to the birds of the heavens I will give you as food. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:6",
"text": " And all of the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because of their being a staff of reed for the house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:7",
"text": " When they took hold of you with the hand, you snapped, and you split their every shoulder. And when they leaned on you, you broke, and you caused all of their loins to wobble.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:8",
"text": " Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am bringing on you a sword, and I will cut off from you human and animal. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:9",
"text": "And the land of Egypt will become a desolation and ruins, and they will know that I am Yahweh because he said, \u2018The Nile is \u231emine\u231f! And I, I made it!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:10",
"text": "Therefore look! I am against you and against your Nile streams, and I will make the land of Egypt into ruins, a pile of rubble, a desolation from Migdol to Syene and up to the boundary of Cush. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:11",
"text": "A foot of a human will not pass over it, and a foot of an animal will not pass over it, and so it will not be inhabited for forty years. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:12",
"text": "And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and its cities to be in the midst of ruined cities. They will be a desolation for forty years, and I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them among the countries.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:13",
"text": " For thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cAt the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples among whom they were scattered. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:14",
"text": "And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and I will bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and they will be a lowly kingdom there. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:15",
"text": "Of all the kingdoms it will be the most lowly, and it will not exalt itself again over the nations, and I will make them small so as not to rule over the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:16",
"text": "And it will not be again for the house of Israel an object of trust, bringing to remembrance their guilt \u231ewhen they turned back to them\u231f, and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:17",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f in \u231ethe twenty-seventh year\u231f, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:18",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, he made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was rubbed bare, and every shoulder was rubbed raw, but a wage was not paid for him and for his army from Tyre for the labor that he did against it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:19",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am giving to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he will carry its wealth away, and he will plunder its plunder, and he will loot its loot, and it will be a wage for his army. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:20",
"text": "As his wages that he worked for, I will give to him the land of Egypt, because they worked for me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 29,
"name": "Ezekiel 29:21",
"text": " \u201cOn that day I will cause \u231epower\u231f to grow up for the house of Israel, and for you I will give an opening of your mouth in the midst of them, and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, prophesy, and you must say, \u2018thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cWail, alas! For the day! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:3",
"text": " For a day is near; indeed, a day is near for Yahweh. A day of cloud, a time of the nations it will be. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:4",
"text": " And a sword will come in Egypt, and anguish will be in Cush, at the falling of the slain in Egypt. And they will take its wealth, and its foundation will be demolished. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:5",
"text": " Cush and Put and Lud and all of Arabia and Kub and the people of the land of the treaty with them\u2014by the sword they will fall.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:6",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cAnd the supporters of Egypt will fall, and the majesty of its strength will go down from Migdol to Syene; by the sword they will fall in it,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:7",
"text": " \u201cAnd they will be desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and its cities will be in the midst of ruined cities. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:8",
"text": " And they will know that I am Yahweh when I put my fire in Egypt, and all of its helpers are broken. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:9",
"text": " On that day messengers will go down from \u231ebefore me\u231f in the ships to terrify unsuspecting Cush, and anguish will be in them on the day of Egypt; for look, it is coming!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:10",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cAnd I will put an end to the crowds of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:11",
"text": " He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, will be brought to destroy the land. And they will draw their swords against Egypt, and they will fill the land with the slain, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:12",
"text": " and I will make the Nile streams dry land, and I will sell the land into the hand of bad people, and I will lay waste the land and its fullness by the hand of strangers. I, Yahweh, I have spoken.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:13",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cAnd I will destroy the idols, and I will put an end to the worthless idols from Memphis. And there will \u231eno longer be\u231f a prince from the land of Egypt, and I will put fear in the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:14",
"text": " And I will lay waste Pathros, and I will set fire in Zoan, and I will execute judgments in No. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:15",
"text": " I will pour out my rage over Sin, the stronghold of Egypt, and I will cut off the crowd of No. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:16",
"text": " And I will set fire in Egypt, certainly Sin will writhe, and No will be breached, and Memphis will face enemies \u231edaily\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:17",
"text": " The young men of On and Pi Beseth will fall by the sword, and they will go into captivity. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:18",
"text": " And at Tahpanhes the day will become dark when I break the yoke of Egypt, and in it the majesty of its strength will come to an end. A cloud will cover it, and its daughters will go into captivity. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:19",
"text": " And I will execute judgments in Egypt, and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:20",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f \u231ein the eleventh\u231f year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:21",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, I have broken. And look, it has not been bound up for giving of a remedy, or for the placing of a splint to bind it up to make it strong to take hold of the sword.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:22",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and I will break his strong arm and the broken arm, and I will let the sword fall from his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:23",
"text": "And I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them among the countries. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:24",
"text": "And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and I will give my sword into his hand, and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan with the groaning of the mortally wounded \u231ebefore him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:25",
"text": "And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh will fall. And they will know that I am Yahweh when I give my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will stretch it out to the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 30,
"name": "Ezekiel 30:26",
"text": "And I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them into the countries, and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:1",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f \u231ein the eleventh\u231f year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his crowd, \u2018To whom are you like in your greatness? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:3",
"text": " Look! Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and a forest giving shade, and \u231every high\u231f, and its treetop was between the clouds. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:4",
"text": " Waters made it great, the deep made it grow high; its rivers were going all around \u231eits planting area\u231f, and its channels it sent out to all of the trees of the field. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:5",
"text": " Therefore it became tall, with its height more than all of the trees of the field, and its branches became numerous, and its branches became long \u231efrom its sending its shoots from abundant water\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:6",
"text": " In its branches all the birds of the heaven made their nest, and under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth, and in its shadow all the many nations lived. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:7",
"text": " And it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was toward much water. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:8",
"text": " Cedars in the garden of God could not be equal to it; fir trees could not resemble its branches, and plane trees were not even like its branches; any tree even in the garden of God could not resemble it in its beauty. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:9",
"text": " I made it beautiful with the abundance of its branches, and all of the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:10",
"text": " Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201c\u231eBecause\u231f it was tall in height and it set its treetop between thick clouds, and \u231ehe took pride in his tallness\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:11",
"text": "then I gave it into the hand of the leader of nations; he \u231edealt thoroughly\u231f with it according to its wickedness. I drove it out. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:12",
"text": "And strangers cut it off, the most ruthless of nations, and they abandoned it. On the mountains and in all of the valleys its branches fell, and its branches were broken in all the river channels of the land, and all the peoples of the world went out from its shadow, and they abandoned it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:13",
"text": "On its fallen trunk all the birds of the heaven now dwell, and all the animals of the field were on its branches. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:14",
"text": "This occurred so that all of the trees with abundant water will not become tall, and they will not set their treetop between their thick foliage, and so that\u231eall of the trees that are abundantly watered\u231f \u231ewill not stand up to them\u231f in their tallness, for all of them, they have been given over to death, to the world below in the midst of \u231emortals\u231f, to the people going down to the grave.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:15",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cOn the day of its going down to Sheol, I caused mourning; I covered over it with the deep, and I withheld its rivers, and many waters were restrained, and I brought gloom over it; Lebanon and all of the trees of the field, they had fainted because of it. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:16",
"text": "From the sound of its downfall I caused nations to shake when I made it go down to Sheol, with the people going down to the grave, and so in the world below all of the trees of Eden, the choice and the best of Lebanon, \u231eall the well-watered trees\u231f were comforted! "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:17",
"text": "They also went down with it to Sheol to \u231ethose who died by the sword\u231f, and its army who had lived in its shadow in the midst of nations. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 31,
"name": "Ezekiel 31:18",
"text": " \u231eTo whom could you be compared, whether in glory or in majesty\u231f among the trees of Eden? And yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below; in the midst of the uncircumcised you will lie with \u231ethose who died by the sword\u231f. That is Pharaoh and \u231ehis entire\u231f crowd!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:1",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f in \u231ethe twelfth\u231f year, in the \u231etwelfth\u231f month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, raise a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you must say to him, \u2018With a fierce, strong lion among nations you compared yourself, and you are like the sea monster in the seas, and you thrash about in your rivers, and you make water turbid with your feet, and you make your rivers muddy. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:3",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now I will spread my net over you in the assembly of many peoples, and I will bring you up in my dragnet. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:4",
"text": " And I will throw you on the ground; on the surface of the open field I will hurl you, and I will cause every bird of the heaven to dwell on you, and I will satisfy the animals of all of the world from you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:5",
"text": " And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and I will fill the valleys with your carcass. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:6",
"text": " And I will water the land with your discharge from your blood on the mountains, and valleys will be filled from you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:7",
"text": " And I will cover you at extinguishing your heavens, and I will make dark their stars, and I will cover the sun with the cloud, and the moon will not give its light. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:8",
"text": " All sources of light in the heavens, I will make them dark over you, and I will put darkness on your land,\u2019\u00a0\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:9",
"text": " \u201cAnd I will disturb the hearts of many peoples at my bringing about your captivity among the nations, to countries that you do not know. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:10",
"text": " And I will cause many peoples to be awestruck over you, and their kings will shudder over you in horror, at my brandishing my sword before their faces, and they will tremble \u231econtinually\u231f, each person for his life, on the day of your downfall.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:11",
"text": " For thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cThe sword of the king of Babylon, it will come to you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:12",
"text": " By the swords of warriors I will cause to fall your hordes by the most ruthless of the nations, all of them, and they will devastate the majesty of Egypt, and all of its hordes will be destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:13",
"text": " And I will destroy all her domestic livestock \u231ebeside\u231f many waters. The feet of humans will not make them turbid again, and the hooves of domestic livestock will not make them turbid. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:14",
"text": " Then I will make their waters settle, and their rivers as the olive oil I will let flow,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:15",
"text": " \u201cThen I make the land of Egypt a desolation, so that the land will be stripped from its fullness when I strike all of those dwelling in it, and they will know that I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:16",
"text": " \u231eThis is\u231f a lament, and they will chant it as a lament; the daughters of the nations will chant it as a lament over Egypt, and over all of its hordes they will chant it as a lament,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:17",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f in the \u231etwelfth\u231f year, \u231eon the fifteenth\u231f day of the month, the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:18",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, mourn over the hordes of Egypt, and make her go down, and with her the daughters of mighty nations, \u231edown to the deep underworld\u231f with the people going down to the grave. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:19",
"text": "\u231eYou are more lovely than whom\u231f? Go down and be laid in rest with the uncircumcised. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:20",
"text": "In the midst of the people slain by the sword it is given they will fall to a sword; they carried her off and all of her hordes. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:21",
"text": "The chiefs of the warriors will speak to him from the middle of Sheol; with his helpers they have gone down; the uncircumcised lie still, \u231ethose slain by the sword\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:22",
"text": " Assyria is there and all of its assembly; all around it are its graves, all of them killed, those fallen by the sword, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:23",
"text": "who will be given its graves in the remote areas of the pit, and its assembly will be all around its grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:24",
"text": " Elam is there and all of its hordes, all around its grave, all of them dead who fell by the sword, those who went down uncircumcised to the depths of the underworld, those who spread their terror to the land of the living, and now they bear their disgrace with the people going down to the grave. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:25",
"text": "In the midst of the slain they made a bed for her with all of her hordes all around its graves, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for their terror was spread in the land of the living, and they now bear their disgrace with the people going down to the grave; in the midst of the slain it was placed. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:26",
"text": " Meshech and Tubal are there and all of its hordes, all around him its graves, all of them uncircumcised and killed by the sword, for they gave their terror in the land of the living. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:27",
"text": "And they do not lie with warriors fallen from long ago, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and they placed their sword under their heads, and their shields were on their bones, for the terror of the warriors was in the land of the living. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:28",
"text": "And you too in the midst of uncircumcised people will be broken, and you will lie with those slain by the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:29",
"text": " There is Edom, its kings and all of its leaders who are laid along with their might with those killed by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with the people going down to the grave. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:30",
"text": " There are also the princes of the north, all of them, all of the Sidonians who have gone down, being ashamed to lie with the slain because of their terror that they caused from their might, and they lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, and they bear their disgrace along with the people going down to the grave. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:31",
"text": " Pharaoh will see them, and he will be comforted over all of his hordes killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all of his army,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 32,
"name": "Ezekiel 32:32",
"text": "\u201cFor he spread my terror in the land of the living, and so he will be laid down in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword: Pharaoh and all of his hordes,\u201d\u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, speak to \u231eyour people\u231f, and you must say to them, \u2018A land, if I bring over it a sword and the people of the land take a man, one from their number, and they appoint him for them as a watchman, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:3",
"text": "and he sees the sword coming against the land, and he blows on the horn and he warns the people, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:4",
"text": "and \u231eanyone who listens\u231f hears the sound of the horn and \u231ehe does not take warning\u231f and the sword comes and it takes him, his blood will be on his own head. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:5",
"text": "For he heard the sound of the horn and he did not take warning; his blood will be on him. But if he took warning, he saved his life. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:6",
"text": "And as for the watchman, if he sees the sword coming and \u231ehe does not blow\u231f the horn, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and it takes \u231etheir lives\u231f, he will be taken through his guilt, but his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:7",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; if you hear a word from my mouth, then you must warn them from me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:8",
"text": "\u231eWhen I say\u231f to the wicked, \u2018Wicked one, you will certainly die,\u2019 and you \u231edid not speak\u231f to warn the wicked from his way, he, the wicked, will die by his guilt, but his blood I will seek from your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:9",
"text": "But, you, if you warn the wicked from his way, to turn from it, and \u231ehe does not turn\u231f from his way, he will die by his guilt, and you will have saved your life. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018So you said, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cIndeed, our transgressions and our sins are on us, and because of them we are rotting, and how can we live?\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:11",
"text": "Say to them, \u2018\u231eAs I live\u231f,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u2018\u231eSurely I have no delight\u231f in the death of the wicked, \u231eexcept\u231f in the wicked returning from his way, and he lives. Turn back! Turn back from your ways, O evil ones, for why should you die, house of Israel?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:12",
"text": " \u201cSo you, son of man, say to \u231eyour people\u231f that the righteousness of the righteous shall not save him in the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked \u231ewill not cause him to stumble\u231f on the day of his returning from his wickedness; and the righteous will not be able to live by it on the day when he returns to his sin. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:13",
"text": "When I say to the righteous, \u2018Certainly he will live,\u2019 and he trusted in his righteousness, and he turns and he does injustice, all of his righteousness will not be remembered, and because of his injustice that he did, because of it he will die. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:14",
"text": "And when I say to the wicked, \u2018Certainly you will die,\u2019 but he returns from his sin and he does justice and righteousness\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:15",
"text": "for example, the wicked returns a pledge for a loan, he restores \u231estolen property\u231f, he goes in the statutes of life so as not to do injustice\u2014certainly he will live; he will not die. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:16",
"text": "All of his \u231esins that he committed\u231f, they will not be remembered against him, and he did justice and righteousness; certainly he will live. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:17",
"text": " \u201cYet \u231eyour people\u231f say, \u2018The way of the Lord is not fair!\u2019 yet their way is not fair. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:18",
"text": "When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die \u231ebecause of it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:19",
"text": "And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and he does justice and righteousness, because of it \u231ehe will certainly live\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:20",
"text": "Yet you said, \u2018The way of the Lord is not fair!\u2019 I will judge you, house of Israel, each person according to his ways.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:21",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f it was in \u231ethe twelfth\u231f year, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month of our exile, a survivor from Jerusalem came to me, \u231esaying\u231f, \u201cThe city was destroyed!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:22",
"text": "And the hand of Yahweh was on me on the evening \u231ebefore\u231f the coming of the survivor, and he opened my mouth \u231ebefore the survivor came to me in the morning\u231f, and my mouth was opened, and I was \u231eno longer\u231f dumb. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:23",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:24",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, the inhabitants of these ruins on the soil of Israel are saying, \u2018Abraham was one man, and he took possession of the land, and we are many; the land has been given for us as a possession.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:25",
"text": "Therefore say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cYou eat blood in your meat, and you raise your eyes to your idols and you pour out blood, and yet you want to take possession of the land? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:26",
"text": "You rely on your sword, you do a detestable thing, and \u231eeach man defiles\u231f the wife of his neighbor, and yet you want to take possession of the land?\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:27",
"text": " \u201cThus you must say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201c\u231eAs I live\u231f, \u231esurely\u231f whoever is in the ruins, by the sword they will fall, and whoever is on the surface of the open field, I will give him to the animals to eat him, and whoever is in the stronghold and in the cave, they will die by the plague. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:28",
"text": "And I will make the land a desolation and a wasteland, and the pride of its strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate \u231ewith no one traveling through them\u231f.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:29",
"text": "And they will know that I am Yahweh when I make my land a desolation and a wasteland, because of all of their detestable things that they have done. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:30",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, son of man, \u231eyour people\u231f, the ones talking together concerning you beside the walls and in the doorways of the houses, each one with his brother \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Please come and hear what is the word \u231ethat is going out from Yahweh\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:31",
"text": "And they come to you \u231eas people do\u231f, and they sit \u231ebefore you\u231f, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they are showing passion in their mouth, but their heart is going after ill-gotten gain. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:32",
"text": "Now, look! You are to them like \u231ea sensual song\u231f, beautiful of voice and \u231eplayed well on an instrument\u231f, and they hear your words, \u231ebut they are not doing them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 33,
"name": "Ezekiel 33:33",
"text": "So \u231ewhen it comes\u231f, look! It is coming! And then they will know that a prophet was in the midst of them.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and you must say to them, to the shepherds, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cWoe to the shepherds of Israel who were feeding themselves! Must not the shepherds feed the flock? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:3",
"text": "The fat you eat, and you clothe yourself with the wool; the well-nourished animals you slaughter, but you do not feed the flock. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:4",
"text": "The weak you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not healed, and \u231ewith respect to\u231f the hurt you have not bound them up, and you have not brought back the scattered, and you have not sought the lost, but rather you ruled over them with force and with ruthlessness. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:5",
"text": "And they were scattered \u231ewithout\u231f a shepherd, and they were as food for all the animals of the field when they were scattered. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:6",
"text": "My flock went astray upon all of the mountains and on every high hill, and so upon all the surface of the world my flock were scattered, and \u231ethere was no one seeking them\u231f, and \u231ethere was no one searching for them\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:7",
"text": "Therefore, hear, O shepherds, the word of Yahweh: "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:8",
"text": "\u201c\u231eAs I live\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u201c\u231eSurely\u231f because my flock have become as plunder, and my flock became as food to all the animals of the field, since there was not a shepherd, since my shepherds have not sought my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and they fed not my flock,\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:9",
"text": "therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:10",
"text": "\u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am against the shepherds, and I will seek my flock from their hand, and I will put an end to them from shepherding flocks, and the shepherds will \u231eno longer\u231f feed themselves, and I will deliver my flocks from their mouth, so that they will not be as food for them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:11",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018For thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I, even I, will seek my flock, and I will look after them, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:12",
"text": "just like the caring of a shepherd for his herd on the day when he is in the midst of his scattered flock. Thus I will look after my flock, and I will deliver them from all the places \u231eto which they were scattered\u231f on the day \u231eof storm and stress\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:13",
"text": "And I will bring them out from the peoples, and I will gather them from the countries, and I will bring them to their soil, and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys, and in all of the settlements of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:14",
"text": "I will feed them in good pasture, and their pasture will be on the mountains of the heights of Israel; there they will lie down in good pasture, and on lush pasture they will feed on the mountains of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:15",
"text": "\u231eI myself\u231f will feed my flock and \u231eI myself\u231f will allow them to lie down,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:16",
"text": "\u201cI will seek the lost, and I will bring back the scattered, and I will bind up the one hurt, and I will strengthen the sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed her with justice.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:17",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And you, my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am judging between \u231eone sheep and another\u231f, between the rams and between the he-goats. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:18",
"text": "\u231eIs it not enough for you\u231f that you feed on the good pasture? And still you must trample the remainder of your pasture with your feet, and \u231eclear water\u231f you drink, and the \u231eleftover water\u231f you must make muddy with your feet. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:19",
"text": "And my flock must graze the pasture treaded upon by your feet, and must drink the mud puddle stirred up by your feet.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:20",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: \u201cLook! I, even I will judge between fat sheep and between lean sheep, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:21",
"text": "because with your flank and with your shoulder you shoved, and with your horns you pushed all of the sick animals \u231euntil\u231f you scattered it to the outside. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:22",
"text": "And so I will save my flock, and \u231ethey will no longer be\u231f for plunder, and I will judge between \u231eone sheep and another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:23",
"text": "And I will set up over them one shepherd, and he will feed them; that is, my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be for them as a shepherd. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:24",
"text": "And I, Yahweh, I will be for them \u231eas God\u231f, and my servant David will be a leader in the midst of them. I, Yahweh, I have spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:25",
"text": "And I will make them a covenant of peace, and I will put an end to wild animals from the land, and they will dwell in the desert \u231esafely\u231f, and they will sleep in the forest. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:26",
"text": "And I will make them and the area all around my hill a blessing, and I will let the rain go down \u231eat its appointed time\u231f; they will be rains of blessing. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:27",
"text": "And the tree of the field will give its fruit, and the land will give its produce, and they will be on their land \u231esafely\u231f, and they will know that I am Yahweh when I break their yoke, and I will deliver them from the hand of the ones enslaving them. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:28",
"text": "And they will not be any longer plunder to the nations, and the animals of the land will not eat them, and they will dwell \u231ein safety\u231f, and there will not be anyone frightening them. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:29",
"text": "And I will raise for them a garden plot of renown, and they will \u231eno longer\u231f be victims of famine in the land, and they will not bear any more the insult of the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:30",
"text": "And they will know that I, Yahweh their God, am with them and they are my people, the house of Israel,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 34,
"name": "Ezekiel 34:31",
"text": "\u201cand you are my flock, the flock of my pasture. You are \u231emy people\u231f; I am your God,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face against the mountain of Seir and prophesy against it, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:3",
"text": "and you must say to it, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am against you, mountain of Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a wasteland. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:4",
"text": "Your cities I will make ruins, and you will be a desolation, and then you will know that I am Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:5",
"text": "because there has been to you \u231ean ancient hostility\u231f, and you handed over the \u231eIsraelites\u231f to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of \u231etheir final punishment\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:6",
"text": "Therefore \u231eas I live\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u201cCertainly to blood guilt I will prepare you and blood will pursue; \u231esince\u231f \u231eyou did not hate blood\u231f, it will pursue you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:7",
"text": "And I will make the mountain of Seir into a desolation and ruin, and I will cut off from it both he who is crossing over and he who is returning. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:8",
"text": "And I will fill its mountains with its slain; your hills and your valleys and all of your watercourses, the slain by the sword will fall in them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:9",
"text": "\u231eAn everlasting desolation\u231f I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:10",
"text": "I do this because of your saying, \u2018The two nations and the two lands, they will be \u231emine\u231f, and we will take possession of it,\u2019 and yet Yahweh was there. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:11",
"text": "Therefore, \u231eas I live\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u201cso I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you did, because of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them when I judge you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:12",
"text": "And you will know that I, Yahweh, I have heard all of your contemptible words that you said against the mountains of Israel, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018They will be desolate; they are given to us as food.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:13",
"text": "And you magnified yourself against me with your \u231einsolent speech\u231f, and you spoke voluminously against me with your words\u2014I heard! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:14",
"text": "Thus the Lord Yahweh says, \u2018\u231eAs the whole world rejoices\u231f, I will make you a desolation. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 35,
"name": "Ezekiel 35:15",
"text": "\u231eLike your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel\u231f \u231ebecause\u231f it was desolate, I will do to you; you will be a desolation, mountain of Seir and all of Edom, indeed all of it; and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:1",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel; and so you must say, \u2018Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh; "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:2",
"text": "thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cBecause the enemy said concerning you, \u2018Ah, and the ancient high places will be to us as a possession!\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:3",
"text": "Therefore prophesy, and you must say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201c\u231eBecause indeed\u231f \u231ewhen you were desolate\u231f, then they crushed you from all around, so that you became a possession to the remainder of the nations, and you became \u231ea byword and object of slander for the people\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:4",
"text": "Therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh; thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys and to the ruins that are desolate and to the cities that are abandoned and that have become as plunder and as scorn for the remainder of the nations that are from all around. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:5",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201c\u231eCertainly\u231f in the fire of my passion I spoke against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who made my land as a possession, because of its pastureland for plunder, for themselves in all of the joy of their whole heart and in their inner disdain.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:6",
"text": "Therefore prophesy against the land of Israel, and you must say to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys, thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I spoke in my passion and in my anger the insult of the peoples you have endured.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:7",
"text": "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201c\u231eI swear\u231f \u231ecertainly\u231f that the nations \u231ethat are all around you\u231f, they indeed will endure their disgrace. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:8",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018\u00a0\u201cBut you, mountains of Israel, your branch you will shoot, and your fruit you will carry for my people Israel, for they are soon to come. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:9",
"text": "For look! I am for you, and I will turn you, and you will be tilled, and you will be planted. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:10",
"text": "And I will cause \u231eyour population\u231f to increase for you, all of the house of Israel, all of it, and the towns will be inhabited, and the ruins will be built. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:11",
"text": "And I will cause \u231eyour population\u231f to increase for you, and domestic animals, even they will be numerous, and they will be fruitful, and I will cause you to be inhabited like your \u231eancient times\u231f, and I will do good things more than in your former times, and you will know that I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:12",
"text": "And I will send over you my people Israel, and they will take possession of you, and you will be for them as an inheritance, and \u231eyou will no longer bereave them of their children\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh, because they are saying to you, \u201cYou are an eater of humans, and you are \u231eone who makes childless\u231f your people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:14",
"text": "Therefore humans you will not eat any longer, and your nation you will not make childless any longer,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:15",
"text": "\u201cAnd I will not let you hear any longer the insult of the nations, and the disgrace of the peoples you will not bear any longer; you yourself will not cause your nation to stumble,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:16",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:17",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, the house of Israel, they were dwelling on their soil, and they defiled it with their way and with their deeds; like the uncleanness of menstruation was their way \u231ebefore me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:18",
"text": "And I poured out my rage on them for the blood that they poured on the land and for their idols with which they defiled it. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:19",
"text": "And I scattered them among the nations, and I dispersed them in the countries according to their way, and according to their deeds I judged them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:20",
"text": "And they came into the nations \u231eto which they went\u231f, and they profaned \u231emy holy name\u231f when they said to them, \u2018These are the people of Yahweh, and from his land they went out.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:21",
"text": "And I was concerned for \u231emy holy name\u231f, which, the house of Israel defiled among the nations \u231eto which they went\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:22",
"text": " \u201cTherefore thus say to the house of Israel, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201c\u231eNot for your sake\u231f am I about to act, house of Israel, \u231ebut\u231f \u231efor my holy name\u231f, which you defiled among the nations \u231eto which you went\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:23",
"text": "And I will consecrate my great name, which was profaned among the nations and which you have profaned in the midst of them, and the nations will know that I am Yahweh!\u201d\u00a0\u2019 a declaration of the Lord Yahweh, \u231ewhen I show myself holy\u231f \u231ebefore\u231f their eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:24",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018And I will take you from the nations, and I will gather you from all of the lands, and I will bring you to your land. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:25",
"text": "And I will sprinkle on you pure water, and you will be clean from all of your uncleanness, and I will cleanse you from all of your idols. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:26",
"text": "And I will give a new heart to you, and a new spirit I will give into your inner parts, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:27",
"text": "And I will give my spirit into your inner parts, and I will make it so that you will go in my rules, and my regulations you will remember, and you will do them. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:28",
"text": "And you will dwell in the land that I gave to your ancestors, and you will be to me as a people, and I will be to you as God. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:29",
"text": "And I will save you from all of your uncleanness, and I will call to the grain, and I will cause it to increase, and I will not bring famine upon you. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:30",
"text": "And I will cause the fruit of the tree and the crop of the field to increase, so that you will not suffer again the disgrace of famine among the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:31",
"text": "And you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe \u231eyourself\u231f over your iniquities and over your detestable things. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:32",
"text": "But not for your sake am I acting,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. \u201cLet it be known to you, be ashamed, and be put to shame because of your ways, house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:33",
"text": " \u201cThus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018On the day when I cleanse you from all of your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be rebuilt. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:34",
"text": "And the land that was desolate will be cultivated in \u231ethe very place that\u231f it was desolate before the eyes of all of the persons crossing over. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:35",
"text": "And they will say, \u201c\u231eThis desolate land\u231f has become like the garden of Eden, and the wasted and desolate and destroyed cities, now being refortified, are inhabited.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:36",
"text": "And the nations who are left all around, you will know that I, Yahweh, I built \u231ethat which was destroyed\u231f; I planted the desolate land; I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:37",
"text": " \u201cThus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Again this time I will let \u231emyself be inquired of\u231f by the house of Israel, to do something for them; I will cause them to increase \u231etheir population like a flock\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 36,
"name": "Ezekiel 36:38",
"text": "Like the flock of the sanctuary, like the flock of Jerusalem at its festival, so the desolate cities will be filled with flocks of people; and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:1",
"text": " The hand of Yahweh was upon me, and he brought me by the Spirit of Yahweh, and he \u231elet me rest\u231f in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:2",
"text": "And he led me \u231eall around\u231f over them, and look, very many on the surface of the valley, and look, very dry. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:3",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, can these bones live?\u201d And I said, \u201cLord Yahweh, you know.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:4",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cProphesy to these bones, and you must say to them, to the dry bones, \u2018Hear the word of Yahweh! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:5",
"text": "Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: \u201cLook! I am bringing into you breath, and you will live! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:6",
"text": "And I will lay on you sinews, and I will let flesh come upon you, and I will cover you over with skin, and I will put breath into you, and you will live, and you will know that I am Yahweh.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:7",
"text": " And I prophesied \u231ejust as\u231f I had been commanded, and there was a sound at my prophesying, and look! A rattling, and they came together\u2014the bones! Bone to its bone! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:8",
"text": "And I looked, and indeed, sinews were on them, and flesh went up, and skin covered over them \u231eupward\u231f, but breath was not in them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:9",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cProphesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and you must say to the breath, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh \u231efrom the four winds\u231f, \u201cCome, O spirit and breath, on these dead ones, so that they may live!\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:10",
"text": "And I prophesied \u231eas\u231f he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they became alive, and they stood on their feet, a very, very large group. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:11",
"text": " And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, these bones are all of the house of Israel; look! they are saying, \u2018Our bones are dried up, and our hope is destroyed; \u231ewe are cut off as far as we are concerned\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:12",
"text": "Therefore prophesy, and you must say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am opening your graves, and I will bring you up from your graves, my people, and I will bring you to the land of Israel! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:13",
"text": "And you will know that I am Yahweh when I open your graves when I bring you up from your graves, my people! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:14",
"text": "And I will put my breath into you so that you may live, and I will cause you to rest on your soil, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act!\u201d\u00a0\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:15",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:16",
"text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, take for yourself \u231ea piece of wood\u231f, and write on it, \u2018For Judah and for the \u231eIsraelites\u231f his associates,\u2019 and take another piece of wood, and write on it, \u2018For Joseph, the piece of wood of Ephraim and all of the house of Israel his associates.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:17",
"text": "And join them one to the other with respect to you as one piece of wood, so that they may become one in your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:18",
"text": "\u231eWhen\u231f \u231eyour people\u231f say to you, \u231esaying\u231f, \u2018Will you not inform us as to what these actions mean for you?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:19",
"text": "Then speak to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am taking the piece of wood for Joseph that is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel its associates, and I will put them on it, the piece of wood of Judah, and I will make them into one piece of wood, so that they be one in my hand.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:20",
"text": "And the pieces of wood on which you wrote will be in your hand before their eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:21",
"text": "And speak to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am taking the \u231eIsraelites\u231f from among \u231ethe nations to which they went\u231f, and I will gather them from \u231eeverywhere\u231f, and I will bring them to their own soil. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:22",
"text": "And I will make them into one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and \u231ethey will all have one king as their king\u231f, and they will not again be two nations and will not again divide into two kingdoms again. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:23",
"text": "And they will not defile themselves again with their idols and with vile idols and with all of their transgressions, and I will save them from all of their apostasy \u231eby which they sinned\u231f, and I will cleanse them and they will be for me as a people and I, I will be for them as God. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:24",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018\u00a0\u201cAnd my servant David will be king over them, and one shepherd will be for all of them, and in my regulations they will go, and my statutes they will observe, and they will do them. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:25",
"text": "And they will dwell on the land that I gave to my servant, to Jacob, \u231ein which your ancestors dwelled\u231f, and they will dwell on it, they and their children and the children of their children \u231eforever\u231f, and my servant David will be a leader for them \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:26",
"text": "And I will make with them a covenant of peace; \u231ean everlasting covenant\u231f it will be with them. And I will establish them, and I will cause them to increase, and I will put my sanctuary in the midst of them \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:27",
"text": "And my tabernacle will be with them, and I will be for them as God, and they will be to me as a nation. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 37,
"name": "Ezekiel 37:28",
"text": "And the nations will know that I, Yahweh, am consecrating Israel when my sanctuary is in the midst of them \u231eforever\u231f.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh \u231ecame\u231f to me, \u231esaying\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:2",
"text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the head leader of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:3",
"text": "And you must say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am against you, Gog, the head leader of Meshach and Tubal, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:4",
"text": "and I will turn you around, and I will place hooks in your cheeks, and I will bring you out and all of your horses and horsemen \u231efully armed\u231f, all of them, a great crowd, holding a shield, and small shield, and holding swords, all of them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:5",
"text": "Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them, with a small shield and helmet. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:6",
"text": "Gomer and all of its troops, Beth Togarmah, the remote areas of the north, and with all of its troops and many peoples with them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:7",
"text": "Be ready, and prepare \u231eyourselves\u231f, you and all of your assembly, the assembling around you, and you must be for them as a guard. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:8",
"text": "After many days you will be mustered; \u231ein the last years\u231f you will come to a restored land from the sword, gathered from many peoples on the mountains of Israel which were as \u231epermanent ruins\u231f but from peoples it was brought out, and they will dwell \u231ein safety\u231f, all of them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:9",
"text": "And you will advance like a storm; you will come, and you will be like a cloud \u231ecovering\u231f the land, and all of your troops and many nations along with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:10",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201c\u231eAnd then\u231f on that day, things will come up on your mind, and you will devise evil plans. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:11",
"text": "And you will say, \u2018I will go up against a land of open country; I will come to the people being at rest \u231ein safety\u231f, all of them dwelling without a wall and crossbars and \u231ewithout doors\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:12",
"text": "to loot loot, and to plunder plunder, \u231eto assail\u231f inhabited ruins and a people gathered together from various peoples and who are acquiring livestock and goods and dwelling at the center of the world. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:13",
"text": "Sheba and Dedan and traders of Tarshish and all its strong lions, they will ask you, \u2018To loot loot are you coming? To plunder plunder have you summoned your assembly, to take away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to loot great amounts of loot?\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:14",
"text": " \u201cTherefore prophesy, son of man, and you must say to Gog, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cWill you not realize on that day when my people Israel are dwelling \u231ein safety\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:15",
"text": "and so you will come from your place, from the remote areas of the north, you and many people with you, \u231ehorsemen\u231f all of them, a great crowd and a vast army, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:16",
"text": "and you will advance against my people Israel like a cloud \u231ecovering\u231f the land; it will be in the last days, and I will bring you against my land, so that the nations know me, \u231ewhen I show myself holy through you\u231f before their eyes, O Gog!\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:17",
"text": " \u201cThus says the Lord Yahweh, \u2018Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel who were prophesying in those days for years that I would bring you against them? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:18",
"text": "And so then in that day, on the day of the coming of God against the land of Israel,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u2018my rage will come up in my anger. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:19",
"text": "And in my passion, in the fire of my wrath, I spoke that \u231ecertainly\u231f on that day a great earthquake will be on the land of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:20",
"text": "And the fish of the sea and the birds of the heaven and the animals of the field and all of the creeping things that creep on the earth and all of the humans who are on the surface of the earth will shake \u231eat my presence\u231f; and the mountains will be demolished, and the steep mountain sides will fall, and every wall on the earth will fall. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:21",
"text": "And I will call against him in all of my mountains a sword,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u2018And the sword of each person will be against his brother. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:22",
"text": "And I will execute justice with him with a plague and with blood and \u231etorrents of rain\u231f, and hailstones; fire and sulfur I will cause to fall on him and on his troops and on many peoples who are with him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 38,
"name": "Ezekiel 38:23",
"text": "And so I will exalt myself, and I will show myself holy, and I will make myself known before the eyes of many nations, and they will know that I am Yahweh.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:1",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and you must say, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cLook! I am against you Gog, the head leader of Meshech and Tubal, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:2",
"text": "and I will turn you around, and I will drag you along, and I will bring you up from the remote areas of the north, and I will bring you against the mountains of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:3",
"text": "and I will strike your bow from \u231eyour left hand\u231f, and your arrows from \u231eyour right hand\u231f I will cause to fall. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:4",
"text": "On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all of your troops, and the peoples who are with you, to birds of prey, birds of every wing, and animals of the field I will give you as food. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:5",
"text": "On the surface of the field you will fall, for \u231eI myself\u231f have spoken,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:6",
"text": "\u201cAnd I will send fire against Magog and among the people inhabiting the coastlands \u231ein safety\u231f, and they will know that I am Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:7",
"text": "And \u231emy holy name\u231f I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let the name of my holiness be profaned anymore, and the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the holy one in Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:8",
"text": "Look! it is coming, and it will happen,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. \u201cIt is the day \u231eabout which I have spoken\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:9",
"text": " \u201c\u02bb\u201cAnd the inhabitants of the towns of Israel will go out, and they will set ablaze, and they will kindle a fire with a weapon and a small shield and a shield, with a bow and with arrows, and with \u231ehand clubs\u231f and with spears, and so they will light a fire with them, \u231ea fire lasting seven years\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:10",
"text": "And they will not carry trees from the field, and they will not chop wood from the forests, for with the weapons they will light a fire; and they will plunder those plundering them, and they will plunder those plundering them,\u201d\u00a0\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:11",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018\u00a0\u201c\u231eAnd then\u231f on that day I will give to Gog \u231ea grave there\u231f in Israel, The Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea, and it \u231ewill block\u231f the travelers and Gog and all of his hordes they will bury there, and they will call it the Valley of \u231eHamon-Gog\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:12",
"text": "And the house of Israel will bury them for seven months to cleanse the land. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:13",
"text": "All of the people of the land will bury them, and it will be an honor for them on the day when I appear,\u201d\u00a0\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:14",
"text": "\u02bb\u201cAnd they will set apart \u231emen to continually\u231f go through the land burying the travelers, the ones left over on the surface of the land to cleanse it; \u231efor the whole of\u231f seven months they will explore it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:15",
"text": "And the ones going through, they will go through within the land, and if anyone sees the bones of a person, then he will build beside it a sign to remain until the buriers have buried him in the Valley of Hamon-Gog. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:16",
"text": "And furthermore the name of the city there is Hamonah, and thus they will cleanse the land.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:17",
"text": " \u201cAnd you, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018Say to \u231eall kinds of birds and animals of the field\u231f, \u201cBe gathered, come be gathered \u231efrom everywhere\u231f to my sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh, and you will drink blood. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:18",
"text": "Flesh of warriors you will eat, and the blood of leaders of the land you will drink; rams, young rams and goats, bulls, and the fattened animals of Bashan\u2014all of them! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:19",
"text": "And you will eat fat \u231euntil you are satiated\u231f, and you will drink blood \u231euntil you are drunk\u231f from my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:20",
"text": "and you will be satisfied at my table with horse and horsemen and warriors and every man of war,\u201d\u00a0\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:21",
"text": "\u201cAnd I will display my glory among the nations, and all of the nations will see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:22",
"text": " \u201cAnd the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God from that day and beyond, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:23",
"text": "and the nations will know that because of their guilt the house of Israel went into exile, \u231ebecause\u231f they acted unfaithfully against me, and I hid my face from them, and I gave them into the hand of their foes, and they fell by the sword, all of them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:24",
"text": "According to their uncleanness and according to their transgression I dealt with them, and I hid my face from them. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:25",
"text": " Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cNow I will restore the fortunes of Jacob, and I will have compassion on all of the house of Israel, and I will be jealous for \u231emy holy name\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:26",
"text": "And they will forget their disgrace and all of their infidelity that they displayed against me when they dwelt on their soil \u231ein safety\u231f \u231ewith nobody making them afraid\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:27",
"text": "When I restore them from the nations and I gather them from the countries of their enemies, then I will show myself holy through them before the eyes of many nations. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:28",
"text": "And they will know that I am Yahweh their God, because of when I deported them into the nations, and I reassembled them to their soil, and \u231eI will not let any of them remain there any longer\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 39,
"name": "Ezekiel 39:29",
"text": "And I will not hide my face again from them when I pour out my Spirit over the house of Israel,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:1",
"text": " In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was destroyed, in this day exactly, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:2",
"text": "in visions from God. He brought me to the land of Israel and put me on a very high mountain, and on it was something like a structure of a city to the south. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:3",
"text": "And he brought me there, and look, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, and a cord of linen was in his hand and a reed for measurement; he was standing in the gate. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:4",
"text": "And the man spoke to me, \u201cSon of man, look with your eyes and listen with your ears and apply your heart to all that I am showing you, for you were brought here in order to show you this; tell all that you are seeing to the house of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:5",
"text": " And there was a wall on the outside of the temple \u231eall the way around it\u231f, and in the hand of the man the reed for measurement was six long cubits, \u231eaccording to\u231f the cubit and a handbreadth, and he measured the width of the outer wall as one reed, and the height as one reed. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:6",
"text": "And then he went toward the gate whose face was \u231eto the east\u231f. And he went up by its steps, and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:7",
"text": "And the alcove was one reed long and one reed wide, and between the alcoves was five cubits, and the threshold of the gate along the side of the portico of the gate \u231eon the inside\u231f was one reed. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:8",
"text": "And then he measured the portico of the gate \u231eon the inside\u231f as one reed. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:9",
"text": "And he measured the portico of the gate as eight cubits, and its pilaster was two cubits thick, and he measured the portico of the gate \u231eon the inside\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:10",
"text": "And the alcoves of the gate toward the way \u231eeastward\u231f were \u231ethree on each side\u231f; \u231ethe same measurements applied to all three of them\u231f; and \u231ethe same measurement applied to the pilaster\u231f \u231eon each side\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:11",
"text": "And he measured the width of the doorway of the gate as ten cubits and the length of the gateway was thirteen cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:12",
"text": "And a wall \u231ewas before\u231f the alcoves; \u231eone cubit on either side\u231f was the wall from here. And the alcove \u231ewas six cubits on each side\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:13",
"text": "And he measured the gate from the top slab of the alcove to its opposite top slab as twenty-five cubits in width, \u231efrom one entrance to the other one opposite it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:14",
"text": "And he made the pilasters sixty cubits, and to the pilaster of the courtyard \u231eall the way around the gate\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:15",
"text": "\u231eAnd from the front of\u231f the gate at the entrance to \u231ethe front of\u231f the portico of the inner gate was fifty cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:16",
"text": "And there were narrow windows for the alcoves and for their pilasters to the inside of the gate \u231eall the way around\u231f it. And likewise with respect to the porticos and windows were \u231eall the way around\u231f to the inside, and on a pilaster there were images of palm trees. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:17",
"text": " And he brought me to the outer courtyard, and there were chambers and a pavement made for the courtyard all around it, and thirty chambers were facing to the pavement. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:18",
"text": "And the pavement \u231eflanked\u231f the side of the gates \u231eand all along the gates\u231f; this describes the lower pavement. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:19",
"text": "And he measured the width from \u231ethe front of\u231f the lower gate to \u231ethe front of\u231f the outside of the inner courtyard as a hundred cubits to the east and to the north. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:20",
"text": " And as for the gate that had its face \u231etoward the north\u231f of the outer courtyard, he measured its length and its width. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:21",
"text": "And its alcoves were \u231ethree on each side\u231f, and its pilasters and its porticos \u231ehad the same measurement\u231f as the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and its width was twenty-five \u231ecubits\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:22",
"text": "And its windows and its porticos and its palm tree images were like the measurement of the gate that was \u231efacing toward the east\u231f; and \u231eit had\u231f seven steps that go up it, and there were porticos \u231ebefore them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:23",
"text": "And a gate led to the inner courtyard, opposite the gate to the north and to the east, and he measured from gate to gate as a hundred cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:24",
"text": " And then he took me \u231etoward the south\u231f, and look, a gate \u231etoward the south\u231f, and he measured its pilasters and its porticos; they had measurements just \u231elike the others\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:25",
"text": "And there were for it windows and for its porticos \u231eall the way around it\u231f like these windows; fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:26",
"text": "And seven steps were going up to it and its porticos \u231ebefore them\u231f. And \u231eit had palm tree images\u231f \u231eall along\u231f its pilasters. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:27",
"text": "And there was to the way of the south a gate for the inner courtyard, and he measured from gate to the gate on the way of the south, a hundred cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:28",
"text": " And he brought me to the inner courtyard through the gate of the south, and he measured the south gate, and it had measurements like \u231ethe others\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:29",
"text": "And its alcoves and its pilasters and its porticos were just like these measurements. And it had windows for it and for its porticos \u231eall the way around\u231f, fifty cubits along its length, and twenty-five cubits wide. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:30",
"text": "And there were porticos \u231eall the way around\u231f its length, twenty-five cubits; and its width was five cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:31",
"text": "And its porticos were to the outer courtyard, and palm tree images were on its pilasters, and eight steps were for its stairs. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:32",
"text": " And he brought me to the inner courtyard by way of the east gate, and he measured the gate as just like \u231ethe other measurements\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:33",
"text": "And its alcoves and its pilasters and its porticos were also like these measurements, and windows were for it and for its porticos all around; its length was fifty cubits, and it was twenty-five cubits wide. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:34",
"text": "And its porticos were toward the outer courtyard, and palm tree images were on its pilasters \u231eone each side\u231f, and \u231eeight steps served as it stairs\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:35",
"text": " And he brought me to the gate of the north, and he measured it; and he measured \u231ethe same measurements as these others\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:36",
"text": "its alcoves, its pilasters and porticos, \u231eand its windows\u231f \u231eall the way around\u231f, and a length of fifty cubits and twenty-five cubits wide. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:37",
"text": "And its pilasters \u231efaced the outer courtyard\u231f, and \u231eit had palm tree images on its pilasters\u231f \u231eon each side\u231f; and eight steps served as its stairs. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:38",
"text": " And a chamber with its doorway was in the pilasters at the gates, and there they rinsed off the burnt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:39",
"text": "And in the portico of the gate \u231ewere two tables on each side\u231f to slaughter the burnt offering on them and the sin offering and the guilt offering. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:40",
"text": "And on the outer side as one goes up to the doorway of the gate to the north were two tables, and on the other side, which is toward the portico of the gate, were two tables. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:41",
"text": "\u231eOn each side of the gate were four tables\u231f, eight tables in all, and on them they slaughtered sacrifices. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:42",
"text": "And four tables were for the burnt offering, and made of dressed stones, one cubit and a half long and one cubit and a half wide and one cubit high \u231ewas their measurements\u231f, and they placed the objects with which they slaughtered the burnt offering on them and the sacrifice. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:43",
"text": "And there were double-pronged hooks, one handbreadth in width, put in place in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:44",
"text": " And on the outside of the inner gate, there were chambers for singers in the inner courtyard, which was to the side of the north gate, and their faces \u231ewere to the south\u231f with respect to one, and on the side of the east gate one facing to the north. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:45",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cThis chamber \u231ewith its face toward the south\u231f is for the priests who are taking care of the responsibility of the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:46",
"text": "And the chamber \u231ewith its face to the north\u231f is for the priests who are taking care of the responsibility of the altar. They are the descendants of Zadok, the ones who approach from among the descendants of Levi to Yahweh to serve him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:47",
"text": " And he measured the courtyard as to its length, a hundred cubits, and a hundred cubits wide, squared, and the altar \u231eis in front of\u231f the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:48",
"text": "And he brought me to the portico of the temple, and he measured the pilaster of the portico, \u231efive cubits on each side\u231f, and the width of the gate \u231ewas three cubits on each side\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 40,
"name": "Ezekiel 40:49",
"text": "The length of the portico was twenty cubits and its width eleven cubits, and with ten steps they went up to it, and the \u231epilasters had pillars\u231f, \u231eone on each side\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:1",
"text": " And he brought me to the temple sanctuary, and he measured the pilasters, \u231esix cubits wide on each side\u231f; this was the width of the tent. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:2",
"text": "And the width of the doorway was ten cubits, and the sidewall of the doorway \u231ewas five cubits on each side\u231f, and he measured its length as forty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:3",
"text": "And he went into the inner room, and he measured the pilaster of the doorway as two cubits and the doorway as six cubits and the width of the doorway seven cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:4",
"text": "And he measured its length as twenty cubits and its width as twenty cubits to the front of the temple, and he said to me, \u201cThis is \u231ethe most holy place\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:5",
"text": " And he measured the wall of the temple as six cubits, and the width of the side room as four cubits \u231eall along the outside wall for the temple all around the wall\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:6",
"text": "And the side rooms were \u231eside by side\u231f in three stories and a total of thirty \u231erooms\u231f, and there were offsets in the wall, which was for the temple for the side rooms, \u231eall the way around\u231f to be supports, and so they were not supports extending into the wall of the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:7",
"text": "And each level widened, and it went around \u231eupward\u231f to the side rooms for the structure that surrounds the temple \u231eupward\u231f \u231eall the way around\u231f, therefore the width increased to the temple \u231eupward\u231f, and thus the lower level goes up to the upper level by means of the middle story. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:8",
"text": " And I saw for the temple a platform \u231eall the way around\u231f the foundations of the side rooms; it was the length of a full reed, six cubits long. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:9",
"text": "The width of the outside wall, which was for the side room to the outside, was five cubits, and a space that was set between the side rooms, which was for the temple "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:10",
"text": "and between the chambers was the width of twenty cubits all around the temple, \u231eall the way around\u231f it. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:11",
"text": "And the doorway of the side room \u231efaced\u231f the open area; one doorway \u231efaced\u231f \u231ethe north\u231f, and one doorway was to the south, and the width of the place of the open area was five cubits all around. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:12",
"text": "And the building that \u231efaced\u231f the courtyard \u231ewas toward the west\u231f, and its width was seventy cubits, and the wall of the building was five cubits wide \u231eall the way around\u231f, and its length was ninety cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:13",
"text": "And he measured the temple, and its length was a hundred cubits, and the courtyard and the building and its walls, their length was a hundred cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:14",
"text": "And the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard to the east was a hundred cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:15",
"text": "And he measured the length of the building \u231efacing the courtyard\u231f \u231eat the rear\u231f and its galleries, \u231ea hundred cubits on each side\u231f, and also the temple, the court, and the porticos of the courtyard, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:16",
"text": "the thresholds and the framed windows and the galleries around the three of them. Before the threshold was a covering of wood all around, and from the ground up to the windows, and all around the windows, they were covered. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:17",
"text": "\u231eAbove\u231f the doorway and up to the inner temple and on the outside, and on all of the wall \u231eall the way around\u231f in the inner and in the outer areas were \u231epatterns\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:18",
"text": "and it was made of cherubim and palm tree images; a palm tree image between cherub and cherub, and \u231ethe cherub had two faces\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:19",
"text": "And the face of a human \u231ewas toward\u231f the palm tree image \u231eon the one side\u231f, and the face of a fierce strong lion \u231efaced\u231f the palm tree image \u231eon the other side\u231f; \u231ethis work was executed\u231f for the entire temple \u231eall the way around\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:20",
"text": "From the ground up to \u231eabove\u231f the doorway, the cherubim and the palm tree images were made, and also the outer wall of the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:21",
"text": " As far as the temple is concerned its doorframe was squared, and \u231ebefore\u231f the sanctuary was the appearance as it were the appearance of "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:22",
"text": "\u231ea wooden altar\u231f that was three cubits high, and its length was two cubits, and its corners for it and its length and its walls were of wood. And he spoke to me, \u201cThis is the table that is \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:23",
"text": "And the two doors were for the temple and for the sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:24",
"text": "And two leaves of a door were for each of the doors, two hinged leaves of a door: two were for the first door, and two leaves of a door were for the other door. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:25",
"text": "And cherubim were made on them, that is, on the doors of the temple and palm tree images like \u231ethe ones prepared for the walls\u231f; and an overhang of wood was on the surface of the porticos on the outside. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 41,
"name": "Ezekiel 41:26",
"text": "And narrow windows and palm tree images \u231ewere on either side\u231f, and on the side walls of the portico, and the side rooms of the temple and their overhang. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:1",
"text": " And he brought me out to the outer courtyard \u231eto the north\u231f, and he brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and which is opposite the building to the north. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:2",
"text": "As to the face of the length of the building with the doorway to the north, it was a hundred cubits, and its width was fifty cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:3",
"text": "Opposite the twenty cubits \u231eof the inner courtyard\u231f, and opposite the pavement that was to the outer courtyard was a gallery \u231efacing\u231f a gallery in the three stories. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:4",
"text": "And \u231ein front of\u231f the chambers was a passageway ten cubits in width toward the inside, a walkway of one cubit, and their doorways were to the north. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:5",
"text": "And the upper chambers narrowed, for the galleries took away space from them more than they took from the lower levels and more than they took from the middle level in the building. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:6",
"text": "For they were three stories and \u231ethey had no pillars\u231f like the pillars of the courtyards; therefore they were smaller than the lower stories and than the middle stories from the ground up. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:7",
"text": "And there was a wall that was to the outside \u231ealongside\u231f the chambers on the walkway to the outer courtyard \u231ein front of\u231f the chambers; its length was fifty cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:8",
"text": "For the length of the chambers which were to the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, and look! The chambers on the front of the temple were a hundred cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:9",
"text": "And from under these chambers was the entrance from the east for them \u231ewhen one enters\u231f from the outer courtyard. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:10",
"text": " All along the width of the wall of the courtyard \u231eeastward\u231f in front of the courtyard to the front of the building were chambers. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:11",
"text": "And a walkway was \u231ebefore them\u231f like the appearance of the chambers which were on \u231ethe north\u231f, just like them in their length, and so was their width and all their exits, and they were built like their arrangements and like their doorways, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:12",
"text": "and like the doorways of the chambers which were on the way of the south was a doorway at the head of the way \u231ebefore\u231f the stone wall, projecting on the way of the east at their coming. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:13",
"text": " And he said to me, \u201cThe chambers of the north and the chambers of the south which are \u231ebefore\u231f the courtyard, they \u231eare the holy chambers\u231f in which the priests, who are near to Yahweh, will eat the \u231emost holy objects\u231f. There they shall put the \u231emost holy objects\u231f, and the grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering, for the place is holy. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:14",
"text": "\u231eWhen the priests enter\u231f, then they shall not go out from the sanctuary to the outer courtyard; and there they must put their garments in which they serve because they are holy. They must put on other garments and then they may approach the area that is for the people. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:15",
"text": " And he completed the measurements of the inner temple, and he brought me to the walkway of the gate \u231ethat faces toward the east\u231f and he measured it \u231eall the way around\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:16",
"text": "He measured the east side with the reed for measuring, five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement, he measured it all around. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:17",
"text": "He measured the north side as five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement all around. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:18",
"text": "Then he measured the south side as five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:19",
"text": "He went around the west side and he measured five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 42,
"name": "Ezekiel 42:20",
"text": "\u231eToward the four sides\u231f he measured it; there was a wall for it \u231eall the way around\u231f. Its length was five hundred cubits and its width was five hundred cubits, in order to make a separation between what is holy and what is common. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:1",
"text": " And he brought me to the gate which was \u231efacing east\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:2",
"text": "And, look! The glory of the God of Israel, it came from the way of the east, and its sound was like the sound of many waters and the land radiated due to his glory! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:3",
"text": "And the appearance of the vision which I saw was as the vision which I saw at his coming to destroy the city, and these visions were also as the vision which I saw by the \u231eKebar River\u231f, and I fell on my face. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:4",
"text": " And then the glory of Yahweh came to the temple \u231eby the way of the gate facing east\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:5",
"text": "And the Spirit lifted me and it brought me to the inner courtyard and, look! The glory of Yahweh filled the temple! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:6",
"text": "And I heard someone speaking to me from the house, and a man was standing beside me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:7",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet \u231ewhere I will dwell\u231f in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f to eternity, and they, the house of Israel, they and their kings, will not again defile \u231emy holy name\u231f with their fornication and with their offerings for the dead of their kings on their high places. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:8",
"text": "\u231eWhen they placed their threshold\u231f with my threshold, their doorframe beside my doorframe and the wall was between me and between them, then they defiled \u231emy holy name\u231f, with their detestable things that they did, and so I consumed them in my anger. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:9",
"text": "Now let them send their fornication far away and the offerings for the dead of their kings away from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:10",
"text": " You, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple and let them be ashamed of their iniquities and let them measure the pattern. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:11",
"text": "And if they are ashamed of all that they did, then the plan of the temple and its arrangement and its exits and its entrances and all of its plans and all of its statutes. And all of its plans and all of its laws make known to them and write them before their eyes, so that they may remember all of its plans and all of its statutes, so that they do them! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:12",
"text": "This is the law of the temple: On the top of the mountain, all of its territory, \u231eall the way around it\u231f, \u231ewill be most holy\u231f. Look, this is the law of the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:13",
"text": " And these are the measurements of the altar in the cubits (a cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): now its gutter \u231eis a cubit in depth by a cubit in width\u231f and its rim along its edge all around is one span, and this is also the height of the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:14",
"text": "And from the gutter at the ground up to the lower ledge is two cubits, and its width is one cubit, and from the small ledge up to the large ledge is four cubits, and its width is one cubit. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:15",
"text": "And the altar hearth was four cubits, and from the altar hearth and \u231eupwards\u231f were the four horns of the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:16",
"text": "And the altar hearth was \u231etwelve\u231f cubits in length and \u231etwelve\u231f cubits in width; it was \u231esquared on its four sides\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:17",
"text": "And the ledge was \u231efourteen\u231f cubits in length with \u231efourteen\u231f cubits its width to all four of its sides, and a rim was all around it of one-half cubit. And the gutter for it was a cubit all around, and its steps were facing east.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:18",
"text": " And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018These are the statutes of the altar on the day \u231ewhen it is made\u231f, to sacrifice a burnt offering on it and to sprinkle blood on it. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:19",
"text": "And you must give to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of Zadok, the ones coming near me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u201cto serve me, a bull, \u231ea calf\u231f as a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:20",
"text": " You must take some of its blood and put it on \u231ethe four horns of the altar\u231f, and the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim all around; thus you must purify it and make atonement for it. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:21",
"text": "And you must take the bull, the sin offering, and you must burn it in the designated place of the temple outside of the holy place. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:22",
"text": "And on the second day you must offer a he-goat without defect as a sin offering, and they must purify the altar \u231elike\u231f they purified with the bull. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:23",
"text": "\u231eWhen you are finished\u231f from purifying, you must offer a bull, \u231ea calf\u231f, without defect, and a ram from the flock without defect. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:24",
"text": "And you must bring them near \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh, and the priests must throw salt on them, and they must offer them as a burnt offering to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:25",
"text": "For seven days you must provide a goat of sin offering for the day and a bull, \u231ea calf\u231f, and a ram from the flock without defect; you must provide them. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:26",
"text": "Seven days they must purify the altar and they must cleanse it and so \u231ethey will consecrate it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 43,
"name": "Ezekiel 43:27",
"text": "And they will finish the days, \u231eand then\u231f on the eighth day and beyond that the priests will offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings, and then I will be pleased with you,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:1",
"text": " And he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary that is facing east, and it was shut. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:2",
"text": "And Yahweh said to me, \u201cThis gate will be shut. It shall not be opened, and \u231eno one\u231f will go through it, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered it, and it will be shut. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:3",
"text": "The prince, he may sit in it to eat food \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh; he will come from the way of the portico of the gate and by means of its way he will also go out.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:4",
"text": " Then he brought me by the way of the gate of the north to the front of the temple, and I looked, and look! The glory of Yahweh filled the temple of Yahweh, and I fell on my face. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:5",
"text": "And Yahweh said, \u201cSon of man, set your heart and look with your eyes and with your ears hear \u231eeverything\u231f I am saying to you concerning all the statutes of the temple of Yahweh and concerning all its laws, and you must listen with your heart concerning the entrance of the temple with all of the exits of the sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:6",
"text": "And you must say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, \u2018Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cEnough for you, house of Israel, of all of your detestable things! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:7",
"text": "At your bringing \u231eforeigners\u231f who are uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh to be in my sanctuary to profane it, my temple, \u231eas you offered my food, fat, and blood\u231f, so you broke my covenant by all of your detestable things. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:8",
"text": "And you did not observe the responsibility of my sanctuary, but you appointed them as the keepers of my responsibility in my sanctuary for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:9",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cEvery \u231eforeigner\u231f uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh shall not come into my sanctuary\u2014not any of the \u231eforeigners\u231f who are in the midst of the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:10",
"text": "\u231eBut\u231f the Levites who removed themselves from me \u231eat the going astray of Israel\u231f, who went astray from me and went after their idols, as a result they will bear their guilt. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:11",
"text": "Then they will be in my sanctuary, those serving in my sanctuary, as sentries at the gates of the temple and as those serving the temple; they will slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they will stand \u231ebefore them\u231f to serve them, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:12",
"text": "\u231ebecause\u231f they used to serve them \u231ebefore\u231f their idols and they were for the house of Israel like a stumbling block of iniquity. Therefore \u231eI swore\u231f concerning them,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh, \u201cthat they will bear their iniquity. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:13",
"text": "And they shall not approach me to serve as a priest for me and to come near to all of my holy objects, \u231eto the most holy objects\u231f, and they will bear their disgrace and the results of their detestable things they have done. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:14",
"text": "And I will appoint them as the keepers of the responsibility of the temple, for all of its work and \u231eeverything\u231fwhich will be done in it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:15",
"text": " But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok, who cared for the responsibility of my sanctuary \u231ewhen the Israelites went astray\u231f from me, they will approach me to serve me, and they will stand \u231ebefore me\u231f to offer to me fat and blood,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:16",
"text": "\u201cThey shall come to my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table to serve me, and they will observe my requirement. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:17",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f \u231ewhen they come\u231f to the gates of the inner courtyards, they shall put on their inner linen garments and not wear wool garments \u231ewhen they serve\u231f in the gates of the inner courtyard and \u231einside\u231f the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:18",
"text": "Linen turbans shall be on their head and linen undergarments shall be on their waists; they shall not gird themselves with material causing perspiration. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:19",
"text": "When they go out to the outer courtyard to the people, they must take off their garment in which they were serving, and they must place them \u231ein the holy chambers\u231f, and they must put on other garments, so that they will not make the people holy with their garments. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:20",
"text": "And their head they shall not shave, or long hair they shall not let grow; short they shall clip their heads. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:21",
"text": "And no priest shall drink wine when they come into the inner courtyard. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:22",
"text": "And a widow or divorced woman they shall not take for themselves as wives, \u231ebut only\u231f a virgin from the offspring of the house of Israel, or the widow who is a widow for a priest they may take. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:23",
"text": " And they will teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is unholy, and the difference between unclean and clean they must show them. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:24",
"text": "And at a legal dispute they themselves shall stand to judge; employing my judgments they shall judge it, and with respect to my laws and my statutes. All my festivals they shall keep and my Sabbaths they shall consecrate. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:25",
"text": "And \u231enear a dead person\u231f he shall not come to be defiled, \u231ebut only\u231f for a father and for a mother and for a son and for a daughter, for a brother and for a sister \u231ewho was not married\u231f may they defile themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:26",
"text": "And, after his cleansing, they shall count for him seven days, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:27",
"text": "and then on the day of his coming into the sanctuary to the inner courtyard to serve in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:28",
"text": " And thus it will be to them as regards inheritance, that I am their inheritance, and so you shall not give to them property in Israel; I am their property. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:29",
"text": "The grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering, they themselves may eat them, and also all the consecrated possessions in Israel will be theirs. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:30",
"text": "And also what is first of all of the firstfruits of everything, and of all of the contribution of everything from all of your contributions, to the priest \u231eit belongs\u231f, and what is first of your dough you shall give to the priest, so that a blessing may rest on your house. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 44,
"name": "Ezekiel 44:31",
"text": "Any dead body or mangled carcass from the birds or from the animals, the priests shall not eat.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:1",
"text": " And when you allocate the land as an inheritance, you shall provide a contribution for Yahweh as a holy portion from the land, its length being twenty-five thousand cubits and its width ten thousand cubits; it is holy in all its territory, all around. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:2",
"text": "And there shall be from this area five hundred cubits by five hundred cubits, squared all around, for the sanctuary; and fifty cubits of open space shall be for it all around it. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:3",
"text": "And from this measured area you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a width of ten thousand cubits, and in it will be the sanctuary, \u231ethe most holy place\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:4",
"text": "It is a holy portion from the land; it will be for the priests, the servants of the sanctuary \u231ewho approach\u231f to serve Yahweh, and it will be for them a place for houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:5",
"text": "And an area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in width will be for the Levites, the servants of the temple. It will serve as property for them \u231eas cities to dwell in\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:6",
"text": "And as property of the city, you must set apart alongside the contribution of the sanctuary a portion five thousand cubits in width and twenty-five thousand cubits in length, and it shall be for the entire house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:7",
"text": " And a portion will be for the prince \u231eon both sides\u231f of \u231ethe holy district\u231f, and both sides of the property of the city, and \u231ealongside\u231f the property of the city \u231eon the west\u231f, and alongside the property \u231eon the east\u231f. And also its length \u231ecorresponds to one of the tribal portions to the west\u231f running \u231eto the eastern border\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:8",
"text": "This shall be to him \u231ewith respect to the land\u231f as property in Israel; and so my princes shall not again oppress my people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:9",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh, \u201cEnough of this for you, the princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction and do justice and righteousness; revoke your acts of dispossession from upon my people!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:10",
"text": "There shall be for you \u231ean honest set of scales\u231f and \u231ean honest ephah\u231f and \u231ean honest bath\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:11",
"text": "The ephah and the bath shall be one unit of measurement; the tenth part of the homer is the bath, and the tenth of the homer is the ephah; so the homer shall be its unit of measurement. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:12",
"text": "And the shekel shall weigh twenty gerahs, twenty shekels and five and twenty shekels and ten and five shekels, that shall make the mina for you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:13",
"text": " This is the contribution offering which you shall present: a sixth of the ephah from a homer of wheat, and a sixth of the ephah from a homer of barley. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:14",
"text": "And the quota of the olive oil, the bath of the olive oil, is the tenth part of a bath from a kor, which is ten baths, or a homer\u2014for ten baths are equal to a homer. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:15",
"text": "And one sheep from the flock from among two hundred from the pastures of Israel will be taken as a grain offering and as a burnt offering and as a fellowship offering to make atonement for them,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:16",
"text": "\u201cAll of the people of the land shall join in to this contribution with the prince in Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:17",
"text": " \u201cBut on the prince shall be the responsibility for the burnt offerings, and the grain offering, and the libation at the feasts, and at the New Moon festivals, and at the Sabbaths at all of the assemblies of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, and the grain offering, and the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering to make atonement for the house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:18",
"text": "Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u2018On the first month on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull, \u231ea calf\u231f without defect, and you shall purify the sanctuary. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:19",
"text": "And the priest shall take from the blood of the sin offering, and he shall put it on the doorframe of the temple and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the doorframe of the gate of the inner courtyard. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:20",
"text": "And so you shall do on the seventh day in the month for anyone doing wrong inadvertently or due to ignorance, and so you must make atonement for the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:21",
"text": " In the first month, on the \u231efourteenth\u231f day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast lasting for \u231eseven days\u231f, when you shall eat unleavened breads. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:22",
"text": "And the prince shall provide on that day for himself and for all of the people of the land a bull as a sin offering. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:23",
"text": "And during the seven days of the religious feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to Yahweh seven bulls and seven rams without defect for each of the seven days, and as a sin offering a he-goat for each day. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:24",
"text": "And as a grain offering, an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram he must provide, and a hin of olive oil for \u231eeach\u231f ephah. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 45,
"name": "Ezekiel 45:25",
"text": "In the seventh month, on the \u231efifteenth\u231f day of the month, during the feast, he shall provide just as he has for these seven days, as he did for the sin offering, as he did for the burnt offering, and as he did for the grain offering, and as he did for the olive oil.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:1",
"text": "Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cThe gate of the inner courtyard facing east must be shut on the six of the days for work, but on the day of the Sabbath it must be opened and on the day of the new moon it must be opened. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:2",
"text": "And the prince shall come by way of the portico of the gate from the outside, and he shall stand at the doorframe of the gate and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his fellowship offerings, and he shall bow down at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be closed until the evening. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:3",
"text": "And the people of the land will bow down at the doorway of that gate on the Sabbaths and on the new moons \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:4",
"text": " And the burnt offering which the prince will offer to Yahweh on the Sabbath day must be six male lambs without defect and a ram without defect. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:5",
"text": "And the grain offering he will give shall be an ephah \u231efor each ram\u231f, and for the male lambs the grain offering shall be \u231eas much as he wants to give\u231f and a hin of olive oil \u231efor each ephah\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:6",
"text": "And on the day of the new moon he will offer a bull, \u231ea calf\u231f without defect and six male lambs and a ram; they must be without defect. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:7",
"text": "And an ephah for each bull and an ephah for the ram he must provide as a grain offering, and also for the male lambs \u231eas much as he can afford\u231f and a hin of olive oil for each ephah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:8",
"text": " And when the prince comes, on the way of the portico of the gate he shall come and by this way he shall go out. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:9",
"text": "And when the people of the land come \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh at the festivals, the one coming by way of the gate of the north to bow down must go out by the way of the gate of the south, and the one coming by way of the gate of the south must go out by the way of the gate of the north, so he must not return by the way of the gate by which he came, but before it he shall go out opposite it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:10",
"text": "And the prince will be in the midst of them; he will come in when they come in, and when they go out he will go out. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:11",
"text": " And at the festivals and at the appointed times, the grain offering will be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with the ram and with the male lambs, \u231eas much as he wants to give\u231f, and a hin of olive oil \u231efor each ephah\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:12",
"text": "And when the prince makes a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or a fellowship offering as a freewill offering to Yahweh, the gate facing east will be open for him. And he must offer his burnt offering and his fellowship offering \u231ejust as\u231f he does on the day of the Sabbath, and then he must go out and the gate will shut \u231eafter he goes out\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:13",
"text": "And a male lamb, \u231ea yearling\u231f without defect, he must provide as a burnt offering \u231edaily\u231f for Yahweh; \u231eevery morning\u231f he must provide it. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:14",
"text": "And a grain offering he must provide in addition to it \u231eevery morning\u231f, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of olive oil to moisten the finely milled flour as a grain offering to Yahweh \u231eas a perpetual statute\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:15",
"text": "So they must provide the male lamb and the grain offering and the olive oil \u231eevery morning\u231f \u231eas a regular burnt offering\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:16",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cIf the prince gives a gift to any one from among his sons, it is his inheritance and it will belong to his sons; it is their possession as an inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:17",
"text": "And if he give a gift from his inheritance to one from among his servants, then it will belong to him until the year of release, and then it will return to the prince. His inheritance with respect to his sons will be only for them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:18",
"text": "But the prince shall not take from the inheritance of the people to rob them, separating them from their property; from his own property he shall bestow an inheritance on his sons, so that my people will not be driven away, any one, from his property.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:19",
"text": " Then he brought me through the entrance which was on the side of the gate \u231eto the holy chambers\u231f to the priests; the chambers were facing northwards and, look, there was a place at the extreme end westwards. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:20",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cThis is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering in order not to bring them out to the outer courtyard to make the people holy. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:21",
"text": "And he brought me to the outer courtyard and led me past the four corners of the courtyard; and look, \u231ethere was a courtyard in each corner of the courtyard\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:22",
"text": "In the four corners of the courtyard were small courtyards forty cubits in length and thirty cubits in width, each with \u231ethe same measurements\u231f for the four of them with corners. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:23",
"text": "And a row was all around inside them, and cooking-places were made under the rows of stones all around. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 46,
"name": "Ezekiel 46:24",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cThese are the houses for cooking, where the ones serving the temple shall cook the sacrifices of the people.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:1",
"text": " And he brought me back to the doorway of the temple and, look! There was water coming out from under the threshold of the temple eastward, because the face of the temple was eastwards; and the water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, from south of the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:2",
"text": "And he brought me out by the way of the north gate and he led me around by the \u231eway leading to the outside of the outer gate\u231f by way of the gate facing east, and look, there was water trickling from the south side. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:3",
"text": "As the man went eastward a measuring line was in his hand, and he measured a thousand \u231ecubits\u231f. And he led me through on into the water; it was \u231eankle deep\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:4",
"text": "And he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me over into the waters and it was \u231eknee deep\u231f. And he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me over into the waters and it was \u231ewaist deep\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:5",
"text": "And he measured a thousand cubits, and it became a stream that I was not able to cross, because the water rose, \u231ewaters a person could swim in\u231f, and became a stream that could not be crossed. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:6",
"text": "And he asked me, \u201cSon of man, did you see this?\u201d And he made me go, and he brought me back along the bank of the stream. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:7",
"text": " \u231eWhen I returned\u231f, then look! On the bank of the river were many trees \u231eon both sides\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:8",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cThese waters are going out to the eastern region, and they go down to the \u231eJordan Valley\u231f, and they come to the sea and flow into the sea where \u231ethey issue out\u231f, and the waters in the sea will be healed. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:9",
"text": "And then every living creature with which it teems, \u231eto every place the waters come\u231f it will live; and very many fish will live because these waters came there, and so the water will be healed and everything will be alive \u231eeverywhere that\u231f \u231ethe stream will come\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:10",
"text": "And then fishers from En Gedi and on up to En Eglaim will stand beside it, a sea-girt drying yard for nets; their fish for the dragnets will be \u231eof every kind\u231f, like the fish of the great sea, and very many. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:11",
"text": "But its marshes and its swamps will not be cured, for they were given for salt. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:12",
"text": "And along the stream will go up on its banks \u231efrom both sides\u231f every tree \u231eproducing food\u231f; its leaf will not wither and it will not cease producing its fruit. \u231eEvery month\u231f it will bear early fruit, for its waters are going out from the sanctuary, and its fruit will be as food, and its leaf for healing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:13",
"text": " Thus says the Lord Yahweh: \u201cThis is the boundary by which you shall distribute the land for \u231ethe twelve\u231f tribes of Israel: Two shares shall be for Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:14",
"text": "And you must take possession of it, each one a share like his brother, of this land which \u231eI swore\u231f to give it to your fathers, and so this land shall fall to you as an inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:15",
"text": "And this is the boundary of the land: \u231eOn the north side\u231f, from the great sea by the way of Hethlon \u231euntil you come to Zedad\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:16",
"text": "Hamath to Berothath to Sibraim, which is between the boundary of Damascus and the boundary of Hamath, on to Hazer Hatticon, which is on the boundary of Hauran. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:17",
"text": "And so the boundary will be from the sea to Hazar Enan at the boundary of Damascus northwards and the boundary of Hamath to the north, and this is the boundary on the side of the north. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:18",
"text": "\u231eAnd the eastern boundary\u231f will be between Hauran and Damascus, and from between Gilead and the land of Israel along the Jordan River from the boundary on the eastern sea to Tamar. And \u231ethis is the border on the east\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:19",
"text": "\u231eAnd on the south side the border\u231f will run from Tamar up to the waters of Meribot Kadesh and along the wadi to the Great Sea. And this is \u231ethe boundary to the south\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:20",
"text": "\u231eAnd on the west side\u231f the Great Sea shall be the boundary up to opposite Lebo-Hamath. \u231eThis is the western boundary\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:21",
"text": " You shall divide this land for yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:22",
"text": "And then you shall allocate it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens dwelling as aliens in the midst of you who have children in the midst of you, and so they shall be to you just like full citizens among the \u231eIsraelites\u231f. With you they shall be allotted with an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 47,
"name": "Ezekiel 47:23",
"text": "And then in the tribe in which an alien who is with you dwells, there you shall give his inheritance,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:1",
"text": " And these are the names of the tribes: At the end of the north, \u231ealong the way to Hethlon\u231f from Lebo-hamath to Hazar Enan on the boundary of Damascus \u231ebeside Hamath northward\u231f, there will be one portion for Dan from the eastern border to the \u231ewest\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:2",
"text": "And next to the territory of Dan, from \u231ethe eastern border\u231f up to \u231ethe western border\u231f, one portion for Asher. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:3",
"text": "And next to the territory of Asher, from \u231ethe eastern border\u231f and up to \u231ethe western border\u231f, one portion for Naphtali. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:4",
"text": "And next to the territory of Naphtali, from \u231ethe eastern border\u231f up to \u231ethe western border\u231f, one portion for Manasseh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:5",
"text": "And next to the territory of Manasseh, from \u231ethe eastern border\u231f up to \u231ethe western border\u231f, one portion for Ephraim. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:6",
"text": "And next to the territory of Ephraim, from \u231ethe eastern border\u231f and up to \u231ethe western border\u231f, one portion for Reuben. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:7",
"text": "And next to the territory of Reuben, from \u231ethe eastern border\u231f up to \u231ethe western border\u231f, one portion for Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:8",
"text": " And next to the territory of Judah, from \u231ethe eastern border\u231f up to \u231ethe western border\u231f, shall be located the contribution that you set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits in width, and its length just like one of the portions from \u231ethe eastern border\u231f up to \u231ethe western border\u231f, and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:9",
"text": "The contribution that you shall set apart for Yahweh, its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits, and its width ten thousand cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:10",
"text": "And to these shall be \u231ethe holy district\u231f: to the priests northwards twenty-five thousand cubits, and westwards its width ten thousand cubits, and eastwards its width ten thousand cubits, and southwards its length twenty-five thousand cubits, and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the midst of it. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:11",
"text": "To the priests, the ones being consecrated from the descendants of Zadok, who took care of my service and who \u231edid not go astray\u231f \u231ewhen the Israelites went astray\u231f, \u231ejust as\u231f the Levites went astray. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:12",
"text": "And it will be for them a special gift from the contribution of the land \u231eas a most holy object\u231f next to the territory of the Levites. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:13",
"text": "And the Levites \u231ealongside\u231f the territory of the priests shall have twenty-five thousand cubits in length and in width ten thousand cubits, its \u231efull length\u231f, twenty-five thousand cubits and its full width, ten thousand cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:14",
"text": "And they shall not sell any part from it, and shall not exchange, and shall not transfer the best of the land, for it is holy to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:15",
"text": " And \u231ethe remaining part\u231f of five thousand cubits in the width \u231eby\u231f twenty-five thousand cubits, is unholy; it is for the city as dwelling and as pastureland; and the city will be located \u231ein the middle of it\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:16",
"text": "And these shall be its measurements: on its side to the north, four thousand five hundred cubits; and on its side to the south, four thousand five hundred cubits; and on \u231ethe eastern side\u231f, four thousand five hundred cubits; and on \u231ethe western side\u231f, four thousand five hundred cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:17",
"text": "And a pastureland shall be for the city northwards, two hundred and fifty cubits, southwards two hundred and fifty cubits, and eastwards two hundred and fifty cubits, and westwards two hundred and fifty cubits. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:18",
"text": "And the rest in its length \u231ealongside\u231f \u231ethe holy district\u231f, ten thousand cubits eastwards and ten thousand westwards; and it shall be \u231ealongside\u231f \u231ethe holy district\u231f and its yield shall be as food for the workers of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:19",
"text": "And the workers of the city from all the tribes of Israel shall cultivate it. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:20",
"text": "All of the contribution, twenty-five thousand by twenty five thousand cubits square, you shall set apart as \u231ethe holy district\u231f along with the property of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:21",
"text": "And the rest shall be to the prince, \u231eon both sides\u231f \u231eof the holy district\u231f and of the property of the city \u231eextending from\u231f twenty-five thousand cubits of the contribution up to the boundary of the east, and westwards \u231eextending\u231f twenty-five thousand cubits to the boundary of the sea \u231ealongside\u231f the tribal portions. They shall be for the prince, and it shall be \u231ethe holy district\u231f, and the sanctuary of the temple will be in its middle. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:22",
"text": "And also the property of the Levites and the property of the city will be in the midst of the property which is for the prince; between the territory of Judah and between the territory of Benjamin the land will be for the prince. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:23",
"text": " And for the remainder of the tribes: From the side on the east up to the side on the west, Benjamin one portion; "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:24",
"text": "and next to the territory of Benjamin, from the side on the east up to the side of the sea, Simeon one portion; "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:25",
"text": "and next to the territory of Simeon, from the side of the east up to the side of the sea, Issachar one portion; "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:26",
"text": "and next to the territory of Issachar, from the side of the east up to the side of the sea, Zebulun one portion; "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:27",
"text": "and next to the territory of Zebulun, from the side of the east up to the side of the sea, Gad one portion; "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:28",
"text": "and next to the territory of Gad, to the side of the south, \u231esouthward\u231f; and the territory will be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, toward the wadi, on to the Great Sea. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:29",
"text": "This is the land that you shall allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:30",
"text": " And these shall be the exits of the city: From \u231ethe north side\u231f, four thousand and five hundred cubits by measurement. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:31",
"text": "And the gates of the city shall be according to the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates to the north, the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:32",
"text": "And on the east side, four thousand five hundred cubits, and three gates, and so the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:33",
"text": "And on the south side, four thousand five hundred cubits by measurement, and so three gates, the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:34",
"text": "And on the west side, four thousand five hundred cubits, and their gates three, the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 48,
"name": "Ezekiel 48:35",
"text": "All around the city is eighteen thousand cubits, and the name of the city from that day is \u201cYahweh Is There\u201d! "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Daniel",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:1",
"text": " In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:2",
"text": "And the Lord gave Jehoiakim the king of Judah into his hand and \u231esome of\u231f of the utensils of the temple of God, and he brought them to the land of Shinar to the temple of his gods, and he brought the utensils to \u231ethe treasury\u231f of his gods. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:3",
"text": " And the king \u231eordered\u231f Ashpenaz, the commander of his court officials, to bring \u231esome of the Israelites\u231f from \u231ethe royal family\u231f and from the lords, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:4",
"text": "youths who \u231ehave no physical defect\u231f, and who are \u231ehandsome\u231f, and who are prudent in all wisdom and \u231eendowed with knowledge\u231f, and who understand insight, and who have the \u231eability\u231f in them to serve in the palace of the king. And the king ordered him to teach them the literature and the language of the Chaldeans. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:5",
"text": "And the king assigned to them \u231ehis daily portion\u231f from the fine food of the king, and from \u231ethe wine that he drank\u231f, and instructed that \u231ethey were to be educated for three years\u231f. And at the end of their training, \u231ethey were to be stationed\u231f \u231ebefore\u231f the king. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:6",
"text": "Now there was among them \u231efrom the Judeans\u231f, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:7",
"text": "And the commander of the court officials gave them names, and he called Daniel, Belteshazzar; and Hananiah, Shadrach; and Mishael, Meshach; and Azariah, Abednego. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:8",
"text": " Now \u231eDaniel resolved\u231f that he would not defile himself with the fine food of the king, and with \u231ethe wine that he drank\u231f, and so he requested from the commander of the court officials permission so that he would not defile himself. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:9",
"text": "And God gave Daniel favor and compassion \u231ebefore\u231f the commander of the court officials, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:10",
"text": "and the commander of the court officials said to Daniel, \u201cI am afraid of my lord, the king, who has determined your food and your drink, for \u231ewhy should\u231f he see your face having a worse appearance than the young men who \u231eare your age\u231f? Then you will endanger my head with the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:11",
"text": "Then Daniel asked the guard whom the commander of the court officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:12",
"text": "\u201cPlease test your servants for ten days, and let them give us \u231esome of the vegetables\u231f, and let us eat and let us drink water. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:13",
"text": "Then let our appearances and the appearance of the young men who are eating the fine food of the king be compared \u231ebefore you\u231f, and then deal with your servants \u231eaccording to what you see\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:14",
"text": "So he agreed to this proposal with them, and he tested them for ten days. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:15",
"text": "And at the end of ten days their appearances appeared better and they were healthier of body than all the young men who were eating the fine food of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:16",
"text": "\u231eSo\u231f the guard \u231econtinued to withhold\u231f their fine food and the wine of their drink, and he gave them vegetables. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:17",
"text": " \u231eAnd as for these four young men\u231f, God gave to them knowledge and insight into all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had insight into all visions and dreams. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:18",
"text": "And at the end of the time the king had set to bring them, the commander of the court officials brought them in \u231ebefore\u231f Nebuchadnezzar. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:19",
"text": "And the king spoke with them, \u231eand among all of them no one was found like\u231f Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; then they stood \u231ebefore\u231f the king. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:20",
"text": "And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired from them, he found them ten times better than all of the magicians and conjurers that \u231ewere in his entire kingdom\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Daniel 1:21",
"text": "And Daniel was there until the first year of Cyrus the king. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:1",
"text": " Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:2",
"text": "So the king said to call the magicians and the conjurers and the sorcerers and the \u231eastrologers\u231f to tell to the king his dreams. And they came in and they stood \u231ebefore\u231f the king. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:3",
"text": "And the king said to them, \u201c\u231eI have had a dream\u231f and my spirit is anxious to know the dream.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:4",
"text": " And the \u231eastrologers\u231f said to the king in Aramaic, \u201cO king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants and we will reveal the explanation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:5",
"text": "The king answered and said to the \u231eastrologers\u231f, \u201cThe command from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its explanation, then you will be broken into pieces and your houses will be laid in ruins. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:6",
"text": "But if you tell me the dream and its explanation, you will receive gifts and rewards and great honor from me. Therefore, tell me the dream and its explanation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:7",
"text": "They answered once more and said, \u201cLet the king tell the dream to his servants and we will make the explanation known.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:8",
"text": "The king answered and said, \u201c\u231eCertainly\u231f I know that \u231eyou are trying to gain time\u231f \u231ebecause\u231f you have seen \u231ethat this matter is firmly decreed by me\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:9",
"text": "for if you do not make the dream known to me, \u231eyour verdict is fixed\u231f, and you have conspired to say a lying and deceitful word to me until the \u231ecircumstances\u231f will change. Therefore, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can tell me its explanation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:10",
"text": "The \u231eastrologers\u231f answered the king and said, \u201cThere is not a man on earth that is able to reveal the word of the king; \u231ein fact\u231f, no great and powerful king has ever asked a thing like this of any magician or conjurer or \u231eastrologer\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:11",
"text": "And the thing that the king is asking is too difficult and \u231ethere is no one who\u231f can reveal it to the king except the gods \u231ewhose dwelling is not with mortals\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:12",
"text": " Because of this the king became angry, and he became very much enraged, and he said that all the wise men of Babylon are to be destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:13",
"text": "And the decree was issued, and the wise men \u231ewere on the verge of being executed\u231f, and they searched for Daniel and his companions to be executed. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:14",
"text": "Then Daniel responded prudently and discretely to Arioch, the commander of the imperial guard of the king, who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:15",
"text": "\u231eHe asked\u231f and said to Arioch, the royal official of the king, \u201c\u231eWhy\u231f is the decree from the king so severe?\u201d Then Arioch explained the matter to Daniel. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:16",
"text": "And Daniel went in and requested from the king that he would give him time, and \u231ehe would tell the king\u231f the explanation. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:17",
"text": " Then Daniel went to his home, and he made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, his companions, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:18",
"text": "and told them to seek mercy \u231efrom the God of heaven\u231f concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions, along with the remainder of the wise men of Babylon, would not be killed. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:19",
"text": " Then in a vision of the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel; then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:20",
"text": " Daniel \u231esaid\u231f: \u201cLet his name, the name of God, be blessed \u231ethroughout the ages\u231f, for the wisdom and the power \u231eare his\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:21",
"text": " And he changes the times and the seasons, and he deposes kings and he sets up kings; he gives wisdom to wise men and knowledge to men who know understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:22",
"text": " He reveals the deep and the hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:23",
"text": " To you, O God of my ancestors, I give thanks and I give praises, for the wisdom and the power you gave to me, and now you have made known to me what we have asked from you, for you have made known to us the matter of the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:24",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and thus he said to him: \u201cYou must not destroy the wise men of Babylon; take me in before the king and I will give the explanation to the king.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:25",
"text": " Then Arioch \u231equickly\u231f brought Daniel in before the king and thus he said to him: \u201cI have found a man among \u231ethe exiles\u231f of Judah who \u231ecan relate\u231f the explanation to the king. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:26",
"text": "\u231eThe king then asked\u231f and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, \u201cAre you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its explanation?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:27",
"text": "Daniel answered the king and said, \u201cThe mystery that the king asks, no wise men, conjurers, magicians, or diviners are able to make known to the king. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:28",
"text": "But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what it is that will be at the end of days. This is your dream and the visions of your head on your bed. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:29",
"text": " \u201cAs for you, king, your thoughts on your bed \u231eturned to\u231f what it was that would be \u231ein the future\u231f, and the revealer of mysteries has made known to you what that would be. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:30",
"text": "And as for me, it is not because of wisdom that is in me more than \u231eany other living person\u231f that this mystery is revealed to me, but \u231ein order that\u231f the explanation may be made known to the king and you will \u231eunderstand\u231f the thoughts of your \u231emind\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:31",
"text": " \u201cYou, O king, were looking and, look, there was one great statue. This statue was huge and its brilliance extraordinary, standing there before you, and its appearance was frightening. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:32",
"text": "The head of this statue was of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:33",
"text": "its legs of iron, its feet, part of them of iron and part of them of clay. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:34",
"text": "You were looking on \u231euntil\u231f a stone was chiseled out\u2014that not by hands\u2014and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and it broke them in pieces. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:35",
"text": "Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold \u231eall at once\u231f broke into pieces and they became like chaff from the summer threshing floor, and the wind carried them away and any trace of them could not be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and it filled the whole earth. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:36",
"text": " \u201cThis was the dream, and now we will tell its interpretation to the king. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:37",
"text": "You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power and the might and the glory, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:38",
"text": "and also \u231ehuman beings wherever they dwell\u231f, the animals of the field and the birds of heaven\u2014he has given into your hand and made you ruler over all of them\u2014you are the head of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:39",
"text": "And after you another kingdom inferior to yours will arise, and another third kingdom of bronze that will rule over the whole earth. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:40",
"text": "And a fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, and \u231ejust as\u231f iron crushes and smashes \u231eeverything\u231f, and as iron shatters all of these other metals, so it will crush and it will shatter these nations. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:41",
"text": "\u231eAnd just as\u231f you saw the feet and the toes, \u231epartly potter\u2019s clay\u231f and \u231epartly iron\u231f, it will be a divided kingdom; and \u231esome hardness\u231f of the iron will be in it, \u231ejust as\u231f you have seen the iron mixed with the wet clay. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:42",
"text": "And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so part of the kingdom will be strong \u231eand partly brittle\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:43",
"text": "And in that you saw the iron was mixed with wet clay, so \u231ethey will mix in marriage\u231f and they will not cling \u231eto one another\u231f, just as iron does not mix with clay. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:44",
"text": "And \u231ein the day of those kings\u231f, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will \u231enever\u231f be destroyed, and the kingdom will not be left for another nation, and it will bring an end to all these kingdoms, but it will stand \u231eforever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:45",
"text": "\u231eInasmuch as\u231f you saw that a stone from the mountain was chiseled out but not by hands, and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, thereby the great God made known to the king what will be \u231ein the future\u231f, and the dream is certain and its explanation trustworthy.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:46",
"text": " Then the king, Nebuchadnezzar, fell on his face and he paid homage to Daniel; and he commanded them to offer a grain offering and incense offering to him. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:47",
"text": "The king answered Daniel and said, \u201c\u231eTruly\u231f your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings, and he reveals mysteries, for you are able to reveal this mystery.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:48",
"text": "Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and the chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Daniel 2:49",
"text": "And Daniel made a request from the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon, while Daniel remained in the court of the king. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:1",
"text": " Nebuchadnezzar the king made a statue of gold. Its height was sixty cubits and its width was six cubits; he set it up in the valley of Dura in the province of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:2",
"text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent directions to assemble the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all of the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:3",
"text": "Then the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the province were assembled for the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up, and were standing \u231ebefore\u231f the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:4",
"text": "Then the herald proclaimed \u231ealoud\u231f, \u201cTo you \u231eit is commanded\u231f, O peoples, \u231enations and people of all languages\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:5",
"text": "that at the time that you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp, the drum and all kinds of music, you must fall down and you must worship the statue of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:6",
"text": "And \u231ewhoever\u231f does not fall down and worship will be thrown \u231eimmediately\u231f into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:7",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f, \u231eat that time\u231f, \u231eas soon as\u231f all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp and all kinds of music, all the peoples, \u231ethe nations and people of all languages\u231f were falling down and were worshiping the statue of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:8",
"text": " \u231eTherefore\u231f \u231eat this time\u231f some \u231eastrologers\u231f came forward and \u231ethey denounced the Jews\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:9",
"text": "\u231eThey responded and said\u231f to Nebuchadnezzar the king, \u201cO king, may you live \u231eforever\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:10",
"text": "You, O king, have made a decree that \u231eeveryone\u231f who hears the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp and the drum and all kinds of music, he shall fall down and shall worship the statue of gold. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:11",
"text": "\u231eAnd whoever\u231f \u231edoes not fall down\u231f and worship shall be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:12",
"text": "However there are Judean men whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon\u2014Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego\u2014these men, O king, \u231epay you no heed\u231f and were not serving your god, and the statue of gold that you set up they are not worshiping.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:13",
"text": " Then Nebuchadnezzar said in rage and anger to bring in Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; then they brought in these men before the king. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:14",
"text": "Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, \u201cIs it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you are not serving my god, and you are not worshiping the statue of gold that I have set up? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:15",
"text": "Now if you are ready so that \u231ewhen\u231f you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp and the drum and all kinds of music, you fall down and you worship the statue that I have made, that will be good. But if you do not worship it, \u231eimmediately\u231f you will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire, and \u231ewho is the god\u231f who will rescue you from my hands?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:16",
"text": " Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, \u201cWe have no need on this matter \u231eto present a defense to you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:17",
"text": "\u231eIf it is so\u231f, our God, whom we serve, is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire. And from your hand, O king, let him rescue us. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:18",
"text": "And if not, let it be known to you, O king, that \u231ewe will not serve your gods\u231f, and the statue of gold that you have set up we will not worship.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:19",
"text": " Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with anger and the image of his face was changed \u231etoward\u231f Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, so he \u231eordered and said\u231f to heat up the one furnace seven times what was usual to heat it up. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:20",
"text": "And he commanded \u231ethe strongest men of the guards\u231f who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:21",
"text": "Then these men were bound with their garments, their trousers and their turbans and their other clothing, and they were thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:22",
"text": "\u231eTherefore\u231f \u231ebecause\u231f the word of the king was severe and the furnace was exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed these men who lifted up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:23",
"text": "But these men, the three of them, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, fell down into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire, and they were bound. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:24",
"text": " Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and he rose up in haste and he asked, saying to his advisers, \u201cDid we not throw three men, bound, into the midst of the fire? They answered, saying to the king, \u201cCertainly, O king!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:25",
"text": "\u231eHe answered\u231f, saying, \u201cLook, I see four men unbound walking in the midst of the fire and there is no damage to them, and the appearance of the fourth man resembles the son of a god.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:26",
"text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire, and he called out, saying, \u201cShadrach, Meshach and Abednego, \u231eservants\u231f of the Most High God, come out and come here!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:27",
"text": "And the satraps, the prefects, the governors and the advisors of the king were assembling, and they saw these men, that the fire had no power over their bodies, and the hair of their heads was not singed, and their garments were not harmed, and the smell of fire did not come from them. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:28",
"text": " Nebuchadnezzar \u231eresponded\u231f, saying, \u201cBlessed be their God, the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who sent his angel and rescued his servants who trusted in him, and the command of the king they disobeyed, and they gave their bodies so that they did not serve and did not worship any god except their God. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:29",
"text": "And from me \u231eis set forth\u231f a decree that any people, nation, or language that may utter criticism against their God\u2014the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego\u2014will be broken into pieces and their house will be made like ruins. \u231eFor\u231f there is not another God who is able to rescue like this God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Daniel 3:30",
"text": "Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:1",
"text": " Nebuchadnezzar the king to all of the nations, the peoples and languages that live in the whole earth: \u201cMay your prosperity increase! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:2",
"text": "It is pleasing to me to recount the signs and wonders that the Most High God worked for me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:3",
"text": "How great are his signs and wonders, how strong is his kingdom, \u231ean everlasting kingdom\u231f; and his sovereignty is from generation to generation. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:4",
"text": " \u201cI, Nebuchadnezzar, was content in my house and prospering in my palace. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:5",
"text": "And I saw a dream and a revelation on my bed and it frightened me, and the visions of my head terrified me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:6",
"text": "And a decree was \u231esent out\u231f, ordering that all the wise men of Babylon were to be brought in before me so that they may make known to me the explanation of the dream. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:7",
"text": "Then the magicians, the conjurers, the \u231eastrologers\u231f and the diviners came in and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its explanation. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:8",
"text": "Then \u231eat last\u231f Daniel came before me \u231ewhose name was\u231f Belteshazzar, \u231eaccording to\u231f the name of my god, and \u231ein whom was the spirit of the holy gods\u231f, \u231eand I related the dream to him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:9",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I myself know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and \u231eno mystery is too difficult\u231f for you. Now tell me the visions of my dream that I saw, and its explanation. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:10",
"text": "Now these were the visions of my head as I was lying on my bed: I was \u231egazing\u231f and, look, a tree was in the midst of the earth, and its height was exalted. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:11",
"text": " The tree grew and it became strong, and its height reached to heaven, and \u231eit was visible to the end of the whole earth\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:12",
"text": " Its foliage was beautiful, and its fruit abundant, and in it was provision for all. Under it the animals of the field sought shade, and in its branches the birds of heaven nested, and from it all the living beings were fed. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:13",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018I was looking in the vision of my head as I lay on my bed, and look, a watcher, and a holy one, came down from heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:14",
"text": " He cried \u231ealoud\u231f and so he said: \u201cCut down the tree and chop off its branches; shake off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it, and the birds from its branches. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:15",
"text": " But the stump of its roots leave in the earth, \u231ealong with\u231f a band of iron and bronze; leave it in the grass of the field. And in the dew of heaven let it be watered, and with the animals let his lot be in the grass of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:16",
"text": " Let his mind be changed from that of a human, and let the mind of an animal be given to him, and let seven times pass over him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:17",
"text": " The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the decision by the command of the holy ones, \u231ein order that\u231f the living will know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and \u231eto whomever\u231f he wills he gives it, and he even sets the humblest of men over it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:18",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018This is the dream that I, Nebuchadnezzar the king, saw. Now you, Belteshazzar, declare its explanation, \u231efor\u231f all of the wise men of my kingdom were not able to make the explanation known to me, but you are able because the spirit of holy gods is in you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:19",
"text": " \u201cThen Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was distressed \u231efor some time\u231f, and his thoughts disturbed him. The king answered and he said, \u2018Belteshazzar, let the dream and its explanation not disturb you.\u2019 Belteshazzar answered and said, \u2018My lord, may the dream and its explanation be for those who hate you and for your enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:20",
"text": "The tree that you saw, which grew and became strong and its height reached to heaven and \u231eit was visible to the end of the whole earth\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:21",
"text": "and its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and so there was provision for all in it, and the animals of the field lived under it and in its branches nest the birds of heaven, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:22",
"text": "\u2014it is you, O king, who have grown great and you have grown strong, and so your greatness has increased and it has reached to heaven and your sovereignty to the end of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:23",
"text": "And inasmuch that the king saw the watcher, a holy one coming down from heaven and he said, \u201cCut down the tree and destroy it, but the stump of its root in the earth leave with a band of iron and bronze in the grass of the field, and let it be watered with the dew of heaven and let his lot be with the animals of the field \u231euntil seven times have passed over him\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:24",
"text": "This is the explanation, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High that has come upon my lord the king: "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:25",
"text": "you will be driven away \u231efrom human society\u231f and \u231eyou will dwell\u231f with the animals of the field, and you will be caused to graze grass like the oxen \u231eyourself\u231f, and you will be watered with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time will pass over you until that you have acknowledged that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and \u231eto whom he wills\u231f he gives it. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:26",
"text": "\u231eAnd in that\u231f they said to leave alone the stump of the tree\u2019s root, so your kingdom will be restored for you \u231ewhen\u231f you acknowledge that heaven is sovereign. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:27",
"text": "Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you and your sin remove with righteousness and your iniquity with having mercy on the oppressed, \u231ein case there might be a prolongation of your prosperity\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:28",
"text": " \u231eAll this happened\u231f to Nebuchadnezzar the king. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:29",
"text": "At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of \u231ethe royal palace\u231f of Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:30",
"text": "And the king answered and said, \u201cIs this not the great Babylon which I have built as a royal palace by the strength of my own power, and for the glory of my own majesty?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:31",
"text": "While the words were still in the mouth of the king, a voice from heaven came, saying, \u2018To you, King Nebuchadnezzar, it is declared that the kingdom has departed from you, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:32",
"text": "and you will be driven away from \u231ehuman society\u231f and your dwelling will be with the animals of the field and they will cause you to graze the grass like oxen, and seven times will pass over you, until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind and that he gives it to whom he wills.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:33",
"text": "\u231eImmediately\u231f the word was fulfilled \u231econcerning\u231f Nebuchadnezzar, and he was expelled from \u231ehuman society\u231f and he ate grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until his hair was like the hair of an eagle and his nails grew like a bird\u2019s claws. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:34",
"text": " \u201cBut at the end of \u231ethat period\u231f, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and then my reason returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and \u231ethe one who lives forever\u231f I praised and I honored. \u201cFor his sovereignty is an everlasting sovereignty, and his kingdom continues from generation to generation. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:35",
"text": " And all the dwellers of the earth are regarded as nothing, and he does \u231eaccording to\u231f his desire in the host of heaven and among the dwellers of earth, and there is not one who can hold back his hand, or \u231eask him\u231f, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:36",
"text": " \u201c\u231eAt that time\u231f my reason returned to me, and also the glory of my kingdom and my majesty and splendor returned to me, and my advisers and my lords searched me out, and I was established over my kingdom and abundant greatness was added to me. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Daniel 4:37",
"text": "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the king of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice and that he is able to humble those who walk in pride.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:1",
"text": " Belshazzar the king made a great festival for a thousand of his lords, and \u231ein the presence of\u231f the thousand lords he was drinking wine. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:2",
"text": "\u231eWhen he tasted the wine\u231f, Belshazzar commanded that they bring the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his \u231epredecessor\u231f had taken from the temple that was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines may drink from them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:3",
"text": "Then they brought in the vessels of gold that they took from the temple, the house of God that was in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines drank from them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:4",
"text": "They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:5",
"text": " \u231eImmediately\u231f \u231ehuman fingers\u231f appeared and they wrote \u231eopposite\u231f the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king, and the king was watching the palm of the hand that was writing. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:6",
"text": "Then his face changed and his thoughts terrified him, and \u231ehis hip joints gave way\u231f and \u231ehis knees knocked together\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:7",
"text": "The king cried \u231ealoud\u231f to bring in the conjurers, the \u231eastrologers\u231f and the diviners; the king \u231espoke\u231f and said to the wise men of Babylon, \u201cAny man that can read this writing and can tell me its explanation will be clothed in purple and will have a necklace of gold hung around his neck and he will rule as third in authority in the kingdom.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:8",
"text": "Then all the wise men of the king came in, but they were not able to read the writing or to make known its explanation. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:9",
"text": "Then the king, Belshazzar, became greatly terrified, and \u231ehis facial features\u231f changed upon him, and his lords were perplexed. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:10",
"text": " Because of the words of the king and his lords, the queen came into \u231ethe banqueting hall\u231f and the queen \u231espoke up\u231f and said, \u201cO king, live \u231eforever\u231f, and let not your thoughts terrify you and do not let your facial expressions \u231egrow pale\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:11",
"text": "There is a man in your kingdom \u231ewho has the spirit of the holy gods in him\u231f. And in the days of your \u231epredecessor\u231f, enlightenment and insight and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods was found in him; and, O king, Nebuchadnezzar your \u231epredecessor\u231f appointed him as chief of the magicians, the conjurers, the \u231eastrologers\u231f, and the diviners. Your \u231epredecessor\u231f the king did this "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:12",
"text": "\u231ebecause\u231f there was found in him an excellent spirit and understanding and insight for interpreting dreams and explaining riddles and solving riddles; that is, in Daniel \u231ewhom the king named\u231f Belteshazzar. Now, let Daniel be called and he will tell the explanation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:13",
"text": " Then Daniel was brought in before the king, and the king \u231espoke\u231f and said to Daniel, \u201cYou are Daniel \u231ewho are one of the exiles\u231f of Judah whom my \u231epredecessor\u231f, the king, brought from Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:14",
"text": "And I have heard that a spirit of the gods is in you and enlightenment and insight and excellent wisdom was found in you. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:15",
"text": "And now the wise men and the conjurers were brought in before me so that they could read this writing in order to make its explanation known to me, but they were not able to disclose the explanation of the matter. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:16",
"text": "But I have heard concerning you that you are able \u231eto produce interpretations\u231f and to solve riddles; now if you are able to read the writing and to make known its explanation to me, you will be clothed in purple and a necklace of gold will be placed around your neck and you will rule as third in command in the kingdom.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:17",
"text": " Then Daniel answered and said before the king, \u201cLet your gifts be for yourself or your rewards give to another; nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and I will make known to him the explanation. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:18",
"text": "\u231eO king\u231f, the Most High God gave the kingdom and the greatness and the glory and the majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your \u231epredecessor\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:19",
"text": "And because of the greatness that he gave to him, all the peoples, the nations and languages trembled and feared before him; whomever he wanted he killed, and whomever he wanted he let live, and whomever he wanted he honored, and whomever he wanted he humbled. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:20",
"text": "But \u231ewhen\u231f his heart became arrogant and his spirit became hard so as to act proudly, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and the glory \u231ewas taken away from him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:21",
"text": "And he was driven away \u231efrom human society\u231f and his mind was made like the animals and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and \u231ehe was given\u231f grass like oxen to eat, and with the dew of heaven his body was bathed, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and \u231ewhoever\u231f he wants he sets over it. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:22",
"text": " \u201cBut you his \u231esuccessor\u231f, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart \u231eeven though\u231f you knew all this. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:23",
"text": "And now you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of his temple you have brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that do not see and do not hear and do not know, but the God \u231ewho holds your life in his hand\u231f and all of your ways \u231ecome from him\u231f, you have not honored. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:24",
"text": "So then the palm of the hand was sent out from his presence and this writing was inscribed. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:25",
"text": " \u201cNow this was the writing that was inscribed: \u2018Mene, Mene, Tekel and Parsin.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:26",
"text": " \u201cThis is the explanation of the matter: \u2018Mene\u2019\u2014God has numbered your kingdom and brought an end to it. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:27",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Tekel\u2019\u2014you have been weighed on scales and you have been found wanting. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:28",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018Peres\u2019\u2014your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:29",
"text": " Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple and placed a necklace of gold around his neck, and they made a proclamation concerning him that he would be the third ruler in authority in the kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:30",
"text": "\u231eThat same night\u231f Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Daniel 5:31",
"text": " And Darius the Mede received the kingdom \u231ewhen he was about sixty-two years old\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:1",
"text": " \u231eIt pleased Darius\u231f, and he set up one hundred and twenty satraps over the kingdom, that they were \u231ethroughout the whole kingdom\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:2",
"text": "and over them were three administrators, of whom Daniel was one, so that these satraps were giving account to them, and the king would not be suffering loss. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:3",
"text": "Then Daniel \u231ebegan distinguishing himself\u231f above the administrators and the satraps \u231ebecause\u231f an exceptional spirit was in him, and so the king planned to appoint him over the whole kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:4",
"text": "Then the other administrators and satraps \u231ebegan to seek\u231f to find a pretext against Daniel \u231ein connection with the kingdom\u231f, but they were not able to find any pretext and \u231ecorruption\u231f \u231ebecause\u231f he was trustworthy, and no negligence or \u231ecorruption\u231f \u231ecould be found in him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:5",
"text": "Then these men \u231esaid\u231f, \u201cWe will not find any pretext against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:6",
"text": " So the administrators and the satraps conspired \u231ewith respect to\u231f the king and so they said to him, \u201cDarius, O king, live \u231eforever\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:7",
"text": "All of the administrators of the kingdom, and the prefects, the satraps, the counselors and the governors took counsel and have agreed to establish an edict of the king and to enforce a decree that \u231ewhoever\u231f will seek a prayer from any god or human except from you for up to thirty days will be thrown into \u231ethe lion pit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:8",
"text": "Now, O king, establish the edict and you must sign the document so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians which cannot be revoked.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:9",
"text": " \u231eSo\u231f the king, Darius, signed the writing and the interdict. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:10",
"text": "Now \u231ewhen\u231f Daniel realized that the document was signed, he went to his house (\u231enow he had windows in his upper room that were open\u231f toward Jerusalem), and three times \u231edaily\u231f he knelt on his knees and prayed and gave praise before his God, \u231ejust as\u231f he had been doing \u231epreviously\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:11",
"text": "Then these men came as a group and they found Daniel praying and pleading for mercy before his God. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:12",
"text": "Then they approached \u231eand spoke with the king\u231f concerning the edict of the king, \u201c\u231eDid you not sign an edict\u231f that any person who would seek anything from any God or human within thirty days except from you, O king, would be thrown into \u231ethe lion pit\u231f?\u201d The king answered and said, \u201cThe matter as you have just stated is certain according to the law of the Medes and Persians which cannot be revoked.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:13",
"text": " Then \u231ethey responded\u231f and said before the king, \u201cDaniel, who is from \u231ethe exiles\u231f of Judah, \u231eis not paying any attention\u231f to you, O king, or to the decree that you have signed, \u231eand three times daily\u231f he says his prayer.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:14",
"text": "Then the king, when he heard that \u231ereport\u231f, he was extremely distressed over it; and \u231econcerning Daniel\u231f \u231ehe was determined\u231f to rescue him. And until the setting of the sun he was making every effort to deliver him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:15",
"text": "Then these men came as a group to the king and \u231esaid\u231f, \u201cRecall, O king, that with respect to the law of the Medes and Persians that \u231eany\u231f decree or edict that the king establishes cannot be changed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:16",
"text": " Then the king gave the command, and Daniel was brought in and they threw him into \u231ethe lion pit\u231f. \u231eThe king said\u231f to Daniel, \u201cYour God, whom you serve \u231efaithfully\u231f, may he rescue you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:17",
"text": "And a stone was brought and it was put on the entrance of the pit, and the king sealed it with his signet ring and with the signet rings of his lords, so that nothing would be changed concerning Daniel. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:18",
"text": "Then the king went to his palace and spent the night in fasting, and no food was brought in before him and his sleep fled from him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:19",
"text": " Then the king got up at daybreak, at first light, and he went \u231ein haste\u231f to \u231ethe lion pit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:20",
"text": "And \u231ewhen he came near\u231f to the pit, he cried out to Daniel with a distressed voice, and the king \u231espoke\u231f and said to Daniel, \u201cO Daniel, servant of the living God, your God whom you serve faithfully, was he able to rescue you from the lions?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:21",
"text": "Then Daniel spoke to the king, \u201cO king, live \u231eforever\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:22",
"text": "My God sent his angel and he shut the mouth of the lions and they did not hurt me, \u231ebecause\u231f before him \u231eI was found\u231f blameless, and also before you, O king, I have not done any wrong.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:23",
"text": " Then the king was exceedingly glad over it and commanded that Daniel be lifted up from the pit; and there was not any wound found on him, because he had trusted in his God. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:24",
"text": "The king then commanded, and these men were brought \u231ewho had accused Daniel\u231f, and they threw them and their children and their wives into \u231ethe lion pit\u231f, and they had not reached the floor of the pit \u231ebefore\u231f the lions had overpowered them and they had crushed all of their bones. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:25",
"text": " Then Darius the king wrote to all the people, the nations, and the languages living in the whole earth, \u201cMay your prosperity become great! "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:26",
"text": "\u231eI make a decree\u231f that in all the dominion of my kingdom people will be trembling and fearing before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God and endures \u231eforever\u231f and his kingdom is one that will not be destroyed and his \u231edominion has no end\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:27",
"text": "He is rescuing, delivering, and working signs and wonders in the heavens and on earth, for he has rescued Daniel from the \u231epower\u231f of the lions.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Daniel 6:28",
"text": "So this Daniel prospered during the kingdom of Darius and during the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:1",
"text": " In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay on his bed; then he wrote down the dream and the \u231esummary\u231f of the words \u231eas follows\u231f: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:2",
"text": "Daniel \u231eexplained\u231f and said, \u201cI was looking in my vision in the night, and look, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:3",
"text": "And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, differing \u231efrom one another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:4",
"text": "The first was like a lion and \u231ehad\u231f the wings of an eagle. I was watching until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the earth and it was raised on its feet like a human, and a human heart was given to it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:5",
"text": "And look, another beast, a second one, looking like a bear. And it was raised up on one side and three tusks were in its mouth between its teeth, and so \u231eit was told\u231f, \u201cArise, eat much flesh!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:6",
"text": "After this I was watching and look, another beast like a leopard; \u231eit had four wings\u231f of a bird on its back, and \u231ethe beast had\u231f four heads, and dominion was given to it. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:7",
"text": "After this in the visions of the night I was looking and there was a fourth beast, terrifying and frightful and exceedingly strong, and \u231eit had\u231f \u231egreat iron teeth\u231f, and it was devouring and crushing, and it stamped the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the other beasts \u231ethat preceded it\u231f \u231eand it had ten horns\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:8",
"text": "I was considering the horns, and look, another little horn came up \u231eamong\u231f them, and three of the earlier horns \u231ewere rooted out\u231f from before it, and there were eyes like the eyes of a human in this horn and also a mouth that was speaking boastfully. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:9",
"text": " \u201c\u231eI continued watching\u231f until thrones were placed and an Ancient of Days sat; his clothing was like white snow and the hair of his head was like pure wool and his throne was a flame of fire and its wheels were burning fire. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:10",
"text": "A stream of fire issued forth and flowed \u231efrom his presence\u231f; thousands upon thousands served him and ten thousand upon ten thousand stood before him. The judge sat, and the books were opened. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:11",
"text": " \u201c\u231eI continued watching\u231f then because of the noise of the boastful words of the horn who was speaking; \u231eI continued watching\u231f until the beast was slain and its body was destroyed, and it was given over to burning with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:12",
"text": "And as for the remainder of the beasts, \u231etheir dominion was taken away\u231f, but a prolongation \u231eof their life\u231f was given to them for a season and a time. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:13",
"text": " \u201c\u231eI continued watching\u231f in the visions of the night, and look, with the clouds of heaven one like a son of man was coming, and he came to the Ancient of Days, and \u231ewas presented\u231f before him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:14",
"text": "And to him was given dominion and glory and kingship that all the peoples, the nations, and languages would serve him; his dominion is a dominion \u231ewithout end\u231f that will not cease, and his kingdom is one that will not be destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:15",
"text": " \u201c\u231eAs for me, Daniel\u231f, my spirit was troubled \u231ewithin me\u231f, and the visions of my head terrified me. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:16",
"text": "So I approached one of the attendants and I asked him about the truth concerning all this; and he told me that he would make known to me the explanation of the matter. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:17",
"text": "\u2018These great beasts which are four in number are four kings who will arise from the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:18",
"text": "But the holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and they will take possession of the kingdom forever, \u231eforever and ever\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:19",
"text": " \u201cThen I desired to make certain concerning the fourth beast that was different from \u231eall the others\u231f\u2014exceedingly terrifying, with its iron teeth and its claws of bronze; it devoured and crushed and stamped the remainder with its feet\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:20",
"text": "and concerning the horns that were on its head, and concerning the other horn that came up and \u231ebefore which three horns fell\u231f, and this horn \u231ehad eyes\u231f and a mouth speaking \u231eboastfully\u231f, and its appearance was larger than its companions. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:21",
"text": "\u231eI continued watching\u231f, and this horn made war with the holy ones and it prevailed over them, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:22",
"text": "until the Ancient of Days came and gave judgment to the holy ones of the Most High; and the time arrived and the holy ones took possession of the kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:23",
"text": " \u201cAnd he said, \u2018The fourth beast is the fourth kingdom that will be on the earth that will be different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth and it will trample it and it will crush it. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:24",
"text": "And as for the ten horns coming from it, from this kingdom ten kings will arise, and another will arise after them. And he will be different from the earlier ones, and he will subdue three kings. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:25",
"text": "And he will speak words against the Most High, and he will wear out the holy ones of the Most High, and he will attempt to change times and law, and they will be given into his hand for a time and two times and half a time. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:26",
"text": "Then the court will sit, and his dominion will be removed, to be eradicated and to be destroyed \u231etotally\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:27",
"text": "And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the nation of the holy ones of the Most High; his kingdom \u231eis an everlasting kingdom\u231f, and all the dominions will serve and obey him.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Daniel 7:28",
"text": " \u231eThis is the end of the account\u231f. \u231eAs for me, Daniel\u231f\u2014my thoughts terrified me greatly and my face changed over me, but I kept the matter in my heart.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:1",
"text": " In the third year of the kingdom of Belshazzar the king, a vision appeared \u231eto me, Daniel\u231f, after the one that appeared to me \u231epreviously\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:2",
"text": "And I saw in the vision, \u231eand when I saw\u231f, I was in Susa, the citadel that was in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and \u231eI myself\u231f was at the stream of Ulai. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:3",
"text": "And I lifted up my eyes and I saw, and look! A ram standing \u231ebefore\u231f the stream, and \u231eit had\u231f two horns, and the horns were long, but the one was longer than the second, and the longer one came up \u231eafter the other one\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:4",
"text": "I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward, and \u231enone of the beasts stood before it\u231f, and there was no rescuing from \u231eits power\u231f, and it did \u231ewhat it wanted\u231f and it became strong. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:5",
"text": " And I was considering this, and look, a he-goat coming from the west across the face of the whole earth, and it was not touching the ground; and the he-goat had \u231ea conspicuous horn\u231f between its eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:6",
"text": "Then it came toward the ram \u231ethat had the two horns\u231f that I saw standing \u231ebefore\u231f the stream, and it ran at it with the rage of its power. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:7",
"text": "And I saw it approaching the ram and it was furious at it, and it struck the ram, and it broke its two horns, and \u231ethere was not strength in the ram to stand before him\u231f, and he threw it down to the ground and trampled it, \u231eand there was no one who could rescue the ram\u231f from its power. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:8",
"text": "And the he-goat grew \u231eexceedingly great\u231f, and \u231eat the height of its power\u231f the great horn was broken, and four conspicuous horns came up in place of it toward the four winds of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:9",
"text": " \u231eAnd from one of them\u231f came forth a horn, \u231ea little one\u231f, and it grew exceedingly toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the beautiful land. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:10",
"text": "And it grew up to the host of heaven, and it threw down to the ground some of the host and some of the stars and trampled them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:11",
"text": "Even against the prince of the hosts it acted arrogantly and took away from him the regular burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:12",
"text": "And on account of transgression, the host was given over to the horn in addition to the regular burnt offering. And it cast down truth to the ground, and it \u231eacted\u231f, and it had success. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:13",
"text": " And I heard a certain holy one speaking, and a certain other holy one said to the specific one \u231ewho was speaking\u231f, \u201c\u231eFor how long\u231f is the vision concerning the regular burnt offering, and the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and the host to trampling?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:14",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cFor two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings, then the sanctuary will be restored.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:15",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f when I, Daniel, saw the vision, and I was seeking understanding, there was one standing before me with the appearance of a man. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:16",
"text": "And I heard the voice of a human at the Ulai, and he called and said, \u201cGabriel, make this man understand the vision.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:17",
"text": "And he came beside \u231ewhere I was standing\u231f, and \u231ewhen he came\u231f I became terrified and I fell prostrate on my face. And he said to me, \u201cUnderstand, son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:18",
"text": " And \u231ewhen he spoke\u231f with me I fell into a trance with my face to the ground, and he touched me and made me stand on by feet. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:19",
"text": "And he said, \u201cLook, I am making known to you what will happen in the period of wrath, for it refers to the appointed time of the end. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:20",
"text": " \u201cThe ram that you saw \u231ewho had two horns\u231f represents the kings of Media and Persia. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:21",
"text": " \u201cAnd the hairy he-goat is the \u231ekingdom\u231f of Greece, and the great horn that is between his eyes\u2014he is the first king. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:22",
"text": "And the horn that was broken, and then there arose four horns in place of it\u2014these are four kingdoms that will arise from his nation, but not with his power. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:23",
"text": "And at the end of their kingdom, when the transgressions are completed, a king will arise, fierce in countenance and skilled in riddles. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:24",
"text": "And his power will grow, but not by his own power, and he will cause fearful destruction, and he will succeed and \u231ehe will act\u231f, and he will destroy the mighty and the people of the holy ones. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:25",
"text": "And by his planning he will make a success of deceit by his hand, and in his \u231emind\u231f he will \u231eboast\u231f, and in their ease he will destroy many, and even against the prince of princes he will rise up, and he will be broken, but not by human hands. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:26",
"text": "And the vision of the evening and the morning that has been \u231edescribed\u231f, it is true; and you, seal up the vision, for \u231eit refers to many days to come\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Daniel 8:27",
"text": " And I, Daniel, was overcome, and I became ill for some days, and I \u231eperformed\u231f the business of the king, and I was dismayed over the vision and \u231eI did not understand it\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:1",
"text": " In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, from the offspring of the Medes, who became king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:2",
"text": "in the first year of his kingship I, Daniel, observed in the scrolls the number of the years that it was that were to be fulfilled according to the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet for the devastation of Jerusalem\u2014seventy years. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:3",
"text": " Then I turned my face to the Lord God to seek him by prayer and pleas for mercy, in fasting and in sackcloth and ashes. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:4",
"text": "And I prayed to Yahweh my God, and I made confession and I said, \u201cO Lord, the great and awesome God, keeping the covenant and loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:5",
"text": "we have sinned and we have done wrong and we acted wickedly and we rebelled and have been turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:6",
"text": "We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors and to all the people of the land. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:7",
"text": " \u201c\u231eRighteousness belongs to you, O Lord\u231f, and on us is open shame, just as it is this day to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, \u231ethose who are near and those who are far off\u231f in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of their infidelity which they displayed against you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:8",
"text": "Yahweh, on us is open shame, on our kings, on our princes, and on our ancestors, because we have sinned against you. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:9",
"text": "\u231eCompassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord, our God\u231f, for we have rebelled against him, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:10",
"text": "and we have not listened to the voice of Yahweh our God, by following his law \u231ewhich he placed before us\u231f by the hand of his servants the prophets. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:11",
"text": " \u201cAnd all Israel transgressed your law and turned aside so as not to listen to your voice, and so the curse and the oath which was written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:12",
"text": "And so he has carried out his words which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring upon us a great calamity which was not done under all of heaven as it was done in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:13",
"text": "Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all of this calamity has come upon us, and \u231ewe have not implored\u231f the face of Yahweh our God so as to turn from our iniquities and to attend closely to your faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:14",
"text": "So Yahweh has kept watch over the calamity, and now he has brought it upon us. Indeed, Yahweh our God is righteous concerning all his works that he has done, but we have not listened to his voice. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:15",
"text": " \u201cAnd now, Lord our God, who have brought your people out from the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and you have made for yourself a name until this day\u2014we have sinned, we have acted wickedly. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:16",
"text": "Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your rage turn away from your city Jerusalem, \u231eyour holy mountain\u231f, because through our sins and through the iniquities of our ancestors Jerusalem and your people have become an object of mockery among all of our neighbors. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:17",
"text": " \u201cAnd now, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy. Shine your face upon your desolate sanctuary \u231efor your sake, O Lord\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:18",
"text": "Incline your ear, my God, and listen; open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that is called by your name, for we are not presenting our pleas for mercy \u231ebefore you\u231f because of our righteousness, but rather because of your great compassion. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:19",
"text": "Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, pay heed and act! You must not delay \u231efor your sake\u231f, my God; because \u231eyour city and your people are called by your name\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:20",
"text": " Now I was still speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh my God, on behalf \u231eof the holy mountain of my God\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:21",
"text": "And I was still speaking in prayer, and the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision \u231epreviously\u231f, \u231ein my weariness touched me\u231f at the time of the evening offering. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:22",
"text": "And he instructed me and he spoke with me and he said, \u201cDaniel I have now come out to teach you understanding. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:23",
"text": "At the beginning of your pleas for mercy, a word went out, and now I have come to declare it, for you are highly esteemed, and so consider the word and understand the vision. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:24",
"text": " \u201cSeventy weeks is decreed for your people and \u231efor your holy city\u231f, to put an end to the transgression and to seal up sin and to make atonement for guilt and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint \u231ethe most holy place\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:25",
"text": "And you must know and you must understand that from the time of the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem until an anointed one\u2014a leader\u2014will be \u231eseven weeks and sixty-two weeks\u231f; it will be restored and will be built with streets and a moat, but \u231ein a time of oppression\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:26",
"text": " \u201cAnd after the sixty and two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and \u231ehe shall have nothing\u231f, and the people of the coming leader will destroy the city and the sanctuary, and its end will be with the flood and on to the end there shall be war; these desolations are determined. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Daniel 9:27",
"text": "And he will make a strong covenant with the many for one week, but in half of the week he will let cease sacrifice and offering \u231eand in its place\u231f a desolating abomination comes even until \u231ethe determined complete destruction\u231f is poured out on the desolator.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:1",
"text": " In the third year of Cyrus the king of the Persians, a word was revealed to Daniel, who was called by his name Belteshazzar, and the word was reliable and it concerned a great tribulation, and he understood the word and \u231ehe received understanding\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:2",
"text": " In those days, I, Daniel, I myself was in mourning \u231efor three whole weeks\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:3",
"text": "I had not eaten any choice food, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and \u231eI did not use any ointment\u231f \u231euntil the end of three whole weeks\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:4",
"text": "And then on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I myself was on the bank of the great river; that is, the Tigris. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:5",
"text": "And I lifted up my eyes and I saw, and there was a man, and he was dressed in linen, and his waist was girded with the gold of Uphaz. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:6",
"text": "Now his body was like turquoise, and his face was like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes were like torches of fire, and his arms and his legs were like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words was like the sound of a multitude. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:7",
"text": "And I saw, I, Daniel \u231ealone\u231f, the vision; and the people who were with me \u231edid not see\u231f the vision; nevertheless, a great trembling fell upon them and they fled in order to hide themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:8",
"text": "And I myself, Daniel, alone saw this great vision, and as a result \u231eno strength was left in me\u231f and \u231emy complexion grew deathly pale\u231f, and I did not retain any strength. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:9",
"text": "And I heard the sound of his words, and \u231ewhen I heard\u231f the sound of his words I myself began falling into a trance on my face, \u231ewith my face to the ground\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:10",
"text": " And look, a hand touched me and it roused me to my knees and the palms of my hands. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:11",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cDaniel, a man beloved, pay attention to the words that I am speaking to you and \u231estand upright where you are\u231f, for I have now been sent to you.\u201d And \u231ewhile he was speaking\u231f with me this word, I stood up trembling. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:12",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cYou must not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself \u231ebefore\u231f your God, your words were heard, and I myself have come because of your words. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:13",
"text": "But the prince of the kingdom of Persia stood \u231ebefore me\u231f for twenty-one days. And look, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to assist me, and I left him there beside the king of the Persians. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:14",
"text": "And I have come to instruct you about what will happen to your people \u231ein the future\u231f, for there is a further vision here \u231efor the future\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:15",
"text": " And while he was speaking with me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and I was speechless. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:16",
"text": "Then look, there was \u231eone in the form of a human\u231f; he touched my lips and I opened my mouth and I spoke and I said to the one standing \u231ebefore me\u231f, \u201cMy lord, because of the vision my anxieties fell upon me and I have not retained my strength. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:17",
"text": "So \u231ehow am I, a servant of my lord\u231f to speak with \u231eyou, my lord\u231f, and I \u231ejust now\u231f \u231ehave no strength in me\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:18",
"text": " And \u231ehe again touched\u231f me, \u231ethe one in the form of a human\u231f, and he strengthened me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:19",
"text": "And he said, \u201cYou must not fear, O beloved man. \u231ePeace be to you\u231f; be strong and be courageous!\u201d And \u231ewhen he spoke\u231f with me, I was strengthened and I said, \u201cLet my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:20",
"text": "Then he asked, \u201cDo you know why I have come to you? And now I return to fight against the prince of Persia and I myself am going, and look, the prince of Javan will come. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Daniel 10:21",
"text": "However, I will tell you \u231ewhat is inscribed\u231f in the book of truth, and there is not one who contends with me against these beings \u231eexcept\u231f Michael, your prince.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:1",
"text": " \u201cAnd I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, \u231eI stood\u231f as a support and as a protection for him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:2",
"text": " And now I will reveal the truth to you. Look! Still three kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth will get abundance and great wealth, even more than all of them, and \u231ewhen he becomes strong\u231f through his wealth, then he will stir up \u231eeveryone\u231f against the kingdom of Javan. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:3",
"text": "And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great dominion, and he will do \u231eas he pleases\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:4",
"text": "But \u231eas he rises in power\u231f, his kingdom will be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, and not according to his dominion by which he ruled, for his kingdom will be uprooted and be given \u231eto others besides them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:5",
"text": " \u201cThen the king of the south will grow strong and also \u231eone of his officials\u231f, and he will grow stronger \u231ethan him\u231f and he will rule \u231ea dominion greater than his dominion\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:6",
"text": "And at the end of some years they will make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make a peace treaty, but \u231eshe will not retain her position of power\u231f, and his offspring will not endure, and she will be given up, she and her attendants and her child supporting her, in those times. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:7",
"text": "And a branch from her roots will rise up in his place, and he will come against the army and he will enter the stronghold of the king of the north and he will take action against them and he will prevail. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:8",
"text": "And also their gods with their idols and with the \u231eprecious vessels\u231f, silver and gold he will take to Egypt into captivity, and for years \u231ehe will leave the king of the north alone\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:9",
"text": "And then he will come into the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will return to his land. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:10",
"text": " \u201cBut his sons will wage war and they will gather a multitude of great forces and \u231ehe will advance with great force\u231f, and he will overflow like a flood and he will pass through and he will return, and they will wage war up to his fortress. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:11",
"text": "And the king of the south will become furious, and he will go and he will battle against him, against the king of the north; and he will muster a great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:12",
"text": "When the multitude is carried off, his heart will be exalted and he will overthrow \u231etens of thousands\u231f, but he will not prevail. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:13",
"text": "And the king of the north will again raise a multitude, greater than the former, and \u231eat the end of some years\u231f he will surely come with a great army and with great supplies. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:14",
"text": " \u201cAnd in these times many will rise up against the king of the south, and \u231ethe violent ones of your people\u231f will lift themselves \u231eto fulfill\u231f the vision, but they will fall. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:15",
"text": "And the king of the north will come, and he will throw up siege ramps and capture a city of fortifications and the military forces of the south and \u231ehis choice troops\u231f will not stand, for there is no strength left to resist. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:16",
"text": "And the one coming to him will act \u231eaccording to\u231f his pleasure, and there is no one who \u231ewill stand\u231f \u231ebefore him\u231f, and he will stand in \u231ethe beautiful land\u231f and complete destruction will be in his power. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:17",
"text": "And he will set his face to come with the authority of his whole kingdom and will form an agreement; and he will \u231eact\u231f, and the daughter of women he will give to him to destroy it, but the ploy will not succeed \u231eand she will not support him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:18",
"text": "And he will turn his face to the coastlands, and he will capture many, but a commander will end his insults to him \u231eso that instead his insults will turn back upon him\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:19",
"text": "And he will turn back his face toward the strongholds of his land, but he will stumble and he will fall and will not be found. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:20",
"text": " \u201cThen in his place will arise one sending an official throughout the glory of his kingdom, and \u231ein a few days\u231f he will be broken, but not in anger and not in battle. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:21",
"text": "And in his place a despicable person will arise on whom they have not conferred the majesty of the kingdom, and he will come in \u231ewithout warning\u231f and he will seize the kingdom by deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:22",
"text": "And \u231ebefore him\u231f \u231emighty military forces\u231f will be utterly swept away, and they will be broken, and also the leader of the covenant. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:23",
"text": "And after an alliance is made with him, he will act deceitfully, and he will rise and he will become powerful with few people backing him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:24",
"text": "In a time of ease and in the rich parts of the province, he will come and he will do what \u231ehis predecessors\u231f did not do; he will distribute plunder and spoil and possessions to them, and he will devise his plans against fortifications, but only \u231efor a time\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:25",
"text": "And he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south and \u231ewith a much greater and stronger army\u231f; but he will not succeed, for they will devise plans against him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:26",
"text": "And those who eat of his royal rations will break him and his army will be overwhelmed, and many will fall, slain. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:27",
"text": "\u231eAnd two of the kings\u231f \u231ewill bend their hearts\u231f to evil. And at the \u231esame table\u231f they will speak lies, but what is discussed will not succeed, for still an end is coming at the appointed time. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:28",
"text": "Then he will return to his land with many possessions, but his heart will be set against \u231ethe holy covenant\u231f, and he will take action and he will return to his land. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:29",
"text": " \u201cAt the appointed time he will return and he will come into the south, but it will not be \u231eas it was before\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:30",
"text": "And the ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart, and he will turn back, and he will be enraged \u231eagainst the holy covenant\u231f, and he will take action, and he will turn back, and he will pay attention to those who forsake \u231ethe holy covenant\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:31",
"text": "And military forces from him \u231ewill occupy\u231f and will profane the \u231esanctuary stronghold\u231f, and they will abolish the regular burnt offering, and they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:32",
"text": " \u201cAnd those who violate the covenant he will seduce with flattery, but the persons who know their God will stand firm and will take action. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:33",
"text": "And those who have insight \u231ewill instruct\u231f the many, but they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder \u231efor some time\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:34",
"text": "And \u231ewhen they fall\u231f they will receive little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:35",
"text": "And even some of those \u231ewho have insight\u231f will fall in order for them to be refined by it, and to be purified and cleansed until the time of the end, for the appointed time is still to come. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:36",
"text": " \u201cThen the king will do \u231eas he pleases\u231f, and he will exalt himself and will consider himself above any god, and he will speak horrendous things \u231eagainst\u231f the God of gods, yet he will succeed until the period of anger is finished, for what is determined will be done. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:37",
"text": "He will not pay respect to the gods of his ancestors, or to the darling of women, and not to any god will he pay respect, for he will consider himself great over all gods. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:38",
"text": "But \u231einstead\u231f he will honor the god of fortresses, a god whom his ancestors did not know. He will honor him with gold, and with silver, and with precious stones and with costly gifts. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:39",
"text": "And he will deal with the \u231efortified strongholds\u231f with the help of \u231ea foreign god\u231f; and he will increase wealth for whoever will acknowledge him, and he will cause them to rule over the many, and he will distribute land for a price. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:40",
"text": " \u201cAnd at the time of the end the king of the south will attack him, and the king of the north will storm against him with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships, and he will advance against the countries and \u231ehe will sweep through like a flood\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:41",
"text": "And he will come \u231einto the beautiful land\u231f and many will fall victim, but these will escape from his power: Edom and Moab and the best part of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:42",
"text": "And he will stretch out his hand against countries and the land of Egypt \u231ewill not escape\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:43",
"text": "And he will rule over the treasures of gold and the silver and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Cushites will follow in his footsteps. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:44",
"text": "But reports will terrify him from the east and from the north, and he will go out with great fury to destroy and to exterminate many. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Daniel 11:45",
"text": "And then he will pitch the tents of his palace between the sea and \u231ethe beautiful holy mountain\u231f, and he will come to his end, and there is no one helping him.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:1",
"text": " \u201cNow at that time, Michael, the great prince, will arise, \u231ethe protector\u231f over the sons of your people, and it will be a time of distress that has not been since your people \u231ehave been\u231f a nation until that time. And at that time your people will escape, \u231eeveryone who is found\u231f written in the scroll. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:2",
"text": "And many from those sleeping \u231ein the dusty ground\u231f will awake, some to \u231eeverlasting life\u231f and some to disgrace and \u231eeverlasting contempt\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:3",
"text": "But the ones having insight will shine like the brightness of the expanse, and the ones providing justice for the many will be like the stars \u231eforever and ever\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:4",
"text": "But you, Daniel, keep the words secret and seal the scroll until the time of the end; many will run back and forth and knowledge will increase.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:5",
"text": " Then I looked, I myself, Daniel, and look, there were two others standing: \u231eone on this bank of the stream and one on the other\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:6",
"text": "Then he said to the man who was clothed in linen who was above the water of the stream, \u201c\u231eHow long until\u231f the end of the wonders?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:7",
"text": "And I heard the man who was clothed in linen who was above the water of the stream, and he raised his right hand and his left hand to heaven and he swore \u231eby the one who lives forever\u231f that an appointed time, appointed times, and half an appointed time would pass when the shattering of \u231ethe power of the holy people\u231f \u231ewould be completed\u231f; then all these things will be accomplished. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:8",
"text": " Now I myself heard, but I did not understand, and I said, \u201cMy lord, what will be the outcome of these things?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:9",
"text": "And he said, \u201cGo, Daniel, for the words are secret and are sealed up until the time of the end. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:10",
"text": "Many will be purified and will be cleansed and will be refined, but the wicked will act wickedly \u231eand none of the wicked will understand\u231f, but \u231ethose who have insight\u231f will understand. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:11",
"text": "And from the time the regular burnt offering is removed and the abomination that causes desolation \u231eis set up\u231f there will be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:12",
"text": "Happy is the one who is persevering, and attains to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Daniel 12:13",
"text": "But you, go on to the end and rest, and you will arise for your allotted inheritance at the end of the days.\u201d "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Hosea",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1:1",
"text": " The word of Yahweh that came to Hosea son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1:2",
"text": " \u231eAt the beginning when Yahweh spoke\u231f through Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, \u201cGo, take for yourself a wife and children of whoredom, because the land commits great whoredom \u231eforsaking Yahweh\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1:3",
"text": " So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1:4",
"text": " And Yahweh said to him, \u201c\u231eName him\u231f Jezreel; because in a little while \u231eI will punish\u231f the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1:5",
"text": " \u231eOn that day\u231f I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1:6",
"text": " And she conceived again and bore a daughter, and he said to him, \u201c\u231eName her\u231f Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have pity on the house of Israel or \u231eforgive them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1:7",
"text": " But I will have pity on the house of Judah and I will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, war, horses, or horsemen. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1:8",
"text": " And when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1:9",
"text": " And he said, \u201c\u231eName him\u231f Lo-ammi, for you are not my people and I am not your God. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1:10",
"text": " The number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea that cannot be measured or counted; and in the place where it is said to them, \u201cYou are not my people,\u201d it will be said to them, \u201cChildren of the living God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Hosea 1:11",
"text": " Then the children of Judah and Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one head; and \u231ethey will take possession of\u231f the land, for great is the day of Jezreel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:1",
"text": " Say to your brother, \u201cAmmi,\u201d and to your sister, \u201cRuhamah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:2",
"text": " Plead with your mother, plead\u2014 because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her whoring \u231efrom before her\u231f, and her adultery from between her breasts. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:3",
"text": " Lest I strip her naked and expose her like the day when she was born; I will make her like the desert and turn her into parched land; I will kill her with thirst. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:4",
"text": " And I will not have pity on her children, because they are children of whoredom. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:5",
"text": " Because their mother was unfaithful; she who conceived them has acted shamefully, for she said: \u201cI will go after my lovers, the ones who give me my bread, my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:6",
"text": " Therefore, Look! I am going to hedge her path \u231ewith thorns\u231f, and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall against her, and she will not find her paths. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:7",
"text": " Then she will pursue \u231eher lovers\u231f, but she will not overtake them; she will seek them and not find them; and she will say, \u201cI will go and return to my first husband because it was better for me then than now.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:8",
"text": " But she did not know that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, and who gave her silver in abundance, and gold which they made into a Baal. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:9",
"text": " Therefore I will take again my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:10",
"text": " And now I will uncover her nakedness before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will rescue her from my hand. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:11",
"text": " And I will put an end to all her mirth, her festivals, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals; "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:12",
"text": " and I will lay waste to her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, \u201cThey are my payment for prostitution, which my lovers gave to me.\u201d I will make them a forest, and the wild animals of the field will devour them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:13",
"text": " \u231eI will punish her\u231f for the days of the Baals, to whom she burns incense, and she decked herself with her ornamental ring and jewelry, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me \u2014a declaration of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:14",
"text": " Therefore, Look! I am going to allure her and bring her into the desert, and \u231eI will speak tenderly to her\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:15",
"text": " From there I will give her her vineyards, and the Valley of Achor as a doorway of hope. And there she will respond, as in the days of her youth, just as in the day of her coming out of the land of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:16",
"text": " \u231eAnd on that day\u231f\u2014 a declaration of Yahweh\u2014 you will call me, \u201cMy husband;\u201d you will no longer call me, \u201cMy Baal.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:17",
"text": " I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by their name. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:18",
"text": " I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the animals of the field, with the birds of the heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground; the bow, the sword, and the war I will abolish from the land, and I will let them lie down in safety. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:19",
"text": " And I will take you as my wife forever; I will take you as a wife for myself in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:20",
"text": " \u231eI will take you as my wife\u231f in faithfulness, and you will know Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:21",
"text": " On that day I will answer, \u231edeclares Yahweh\u231f, I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:22",
"text": " And the earth will answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they will answer Jezreel. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Hosea 2:23",
"text": " I will sow her for myself in the land; I will have pity on Lo-ruhama; I will say to Lo-ammi, \u201cYou are my people,\u201d and he himself will say, \u201cyou are my God.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Hosea 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Hosea 3:1",
"text": " And Yahweh said to me again, \u201cGo, love a woman \u231ewho has a lover\u231f and is committing adultery, just like the love of Yahweh for the children of Israel, but they are turning to other gods and love raisin cakes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Hosea 3:2",
"text": " So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barely and a measure of wine. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Hosea 3:3",
"text": " And I said to her, \u201c\u231eYou must remain as mine\u231f for many days, and you will not play the whore; \u231eyou will not belong\u231f to a man, and I will belong to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Hosea 3:4",
"text": " The children of Israel will remain for many days without a king and prince, without sacrifice and stone pillar, ephod and teraphim. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Hosea 3:5",
"text": " Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Yahweh their God and David their king. They will come in fear to Yahweh and to his goodness at the end of days. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:1",
"text": " Hear the word of Yahweh, O children of Israel, for Yahweh has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, there is no knowledge of God in the land. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:2",
"text": " Swearing and lying, murdering and stealing, and adultery break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:3",
"text": " Therefore the land mourns, and all those living in it languish with the animals of the field, and the birds of the heaven, and even the fish of the sea are being swept away. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:4",
"text": " Yet, let no one contend, and let no one accuse, for with you, O priest, is my contention. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:5",
"text": " You will stumble by day, and the priest also will stumble with you at night. And I will destroy your mother; "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:6",
"text": " My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from acting as a priest for me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:7",
"text": " When they became many, their sin increased against me; they changed their glory into shame. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:8",
"text": " \u231eThey feed on the sin of my people\u231f, \u231ethey are greedy\u231f for their iniquity. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:9",
"text": " And it will be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways, and I will requite them for their deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:10",
"text": " They will eat and not be satisfied; they will play the whore and not multiply, because they have forsaken Yahweh \u231eto devote themselves to "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:11",
"text": " whoredom\u231f. Wine and new wine \u231etake away the understanding\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:12",
"text": " My people, consult \u231etheir wooden idols\u231f, and their divining rod gives them oracles; because a spirit of whoredom led them astray, and they played the whore from under their God. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:13",
"text": " On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they make offerings, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and all your daughters-in-law commit adultery. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:14",
"text": " \u231eI will not punish your daughters\u231f when they play the whore, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; because they go aside with whores, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes, a people that does not understand comes to ruin. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:15",
"text": " Even though you, O Israel, are playing the whore, do not let Judah become guilty; do not enter Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven; and do not swear, \u201c\u231eAs Yahweh lives\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:16",
"text": " Indeed, like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; Now Yahweh will feed them, like a lamb in broad pasture. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:17",
"text": " Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:18",
"text": " When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than their glory. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Hosea 4:19",
"text": " A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they will be ashamed because of their altars. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:1",
"text": " Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! Because the judgment applies to you; because you have been a snare for Mizpah, and a net spread out on Tabor; "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:2",
"text": " they dug a deep pit in Shittim, but I am a punishment for all of them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:3",
"text": " I myself know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; because now you have played the whore, O Ephraim\u2014 Israel is defiled. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:4",
"text": " Their deeds do not permit them to return them to God. Because a spirit of whoredom is in their midst, they do not know Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:5",
"text": " The pride of Israel testifies \u231eagainst him\u231f, and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt, and Judah stumbles with them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:6",
"text": " With their flocks and herds they will go to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:7",
"text": " They have dealt faithlessly with Yahweh because they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:8",
"text": " Blow the \u231ehorn\u231f in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm in Beth-aven; look behind you, Benjamin. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:9",
"text": " Ephraim will be a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I will reveal what is true. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:10",
"text": " The princes of Judah have become like those who remove a landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like water. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:11",
"text": " Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:12",
"text": " But I am like a maggot to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:13",
"text": " And when Ephraim saw his illness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, he sent to the great king. But he was unable to cure you and heal your wound. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:14",
"text": " Because I will be like a lion to Ephraim and like a fierce strong lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear and I will go; I will carry off, and there is no one who delivers. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Hosea 5:15",
"text": " \u231eI will return again\u231f to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search me. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6:1",
"text": " Come, let us return to Yahweh; because it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us down and will bind us up. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6:2",
"text": " He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live in his presence. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6:3",
"text": " Let us know, let us press on to know Yahweh; his rising is sure like the dawn. He will come like the showers to us, like the spring rain that waters the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6:4",
"text": " What will I do with you, O Ephraim? What will I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early in the morning. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6:5",
"text": " Therefore, I have hewn them by the prophets; I have killed them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth like the light. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6:6",
"text": " Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6:7",
"text": " But like Adam, they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6:8",
"text": " Gilead is a city of evil, a cunning city because of blood. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6:9",
"text": " Like bandits lying in wait, so is a band of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem; indeed, they commit a monstrous crime. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6:10",
"text": " In the house of Israel I have seen something horrible; Ephraim\u2019s unfaithfulness is there. Israel is defiled. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Hosea 6:11",
"text": " For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore the fortunes of my people, "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:1",
"text": "when I would heal Israel, and the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria; because they deal in falsehood, the thief breaks in, and the bandit raids the outside. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:2",
"text": " \u231eBut they did not consider\u231f that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:3",
"text": " By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treacheries. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:4",
"text": " All of them commit adultery, like a burning oven whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire, and from kneading the dough until it is leavened. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:5",
"text": " On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:6",
"text": " Because they are kindled like an oven, their heart burns within them; all night their anger \u231esmolders\u231f, in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:7",
"text": " All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen; there is none who calls to me amongst them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:8",
"text": " Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim is a bread cake not turned over. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:9",
"text": " Foreigners devour his strength, and he does not know it; \u231emold\u231f is also sprinkled upon him, and he does not know it. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:10",
"text": " The pride of Israel \u231etestifies against him\u231f\u2014 they do not return to Yahweh their God; they do not seek him for all of this. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:11",
"text": " Ephraim was like a dove, silly, \u231ewithout sense\u231f; they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:12",
"text": " Just as they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to a report to their assembly. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:13",
"text": " Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I myself would redeem them, but they speak lies against me. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:14",
"text": " They do not cry out to me from their heart, but they wail on their beds; because of grain and new wine they lacerate themselves; they depart from me. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:15",
"text": " And I myself trained and strengthened their arms; but they plan evil against me. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Hosea 7:16",
"text": " They turn, not to the Most High, like a slack bow; their officials will fall by the sword because of the anger of their tongue. This is their scorn in the land of Egypt. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:1",
"text": " Put to your lips the trumpet like a vulture over the house of Yahweh, because they have \u231ebroken my covenant\u231f and rebelled against my law. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:2",
"text": " They cry out to me, \u201cMy God! We, Israel, know you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:3",
"text": " Israel has spurned the good; the enemy will pursue him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:4",
"text": " They appointed kings, but not through me; they made officials, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for themselves for their own \u231edestruction\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:5",
"text": " Your calf is rejected, O Samaria; my anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:6",
"text": " Because it is from Israel, an artisan made it, it is not a god; for the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:7",
"text": " Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain does not have heads; it will not yield flour. And if it would yield, strangers would devour it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:8",
"text": " Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations, like an object that no one desires. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:9",
"text": " For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone to itself; Ephraim has sold itself for lovers. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:10",
"text": " Even though they have sold themselves to the nations, now I will gather them. They will soon writhe from the burden of kings and princes. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:11",
"text": " When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sins, they became to him altars to sin on. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:12",
"text": " I write for him myriads of my instruction; they are regarded as a strange thing. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:13",
"text": " They offer sacrifices of my choice and they eat flesh; Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Hosea 8:14",
"text": " Israel has forgotten his maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send fire on his cities and it will devour her strongholds. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:1",
"text": " Do not rejoice, O Israel, do not exult like the nations! For you played the whore, departing from your God; you loved a harlot\u2019s wage on all the threshing floors of grain. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:2",
"text": " Threshing floor and wine vat will not feed them, and new wine will fail her. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:3",
"text": " They will not remain in the land of Yahweh. But Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat unclean food. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:4",
"text": " They will not pour drink offerings of wine to Yahweh, and their sacrifices will not please him. They are like mourners\u2019 bread for them; all those who eat it will be defiled. For their bread will be \u231efor their hunger\u231f; it will not come to the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:5",
"text": " What will you do on the day of the appointed time, and on the day of the festival of Yahweh? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:6",
"text": " For look! If they flee from the destruction, Egypt will gather them; Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their precious things of silver; thorns will be in their tents. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:7",
"text": " The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come; Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is acting like a madman. Because of the greatness of your sin, your hostility is great. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:8",
"text": " The prophet keeps watch over Ephraim for my God; the snare of a fowler is on all his ways, and hostility in the house of his God. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:9",
"text": " \u231eThey deeply corrupted themselves\u231f as in the days of Gibeah; he will remember their sin, he will punish their sins. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:10",
"text": " Like the grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like early ripened fruit on the fig tree in the first season, I saw your ancestors. They themselves came to Baal Peor, and they consecrated themselves to shame. And they became detestable things, like \u231ethe thing they love\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:11",
"text": " Ephraim\u2019s glory is like a bird; it will fly away\u2014 no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:12",
"text": " Even though they bring up their children, I will bereave them before maturity. Woe to them indeed, when I depart from them! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:13",
"text": " Ephraim, as I see it, is like a palm in a meadow; but Ephraim must bring out his children to the slayer. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:14",
"text": " Give them, O Yahweh\u2014 what will you give them? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:15",
"text": " Every evil of theirs began at Gilgal, so I began to hate them there; because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out from my house. I will love them no more; all their officials are rebels. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:16",
"text": " Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall not bear fruit. Even if they give birth, I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Hosea 9:17",
"text": " My God will reject them because they did not listen to him, and they will be wanderers among the nations. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:1",
"text": " Israel is a luxuriant vine; he yields fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he made numerous altars. The more his land prospered, the more he improved his stone pillars. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:2",
"text": " Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. He himself will break down their altars; he will destroy their stone pillars. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:3",
"text": " For now they will say, \u201cWe have no king; indeed, we did not fear Yahweh, and what can a king do for us?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:4",
"text": " They utter words of vain oaths when \u231emaking covenants\u231f, and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:5",
"text": " The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, his people will mourn for it, and his idolatrous priests will wail over it\u2014 over its glory because it has departed from it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:6",
"text": " It will also be brought to Assyria, as tribute to the great king. Ephraim will obtain disgrace and Israel will be ashamed from his advice. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:7",
"text": " Samaria will be destroyed; her king is like a chip on the surface of the water. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:8",
"text": " The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. Thorn and thistle will grow on their altars. They will say to the mountains, \u201cCover us,\u201d and to the hills, \u201cFall on us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:9",
"text": " From the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel; there \u231ethey have remained\u231f. Will not war in Gibeah overtake them against the children of evil? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:10",
"text": " In my desire I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them when they are punished for \u231etheir double iniquities\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:11",
"text": " Ephraim was a trained heifer, that loved to thresh grain, and I myself \u231espared\u231f the fairness of her neck; I will make Ephraim break the ground, Judah will plow, Jacob must till for himself. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:12",
"text": " Sow for yourselves righteousness; \u231ereap loyal love\u231f. Break up for yourself fallow ground; it is time to seek Yahweh so he will come and rain righteousness upon you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:13",
"text": " You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies, because you have trusted in your strength, in the multitude of your warriors. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:14",
"text": " The tumult of war will rise up against your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel; on the day of war mothers were dashed to pieces with their children. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Hosea 10:15",
"text": " So it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of the evil of your wickedness; at dawn, the king of Israel will be utterly destroyed. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:1",
"text": " When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:2",
"text": " When I called them, they went from my face. They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:3",
"text": " And I myself taught Ephraim to walk; I took them in my arms, but they did not know that I healed them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:4",
"text": " I drew them \u231ewith human ties\u231f, with the bands of love. I was to them like one who lifted up a yoke on their jaws, though I bent down to them and let them eat. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:5",
"text": " He will return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria will be his king, because they refused to return. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:6",
"text": " The sword rages in his cities; it consumes his false prophets and devours because of their plans. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:7",
"text": " My people are bent on backsliding from me. To the Most High they call, he does not raise them at all. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:8",
"text": " How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is disturbed within me; \u231eall\u231f my compassions are aroused. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:9",
"text": " \u231eI will not execute\u231f \u231emy fierce anger\u231f, I will not again destroy Ephraim; because I am God and not a mortal, the Holy One in your midst; and I will not come in wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:10",
"text": " They will go after Yahweh; he roars like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:11",
"text": " They will tremble like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria; and I will let them return to their homes\u2014 a declaration of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Hosea 11:12",
"text": " Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; and Judah is still wandering with God and is faithful to the Holy One. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:1",
"text": "Ephraim herds the wind and is pursuing the east wind all day long; he multiplies deception and violence and he \u231emakes a treaty with Assyria\u231f, and oil is brought to Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:2",
"text": " Yahweh has a quarrel with Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:3",
"text": " In the womb he deceived his brother, and in his manhood he struggled with God. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:4",
"text": " He struggled with the angel and prevailed; he pleaded for his mercy. He met him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:5",
"text": " Yahweh the God of hosts, Yahweh is his renowned name! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:6",
"text": " But you, you must return to your God; keep love and justice, and wait continually for your God. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:7",
"text": " The trader, in his hand are scales of deceit; he loves to oppress. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:8",
"text": " And Ephraim said, \u201cSurely, I am rich, I gained wealth for myself; in all my toil they have not found guilt in me that is sin. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:9",
"text": " But I am Yahweh your God since the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, like the days of the appointed festival. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:10",
"text": " I spoke to the prophets; I myself multiplied revelations and through the hand of the prophets I will destroy. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:11",
"text": " If in Gilead there is evil, surely they will come to nothing. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, also their altars will be like stone heaps on furrows of the field. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:12",
"text": " Jacob fled to the open field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he watched over sheep. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:13",
"text": " And by a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was watched over. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Hosea 12:14",
"text": " Ephraim has caused bitter provocation, and his Lord will \u231ehold him responsible for his crimes\u231f and pay back to him his insults. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:1",
"text": " When Ephraim spoke, there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:2",
"text": " And now they sin again, and they make for themselves a molten idol, idols from their silver metal according to their understanding, all of them the work of skilled craftsmen. To these they say, \u201cSacrifice!\u201d People are kissing bull calves. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:3",
"text": " Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, and like the dew of early morning going away, like chaff swirling from the threshing floor, or like smoke from a window. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:4",
"text": " I am Yahweh your God since the land of Egypt; you know no god except me, and no one saves besides me. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:5",
"text": " I fed you in the desert, in the land of drought. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:6",
"text": " When I fed them, they were satisfied; they were satisfied and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:7",
"text": " And I will be like a lion to them; I lie in wait beside the way, like a leopard. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:8",
"text": " I will attack them like a bear robbed of her offspring, and I will tear open the covering of their heart; there I will devour them like a lion, like an animal of the field would mutilate them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:9",
"text": " I will destroy you, O Israel; who will help you? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:10",
"text": " Where now is your king that he may save you? Where in all your cities are your judges, of whom you said, \u201cGive to me a king and rulers?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:11",
"text": " I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him in my wrath. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:12",
"text": " The sin of Ephraim is wrapped up; his sin is concealed. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:13",
"text": " The labor pains of childbirth come for him; he is an unwise son because at the proper time, he does not present himself \u231eat the mouth of the womb\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:14",
"text": " Should I redeem them from \u231ethe power\u231f of Sheol? Should I deliver them from death? Where are your plagues, O Death? Where is your destruction, O Sheol? Compassion is hidden from my eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:15",
"text": " Although he may flourish among reeds, the east wind will come, a wind of Yahweh rising from the desert; his fountain will dry up, his spring will be parched. It will plunder his treasury, every object of desire. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Hosea 13:16",
"text": " Samaria will be guilty, because she has rebelled against her God; they will fall by the sword, their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Hosea 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Hosea 14:1",
"text": " Return to Yahweh your God, O Israel, for you have stumbled because of your sin. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Hosea 14:2",
"text": " Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Say to him, \u201cTake away all guilt; accept good, and we will offer the fruit of our lips. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Hosea 14:3",
"text": " Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses, and we will say no more, \u201cOur God,\u201d to the work of our hands because in you the fatherless child finds mercy. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Hosea 14:4",
"text": " I will heal their disloyalty; I will love them freely because my anger has turned back from them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Hosea 14:5",
"text": " I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily plant, and he will strike his roots like the trees of Lebanon. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Hosea 14:6",
"text": " His new plant shoots will spread out; his splendor will be like the olive tree, and his scent like the trees of Lebanon. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Hosea 14:7",
"text": " \u231eThey will again dwell\u231f in my shadow; they will grow grain and they will blossom like the plant vine; his fame will be like the wine of Lebanon. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Hosea 14:8",
"text": " O Ephraim, \u231ewhat have I to do\u231f with idols? I myself have answered and looked after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress; your fruit comes from me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Hosea 14:9",
"text": " Who is wise that he can understand these things? Who is discerning that he knows them? The ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; but transgressors stumble in them. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Joel",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:1",
"text": "The word of Yahweh that came to Joel son of Pethuel. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:2",
"text": " Hear this, O elders, and give ear, all the inhabitants of the land. Has this happened in your days? Or the days of your ancestors? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:3",
"text": " Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the following generation. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:4",
"text": " What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten. And what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:5",
"text": " Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:6",
"text": " Because a nation has \u231einvaded\u231f my land, strong \u231eand beyond counting\u231f. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are those of a lioness. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:7",
"text": " It has made my vine a desolation, and my fig tree a completely splintered stump. It has stripped them bare and thrown them down; their branches have turned white. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:8",
"text": " Lament like a virgin girded in sackcloth for the husband of her youth. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:9",
"text": " The offering and libation are withheld from the house of Yahweh. The priests mourn, the ministers of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:10",
"text": " The field is destroyed; the earth mourns because the grain is destroyed, the new wine dries up, the olive oil languishes. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:11",
"text": " Be ashamed, farmers; Wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and over the barley, because the harvest of the field is ruined. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:12",
"text": " The vine withers and the fig tree droops. The pomegranate tree, and also the palm tree, the apple tree \u2014all the trees of the field\u2014are dried up. Indeed, joy is dried up among the sons of men. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:13",
"text": " Gird yourselves and lament, O priests! Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because offering and libation are withheld from the house of your God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:14",
"text": " Solemnize a fast! Call an assembly! Gather the elders, all of the inhabitants of the land in the house of Yahweh your God, and cry out to Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:15",
"text": " Ah! For the day! For the day of Yahweh is near. It will come like destruction from Shaddai. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:16",
"text": " Is not food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:17",
"text": " The seeds shrivel under their clods; the storehouses are desolate. The grain storage places are destroyed because grain has dried out. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:18",
"text": " How the beasts groan; the herds of cattle wander around because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep are in distress. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:19",
"text": " To you, O Yahweh, I cry out, because fire has devoured the pastures of the desert, and flames burned all the trees of the field. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Joel 1:20",
"text": " Also, the beasts of the field long for you, because the courses of water are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the desert. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:1",
"text": " Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound the alarm on \u231emy holy mountain\u231f! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh is coming \u2014it is indeed near. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:2",
"text": " A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again \u231efor generations to come\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:3",
"text": " \u231eBefore them\u231f a fire devours, and behind them a flame burns. Like the garden of Eden is the land \u231ebefore them\u231f, and after them it is like a desolate desert, and nothing can escape them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:4",
"text": " Like the appearance of horses is their appearance, and like horsemen they run; "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:5",
"text": " like the sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap about; like the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble; like a strong army arranged in rows for battle. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:6",
"text": " \u231eFrom before them\u231f nations writhe, all faces \u231eturn pale\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:7",
"text": " They run like mighty warriors, they scale the wall like men of war; each goes on its own way, and they do not swerve from their paths. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:8",
"text": " They do not jostle \u231eone another\u231f; each goes on its own trail; and through the falling weapons, they are not halted. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:9",
"text": " In the city they rush forth; on the walls they run. Into the houses they climb up; through the windows they enter like a thief. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:10",
"text": " \u231eBefore them\u231f the earth quakes; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars \u231ehave withheld\u231f their splendor "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:11",
"text": " And Yahweh \u231eutters\u231f his voice before his army, because his encampment is very large; strong is the one who carries out his decree, for great is the day of Yahweh and exceedingly fearful. Who can endure it? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:12",
"text": " \u201cAnd even now,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201creturn to me with all your heart, with fasting, and weeping, and wailing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:13",
"text": " Rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to Yahweh your God, because he is gracious and compassionate, \u231eslow to anger\u231f and great in loyal love, and relenting from harm. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:14",
"text": " Who knows whether he will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, an offering and a libation, for Yahweh your God? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:15",
"text": " Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly; "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:16",
"text": " gather the people, consecrate the assembly; assemble the elders, gather the children, even those who are breast-feeding; let the bridegroom come out from his private room, and the bride from her canopy. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:17",
"text": " Between the colonnade and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep. And let them say, \u201cTake pity, Yahweh, on your people. Do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the nations, \u2018Where is their God?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:18",
"text": " Then Yahweh became jealous for his land and took pity on his people. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:19",
"text": " And Yahweh answered and said to his people, \u201cLook at me, I am sending to you grain, new wine, and olive oil, and you will be satisfied by it. I will not give you over any more as a disgrace among the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:20",
"text": " \u231eThe northerners\u231f I will remove from you; I will drive them to a desert and desolate land, its front to the eastern sea, and its rear into the western sea; its stench and odor will rise up because he has done great things. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:21",
"text": " Do not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad, because Yahweh has done great things. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:22",
"text": " Do not fear, wild animals of the field, because the pastures of the desert have put forth new green shoots, because the tree has produced its fruit, the fig tree and the vine have yielded their produce. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:23",
"text": " Be glad, O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for your righteousness, and he has \u231epoured down\u231f for you rainwater, the autumn and spring rains, as before. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:24",
"text": " The threshing floors will be full with grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and olive oil. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:25",
"text": " I will repay you the years that the locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my mighty troops that I sent against you. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:26",
"text": " And you will eat abundantly and be satisfied, and praise the name of Yahweh your God, who has dealt with you \u231ewondrously\u231f. My people \u231ewill never be ashamed\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:27",
"text": " And you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no other. My people \u231ewill never be ashamed again\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:28",
"text": " And it will happen afterward thus: I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your elders will dream dreams; your young men shall see visions. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:29",
"text": " And also on the male slaves and on the female slaves, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:30",
"text": " And I will \u231eset\u231f wonders in the heavens, and on earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:31",
"text": "The sun will be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Joel 2:32",
"text": "And it will happen\u2014everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be rescued, because on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be \u231ethose who escape\u231f, as Yahweh said, and among the survivors whom Yahweh is calling. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:1",
"text": " For look! In those days, and in that time, when I will return the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:2",
"text": "I will gather all the nations, and I will bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will argue \u231ea case against them\u231f there concerning my people and my inheritance Israel whom they have scattered among the nations, and my land that they have divided. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:3",
"text": "For my people they cast lots, and \u231ethey traded\u231f the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank it. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:4",
"text": " What are you to me, O Tyre and O Sidon, and all of the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying to me what is deserved? If you are recompensing me, I will return swiftly and quickly what you deserve on your head! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:5",
"text": "For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:6",
"text": "And the sons of Judah and Jerusalem you sold to the sons of the Greeks, in order to remove them from their border. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:7",
"text": "Look! I am rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:8",
"text": "I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans and to a nation far away, for Yahweh has spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:9",
"text": " Proclaim this among the nations: \u231ePrepare for war\u231f! Stir up the mighty warriors; let them approach and come up; let all the men of war approach. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:10",
"text": " Beat your cutting tools of iron into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, \u2018I am a mighty warrior!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:11",
"text": " Hurry and come, all the nations, from all around, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your mighty warriors, O Yahweh! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:12",
"text": " Let the nations be roused and let them come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations from all around. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:13",
"text": " Send forth the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Go tread, for the winepress is full! The vats overflow, because their evil is great! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:14",
"text": " Commotion, commotion in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:15",
"text": " The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars \u231ehave withheld\u231f their splendor. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:16",
"text": " And Yahweh roars from Zion; from Jerusalem he utters his voice, and the heavens and the earth shake. But Yahweh is a refuge for his people, and a protection for the children of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:17",
"text": " And you will know that I, Yahweh your God, am dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be a place of holiness, and strangers will pass through it no longer. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:18",
"text": " And it will happen on that day; the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the channels of Judah will flow with water. A spring from the house of Yahweh will come forth, and it will water the valley of Acacia Trees. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:19",
"text": " Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom will become a \u231edesolate desert\u231f, because of the violence they did against the children of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:20",
"text": " But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem \u231efor all generations\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Joel 3:21",
"text": " \u231eI will cleanse their bloodguilt\u231f that \u231eI did not cleanse\u231f, for Yahweh is dwelling in Zion. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Amos",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:1",
"text": " The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds from Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash, two years \u231ebefore\u231f the earthquake. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:2",
"text": " And he said, \u201cYahweh roars from Zion and he utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds wither and the top of Carmel dries up.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:3",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh, \u201cFor three transgressions of Damascus and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:4",
"text": "So I will send fire against Hazael\u2019s house and it will consume the citadel fortresses of Ben-Hadad. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:5",
"text": "I will break the gate bars of Damascus and I will cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven and the one who takes hold of the scepter of Beth Eden, and the people of Aram will go into exile to Kir,\u201d says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:6",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cFor three transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they exiled a whole community, handing them over to Edom! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:7",
"text": "So I will send a fire against the wall of Gaza and it will devour its citadel fortresses. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:8",
"text": "And I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod and the one who takes hold of the scepter of Ashkelon. I will also turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,\u201d says the Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:9",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cFor three transgressions of Tyre and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole community to Edom and they did not remember the covenant of brotherhood! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:10",
"text": "So I will send a fire against the wall of Tyre and it will devour its citadel fortresses.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:11",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cFor three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword! He stifled his compassion and his anger tore them apart \u231econtinually\u231f, and he kept his rage forever. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:12",
"text": "So I will send a fire against Teman and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Bozrah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:13",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cFor three transgressions of Ammon and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:14",
"text": "So I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah and it will devour its citadel fortresses with a war cry on the day of battle, with a storm on the day of the violent tempest. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Amos 1:15",
"text": "And their king will go into exile, he and his commanders together,\u201d says Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:1",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u201cFor three transgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:2",
"text": "So I will send a fire against Moab and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Kerioth, and Moab will die amid uproar, amid war cries and amid the sound of a horn. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:3",
"text": "And I will cut off the ruler from its midst and I will kill all of its officials with him,\u201d says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:4",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cFor three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh and have not kept his rules, and their lies have led them astray, \u231eafter which their ancestors walked\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:5",
"text": "So I will send a fire against Judah and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:6",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh: \u201cFor three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:7",
"text": "Those who trample the heads of the powerless into the dust of the ground and turn aside the way of the destitute, a man and his father \u231ehave sexual relations with\u231f the same girl, so that they profane my holy name. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:8",
"text": "They stretch themselves out beside every altar on clothing taken in pledge and they drink wine, bought with fines imposed, in the house of their God. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:9",
"text": "Yet I destroyed the Amorite \u231ebefore them\u231f, \u231ewho was as tall as\u231f cedars and was as strong as the oaks. I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:10",
"text": "And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and I led you in the wilderness forty years to take possession of the land of the Amorite. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:11",
"text": "And I raised up some of your sons to be prophets and some of your young men to be Nazirites. Is it not so, O \u231epeople\u231f of Israel? This is the declaration of Yahweh! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:12",
"text": "But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets, saying, \u2018You shall not prophesy.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:13",
"text": "Look! I am going to press you down in your place just as a utility cart full of mature stalks of grain is pressed down. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:14",
"text": "Flight will perish from the swift and the strong person will not muster his strength and the warrior will not save his life. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:15",
"text": "And the one who takes hold of the bow will not stand and the one who is swift on his feet will not save himself, nor will the one who rides the horse save his life. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Amos 2:16",
"text": "Even those who are strong of heart among the mighty will flee away naked from the city on that day. This is the declaration of Yahweh!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:1",
"text": " Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole clan that I brought up from the land of Egypt: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:2",
"text": "\u201cYou only have I \u231echosen\u231f of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:3",
"text": "Do two walk together unless they have met? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:4",
"text": "Does a lion roar in the forest \u231ewhen he has no prey\u231f? Does a fierce, young lion cry out from his den unless he has caught something? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:5",
"text": "Does a bird fall into a trapping net on the earth when there is no snare for it? Does a trapping net spring up from the ground unless it has certainly caught something? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:6",
"text": "Or is a horn blown in a city and people are not afraid? Or does a disaster occur in the city and Yahweh has not done it? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:7",
"text": "Surely my Lord does not do anything unless he has revealed his secret to his servants the prophets. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:8",
"text": "A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? My Lord Yahweh has spoken, who will not prophesy? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:9",
"text": "Proclaim to the citadel fortresses in Ashdod and the citadel fortresses in the land of Egypt and say: \u201cGather on the mountains of Samaria and see the great panic in her midst and the oppression in her midst!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:10",
"text": "\u201cThey do not know how to do right,\u201d \u231edeclares Yahweh\u231f, \u201cthose who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:11",
"text": "Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh, \u201cA foe shall surround the land and bring down your strongholds, and your citadel fortresses shall be plundered.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:12",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh, \u201cJust as the shepherd rescues two legs or a piece of an ear from the mouth of the lion, so shall the \u231epeople\u231f of Israel who dwell in Samaria, with the corner of a couch and the damask of a bed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:13",
"text": "\u201cListen and testify against the house of Jacob,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f my Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:14",
"text": "\u201cFor on the day I punish Israel for \u231eits transgression\u231f, I will also punish the altars of Bethel and the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Amos 3:15",
"text": "I will ruin the winter house as well as the summer house, and the houses of ivory will perish and the great houses shall come to an end,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:1",
"text": " Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who live on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, \u201cBring something so that we may drink!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:2",
"text": "My Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that, \u201cBehold, the days are coming upon you \u231ewhen they\u231f will take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishing hooks. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:3",
"text": "And you shall leave through breaches in the wall, each one in front of her. You will be dragged off toward Harmon,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:4",
"text": "\u201cCome to Bethel and transgress; to Gilgal and \u231emultiply transgression\u231f! Bring your sacrifices in the morning and your tithes on the \u231ethird day\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:5",
"text": "And bring a thank offering of unleavened bread, and proclaim freewill offerings, pronounce them, for so you love to do, O \u231epeople\u231f of Israel,\u201d is the declaration of my Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:6",
"text": "\u201cAnd I in turn gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places. Yet you did not return to me,\u201d is the declaration of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:7",
"text": "\u201cAnd I also withheld the rain from you when there were still three months to the harvest. And I would send rain on one city and send no rain on another city. One tract of land will be rained on, and the tract of land \u231eon which it does not rain\u231f will dry up. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:8",
"text": "So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water and they were not satisfied, yet you did not return to me,\u201d is the declaration of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:9",
"text": "\u201cI struck you with blight and with mildew. Frequently the cutting locust devoured your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees, yet you did not return to me,\u201d is the declaration of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:10",
"text": "\u201cI sent among you a plague in the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with the captivity of your horses. And I made the stench of your camps go up into your nostrils, yet you did not return to me,\u201d is the declaration of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:11",
"text": "\u201cI overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a stick snatched from the fire, and yet you did not return to me,\u201d is the declaration of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:12",
"text": "\u201cTherefore, thus I will do to you, O Israel. Because I will do this to you, O Israel, prepare to meet your God! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Amos 4:13",
"text": "Yes, here is the one who forms the mountains, and the one who creates the wind, and the one who reveals to humans what his thoughts are, and the one who treads on the heights of the earth; Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:1",
"text": " Hear this word that I am going to intone over you as a lament, O house of Israel! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:2",
"text": "Virgin Israel has fallen and will not rise again. She is deserted on her land; there is no one to raise her up. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:3",
"text": "For thus says my Lord Yahweh, \u201cThe city that marches out with a thousand will only have a hundred left. And the one that marches out with a hundred will only have ten left for the house of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:4",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel, \u201cSeek me so that you may live.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:5",
"text": "But do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba, for Gilgal will certainly go into exile and Bethel will come to disaster.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:6",
"text": "Seek Yahweh so that you may live, so that he will not break out like a fire against the house of Joseph! And it will devour, \u231ewith none to quench\u231f it for Bethel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:7",
"text": "Ah, you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:8",
"text": "The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens day into night, the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:9",
"text": "The one who makes destruction flash upon the fierce, \u231eso that\u231f destruction comes upon the fortification. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:10",
"text": "They hate the one who reproves in the gate and they abhor the one who speaks honestly. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:11",
"text": "Therefore, because you trample on the poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:12",
"text": "For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous, you foes of the righteous, those who take a bribe, and \u231ethose who\u231f push aside the poor ones in the gate! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:13",
"text": "Therefore, whoever has insight will keep silent in that time, for it is a time of evil. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:14",
"text": "Seek good and not bad in order that you may live, and so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:15",
"text": "Hate evil and love good and establish justice in the gate; perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:16",
"text": "Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, \u201cIn all of the public squares there will be wailing, and in all of the streets they will say, \u2018Alas, alas, alas!\u2019 They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing, to those who are skilled in lamentation. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:17",
"text": "And in all of the vineyards there will be wailing, because I will pass in your midst,\u201d says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:18",
"text": " Alas, those who desire the day of Yahweh, why is this for you the day of Yahweh? It will be darkness and not light! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:19",
"text": "It will be as if a man fled from a lion and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall and a snake bit him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:20",
"text": "Is not the day of Yahweh darkness and not light, and pitch dark with no brightness in it? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:21",
"text": "\u201cI hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your assemblies. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:22",
"text": "Yes, even if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them, and I will not look at the fellowship offerings of your fattened animals. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:23",
"text": "Remove from me the noise of your songs, and I do not want to hear the melody of your harps! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:24",
"text": "But let justice roll on like the water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:25",
"text": "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:26",
"text": "And you will take up Sikkuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Amos 5:27",
"text": "And I will deport you beyond Damascus,\u201d says Yahweh\u2014the God of hosts is his name. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:1",
"text": " Alas for those being at ease in Zion, and those who feel secure on Mount Samaria, the notables of the best of the nations! The house of Israel resorts to them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:2",
"text": "Cross over to Calneh and see, and go from there to Hamath Rabbah and go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms, or is their territory greater than your territory? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:3",
"text": "You that put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of violence! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:4",
"text": "Alas for those who lie on beds of ivory and lounge on their couches, and those eating young rams from the sheep and goats, and bull-calves from the middle of the animal stall. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:5",
"text": "Alas for those who sing to the tune of the harp; like David they improvise on instruments of music. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:6",
"text": "Alas for those who drink from sprinkling bowls of wine and anoint themselves with the best of olive oils and are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:7",
"text": "Therefore, they shall now go into exile at the head of the exiles and the feast of lounging shall pass away. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:8",
"text": " My Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself, \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, the God of hosts: \u201cI abhor the pride of Jacob and I hate his citadel fortresses and I will deliver the city and its fullness!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:9",
"text": "And then if ten people remain in one house, they too will die. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:10",
"text": "And if one\u2019s relative, who burns the body, lifts it up and brings the body out of the house and he will say to someone in the innermost part of the house, \u201cAre there any more with you?\u201d and he will say, \u201cNone,\u201d then he will say, \u201cSilence,\u201d because we must not invoke the name of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:11",
"text": "Look, Yahweh is going to command and the great house will be destroyed to bits and the little house to pieces. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:12",
"text": "Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:13",
"text": "You who rejoice over Lo-Debar, who say, \u201cHave we not taken Karnaim for ourselves by our strength?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Amos 6:14",
"text": "Indeed, I am going to raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, the God of hosts. And they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath up to the wadi of the Arabah. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:1",
"text": " This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, he is going to form locusts at the beginning of the sprouting of the second crop, and look, after the mowings of the king. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:2",
"text": "And then when they finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, \u201cO Lord Yahweh, please forgive! How can Jacob stand, because he is small?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:3",
"text": "Yahweh relented concerning this. \u201cIt will not be,\u201d said Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:4",
"text": "This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, my Lord Yahweh was going to call for a legal case with fire, and it devoured the great deep and it ate up the plots of ground. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:5",
"text": "Then I said, \u201cO Lord Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob stand, because he is small?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:6",
"text": "Yahweh also relented concerning this. \u201cThis also will not be,\u201d said my Lord Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:7",
"text": "This is what he showed me: Behold, my Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plummet, and a plummet was in his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:8",
"text": "And Yahweh said to me, \u201cWhat do you see?\u201d And I said, \u201cA plummet.\u201d And my Lord said, \u201cLook, I am going to set a plummet in the midst of my people, Israel. I will not pass them by again. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:9",
"text": "The high places of Isaac shall become desolate and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste. And I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:10",
"text": " Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam the king of Israel, saying, \u201cAmos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to endure all of his words. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:11",
"text": "For this Amos has said, \u2018Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly go into exile away from his land.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:12",
"text": "And Amaziah said to Amos, \u201cO seer, go, flee to the land of Judah and earn food there and prophesy there!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:13",
"text": "But do not prophesy again at Bethel, because this is a sanctuary of a king and this is a temple of a kingdom.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:14",
"text": "And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, \u201cI am not a prophet and I am not a son of a prophet, but I am a herdsman and I am one taking care of sycamore trees. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:15",
"text": "And Yahweh took me from following behind the sheep and goats and Yahweh said to me, \u201cGo, prophesy to my people Israel! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:16",
"text": "And so then, hear the word of Yahweh! You are saying, \u2018You must not prophesy against Israel and you must not preach against the house of Isaac!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Amos 7:17",
"text": "Therefore, thus says Yahweh, \u2018Your wife will become a prostitute in the city and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword and your land will be divided with a line, and you will die in an unclean land and Israel will surely go into exile from this land.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:1",
"text": " My Lord Yahweh showed me this, and there was a basket of summer fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:2",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWhat do you see, Amos?\u201d And I said, \u201cA basket of summer fruit.\u201d And Yahweh said to me, \u201cThe end has come upon my people Israel. I will not pass by them again!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:3",
"text": "\u201cAnd the songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f my Lord Yahweh. \u201cThe corpses are numerous; he throws them in every place. Be quiet!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:4",
"text": "Hear this, those who trample on the poor and who annihilate the afflicted of the land, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:5",
"text": "saying, \u201cWhen will the new moon be over, so that we can sell grain? And the Sabbath, so that we can open the grain bins, that we can make the ephah small and make the shekel large, and can practice deceit with a set of scales of deceit? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:6",
"text": "\u231eThat we can\u231f buy the powerless with silver and the poor for the sake of a pair of sandals, and we can sell the waste of the grain?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:7",
"text": "Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, \u201cSurely I will never forget any of their deeds! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:8",
"text": "On account of this, will not the land tremble and will not every living thing in it mourn? And all of it will rise like the Nile and it will be tossed about and subside like the Nile of Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:9",
"text": "And then in that day,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f my Lord Yahweh, \u201cI will make the sun go down at noon and I will darken the land on a day of light. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:10",
"text": "And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into lament, and I will put sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:11",
"text": "Look, the days are coming,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f my Lord Yahweh, \u201cwhen I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread and not a thirst for water, but \u231eof hearing\u231f the words of Yahweh! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:12",
"text": "And they will wander from sea to sea and from the north and to the east. They will roam about to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will not find it! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:13",
"text": "In that day the beautiful young women and the young men will faint because of thirst. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Amos 8:14",
"text": "These are those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, \u2018By the life of your gods, O Dan,\u2019 and \u2018By the life of the way of Beersheba,\u2019 they will fall and they will not rise again.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:1",
"text": " I saw my Lord standing by the altar and he said, \u201cStrike the capitals so that the thresholds will shake, and shatter them on the head of all of them, and I will kill the rest of them with the sword. A fugitive belonging to them will not run away, and a survivor belonging to them will not escape. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:2",
"text": "If they dig into Sheol, from there my hand will take them, and even if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:3",
"text": "And even if they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search and will take them, and even if they hide from before my eyes at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the sea serpent and it will bite them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:4",
"text": "And even if they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword and it will kill them, and I will fix my eyes on them for harm and not for good.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:5",
"text": "And thus will do the Lord Yahweh of hosts, who touches the earth and it melts, and all of those living in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile and it sinks down like the Nile of Egypt, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:6",
"text": "who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and lays the foundation of his vault on the earth, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them on the surface of the earth\u2014Yahweh is his name. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:7",
"text": "\u201cAre you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cDid I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor and \u231ethe Arameans\u231f from Kir? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:8",
"text": "Look, the eyes of my Lord Yahweh are on the kingdom of sin, and I will destroy it from the surface of the earth. However, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:9",
"text": "\u201cYes, look, I am going to command and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations like one who shakes with a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:10",
"text": "All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, \u2018Evil will not overtake or confront us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:11",
"text": " On that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen, and I will repair its breaches and will raise up its ruins and will build it like the days of old. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:12",
"text": "Thus they may take possession of the remnant of Edom and all the nations \u231ewho are called by my name\u231f,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, who does this. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:13",
"text": "\u201cLook, days are coming,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cwhen the one who plows will overtake the one who reaps, the one who treads grapes will catch up with the one who sows the seed. And the mountains will drip sweet wine and all of the hills will flow with it. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:14",
"text": "And I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they will rebuild the desolated cities and will inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards and will drink their wine, and they will make gardens and will eat their fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Amos 9:15",
"text": "And I will plant them on their land and they will not be uprooted again from their land that I have given to them,\u201d says Yahweh your God. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Obadiah",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:1",
"text": "The vision of Obadiah. Thus says my Lord Yahweh concerning Edom: We have heard a report from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: \u201cRise up and let us rise against it for battle.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:2",
"text": "\u201cLook, I will make you insignificant among the nations. You will be utterly despised! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:3",
"text": "The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of a rock, the heights of its dwelling, you who say in your heart: \u2018Who can bring me down to the ground?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:4",
"text": "Even if you soar like the eagle, even if your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh: "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:5",
"text": "\u201cIf thieves came to you, if plunderers of the night\u2014How you have been destroyed!\u2014would they not steal \u231ewhat they wanted\u231f? If grape gatherers came, would they not leave gleanings? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:6",
"text": "How Esau has been pillaged; his treasures have been ransacked! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:7",
"text": "All of your \u231eallies\u231f have driven you up to the boundary; your \u231econfederates\u231f have deceived you and have prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread have set an ambush for you, there is no understanding of it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:8",
"text": "On that day,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cwill I not destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the mountain of Esau? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:9",
"text": "And your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that \u231eeveryone\u231f from the mountain of Esau will be cut off because of the slaughter! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:10",
"text": " \u201cBecause of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you and you will be cut off forever. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:11",
"text": "On \u231ethe day you stood nearby\u231f, \u231eon the day strangers took\u231f his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you were also like one of them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:12",
"text": "But you should not have gloated over your brother\u2019s day, on the day of his misfortune, and you should not have rejoiced over the \u231epeople\u231f of Judah on the day of their perishing, and you should not have opened your mouth wide on the day of distress. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:13",
"text": "You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. You also should not have gloated over his misery on the day of his disaster, and you should not have stretched out your hands on the day of his disaster. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:14",
"text": "And you should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives and you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:15",
"text": " \u201cFor the day of Yahweh is near against all the nations! Just as you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return on your own head. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:16",
"text": "For just as you have drunk on \u231emy holy mountain\u231f, all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and they will slurp, and they will be as if they had never been. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:17",
"text": "But on Mount Zion there will be an escape, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will take possession of their dispossessors. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:18",
"text": "And the house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; and they will set them on fire and will consume them. And there will not be a survivor for the house of Esau,\u201d for Yahweh has spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:19",
"text": " Those of the Negev will take possession of the mountain of Esau, and those of the Shephelah will possess the land of the Philistines, and they shall take possession of the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, and Benjamin will take possession of Gilead. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:20",
"text": "And the exiles of this army of the people of Israel will possess Canaan up to Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will take possession of the cities of the Negev. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Obadiah 1:21",
"text": "And those who have been saved will go up on Mount Zion to rule the mountain of Esau. And the kingdom \u231ewill belong to\u231f Yahweh. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Jonah",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:2",
"text": "\u201cGet up! Go to the great city Nineveh and cry out against her, because their evil has come up \u231ebefore me\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:3",
"text": "But Jonah set out to flee toward Tarshish from \u231ethe presence of\u231f Yahweh. And he went down to Joppa and found a merchant ship going to Tarshish, and paid her fare, and went on board her to go with them toward Tarshish from \u231ethe presence of\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:4",
"text": " And Yahweh hurled a great wind upon the sea, and it was a great storm on the sea, and the merchant ship \u231ewas in danger of breaking up\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:5",
"text": "And the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they threw the \u231econtents\u231f that were in the merchant ship into the sea to lighten it for them. And meanwhile Jonah went down into the hold of the vessel and lay down and fell asleep. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:6",
"text": "And the captain of the ship approached him and said to him, \u201cWhy are you \u231esound asleep\u231f? Get up! Call on your god! Perhaps your god will take notice of us and we won\u2019t perish!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:7",
"text": "And they said \u231eto one another\u231f, \u201cCome, let us cast lots so that we may know on whose account this disaster has come on us!\u201d And they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:8",
"text": "So they said to him, \u201cPlease tell us whoever is responsible that this disaster has come upon us! What is your occupation? And from where do you come? What is your country? And from which people are you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:9",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cI am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:10",
"text": "Then the men \u231ewere greatly afraid\u231f, and they said to him, \u201cWhat is this you have done?\u201d because they knew that he was fleeing \u231efrom the presence of\u231f Yahweh (because he had told them). "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:11",
"text": "So they said to him, \u201cWhat shall we do to you so that the sea may quiet down for us?\u201d because the sea \u231ewas growing more and more tempestuous\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:12",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cPick me up and hurl me into the sea so that the sea may quiet down for you, because I know that on account of me this great storm has come upon you all.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:13",
"text": "But the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to the dry land, and they could not do so because the sea \u231ewas growing more and more tempestuous\u231f against them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:14",
"text": "So they cried out to Yahweh, and they said, \u201cO Yahweh! Please do not let us perish because of this man\u2019s life, and \u231edo not make us guilty of innocent blood\u231f, because you, O Yahweh, did what you wanted.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:15",
"text": "And they picked Jonah up and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:16",
"text": "So the men feared Yahweh \u231egreatly\u231f, and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh and \u231emade\u231f vows. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Jonah 1:17",
"text": " And Yahweh provided a large fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jonah 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jonah 2:1",
"text": "And Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the belly of the fish "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jonah 2:2",
"text": "and said, \u201cI called \u231efrom my distress\u231f to Yahweh, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried for help\u2014 you heard my voice. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jonah 2:3",
"text": " And you threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the sea currents surrounded me; all your breakers and your surging waves passed over me. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jonah 2:4",
"text": " And I said, \u2018I am banished from your sight; how \u231ewill I continue to look\u231f \u231eon your holy temple\u231f?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jonah 2:5",
"text": " The waters encompassed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jonah 2:6",
"text": " I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the Underworld\u2014its bars were around me forever. But you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jonah 2:7",
"text": " When my life was ebbing away from me, I remembered Yahweh, and my prayer came to you, \u231eto your holy temple\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jonah 2:8",
"text": " Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jonah 2:9",
"text": " But I, with a voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you; I will fulfill what I have vowed. Deliverance belongs to Yahweh!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Jonah 2:10",
"text": " And Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out on the dry land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jonah 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jonah 3:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second time, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jonah 3:2",
"text": "\u201cGet up! Go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I am telling you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jonah 3:3",
"text": "So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was \u231ean extraordinarily great city\u231f\u2014a journey of three days across. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jonah 3:4",
"text": "And Jonah began to go into the city a journey of one day, and he cried out and said, \u201cForty more days and Nineveh will be demolished!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jonah 3:5",
"text": "And the people of Nineveh believed in God, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth\u2014from the greatest of them \u231eto the least important\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jonah 3:6",
"text": " And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne and removed his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in the ashes. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jonah 3:7",
"text": "And he had a proclamation made, and said, \u201cIn Nineveh, by a decree of the king and his nobles: \u201cNo human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything! They must not eat, and they must not drink water! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jonah 3:8",
"text": "And the human beings and the animals must be covered with sackcloth! And they must call forcefully to God, and each must turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jonah 3:9",
"text": "Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn \u231efrom his blazing anger\u231f \u231eso that\u231f we will not perish.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Jonah 3:10",
"text": " And God saw their deeds\u2014that they turned from their evil ways\u2014and God changed his mind about the evil that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4:1",
"text": " And this \u231ewas greatly displeasing\u231f to Jonah, and \u231ehe became furious\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4:2",
"text": "And he prayed to Yahweh and said, \u201cO Yahweh, was this not \u231ewhat I said\u231f while I was in my homeland? Therefore \u231eI originally fled\u231f to Tarshish, because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger \u231eand having great steadfast love\u231f, and one who relents concerning calamity. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4:3",
"text": "And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because for me death is better than life!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4:4",
"text": "And Yahweh said, \u201c\u231eIs it right for you to be angry\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4:5",
"text": " And Jonah went out from the city and sat down east of the city, and he made for himself a shelter there. And he sat under it in the shade, \u231ewaiting to see\u231f what would happen with the city. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4:6",
"text": "And Yahweh God appointed a plant, and he made it grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. And Jonah \u231ewas very glad\u231f about the plant. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4:7",
"text": "So God appointed a worm \u231eat daybreak\u231f the next day, and it attacked the plant, and it withered. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4:8",
"text": "\u231eAnd when the sun rose\u231f, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah\u2019s head and he grew faint. \u231eAnd he asked that he could die\u231f and said, \u201cMy death is better than my life!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4:9",
"text": "So God said to Jonah, \u201c\u231eIs it right for you to be angry\u231f about the plant?\u201d And he said, \u201c\u231eIt is right for me to be angry enough to die\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4:10",
"text": " But Yahweh said, \u201cYou are troubled about the plant, for which you did not labor nor cause it to grow. \u231eIt grew up in a night and it perished in a night\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Jonah 4:11",
"text": "And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, the great city, \u231ein which there are\u231f more \u231ethan one hundred and twenty thousand\u231f people who do not know right from left, plus many animals?\u201d "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Micah",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:1",
"text": " The word of Yahweh that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah, that he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:2",
"text": " Hear, all you peoples; give heed, O earth and its fullness. And let the Lord Yahweh be against you as a witness, the Lord from \u231ehis holy temple\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:3",
"text": " For behold, Yahweh is coming out from his place, and he will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:4",
"text": " The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:5",
"text": " All this is for the rebellion of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:6",
"text": " So I will make Samaria as a heap of rubble in the field, a place for planting a vineyard. And I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:7",
"text": " Then all her idols will be broken in pieces, and all her prostitution wages will be burned in the fire, and all her idols I will make a desolation, For from the wage of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the wage of a prostitute they will return. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:8",
"text": " On account of this I will lament and wail. I will go about barefoot and naked. I will make a lamentation like the jackals, and a mourning ceremony like the \u231eostriches\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:9",
"text": " For her wounds are incurable, because it has come to Judah. It has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:10",
"text": " Do not tell it in Gath; you must not weep at all. In Beth-le-Aphrah roll yourself in dust. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:11",
"text": " Pass on, you inhabitants of Shaphir, in naked shame. The inhabitants of Zaanan do not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ha-Ezel will take its protection from you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:12",
"text": " For the inhabitants of Maroth writhed for good, because disaster has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:13",
"text": " Harness the chariot to the team of horses, O inhabitants of Lachish; it is the beginning of sin for the daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:14",
"text": " Therefore you will give parting gifts to Moresheth-Gath; the houses of Achzib will be a deception to the kings of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:15",
"text": " I will again bring the conqueror upon you, O inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel will come to Adullam. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Micah 1:16",
"text": " Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair for the children of your pleasure. Expand your baldness as the eagle, for they will go into exile away from you. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:1",
"text": " Woe to those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:2",
"text": " They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and they take them away. They oppress a man and his house; a man and his inheritance. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:3",
"text": " Therefore, thus says Yahweh: Look! I am planning disaster against this family from which you will not be able to remove your necks. You will not walk proudly, for it is a time of disaster. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:4",
"text": " In that day they will raise a proverb against you, and will wail a bitter wailing, saying, \u201cWe are utterly ruined; he exchanges the portion of my people. How he removes it from me; he apportions our field to an apostate.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:5",
"text": " Therefore you will have no one casting a line by lot in the assembly of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:6",
"text": " \u201cDo not preach!\u201d they are preaching. They should not preach to these; disgrace will not overtake us. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:7",
"text": " Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the patience of Yahweh shortened? Are these his deeds? Are my words not pleasing to him who walks upright? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:8",
"text": " But \u231erecently\u231f my people have risen up as an enemy; from before the cloak you strip off the robe from those passing by in confidence, returning from war. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:9",
"text": " You have driven out the women of my people from the houses of their pleasure. From their children you have taken away my glory forever. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:10",
"text": " Arise and go, for this is no resting place, on account of uncleanness that destroys with painful destruction. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:11",
"text": " If a man walks about in a spirit of deception and lies, saying \u201cI will preach to you of wine and strong drink,\u201d then he would be a preacher for this people! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:12",
"text": " I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely gather together the remainder of Israel. I will set them like sheep of Bozrah. Like a herd in the midst of their pasture they will be in tumult from people. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Micah 2:13",
"text": " The one who breaks out before them goes up; they break through and pass the gate, going out through it. Their king passes before them, Yahweh at their head. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:1",
"text": " And I said, \u201cListen, O heads of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice? "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:2",
"text": " Those of you who are haters of good and lovers of evil, who tear their skin from them and their flesh from their bones, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:3",
"text": " and who eat the flesh of my people, and strip their skin from them, and break their bones, and chop them like meat in the pot, and like flesh in the midst of a cooking pot.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:4",
"text": " Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, when they have made their deeds evil. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:5",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who are leading my people astray, who are biting with their teeth and proclaim, \u201cPeace,\u201d but whoever puts nothing into their mouths they declare war against. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:6",
"text": " Therefore it will be as night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. And the sun will set on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:7",
"text": " Then the seers will be disgraced, and those practicing divination will be put to shame. All of them will cover their lips, for there is no reply from God. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:8",
"text": " But I, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of Yahweh, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his rebellion, and to Israel his sin. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:9",
"text": " Hear this, O rulers of the house of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel, those detesting justice and perverting all that is right, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:10",
"text": " he who builds Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:11",
"text": " Its rulers judge for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money. But they lean on Yahweh, saying, \u201cIs not Yahweh in our midst? Disaster will not come upon us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Micah 3:12",
"text": " Therefore on account of you Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will be a heap of rubble, and \u231ethe temple mount\u231f as a high place in a forest. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:1",
"text": " And it will be that at the end of those days, the mountain of Yahweh will be established as the highest of the mountains, and it will be lifted up above the hills, and people will stream to it. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:2",
"text": " And many nations will come and say, \u201cCome! Let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the \u231etemple\u231f of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths,\u201d for the law will go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:3",
"text": " And he will judge between many peoples and will arbitrate for strong nations far away; and they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift up a sword against a nation, and they will no longer learn war. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:4",
"text": " But they will sit, each under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:5",
"text": " For all the nations walk, each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God, forever and ever. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:6",
"text": " \u201cIn that day,\u201d \u231edeclares Yahweh,\u231f \u201cI will assemble the one who limps, and I will gather the one who has been scattered, and those whom I have mistreated. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:7",
"text": " And I will make the one who limps a remnant, and the one driven far away a strong nation, and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from now to forever. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:8",
"text": " And you, O Migdal-Eder, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, and the former dominion will come, the reign of the daughter of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:9",
"text": " So then, why do you shout a loud shout? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished that pangs like a woman in labor have seized you? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:10",
"text": " Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will go forth from the city, and you will camp in the field; you will go to Babylon. There you will be rescued; there Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:11",
"text": " And now, many nations are gathered against you who are saying, \u2018Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:12",
"text": " But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh, and they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to his threshing floor. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Micah 4:13",
"text": " Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for your horn I will make as iron and your hooves as bronze. And you will break many peoples in pieces, and their gain you will devote to destruction to Yahweh, and their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:1",
"text": " Now muster troops, O daughter of troops; a siege he puts against us. They strike the ruler of Israel with a rod on the cheek. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:2",
"text": " But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, too small to be among the clans of Judah, from you one will go out for me, to be ruler in Israel; and his origins are from of old, from ancient days. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:3",
"text": " Therefore he will give them up until the time of she who is with child has given birth. And the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:4",
"text": " And he will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God. And they will live, for now he will be great unto the ends of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:5",
"text": " And this one will be peace. As for the Assyrian, when he comes into our land and when he treads on our fortresses, then we will raise up against him seven shepherds and eight leaders of men. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:6",
"text": " And they will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances. And he will rescue us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land, and when they tread upon our border. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:7",
"text": " And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many nations, like dew from Yahweh, like showers upon the grass which does not wait for a man, nor delays for the children of humankind. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:8",
"text": " And the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the wild animals of the forest, like a young lion among the herds of sheep which, when it passes through and treads down and tears in pieces, there is none who can deliver. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:9",
"text": " Your hand will be lifted high over your enemies, and all your foes will be cut off. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd it will happen that in that day,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cthen I will cut off your horses from among you, and I will destroy your chariots. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:11",
"text": " And I will cut off the cities of your land, and I will demolish all your fortifications. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:12",
"text": " And I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you will not have soothsayers. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:13",
"text": " And I will cut off your idols and your stone pillars from among you, and you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:14",
"text": " And I will uproot your Asherahs from among you, and I will destroy your cities. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Micah 5:15",
"text": " And in anger and in wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations who did not obey.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:1",
"text": " Hear now what Yahweh says: \u201cArise! Plead your case with the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:2",
"text": " Hear, O mountains, the indictment of Yahweh, and you eternal foundations of the earth, for Yahweh has an indictment against his people, and against Israel he contends. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:3",
"text": " \u201cO my people, what have I done to you, and how have I wearied you? Answer me! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:4",
"text": " For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of slavery I redeemed you. And I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:5",
"text": " O my people, remember what Balak the king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you might know the righteous acts of Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:6",
"text": " With what shall I approach Yahweh, and bow down to God on high? Shall I approach him with burnt offerings, with bull calves a year old? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:7",
"text": " Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriads of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:8",
"text": " He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does Yahweh ask from you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:9",
"text": " The voice of Yahweh calls to the city (it is sound judgment to fear your name): \u201cHear, O staff! Now who has appointed it? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:10",
"text": " Is there any longer a man in the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity which is accursed? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:11",
"text": " Shall I regard as pure the one with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:12",
"text": " Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:13",
"text": " And I also \u231ehave made you sick by striking you down\u231f, making you desolate because of your sins. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:14",
"text": " You yourself will eat but not be satisfied; your hunger will be in your midst, and you will put away, but you will not save, and what you save I will hand over to the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:15",
"text": " You yourself will sow, but you will not reap; you will tread olives, but you will not anoint yourself with oil; you will tread grapes, but you will not drink wine. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Micah 6:16",
"text": " For you have observed the regulations of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you have walked in their counsels, so that I am making you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of scorn. So you will bear the scorn of my people. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:1",
"text": " Woe is me! For I have become like the gatherings of summer, like the gleanings of the grape harvest, when there is no cluster of grapes to eat or early ripened fruit that my soul desires. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:2",
"text": " The faithful person has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother with a net. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:3",
"text": " Their hands are upon evil, to do it well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave it together. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:4",
"text": " The best of them is like a brier; the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchman, your punishment, has come; now their confusion will come. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:5",
"text": " Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:6",
"text": " For a son treats a father with contempt; a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; the enemies of a man are the men of his own house. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:7",
"text": " But as for me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:8",
"text": " You should not rejoice over me, O my enemy! When I fall I will stand up; when I sit in darkness Yahweh will be a light for me. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:9",
"text": " I will bear the rage of Yahweh, for I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes my justice. He will bring me out to the light; I will see his righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:10",
"text": " Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, \u201cWhere is Yahweh your God?\u201d My eyes will look upon her; now she will become a trampling place, like mud in the streets. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:11",
"text": " A day for building your walls; on that day he will extend your boundary. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:12",
"text": " On that day he will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, and from sea to sea and mountain to mountain. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:13",
"text": " But the earth will be a desolation because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:14",
"text": " Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, those dwelling alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:15",
"text": " As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt I will show him wondrous things. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:16",
"text": " The nations will see and be ashamed because of all their might. They will lay the hand on the mouth; their ears will be deaf. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:17",
"text": " They will lick the dust like the serpent, like the crawling things of the earth. They will come trembling from their strongholds to Yahweh our God. Let them fear and be afraid of you. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:18",
"text": " Who is a God like you, forgiving sin and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, for he delights in loyal love. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:19",
"text": " \u231eHe will again have compassion\u231f on us; he will trample our iniquities. And you will hurl all their sins in the depths of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Micah 7:20",
"text": " You will show faithfulness to Jacob, and loyal love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our ancestors from the days of old. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Nahum",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:1",
"text": " The oracle concerning Nineveh\u2014 the scroll of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:2",
"text": " Yahweh is a jealous God and avenging; Yahweh is avenging and \u231efull of wrath\u231f. Yahweh takes vengeance against his enemies; he rages against his adversaries. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:3",
"text": " Yahweh is slow to anger but great in power; he will certainly not allow the guilty to go unpunished. \u231eHe marches\u231f in storm wind and in gale; storm clouds are the dust of his feet. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:4",
"text": " He rebukes the sea and he dries up the rivers; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon languishes. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:5",
"text": " Mountains quake before him; the hills shake apart. The earth heaves before him\u2014 the world and all her inhabitants. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:6",
"text": " His indignation\u2014who can stand before it? Who can endure \u231ehis fierce anger\u231f? His wrath is poured out like fire; rocks are shattered before him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:7",
"text": " Yahweh is good\u2014a refuge in the day of distress; he knows those who take refuge in him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:8",
"text": " But with a rushing torrent he will bring Nineveh to an end; he will chase his enemies into darkness. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:9",
"text": " What do you plot against Yahweh? \u231eHe will completely destroy it\u231f; trouble will not rise up a second time! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:10",
"text": " For like entangled thorns, and like their drink which is drunk, they will be consumed like fully dry chaff. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:11",
"text": " From you goes out one who plots evil against Yahweh, one who plans wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:12",
"text": " Yahweh says this: \u201cEven though they are powerful and likewise many, even so they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no longer. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:13",
"text": " And now, I will break his yoke from upon you; I will snap your bonds.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:14",
"text": " Yahweh has commanded concerning you: \u201cYour name will no longer be sown. I will cut off \u231ethe idols and images\u231f from the \u231etemple\u231f of your gods; \u231eI will send you to the grave\u231f because you are worthless.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Nahum 1:15",
"text": " Look! On the mountains! The feet of the one who brings good tidings, the one who proclaims peace! \u201cCelebrate a festival, O Judah, Fulfill your vows! For he will not invade you again; the wicked one is cut off completely!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:1",
"text": " \u231eOne who shatters\u231f has come up against you! Guard the fortification! Watch the road! Gird your loins! \u231eMuster\u231f all your strength! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:2",
"text": " For Yahweh will restore the majesty of Jacob like the majesty of Israel; for ravagers have ravaged them and ruined their branches. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:3",
"text": " The shields of his warriors are dyed red; The powerful men are dressed in scarlet. The metal of the chariots shines like fire \u231eon the day of battle\u231f, and their spears quiver. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:4",
"text": " The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush back and forth in the public squares. Their appearance like lightning bolts, they dart about like flashes of lightning. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:5",
"text": " He calls his officers; they stumble as they march; they rush to her wall; they set the covering in place. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:6",
"text": " The gates of the river are opened; the palace trembles. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:7",
"text": " \u231eHer goddess is taken out and taken into exile\u231f; her maidservants moan like doves; they beat on their breasts. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:8",
"text": " Nineveh is like a pool of water without its water. \u231eAs they flee\u231f, she cries, \u201cStop! Stop!\u201d But there is no one who turns back. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:9",
"text": " Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no end to the spoils, an abundance of \u231eeverything one could want\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:10",
"text": " Emptiness and plundering and devastation! Their hearts faint and their knees tremble, \u231eAll their loins shake\u231f and all their faces \u231eturn\u231f pale. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:11",
"text": " Where now is the den of the lions and the cave of the fierce lions? There the lioness, the cub, and the lion once \u231eprowled\u231f, \u231eand no one disturbed them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:12",
"text": " The lion tore apart enough prey for his cubs, he strangled prey for his lioness; he filled \u231ehis lair\u231f with prey and his den with mangled carcass. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Nahum 2:13",
"text": " \u201cLook! I am against you!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts. \u201cI will burn her chariots \u231ewith fire\u231f; the sword will devour fierce lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth; the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:1",
"text": " Woe to the city that has shed \u231emuch blood\u231f! \u231eShe is a deceiver\u231f, She is filled with plunder, \u231eShe has hoarded her spoils of war\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:2",
"text": " The crack of the whip! The rumbling of the chariot wheel! The galloping of the horse! The racing of the chariot! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:3",
"text": " Chariots charge! Swords flash! Spears glitter! \u231eMany corpses are piled high\u231f! There is no end to the slain! They stumble over their dead! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:4",
"text": " \u201cBecause of the many idolatries of the prostitute, the beautiful charm of a mistress of witchcraft, she who enslaves nations by her harlotries, and peoples by her sorceries, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:5",
"text": " \u201cLook! I am against you!\u201d \u231edeclares\u231fYahweh. \u201cI will strip up your skirts over your face; I will let nations look at your nakedness and your shame. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:6",
"text": " \u201cI will throw filth upon you, I will treat you with contempt, I will make you a spectacle. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:7",
"text": " \u201cAnd it will be that everyone who sees you will flee from you, And \u231ethey\u231f will say, \u2018Nineveh is destroyed!\u2019 Who will mourn for her? From whence shall I seek comforters for you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:8",
"text": " Are you better than Thebes? She who sits at the Nile, surrounded by her waters, her rampart was the sea and water was her wall. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:9",
"text": " Cush was her strength, Egypt without end; Put and Libya were among \u231eyour allies\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:10",
"text": " Yet she went into captivity as an exile; her children were dashed to pieces at the head of the streets; they cast lots for all of her nobles; all of her dignitaries were bound with chains. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:11",
"text": " You also will behave like a drunkard; You also will hide yourself; You also will seek refuge from the enemy. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:12",
"text": " All of your fortifications are like fig trees with ripe firstfruits\u2014 if they are shaken, they will fall into the mouth of the eater. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:13",
"text": " Look! Your troops are like women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars of your gates. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:14",
"text": " Draw water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go to the mud pit! Trample the clay! Grasp the brick mold! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:15",
"text": " There fire will consume you; the sword will cut you off. It will consume you like the locust. Multiply yourself like the locust! Multiply yourself like the grasshopper! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:16",
"text": " You have increased your merchants more than the stars of heaven; like the locust they will shed their skin and fly away. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:17",
"text": " Your officials are like locusts; your commanders are like a swarm of locusts. They encamp on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they fly away\u2014 no one knows where they have gone. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:18",
"text": " Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria! Your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains; no one can gather them. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Nahum 3:19",
"text": " There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you will clap their hands for joy concerning you, \u231eFor who has not suffered at the hands of your endless cruelty\u231f? "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Habakkuk",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:1",
"text": " The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:2",
"text": " O Yahweh, how long shall I cry for help and you will not listen? How long will I cry out to you, \u201cViolence!\u201d and you will not save? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:3",
"text": " Why do you cause me to see evil while you look at trouble? Destruction and violence happen before me; contention and strife arise. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:4",
"text": " Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice does not go forth perpetually. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:5",
"text": " \u201cLook among the nations and see; be astonished and astounded. For a work is about to be done in your days that you will not believe if it is told. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:6",
"text": " For look! I am raising up the Chaldeans, the bitter and impetuous nation, the one who walks through the spacious places of earth to take possession of dwellings not belonging to it. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:7",
"text": " They are dreadful and awesome; their justice and their dignity proceed from themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:8",
"text": " Their horses are more swift than leopards; they are more menacing than wolves at dusk. Their horsemen gallop; their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle that is swift to devour. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:9",
"text": " All of them come for violence, their faces pressing forward. They gather captives like the sand. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:10",
"text": " And they themselves scoff at kings and rulers are a joke to them. They laugh at every fortification, and they heap up earth and take it. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:11",
"text": " Then they sweep like the wind and pass on; they become guilty, whose might is their god!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:12",
"text": " Are you not from of old, O Yahweh my God, my Holy One? You shall not die. O Yahweh, you have marked them for judgment; O Rock, you have established them for reproof. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:13",
"text": " Your eyes are too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing. Why do you look at the treacherous? Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up someone more righteous than him? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:14",
"text": " You make humankind like fish of the sea, like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:15",
"text": " He brings up all of them with a fishhook; he drags them up with a fishnet; he gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore, he rejoices and exults. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:16",
"text": " Therefore he sacrifices to his fishnet and makes offerings to his dragnet, for by them \u231ehe makes a good living\u231f and his food is rich. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Habakkuk 1:17",
"text": " Will he therefore empty his fishnet and continually kill nations without showing mercy? "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:1",
"text": " I will stand at my post, and station myself on the rampart. And I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what he will answer concerning my complaint. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:2",
"text": " Then Yahweh answered me and said, \u201cWrite the vision and make it plain on the tablet so that \u231eit might be read quickly\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:3",
"text": " For there is yet a vision for the appointed time; it will give witness to the end, and it will not lie. If it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come and not delay. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:4",
"text": " Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright. But the righteous shall live by his faithfulness. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:5",
"text": " \u231eHow much less\u231f the defiant; the arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:6",
"text": " Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, \u2018Woe to him who heaps up what is not his\u2019? For how long? And, \u2018Woe to him who makes himself heavy with pledges\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:7",
"text": " Will not your creditors suddenly rise up and awaken those who make you tremble? Then you shall be as plunder for them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:8",
"text": " Because you plundered many nations, all the remaining nations will plunder you on account of the blood of humanity and violence against the land, and against cities and all who live in them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:9",
"text": " Woe to him who obtains profit from evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be saved from the hand of misfortune! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:10",
"text": " You have plotted shame for your house, cutting off many peoples and sinning against your life. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:11",
"text": " For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the plaster from the wood will answer it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:12",
"text": " Woe to him who builds a city by bloodguilt, and who founds a city by wickedness! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:13",
"text": " Look! Is it not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:14",
"text": " For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, like the waters covering the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:15",
"text": " Woe to him who gives a drink to his neighbors, pouring out your wrath and also making them drunk in order to see their nakedness! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:16",
"text": " You will be sated with shame rather than glory. Drink also yourself, and expose yourself! The cup of the right hand of Yahweh will come around upon you and disgrace upon your glory. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:17",
"text": " For the violence of Lebanon will cover you, and the destruction of wild animals will shatter them on account of the blood of humanity, and the violence against the land, against a city and all the inhabitants in it. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:18",
"text": " What value is an idol when its carver has fashioned it, a molten idol, a teacher of lies? For he who fashioned his creation trusts in it, though making mute idols! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:19",
"text": " Woe to him who says to the wood, \u2018Wake up!\u2019 And to a lifeless stone, \u2018Arise!\u2019 Can he teach? Look, it is covered with gold and silver, and there is no breath within it. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Habakkuk 2:20",
"text": " But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:1",
"text": " A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:2",
"text": " O Yahweh, I have heard the report of you; O Yahweh, I stand in awe of your works. In the midst of the years, revive it! In the midst of the years, make it known! In wrath, may you remember to show compassion. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:3",
"text": " God came from Teman; the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covers the heavens, and his praise fills the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:4",
"text": " And his brightness was like the light; flashing rays came from his hand for him; And there is the covering of his strength. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:5",
"text": " Before him went Disease, and Pestilence went out at his feet. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:6",
"text": " He stood and measured the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. Then the mountains of old were shattered; the hills of old collapsed. The ways of old belong to him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:7",
"text": " Under affliction I saw the tents of Cushan; the tent curtains of the land of Midian trembled. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:8",
"text": " Was the anger of Yahweh against the rivers? Was your wrath against the rivers, or your fury against the sea, when you mounted upon your horses, upon your victory chariot? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:9",
"text": " You laid bare the nakedness of your bow, swearing oaths with the arrows of your word. You split the earth with rivers. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:10",
"text": " When the mountains saw you they writhed; a torrent of waters swept by; the deep gave its voice; it raised its hands on high. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:11",
"text": " Sun and moon stood still in their place; at the light of your arrows they moved about; at the gleam of the flashing of your spear. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:12",
"text": " In fury you marched through the earth; in anger you trampled the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:13",
"text": " You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of wickedness, laying bare from the foundation to the top. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:14",
"text": " You pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows; they came like a whirlwind to scatter me, their exultation like one who devours the afflicted in ambush. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:15",
"text": " You trampled upon the sea with your horses, the churning of many waters. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:16",
"text": " I hear and my stomach shakes; my lips quiver at the sound; infection enters my bones; that which is beneath me trembles; I wait quietly for the day of trouble to come upon the people attacking us. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:17",
"text": " Though the fig tree does not blossom, nor there be fruit on the vines; the yield of the olive tree fails, and the cultivated fields do not yield food; the flock is cut off from the animal pen, and there is no cattle in the stalls, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:18",
"text": " Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh; I will exult in the God of my salvation. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Habakkuk 3:19",
"text": " Yahweh, my Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer; he causes me to walk on my high places. To the choirmaster with stringed instruments. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Zephaniah",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:1",
"text": " The word of Yahweh that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:2",
"text": " \u201cI will surely destroy everything from the face of the earth\u201d\u2014a declaration of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:3",
"text": " \u201cI will destroy humanity and beast; I will destroy the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked. And I will cut off humankind from the face of the earth\u201d\u2014a declaration of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:4",
"text": " \u201cAnd I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, and the name of idolatrous priests with the priests, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:5",
"text": " and those who bow down on the rooftops to the host of heaven, and those who bow down, swearing to Yahweh but also swearing by Milkom, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:6",
"text": " and those who turned back from \u231efollowing\u231f Yahweh, and who did not seek Yahweh, and did not inquire of him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:7",
"text": " Be silent before the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh draws near, for Yahweh has provided a sacrifice and has consecrated his guests. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:8",
"text": " And it shall be that on the day of the sacrifice of Yahweh, I will punish the officials and the sons of the king and those who dress in foreign clothing. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:9",
"text": " And on that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill up the house of their master with violence and deceit. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:10",
"text": " \u201cAnd there shall be on that day\u201d\u2014a declaration of Yahweh\u2014 \u201ca \u231eloud outcry\u231f from the Fish Gate, and a wailing from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:11",
"text": " The inhabitants of the Mortar shall wail, for all the traders have perished; all who trade with silver have been cut off. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:12",
"text": " And it shall be that at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men \u231ewhose senses are dulled from drinking\u231f, who say in their hearts, \u2018Yahweh will not do good, nor will he do evil.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:13",
"text": " Then their wealth shall be as plunder, and their homes as desolation. And they shall build their houses and not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and not drink their wine.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:14",
"text": " The great day of Yahweh draws near; it is near and coming very swiftly. The sound of the day of Yahweh is bitterness; there, a warrior cries out! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:15",
"text": " That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of disaster and ruination, a day of darkness and deep gloom, a day of clouds and thick clouds, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:16",
"text": " a day of trumpet and trumpet blast against the fortified cities and against the high corner towers. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:17",
"text": " And I will bring distress to all humankind, and they shall walk about like the blind, for they sinned against Yahweh; their blood shall be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zephaniah 1:18",
"text": " Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make for all the inhabitants of the land. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:1",
"text": " Gather yourselves together! Now gather together, O nation having no shame! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:2",
"text": " Before the birth of the decree, the day flies away like chaff; before the fierce anger of Yahweh overtakes you; before the day of the anger of Yahweh overtakes you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:3",
"text": " Seek Yahweh, all you afflicted of the land who have fulfilled his law; seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the anger of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:4",
"text": " For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon as a desolation. As for Ashdod, at noon they will drive her away, and Ekron shall be uprooted. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:5",
"text": " Woe to you, inhabitants of the region of the sea, people of the Kerethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you \u231euntil there is no inhabitant\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:6",
"text": " And you, O region of the sea, shall become pastures and meadows for shepherds and sheep pens for the flocks. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:7",
"text": " And it shall become a region for the remnant of the house of Judah; upon them they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening. For Yahweh their God shall be mindful of them, and he will restore their fortunes. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:8",
"text": " I have heard the reproaches of Moab and the scorning of the \u231eAmmonites\u231f, with which they have taunted my nation and made boasts against their territory. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:9",
"text": " \u201cTherefore, as I live\u201d\u2014a declaration of Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel\u2014 \u201cMoab shall be as Sodom, and the \u231eAmmonites\u231f like Gomorrah, a place of weeds and salt pits and a desolation forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remainder of my nation shall possess them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:10",
"text": " This shall be for them in place of their pride because they mocked and boasted against the people of Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:11",
"text": " Yahweh will be awesome against them, for he will destroy all the gods of the earth and all the lands of the nations; each in its place will bow down to him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:12",
"text": " You also, O Cushites, they shall be killed by my sword. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:13",
"text": " And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and he will destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry wasteland like the desert. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:14",
"text": " Herds shall lie down in her midst, every wild animal of a nation; even the desert owl and the screech owl shall lodge on her capitals. A voice shall hoot in the window; rubble on the threshold; for the cedar is laid bare. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zephaniah 2:15",
"text": " This is the city of rejoicing that lived securely; the one saying in her heart, \u201c\u231eI am, and there is none besides me\u231f.\u201d How she has become a desolation, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:1",
"text": " Woe to you, O rebellious and defiled one! The oppressing city! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:2",
"text": " She listens to no voice; she does not accept correction. In Yahweh she does not trust; to her God she does not draw near. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:3",
"text": " Her officials in her midst are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing until the morning. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:4",
"text": " Her prophets are arrogant men of treachery; her priests have defiled that which is holy; they do violence to the law. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:5",
"text": " Yahweh is righteous in her midst; he does not do wickedness. \u231eMorning by morning\u231f he renders his judgment; at dawn he does not fail, but an evil one knows no shame. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:6",
"text": " \u201cI have cut off nations; their strongholds are deserted. I have laid waste their streets, so that none pass through. Their cities have been destroyed and are without a man, without an inhabitant. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:7",
"text": " I have said, \u2018Surely she will fear me; she will accept discipline. Then her dwelling place will not be cut down, nor all that I have brought upon her.\u2019 Surely they rise early; they make all their deeds corrupt. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:8",
"text": " \u201cTherefore, wait for me\u201d\u2014a declaration of Yahweh\u2014 \u201cfor the day of my rising as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out my wrath upon them, all my burning anger. For by the fire of my anger all the land shall be consumed. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:9",
"text": " Because then I will \u231emake the speech of the nations pure\u231f; that all of them might call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him \u231ein unison\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:10",
"text": " From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers and the daughter of my scattered ones shall bring my offering. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:11",
"text": " On that day you shall not be humiliated on account of all your deeds by which you have rebelled against me. For then I shall remove from your midst those exulting in your pride, and you shall no longer be haughty in \u231emy holy mountain\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:12",
"text": " And I will leave in your midst a people afflicted and poor, and they shall take refuge in the name of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:13",
"text": " The remnant of Israel shall not do wickedness; they shall not speak deception, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall frighten them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:14",
"text": " Shout for joy, O daughter of Zion! Cry aloud, O Israel! Rejoice and be jubilant with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:15",
"text": " Yahweh has annulled your judgments; he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, Yahweh, is in your midst; you shall no longer fear misfortune. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:16",
"text": " On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, \u201cFear not, O Zion; your hands shall not hang limp. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:17",
"text": " Yahweh your God is in your midst; a mighty warrior who saves. He shall rejoice over you with joy; he renews you in his love; he will exult over you with singing. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:18",
"text": " I will gather those of you grieving on account of the feast; they were raising against her a reproach. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:19",
"text": " Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors; I will save the lame and gather the outcast. I will change them from shame to glory and \u231erenown\u231f throughout the whole world. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zephaniah 3:20",
"text": " At that time I will bring you in; at the time of my gathering you together. For I will make you \u231erenowned\u231f and praised among all the nations of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your eyes,\u201d says Yahweh. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Haggai",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:1",
"text": " In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day, the word of Yahweh came \u231ethrough\u231f Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:2",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018This people says, \u201c\u231eThe time has not come to rebuild the temple of Yahweh\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:3",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh came \u231ethrough\u231f Haggai the prophet, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:4",
"text": "\u201cIs it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your houses that have been paneled while this house is desolate?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:5",
"text": "And so then, thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018\u231eConsider your ways\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:6",
"text": "You have sown much but have harvested little. You have eaten without being satisfied; \u231eyou have drunk without being satiated\u231f; you have worn clothes without being warm; the one who earns wages puts it in \u231ea pouch with holes\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:7",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018\u231eConsider your ways\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:8",
"text": "Go up the mountain and bring wood and build the house so that I may be pleased with it and honored,\u2019 says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:9",
"text": "\u2018You have looked for much, and look! It came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts. \u2018Because my house is desolate and you are running each to your own house! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:10",
"text": "Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld the dew and the earth has withheld its produce. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:11",
"text": "I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, on what the soil produces, on human beings and wild animals, and on \u231eall their labor\u231f.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:12",
"text": " Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people gave heed to the voice of Yahweh their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him, \u231eand the people feared Yahweh\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:13",
"text": "And Haggai the messenger of Yahweh spoke to the people with the message of Yahweh, saying, \u201c\u00a0\u2018I am with you\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:14",
"text": "And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and did the work on the house of Yahweh of hosts, their God, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Haggai 1:15",
"text": "on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:1",
"text": " In the seventh month on the twenty-first day, the word of Yahweh \u231ecame through\u231f Haggai the prophet, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:2",
"text": "\u201cSpeak now to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:3",
"text": "\u2018Who among you is left that saw this house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Does it seem like nothing \u231eto you\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:4",
"text": "\u2018But now take courage, Zerubbabel,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u2018Take courage, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and take courage, all the people of the land,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u2018Do the work, because I am with you,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:5",
"text": "\u2018according to \u231ethe promise\u231f that \u231eI covenanted\u231f with you when you came out of Egypt. My spirit \u231eis with you\u231f; do not be afraid.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:6",
"text": "For thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and dry land. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:7",
"text": "I will shake all the nations so that the treasure of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,\u2019 says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:8",
"text": "\u2018The silver is mine and the gold is mine,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:9",
"text": "\u2018The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,\u2019 says Yahweh of hosts, \u2018and in this place I will give peace\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:10",
"text": " On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Haggai, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:11",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018Ask now the priests for a ruling: "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:12",
"text": "If a man carries consecrated meat in the hem of his garment, and his hem touches bread, or stew, or wine, or olive oil, or any kind of food, will it become holy?\u2019\u00a0\u201d The priests answered, \u201cNo.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:13",
"text": "Then Haggai said, \u201cIf one who is unclean from contact with a corpse touches any of these, will it become unclean?\u201d The priests answered, \u201cYes, it will be become unclean.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:14",
"text": "And Haggai answered and said, \u201c\u00a0\u2018So it is with this people, and with this nation before me,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and so it is with every kind of work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:15",
"text": "But now, please \u231econsider\u231f from this day forward, before one stone was placed on another in the temple of Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:16",
"text": "\u231efrom that time when\u231f one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten, and when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures, there were only twenty. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:17",
"text": "I struck you with blight, and with plant mildew, and hail, all the work of your hands. But \u231eyou did not come back to me\u231f,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:18",
"text": "\u2018\u231ePlease consider\u231f from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of Yahweh\u2019s temple was laid, \u231econsider\u231f: "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:19",
"text": "Is there still seed in the store chamber? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still produce nothing? From this day forward I will bless you.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:20",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month saying, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:21",
"text": "\u201cSay to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:22",
"text": "and I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the military strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers; horses and their riders will fall, every one by the sword of another! "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Haggai 2:23",
"text": "\u2018On that day,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts, \u2018I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and I will make you a signet ring, for I have chosen you,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts.\u201d "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Zechariah",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:1",
"text": "In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, son of Iddo, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:2",
"text": "\u201cYahweh \u231ewas very angry with your ancestors\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:3",
"text": "You must say to them: \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cReturn to me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts, \u201cand I will return to you,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:4",
"text": "\u201cDo not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cReturn from your evil ways and your evil deeds!\u201d\u00a0\u2019 But they did not hear and they did not pay attention to me,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:5",
"text": "\u201cYour ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:6",
"text": "However, did not my words and my regulations which I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? And they repented and said, \u2018Yahweh of hosts planned to do with us according to our ways, and according to our deeds so he has dealt with us.\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:7",
"text": " On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the prophet, son of Berekiah, son of Iddo, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:8",
"text": "\u231eI had a vision in the night\u231f, and look, a man riding on a red horse. And he was standing between the myrtle shrubs that were in the ravine, and behind him were red, reddish-brown, and white horses. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:9",
"text": "And I asked, \u201cWhat are these, my lord?\u201d And the angel who was talking with me said, \u201cI will show you what these are.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:10",
"text": "And the man standing between the myrtle shrubs answered and said, \u201cThese are those whom Yahweh has sent to patrol the earth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:11",
"text": "And they answered the angel of Yahweh who was standing between the myrtle shrubs, and they said, \u201cWe have patrolled the earth, and look, all the earth \u231eis dwelling in peace\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:12",
"text": "The angel of Yahweh answered and said, \u201cO Yahweh of hosts, \u231ehow long\u231f will you have no compassion on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which you showed fury these seventy years?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:13",
"text": "With gracious and comforting words Yahweh answered the angel who was talking with me. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:14",
"text": "And the angel who was talking with me said to me, \u201cProclaim, saying, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201c\u231eI am very jealous\u231f for Jerusalem and for Zion! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:15",
"text": "And \u231eI am extremely angry\u231f with the nations that are at ease, for while I was a little angry, they \u231efurthered disaster\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:16",
"text": "Therefore, thus says Yahweh: \u201cI have returned to Jerusalem with compassion. My temple will be built in it,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts, \u201cand a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:17",
"text": "Proclaim again, saying, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cMy cities shall again overflow from prosperity, and Yahweh will comfort Zion again, and he will choose Jerusalem again.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:18",
"text": " And I \u231elooked up\u231f and I saw, and look, there were four horns! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:19",
"text": "And I said to the angel who was talking with me, \u201cWhat are these?\u201d And he said to me, \u201cThese are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:20",
"text": "Then Yahweh showed me four skilled craftsmen, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Zechariah 1:21",
"text": "and I asked, \u201cWhat are these coming to do?\u201d And he answered, saying, \u201cThese are the horns that scattered Judah, \u231eso that no man\u231f lifted up his head; but these have come to frighten them, to strike down the horns of the nations that lifted a horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:1",
"text": " And I \u231elooked up\u231f and I saw, and look, a man, and in his hand was a measuring rope! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:2",
"text": "And I asked, \u201cWhere are you going?\u201d And he answered me, \u201cTo measure Jerusalem to see what is its width and what is its length.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:3",
"text": "And look, the angel who was talking to me was coming forward, and another angel was coming forward to meet him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:4",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cRun, say to that young man, \u2018Jerusalem shall be inhabited \u231elike villages without walls\u231f because of the multitude of people and animals in its midst. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:5",
"text": "And I will be for it a wall of fire all around,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018and I will be the glory in its midst.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:6",
"text": " \u201cWoe! Woe! Flee from the land of the north,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201cfor I have scattered you like the four winds of the heavens,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:7",
"text": "\u201cWoe, Zion! Escape, you inhabitants of the daughter of Babylon!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:8",
"text": "For thus said Yahweh of hosts, after glory he sent me against the nations plundering you: Truly, the one touching you is touching the apple of his eye. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:9",
"text": "\u201cYes, look! I am going to wave my hand against them, and they will become plunder for their servants, and you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:10",
"text": "Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for look, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:11",
"text": "\u201cMany nations will join themselves to Yahweh on that day, and they will be my people, and I will dwell in your midst. And you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:12",
"text": "And Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion \u231ein the holy land\u231f, and he will again choose Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Zechariah 2:13",
"text": "Be silent, \u231eall people\u231f, before Yahweh, for he is roused from \u231ehis holy dwelling\u231f.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zechariah 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zechariah 3:1",
"text": " And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing \u231ebefore\u231f the angel of Yahweh; and Satan was standing on his right to accuse him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zechariah 3:2",
"text": "But Yahweh said to Satan, \u201cYahweh rebukes you, O Satan! Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you! Is this not a stick snatched from the fire?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zechariah 3:3",
"text": "And Joshua was clothed in filthy garments and was standing \u231ebefore\u231f the angel. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zechariah 3:4",
"text": "And he answered and said to the ones standing \u231ebefore\u231f him, saying, \u201cRemove the filthy garments from him.\u201d And he said to him, \u201cSee, I have taken away your guilt from you, and will clothe you with rich garments.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zechariah 3:5",
"text": "And I said, \u201cLet them put a clean headband on his head.\u201d And they put a clean headband on his head, and they clothed him with garments. And the angel of Yahweh was standing by. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zechariah 3:6",
"text": " And the angel of Yahweh assured Joshua, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zechariah 3:7",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my requirements, then you will judge my house, and you will also guard my courtyards, and I will give to you passageways among these that are standing here. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zechariah 3:8",
"text": "Listen, please, O Joshua the high priest, you and your companions that are sitting \u231ebefore\u231f you. For the men are a sign that, look, I am going to bring my servant the Branch. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zechariah 3:9",
"text": "For consider, the stone that \u231eI set before\u231f Joshua, on one stone are seven eyes. Look, \u231eI am going to engrave an inscription on it\u231f,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts, \u2018and I will remove the guilt of that land in a single day. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Zechariah 3:10",
"text": "On that day,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts, \u2018you will invite \u231eone another\u231f under the vine and under the fig tree.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:1",
"text": " And the angel who was talking with me returned, and he wakened me as one who is wakened from his sleep. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:2",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cWhat do you see?\u201d And I said, \u201cI see, and look, \u231ea lampstand all of gold\u231f, and a bowl was on its top, and its seven lamps on it, and seven lips on each of the lamps that are on its top. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:3",
"text": "And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:4",
"text": "And I answered and said to the angel who was talking to me, \u201cWhat are these, my lord?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:5",
"text": "And the angel who was talking with me answered and said to me, \u201cDo you not know what these are?\u201d And I said, \u201cNo, my lord.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:6",
"text": "And he answered and said to me, \u201cThis is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, \u2018Not by strength and not by power, but only by my Spirit,\u2019 says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:7",
"text": "\u2018Who are you O great mountain? \u231eBefore\u231f Zerubbabel you will become level ground, and he will bring out the top stone amid the shouts of \u201cGrace, grace to it!\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:8",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:9",
"text": "\u201cThe hands of Zerubbabel have founded this house, and his hands will finish it. And you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:10",
"text": "For whoever has despised the day of small things will rejoice and will see the \u231eplumb line\u231f in the hand of Zerubbabel.\u201d These seven are the eyes of Yahweh which are ranging \u231ethroughout the whole earth\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:11",
"text": "And I answered and said to him, \u201cWhat are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:12",
"text": "And I replied a second time and asked him, \u201cWhat are these two twigs of olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:13",
"text": "And he replied to me, \u201cDo you not know what these are?\u201d And I said, \u201cNo, my lord.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Zechariah 4:14",
"text": "And he said, \u201cThese are the two \u231eanointed ones\u231f standing by the Lord of the whole earth.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5:1",
"text": " \u231eI looked up again\u231f, and I saw, and look!\u2014a flying scroll! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5:2",
"text": "And he asked me, \u201cWhat are you seeing?\u201d And I said, \u201cI am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5:3",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cThis is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5:4",
"text": "\u2018I have sent it out,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts, \u2018and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing \u231efalsely by my name\u231f, and it will spend the night in that house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5:5",
"text": " And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, \u201c\u231ePlease look up\u231f! See what this is going out.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5:6",
"text": "And I asked, \u201cWhat is it?\u201d And he said, \u201cThis is a basket going out. And he said, \u201cThis is their iniquity throughout all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5:7",
"text": "And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5:8",
"text": "And he said, \u201cThis is Wickedness!\u201d And he thrust her back down into the basket, and threw the lead cover on top of it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5:9",
"text": "And I \u231elooked up\u231f and saw, and look!\u2014two women coming forward, and the wind was in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5:10",
"text": "And I asked the angel who was talking to me, \u201cWhere are they taking the basket?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Zechariah 5:11",
"text": "And he said to me, \u201cTo build for it a house in the land of Shinar, and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:1",
"text": " \u231eI looked up again\u231f, and I saw, and look!\u2014four chariots coming out from between two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of bronze. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:2",
"text": "With the first chariot there were red horses, and with the second chariot there were black horses. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:3",
"text": "And with the third chariot there were white horses, and with the fourth chariot there were strong dappled horses. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:4",
"text": "And I answered and said to the angel that was talking to me, \u201cWhat are these, my lord?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:5",
"text": "And the angel answered and said to me, \u201cThese are the four winds of the heavens going out after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:6",
"text": "\u231eThe one with\u231f the black horses is going out to the north country, and the white horses go after them, while the dappled ones go to the south country.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:7",
"text": "When the strong horses went out, they were anxious to go to patrol the earth. And he said, \u201cGo, patrol the earth.\u201d And they patrolled the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:8",
"text": "And he cried out to me and said to me, \u201cSee those going out to the north country have set my spirit at rest in the north country.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:9",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:10",
"text": "\u201cCollect from the exiles\u2014from Heldai, Tobijah, and from Jedaiah, all of whom came from Babylon\u2014and go on that day, go to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:11",
"text": "Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:12",
"text": "And say to him, \u2018Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cLook, here is a man whose name is Branch, and from his place he will sprout, and he will build the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:13",
"text": "And he will build the temple of Yahweh, and he will bear majesty and will sit and rule on his throne. And he shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace will be between the two of them.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:14",
"text": "And the crown will be for Helem, for Tobijah, for Jedaiah, and for Hen son of Zephaniah, as a memorial in the temple of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Zechariah 6:15",
"text": "And those who are far off will come and build the temple of Yahweh, and you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. And it will happen if you will listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:1",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Kislev. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:2",
"text": "And the people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech, and their men, to entreat \u231ethe favor\u231f of Yahweh, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:3",
"text": "saying to the \u231epriests of the house of Yahweh of hosts\u231f and to the prophets, \u201cShould I mourn in the fifth month and keep myself separate as I have done for these many years?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:4",
"text": "And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:5",
"text": "\u201cSay to all the people of the land and to the priests: \u2018When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:6",
"text": "And when you eat and drink, are you not eating and drinking for yourselves? "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:7",
"text": "Are not these the words that Yahweh proclaimed \u231ethrough\u231f the former prophets, when Jerusalem and \u231eits surrounding towns\u231f were inhabited and at ease, and the Negev and the Shephelah were inhabited?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:8",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:9",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018Judge with trustworthy justice, and show steadfast love and compassion \u231eto one another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:10",
"text": "You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, and the needy. You must not devise evil in your heart \u231eagainst one another\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:11",
"text": "But they refused to listen, and turned a stubborn shoulder and \u231estopped their ears from listening\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:12",
"text": "\u231eThey made their hearts adamant\u231f in order not to hear the law and the words that Yahweh of hosts had sent by his spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:13",
"text": "\u2018Thus, just as I called and they would not hear, so they will call and I will not hear,\u2019 says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Zechariah 7:14",
"text": "\u2018And I scattered them with a wind among all the nations that they had not known; the land was made desolate behind them\u2014 no one crossing through it or returning\u2014and they made the desirable land a desolation.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:1",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh of hosts came, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:2",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018\u231eI am exceedingly jealous for Zion\u231f; I am jealous for it with great wrath.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:3",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh: \u2018I have returned to Zion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be called the faithful city, and the mountain of Yahweh of hosts will be called the holy mountain.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:4",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018Old men and old women shall again sit in the public squares of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand \u231ebecause of great age\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:5",
"text": "And the public squares of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its public squares.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:6",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018Even if it seems impossible \u231eto the remnant\u231f of this people in those days, should it also seem impossible \u231eto me\u231f?\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:7",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018Look! I am going to save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the west, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:8",
"text": "and I will bring them and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They will be my people and I will be their God in faithfulness and in righteousness.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:9",
"text": " \u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018Let your hands be strong, you who are hearing in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day \u231ethe foundation was laid for the rebuilding of the temple, the house of Yahweh of hosts\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:10",
"text": "For before those days there was no wage for people or for animals, and there was no safety from the enemy for those who went out or those who came in, and I sent each person against \u231eone another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:11",
"text": "But now \u231eI will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days\u231f,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:12",
"text": "\u2018For there will be a sowing of peace; the vine will give its fruit, and the soil will give its produce, and the heavens will give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:13",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you will be a blessing. You must not be afraid; let your hands be strong!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:14",
"text": " For thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u201cJust as I planned to bring disaster on you when your ancestors provoked me to anger,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cand I did not regret it, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:15",
"text": "\u231eso again I have planned\u231f in these days to do good to Jerusalem and the house of Judah. Do not be afraid! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:16",
"text": "These are the things that you must do: speak truth, each of you, with his neighbor; practice trustworthy judgment and peace in your gates. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:17",
"text": "Do not devise evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love \u231ea false oath\u231f, because all these are things I hate,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:18",
"text": " And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:19",
"text": "\u201cThus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018The fast of the fourth month, the fifth month, the seventh month, and the tenth month will be for the house of Judah jubilation and joy and merry festivals; therefore love truth and peace.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:20",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018It will happen again that nations and the inhabitants of many cities will come. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:21",
"text": "And the inhabitants of one city will go to another city, saying, \u201cLet us go immediately to entreat \u231ethe favor of\u231f Yahweh, to seek Yahweh of hosts\u2014I also will go!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:22",
"text": "And many peoples and powerful nations will come to seek Yahweh of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat \u231ethe favor of\u231f Yahweh.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Zechariah 8:23",
"text": "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \u2018In those days ten men from \u231eall the nations of every language\u231f will take hold of the hem of a Judean man, saying, \u201cLet us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you!\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:1",
"text": "An oracle. The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is its resting place. For to Yahweh belongs the eye of humankind, and all the tribes of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:2",
"text": " and also Hamath, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon\u2014yes, they are very wise! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:3",
"text": " Tyre has built a fortification for itself, and it heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:4",
"text": " Look! The Lord will drive it out and will hurl its outer ramparts into the sea, and it will be consumed by fire. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:5",
"text": " Ashkelon will see and will be afraid, and Gaza will writhe exceedingly, and Ekron also, because its hope is ruined. And the king from Gaza will perish, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:6",
"text": " A mongrel people will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut down the pride of the Philistines. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:7",
"text": " I will remove its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth. And it too will be a remnant for our God; and it will be like a tribal chief in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusite. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:8",
"text": " But I will encamp at my temple like a guard, against those crossing through and returning; no oppressor will cross through them again, for now I have seen with my own eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:9",
"text": " Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king comes to you; he is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, and on a male donkey, \u231ethe foal of\u231f a female donkey! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:10",
"text": " And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; the battle bow will be cut down, and he will announce peace to the nations. His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:11",
"text": " As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from \u231ethe waterless pit\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:12",
"text": " Return to the fortress, O prisoners of hope; today I am declaring that I will repay you double. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:13",
"text": " For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have set Ephraim as an arrow. I will set in motion your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Javan. I will wield you like the sword of a warrior. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:14",
"text": " Then Yahweh will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; and my Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and he shall go out in the storm winds of the south. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:15",
"text": " Yahweh of hosts will defend them, and they will devour and subdue the slingstones; they will drink, they will make noise like wine, and they will be full like the sacrificial basin, drenched like the corners of an altar. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:16",
"text": " And Yahweh their God will save them on that day, as the flock of his people; for they are like the stones of a diadem, glittering on his land. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Zechariah 9:17",
"text": " For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:1",
"text": " Ask rain from Yahweh in the season of the spring rain\u2014 Yahweh, who makes storm clouds, and he gives showers of rain to them, to everyone vegetation in the field. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:2",
"text": " Because the household gods speak deceit, and those who practice divination see a lie, and the dreamers of vanity speak in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted because there is no shepherd. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:3",
"text": " \u231eMy anger burns\u231f against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders, because Yahweh of hosts watches over his flock, the house of Judah; and he will make them like his majestic horse in war. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:4",
"text": " From them the cornerstone will go out, from them the tent peg, from them the battle bow, from them every ruler, all together. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:5",
"text": " And they will be like warriors, trampling in the mud of the streets in the battle. They will fight, because Yahweh is with them, and they will put to shame the riders on horses. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:6",
"text": " And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and the house of Joseph I will save. And I will bring them back, because I have compassion on them, and they will be as if I had not rejected them, for I am Yahweh their God, and I will answer them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:7",
"text": " And the people of Ephraim will be like a warrior, and their heart will be glad as with wine. And their children will see and rejoice; their heart will shout in exultation in Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:8",
"text": " I will whistle to them and gather them, for I have redeemed them, and they will become numerous as they have been numerous before. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:9",
"text": " Though I sow them among the nations, in the distant places they will remember me, and they will stay alive with their children, and they will return. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:10",
"text": " And I will bring them back from the land of Egypt, and from Assyria I will gather them. To the land of Gilead and Lebanon I will bring them, until no room will be found for them there. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:11",
"text": " And he will pass through the sea of distress, and he will strike the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought low, and the scepter of Egypt will depart. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Zechariah 10:12",
"text": " I will make them strong in Yahweh, and in his name they will walk, \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:1",
"text": "Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that fire will devour your cedars! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:2",
"text": " Wail, O juniper, for the cedar has fallen, for the magnificent trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest has come down! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:3",
"text": " Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their splendor is ruined! Listen to the roar of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are ruined! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:4",
"text": " Thus says Yahweh my God: \u201cShepherd the flock doomed to slaughter. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:5",
"text": "The ones buying them kill them and go unpunished, and the ones selling them say, \u2018Blessed be Yahweh, for I have become rich.\u2019 Their own shepherds have no compassion for them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:6",
"text": "For I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cLook, I am going to cause humankind to fall, each into the hand of his neighbor, and into the hand of his king; and they will devastate the land, and I will not deliver anyone from their hand.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:7",
"text": " And I shepherded the flock doomed to slaughter, even the afflicted of the flock. I took two staffs, one I called Kindness, and the other I called Unity, and I shepherded the flock. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:8",
"text": "And I got rid of three shepherds in one month, for \u231eI grew impatient\u231f with them, and \u231ethey also became tired of me\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:9",
"text": "So I said, \u201cI will not shepherd you! The one dying will die, and the one to be destroyed will be destroyed. And the ones remaining, let them devour \u231ethe flesh of each other\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:10",
"text": "And I took my staff Kindness and broke it, to break my covenant that I \u231ehad made\u231f with all the peoples. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:11",
"text": "And it was broken on that day. Then the afflicted of the flock, the ones who were watching me, knew that it was the word of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:12",
"text": "And I said to them, \u201cIf \u231eit seems right to you\u231f, give me my wages, but if not, \u231ekeep them\u231f.\u201d And they weighed out my wages, thirty silver shekels. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:13",
"text": "And Yahweh said to me, \u201cThrow it to the potter,\u201d \u231ethis noble price\u231f at which I was valued by them!\u201d So I took the thirty silver shekels and I threw them to the potter in the house of Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:14",
"text": "Then I broke my second staff Unity to break the family ties between Judah and Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:15",
"text": " And Yahweh said to me, \u201cTake again the implements of a foolish shepherd. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:16",
"text": "For look, I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will not attend to the ones that are perishing; he will not seek the young man, he will not heal the ones that are crushed and he will not sustain the healthy ones; he will devour the flesh of the \u231efattened ones\u231f and tear apart even their hoofs. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Zechariah 11:17",
"text": " \u201cWoe, my worthless shepherd who deserts the flock! May a sword fall on his arm and on \u231ehis right eye\u231f! May his arm wither completely and \u231ehis right eye\u231f be utterly blinded!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:1",
"text": " An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. \u201c\u231eThus declares\u231f Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, founds the earth, and forms the spirit of humankind in its midst: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:2",
"text": "\u2018Look, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the surrounding nations; it will also be against Judah in the siege against Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:3",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f on that day I will make Jerusalem a stone weight for all the peoples. All those lifting it up will grievously hurt themselves, and all the nations of the earth will assemble against it. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:4",
"text": "On that day,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u2018I will strike every horse with confusion, and the one riding it with madness; but over the house of Judah \u231eI will keep my eyes open\u231f, and I will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:5",
"text": "And the clans of Judah will say \u231eto themselves\u231f, \u201cThe inhabitants of Jerusalem are a strength to us, through Yahweh of hosts, their God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:6",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a pan of fire among sticks of wood, and like a torch of fire among stalks of grain, and they will devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, and Jerusalem will be inhabited again in its place, in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:7",
"text": "And Yahweh will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over Judah. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:8",
"text": "On that day Yahweh will put a shield around the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who stumbles among them on that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh, \u231ebefore them\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:9",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations coming against Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:10",
"text": " \u201c\u00a0\u2018I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look to me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn over him, as one wails over an only child, and they will grieve bitterly over him as one grieves bitterly over a firstborn. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:11",
"text": "On that day the wailing will be great in Jerusalem, like the wailing for Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:12",
"text": "And the land shall mourn, \u231eeach clan by itself\u231f; the clan of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the clan of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:13",
"text": "the clan of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the clan of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Zechariah 12:14",
"text": "and all those clans remaining, \u231eeach clan by itself\u231f, and their wives by themselves.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Zechariah 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Zechariah 13:1",
"text": "\u201c\u00a0\u2018On that day a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, \u231eto cleanse them from sin and from impurity\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Zechariah 13:2",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, on that day,\u2019 \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts, \u2018I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I will banish from the land. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Zechariah 13:3",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f, if anyone prophesies again, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, \u201cYou shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of Yahweh!\u201d And his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through when he prophesies. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Zechariah 13:4",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f on that day, each of the prophets will be ashamed because of his vision when he was prophesying, and they will not put on a cloak of hair in order to deceive, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Zechariah 13:5",
"text": "but he will say, \u201cI am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Zechariah 13:6",
"text": "And someone shall say to him, \u201cWhat are these wounds \u231ebetween your arms\u231f?\u201d and he will say, \u201cThose I have received in the house of the ones who love me.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Zechariah 13:7",
"text": " \u201cO sword, awake against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh of hosts. \u201cStrike the shepherd, so that the sheep may be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the small ones. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Zechariah 13:8",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f in all the land,\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh, \u201c\u231etwo thirds\u231f will be cut off and perish, and one third will be left alive in it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Zechariah 13:9",
"text": " And I will bring the remaining third into the fire, and I will refine them like one refines silver, and I will test them like one tests gold. They will call my name, and I will answer them. I will say, \u2018They are my people,\u2019 and they will say, \u2018Yahweh is my God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:1",
"text": " Look! A day is coming for Yahweh, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:2",
"text": "I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, and they will loot the houses, and the women will be raped; half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be cut off from the city. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:3",
"text": "Then Yahweh will go forth and fight against those nations, like \u231ewhen he fights\u231f on a day of battle. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:4",
"text": "On that day his feet will stand on \u231ethe Mount of Olives\u231f, which faces Jerusalem on the east; and \u231ethe Mount of Olives\u231f will be split \u231ein half\u231f, from east to west, by a very great valley; and half of the mountain will withdraw toward the north, and the other half toward the south. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:5",
"text": "And you will flee by the valley of my mountains, because the valley of the mountains will reach to Azal, and you will flee like you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. And Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:6",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f on that day there will not be light, the precious things will congeal. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:7",
"text": "There shall be continuous day\u2014it is known to Yahweh\u2014not day and not night; and at evening time there will be light. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:8",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f on that day, living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea, and the other half to the western sea; it will happen both in the summer and in the winter. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:9",
"text": "And Yahweh will be king over all the earth; on that day Yahweh will be one and his name one. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:10",
"text": "All the land will be transformed into a desert plateau from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But it will rise up high and it will stay in its place from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, up to the Corner Gate and from the Tower of Hananel to the king\u2019s winepresses. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:11",
"text": "And they will dwell in it, and \u231ethere will be no more ban imposed\u231f, and Jerusalem will dwell in security. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:12",
"text": " And this will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples that fight against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are standing on their feet; their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:13",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f on that day a great panic from Yahweh will fall on them, and \u231ethey will seize one another\u2019s hand\u231f, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of \u231eanother\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:14",
"text": "And Judah also will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected\u2014gold and silver, and garments \u231ein great abundance\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:15",
"text": "\u231eLike this plague\u231f will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, and the donkey, and every kind of animal in those camps. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:16",
"text": " \u231eAnd then\u231f every survivor from all those nations coming against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the king, Yahweh of hosts, and celebrate the Feast of Booths. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:17",
"text": "\u231eAnd then\u231f whoever of the clans of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the king, Yahweh of hosts, it will not rain on them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:18",
"text": "And if the clan of Egypt will not go up and come in, on them will be that plague Yahweh inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:19",
"text": "This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:20",
"text": " On that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, \u201cHoly to Yahweh.\u201d And the cooking pots in the house of Yahweh will be holy like the sacrificial basins before the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Zechariah 14:21",
"text": "And every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of hosts, and all those who sacrifice will come and will take from them, and will cook in them, and there will be no longer a \u231etrader\u231f in the house of Yahweh of hosts on that day. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Malachi",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:1",
"text": "\u231eAn oracle\u231f. The word of Yahweh to Israel \u231ethrough\u231f Malachi. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:2",
"text": " \u201cI have loved you,\u201d says Yahweh, but you say, \u201cHow have you loved us?\u201d\u00a0\u201cIs Esau not Jacob\u2019s brother?\u201d \u231edeclares\u231f Yahweh. \u201cI have loved Jacob, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:3",
"text": "but Esau I have hated. I have made his mountain ranges a desolation, and given his inheritance to the jackals of the desert.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:4",
"text": "If Edom says, \u201cWe are shattered, but we will return and rebuild the ruins,\u201d Yahweh of hosts says this: \u201cThey may build, but I will tear down; and they will be called a territory of wickedness, and the people with whom Yahweh is angry forever.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:5",
"text": "Your eyes will see this, and you will say, \u201cYahweh is great beyond the borders of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:6",
"text": " \u201cA son honors his father, and a slave his master; but if I am a father, where is my honor, and if I am a master, where is my reverence?\u201d says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, \u231ewho despise\u231f my name. \u201cBut you say, \u2018How have we despised your name?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:7",
"text": "You are presenting defiled food on my altar! But you ask, \u2018How have we defiled you?\u2019 By saying that the table of Yahweh is despised! "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:8",
"text": "When you offer a blind animal for sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and the one who is ill, is that not wrong? Present it, please, to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? \u231eWill he show you favor\u231f?\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:9",
"text": "So then, \u231eimplore the favor of God\u231f so that he will be gracious to us. \u201c\u231eThis is what you have done\u231f. \u231eWill he show favor to any of you\u231f?\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:10",
"text": "\u201cWho also among you will shut the temple doors so that you will not kindle fire in vain on my altar? I take no pleasure in you,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cand \u231eI will not accept\u231f an offering from your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:11",
"text": "From the rising of the sun to its setting, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is being presented to my name, and a pure offering. For my name is great among the nations,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:12",
"text": "\u201cBut you are profaning it by saying the table of the Lord is defiled, and its fruit\u2014its food\u2014is despised! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:13",
"text": "And you say, \u2018Look! This is a weariness,\u2019 and you sniff with disdain at it,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. \u201cAnd you bring the stolen, the lame, and the one that is sick\u2014this you bring as the offering! Should I \u231eaccept it\u231f from your hand?\u201d says Yahweh. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Malachi 1:14",
"text": "\u201cCursed is the one who cheats, who has in his flock a male and vows it, but instead sacrifices a blemished one to the Lord! For I am a great king,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cand my name is awesome among the nations.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:1",
"text": "\u201cAnd so then, O priests, this command is for you: "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:2",
"text": "If you will not listen, and if you will not \u231etake it to heart\u231f to give glory to my name,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cthen I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; moreover I have already cursed them because \u231eyou are not taking it to heart\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:3",
"text": "Look! I am going to rebuke \u231eyour offspring\u231f, and I will scatter offal on your faces, the offal of your religious feasts, and you will be carried to it. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:4",
"text": " \u201cThen you will know that I have sent to you this command, that my covenant with Levi \u231econtinues\u231f,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:5",
"text": "\u201cMy covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. This required reverence, and he revered me and stood in awe \u231ebefore\u231f my name. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:6",
"text": "The instruction of truth was in his mouth, and wickedness was not found on his lips. In peace and in uprightness he walked with me, and he brought back many from sin. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:7",
"text": "For the lips of the priest should guard knowledge, and they should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:8",
"text": "But you, you have turned from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you have ruined the covenant of Levi,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:9",
"text": "\u201cAnd in turn I have made you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you are not keeping my way, but are \u231efavoring your own instruction\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:10",
"text": " \u231eDo we not all have\u231f one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we unfaithful \u231eto one another\u231f, profaning the covenant of our ancestors? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:11",
"text": "Judah has been faithless, and a detestable thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the sanctuary of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:12",
"text": "May Yahweh cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does this, the one who is awake and who answers, and the one who brings an offering to Yahweh of hosts! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:13",
"text": " And this you do \u231eas well\u231f: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping and with groaning, because he \u231eno longer regards the offering\u231f or accepts it with favor from your hand. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:14",
"text": "But you ask, \u201c\u231eFor what reason\u231f?\u201d Because Yahweh stands as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been unfaithful, even though she is your marriage partner and \u231eyour wife by covenant\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:15",
"text": "\u231eDid not one God make them?\u231f But a remnant of the spirit is his. And what does the one God desire? An offspring of God. \u231eYou must be attentive to\u231f your spirit, and you must not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:16",
"text": "\u201cFor I hate divorce,\u201d says Yahweh, the God of Israel, \u201cand he who covers his clothing with violence,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. \u201c\u231eYou must be attentive to\u231f your spirit and you must not be unfaithful.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Malachi 2:17",
"text": " You have wearied Yahweh with your words, but you ask, \u201cWith what have we wearied him?\u201d You have done so \u231ewhen you say\u231f, \u201cEveryone who does evil is good in the \u231esight\u231f of Yahweh, and in them he delights,\u201d or \u201cWhere is the God of justice?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:1",
"text": " \u201cLook! I am going to send my messenger, and he will prepare the way \u231ebefore me\u231f. And the Lord whom you are seeking will come suddenly to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you are taking pleasure\u2014look!\u2014he is about to come,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:2",
"text": "And who can endure the day of his coming? And who is the one who can stand \u231ewhen he appears\u231f? For he is like a refiner\u2019s fire, like launderers\u2019 alkali. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:3",
"text": "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the children of Levi, and he will refine them like gold and like silver, and they will present to Yahweh offerings in righteousness. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:4",
"text": "And the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to Yahweh, like in the days of old and like in former years. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:5",
"text": " \u201cThen I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear \u231efalsely\u231f, and against the oppressors of the hired worker with his wages, the widow and the orphan, and \u231ethe abusers of\u231f the alien, and yet do not fear me,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:6",
"text": " \u201cFor I, Yahweh, have not changed, and you, O children of Jacob, have not perished. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:7",
"text": "From the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from my rules, and have not kept them! Return to me and I will return to you,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cbut you say, \u2018How shall we return?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:8",
"text": " Will a human dare to rob God? Yet you are robbing me! And you say, \u2018How have we robbed you?\u2019 In the tithes and the contributions! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:9",
"text": "You are being cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:10",
"text": "Bring the whole tithe to \u231ethe storehouse\u231f, so that there will be food in my house, and test me please in this,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts, \u201cif I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour forth for you \u231ean overflowing blessing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:11",
"text": "I will rebuke the devourer for you; it will not destroy the fruit of your soil; your vine in the field will not be unfruitful,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:12",
"text": "\u201cAnd all the nations will call you blessed, because you will be \u231ea land in which one takes joy\u231f,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:13",
"text": "\u201cYour words have been harsh against me,\u201d says Yahweh. \u201cBut you say, \u2018How have we spoken together against you?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:14",
"text": "You have said, \u2018It is useless to serve God! What is the gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners \u231ebefore\u231f Yahweh of hosts? "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:15",
"text": "And now we are calling the arrogant blessed! Not only do those who do wickedness prosper; they also test God and they escape!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:16",
"text": " Then those who revered Yahweh spoke \u231ewith one another\u231f. And Yahweh listened attentively and heard, and a scroll of remembrance was written \u231ebefore him\u231f of those who revere Yahweh and ponder his name. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:17",
"text": "\u201cThey will be mine,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts, \u201con the day that I am acting, my treasured possession. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Malachi 3:18",
"text": "You will return and see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not serve him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Malachi 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Malachi 4:1",
"text": " \u201cFor look! The day is about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every \u231eevildoer\u231f will be stubble. The coming day will consume them,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. \u201cIt will not leave behind for them root or branch. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Malachi 4:2",
"text": "But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like \u231efattened calves\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Malachi 4:3",
"text": "You will trample down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I am going to act,\u201d says Yahweh of hosts. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Malachi 4:4",
"text": " \u201cRemember the instruction of my servant Moses, which I commanded him at Horeb to all Israel, the rules and regulations. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Malachi 4:5",
"text": "Look! I am going to send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Malachi 4:6",
"text": "And he will bring back the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the hearts of the sons to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the land with a ban.\u201d "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Matthew",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:1",
"text": " The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:2",
"text": " Abraham became the father of Isaac, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:3",
"text": "and Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez became the father of Hezron, and Hezron became the father of Aram, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:4",
"text": "and Aram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:5",
"text": "and Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed became the father of Jesse, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:6",
"text": "and Jesse became the father of David the king. And David became the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:7",
"text": "and Solomon became the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam became the father of Abijah, and Abijah became the father of Asa, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:8",
"text": "and Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram, and Joram became the father of Uzziah, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:9",
"text": "and Uzziah became the father of Jotham, and Jotham became the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:10",
"text": "and Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh became the father of Amon, and Amon became the father of Josiah, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:11",
"text": "and Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:12",
"text": " And after the deportation to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:13",
"text": "and Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud, and Abiud became the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim became the father of Azor, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:14",
"text": "and Azor became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Achim, and Achim became the father of Eliud, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:15",
"text": "and Eliud became the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar became the father of Matthan, and Matthan became the father of Jacob, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:16",
"text": "and Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary by whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:17",
"text": " Therefore all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ are fourteen generations. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:18",
"text": " Now the birth of Jesus Christ occurred in this way. His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found \u231eto be pregnant\u231f by the Holy Spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:19",
"text": "So Joseph her husband, being righteous and not wanting to disgrace her, intended to divorce her secretly. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:20",
"text": "But as he was considering these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, \u201cJoseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:21",
"text": "And she will give birth to a son, and you will call his name \u2018Jesus,\u2019 because he will save his people from their sins.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:22",
"text": "Now all this happened in order that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:23",
"text": " \u201cBehold, the virgin \u231ewill become pregnant\u231f and will give birth to a son, and they will call his name Emmanuel,\u201d which is translated, \u201cGod with us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:24",
"text": "And Joseph, when he woke up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and he took his wife "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Matthew 1:25",
"text": "and \u231edid not have sexual relations with\u231f her until she gave birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:1",
"text": " Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:2",
"text": "saying, \u201cWhere is the one who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star at its rising and have come to worship him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:3",
"text": "And when King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:4",
"text": "and after calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired from them where the Christ was to be born. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:5",
"text": "So they said to him, \u201cIn Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:6",
"text": " \u2018And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for from you will go out a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:7",
"text": " Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and determined precisely from them the time when the star appeared. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:8",
"text": "And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, \u201cGo, inquire carefully concerning the child, and when you have found him, report to me so that I also may come and worship him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:9",
"text": "After they listened to the king, they went out, and behold, the star which they had seen at its rising led them until it came and stood above the place where the child was. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:10",
"text": "Now when they saw the star, they rejoiced with very great joy. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:11",
"text": "And when they came into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. And opening their treasure boxes, they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:12",
"text": "And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by another route. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:13",
"text": " Now after they had gone away, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph, saying, \u201cGet up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:14",
"text": "So he got up and took the child and his mother during the night and went away to Egypt. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:15",
"text": "And he was there until the death of Herod, in order that what was said by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying, \u201cOut of Egypt I called my son.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:16",
"text": " Then Herod, when he saw that he had been deceived by the wise men, became very angry, and he sent soldiers and executed all the children in Bethlehem and in all the region around it from the age of two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined precisely from the wise men. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:17",
"text": "Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:18",
"text": " \u201cA voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because \u231ethey exist no longer\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:19",
"text": " Now after Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:20",
"text": "saying, \u201cGet up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the life of the child are dead.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:21",
"text": "So he got up and took the child and his mother and \u231eentered\u231f the land of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:22",
"text": "But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream, he took refuge in the regions of Galilee. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Matthew 2:23",
"text": "And he came and lived in a town called Nazareth, in order that what was said by the prophets would be fulfilled: \u201cHe will be called a Nazarene.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:1",
"text": " Now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the Judean wilderness "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:2",
"text": "and saying, \u201cRepent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:3",
"text": "For this is the one who was spoken about by the prophet Isaiah, saying, \u201cThe voice of one crying out in the wilderness, \u2018Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:4",
"text": " Now John himself had his clothing made from camel\u2019s hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:5",
"text": "Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan were going out to him, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:6",
"text": "and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:7",
"text": " But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, \u201cOffspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:8",
"text": "Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:9",
"text": "And do not think to say to yourselves, \u2018We have Abraham as father.\u2019 For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:10",
"text": "Already now the ax is positioned at the root of the trees; therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:11",
"text": "I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who comes after me is more powerful than I am, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:12",
"text": "His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:13",
"text": " Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John in order to be baptized by him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:14",
"text": "But John tried to prevent him, saying, \u201c\u231eI need\u231f to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:15",
"text": "But Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cPermit it now, for in this way it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.\u201d Then he permitted him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:16",
"text": "Now after he was baptized, Jesus immediately went up from the water, and behold, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove coming upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Matthew 3:17",
"text": "And behold, there was a voice from heaven saying, \u201cThis is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:1",
"text": " Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:2",
"text": "and after he had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:3",
"text": "And the tempter approached and said to him, \u201cIf you are the Son of God, order that these stones become bread.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:4",
"text": "But he answered and said, \u201cIt is written, \u2018Man will not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:5",
"text": " Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the highest point of the temple "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:6",
"text": "and said to him, \u201cIf you are the Son of God, throw yourself down! For it is written, \u2018He will command his angels concerning you,\u2019 and \u2018On their hands they will lift you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:7",
"text": " Jesus said to him, \u201cOn the other hand it is written, \u2018You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:8",
"text": " Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:9",
"text": "and he said to him, \u201cI will give to you all these things, if you will fall down and worship me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:10",
"text": "Then Jesus said to him, \u201cGo away, Satan, for it is written, \u2018You shall worship the Lord your God and serve only him.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:11",
"text": "Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and began ministering to him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:12",
"text": " Now when he heard that John \u231ehad been arrested\u231f, he withdrew into Galilee. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:13",
"text": "And leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:14",
"text": "in order that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:15",
"text": " \u201cLand of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, \u231etoward the sea\u231f, on the other side of the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:16",
"text": " the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and the ones who sit in the land and shadow of death, a light has dawned on them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:17",
"text": " From that time on, Jesus began to preach and to say, \u201cRepent, because the kingdom of heaven is near.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:18",
"text": " Now as he was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew, throwing a casting net into the sea (for they were fishermen). "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:19",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201c\u231eFollow me\u231f and I will make you fishers of people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:20",
"text": "And immediately they left their nets and followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:21",
"text": "And going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:22",
"text": "And immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:23",
"text": " And he went around through all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:24",
"text": "And a report about him went out \u231ethroughout\u231f Syria, and they brought to him all those \u231ewho were sick\u231f with various diseases and afflicted by torments, demon-possessed and epileptics and paralytics, and he healed them. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Matthew 4:25",
"text": "And large crowds followed him from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from the other side of the Jordan. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:1",
"text": " Now when he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain and after he sat down, his disciples approached him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:2",
"text": "And opening his mouth he began to teach them, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:3",
"text": " \u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:4",
"text": " Blessed are the ones who mourn, because they will be comforted. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:5",
"text": " Blessed are the meek, because they will inherit the earth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:6",
"text": " Blessed are the ones who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be satisfied. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:7",
"text": " Blessed are the merciful, because they will be shown mercy. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:8",
"text": " Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:9",
"text": " Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:10",
"text": " Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:11",
"text": " Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:12",
"text": "Rejoice and be glad, because your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:13",
"text": " \u201cYou are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes tasteless, by what will it be made salty? It is good for nothing any longer except to be thrown outside and trampled under foot by people. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:14",
"text": "You are the light of the world. A city located on top of a hill cannot be hidden, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:15",
"text": "nor do they light a lamp and place it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it shines on all those in the house. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:16",
"text": "In the same way let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:17",
"text": " \u201cDo not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to fulfill them. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:18",
"text": "For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one tiny letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all takes place. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:19",
"text": "Therefore whoever abolishes one of the least of these commandments and teaches people to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever keeps them and teaches them, this person will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:20",
"text": "For I say to you that unless your righteousness greatly surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:21",
"text": " \u201cYou have heard that it was said to the \u231epeople of old\u231f, \u2018Do not commit murder,\u2019 and \u2018whoever commits murder will be subject to judgment.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:22",
"text": "But I say to you that everyone who is angry at his brother will be subject to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, \u2018Stupid fool!\u2019 will be subject to the council, and whoever says, \u2018Obstinate fool!\u2019 will be subject to fiery hell. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:23",
"text": "Therefore if you present your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:24",
"text": "leave your gift there before the altar and first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your gift. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:25",
"text": "\u231eSettle the case quickly with your accuser\u231f while you are with him on the way, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:26",
"text": "Truly I say to you, you will never come out of there until you have paid back the last penny! "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:27",
"text": " \u201cYou have heard that it was said, \u2018Do not commit adultery.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:28",
"text": "But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:29",
"text": "And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it from you! For it is better for you that one of your members be destroyed than your whole body be thrown into hell. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:30",
"text": "And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it from you! For it is better for you that one of your limbs be destroyed than your whole body go into hell. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:31",
"text": " \u201cAnd it was said, \u2018Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:32",
"text": "But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:33",
"text": " \u201cAgain you have heard that it was said to the \u231epeople of old\u231f, \u2018Do not swear falsely, but fulfill your oaths to the Lord.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:34",
"text": "But I say to you, do not swear at all, either by heaven, because it is the throne of God, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:35",
"text": "or by the earth, because it is the footstool of his feet, or by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great king. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:36",
"text": "And do not swear by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:37",
"text": "But let your statement be \u2018Yes, yes; no, no,\u2019 and anything beyond these is from the evil one. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:38",
"text": " \u201cYou have heard that it was said, \u2018An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:39",
"text": "But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer, but whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:40",
"text": "And the one who wants to go to court with you and take your tunic, \u231elet him have\u231f your outer garment also. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:41",
"text": "And whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:42",
"text": "Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:43",
"text": " \u201cYou have heard that it was said, \u2018Love your neighbor\u2019 and \u2018Hate your enemy.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:44",
"text": "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:45",
"text": "in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, because he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:46",
"text": "For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not the tax collectors also do the same? "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:47",
"text": "And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing that is remarkable? Do not the Gentiles also do the same? "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Matthew 5:48",
"text": "Therefore you be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:1",
"text": " \u201cAnd take care not to practice your righteousness before people to be seen by them; \u231eotherwise\u231f you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:2",
"text": "Therefore whenever you practice charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet in front of you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be praised by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full! "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:3",
"text": "But you, when you practice charitable giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:4",
"text": "in order that your charitable giving may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:5",
"text": " And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, in order that they may be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:6",
"text": "But whenever you pray, enter into your inner room and shut your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:7",
"text": " \u201cBut when you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the pagans, for they think that because of their many words they will be heard. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:8",
"text": "Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows \u231ewhat you need\u231f before you ask him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:9",
"text": "Therefore you pray in this way: \u201cOur Father who is in heaven, may your name be treated as holy. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:10",
"text": " May your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:11",
"text": " Give us today our daily bread, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:12",
"text": " and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:13",
"text": " And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:14",
"text": " For if you forgive people their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:15",
"text": "But if you do not forgive people, neither will your Father forgive your sins. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:16",
"text": " \u201cWhenever you fast, do not be sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unrecognizable in order that they may be seen fasting by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full! "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:17",
"text": "But when you are fasting, \u231eput olive oil on your head\u231f and wash your face "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:18",
"text": "so that you will not be seen by people as fasting, but to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:19",
"text": " \u201cDo not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:20",
"text": "but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming insect destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:21",
"text": "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:22",
"text": " \u201cThe eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:23",
"text": "But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:24",
"text": " \u201cNo one is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:25",
"text": " \u201cFor this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, and not for your body, what you will wear. Is your life not more than food and your body more than clothing? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:26",
"text": "Consider the birds of the sky, that they do not sow or reap or gather produce into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they are? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:27",
"text": "And who among you, by being anxious, is able to add one hour to his life span? "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:28",
"text": "And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe the lilies of the field, how they grow: they do not toil or spin, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:29",
"text": "but I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:30",
"text": "But if God dresses the grass of the field in this way, although it is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not do so much more for you, you of little faith? "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:31",
"text": "Therefore do not be anxious, saying, \u2018What will we eat?\u2019 or \u2018What will we drink?\u2019 or \u2018What will we wear?,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:32",
"text": "for the pagans seek after all these things. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:33",
"text": "But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Matthew 6:34",
"text": "Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow, because tomorrow will be anxious for itself. \u231eEach day has enough trouble of its own.\u231f "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:1",
"text": " \u201cDo not judge, so that you will not be judged. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:2",
"text": "For by what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and by what measure you measure out, it will be measured out to you. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:3",
"text": "And why do you see the speck that is in your brother\u2019s eye, but do not notice the beam of wood in your own eye? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:4",
"text": "Or how will you say to your brother, \u2018Allow me to remove the speck from your eye,\u2019 and behold, the beam of wood is in your own eye? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:5",
"text": "Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother\u2019s eye! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:6",
"text": " \u201cDo not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls in front of pigs, lest they trample them with their feet, and turn around and tear you to pieces. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:7",
"text": " \u201cAsk and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:8",
"text": "For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:9",
"text": "Or what man is there among you, if his son will ask him for bread, will give him a stone? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:10",
"text": "Or also if he will ask for a fish, will give him a snake? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:11",
"text": "Therefore if you, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:12",
"text": "Therefore in all things, whatever you want that people should do to you, thus also you do to them. For this is the law and the prophets. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:13",
"text": " \u201cEnter through the narrow gate, because broad is the gate and spacious is the road that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:14",
"text": "because narrow is the gate and constricted is the road that leads to life, and there are few who find it! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:15",
"text": " \u201cBeware of false prophets who come to you in sheep\u2019s clothing, but inside are ravenous wolves. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:16",
"text": "You will recognize them by their fruits: they do not gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles, do they? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:17",
"text": "In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:18",
"text": "A good tree is not able to produce bad fruit, nor a bad tree to produce good fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:19",
"text": "Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:20",
"text": "As a result, you will recognize them by their fruits. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:21",
"text": " \u201cNot everyone who says to me, \u2018Lord, Lord,\u2019 will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:22",
"text": "On that day many will say to me, \u2018Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many miracles in your name?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:23",
"text": "And then \u231eI will say to them plainly\u231f, \u2018I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:24",
"text": " \u201cTherefore everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:25",
"text": "And the rain came down and the rivers came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it did not collapse, because its foundation was laid on the rock. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:26",
"text": "And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:27",
"text": "And the rain came down and the rivers came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it collapsed, and its fall was great.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:28",
"text": " And it happened when Jesus finished these words the crowds were amazed at his teaching, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Matthew 7:29",
"text": "because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like their scribes. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:1",
"text": " And when he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:2",
"text": "And behold, a leper approached and worshiped him, saying, \u201cLord, if you are willing, you are able to make me clean.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:3",
"text": "And extending his hand he touched him, saying, \u201cI am willing, be clean.\u201d And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:4",
"text": "And Jesus said to him, \u201cSee that you tell no one, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:5",
"text": " Now when he entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him, appealing to him "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:6",
"text": "and saying, \u201cLord, my slave is lying paralyzed in my house, terribly tormented!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:7",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cI will come and heal him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:8",
"text": "And the centurion answered and said, \u201cLord, I am not worthy that you should come in under my roof. But only say the word and my slave will be healed. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:9",
"text": "For I also am a man under authority who has soldiers under me, and I say to this one, \u2018Go!\u2019 and he goes, and to another one, \u2018Come!\u2019 and he comes, and to my slave, \u2018Do this!\u2019 and he does it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:10",
"text": " Now when Jesus heard this, he was astonished, and said to those who were following him, \u201cTruly I say to you, I have found such great faith with no one in Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:11",
"text": "But I say to you that many will come from east and west and \u231ebe seated at the banquet\u231f with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:12",
"text": "But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:13",
"text": "And Jesus said to the centurion, \u201cGo, as you have believed it will be done for you.\u201d And the slave was healed at that hour. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:14",
"text": " And when Jesus came into Peter\u2019s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying down and suffering with a fever. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:15",
"text": "And he touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:16",
"text": " Now when it was evening, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed, and he expelled the spirits with a word. And he healed all \u231ethose who were sick\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:17",
"text": "in order that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, \u201cHe himself took away our sicknesses, and carried away our diseases.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:18",
"text": " Now when Jesus saw many crowds around him, he gave orders to depart to the other side. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:19",
"text": "And a scribe approached and said to him, \u201cTeacher, I will follow you wherever you go!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:20",
"text": "And Jesus said to him, \u201cFoxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:21",
"text": "And another of the disciples said to him, \u201cLord, allow me first to go and bury my father.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:22",
"text": "But Jesus said to him, \u201cFollow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:23",
"text": " And as he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:24",
"text": "And behold, a great storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being inundated by the waves, but he himself was asleep. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:25",
"text": "And they came and woke him, saying, \u201cLord, save us! We are perishing!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:26",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhy are you fearful, you of little faith?\u201d Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea and there was a great calm. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:27",
"text": "And the men were astonished, saying, \u201cWhat sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:28",
"text": " And when he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from among the tombs met him, very violent, so that no one was able to pass by along that road. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:29",
"text": "And behold, they cried out, saying, \u201c\u231eWhat do you have to do with us\u231f, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:30",
"text": "Now a long way from them a large herd of pigs was feeding. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:31",
"text": "So the demons implored him, saying, \u201cIf you are going to expel us, send us into the herd of pigs.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:32",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cGo!\u201d So they departed and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and drowned in the water. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:33",
"text": "Now the herdsmen fled and went into the town and reported everything, including the things concerning the demon-possessed men. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Matthew 8:34",
"text": "And behold, the whole town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they implored him that he would depart from their region. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:1",
"text": " And getting into a boat, he crossed over and came to his own town. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:2",
"text": "And behold, they brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher, and when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, \u201cHave courage, child, your sins are forgiven.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:3",
"text": "And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, \u201cThis man is blaspheming!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:4",
"text": "And knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, \u201cWhy do you think evil in your hearts? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:5",
"text": "For which is easier to say, \u2018Your sins are forgiven,\u2019 or to say, \u2018Get up and walk\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:6",
"text": "But in order that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,\u201d then he said to the paralytic, \u201cGet up, pick up your stretcher and go to your home.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:7",
"text": "And he got up and went to his home. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:8",
"text": "But when the crowds saw this, they were afraid and glorified God who had given such authority to men. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:9",
"text": " And as Jesus was going away from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth and said to him, \u201cFollow me!\u201d And he stood up and followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:10",
"text": " And it happened as he \u231ewas dining\u231f in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners were coming and \u231edining\u231f with Jesus and his disciples. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:11",
"text": "And when they saw it, the Pharisees began to say to his disciples, \u201cWhy does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:12",
"text": "And when he heard it, he said, \u201cThose who are healthy do not have need of a physician, but those \u231ewho are sick\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:13",
"text": "But go and learn what it means, \u201cI want mercy and not sacrifice.\u201d For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:14",
"text": " Then the disciples of John approached him, saying, \u201cWhy do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:15",
"text": "And Jesus said to them, \u201c\u231eThe bridegroom\u2019s attendants\u231f are not able to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them. But days are coming when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:16",
"text": "But no one puts a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old garment, for its patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear becomes worse. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:17",
"text": "Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins. \u231eOtherwise\u231f the wineskins burst and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are destroyed. But they put new wine into new wineskins and both are preserved.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:18",
"text": " As he was saying these things to them, behold, one of the rulers came and knelt down before him, saying, \u201cMy daughter has just now died, but come, place your hand on her and she will live!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:19",
"text": "And Jesus and his disciples got up and followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:20",
"text": "And behold, a woman who had been suffering with a hemorrhage twelve years approached from behind and touched the edge of his cloak, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:21",
"text": "for she said to herself, \u201cIf only I touch his cloak I will be healed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:22",
"text": "But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, \u201cHave courage, daughter! Your faith has healed you.\u201d And the woman was healed from that hour. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:23",
"text": " And when Jesus came into the ruler\u2019s house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:24",
"text": "he said, \u201cGo away, because the girl is not dead, but is sleeping.\u201d And they ridiculed him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:25",
"text": "But when the crowd had been sent out, he entered and took her hand, and the girl got up. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:26",
"text": "And this report went out into that whole region. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:27",
"text": " And as Jesus was going away from there, two blind men followed him, crying out and saying, \u201cHave mercy on us, Son of David!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:28",
"text": "And when he came into the house, the blind men approached him, and Jesus said to them, \u201cDo you believe that I am able to do this?\u201d They said to him, \u201cYes, Lord.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:29",
"text": "Then he touched their eyes, saying, \u201cAccording to your faith let it be done for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:30",
"text": "And their eyes were opened, and Jesus sternly warned them, saying, \u201cSee that no one finds out.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:31",
"text": "But they went out and spread the report about him in that whole region. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:32",
"text": " Now as they were going away, behold, they brought to him a demon-possessed man who was unable to speak. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:33",
"text": "And after the demon had been expelled, the one who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were astonished, saying, \u201c\u231eThis has never been seen before\u231f in Israel!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:34",
"text": "But the Pharisees were saying, \u201cBy the ruler of demons he expels the demons!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:35",
"text": " And Jesus was going around all the towns and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:36",
"text": "And when he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were weary and dejected, like sheep that did not have a shepherd. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:37",
"text": "Then he said to his disciples, \u201cThe harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Matthew 9:38",
"text": "Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest that he send out workers into his harvest.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:1",
"text": " And summoning his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could expel them and could heal every disease and every sickness. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:2",
"text": "Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:3",
"text": "Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector, James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:4",
"text": "Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot\u2014the one who also betrayed him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:5",
"text": " Jesus sent out these twelve, instructing them saying, \u201cDo not go on the road to the Gentiles, and do not enter into a city of the Samaritans, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:6",
"text": "but go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:7",
"text": "And as you are going, preach, saying, \u2018The kingdom of heaven has come near!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:8",
"text": "Heal those who are sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, expel demons. Freely you have received; freely give. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:9",
"text": "Do not procure gold or silver or copper for your belts. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:10",
"text": "Do not take a traveler\u2019s bag for the road, or two tunics, or sandals, or a staff, for the worker is deserving of his provisions. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:11",
"text": "And into whatever town or village you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and stay there until you depart. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:12",
"text": "And when you enter into the house, greet it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:13",
"text": "And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:14",
"text": "And whoever does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you are going out of that house or that town. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:15",
"text": "Truly I say to you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:16",
"text": " \u201cBehold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:17",
"text": "But beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils, and they will flog you in their synagogues. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:18",
"text": "And you will be brought before both governors and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:19",
"text": "But whenever they hand you over, do not be anxious how to speak or what you should say, for what you should say will be given to you at that hour. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:20",
"text": "For you are not the ones who are speaking, but the Spirit of your Father who is speaking through you. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:21",
"text": " \u201cAnd brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:22",
"text": "and you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end\u2014this one will be saved. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:23",
"text": "And whenever they persecute you in this town, flee to another, for truly I say to you, you will never finish going through the towns of Israel until the Son of Man comes. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:24",
"text": " \u201cA disciple is not superior to his teacher, nor a slave superior to his master. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:25",
"text": "It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:26",
"text": " \u201cTherefore do not be afraid of them, because nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing secret that will not become known. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:27",
"text": "What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear in your ear, proclaim on the housetops. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:28",
"text": "And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but instead be afraid of the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:29",
"text": "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And one of them will not fall to the ground \u231ewithout the knowledge and consent\u231f of your Father. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:30",
"text": "And even the hairs of your head are all numbered! "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:31",
"text": "Therefore do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:32",
"text": " \u201cTherefore everyone who acknowledges me before people, I also will acknowledge him before my Father who is in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:33",
"text": "But whoever denies me before people, I also will deny him before my Father who is in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:34",
"text": " \u201cDo not think that I have come to bring peace on the earth! I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:35",
"text": "For I have come to turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:36",
"text": "And the enemies of a man will be the members of his household. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:37",
"text": "The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:38",
"text": "And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:39",
"text": "The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:40",
"text": " \u201cThe one who receives you receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:41",
"text": "The one who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet\u2019s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person\u2019s reward. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Matthew 10:42",
"text": "And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will never lose his reward.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:1",
"text": " And it happened that when Jesus had finished giving orders to his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and to preach in their towns. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:2",
"text": "Now when John heard in prison the deeds of Christ, he sent word by his disciples "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:3",
"text": "and said to him, \u201cAre you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:4",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cGo and tell John what you hear and see: "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:5",
"text": "the blind receive sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have good news announced to them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:6",
"text": "And whoever is not offended by me is blessed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:7",
"text": " Now as these were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: \u201cWhat did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:8",
"text": "But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in the houses of kings. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:9",
"text": "But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:10",
"text": "It is this man about whom it is written: \u2018Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:11",
"text": " Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen one greater than John the Baptist. But the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:12",
"text": "But from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven is treated violently, and the violent claim it. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:13",
"text": "For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:14",
"text": "and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah, the one who is going to come. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:15",
"text": "The one who has ears, let him hear! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:16",
"text": " \u201cBut to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:17",
"text": "saying, \u2018We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not mourn.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:18",
"text": " For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, \u2018He has a demon!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:19",
"text": "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, \u2018Behold, a man who is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!\u2019 But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:20",
"text": " Then he began to reproach the towns in which the majority of his miracles had been done, because they did not repent: "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:21",
"text": "\u201cWoe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:22",
"text": "Nevertheless I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and for Sidon on the day of judgment than for you! "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:23",
"text": "And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:24",
"text": "Nevertheless I tell you that it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:25",
"text": " At that time Jesus answered and said, \u201cI praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to young children. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:26",
"text": "Yes, Father, for to do so \u231ewas your gracious will\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:27",
"text": "All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and \u231eanyone to whom\u231f the Son wants to reveal him. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:28",
"text": "Come to me, all of you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:29",
"text": "Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Matthew 11:30",
"text": "For my yoke is easy to carry and my burden is light.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:1",
"text": " At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. And his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck off heads of grain and eat them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:2",
"text": "But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, \u201cBehold, your disciples are doing what it is not permitted to do on the Sabbath!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:3",
"text": "So he said to them, \u201cHave you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those with him, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:4",
"text": "how he entered into the house of God and ate the bread of the presentation, which it was not permitted for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:5",
"text": "Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the sanctity of the Sabbath and are guiltless? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:6",
"text": "But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:7",
"text": "And if you had known what \u231eit means\u231f, \u2018I want mercy and not sacrifice,\u2019 you would not have condemned the guiltless. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:8",
"text": "For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:9",
"text": " And going on from there he came into their synagogue. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:10",
"text": "And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand, and they asked him, saying, \u201cIs it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?\u201d in order that they could accuse him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:11",
"text": "But he said to them, \u201cWhat man will there be among you who will have one sheep and if this one fell into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:12",
"text": "Then to what degree is a man worth more than a sheep? So then, it is permitted to do good on the Sabbath.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:13",
"text": " Then he said to the man, \u201cStretch out your hand,\u201d and he stretched it out, and it was restored as healthy as the other one. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:14",
"text": "But the Pharisees went out \u231eand plotted\u231f against him in order that they could destroy him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:15",
"text": " Now Jesus, when he learned of it, withdrew from there, and many followed him, and he healed them all. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:16",
"text": "And he warned them that they should not \u231ereveal his identity\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:17",
"text": "in order that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:18",
"text": " \u201cBehold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:19",
"text": " He will not quarrel or cry out, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:20",
"text": " A crushed reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not extinguish, until he brings justice to victory. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:21",
"text": " And in his name the Gentiles will hope. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:22",
"text": " Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to him. And he healed him so that the man who was mute could speak and see. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:23",
"text": "And all the crowds were amazed and began saying, \u201cPerhaps this one is the Son of David!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:24",
"text": "But the Pharisees, when they heard it, said, \u201cThis man does not expel demons except by Beelzebul the ruler of demons!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:25",
"text": "But knowing their thoughts, he said to them, \u201cEvery kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:26",
"text": "And if Satan expels Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:27",
"text": "And if I expel demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons expel them? For this reason they will be your judges! "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:28",
"text": "But if I expel demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you! "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:29",
"text": "Or how can someone enter into the house of a strong man and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? And then he can thoroughly plunder his house. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:30",
"text": "The one who is not with me is against me, and the one who does not gather with me scatters. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:31",
"text": "For this reason I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven! "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:32",
"text": "And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him either in this age or in the coming one! "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:33",
"text": " \u201cEither make the tree good and its fruit is good, or make the tree bad and its fruit is bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:34",
"text": "Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things when you are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:35",
"text": "The good person from his good treasury brings out good things, and the evil person from his evil treasury brings out evil things. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:36",
"text": "But I tell you that every worthless word that they speak, people will give an account for it on the day of judgment! "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:37",
"text": "For by your words you will be vindicated, and by your words you will be condemned.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:38",
"text": " Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him saying, \u201cTeacher, we want to see a sign from you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:39",
"text": "But he answered and said to them, \u201cAn evil and adulterous generation desires a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah! "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:40",
"text": "For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:41",
"text": "The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here! "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:42",
"text": "The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here! "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:43",
"text": " \u201cNow whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find it. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:44",
"text": "Then it says, \u2018I will return to my house from which I came out.\u2019 And when it arrives it finds the house unoccupied and swept and put in order. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:45",
"text": "Then it goes and brings along with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. And the last state of that person becomes worse than the first. So it will be for this evil generation also!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:46",
"text": " And while he was still speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and brothers were standing there outside, desiring to speak to him. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:47",
"text": "And someone told him, \u201cBehold, your mother and your brothers are standing there outside desiring to speak to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:48",
"text": "But he answered and said to the one who told him, \u201cWho is my mother, and who are my brothers?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:49",
"text": "And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, \u201cBehold my mother and my brothers! "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Matthew 12:50",
"text": "For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:1",
"text": " On that day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:2",
"text": "And large crowds gathered close around him, so that he got into a boat to sit down, and all the crowd was standing on the shore. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:3",
"text": "And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, \u201cBehold, the sower went out to sow, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:4",
"text": "and while he was sowing, \u231esome seed\u231f fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:5",
"text": "And other seed fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once because it did not have any depth of soil. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:6",
"text": "But when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:7",
"text": "And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:8",
"text": "But other seed fell on the good soil and produced grain, this one a hundred times as much and this one sixty and this one thirty. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:9",
"text": "The one who has ears, let him hear!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:10",
"text": " And the disciples came up and said to him, \u201c\u231eWhy\u231f do you speak to them in parables?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:11",
"text": "And he answered and said to them, \u201cTo you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to those people it has not been granted. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:12",
"text": "For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:13",
"text": "For this reason I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:14",
"text": "and with reference to them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says, \u201c\u231eYou will listen carefully\u231f and will never understand, and \u231eyou will look closely\u231f and will never perceive. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:15",
"text": " For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:16",
"text": " But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:17",
"text": "For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it! "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:18",
"text": " \u201cYou, therefore, listen to the parable of the sower: "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:19",
"text": "When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown on the side of the path. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:20",
"text": "And what was sown on the rocky ground\u2014this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:21",
"text": "But he does not have a root in himself, but \u231elasts only a little while\u231f, and when affliction or persecution happens because of the word, immediately he falls away. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:22",
"text": "And what was sown into the thorn plants\u2014this is the one who hears the word, and the anxiety of this world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word and it becomes unproductive. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:23",
"text": "But what was sown on the good soil\u2014this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces, this one a hundred times as much, and this one sixty, and this one thirty.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:24",
"text": " He put before them another parable, saying, \u201cThe kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:25",
"text": "But while his people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat and went away. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:26",
"text": "So when the \u231ewheat\u231f sprouted and yielded grain, then the darnel appeared also. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:27",
"text": "So the slaves of the master of the house came and said to him, \u2018Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have darnel?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:28",
"text": "And he said to them, \u2018An enemy has done this!\u2019 So the slaves said to him, \u2018Then do you want us to go and gather them?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:29",
"text": "But he said, \u201cNo, lest when you gather the darnel you uproot the wheat together with it. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:30",
"text": "Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the season of the harvest I will tell the reapers, \u201cFirst gather the darnel and tie it into bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my storehouse.\u201d\u00a0\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:31",
"text": " He put before them another parable, saying, \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:32",
"text": "\u231eIt\u231f is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it is grown it is larger than the garden herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:33",
"text": " He told them another parable: \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and put into three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:34",
"text": " Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:35",
"text": "in order that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, who said, \u201cI will open my mouth in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden since the creation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:36",
"text": " Then he left the crowds and came into the house, and his disciples came to him saying, \u201cExplain the parable of the darnel in the field to us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:37",
"text": "So he answered and said, \u201cThe one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:38",
"text": "and the field is the world. And the good seed\u2014these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil one. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:39",
"text": "And the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:40",
"text": "Thus just as the darnel is gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:41",
"text": "The Son of Man will send out his angels and they will gather out of his kingdom all the causes of sin and those who do lawless deeds, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:42",
"text": "and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth! "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:43",
"text": "Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears, let him hear! "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:44",
"text": " \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, that a man found and concealed, and in his joy he goes and sells everything that he has and buys that field. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:45",
"text": " \u201cAgain, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:46",
"text": "And when he found one very valuable pearl, he went and sold everything that he possessed and purchased it. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:47",
"text": " \u201cAgain, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind, "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:48",
"text": "which when it was filled they pulled to shore and sat down and collected the good fish into containers, but the bad they threw out. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:49",
"text": "Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the evil from among the righteous "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:50",
"text": "and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth! "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:51",
"text": " \u201cHave you understood all these things?\u201d They said to him, \u201cYes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:52",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cFor this reason every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of the house who brings out of his storeroom new things and old things.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:53",
"text": " And it happened that when Jesus had finished these parables he went away from there. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:54",
"text": "And he came to his hometown and began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were amazed and said, \u201cFrom where did this man get this wisdom and these miracles? "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:55",
"text": "Is not this one the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:56",
"text": "And are not all his sisters with us? From where then did this man get all these things?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:57",
"text": "And they were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, \u201cA prophet is not without honor except in his own hometown and in his own household.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Matthew 13:58",
"text": "And he did not perform many miracles in that place because of their unbelief. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:1",
"text": " At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:2",
"text": "and he said to his servants, \u201cThis is John the Baptist! He has been raised from the dead, and for this reason miraculous powers are at work in him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:3",
"text": "For Herod, after arresting John, bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:4",
"text": "because John had been saying to him, \u201cIt is not permitted for you to have her.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:5",
"text": "And although he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they looked upon him as a prophet. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:6",
"text": " But when Herod\u2019s birthday celebration took place, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst of them and pleased Herod. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:7",
"text": "Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:8",
"text": "And coached by her mother, she said, \u201cGive me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:9",
"text": "And although the king was distressed, because of his oaths and his \u231edinner guests\u231f he commanded the request to be granted. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:10",
"text": "And he sent orders and had John beheaded in the prison, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:11",
"text": "and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:12",
"text": "And his disciples came and took away the corpse and buried it, and went and told Jesus. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:13",
"text": " Now when Jesus heard it, he withdrew from there in a boat to an isolated place by himself. And when the crowds heard it, they followed him by land from the towns. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:14",
"text": "And as he got out, he saw the large crowd and had compassion on them and healed their sick. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:15",
"text": "Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him saying, \u201cThe place is desolate and the hour \u231eis late\u231f. Release the crowds so that they can go away into the villages and purchase food for themselves.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:16",
"text": "But Jesus said to them, \u201cThey do not \u231eneed\u231f to go away. You give them something to eat.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:17",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cWe do not have anything here except five loaves and two fish.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:18",
"text": "So he said, \u201cBring them here to me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:19",
"text": "And he commanded the crowds to recline for a meal on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks. And after breaking them, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:20",
"text": "And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:21",
"text": "Now those who ate were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:22",
"text": " And immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent away the crowds. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:23",
"text": "And after he sent away the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. So when evening came, he was there alone. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:24",
"text": "But the boat was already many stadia distant from the land, being beaten by the waves, because the wind was against it. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:25",
"text": "And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:26",
"text": "But the disciples, when they saw him walking on the sea, were terrified, saying, \u201cIt is a ghost!\u201d and they cried out in fear. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:27",
"text": "But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, \u201cHave courage, I am he! Do not be afraid!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:28",
"text": "And Peter answered him and said, \u201cLord, if \u231eit is you\u231f, command me to come to you on the water!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:29",
"text": "So he said, \u201cCome!\u201d And getting out of the boat, Peter walked on the water and came toward Jesus. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:30",
"text": "But when he saw the strong wind, he was afraid. And beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, \u201cLord, save me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:31",
"text": "And immediately Jesus extended his hand and caught him and said to him, \u201cYou of little faith! Why did you doubt?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:32",
"text": "And when they got into the boat, the wind abated. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:33",
"text": "So those in the boat worshiped him, saying, \u201cTruly you are the Son of God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:34",
"text": " And after they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:35",
"text": "And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent word into that whole surrounding region, and they brought to him all those \u231ewho were sick\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Matthew 14:36",
"text": "And they were imploring him that they might only touch the edge of his cloak, and all those who touched it were cured. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:1",
"text": " Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:2",
"text": "\u201cWhy do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat \u231ea meal\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:3",
"text": "So he answered and said to them, \u201cWhy do you also break the commandment of God because of your tradition? "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:4",
"text": "For God said, \u2018Honor your father and your mother,\u2019 and \u2018The one who speaks evil of father or mother \u231emust certainly die\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:5",
"text": "But you say, \u2018Whoever says to his father or his mother, \u201cWhatever \u231ebenefit you would have received\u231f from me is a gift to God,\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:6",
"text": "need not honor his father,\u2019 and you make void the word of God for the sake of your tradition. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:7",
"text": "Hypocrites! Isaiah correctly prophesied about you saying, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:8",
"text": " \u2018This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:9",
"text": " and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:10",
"text": " And summoning the crowd, he said to them, \u201cHear and understand: "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:11",
"text": "It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth\u2014this defiles a person.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:12",
"text": "Then the disciples came and said to him, \u201cDo you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:13",
"text": "And he answered and said, \u201cEvery plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:14",
"text": "Let them! They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:15",
"text": "But Peter answered and said to him, \u201cExplain this parable to us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:16",
"text": "But he said, \u201cAre you also still without understanding? "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:17",
"text": "Do you not understand that everything that enters into the mouth goes into the stomach and is evacuated into the latrine? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:18",
"text": "But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile the person. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:19",
"text": "For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:20",
"text": "These are the things that defile a person. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:21",
"text": " And departing from there, Jesus went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:22",
"text": "And behold, a Canaanite woman from that district came and cried out, saying, \u201cHave mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:23",
"text": "But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came up and asked him, saying, \u201cSend her away, because she is crying out after us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:24",
"text": "But he answered and said, \u201cI was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:25",
"text": "But she came and knelt down before him, saying, \u201cLord, help me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:26",
"text": "And he answered and said, \u201cIt is not right to take the children\u2019s bread and throw it to the dogs!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:27",
"text": "So she said, \u201cYes, Lord, for even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master\u2019s table.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:28",
"text": "Then Jesus answered and said to her, \u201cO woman, your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you want.\u201d And her daughter was healed from that hour. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:29",
"text": " And departing from there, Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee, and he went up on the mountain and was sitting there. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:30",
"text": "And large crowds came to him, having with them the mute, blind, lame, crippled, and many others, and they put them down at his feet, and he healed them. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:31",
"text": "So then the crowd was astonished when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:32",
"text": " And Jesus summoned his disciples and said, \u201cI have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat, and I do not want to send them away hungry lest they give out on the way.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:33",
"text": "And the disciples said to him, \u201cWhere in this desolate place \u231ecan we get\u231f so much bread that such a great crowd could be satisfied?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:34",
"text": "And Jesus said to them, \u201cHow many loaves do you have?\u201d So they said, \u201cSeven, and a few little fish.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:35",
"text": "And commanding the crowd to recline for a meal on the ground, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:36",
"text": "he took the seven loaves and the fish and after he had given thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:37",
"text": "And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:38",
"text": "Now those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Matthew 15:39",
"text": "And after he sent away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:1",
"text": " And when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test him, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:2",
"text": "So he answered and said to them, \u201cWhen evening comes you say, \u2018It will be fair weather because the sky is red,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:3",
"text": "and early in the morning, \u2018Today it will be stormy weather, because the sky is red and darkening.\u2019 You know how to evaluate correctly the appearance of the sky, but you are not able to evaluate the signs of the times. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:4",
"text": "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, and a sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonah!\u201d And he left them and went away. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:5",
"text": " And when the disciples arrived at the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:6",
"text": "And Jesus said to them, \u201cWatch out for and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:7",
"text": "So they were discussing this among themselves, saying, \u201cIt is because we did not take bread.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:8",
"text": "But knowing this, Jesus said, \u201cWhy are you discussing among yourselves that you did not take bread, you of little faith? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:9",
"text": "Do you not yet understand or do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:10",
"text": "Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:11",
"text": "How do you not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:12",
"text": "Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:13",
"text": " Now when Jesus came to the region of Caesarea \u231ePhilippi\u231f, he began asking his disciples, saying, \u201cWho do people say that the Son of Man is?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:14",
"text": "And they said, \u231eSome\u231f say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:15",
"text": "He said to them, \u201cBut who do you say that I am?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:16",
"text": "And Simon Peter answered and said, \u201cYou are the Christ, the Son of the living God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:17",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cBlessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:18",
"text": "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:19",
"text": "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:20",
"text": "Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was the Christ. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:21",
"text": " From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised on the third day. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:22",
"text": "And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, \u231eGod forbid\u231f, Lord! This will never happen to you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:23",
"text": "But he turned around and said to Peter, \u201cGet behind me, Satan! You are a cause for stumbling to me, because you are not intent on the things of God, but the things of people!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:24",
"text": " Then Jesus said to his disciples, \u201cIf anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:25",
"text": "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me will find it. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:26",
"text": "For what will a person be benefited if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what will a person give in exchange for his life? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:27",
"text": "For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and at that time he will reward each one according to \u231ewhat he has done\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Matthew 16:28",
"text": "Truly I say to you, that there are some of those standing here who will never experience death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:1",
"text": " And after six days Jesus took along Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:2",
"text": "And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothing became bright as the light. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:3",
"text": "And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:4",
"text": "So Peter answered and said to Jesus, \u201cLord, it is good that we are here! If you want, I will make here three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:5",
"text": "While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice from the cloud said, \u201cThis is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:6",
"text": "And when the disciples heard this, they fell down on their faces and were extremely frightened. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:7",
"text": "And Jesus came and touched them and said, \u201cGet up and do not be afraid.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:8",
"text": "And when they lifted up their eyes they saw no one except him\u2014Jesus alone. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:9",
"text": " And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them saying, \u201cTell no one the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:10",
"text": "And the disciples asked him, saying, \u201cThen why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:11",
"text": "And he answered and said, \u201cElijah indeed is coming, and will restore all things. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:12",
"text": "But I say to you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did with him whatever they wanted. In the same way also the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:13",
"text": "Then the disciples understood that he had spoken to them about John the Baptist. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:14",
"text": " And when they came to the crowd, a man approached him, kneeling down before him "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:15",
"text": "and saying, \u201cLord, have mercy on my son, because he has seizures and suffers severely, for often he falls into the fire and often into the water. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:16",
"text": "And I brought him to your disciples, and they were not able to heal him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:17",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said, \u201cO unbelieving and perverse generation! \u231eHow long\u231f will I be with you? \u231eHow long\u231f must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:18",
"text": "And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him and the boy was healed from that hour. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:19",
"text": " Then the disciples approached Jesus privately and said, \u231eWhy\u231f were we not able to expel it?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:20",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cBecause of your little faith. For truly I say to you, if you have faith like a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, \u2018Move from here to there,\u2019 and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:21",
"text": ""
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:22",
"text": " Now as they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, \u201cThe Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:23",
"text": "and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.\u201d And they were extremely distressed. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:24",
"text": " Now when they arrived in Capernaum, the ones who collected the double drachma tax came up to Peter and said, \u201cDoes your teacher not pay the double drachma tax?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:25",
"text": "He said, \u201cYes.\u201d And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, \u201cWhat do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect tolls or taxes\u2014from their own sons, or from foreigners?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:26",
"text": "And when he said, \u201cFrom foreigners,\u201d Jesus said to him, \u201cThen the sons are free. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Matthew 17:27",
"text": "But so that we do not give offense to them, go out to the sea, cast a line with a hook, and take the first fish that comes up. And when you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:1",
"text": " At that time the disciples came up to Jesus, saying, \u201cWho then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:2",
"text": "And calling a child to himself, he had him stand in their midst "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:3",
"text": "and said, \u201cTruly I say to you, unless you turn around and become like young children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:4",
"text": "Therefore whoever humbles himself like this child, this person is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:5",
"text": "and whoever welcomes one child such as this in my name welcomes me. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:6",
"text": "But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him that \u231ea large millstone\u231f be hung on his neck and he be drowned in the depths of the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:7",
"text": "Woe to the world because of causes for stumbling, for it is a necessity that causes for stumbling come; nevertheless, woe to the person through whom the cause for stumbling comes. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:8",
"text": "And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it from you! It is better for you to enter into life crippled or lame than, having two hands or two feet, to be thrown into the eternal fire! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:9",
"text": "And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it from you! It is better for you to enter into life one-eyed than, having two eyes, to be thrown into fiery hell! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:10",
"text": " \u201cSee to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven constantly see the face of my Father who is in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:11",
"text": ""
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:12",
"text": "What do you think? If \u231ea certain man has\u231f a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go and look for the one that wandered away? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:13",
"text": "And if he happens to find it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not wander away. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:14",
"text": "In the same way it is not the will \u231eof\u231f your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:15",
"text": " \u201cNow if your brother sins against you, go correct him between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:16",
"text": "But if he does not listen, take with you in addition one or two others, so that by \u231ethe testimony\u231f of two or three witnesses every matter may be established. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:17",
"text": "And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses to listen to the church also, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:18",
"text": " \u201cTruly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:19",
"text": "Again, truly I say to you that if two of you agree on earth about any matter that they ask, it will be done for them from my Father who is in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:20",
"text": "For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst of them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:21",
"text": " Then Peter came up to him and said, \u201cLord, how many times will my brother sin against me and I will forgive him? Up to seven times?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:22",
"text": "Jesus said to him, \u201cI do not say to you up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven! "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:23",
"text": " \u201cFor this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man\u2014a king\u2014who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:24",
"text": "And when he began to settle them, someone was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:25",
"text": "And because he did not have enough to repay it, the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:26",
"text": "Then the slave threw himself to the ground and began to do obeisance to him, saying, \u2018Be patient with me, and I will pay back everything to you!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:27",
"text": "So the master of that slave, because he had compassion, released him and forgave him the loan. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:28",
"text": "But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii, and taking hold of him, he began to choke him, saying, \u2018Pay back everything that you owe!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:29",
"text": "Then his fellow slave threw himself to the ground and began to implore him, saying, \u2018Be patient with me and I will repay you!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:30",
"text": "But he did not want to, but rather he went and threw him into prison until he would repay what was owed. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:31",
"text": "So when his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were extremely distressed, and went and reported to their master everything that had happened. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:32",
"text": "Then his master summoned him and said to him, \u2018Wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you implored me! "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:33",
"text": "Should you not also have shown mercy to your fellow slave as I also showed mercy to you?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:34",
"text": "And because he was angry, his master handed him over to the merciless jailers until he would repay everything that was owed. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Matthew 18:35",
"text": "So also my heavenly Father will do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from your hearts!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:1",
"text": " And it happened that when Jesus had finished these statements, he went away from Galilee and came into the region of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:2",
"text": "And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:3",
"text": "And Pharisees came up to him in order to test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:4",
"text": "And he answered and said, \u201cHave you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:5",
"text": "and said, \u2018On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:6",
"text": "So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:7",
"text": "They said to him, \u201cWhy then did Moses command us to give a document\u2014a certificate of divorce\u2014and to divorce her?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:8",
"text": "He said to them, \u201cMoses, with reference to your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not like this. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:9",
"text": "Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the basis of sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:10",
"text": " The disciples said to him, \u201cIf this is the case of a man with his wife, it would be better not to marry!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:11",
"text": "But he said to them, \u201cNot everyone can accept this saying but those to whom it has been given. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:12",
"text": "For there are eunuchs who were born as such from their mother\u2019s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by people, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this, let him accept it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:13",
"text": " Then children were brought to him so that he could lay his hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:14",
"text": "But Jesus said, \u201cAllow the children, and do not forbid them to come to me, \u231efor to such belongs\u231f the kingdom of heaven.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:15",
"text": "And he laid his hands on them and traveled on from there. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:16",
"text": " And behold, someone came up to him and said, \u201cTeacher, what good thing must I do so that I will have eternal life?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:17",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cWhy are you asking me about what is good? There is one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:18",
"text": "He said to him, \u201cWhich ones?\u201d And Jesus said, \u201cDo not commit murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:19",
"text": "honor your father and your mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:20",
"text": "The young man said to him, \u201cAll these I have observed. What do I still lack?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:21",
"text": "Jesus said to him, \u201cIf you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give the proceeds to the poor\u2014and you will have treasure in heaven\u2014and come, follow me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:22",
"text": "But when the young man heard the statement, he went away sorrowful, because he was one who had many possessions. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:23",
"text": " And Jesus said to his disciples, \u201cTruly I say to you that with difficulty a rich person will enter into the kingdom of heaven! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:24",
"text": "And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich person into the kingdom of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:25",
"text": "So when the disciples heard this, they were extremely amazed, saying, \u201cThen who can be saved?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:26",
"text": "But Jesus looked at them and said to them, \u201cWith human beings this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:27",
"text": "Then Peter answered and said to him, \u201cBehold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will there be for us?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:28",
"text": "And Jesus said to them, \u201cTruly I say to you that in the renewal of the world, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me\u2014you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:29",
"text": "And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields on account of my name will receive a hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Matthew 19:30",
"text": "But many who are first will be last, and the last first. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:1",
"text": " \u201cFor the kingdom of heaven is like a man\u2014the master of the house\u2014who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:2",
"text": "And after coming to an agreement with the workers for a denarius per day, he sent them into his vineyard. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:3",
"text": "And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:4",
"text": "And to those people he said, \u2018You also go into the vineyard, and I will give you whatever is right.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:5",
"text": "So they went. Going out again about the sixth and ninth hour he did the same thing. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:6",
"text": "And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing there and said to them, \u2018Why are you standing here the whole day unemployed?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:7",
"text": "They said to him, \u2018Because no one hired us.\u2019 He said to them, \u2018You go also into the vineyard.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:8",
"text": "And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, \u2018Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last up to the first.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:9",
"text": "And when the ones hired about the eleventh hour came, they received a denarius apiece. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:10",
"text": "And when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, and they also received a denarius apiece. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:11",
"text": "And when they received it, they began to complain against the master of the house, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:12",
"text": "saying, \u2018These last people worked one hour and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the burning heat!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:13",
"text": "But he answered one of them and said, \u2018Friend, I am not doing you wrong. Did you not come to an agreement with me for a denarius? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:14",
"text": "Take what is yours and go! But I want to give to this last person the same as I gave to you also. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:15",
"text": "Is it not permitted for me to do whatever I want with what is mine? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:16",
"text": "Thus the last will be first and the first last.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:17",
"text": " And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples by themselves and said to them on the way, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:18",
"text": "\u201cBehold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:19",
"text": "and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock him and flog him and crucify him, and on the third day he will be raised.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:20",
"text": " Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked something from him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:21",
"text": "And he said to her, \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d She said to him, \u201cSay that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your kingdom.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:22",
"text": "But Jesus answered and said, \u201cYou do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?\u201d They said to him, \u201cWe are able.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:23",
"text": "He said to them, \u201cYou will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:24",
"text": " And when the ten heard this, they were indignant concerning the two brothers. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:25",
"text": "But Jesus called them to himself and said, \u201cYou know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions exercise authority over them. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:26",
"text": "It will not be like this among you! But whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:27",
"text": "and whoever wants to be most prominent among you must be your slave\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:28",
"text": "just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:29",
"text": " And as they were going out of Jericho, a large crowd followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:30",
"text": "And behold, there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they called out, saying, \u201cLord, have mercy on us, Son of David!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:31",
"text": "And the crowd rebuked them so that they would be quiet. But they called out all the more, saying, \u201cLord, have mercy on us, Son of David!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:32",
"text": "And Jesus stopped, called them, and said, \u201cWhat do you want me to do for you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:33",
"text": "They said to him, \u201cLord, that our eyes be opened!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Matthew 20:34",
"text": "And having compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and immediately they received their sight and followed him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:1",
"text": " And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:2",
"text": "saying to them, \u201cGo into the village before you, and right away you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:3",
"text": "And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, \u2018The Lord \u231eneeds them\u231f,\u2019 and he will send them at once.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:4",
"text": "Now this took place so that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:5",
"text": " \u201cSay to the daughter of Zion, \u2018Behold, your king is coming to you, humble and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a pack animal.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:6",
"text": " So the disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:7",
"text": "and brought the donkey and the colt and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:8",
"text": "And a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:9",
"text": "And the crowds who went ahead of him and the ones who followed were shouting, saying, \u201cHosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:10",
"text": " And when he entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, \u201cWho is this?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:11",
"text": "And the crowds were saying, \u201cThis is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:12",
"text": " And Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:13",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cIt is written, \u2018My house will be called a house of prayer,\u2019 but you have made it a cave of robbers!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:14",
"text": " And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple courts and he healed them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:15",
"text": "But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children shouting in the temple courts and saying, \u201cHosanna to the Son of David!\u201d they were indignant. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:16",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cDo you hear what these children are saying?\u201d So Jesus said to them, \u201cYes, have you never read, \u2018Out of the mouths of children and nursing babies you have prepared for yourself praise\u2019?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:17",
"text": "And leaving them, he went outside of the city to Bethany and spent the night there. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:18",
"text": " Now early in the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:19",
"text": "And seeing a single fig tree by the road, he went to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And he said to it, \u201cMay there be no more fruit from you \u231eforever\u231f, and the fig tree withered at once. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:20",
"text": "And when they saw it, the disciples were astonished, saying, \u201cHow did the fig tree wither at once?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:21",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cTruly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will do not only what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, \u2018Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,\u201d it will happen! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:22",
"text": "And whatever you ask in prayer, if you believe, you will receive.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:23",
"text": " And after he arrived at the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him while he was teaching, saying, \u201cBy what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:24",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cI also will ask you one question. If you tell the answer to me, I also will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:25",
"text": "From where was the baptism of John\u2014from heaven or from men?\u201d And they began to discuss this among themselves, saying, \u201cIf we say \u2018From heaven,\u2019 he will say to us, \u2018Why then did you not believe him?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:26",
"text": "But if we say, \u2018From men,\u2019 we are afraid of the crowd, because they all look upon John as a prophet.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:27",
"text": "And they answered and said to Jesus, \u201cWe do not know.\u201d And he said to them, \u201cNeither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:28",
"text": " \u201cNow what do you think? A man had two sons. He approached the first and said, \u2018Son, go work in the vineyard today.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:29",
"text": "And he answered and said, \u2018I do not want to!\u2019 But later he changed his mind and went. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:30",
"text": "And he approached the second and said the same thing. So he answered and said, \u2018I will, sir,\u2019 and he did not go. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:31",
"text": "Which of the two did the will of his father?\u201d They said, \u201cThe first.\u201d Jesus said to them, \u201cTruly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God! "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:32",
"text": "For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did believe him. And when you saw it, you did not even change your minds later so as to believe in him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:33",
"text": " \u201cListen to another parable: There was a man\u2014a master of a house\u2014who planted a vineyard, and put a fence around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:34",
"text": "And when the season of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the tenant farmers to collect his fruit. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:35",
"text": "And the tenant farmers seized his slaves, one of whom they beat, and one of whom they killed, and one of whom they stoned. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:36",
"text": "Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first ones, and they did the same thing to them. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:37",
"text": "So finally he sent his son to them, saying, \u2018They will respect my son.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:38",
"text": "But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, \u2018This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:39",
"text": "And they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:40",
"text": "Now when the master of the vineyard arrives, what will he do to those tenant farmers?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:41",
"text": "They said to him, \u201cHe will destroy those evil men completely and lease the vineyard to other tenant farmers who will give him the fruits in their season.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:42",
"text": "Jesus said to them, \u201cHave you never read in the scriptures, \u2018The stone which the builders rejected, this has become \u231ethe cornerstone\u231f. This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:43",
"text": " For this reason, I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a people who produce its fruits. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:44",
"text": "And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls\u2014it will crush him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:45",
"text": "And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Matthew 21:46",
"text": "and although they wanted to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they looked upon him as a prophet. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:1",
"text": " And continuing, Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:2",
"text": "\u201cThe kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man\u2014a king\u2014who gave a wedding celebration for his son. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:3",
"text": "And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the wedding celebration, and they did not want to come. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:4",
"text": "Again he sent other slaves, saying, \u2018Tell those who have been invited, \u201cBehold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding celebration!\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:5",
"text": "But they paid no attention and went away\u2014this one to his own field, that one to his business. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:6",
"text": "And the others, seizing his slaves, mistreated them and killed them. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:7",
"text": "And the king was angry and sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:8",
"text": "Then he said to his slaves, \u2018The wedding celebration is ready, but those who had been invited were not worthy. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:9",
"text": "Therefore, go out to the places where the roads exit the city and invite to the wedding celebration as many people as you find.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:10",
"text": "And those slaves went out into the roads and gathered everyone whom they found, both evil and good, and the wedding celebration was filled \u231ewith dinner guests\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:11",
"text": "But when the king came in to see the \u231edinner guests\u231f, he saw a man there not dressed in wedding clothes. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:12",
"text": "And he said to him, \u2018Friend, how did you come in here, not having wedding clothes?\u2019 But \u231ehe could say nothing\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:13",
"text": "Then the king said to the servants, \u2018Tie him up \u231ehand and foot\u231f and throw him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:14",
"text": "For many are called but few are chosen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:15",
"text": " Then the Pharisees went \u231eand consulted\u231f so that they could entrap him with a statement. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:16",
"text": "And they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, saying, \u201cTeacher, we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and \u231eyou do not care what anyone thinks\u231f, \u231ebecause you do not regard the opinion of people\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:17",
"text": "Therefore tell us what you think. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar or not?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:18",
"text": "But because he knew their maliciousness, Jesus said, \u201cHypocrites! Why are you testing me? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:19",
"text": "Show me the coin for the tax!\u201d So they brought him a denarius. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:20",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhose image and inscription is this?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:21",
"text": "They said to him, \u201cCaesar\u2019s.\u201d Then he said to them, \u201cTherefore give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:22",
"text": "And when they heard this, they were astonished, and they left him and went away. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:23",
"text": " On that day Sadducees\u2014who say there is no resurrection\u2014came up to him and asked him, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:24",
"text": "saying, \u201cTeacher, Moses said if someone dies without having children, his brother is to marry his wife and \u231efather\u231f descendants for his brother. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:25",
"text": "Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first died after getting married, and because he did not have descendants, he left his wife to his brother. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:26",
"text": "So also the second and the third, up to the seventh. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:27",
"text": "And last of all the woman died. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:28",
"text": "In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her as wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:29",
"text": "But Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cYou are mistaken, because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God! "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:30",
"text": "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:31",
"text": "Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, who said, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:32",
"text": "\u201cI am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob\u201d? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:33",
"text": "And when the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:34",
"text": " Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled at the same place. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:35",
"text": "And one of them, a legal expert, put a question to him to test him: "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:36",
"text": "\u201cTeacher, which commandment is greatest in the law?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:37",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201c\u00a0\u2018You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:38",
"text": "This is the greatest and first commandment. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:39",
"text": "And the second is like it: \u2018You shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:40",
"text": "On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:41",
"text": " Now while the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:42",
"text": "saying, \u201cWhat do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?\u201d They said to him, \u201cDavid\u2019s.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:43",
"text": "He said to them, \u201cHow then does David, by the Spirit, call him \u2018Lord,\u2019 saying, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:44",
"text": " \u2018The Lord said to my Lord, \u201cSit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet\u201d\u00a0\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:45",
"text": " If then David calls him \u2018Lord,\u2019 how is he his son?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Matthew 22:46",
"text": "And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask him any more questions. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:1",
"text": " Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:2",
"text": "saying, \u201cThe scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:3",
"text": "Therefore do and observe everything that they tell you, but do not do as \u231ethey do\u231f, for they tell others to do something and do not do it themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:4",
"text": "And they tie up heavy burdens and put them on people\u2019s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing with their finger to move them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:5",
"text": "And they do all their deeds in order to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries broad and make their tassels long. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:6",
"text": "And they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:7",
"text": "and the greetings in the marketplaces and to be called \u2018Rabbi\u2019 by people. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:8",
"text": "But you are not to be called \u2018Rabbi,\u2019 because one is your teacher, and you are all brothers, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:9",
"text": "And do not call anyone your father on earth, for one is your heavenly Father. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:10",
"text": "And do not be called teachers, because one is your teacher, the Christ. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:11",
"text": "And the greatest among you will be your servant. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:12",
"text": "And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:13",
"text": " \u201cBut woe to you, scribes and Pharisees\u2014hypocrites!\u2014because you shut the kingdom of heaven before people! For you do not enter, nor permit those wanting to go in to enter. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:14",
"text": ""
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:15",
"text": " \u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees\u2014hypocrites!\u2014because you travel around the sea and the dry land to make one convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:16",
"text": " \u201cWoe to you, blind guides, who say, \u2018Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing! But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by his oath.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:17",
"text": "Fools and blind people! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold holy? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:18",
"text": "And, \u2018Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing! But whoever swears by the gift that is on it is bound by his oath.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:19",
"text": "Blind people! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:20",
"text": "Therefore the one who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything that is on it. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:21",
"text": "And the one who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:22",
"text": "And the one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by the one who sits on it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:23",
"text": " \u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees\u2014hypocrites!\u2014because you pay a tenth of mint and dill and cumin, and neglect the more important matters of the law\u2014justice and mercy and faithfulness! It was necessary to do these things \u231ewhile not neglecting those\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:24",
"text": "Blind guides who filter out a gnat and swallow a camel! "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:25",
"text": " \u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees\u2014hypocrites!\u2014because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence! "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:26",
"text": "Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:27",
"text": " \u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees\u2014hypocrites!\u2014because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean! "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:28",
"text": "In the same way, on the outside you also appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:29",
"text": " \u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees\u2014hypocrites!\u2014because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:30",
"text": "and you say, \u2018If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:31",
"text": "Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets! "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:32",
"text": "And you\u2014fill up the measure of your fathers! "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:33",
"text": "Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell? "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:34",
"text": "For this reason, behold, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will pursue from town to town, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:35",
"text": "so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:36",
"text": "Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation! "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:37",
"text": " \u201cJerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together \u231ethe way\u231f a hen gathers her young together under her wings, and you were not willing! "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:38",
"text": "Behold, your house has been left to you desolate! "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Matthew 23:39",
"text": "For I tell you, you will never see me from now on until you say, \u2018Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:1",
"text": " And as Jesus went out of the temple courts he was going along, and his disciples came up to point out to him the buildings of the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:2",
"text": "But he answered and said to them, \u201cDo you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone will be left here on another stone that will not be thrown down!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:3",
"text": " And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him privately, saying, \u201cTell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:4",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cWatch out that no one deceives you! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:5",
"text": "For many will come in my name, saying, \u2018I am the Christ,\u2019 and they will deceive many. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:6",
"text": "And you are going to hear about wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is not yet. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:7",
"text": "For nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:8",
"text": "But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:9",
"text": " \u201cThen they will hand you over to persecution and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations because of my name. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:10",
"text": "And then many will be led into sin and will betray one another and will hate one another, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:11",
"text": "and many false prophets will appear and will deceive many, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:12",
"text": "and because lawlessness will increase, the love of many will grow cold. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:13",
"text": "But the one who endures to the end\u2014this person will be saved. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:14",
"text": "And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole inhabited earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:15",
"text": " \u201cSo when you see the abomination of desolation spoken about by the prophet Daniel standing in the holy place\u201d (let the one who reads understand), "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:16",
"text": "\u201cthen those in Judea must flee to the mountains! "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:17",
"text": "The one who is on his housetop must not come down to take things out of his house, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:18",
"text": "and the one who is in the field must not turn back to pick up his cloak. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:19",
"text": "And woe to those \u231ewho are pregnant\u231f and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:20",
"text": "But pray that your flight may not happen in winter or on a Sabbath. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:21",
"text": "For at that time there will be great tribulation, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will happen. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:22",
"text": "And unless those days had been shortened, \u231eno human being would be saved\u231f. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:23",
"text": " \u201cAt that time if anyone should say to you, \u2018Behold, here is the Christ,\u2019 or \u2018Here he is,\u2019 do not believe him! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:24",
"text": "For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and will produce great signs and wonders in order to deceive, if possible, even the elect. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:25",
"text": "Behold, I have told you ahead of time! "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:26",
"text": "Therefore if they say to you, \u2018Behold, he is in the wilderness,\u2019 do not go out, or \u2018Behold, he is in the inner rooms,\u2019 do not believe it! "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:27",
"text": "For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:28",
"text": "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:29",
"text": " \u201cAnd immediately after the tribulation of those days, \u2018the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:30",
"text": " And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:31",
"text": "And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other end of it. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:32",
"text": " \u201cNow learn the parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:33",
"text": "So also you, when you see all these things, know that he is near, at the door. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:34",
"text": "Truly I say to you that this generation will never pass away until all these things take place! "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:35",
"text": "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:36",
"text": " \u201cBut concerning that day and hour no one knows\u2014not even the angels of heaven nor the Son\u2014except the Father alone. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:37",
"text": "For just as the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:38",
"text": "For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:39",
"text": "And they did not know anything until the deluge came and swept them all away. So also the coming of the Son of Man will be. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:40",
"text": "Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one left. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:41",
"text": "Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:42",
"text": "Therefore be on the alert, because you do not know what day your Lord is coming! "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:43",
"text": "But understand this: that if the master of the house had known what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:44",
"text": "For this reason you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think he will come. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:45",
"text": " \u201cWho then is the faithful and wise slave whom the master has put in charge of his household slaves to give them their food at the right time? "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:46",
"text": "Blessed is that slave whom his master will find so doing when he comes back. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:47",
"text": "Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:48",
"text": "But if that evil slave should say \u231eto himself\u231f, \u2018My master is staying away for a long time,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:49",
"text": "and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards, "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:50",
"text": "the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and at an hour that he does not know, "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Matthew 24:51",
"text": "and will cut him in two and assign his place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth! "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:1",
"text": " \u201cThen the kingdom of heaven may be compared to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:2",
"text": "Now five of them were foolish and five were wise. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:3",
"text": "For when the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take olive oil with them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:4",
"text": "But the wise ones took olive oil in flasks with their lamps. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:5",
"text": "And when the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:6",
"text": "But in the middle of the night there was a shout, \u2018Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:7",
"text": "Then all those virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:8",
"text": "And the foolish ones said to the wise ones, \u2018Give us some of your olive oil, because our lamps are going out!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:9",
"text": "But the wise ones answered saying, \u201cCertainly there will never be enough for us and for you! Go instead to those who sell olive oil and buy some for yourselves.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:10",
"text": "But while they had gone away to buy it the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding celebration, and the door was shut. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:11",
"text": "And later the other virgins came also, saying, \u2018Lord, lord, open the door for us!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:12",
"text": "But he answered and said, \u2018Truly I say to you, I do not know you!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:13",
"text": "Therefore be on the alert, because you do not know the day or the hour! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:14",
"text": " For it is like a man going on a journey. He summoned his own slaves and handed over his property to them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:15",
"text": "And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each one according to his own ability, and he went on a journey immediately. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:16",
"text": "The one who had received the five talents went out and traded with them and gained five more. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:17",
"text": "In the same way the one who had the two gained two more. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:18",
"text": "But the one who had received the one went away and dug up the ground and hid his master\u2019s money. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:19",
"text": "Now after a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:20",
"text": "And the one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, \u2018Master, you handed over to me five talents. See, I have gained five more talents!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:21",
"text": "His master said to him, \u2018Well done, good and faithful slave! You were faithful over a few things; I will put you in charge over many things. Enter into the joy of your master!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:22",
"text": "And the one who had the two talents also came up and said, \u2018Master, you handed over to me two talents. See, I have gained two talents more!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:23",
"text": "His master said to him, \u2018Well done, good and faithful slave! You were faithful over a few things; I will put you in charge over many things. Enter into the joy of your master!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:24",
"text": "And the one who had received the one talent came up also and said, \u2018Master, because I knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering from where you did not scatter seed. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:25",
"text": "And because I was afraid, I went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:26",
"text": "But his master answered and said to him, \u2018Evil and lazy slave! You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather from where I did not scatter seed. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:27",
"text": "Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and when I returned I would have gotten back what was mine with interest! "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:28",
"text": "Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:29",
"text": "For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:30",
"text": "And throw the worthless slave into the outer darkness\u2014in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:31",
"text": " Now when the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:32",
"text": "And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:33",
"text": "And he will place the sheep on his right and the goats on the left. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:34",
"text": "Then the king will say to those on his right, \u2018Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world! "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:35",
"text": "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me as a guest, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:36",
"text": "I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you cared for me, I was in prison and you came to me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:37",
"text": "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, \u2018Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:38",
"text": "And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you as a guest, or naked and clothe you? "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:39",
"text": "And when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:40",
"text": "And the king will answer and say to them, \u2018Truly I say to you, in as much as you did it to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:41",
"text": "Then he will also say to those on his left, \u2018Depart from me, you accursed ones, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels! "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:42",
"text": "For I was hungry and you did not give me anything to eat, I was thirsty and you did not give me anything to drink, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:43",
"text": "I was a stranger and you did not welcome me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not care for me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:44",
"text": "Then they will also answer, saying, \u2018Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and not serve you?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:45",
"text": "Then he will answer them, saying, \u2018Truly I say to you, in as much as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 25,
"name": "Matthew 25:46",
"text": "And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:1",
"text": " And it happened that when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:2",
"text": "\u201cYou know that after two days the Passover takes place, and the Son of Man will be handed over in order to be crucified.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:3",
"text": " Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:4",
"text": "and plotted in order that they could arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:5",
"text": "But they were saying, \u201cNot during the feast, so that there will not be an uproar among the people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:6",
"text": " Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:7",
"text": "a woman came up to him holding an alabaster flask of very expensive perfumed oil, and poured it out on his head while he was reclining at table. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:8",
"text": "And when the disciples saw it they were indignant, saying, \u201c\u231eWhy\u231f this waste? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:9",
"text": "For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:10",
"text": "But Jesus, knowing this, said to them, \u201cWhy do you cause trouble for the woman? For she has done a good deed for me. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:11",
"text": "For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:12",
"text": "For when this woman poured this ointment on my body, she did it in order to prepare me for burial. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:13",
"text": "Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:14",
"text": " Then one of the twelve, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:15",
"text": "and said, \u201cWhat are you willing to give me if I in turn deliver him to you?\u201d So they set out for him thirty silver coins. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:16",
"text": "And from that time on, he began seeking a favorable opportunity in order that he could betray him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:17",
"text": " Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came up to Jesus, saying, \u201cWhere do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:18",
"text": "And he said, \u201cGo into the city to a certain man and tell him, \u2018The Teacher says, \u201cMy time is near. I am celebrating the Passover with you with my disciples.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:19",
"text": "And the disciples did as Jesus directed them, and they prepared the Passover. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:20",
"text": "And when it was evening, he was reclining at table with the twelve disciples. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:21",
"text": "And while they were eating he said, \u201cTruly I say to you, that one of you will betray me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:22",
"text": "And greatly distressed, each one began to say to him, \u201c\u231eSurely I am not he, am I\u231f, Lord?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:23",
"text": "And he answered and said, \u201cThe one who dips his hand in the bowl with me\u2014this one will betray me. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:24",
"text": "The Son of Man is going just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if that man had not been born.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:25",
"text": "And Judas, the one who was betraying him, answered and said, \u201c\u231eSurely I am not he, am I\u231f, Rabbi?\u201d He said to him, \u201cYou have said it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:26",
"text": " Now while they were eating Jesus took bread and, after giving thanks, he broke it, and giving it to the disciples, he said, \u201cTake, eat, this is my body.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:27",
"text": "And after taking the cup and giving thanks he gave it to them, saying, \u201cDrink from it, all of you, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:28",
"text": "for this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:29",
"text": "But I tell you, from now on I will never drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:30",
"text": "And after they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:31",
"text": " Then Jesus said to them, \u201cYou will all fall away because of me during this night, for it is written, \u2018I will strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:32",
"text": " But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:33",
"text": "But Peter answered and said to him, \u201cIf they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:34",
"text": "Jesus said to him, \u201cTruly I say to you that during this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:35",
"text": "Peter said to him, \u201cEven if it is necessary for me to die with you, I will never deny you!\u201d And all the disciples said the same thing. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:36",
"text": " Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples, \u201cSit here while I go over there and pray.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:37",
"text": "And taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be distressed and troubled. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:38",
"text": "Then he said to them, \u201cMy soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:39",
"text": "And going forward a little he fell down on his face, praying and saying, \u201cMy Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:40",
"text": "And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, \u201cSo, were you not able to stay awake with me one hour? "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:41",
"text": "Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:42",
"text": "Again for the second time he went away and prayed, saying, \u201cMy Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will must be done.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:43",
"text": "And he came again and found them sleeping, \u231efor they could not keep their eyes open\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:44",
"text": "And leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same thing again. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:45",
"text": "Then he came to the disciples and said to them, \u201cAre you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:46",
"text": "Get up, let us go! Behold, the one who is betraying me is approaching!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:47",
"text": " And while he was still speaking, behold, Judas\u2014one of the twelve\u2014arrived, and with him a large crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:48",
"text": "Now the one who was betraying him had given them a sign, saying, \u201cThe one whom I kiss\u2014he is the one. Arrest him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:49",
"text": "And he came up to Jesus immediately and said, \u201cGreetings, Rabbi,\u201d and kissed him. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:50",
"text": "And Jesus said to him, \u201cFriend, do that for which you have come.\u201d Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and arrested him. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:51",
"text": " And behold, one of those with Jesus extended his hand and drew his sword, and striking the slave of the high priest, cut off his ear. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:52",
"text": "Then Jesus said to him, \u201cPut your sword back into its place! For all who take up the sword will die by the sword. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:53",
"text": "Or do you think that I cannot call upon my Father, and he would put at my disposal at once more than twelve legions of angels? "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:54",
"text": "How then would the scriptures be fulfilled that it must happen in this way?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:55",
"text": " At that time Jesus said to the crowds, \u201cHave you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber, to arrest me? Every day in the temple courts I sat teaching, and you did not arrest me! "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:56",
"text": "But all this has happened in order that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.\u201d Then the disciples all abandoned him and fled. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:57",
"text": " Now those who had arrested Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:58",
"text": "But Peter was following him from a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest. And he went inside and was sitting with the officers to see the outcome. "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:59",
"text": "Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus in order that they could put him to death. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:60",
"text": "And they did not find it, although many false witnesses came forward. And finally two came forward "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:61",
"text": "and said, \u201cThis man said, \u2018I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it within three days.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:62",
"text": "And the high priest stood up and said to him, \u201cDo you reply nothing? What are these people testifying against you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:63",
"text": "But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, \u201cI put you under oath by the living God, that you tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:64",
"text": "Jesus said to him, \u201cYou have said it. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:65",
"text": "Then the high priest tore his robes, saying, \u201cHe has blasphemed! What further need do we have of witnesses? Behold, you have just now heard the blasphemy! "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:66",
"text": "What do you think?\u201d And they answered and said, \u201c\u231eHe deserves death\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:67",
"text": "Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists, and they slapped him, "
},
{
"verse": 68,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:68",
"text": "saying, \u201cProphesy for us, you Christ! Who is it who hit you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 69,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:69",
"text": " Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a female slave came up to him and said, \u201cYou also were with Jesus the Galilean.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 70,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:70",
"text": "But he denied it in the presence of them all, saying, \u201cI do not know what you mean!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 71,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:71",
"text": "And when he went out to the gateway, another female slave saw him and said to those who were there, \u201cThis man was with Jesus the Nazarene.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 72,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:72",
"text": "And again he denied it with an oath, \u201cI do not know the man!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 73,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:73",
"text": "And after a little while those who were standing there came up and said to Peter, \u201cYou really are one of them also, because even your accent \u231ereveals who you are\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 74,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:74",
"text": "Then he began to curse and to swear with an oath, \u201cI do not know the man!\u201d And immediately a rooster crowed. "
},
{
"verse": 75,
"chapter": 26,
"name": "Matthew 26:75",
"text": "And Peter remembered the statement Jesus had said, \u201cBefore the rooster crows, you will deny me three times,\u201d and he went outside and wept bitterly. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:1",
"text": " Now when it was early morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus in order to put him to death. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:2",
"text": "And after tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:3",
"text": " Then when Judas, the one who had betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and elders, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:4",
"text": "saying, \u201cI have sinned by betraying innocent blood!\u201d But they said, \u201cWhat is that to us? You see to it!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:5",
"text": "And throwing the silver coins into the temple he departed. And he went away and hanged himself. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:6",
"text": "But the chief priests took the silver coins and said, \u201cIt is not permitted to put them into the temple treasury, because it is \u231eblood money\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:7",
"text": "And after taking counsel, they purchased \u231ewith\u231f them the Potter\u2019s Field, for a burial place for strangers. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:8",
"text": "(For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood until today.) "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:9",
"text": "Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, who said, \u201cAnd they took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one who had been priced, on whom a price had been set by the sons of Israel, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:10",
"text": "and they gave them for the potter\u2019s field, just as the Lord directed me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:11",
"text": " So Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, saying, \u201cAre you the king of the Jews?\u201d And Jesus said, \u201cYou say so.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:12",
"text": "And \u231ewhen he was being accused\u231f by the chief priests and elders he answered nothing. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:13",
"text": "Then Pilate said to him, \u201cDo you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:14",
"text": "And he did not reply to him, not even with reference to one statement, so that the governor was very astonished. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:15",
"text": " Now at each feast, the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd\u2014the one whom they wanted. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:16",
"text": "And at that time they had a notorious prisoner named Jesus Barabbas. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:17",
"text": "So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them, \u201cWhom do you want me to release for you\u2014Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:18",
"text": "(For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:19",
"text": "And while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him, saying, \u201c\u231eHave nothing to do with that righteous man\u231f, for I have suffered much as a result of a dream today because of him.\u201d) "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:20",
"text": "But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas and put Jesus to death. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:21",
"text": "So the governor answered and said to them, \u201cWhich of the two do you want me to release for you?\u201d And they said, \u201cBarabbas!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:22",
"text": "Pilate said to them, \u201cWhat then should I do with Jesus, the one who is called Christ?\u201d They all said, \u201cLet him be crucified!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:23",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWhy? What wrong has he done?\u201d But they began to shout even louder, saying, \u201cLet him be crucified!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:24",
"text": " So Pilate, when he saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but instead an uproar was developing, took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, \u201cI am innocent of the blood of this man. You see to it!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:25",
"text": "And all the people answered and said, \u201cHis blood be on us and on our children!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:26",
"text": "Then he released Barabbas for them, but after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over so that he could be crucified. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:27",
"text": " Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor\u2019s residence and gathered the whole cohort to him. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:28",
"text": "And they stripped him and put a scarlet military cloak around him, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:29",
"text": "and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling down before him, they mocked him, saying, \u201cHail, king of the Jews!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:30",
"text": "And they spat on him and took the reed and repeatedly struck him on his head. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:31",
"text": "And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the military cloak and put his own clothes on him, and led him away in order to crucify him. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:32",
"text": " And as they were going out, they found a man of Cyrene \u231enamed\u231f Simon. They forced this man to carry his cross. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:33",
"text": "And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which \u231emeans Place of a Skull\u231f), "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:34",
"text": "they gave him wine mixed with gall to drink, and when he tasted it he did not want to drink it. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:35",
"text": "And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes among themselves by casting lots. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:36",
"text": "And they sat down and were watching over him there. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:37",
"text": "And they put above his head the charge against him \u231ein writing\u231f: \u201cThis is Jesus, the king of the Jews.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:38",
"text": "Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:39",
"text": "And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:40",
"text": "and saying, \u201cThe one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:41",
"text": "In the same way also the chief priests, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking him, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:42",
"text": "\u201cHe saved others; he is not able to save himself! He is the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him! "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:43",
"text": "He trusts in God; let him deliver him now if he wants to, because he said, \u2018I am the Son of God\u2019!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:44",
"text": "And in the same way even the robbers who were crucified with him were reviling him. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:45",
"text": " Now from the sixth hour, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:46",
"text": "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, \u201cEli, Eli, lema sabachthani?\u201d (that is, \u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d) "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:47",
"text": "And some of those who were standing there, when they heard it, said, \u201cThis man is summoning Elijah!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:48",
"text": "And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:49",
"text": "But the others said, \u201cLeave him alone! let us see if Elijah is coming to save him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:50",
"text": "And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:51",
"text": "And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth shook and the rocks were split. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:52",
"text": "And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:53",
"text": "and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:54",
"text": " Now the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that took place, were extremely frightened, saying, \u201cTruly this man was God\u2019s Son!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:55",
"text": "And there were many women there, observing from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him, "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:56",
"text": "among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:57",
"text": " Now when it was evening, a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who also was a disciple of Jesus himself. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:58",
"text": "This man approached Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:59",
"text": "And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:60",
"text": "and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a large stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:61",
"text": "Now Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb. "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:62",
"text": " Now on the next day, which is after the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate, "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:63",
"text": "saying, \u201cSir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, \u2018After three days I will rise.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:64",
"text": "Therefore give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him and tell the people, \u2018He has been raised from the dead,\u2019 and the last deception will be worse than the first.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:65",
"text": "Pilate said to them, \u201cYou have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you know how.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 27,
"name": "Matthew 27:66",
"text": "So they went with the guard of soldiers and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:1",
"text": " Now after the Sabbath, at the dawning on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to view the tomb. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:2",
"text": "And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came up and rolled away the stone and sat down on it. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:3",
"text": "Now his appearance was like lightning and his clothing white as snow. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:4",
"text": "And the guards trembled from the fear of him and became like dead men. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:5",
"text": "But the angel answered and said to the women, \u201cDo not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:6",
"text": "He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come, see the place where he was lying. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:7",
"text": "And go quickly, tell his disciples, \u2018He has been raised from the dead, and behold, he is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there.\u2019 Behold, I have told you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:8",
"text": "And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:9",
"text": "And behold, Jesus met them, saying, \u201cGreetings!\u201d And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:10",
"text": "Then Jesus said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid! Go tell my brothers that they should go to Galilee, and there they will see me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:11",
"text": " And while they were going, behold, some of the guard of soldiers went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:12",
"text": "And after they had assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave a rather large sum of money to the soldiers, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:13",
"text": "telling them, \u201cSay \u2018His disciples came during the night and stole him while we were sleeping.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:14",
"text": "And if this matter is heard before the governor, we will satisfy him and \u231ekeep you out of trouble\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:15",
"text": "So they took the money and did as they were told, and spread abroad this report among the Jews until this very day. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:16",
"text": " So the eleven disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated for them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:17",
"text": "And when they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:18",
"text": "And Jesus approached and spoke to them, saying, \u201cAll authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:19",
"text": "Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 28,
"name": "Matthew 28:20",
"text": "teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age.\u201d "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Mark",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:1",
"text": " The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:2",
"text": "Just as it is written in the prophet Isaiah, \u201cBehold, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:3",
"text": " the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, \u2018Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:4",
"text": " John was there baptizing in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:5",
"text": "And all the Judean region and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem went out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:6",
"text": "And John was dressed in camel\u2019s hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:7",
"text": "And he was preaching, saying, \u201cOne who is more powerful than I is coming after me, of whom I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:8",
"text": "I baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:9",
"text": " And it happened that in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:10",
"text": "And immediately as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens being split apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:11",
"text": "And a voice came from heaven, \u201cYou are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:12",
"text": " And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:13",
"text": "And he was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:14",
"text": " And after John \u231ehad been taken into custody\u231f, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:15",
"text": "and saying, \u201cThe time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe in the gospel!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:16",
"text": " And as he was passing by along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon\u2019s brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen). "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:17",
"text": "And Jesus said to them, \u201c\u231eFollow\u231f me and I will make you become fishers of people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:18",
"text": "And immediately they left their nets and followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:19",
"text": "And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, and they were in the boat mending the nets. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:20",
"text": "And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and went away after him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:21",
"text": "And they went into Capernaum and immediately on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:22",
"text": " And they were amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:23",
"text": "And so then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:24",
"text": "saying, \u201c\u231eLeave us alone\u231f, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are\u2014the Holy One of God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:25",
"text": "And Jesus rebuked him, saying, \u201cBe silent, and come out of him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:26",
"text": "And after convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, the unclean spirit came out of him. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:27",
"text": "And they were all amazed, so that they began to discuss with one another, saying, \u201cWhat is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:28",
"text": "And the report about him then went out everywhere in the whole surrounding region of Galilee. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:29",
"text": " And so then he departed from the synagogue and came into the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:30",
"text": "Now Simon\u2019s mother-in-law was lying down, suffering with a fever, and at once they told him about her. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:31",
"text": "And he came and raised her up by taking hold of her hand, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:32",
"text": " Now when it was evening, when the sun had set, they began bringing to him all those \u231ewho were sick\u231f and those who were demon-possessed. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:33",
"text": "And the whole town was gathered together at the door. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:34",
"text": "And he healed many \u231ewho were sick\u231f with various diseases and expelled many demons. And he did not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:35",
"text": " And getting up early in the morning while it was very dark, he departed and went to a deserted place, and there he was praying. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:36",
"text": "And Simon and those who were with him searched diligently for him. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:37",
"text": "And they found him and said to him, \u201cEveryone is looking for you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:38",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cLet us go elsewhere, into the neighboring rural towns, so that I can preach there also, because I have come out for this very reason.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:39",
"text": "And he went into all Galilee preaching in their synagogues and expelling demons. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:40",
"text": " And a leper came to him, entreating him and kneeling down, saying to him, \u201cIf you are willing, you are able to make me clean.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:41",
"text": "And becoming angry, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, \u201cI am willing; be made clean.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:42",
"text": "And immediately the leprosy went away from him and he was made clean. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:43",
"text": "And warning him sternly, he sent him away at once. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:44",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cSee to it that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and bring for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Mark 1:45",
"text": "But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread abroad the account, so that he was no longer able to enter publicly into a town. But he was staying outside in deserted places, and they were coming to him from all directions. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:1",
"text": " And when he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it became known that he was at home. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:2",
"text": "And many had gathered, so that there was no longer room, not even at the door, and he was speaking the word to them. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:3",
"text": "And they came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:4",
"text": "And when they were not able to bring him to him because of the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. And after digging through, they lowered the stretcher on which the paralytic was lying. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:5",
"text": "And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, \u201cChild, your sins are forgiven.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:6",
"text": " Now some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:7",
"text": "\u201cWhy does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:8",
"text": "And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they were reasoning like this within themselves, said to them, \u201cWhy are you considering these things in your hearts? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:9",
"text": "Which is easier to say to the paralytic, \u2018Your sins are forgiven,\u2019 or to say \u2018Get up and pick up your stretcher and walk\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:10",
"text": "But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,\u201d\u2014he said to the paralytic\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:11",
"text": "\u201cI say to you, get up, pick up your stretcher, and go to your home.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:12",
"text": "And he got up and immediately picked up his stretcher and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, \u201cWe have never seen anything like this!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:13",
"text": " And he went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he began to teach them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:14",
"text": "And as he was passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, \u201cFollow me!\u201d And he stood up and followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:15",
"text": " And it happened that he \u231ewas dining\u231f in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners \u231ewere dining with\u231f Jesus and his disciples, for there were many and they were following him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:16",
"text": "And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, began to say to his disciples, \u201cWhy does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:17",
"text": "And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, \u201cThose who are healthy do not have need of a physician, but those \u231ewho are sick\u231f. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:18",
"text": " And John\u2019s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and said to him, \u201c\u231eWhy\u231f do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:19",
"text": "And Jesus said to them, \u201cThe \u231ebridegroom\u2019s attendants\u231f are not able to fast while the bridegroom is with them, are they? As long a time as they have the bridegroom with them, they are not able to fast. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:20",
"text": "But days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:21",
"text": "No one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old garment. \u231eOtherwise\u231f the patch pulls away from it\u2014the new from the old\u2014and the tear becomes worse. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:22",
"text": "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. \u231eOtherwise\u231f the wine will burst the wineskins and the wine is destroyed and the wineskins too. But new wine is put into new wineskins.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:23",
"text": " And it happened that he was going through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to make their way while plucking off the heads of grain. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:24",
"text": "And the Pharisees began to say to him, \u201cBehold, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:25",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cHave you never read what David did when he had need and he and those who were with him were hungry\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:26",
"text": "how he entered into the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests) and also gave it to those who were with him?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:27",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cThe Sabbath was established for people, and not people for the Sabbath. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Mark 2:28",
"text": "So then, the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:1",
"text": " And he entered into the synagogue again, and a man who had a withered hand was there. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:2",
"text": "And they were watching him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, in order that they could accuse him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:3",
"text": "And he said to the man who had the withered hand, \u201cCome into the middle.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:4",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cIs it permitted on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?\u201d But they were silent. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:5",
"text": "And looking around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, \u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:6",
"text": "And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians \u231eand began to conspire\u231f against him with regard to how they could destroy him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:7",
"text": " And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd from Galilee followed him. And from Judea "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:8",
"text": "and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and the other side of the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon a great crowd came to him because they heard all that he was doing. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:9",
"text": "And he told his disciples that a small boat should stand ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not press upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:10",
"text": "For he had healed many, so that all those who \u231ewere suffering from diseases\u231f pressed about him in order that they could touch him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:11",
"text": "And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, were falling down before him and crying out, saying, \u201cYou are the Son of God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:12",
"text": "And he warned them strictly that they should not make him known. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:13",
"text": " And he went up on the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted, and they came to him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:14",
"text": "And he appointed twelve, so that they would be with him and so that he could send them out to preach "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:15",
"text": "and to have authority to expel demons. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:16",
"text": "And he appointed the twelve. And to Simon he gave the name Peter, "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:17",
"text": "and James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (and he gave to them the name Boanerges, that is, \u201cSons of Thunder\u201d), "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:18",
"text": "and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:19",
"text": "and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:20",
"text": " And he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they were not even able to eat a meal. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:21",
"text": "And when \u231ehis family\u231f heard this, they went out to restrain him, for they were saying, \u201cHe has lost his mind!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:22",
"text": " And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, \u201cHe is possessed by Beelzebul!\u201d and \u201cBy the ruler of the demons he expels the demons!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:23",
"text": "And he called them to himself and was speaking to them in parables, \u201cHow can Satan expel Satan? "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:24",
"text": "And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:25",
"text": "And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:26",
"text": "And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand, but is at an end! "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:27",
"text": "But no one is able to enter into the house of a strong man and plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man, and then he can thoroughly plunder his house. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:28",
"text": " \u201cTruly I say to you that all the sins and the blasphemies will be forgiven the sons of men, however much they blaspheme. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:29",
"text": "But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit does not have forgiveness \u231eforever\u231f, but is guilty of an eternal sin\u201d\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:30",
"text": "because they were saying, \u201cHe has an unclean spirit.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:31",
"text": " And his mother and his brothers arrived, and standing outside, they sent word to him to summon him. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:32",
"text": "And a crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, \u201cBehold, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:33",
"text": "And he answered them and said, \u201cWho is my mother or my brothers?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:34",
"text": "And looking around at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, \u201cBehold, my mother and my brothers! "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Mark 3:35",
"text": "For whoever does the will of God, this person is my brother and sister and mother.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:1",
"text": " And again he began to teach beside the sea, and a very large crowd was gathered to him, so that he got into a boat and sat on the sea, and the whole crowd was at the sea on the land. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:2",
"text": "And he began to teach them many things in parables, and was saying to them in his teaching, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:3",
"text": "\u201cListen! Behold, the sower went out to sow. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:4",
"text": "And it happened that while he was sowing, \u231esome seed\u231f fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:5",
"text": "And other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once, because it did not have any depth of soil. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:6",
"text": "And when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:7",
"text": "And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it, and it did not produce grain. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:8",
"text": "And other seed fell on the good soil, and produced grain, coming up and increasing, and it bore a crop\u2014one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:9",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWhoever has ears to hear, let him hear!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:10",
"text": " And when he was alone, those around him together with the twelve began asking him about the parables. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:11",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cTo you has been granted the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is in parables, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:12",
"text": "so that \u2018\u231ethey may look closely\u231f and not perceive, and \u231ethey may listen carefully\u231f and not understand, lest they turn and it be forgiven them.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:13",
"text": " And he said to them, \u201cDo you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables? "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:14",
"text": "The sower sows the word. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:15",
"text": "And these are the ones beside the path where the word is sown, and whenever they hear it, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:16",
"text": "And these are like the ones sown on the rocky ground, who whenever they hear the word immediately receive it with joy. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:17",
"text": "And they have no root in themselves, but are temporary. Then when affliction or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:18",
"text": "And others are the ones sown among the thorn plants\u2014these are the ones who hear the word, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:19",
"text": "and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word and it becomes unproductive. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:20",
"text": "And those are the ones sown on the good soil, who hear the word and receive it and bear fruit\u2014one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:21",
"text": " And he said to them, \u201cSurely a lamp is not brought so that it may be put under a bushel basket or under a bed, is it? Is it not so that it may be put on a lampstand? "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:22",
"text": "For nothing is secret except so that it may be revealed, nor has become hidden except so that it will come to light. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:23",
"text": "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:24",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cTake care what you hear! With the measure by which you measure out, it will be measured out to you, and will be added to you. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:25",
"text": "For whoever has, more will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:26",
"text": " And he said, \u201cThe kingdom of God is like this: like a man scatters seed on the ground. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:27",
"text": "And he sleeps and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows\u2014\u231ehe does not know how\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:28",
"text": "By itself the soil produces a crop: first the grass, then the head of grain, then the full grain in the head. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:29",
"text": "But when the crop permits, he sends in the sickle right away, because the harvest has come.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:30",
"text": " And he said, \u201cWith what can we compare the kingdom of God, or by what parable can we present it? "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:31",
"text": "It is like a mustard seed that when sown on the ground, although it is the smallest of all the seeds that are on the ground, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:32",
"text": "but when it is sown it grows up and becomes the largest of all the garden herbs, and sends out large branches so that the birds of the sky are able to nest in its shade.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:33",
"text": "And with many parables such as these he was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear it. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:34",
"text": "And he did not speak to them without a parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:35",
"text": " And on that day, when it was evening, he said to them, \u201cLet us cross over to the other side.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:36",
"text": "And leaving the crowd, they took him along, as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:37",
"text": "And a great storm of wind developed, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already being filled with water. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:38",
"text": "And he was in the stern sleeping on the cushion, and they woke him up and said to him, \u201cTeacher, is it not a concern to you that we are perishing?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:39",
"text": "And he woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, \u201cBe quiet! Be silent!\u201d And the wind abated and there was a great calm. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:40",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhy are you fearful? Do you not yet have faith?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Mark 4:41",
"text": "And \u231ethey were terribly frightened\u231f and began to say to one another, \u201cWho then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:1",
"text": " And they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:2",
"text": "And as he was getting out of the boat, immediately from the tombs a man with an unclean spirit went to meet him, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:3",
"text": "who \u231elived\u231f among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him any longer, not even with a chain, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:4",
"text": "because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the shackles had been shattered. And no one was strong enough to subdue him. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:5",
"text": "And during every night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:6",
"text": "And when he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before him. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:7",
"text": "And crying out with a loud voice he said, \u201c\u231eWhat have I to do with you\u231f, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore you by God, do not torment me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:8",
"text": "(For he was saying to him, \u201cCome out of the man, unclean spirit!\u201d) "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:9",
"text": "And he was asking him \u201c\u231eWhat is your name\u231f?\u201d And he said to him, \u201cMy name is Legion, because we are many.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:10",
"text": "And he was imploring him many times that he would not send them out of the region. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:11",
"text": "Now a large herd of pigs was there at the hill feeding, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:12",
"text": "and they implored him, saying, \u201cSend us to the pigs so that we may enter into them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:13",
"text": "And he permitted them. And the unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs, and the herd\u2014about two thousand\u2014rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and were drowned in the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:14",
"text": "And their herdsmen fled and reported it in the town and in the countryside, and they came to see what it was that had happened. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:15",
"text": "And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there clothed and in his right mind\u2014the one who had had the legion\u2014and they were afraid. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:16",
"text": "And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man, and about the pigs. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:17",
"text": "And they began to urge him to depart from their region. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:18",
"text": "And as he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed began to implore him that he could go with him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:19",
"text": "And he did not permit him, but said to him, \u201cGo to your home to your people and tell them all that the Lord has done for you, and that he has had mercy on you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:20",
"text": "And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him, and they were all astonished. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:21",
"text": " And after Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered to him, and he was beside the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:22",
"text": "And one of the rulers of the synagogue came\u2014Jairus by name\u2014and when he saw him, he fell down at his feet. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:23",
"text": "And he was imploring him many times, saying, \u201cMy little daughter \u231eis at the point of death\u231f! Come, lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and will live.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:24",
"text": "And he went with him, and a large crowd was following him and pressing around him. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:25",
"text": " And there was a woman who was \u231esuffering from hemorrhages\u231f twelve years. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:26",
"text": "And she had endured many things under many physicians, and had spent \u231eall that she had\u231f and had received no help at all, but instead \u231ebecame worse\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:27",
"text": "When she heard about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind him and touched his cloak, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:28",
"text": "for she was saying, \u201cIf I touch just his clothing, I will be healed!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:29",
"text": "And immediately her \u231ehemorrhage stopped\u231f and she realized in her body that she was healed of her suffering. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:30",
"text": "And immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from himself, turned around in the crowd and said, \u201cWho touched my clothing?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:31",
"text": "And his disciples said to him, \u201cYou see the crowd pressing upon you, and you say \u2018Who touched me?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:32",
"text": "And he was looking around to see the one who had done this. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:33",
"text": "So the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:34",
"text": "But he said to her, \u201cDaughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be well from your suffering.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:35",
"text": " While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler\u2019s house saying, \u201cYour daughter has died. Why trouble the Teacher further?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:36",
"text": "But Jesus, ignoring \u231ewhat was said\u231f, told the ruler of the synagogue, \u201cDo not be afraid\u2014only believe!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:37",
"text": "And he did not allow anyone to follow along with him except Peter and James and John, the brother of James. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:38",
"text": "And they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and saw a commotion, and people weeping and wailing loudly. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:39",
"text": "And when he entered, he said to them, \u201cWhy are you agitated and weeping? The child is not dead, but is sleeping.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:40",
"text": "And they began laughing at him. But he sent them all out and took along the father and mother of the child, and those who were with him, and went in to where the child was. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:41",
"text": "And taking hold of the child\u2019s hand, he said to her, \u201cTalitha koum!\u201d (which is translated, \u201cLittle girl, I say to you, get up!\u201d), "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:42",
"text": "and immediately the girl stood up and began walking around (for she was twelve years old). And \u231eimmediately they were utterly and completely astonished\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Mark 5:43",
"text": "And he commanded them strictly that no one should learn of this, and said to give her something to eat. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:1",
"text": " And he went out from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:2",
"text": "And when the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed, saying, \u201cWhere did this man get these things? And what is this wisdom that has been granted to this man, and the miracles such as these performed through his hands? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:3",
"text": "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?\u201d And they were offended by him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:4",
"text": "And Jesus said to them, \u201cA prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own household.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:5",
"text": "And he was not able to do any miracle in that place except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:6",
"text": "And he was astonished because of their unbelief. And he was going around among the villages teaching. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:7",
"text": "And he summoned the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:8",
"text": "And he commanded them that they take along nothing for the journey except only a staff\u2014no bread, no traveler\u2019s bag, no money in their belts\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:9",
"text": "but to put on sandals and not to wear two tunics. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:10",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhenever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:11",
"text": "And whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake off the dust that is on your feet for a testimony against them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:12",
"text": "And they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:13",
"text": "And they were expelling many demons and anointing many sick people with olive oil and healing them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:14",
"text": " And King Herod heard it, because his name had become known. And they were saying, \u201cJohn, the one who baptizes, has been raised from the dead, and because of this these miraculous powers are at work in him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:15",
"text": "But others were saying, \u201cHe is Elijah,\u201d and others were saying, \u201cHe is a prophet like one of the prophets.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:16",
"text": "But when Herod heard it, he said, \u201cJohn whom I beheaded\u2014this one has been raised!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:17",
"text": "For Herod himself had sent and arrested John and bound him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:18",
"text": "For John had been saying to Herod, \u201cIt is not permitted for you to have your brother\u2019s wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:19",
"text": "So Herodias held a grudge against him and was wanting to kill him, and was not able to do so. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:20",
"text": "For Herod was afraid of John, because he knew him to be a righteous and holy man and protected him. And when he listened to him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he listened to him gladly. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:21",
"text": "And a suitable day came when Herod, on his birthday, gave a banquet for his courtiers and military tribunes and the most prominent men of Galilee. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:22",
"text": "And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced and pleased Herod and \u231ehis dinner guests\u231f, the king said to the girl, \u201cAsk me for whatever you want, and I will give it to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:23",
"text": "And he swore to her, \u201cAnything whatever you ask me for I will give you, up to half my kingdom!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:24",
"text": "And she went out and said to her mother, \u201cWhat should I ask for?\u201d And she said, \u201cThe head of John the baptizer.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:25",
"text": "And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, \u201cI want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:26",
"text": "And although he was deeply grieved, the king, because of his oaths and \u231edinner guests\u231f, did not want to refuse her. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:27",
"text": "And immediately the king sent an executioner and ordered him to bring his head. And he went and beheaded him in the prison. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:28",
"text": "And he brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:29",
"text": "And when his disciples heard this, they came and took away his corpse and placed it in a tomb. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:30",
"text": " And the apostles regathered to Jesus and reported to him everything that they had done and that they had taught. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:31",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cYou yourselves come privately to an isolated place and rest for a short time.\u201d For those who were coming and going were many, and they did not even have time to eat. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:32",
"text": "And they went away in the boat to an isolated place by themselves. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:33",
"text": "And many people saw them leaving and recognized them, and ran there together by land from all the towns, and arrived ahead of them. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:34",
"text": "And getting out of the boat he saw the large crowd and had compassion on them, because they were like sheep \u231ewithout\u231f a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:35",
"text": "And the hour had already become late when his disciples came up to him, saying, \u201cThe place is desolate and the hour is already late. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:36",
"text": "Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding farms and villages and purchase something to eat for themselves.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:37",
"text": "But he answered and said to them, \u201cYou give them something to eat.\u201d And they said to him, \u201cShould we go and purchase bread for two hundred denarii and give it to them to eat?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:38",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cHow many loaves do you have? Go look!\u201d And when they found out, they said, \u201cFive, and two fish.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:39",
"text": "And he ordered them all to recline in groups on the green grass. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:40",
"text": "And they reclined in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:41",
"text": "And taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples so that they could set them before them. And he distributed the two fish to them all. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:42",
"text": "And they all ate and were satisfied. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:43",
"text": "And they picked up the broken pieces, twelve baskets full, and of the fish. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:44",
"text": "And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:45",
"text": " And immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself dismissed the crowd. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:46",
"text": "And after he had said farewell to them, he went away to the mountain to pray. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:47",
"text": "And when evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea and he was alone on the land. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:48",
"text": "And he saw them being beaten in their rowing because the wind was against them. Around the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he was wanting to pass by them. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:49",
"text": "But when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought that it was a ghost, and they cried out. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:50",
"text": "For they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke with them and said to them, \u201cHave courage, I am he! Do not be afraid!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:51",
"text": "And he went up with them into the boat, and the wind abated. And \u231ethey were extraordinarily\u231f astounded within themselves, "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:52",
"text": "because they did not understand concerning the loaves, but their hearts were hardened. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:53",
"text": " And after they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and anchored there. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:54",
"text": "And as they were getting out of the boat, people recognized him immediately. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:55",
"text": "They ran about through that whole region and began to carry around those \u231ewho were sick\u231f on stretchers, wherever they heard that he was. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Mark 6:56",
"text": "And wherever he would go, into villages or into towns or to farms, they would put those who were sick in the marketplaces and would implore him that if they could touch even the edge of his cloak. And all those who touched it were healed. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:1",
"text": " And the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered to him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:2",
"text": "And they saw that some of his disciples were eating their bread with unclean\u2014that is, unwashed\u2014hands. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:3",
"text": "(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands \u231eritually\u231f, thus holding fast to the traditions of the elders. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:4",
"text": "And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions which they have received and hold fast to\u2014for example, the washing of cups and pitchers and bronze kettles and dining couches.) "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:5",
"text": "And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, \u201cWhy do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unclean hands?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:6",
"text": "So he said to them, \u201cIsaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written, \u2018This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:7",
"text": " And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:8",
"text": " Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:9",
"text": " And he said to them, \u201cYou splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keep your tradition. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:10",
"text": "For Moses said, \u2018Honor your father and your mother,\u2019 and, \u2018The one who speaks evil of father or mother \u231emust certainly die\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:11",
"text": "But you say, \u2018If a man says to his father or to his mother, \u201cWhatever \u231ebenefit you would have received\u231f from me is corban\u201d (that is, a gift to God), "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:12",
"text": "you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:13",
"text": "thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar things such as this.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:14",
"text": " And summoning the crowd again, he said to them, \u201cListen to me, all of you, and understand: "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:15",
"text": "There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him by going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:16",
"text": ""
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:17",
"text": "And when he entered into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:18",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cSo are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything that is outside that goes into a person is not able to defile him? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:19",
"text": "For it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and goes out into the latrine\u201d\u2014thus declaring all foods clean. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:20",
"text": "And he said, \u201cWhat comes out of a person, that defiles a person. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:21",
"text": "For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:22",
"text": "adulteries, acts of greed, malicious deeds, deceit, licentiousness, \u231eenvy\u231f, abusive speech, pride, foolishness. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:23",
"text": "All these evil things come from within and defile a person.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:24",
"text": " And from there he set out and went to the region of Tyre. And when he entered into a house, he wanted no one to know, and yet he was not able to escape notice. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:25",
"text": "But immediately a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, when she heard about him, came and fell down at his feet, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:26",
"text": "Now the woman was a Greek\u2014a Syrophoenician by nationality\u2014and she was asking him that he would expel the demon from her daughter. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:27",
"text": "And he said to her, \u201cLet the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children\u2019s bread and throw it to the dogs!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:28",
"text": "But she answered and said to him, \u201cLord, even the dogs under the table eat the children\u2019s crumbs.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:29",
"text": "And he said to her, \u201cBecause of this statement, go! The demon has gone out of your daughter.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:30",
"text": "And when she went to her home, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:31",
"text": " And again he went away from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of the Decapolis. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:32",
"text": "And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had difficulty speaking, and they were imploring him that he would place his hand on him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:33",
"text": "And he took him away from the crowd by himself and put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:34",
"text": "And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, \u201cEphphatha!\u201d (that is, \u201cBe opened!\u201d). "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:35",
"text": "And his ears were opened and \u231ehis difficulty in speaking was removed\u231f and he began to speak normally. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:36",
"text": "And he ordered them that they should say nothing, but as much as he ordered them not to, they proclaimed it even more instead. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Mark 7:37",
"text": "And they were amazed beyond all measure, saying, \u201cHe has done all things well! He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:1",
"text": " In those days there was again a large crowd, and they did not have anything they could eat. Summoning the disciples, he said to them, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:2",
"text": "\u201cI have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:3",
"text": "And if I send them away hungry to their homes they will give out on the way, and some of them have come from far away.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:4",
"text": "And his disciples answered him, \u201cWhere is anyone able to feed these people with bread here in the desert?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:5",
"text": "And he asked them, \u201cHow many loaves do you have?\u201d So they said, \u201cSeven.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:6",
"text": "And he commanded the crowd to recline for a meal on the ground, and taking the seven loaves, after he had given thanks he broke them and began giving them to his disciples so that they could set them before them. And they set them before the crowd. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:7",
"text": "And they had a few small fish, and after giving thanks for them, he said to set these before them also. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:8",
"text": "And they ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces that were left, seven baskets full. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:9",
"text": "Now there were about four thousand. And he sent them away. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:10",
"text": "And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:11",
"text": " And the Pharisees came and began to argue with him, demanding from him a sign from heaven in order to test him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:12",
"text": "And sighing deeply in his spirit, he said, \u201cWhy does this generation demand a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:13",
"text": "And he left them, got into the boat again, and went to the other side. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:14",
"text": " And they had forgotten to take bread, and except for one loaf, they did not have any with them in the boat. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:15",
"text": "And he ordered them, saying, \u201cWatch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:16",
"text": "And they began to discuss with one another that they had no bread. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:17",
"text": "And knowing this, he said to them, \u201cWhy are you discussing that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Have your hearts been hardened? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:18",
"text": "Although you have eyes, do you not see? And although you have ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:19",
"text": "When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand how many baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?\u201d They said to him, \u201cTwelve.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:20",
"text": "\u201cWhen I also broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?\u201d And they said to him, \u201cSeven.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:21",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cDo you not yet understand?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:22",
"text": " And they came to Bethsaida. And they brought to him a blind man and implored him that he would touch him. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:23",
"text": "And he took hold of the blind man\u2019s hand and led him outside the village, and after spitting in his eyes, he placed his hands on him and asked him, \u201cDo you see anything?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:24",
"text": "And looking up he said, \u201cI see people, for I see them like trees walking around.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:25",
"text": "Then he placed his hands on his eyes again, and he opened his eyes and was cured, and could see everything clearly. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:26",
"text": "And he sent him to his home, saying, \u201cDo not even go into the village.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:27",
"text": " And Jesus and his disciples went out to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and on the way he asked his disciples, saying to them, \u201cWho do people say that I am?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:28",
"text": "And they told him, saying, \u201cJohn the Baptist, and others Elijah, and others that you are one of the prophets.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:29",
"text": "And he asked them, \u201cBut who do you say that I am?\u201d Peter answered and said to him, \u201cYou are the Christ!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:30",
"text": "And he warned them that they should tell no one about him. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:31",
"text": " And he began to teach them that it was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:32",
"text": "And he was speaking openly about the subject, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:33",
"text": "But turning around and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, \u201cGet behind me, Satan, because you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but the things of people!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:34",
"text": " And summoning the crowd together with his disciples, he said to them, \u201cIf anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:35",
"text": "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me and of the gospel will save it. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:36",
"text": "For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:37",
"text": "For what can a person give in exchange for his life? "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Mark 8:38",
"text": "For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:1",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cTruly I say to you, that there are some of those standing here who will never experience death until they see the kingdom of God having come with power.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:2",
"text": " And after six days, Jesus took along Peter and James and John, and led them to a high mountain by themselves alone. And he was transfigured before them, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:3",
"text": "and his clothing became radiant\u2014extremely white, like no cloth refiner on earth can \u231emake so white\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:4",
"text": "And Elijah appeared to them together with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:5",
"text": "And Peter answered and said to Jesus, \u201cRabbi, it is good that we are here! And let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:6",
"text": "(For he did not know what he should answer, because they were terrified.) "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:7",
"text": "And a cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came from the cloud, \u201cThis is my beloved Son. Listen to him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:8",
"text": "And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus alone. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:9",
"text": " And as they were coming down from the mountain, he ordered them that they should tell no one the things that they had seen, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:10",
"text": "And they kept the matter to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead \u231emeant\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:11",
"text": "And they asked him, saying, \u201c\u231eWhy do\u231f the scribes say that Elijah must come first?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:12",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cElijah indeed does come first and restores all things. And how is it written concerning the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:13",
"text": "But I tell you that indeed Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:14",
"text": " And when they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:15",
"text": "And immediately the whole crowd, when they saw him, were amazed, and ran up to him and greeted him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:16",
"text": "And he asked them, \u201cWhat are you arguing about with them?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:17",
"text": "And one individual from the crowd answered him, \u201cTeacher, I brought to you my son who has \u231ea spirit that makes him mute\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:18",
"text": "And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes paralyzed. And I told your disciples that they should expel it, and they were not able to do so. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:19",
"text": "And he answered them and said, \u201cO unbelieving generation! \u231eHow long\u231f will I be with you? \u231eHow long\u231f must I put up with you? Bring him to me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:20",
"text": "And they brought him to him. And when he saw him, the spirit immediately convulsed him, and falling on the ground, he began to roll around, foaming at the mouth. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:21",
"text": "And he asked his father how long it was since this had been happening to him. And he said, \u201cFrom childhood. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:22",
"text": "And often it has thrown him both into fire and into water, in order that it could destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:23",
"text": "But Jesus said to him, \u201cIf you are able! All things are possible for the one who believes!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:24",
"text": "Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, \u201cI believe! Help my unbelief!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:25",
"text": "Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, \u201cMute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and enter into him no more!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:26",
"text": "And it came out, screaming and convulsing him greatly, and he became as if he were dead, so that most of them said, \u201cHe has died!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:27",
"text": "But Jesus took hold of his hand and raised him up, and he stood up. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:28",
"text": "And after he had entered into the house, his disciples asked him privately, \u201cWhy were we not able to expel it?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:29",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cThis kind can come out by nothing except by prayer.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:30",
"text": " And from there they went out and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:31",
"text": "for he was teaching his disciples and was telling them, \u201cThe Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:32",
"text": "But they did not understand the statement, and they were afraid to ask him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:33",
"text": " And they came to Capernaum. And after he was in the house, he asked them, \u201cWhat were you discussing on the way?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:34",
"text": "But they were silent, because they had argued with one another on the way about who was greatest. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:35",
"text": "And he sat down and called the twelve and said to them, \u201cIf anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:36",
"text": "And he took a young child and had him stand \u231eamong them\u231f. And taking him in his arms, he said to them, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:37",
"text": "\u201cWhoever welcomes one of the young children such as these in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me, but the one who sent me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:38",
"text": " John said to him, \u201cTeacher, we saw someone expelling demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:39",
"text": "But Jesus said, \u201cDo not prevent him, because there is no one who does a miracle in my name and will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:40",
"text": "For whoever is not against us is for us. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:41",
"text": "For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ\u2019s, truly I say to you that he will never lose his reward. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:42",
"text": " \u201cAnd whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it is better for him if instead \u231ea large millstone\u231f is placed around his neck and he is thrown into the sea. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:43",
"text": "And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than, having two hands, to go into hell\u2014into the unquenchable fire! "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:44",
"text": ""
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:45",
"text": "And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life lame than, having two feet, to be thrown into hell! "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:46",
"text": ""
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:47",
"text": "And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! It is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to be thrown into hell, "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:48",
"text": "\u2018where their worm does not die and the fire is not extinguished.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:49",
"text": "For everyone will be salted with fire. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Mark 9:50",
"text": "Salt is good, but if the salt becomes deprived of its salt content, by what can you make it salty? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:1",
"text": " And from there he set out and came to the region of Judea and the other side of the Jordan, and again crowds came together to him. And again, as he was accustomed to do, he began to teach them. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:2",
"text": "And they asked him if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife, in order to test him. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:3",
"text": "And he answered and said to them, \u201cWhat did Moses command you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:4",
"text": "So they said, \u201cMoses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:5",
"text": "But Jesus said to them, \u201cHe wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:6",
"text": "But from the beginning of creation \u2018he made them male and female. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:7",
"text": "Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:8",
"text": "and the two will become one flesh,\u2019 so that they are no longer two but one flesh. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:9",
"text": "Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:10",
"text": " And in the house again the disciples began to ask him about this. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:11",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:12",
"text": "And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:13",
"text": " And they were bringing young children to him so that he could touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:14",
"text": "But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant, and said to them, \u201cLet the young children come to me. Do not forbid them, \u231efor to such belongs\u231f the kingdom of God. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:15",
"text": "Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:16",
"text": "And after taking them into his arms, he blessed them, placing his hands on them. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:17",
"text": " And as he was setting out on his way, one individual ran up and knelt down before him and asked him, \u201cGood Teacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:18",
"text": "So Jesus said to him, \u201cWhy do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:19",
"text": "You know the commandments: \u2018Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:20",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cTeacher, all these I have observed from my youth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:21",
"text": "And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, \u201cYou lack one thing: Go, sell all that you have, and give the proceeds to the poor\u2014and you will have treasure in heaven\u2014and come, follow me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:22",
"text": "But he looked gloomy at the statement and went away sorrowful, \u231ebecause he had\u231f many possessions. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:23",
"text": " And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, \u201cHow \u231edifficult it is for\u231f those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:24",
"text": "And the disciples were astounded at his words. But Jesus answered and said to them again, \u201cChildren, how difficult it is to enter into the kingdom of God! "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:25",
"text": "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:26",
"text": "And they were very astounded, saying to one another, \u201cAnd who can be saved?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:27",
"text": "Jesus looked at them and said, \u201cWith human beings it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:28",
"text": "Peter began to say to him, \u201cBehold, we have left everything and followed you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:29",
"text": "Jesus said, \u201cTruly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields on account of me and on account of the gospel "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:30",
"text": "\u231ewho will not\u231f receive a hundred times as much now in this time\u2014houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, together with persecutions\u2014and in the age to come, eternal life. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:31",
"text": "But many who are first will be last, and the last first.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:32",
"text": " Now they were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going on ahead of them. And they were astounded, but those who were following him were afraid. And taking aside the twelve again, he began to tell them the things that were about to happen to him: "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:33",
"text": "\u201cBehold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:34",
"text": "And they will mock him and spit on him and flog him and kill him, and after three days he will rise.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:35",
"text": " And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, \u201cTeacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:36",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhat do you want that I do for you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:37",
"text": "So they said to him, \u201cGrant to us that we may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your glory.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:38",
"text": "But Jesus said to them, \u201cYou do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:39",
"text": "And they said to him, \u201cWe are able.\u201d So Jesus said to them, \u201cYou will drink the cup that I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:40",
"text": "but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but is for those for whom it has been prepared.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:41",
"text": "And when they heard this, the ten began to be indignant about James and John. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:42",
"text": "And Jesus called them to himself and said to them, \u201cYou know that those who are considered to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their people in high positions exercise authority over them. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:43",
"text": "But it is not like this among you! But whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:44",
"text": "and whoever wants to be most prominent among you must be the slave of all. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:45",
"text": "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:46",
"text": " And they came to Jericho. And as he was setting out from Jericho along with his disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:47",
"text": "And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, \u201cJesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:48",
"text": "And many people warned him that he should be quiet. But he was crying out \u231eeven more loudly\u231f, \u201cSon of David, have mercy on me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:49",
"text": "And Jesus stopped and said, \u201cCall him.\u201d And they called the blind man and said to him, \u201cHave courage! Get up! He is calling you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:50",
"text": "And he threw off his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:51",
"text": "And Jesus answered him and said, \u201cWhat do you want \u231eme to do\u231f for you?\u201d And the blind man said to him, \u201cRabboni, that I may regain my sight.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Mark 10:52",
"text": "And Jesus said to him, \u201cGo, your faith has healed you.\u201d And immediately he regained his sight and began to follow him on the road. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:1",
"text": " And when they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:2",
"text": "and said to them, \u201cGo into the village before you, and right away as you enter into it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:3",
"text": "And if anyone says to you, \u2018Why are you doing this?\u2019 say \u2018The Lord has need of it, and will send it here again at once.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:4",
"text": "And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:5",
"text": "And some of those who were standing there said to them, \u201cWhat are you doing, untying the colt?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:6",
"text": "So they told them, just as Jesus had said, and they allowed them to take it. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:7",
"text": "And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, and he sat on it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:8",
"text": "And many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches they had cut from the fields. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:9",
"text": "And those who went ahead and those who were following were shouting, \u201cHosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:10",
"text": " Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:11",
"text": " And he went into Jerusalem to the temple, and after looking around at everything, because the hour was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:12",
"text": " And on the next day as they were departing from Bethany, he was hungry. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:13",
"text": "And when he saw from a distance a fig tree that had leaves, he went to see if perhaps he would find anything on it. And when he came up to it he found nothing except leaves, because it was not the season for figs. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:14",
"text": "And he responded and said to it, \u201cLet no one eat fruit from you any more \u231eforever\u231f!\u201d And his disciples heard it. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:15",
"text": " And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered into the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple courts, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:16",
"text": "And he did not permit anyone to carry objects through the temple courts. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:17",
"text": "And he began to teach and was saying to them, \u201cIs it not written, \u2018My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations,\u2019 but you have made it a cave of robbers!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:18",
"text": "And the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and began considering how they could destroy him. For they were afraid of him because the whole crowd was astounded by his teaching. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:19",
"text": "And when evening came they went out of the city. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:20",
"text": " And as they passed by early in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:21",
"text": "And Peter remembered and said to him, \u201cRabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:22",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cHave faith in God! "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:23",
"text": "Truly I say to you that whoever says to this mountain, \u2018Be lifted up and thrown into the sea!\u2019 and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:24",
"text": "For this reason I say to you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be done for you. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:25",
"text": "And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your sins.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:26",
"text": ""
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:27",
"text": " And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came up to him "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:28",
"text": "and said to him, \u201cBy what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority that you do these things?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:29",
"text": "So Jesus said to them, \u201cI will ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:30",
"text": "The baptism of John\u2014was it from heaven or from men? Answer me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:31",
"text": "And they began to discuss this with one another, saying, \u201cWhat should we say? If we say \u2018From heaven,\u2019 he will say, \u2018Why then did you not believe him?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:32",
"text": "But if we say, \u2018From men\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u2014they were afraid of the crowd, because they all looked upon John \u231eas truly a prophet\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Mark 11:33",
"text": "And they replied to Jesus saying, \u201cWe do not know.\u201d And Jesus said to them, \u201cNeither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:1",
"text": " And he began to speak to them in parables: \u201cA man planted a vineyard, and put a fence around it, and dug a trough for the winepress, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:2",
"text": "And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:3",
"text": "And they seized him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:4",
"text": "And again he sent to them another slave, and that one they struck on the head and dishonored. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:5",
"text": "And he sent another, and that one they killed. And he sent many others, some of whom they beat and some of whom they killed. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:6",
"text": "He had one more, a beloved son. Last of all he sent him to them, saying, \u2018They will respect my son.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:7",
"text": "But those tenant farmers said to one another, \u2018This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:8",
"text": "And they seized and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:9",
"text": "What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:10",
"text": "Have you not read this scripture: \u2018The stone which the builders rejected, this has become \u231ethe cornerstone\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:11",
"text": " This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes\u2019?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:12",
"text": " And they were seeking to arrest him, and they were afraid of the crowd, because they knew that he had told the parable with reference to them. And they left him and went away. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:13",
"text": " And they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him so that they could catch him unawares in a statement. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:14",
"text": "And when they came, they said to him, \u201cTeacher, we know that you are truthful and \u231eyou do not care what anyone thinks\u231f, \u231ebecause you do not regard the opinion of people\u231f but teach the way of God in truth. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or should we not pay?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:15",
"text": "But because he knew their hypocrisy, he said to them, \u201cWhy are you testing me? Bring me a denarius so that I can look at it!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:16",
"text": "So they brought one. And he said to them, \u201cWhose image and inscription is this?\u201d And they said to him, \u201cCaesar\u2019s.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:17",
"text": "And Jesus said to them, \u201cGive to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!\u201d And they were utterly amazed at him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:18",
"text": " And Sadducees\u2014who say there is no resurrection\u2014came up to him and began to ask him, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:19",
"text": "\u201cTeacher, Moses wrote for us that if someone\u2019s brother dies and he leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife and \u231efather\u231f descendants for his brother. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:20",
"text": "There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife. And when he died, he did not leave descendants. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:21",
"text": "And the second took her, and he died without leaving descendants. And the third likewise. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:22",
"text": "And the seven did not leave descendants. Last of all the woman also died. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:23",
"text": "In the resurrection, when they rise, \u231ewhose\u231f wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:24",
"text": "Jesus said to them, \u201cAre you not deceived because of this, because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:25",
"text": "For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:26",
"text": "Now concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses \u231ein the passage about the bush\u231f how God spoke to him, saying, \u2018I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:27",
"text": "He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are very much mistaken!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:28",
"text": " And one of the scribes came up and heard them debating. When he saw that he answered them well, he asked him, \u201cWhich commandment is the most important of all?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:29",
"text": "Jesus answered, \u201cThe most important is, \u2018Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:30",
"text": "And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:31",
"text": "The second is this: \u2018You shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019 There is no other commandment greater than these.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:32",
"text": "And the scribe said to him, \u201cThat is true, Teacher. You have said \u231ecorrectly\u231f that he is one and there is no other except him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:33",
"text": "And to love him from your whole heart and from your whole understanding and from your whole strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:34",
"text": "And Jesus, when he saw that he had answered thoughtfully, said to him, \u201cYou are not far from the kingdom of God.\u201d And no one dared to put a question to him any longer. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:35",
"text": " And continuing, Jesus said while teaching in the temple courts, \u201cHow can the scribes say that the Christ is David\u2019s son? "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:36",
"text": "David himself said by the Holy Spirit, \u2018The Lord said to my Lord, \u201cSit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:37",
"text": " David himself calls him \u2018Lord,\u2019 and how is he his son?\u201d And the large crowd was listening to him gladly. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:38",
"text": " And in his teaching he said, \u201cBeware of the scribes, who like walking around in long robes and greetings in the marketplaces "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:39",
"text": "and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:40",
"text": "who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy prayers for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:41",
"text": " And he sat down opposite the contribution box and was observing how the crowd was putting coins into the contribution box. And many rich people were putting in many coins. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:42",
"text": "And one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins (that is, a penny). "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:43",
"text": "And summoning his disciples, he said to them, \u201cTruly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than all those who put offerings into the contribution box. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Mark 12:44",
"text": "For they all \u231econtributed\u231f out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in everything she had, her whole means of subsistence.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:1",
"text": " And as he was going out of the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, \u201cTeacher, look! What great stones and what wonderful buildings!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:2",
"text": "And Jesus said to him, \u201cDo you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here on another stone that will not be thrown down!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:3",
"text": " And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:4",
"text": "\u201cTell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:5",
"text": "So Jesus began to say to them, \u201cWatch out that no one deceives you! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:6",
"text": "Many will come in my name, saying, \u2018I am he,\u2019 and they will deceive many. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:7",
"text": "And when you hear about wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must happen, but the end is not yet. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:8",
"text": "For nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines. These things are the beginning of birth pains. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:9",
"text": " \u201cBut you, watch out for yourselves! They will hand you over to councils and you will be beaten in the synagogues and will have to stand before governors and kings because of me, for a witness to them. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:10",
"text": "And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:11",
"text": "And when they arrest you and hand you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you should say, but whatever is given to you at that hour, say this. For you are not the ones who are speaking, but the Holy Spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:12",
"text": "And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:13",
"text": "And you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end\u2014this one will be saved. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:14",
"text": " \u201cBut when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be\u201d (let the one who reads understand), \u201cthen those in Judea must flee to the mountains! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:15",
"text": "The one who is on his housetop must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:16",
"text": "and the one who is in the field must not turn back to pick up his cloak. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:17",
"text": "And woe to those \u231ewho are pregnant\u231f and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:18",
"text": "But pray that it will not happen in winter. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:19",
"text": "For in those days there will be tribulation of such a kind as has not happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will happen. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:20",
"text": "And if the Lord had not shortened the days, \u231eno human being would be saved\u231f. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he has shortened the days. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:21",
"text": " \u201cAnd at that time if anyone should say to you, \u201cBehold, here is the Christ,\u2019\u00a0\u2018Behold, there he is,\u2019 do not believe him! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:22",
"text": "For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and will produce signs and wonders in order to mislead, if possible, the elect. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:23",
"text": "But you, watch out! I have told you everything ahead of time! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:24",
"text": " \u201cBut in those days, after that tribulation, \u2018the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:25",
"text": " and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:26",
"text": " And then they will see the Son of Man arriving in the clouds with great power and glory. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:27",
"text": "And then he will send out the angels, and will gather the elect together from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:28",
"text": " \u201cNow learn the parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:29",
"text": "So also you, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, at the door. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:30",
"text": "Truly I say to you that this generation will never pass away until all these things take place! "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:31",
"text": "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:32",
"text": " \u201cBut concerning that day or hour no one knows\u2014not even the angels in heaven nor the Son\u2014except the Father. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:33",
"text": "Watch out! Be alert, because you do not know when the time is! "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:34",
"text": "It is like a man away on a journey, who left his house and gave his slaves authority\u2014to each one his work\u2014and to the doorkeeper he gave orders that he should be on the alert. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:35",
"text": "Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming\u2014whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or early in the morning\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:36",
"text": "lest he arrive suddenly and find you sleeping. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Mark 13:37",
"text": "And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Be on the alert!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:1",
"text": " Now after two days it was the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, after arresting him by stealth, they could kill him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:2",
"text": "For they said, \u201cNot at the feast, lest there be an uproar by the people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:3",
"text": " And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining for a meal, a woman came holding an alabaster flask of very costly perfumed oil of genuine nard. After breaking the alabaster flask, she poured it out on his head. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:4",
"text": "But some were expressing indignation to one another: \u201cWhy has there been this waste of perfumed oil? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:5",
"text": "For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!\u201d And they began to scold her. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:6",
"text": "But Jesus said, \u201cLeave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:7",
"text": "For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:8",
"text": "She has done what she could; \u231eshe has anointed my body beforehand\u231f for burial. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:9",
"text": "And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:10",
"text": " And Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:11",
"text": "And when they heard this, they were delighted, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how he could betray him conveniently. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:12",
"text": " And on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, \u201cWhere do you want us to go and prepare, so that you can eat the Passover?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:13",
"text": "And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, \u201cGo into the city and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:14",
"text": "and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, \u2018The Teacher says, \u201cWhere is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:15",
"text": "And he will show you a large upstairs room furnished and ready, and prepare for us there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:16",
"text": "And the disciples went out and came into the city and found everything just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:17",
"text": " And when it was evening, he arrived with the twelve. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:18",
"text": "And while they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, \u201cTruly I say to you, that one of you who is eating with me will betray me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:19",
"text": "They began to be distressed and to say to him one by one, \u201cSurely not I?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:20",
"text": "But he said to them, \u201cIt is one of the twelve\u2014the one who is dipping bread into the bowl with me. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:21",
"text": "For the Son of Man is going just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if that man had not been born.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:22",
"text": " And while they were eating, he took bread and, after giving thanks, he broke it and gave it to them and said, \u201cTake it, this is my body.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:23",
"text": "And after taking the cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:24",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cThis is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:25",
"text": "Truly I say to you that I will never drink of the fruit of the vine any longer until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:26",
"text": "And after they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:27",
"text": " And Jesus said to them, \u201cYou will all fall away, because it is written, \u2018I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:28",
"text": " But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:29",
"text": "But Peter said to him, \u201cEven if they all fall away, certainly I will not!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:30",
"text": "And Jesus said to him, \u201cTruly I say to you that today\u2014this night\u2014before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:31",
"text": "But he kept saying emphatically, \u201cIf it is necessary for me to die with you, I will never deny you!\u201d And they all were saying the same thing also. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:32",
"text": " And they came to a place \u231enamed\u231f Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, \u201cSit here while I pray.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:33",
"text": "And he took along Peter and James and John with him, and he began to be distressed and troubled. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:34",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cMy soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:35",
"text": "And going forward a little he fell to the ground and began to pray that, if it were possible, the hour would pass from him. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:36",
"text": "And he said, \u201cAbba, Father, all things are possible for you! Take away this cup from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:37",
"text": "And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, \u201cSimon, are you sleeping? Were you not able to stay awake one hour? "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:38",
"text": "Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:39",
"text": "And again he went away and prayed, saying the same thing. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:40",
"text": "And again he came and found them sleeping, \u231efor they could not keep their eyes open\u231f, and they did not know what to reply to him. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:41",
"text": "And he came the third time and said to them, \u201cAre you still sleeping and resting? It is enough! The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:42",
"text": "Get up, let us go! Behold, the one who is betraying me is approaching!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:43",
"text": " And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas\u2014one of the twelve\u2014arrived, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:44",
"text": "Now the one who was betraying him had given them a sign, saying, \u201cThe one whom I kiss\u2014he is the one. Arrest him and lead him away under guard!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:45",
"text": "And when he arrived, he came up to him immediately and said, \u201cRabbi,\u201d and kissed him. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:46",
"text": "So they laid hands on him and arrested him. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:47",
"text": " But a certain one of the bystanders, drawing his sword, struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:48",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cHave you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber, to arrest me? "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:49",
"text": "Every day I was with you in the temple courts teaching, and you did not arrest me! But this has happened in order that the scriptures would be fulfilled. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:50",
"text": "And they all abandoned him and fled. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:51",
"text": " And a certain young man was following him, clothed only in a linen cloth on his naked body. And they attempted to seize him, "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:52",
"text": "but he left behind the linen cloth and fled naked. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:53",
"text": " And they led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:54",
"text": "And Peter followed him from a distance, right inside, into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the officers and warming himself by the fire. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:55",
"text": "Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, and they did not find it. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:56",
"text": "For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony was not consistent. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:57",
"text": "And some stood up and began to give false testimony against him, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:58",
"text": "\u201cWe heard him saying, \u2018I will destroy this temple made by hands, and within three days I will build another not made by hands.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:59",
"text": "And their testimony was not even consistent about this. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:60",
"text": "And the high priest stood up in the midst of them and asked Jesus, saying, \u201cDo you not reply anything? What are these people testifying against you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:61",
"text": "But he was silent and did not reply anything. Again the high priest asked him and said to him, \u201cAre you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:62",
"text": "And Jesus said, \u201cI am, and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:63",
"text": "And the high priest tore his clothes and said, \u201cWhat further need do we have of witnesses? "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:64",
"text": "You have heard the blasphemy! What \u231edo you think\u231f?\u201d And they all condemned him \u231eas deserving death\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:65",
"text": "And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him \u201cProphesy!\u201d And the officers received him with slaps in the face. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:66",
"text": " And while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the female slaves of the high priest came up "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:67",
"text": "And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked intently at him and said, \u201cYou also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 68,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:68",
"text": "But he denied it, saying, \u201cI neither know nor understand what you mean!\u201d And he went out into the gateway, and a rooster crowed. "
},
{
"verse": 69,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:69",
"text": "And the female slave, when she saw him, began to say again to the bystanders, \u201cThis man is one of them!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 70,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:70",
"text": "But he denied it again. And after a little while, again the bystanders began to say to Peter, \u201cYou really are one of them, because you also are a Galilean, and your accent \u231eshows it\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 71,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:71",
"text": "And he began to curse and to swear with an oath, \u201cI do not know this man whom you are talking about!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 72,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Mark 14:72",
"text": "And immediately a rooster crowed for the second time. And Peter remembered the statement, how Jesus had said to him, \u201cBefore the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times,\u201d and throwing himself down, he began to weep. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:1",
"text": " And as soon as morning came, after formulating a plan, the chief priests, with the elders and scribes and the whole Sanhedrin, tied up Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:2",
"text": "And Pilate asked him, \u201cAre you the king of the Jews?\u201d And he answered him and said, \u201cYou say so.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:3",
"text": "And the chief priests began to accuse him of many things. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:4",
"text": "So Pilate asked him again, saying, \u201cDo you not answer anything? See how many charges they are bringing against you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:5",
"text": "But Jesus did not answer anything further, so that Pilate was astonished. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:6",
"text": " Now at each feast he customarily released for them one prisoner whom they requested. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:7",
"text": "And the one named Barabbas was imprisoned with the rebels who had committed murder in the rebellion. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:8",
"text": "And the crowd came up and began to ask him to do as he customarily did for them. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:9",
"text": "So Pilate answered them, saying, \u201cDo you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:10",
"text": "(For he realized that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.) "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:11",
"text": "But the chief priests incited the crowd so that he would release for them Barabbas instead. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:12",
"text": "So Pilate answered and said to them again, \u201cThen what do you want me to do with the one whom you call the king of the Jews?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:13",
"text": "And they shouted again, \u201cCrucify him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:14",
"text": "And Pilate said to them, \u201cWhy? What evil has he done?\u201d But they shouted even louder, \u201cCrucify him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:15",
"text": " So Pilate, because he wanted \u231eto satisfy\u231f the crowd, released for them Barabbas. And after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over so that he could be crucified. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:16",
"text": " So the soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the governor\u2019s residence) and called together the whole cohort. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:17",
"text": "And they put a purple cloak on him, and after weaving a crown of thorns they placed it on him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:18",
"text": "And they began to greet him, \u201cHail, king of the Jews!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:19",
"text": "And they repeatedly struck him on the head with a reed, and were spitting on him, and \u231ethey knelt down\u231f and did obeisance to him. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:20",
"text": "And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him, and they led him out so that they could crucify him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:21",
"text": " And they forced a certain man who was passing by, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), who was coming from the country, to carry his cross. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:22",
"text": "And they brought him to the place Golgotha (which is translated \u201cPlace of a Skull\u201d). "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:23",
"text": "And they attempted to give him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:24",
"text": "And they crucified him and divided his clothes among themselves by casting lots for them to see who should take what. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:25",
"text": "Now it was the third hour when they crucified him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:26",
"text": "And the inscription of the charge against him was written, \u201cThe king of the Jews.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:27",
"text": "And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:28",
"text": ""
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:29",
"text": "And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, \u201cAha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:30",
"text": "save yourself by coming down from the cross!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:31",
"text": "In the same way also the chief priests, along with the scribes, were mocking him to one another, saying, \u201cHe saved others; he is not able to save himself! "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:32",
"text": "Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe! Even those who were crucified with him were reviling him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:33",
"text": " And when the sixth hour came, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:34",
"text": "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, \u201cEloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?\u201d (which is translated, \u201cMy God, my God, \u231ewhy\u231f have you forsaken me?\u201d) "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:35",
"text": "And some of the bystanders, when they heard it, said, \u201cBehold, he is summoning Elijah!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:36",
"text": "And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, \u201cLeave him alone! Let us see if Elijah is coming to take him down.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:37",
"text": "But Jesus uttered a loud cry and expired. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:38",
"text": "And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:39",
"text": "And when the centurion who was standing opposite him saw that he expired like this, he said, \u201cTruly this man was God\u2019s Son!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:40",
"text": "And there were also women observing from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and Joses, and Salome, "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:41",
"text": "who used to follow him and serve him when he was in Galilee, and many other women who went up with him to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:42",
"text": " And when it was already evening, since it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath), "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:43",
"text": "Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the council who was also himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, came acting courageously and went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:44",
"text": "And Pilate was surprised that he was already dead, and summoning the centurion, asked him whether he had died already. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:45",
"text": "And when he learned of it from the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:46",
"text": "And after purchasing a linen cloth and taking him down, he wrapped him in the linen cloth and placed him in a tomb that had been cut from the rock. And he rolled a stone over the entrance of the tomb. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Mark 15:47",
"text": "Now Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was placed. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:1",
"text": " And when the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome purchased fragrant spices so that they could go and anoint him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:2",
"text": "And very early in the morning on the first day of the week they came to the tomb after the sun had risen. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:3",
"text": "And they were saying to one another, \u201cWho will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:4",
"text": "And when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away (for it was very large). "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:5",
"text": "And as they were going into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:6",
"text": "But he said to them, \u201cDo not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene who was crucified. He has been raised, he is not here! See the place where they laid him! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:7",
"text": "But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there, just as he told you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:8",
"text": "And they went out and fled from the tomb, because trembling and amazement had seized them. And they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. \u301aSo they promptly reported all the things they had been commanded to those around Peter. And after these things, Jesus himself also sent out through them from the east even as far as the west the holy and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation. Amen.\u301b \u301a "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:9",
"text": "Now early on the first day of the week, after he rose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had expelled seven demons. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:10",
"text": "She went out and announced it to those who were with him while they were mourning and weeping. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:11",
"text": "And those, when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, refused to believe it. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:12",
"text": "And after these things, he appeared in a different form to two of them as they were walking, while they were going out into the countryside. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:13",
"text": "And these went and reported it to the others, and they did not believe them. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:14",
"text": "And later, while they were reclining at table, he appeared to the eleven. And he reprimanded their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had been raised. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:15",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cGo into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:16",
"text": "The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who refuses to believe will be condemned. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:17",
"text": "And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will expel demons, they will speak in new tongues, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:18",
"text": "they will pick up snakes. And if they drink any deadly poison it will never hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and \u231ethey will get\u231f well.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:19",
"text": " Then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Mark 16:20",
"text": "And they went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord was working together with them and confirming the message through the accompanying signs.\u301b "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "Luke",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:1",
"text": " Since many have attempted to compile an account concerning the events that have been fulfilled among us, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:2",
"text": "just as those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning passed on to us, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:3",
"text": "it seemed best to me also\u2014because I have followed all things carefully from the beginning\u2014to write them down in orderly sequence for you, most excellent Theophilus, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:4",
"text": "so that you may know the certainty concerning the things about which you were taught. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:5",
"text": " It happened that in the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a certain priest, Zechariah by name, of the division of Abijah. And \u231ehe had a wife\u231f from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:6",
"text": "And they were both righteous in the sight of God, living blamelessly in all the commandments and regulations of the Lord. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:7",
"text": "And \u231ethey did not have\u231f a child, because Elizabeth was barren. And they were both advanced \u231ein years\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:8",
"text": " And it happened that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:9",
"text": "according to the custom of the priesthood he was chosen by lot to enter into the temple of the Lord to burn incense. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:10",
"text": "And the whole crowd of the people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:11",
"text": "And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:12",
"text": "And Zechariah was terrified when he saw the angel, and fear fell upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:13",
"text": "But the angel said to him, \u201cDo not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will call his name John. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:14",
"text": " And \u231eyou will experience joy and exultation\u231f, and many will rejoice at his birth. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:15",
"text": " For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he must never drink wine or beer, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while he is still in his mother\u2019s womb. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:16",
"text": " And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:17",
"text": " And he will go on before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to prepare for the Lord a people made ready.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:18",
"text": " And Zechariah said to the angel, \u201cBy what will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced \u231ein years\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:19",
"text": "And the angel answered and said to him, \u201cI am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to announce to you this good news. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:20",
"text": "And behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day these things take place, \u231ebecause\u231f you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:21",
"text": " And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and began to wonder when he was delayed in the temple. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:22",
"text": "And when he came out he was not able to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them, and remained unable to speak. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:23",
"text": "And it happened that when the days of his service came to an end, he went away to his home. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:24",
"text": " Now after these days, his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:25",
"text": "\u201cThus the Lord has done for me in the days in which he has concerned himself with me, to take away my disgrace among people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:26",
"text": " Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee \u231enamed\u231f Nazareth, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:27",
"text": "to a virgin legally promised in marriage to a man \u231enamed\u231f Joseph of the house of David. And the name of the virgin was Mary. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:28",
"text": "And he came to her and said, \u201cGreetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:29",
"text": "But she was greatly perplexed at the statement, and was pondering what sort of greeting this might be. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:30",
"text": "And the angel said to her, \u201cDo not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:31",
"text": " And behold, you will conceive in the womb and will give birth to a son, and you will call his name Jesus. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:32",
"text": " This one will be great, and he will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:33",
"text": " And he will reign over the house of Jacob \u231eforever\u231f, and of his kingdom there will be no end. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:34",
"text": " And Mary said to the angel, \u201cHow will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:35",
"text": "And the angel answered and said to her, \u201cThe Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the one to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:36",
"text": " And behold, your relative Elizabeth\u2014she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:37",
"text": "For \u231enothing will be impossible with God\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:38",
"text": " So Mary said, \u201cBehold, the Lord\u2019s female slave! May it happen to me according to your word.\u201d And the angel departed from her. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:39",
"text": " Now in those days Mary set out and traveled with haste into the hill country, to a town of Judah, "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:40",
"text": "and entered into the house of Zechariah, and greeted Elizabeth. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:41",
"text": "And it happened that when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby in her womb leaped and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:42",
"text": "And she cried out with a loud shout and said, \u201cBlessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:43",
"text": " And why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:44",
"text": "For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy! "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:45",
"text": "And blessed is she who believed that there will be a fulfillment to what was spoken to her from the Lord!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:46",
"text": " And Mary said, \u201cMy soul exalts the Lord, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:47",
"text": " and my spirit has rejoiced greatly in God my Savior, "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:48",
"text": " because he has looked upon the humble state of his female slave, for behold, from now on all generations will consider me blessed, "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:49",
"text": " because the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:50",
"text": " And his mercy is for generation after generation to those who fear him. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:51",
"text": " He has done a mighty deed with his arm; he has dispersed the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:52",
"text": " He has brought down rulers from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:53",
"text": " He has filled those who are hungry with good things, and those who are rich he has sent away empty-handed. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:54",
"text": " He has helped Israel his servant, remembering his mercy, "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:55",
"text": " just as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants \u231eforever\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:56",
"text": " And Mary stayed with her about three months, and returned to her home. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:57",
"text": " Now the time came for Elizabeth that she should give birth, and she gave birth to a son. "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:58",
"text": "And her neighbors and relatives heard that \u231ethe Lord had shown his great mercy to her\u231f, and they rejoiced with her. "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:59",
"text": "And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were wanting to name him \u231eafter\u231f his father Zechariah. "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:60",
"text": "And his mother answered and said, \u201cNo, but he will be named John.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:61",
"text": "And they said to her, \u201cThere is no one of your relatives who is called by this name.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:62",
"text": "So they made signs to his father asking what he wanted him to be named, "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:63",
"text": "and he asked for a writing tablet and wrote, saying, \u201cJohn is his name.\u201d And they were all astonished. "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:64",
"text": "And his mouth and his tongue were opened immediately, and he began to speak, praising God. "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:65",
"text": "And fear came on all those who lived near them, and in all the hill country of Judea all these events were discussed. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:66",
"text": "And all those who heard kept these things in their hearts, saying, \u201cWhat then will this child be? For indeed the hand of the Lord was with him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:67",
"text": " And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 68,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:68",
"text": " \u201cBlessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited to help and \u231ehas redeemed\u231f his people, "
},
{
"verse": 69,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:69",
"text": " and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, "
},
{
"verse": 70,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:70",
"text": " just as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 71,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:71",
"text": " salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all those who hate us, "
},
{
"verse": 72,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:72",
"text": " to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, "
},
{
"verse": 73,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:73",
"text": " the oath that he swore to Abraham our father, to grant us "
},
{
"verse": 74,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:74",
"text": "that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, could serve him without fear "
},
{
"verse": 75,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:75",
"text": "in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. "
},
{
"verse": 76,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:76",
"text": " And so you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go on before the Lord to prepare his ways, "
},
{
"verse": 77,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:77",
"text": " to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins, "
},
{
"verse": 78,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:78",
"text": " because of the merciful compassion of our God by which the dawn will visit to help us from on high, "
},
{
"verse": 79,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:79",
"text": " to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 80,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Luke 1:80",
"text": " And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:1",
"text": " Now it happened that in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:2",
"text": "(This first registration took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:3",
"text": "And everyone went to be registered, each one to his own town. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:4",
"text": "So Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:5",
"text": "to be registered together with Mary, who was legally promised in marriage to him and was pregnant. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:6",
"text": "And it happened that while they were there, \u231ethe time came\u231f for her to give birth. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:7",
"text": "And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:8",
"text": " And there were shepherds in the same region, living out of doors and keeping watch, guarding over their flock by night. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:9",
"text": "And an angel of the Lord stood near them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and \u231ethey were terribly frightened\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:10",
"text": "And the angel said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid, for behold, I bring good news to you of great joy which will be for all the people: "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:11",
"text": "that today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born for you in the city of David. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:12",
"text": "And this will be the sign for you: you will find the baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:13",
"text": "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God and saying, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:14",
"text": " \u201cGlory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among people \u231ewith whom he is pleased\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:15",
"text": " And it happened that when the angels had departed from them into heaven, the shepherds began to say to one another, \u201cLet us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has revealed to us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:16",
"text": "And they went hurrying and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby who was lying in the manger. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:17",
"text": "And when they saw it, they made known the statement that had been told to them about this child. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:18",
"text": "And all who heard it were astonished concerning what had been said to them by the shepherds. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:19",
"text": "But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering them in her heart. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:20",
"text": "And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:21",
"text": " And when eight days were completed \u231eso that he could be circumcised\u231f, he was named Jesus, his name that he was called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:22",
"text": " And when the days of their purification were completed according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:23",
"text": "(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, \u201cEvery male that opens the womb will be called holy to the Lord\u201d) "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:24",
"text": "and to offer a sacrifice according to what was stated in the law of the Lord, \u201ca pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:25",
"text": " And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem \u231ewhose name was\u231f Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:26",
"text": "And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he would see the Lord\u2019s Christ. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:27",
"text": "And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus so that they could do for him according to what was customary under the law, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:28",
"text": "he took him in his arms and praised God and said, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:29",
"text": " \u201cNow dismiss your slave in peace, Lord, according to your word. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:30",
"text": " For my eyes have seen your salvation "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:31",
"text": " that you have prepared in the presence of all the peoples, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:32",
"text": " a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory to your people Israel.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:33",
"text": " And his father and mother were astonished at what was said about him. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:34",
"text": "And Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, \u201cBehold, this child is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:35",
"text": "and a sword will pierce your own soul also, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:36",
"text": " And there was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher (she was advanced \u231ein years\u231f, having lived with her husband seven years \u231eafter her marriage\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:37",
"text": "and herself as a widow up to eighty-four years) who did not depart from the temple with fastings and prayers, serving night and day. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:38",
"text": "And at that same hour she approached and began to give thanks to God, and to speak about him to all those who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:39",
"text": " And when they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:40",
"text": "And the child was growing and becoming strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:41",
"text": " And his parents went every year to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:42",
"text": "And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the feast. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:43",
"text": "And after the days were completed, while they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. And his parents did not know it, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:44",
"text": "but believing him to be in the group of travelers, they went a day\u2019s journey. And they began searching for him among their relatives and their acquaintances, "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:45",
"text": "and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:46",
"text": "And it happened that after three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting in the midst of the teachers and listening to them and asking them questions. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:47",
"text": "And all who heard him were amazed at his insight and his answers. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:48",
"text": "And when they saw him, they were astounded and his mother said to him, \u201cChild, why have you done this to us? Look, your father and I have been searching for you anxiously!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:49",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201c\u231eWhy\u231f were you searching for me? Did you not know that it was necessary for me to be in the house of my Father?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:50",
"text": "And they did not understand the statement that he spoke to them. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:51",
"text": "And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was submitting to them. And his mother treasured all these things in her heart. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Luke 2:52",
"text": " And Jesus was advancing in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and with people. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:1",
"text": " Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:2",
"text": "in the time of the high priest Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:3",
"text": "And he went into all the surrounding region of the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:4",
"text": "as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, \u201cThe voice of one crying out in the wilderness, \u2018Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight! "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:5",
"text": " Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be leveled, and the crooked will become straight, and the rough road will become smooth, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:6",
"text": " and all flesh will see the salvation of God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:7",
"text": " Therefore he was saying to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, \u201cOffspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:8",
"text": "Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! And do not begin to say to yourselves, \u2018We have Abraham as father.\u2019 For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:9",
"text": "And even now the ax is positioned at the root of the trees; therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:10",
"text": " And the crowds were asking him, saying, \u201cWhat then should we do?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:11",
"text": "And he answered and said to them, \u201cThe one who has two tunics must share with the one who does not have one, and the one who has food must do likewise.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:12",
"text": "And tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, \u201cTeacher, what should we do?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:13",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cCollect no more than \u231ewhat you are ordered to\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:14",
"text": "And those who served in the army were also asking him, saying, \u201cWhat should we also do?\u201d And he said to them, \u201cExtort from no one, and do not blackmail anyone, and be content with your pay.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:15",
"text": " And while the people were waiting expectantly and all were pondering in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he might be the Christ, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:16",
"text": "John answered them all, saying, \u201cI baptize you with water, but the one who is more powerful than I am is coming, of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:17",
"text": "His winnowing shovel is in his hand, to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:18",
"text": " So with many other exhortations also he proclaimed good news to the people. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:19",
"text": "But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him concerning Herodias, his brother\u2019s wife, and concerning all the evil deeds that Herod had done, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:20",
"text": "added this also to them all: he also locked up John in prison. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:21",
"text": " Now it happened that when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized, and while he was praying, heaven was opened, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:22",
"text": "and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, \u201cYou are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:23",
"text": " And Jesus, when he began his ministry, was himself about thirty years old, being the son (as it was believed) of Joseph the son of Eli, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:24",
"text": "the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:25",
"text": "the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:26",
"text": "the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda, "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:27",
"text": "the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:28",
"text": "the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:29",
"text": "the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:30",
"text": "the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:31",
"text": "the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:32",
"text": "the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:33",
"text": "the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:34",
"text": "the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:35",
"text": "the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:36",
"text": "the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:37",
"text": "the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Luke 3:38",
"text": "the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:1",
"text": " And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:2",
"text": "forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was hungry. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:3",
"text": "So the devil said to him, \u201cIf you are the Son of God, order this stone that it become bread!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:4",
"text": "And Jesus replied to him, \u201cIt is written, \u2018Man will not live on bread alone.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:5",
"text": " And he led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:6",
"text": "And the devil said to him, \u201cI will give you all this domain and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I can give it to whomever I want. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:7",
"text": "So if you will worship before me, all this will be yours.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:8",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cIt is written, \u2018You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:9",
"text": " And he brought him to Jerusalem, and had him stand on the highest point of the temple and said to him, \u201cIf you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:10",
"text": "for it is written, \u2018He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:11",
"text": " and \u2018on their hands they will lift you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:12",
"text": " And Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cIt is said, \u2018You are not to put to the test the Lord your God.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:13",
"text": "And when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until a favorable time. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:14",
"text": " And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news about him went out throughout all the surrounding region. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:15",
"text": "And he began to teach in their synagogues, and was praised by all. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:16",
"text": " And he came to Nazareth, where \u231ehe had been brought up\u231f, and according to \u231ehis custom\u231f he entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath and stood up to read. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:17",
"text": "And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and unrolling the scroll he found the place where it was written, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:18",
"text": " \u201cThe Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because of which he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send out in freedom those who are oppressed, "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:19",
"text": " to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:20",
"text": " And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were looking intently at him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:21",
"text": "And he began to say to them, \u201cToday this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:22",
"text": "And they were all speaking well of him, and were astonished at the gracious words that were coming out of his mouth. And they were saying, \u201cIs this man not the son of Joseph?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:23",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cDoubtless you will tell me this parable: \u2018Physician, heal yourself!\u2019 Whatever we have heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in your hometown also!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:24",
"text": "And he said, \u201cTruly I say to you that no prophet is acceptable in his own hometown. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:25",
"text": "But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months while a great famine took place over all the land. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:26",
"text": "And Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:27",
"text": "And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was made clean except Naaman the Syrian.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:28",
"text": "And all those in the synagogue were filled with anger when they heard these things. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:29",
"text": "And they stood up and forced him out of the town and brought him up to the edge of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:30",
"text": "But he passed through their midst and went on his way. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:31",
"text": " And he came down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:32",
"text": "And they were astounded at his teaching, because \u231ehe spoke\u231f with authority. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:33",
"text": " And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:34",
"text": "\u201cHa! \u231eLeave us alone\u231f, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are\u2014the Holy One of God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:35",
"text": "And Jesus rebuked him, saying, \u201cBe silent and come out of him!\u201d And after throwing him down in their midst, the demon came out of him without hurting him at all. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:36",
"text": "And amazement came upon them all, and they began to talk with one another, saying, \u201cWhat word is this? For he commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:37",
"text": "And news about him went out into every place of the surrounding region. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:38",
"text": " And after he set out from the synagogue, he went into Simon\u2019s house. And Simon\u2019s mother-in-law was afflicted with a high fever, and they asked him on behalf of her. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:39",
"text": "And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately she got up and began to serve them. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:40",
"text": " Now as the sun was setting, all who had those who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and placing his hands on every one of them, he healed them. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:41",
"text": "And demons also were coming out of many, crying out and saying, \u201cYou are the Son of God!\u201d And he rebuked them and did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:42",
"text": " And when it was day, he departed and went to an isolated place. And the crowds were seeking him, and came to him and were trying to prevent him from departing from them. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:43",
"text": "But he said to them, \u201cIt is necessary for me to proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this purpose. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Luke 4:44",
"text": "And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:1",
"text": " Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around him and hearing the word of God, he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:2",
"text": "and he saw two boats there beside the lake, but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:3",
"text": "And he got into one of the boats, which was Simon\u2019s, and asked him to put out from the land a little. And he sat down and began to teach the crowds from the boat. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:4",
"text": "And when he stopped speaking, he said to Simon, \u201cPut out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:5",
"text": "And Simon answered and said, \u201cMaster, although we worked hard through the whole night, we caught nothing. But at your word I will let down the nets.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:6",
"text": "And when they did this, they caught a very large number of fish, and their nets began to tear. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:7",
"text": "And they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both the boats so that they began to sink. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:8",
"text": "And when he saw it, Simon Peter fell down at Jesus\u2019 knees, saying, \u201cDepart from me, Lord, because I am \u231ea sinful man\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:9",
"text": "For amazement had seized him and all those who were with him at the catch of fish that they had caught, "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:10",
"text": "and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were business partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, \u201cDo not be afraid! From now on you will be catching people!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:11",
"text": "And after they brought their boats to the land, they left everything and followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:12",
"text": " And it happened that while he was in one of the towns, \u231ethere was\u231f a man \u231ecovered with leprosy\u231f. And when he saw Jesus, he fell down on his face and begged him, saying, \u201cLord, if you are willing, you are able to make me clean.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:13",
"text": "And extending his hand he touched him, saying, \u201cI am willing; be clean.\u201d And immediately the leprosy went away from him. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:14",
"text": "And he ordered him, \u201cTell no one, but go and show yourself to the priest and bring the offering for your cleansing just as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:15",
"text": "But the report about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:16",
"text": "But he himself was withdrawing in the wilderness and praying. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:17",
"text": " And it happened that on one of the days as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who \u231ehad come\u231f from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was there in order for him to heal. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:18",
"text": "And behold, men came carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and place him before him. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:19",
"text": "And when they did not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the roof tiles with the stretcher into the midst of them, in front of Jesus. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:20",
"text": "And when he saw their faith, he said, \u201cFriend, your sins are forgiven you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:21",
"text": "And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, \u201cWho is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:22",
"text": "But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered and said to them, \u201cWhy are you reasoning in your hearts? "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:23",
"text": "Which is easier to say, \u2018Your sins are forgiven you,\u2019 or to say, \u2018Get up and walk?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:24",
"text": "But in order that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,\u201d he said to the one who was paralyzed, \u201cI say to you, \u2018Get up and pick up your stretcher and go to your home.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:25",
"text": "And immediately he stood up before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went away to his home, glorifying God. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:26",
"text": "And amazement seized them all, and they began to glorify God. And they were filled with fear, saying, \u201cWe have seen wonderful things today!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:27",
"text": " And after these things, he went out and saw a tax collector \u231enamed\u231f Levi sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, \u201cFollow me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:28",
"text": "And leaving everything behind, he got up and began to follow him. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:29",
"text": " And Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining for the meal with them. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:30",
"text": "And the Pharisees and their scribes began to complain to his disciples, saying, \u201cWhy do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:31",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cThose who are healthy do not have need of a physician, but those \u231ewho are sick\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:32",
"text": "I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:33",
"text": " And they said to him, \u201cThe disciples of John fast often and make prayers\u2014likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees\u2014but yours are eating and drinking!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:34",
"text": "So he said to them, \u201cYou are not able to make the \u231ebridegroom\u2019s attendants\u231f fast as long as the bridegroom is with them, are you? "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:35",
"text": "But days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:36",
"text": "And he also told a parable to them: \u201cNo one tears a patch from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. Otherwise, he will have torn the new also, and the old will not match the patch that is from the new. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:37",
"text": "And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the wineskins, and it will be spilled and the wineskins will be destroyed. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:38",
"text": "But new wine must be put into new wineskins. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Luke 5:39",
"text": "And no one after drinking old wine wants new, because he says, \u2018The old is just fine!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:1",
"text": " Now it happened that on a Sabbath he went through the grain fields, and his disciples were picking and eating the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:2",
"text": "But some of the Pharisees said, \u201cWhy are you doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:3",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cHave you not read this, what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:4",
"text": "how he entered into the house of God and took the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests alone), and ate it and gave it to those with him?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:5",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cThe Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:6",
"text": " Now it happened that on another Sabbath he entered into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there, and his right hand was withered. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:7",
"text": "So the scribes and the Pharisees were watching closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, in order that they could find a reason to accuse him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:8",
"text": "But he knew their thoughts and said to the man who had the withered hand, \u201cGet up and stand in the middle,\u201d and he got up and stood there. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:9",
"text": "And Jesus said to them, \u201cI ask you whether it is permitted on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:10",
"text": "And after looking around at them all, he said to him, \u201cStretch out your hand,\u201d and he did, and his hand was restored. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:11",
"text": "But they were filled with fury, and began discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:12",
"text": " Now it happened that in these days he went away to the mountain to pray, and was spending the whole night in prayer to God. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:13",
"text": "And when day came, he summoned his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he also named apostles: "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:14",
"text": "Simon (whom he also named Peter) and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:15",
"text": "and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:16",
"text": "and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:17",
"text": " And he came down with them and stood on a level place, and a large crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all of Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:18",
"text": "who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases, and those who were troubled by unclean spirits were cured. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:19",
"text": "And the whole crowd was seeking to touch him, because power was going out from him and healing them all. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:20",
"text": " And he lifted up his eyes to his disciples and said, \u201cBlessed are the poor, because yours is the kingdom of God. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:21",
"text": " Blessed are those who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied. Blessed are those who weep now, Because you will laugh. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:22",
"text": " Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil on account of the Son of Man. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:23",
"text": "Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For their fathers used to do the same things to the prophets. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:24",
"text": " \u201cBut woe to you who are rich, because you have received your comfort. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:25",
"text": " Woe to you who are satisfied now, because you will be hungry. Woe, you who laugh now, because you will mourn and weep. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:26",
"text": " Woe whenever all people speak well of you, for their fathers used to do the same things to the false prophets. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:27",
"text": " \u201cBut to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:28",
"text": "bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:29",
"text": "To the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from the one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic also. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:30",
"text": "Give to everyone who asks you, and from the one who takes away your things, do not ask for them back. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:31",
"text": "And just as you want people \u231eto do\u231f to you, do \u231ethe same\u231f to them. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:32",
"text": " \u201cAnd if you love those who love you, what kind of credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them! "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:33",
"text": "And if you do good to those who do good to you, what kind of credit is that to you? Even the sinners do the same! "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:34",
"text": "And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive back, what kind of credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so that they may get back an equal amount! "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:35",
"text": "But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:36",
"text": "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful! "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:37",
"text": " \u201cAnd do not judge, and you will never be judged. And do not condemn, and you will never be condemned. Pardon, and you will be pardoned. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:38",
"text": "Give, and it will be given to you, a good measure\u2014pressed down, shaken, overflowing\u2014they will pour out into your lap. For with the measure by which you measure out, it will be measured out to you in return.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:39",
"text": " And he also told them a parable: \u201cSurely a blind person cannot lead the blind, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit? "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:40",
"text": "A disciple is not superior to his teacher, but everyone, when he is fully trained, will be like his teacher. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:41",
"text": "And why do you see the speck that is in your brother\u2019s eye, but do not notice the beam of wood that is in your own eye? "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:42",
"text": "How are you able to say to your brother, \u201cBrother, allow me to remove the speck that is in your eye,\u201d while you yourself do not see the beam of wood in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother\u2019s eye! "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:43",
"text": " \u201cFor there is no good tree that produces bad fruit, nor on the other hand a bad tree that produces good fruit, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:44",
"text": "for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn plants, nor are grapes harvested from thorn bushes. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:45",
"text": "The good person out of the good treasury of his heart brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:46",
"text": " \u201cAnd why do you call me \u2018Lord, Lord,\u2019 and do not do what I tell you? "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:47",
"text": " \u201cEveryone who comes to me and listens to my words and does them\u2014I will show you what he is like: "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:48",
"text": "he is like a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood came, the river burst against that house and was not able to shake it, because it had been built well. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 6,
"name": "Luke 6:49",
"text": "But the one who hears my words and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation, which the river burst against, and immediately it collapsed\u2014and the collapse of that house was great!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:1",
"text": " After he had finished all his statements in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:2",
"text": "Now a certain centurion\u2019s slave, who was esteemed by him, \u231ewas sick\u231f and was about to die. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:3",
"text": "So when he heard about Jesus, he sent Jewish elders to him, asking him that he would come and cure his slave. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:4",
"text": "And when they came to Jesus, they began imploring him earnestly, saying, \u201cHe is worthy that you grant this for him, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:5",
"text": "because he loves our nation and he himself built the synagogue for us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:6",
"text": "So Jesus went with them. Now by this time he was not far away from the house, and the centurion sent friends, saying to him, \u201cLord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy that you should come in under my roof. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:7",
"text": "For this reason neither did I consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word and my slave must be healed. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:8",
"text": "For I also am a man placed under authority, who has soldiers under me, and I say to this one, \u2018Go!\u2019 and he goes, and to another one, \u2018Come!\u2019 and he comes, and to my slave, \u2018Do this!\u2019 and he does it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:9",
"text": " And when Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turning around to the crowd that was following him, he said, \u201cI tell you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:10",
"text": "And when they returned to the house, those who had been sent found the slave healthy. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:11",
"text": " And it happened that on the next day he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:12",
"text": "And as he approached the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, his mother\u2019s only son, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:13",
"text": "And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, \u201cDo not weep!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:14",
"text": "And he came up and touched the bier, and those who were carrying it stopped. And he said, \u201cYoung man, I say to you, get up!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:15",
"text": "And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:16",
"text": "And fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, \u201cA great prophet has appeared among us!\u201d and \u201cGod has visited to help his people!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:17",
"text": "And this report about him went out in the whole of Judea and in all the surrounding region. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:18",
"text": " And his disciples reported to John about all these things. And summoning a certain two of his disciples, John "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:19",
"text": "sent them to the Lord, saying, \u201cAre you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:20",
"text": "And when the men came to him, they said, \u201cJohn the Baptist sent us to you, saying, \u2018Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:21",
"text": "In that hour he healed many people of diseases and suffering and evil spirits, and he granted sight to many blind people. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:22",
"text": "And he answered and said to them, \u201cGo and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear; the dead are raised, the poor have good news announced to them. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:23",
"text": "And whoever is not offended by me is blessed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:24",
"text": " And when the messengers of John had departed, he began to speak to the crowds concerning John: \u201cWhat did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:25",
"text": "But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are in splendid clothing and luxury are in the royal palaces. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:26",
"text": "But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet! "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:27",
"text": "It is this man about whom it is written: \u2018Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:28",
"text": " I tell you, there is no one greater among those born of women than John, but the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:29",
"text": "(And all the people, when they heard this\u2014even the tax collectors\u2014affirmed the righteousness of God, because they had been baptized with the baptism of John, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:30",
"text": "but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by him.) "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:31",
"text": " \u201cTo what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:32",
"text": "They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, who say, \u2018We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not weep.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:33",
"text": " For John the Baptist has come not eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, \u2018He has a demon!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:34",
"text": "The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, \u2018Behold, a man who is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:35",
"text": "And wisdom is vindicated by all her children.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:36",
"text": " Now one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he entered into the house of the Pharisee and reclined at the table. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:37",
"text": "And behold, a woman in the town who was a sinner, when she learned that he was dining in the Pharisee\u2019s house, brought an alabaster flask of perfumed oil, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:38",
"text": "and standing behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and was wiping them with the hair of her head and was kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfumed oil. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:39",
"text": "Now when the Pharisee who invited him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, \u201cIf this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:40",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cSimon, I have something to say to you.\u201d And he said, \u201cTeacher, say it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:41",
"text": "\u201cThere were two debtors who owed a certain creditor. One owed five hundred denarii and the other fifty. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:42",
"text": "When they were not able to repay him, he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:43",
"text": "Simon answered and said, \u201cI suppose that it is the one to whom he forgave more.\u201d And he said to him, \u201cYou have judged correctly.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:44",
"text": "And turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, \u201cDo you see this woman? I entered into your house. You did not give me water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:45",
"text": "You did not give me a kiss, but from the time I entered, she has not stopped kissing my feet. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:46",
"text": "You did not anoint my head with olive oil, but she anointed my feet with perfumed oil. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:47",
"text": "\u231eFor this reason\u231f I tell you, her sins\u2014which were many\u2014have been forgiven, for she loved much. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:48",
"text": "And he said to her, \u201cYour sins are forgiven.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:49",
"text": "And those who were reclining at the table with him began to say among themselves, \u201cWho is this who even forgives sins?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 7,
"name": "Luke 7:50",
"text": "And he said to the woman, \u201cYour faith has saved you. Go in peace.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:1",
"text": " And it happened that \u231eafterward\u231f also he was going about from one town and village to another preaching and proclaiming the good news concerning the kingdom of God, and the twelve were with him, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:2",
"text": "and some women who had been healed of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (who was called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:3",
"text": "and Joanna the wife of Chuza (Herod\u2019s household manager), and Susanna, and many others who were helping to support them from their possessions. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:4",
"text": " And while a large crowd was gathering and they were going to him from town after town, he spoke by means of a parable: "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:5",
"text": "\u201cThe sower went out to sow his seed, and while he was sowing, \u231esome seed\u231f fell on the side of the path and was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:6",
"text": "And other seed fell on the rock, and when it came up, it withered, because it did not have moisture. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:7",
"text": "And other seed fell in the midst of the thorn plants, and the thorn plants grew up with it and choked it. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:8",
"text": "And other seed fell on the good soil, and when it came up, it produced a hundred times as much grain.\u201d As he said these things, he called out, \u201cThe one who has ears to hear, let him hear!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:9",
"text": " And his disciples asked him what this parable meant. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:10",
"text": "And he said, \u201cTo you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest they are in parables, so that \u2018Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:11",
"text": " Now the parable means this: the seed is the word of God, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:12",
"text": "and those beside the path are the ones who have heard. Then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and be saved. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:13",
"text": "And those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy when they hear it, and these do not have enough root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:14",
"text": "And the seed that fell into the thorn plants\u2014these are the ones who hear and as they go along are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life, and they do not bear fruit to maturity. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:15",
"text": "But the seed on the good soil\u2014these are the ones who, after hearing the word, hold fast to it with a noble and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:16",
"text": " \u201cAnd no one, after lighting a lamp, covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:17",
"text": "For nothing is secret that will not become evident, and nothing hidden that will never be known and come to light. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:18",
"text": "Therefore consider how you listen, for whoever has, to him more will be given, and whoever does not have, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away from him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:19",
"text": " Now his mother and brothers came to him, and they were not able to meet with him because of the crowd. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:20",
"text": "And it was reported to him, \u201cYour mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to see you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:21",
"text": "But he answered and said to them, \u201cThese are my mother and my brothers\u2014the ones who hear the word of God and do it. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:22",
"text": " Now it happened that on one of the days both he and his disciples got into a boat, and he said to them, \u201cLet us cross over to the other side of the lake.\u201d And they set sail, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:23",
"text": "and as they were sailing, he fell asleep. And a storm of wind came down on the lake, and they were being swamped and were in danger. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:24",
"text": "And they came and woke him up, saying, \u201cMaster, master! We are perishing!\u201d So he got up and rebuked the wind and the billowing waves of water and they ceased, and it became calm. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:25",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhere is your faith?\u201d But they were afraid and were astonished, saying to one another, \u201cWho then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water and they obey him?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:26",
"text": " And they sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:27",
"text": "And as he got out on the land, a certain man from the town met him who had demons and for a considerable time had not worn clothes and did not live in a house, but among the tombs. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:28",
"text": "And when he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, \u201c\u231eWhat do I have to do with you\u231f, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:29",
"text": "For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, and he was bound with chains and shackles and was guarded, and breaking the bonds he would be driven by the demon into the deserted places.) "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:30",
"text": "So Jesus asked him, \u201cWhat is your name?\u201d And he said, \u201cLegion,\u201d because many demons had entered into him. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:31",
"text": "And they began imploring him that he would not order them to depart into the abyss. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:32",
"text": "Now there was a large herd of pigs feeding there on the hill, and they implored him that he would permit them to enter into those pigs. And he permitted them. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:33",
"text": "So the demons came out of the man and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed headlong down the steep slope into the lake and were drowned. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:34",
"text": "And when the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and reported it in the town and in the countryside. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:35",
"text": "So they went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting there clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:36",
"text": "And those who had seen it reported to them how the man who had been demon-possessed had been healed. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:37",
"text": "And all the people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, because they had been seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:38",
"text": "And the man from who the demons had gone out was begging him to stay with him, but he sent him away, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:39",
"text": "\u201cReturn to your home and tell all that God has done for you.\u201d And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town all that Jesus had done for him. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:40",
"text": " Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, because they were all waiting for him. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:41",
"text": "And behold, a man \u231ewho was named\u231f Jairus came, and this man was a ruler of the synagogue. And he fell down at the feet of Jesus and began imploring him to come to his house, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:42",
"text": "because \u231ehe had\u231f an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. Now as he was going, the crowds were pressing against him. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:43",
"text": "And a woman who was \u231esuffering from hemorrhages\u231f for twelve years (who, although she had spent all her assets on physicians, was not able to be healed by anyone) "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:44",
"text": "came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately \u231eher hemorrhaging\u231f stopped. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:45",
"text": "And Jesus said, \u201cWho is the one who touched me?\u201d And when they all denied it, Peter said, \u201cMaster, the crowds are pressing you hard and crowding you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:46",
"text": "But Jesus said, \u201cSomeone touched me, because I know power has gone out from me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:47",
"text": "And when the woman saw that she did not escape notice, she came trembling and falling down before him. In the presence of all the people, she told for what reason she had touched him, and that she was healed immediately. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:48",
"text": "And he said to her, \u201cDaughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:49",
"text": " While he was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue ruler\u2019s house, saying, \u201cYour daughter is dead! Trouble the Teacher no longer!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:50",
"text": "But Jesus, when he heard this, replied to him, \u201cDo not be afraid! Only believe, and she will be healed.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:51",
"text": "Now when he came to the house, he did not allow anyone to enter with him except Peter and John and James and the father and mother of the child. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:52",
"text": "And they were all weeping and mourning for her, but he said, \u201cDo not weep! For she is not dead, but is sleeping.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:53",
"text": "And they began laughing at him, because they knew that she was dead. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:54",
"text": "But he took her hand and called, saying, \u201cChild, get up.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:55",
"text": "And her spirit returned, and she got up immediately, and he ordered something to be given to her to eat. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 8,
"name": "Luke 8:56",
"text": "And her parents were astonished, but he ordered them to tell no one what had happened. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:1",
"text": " And summoning the twelve, he gave them power and authority over all the demons and to cure diseases, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:2",
"text": "and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:3",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cTake along nothing for the journey\u2014neither a staff, nor a traveler\u2019s bag, nor bread, nor money, nor to have two tunics apiece. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:4",
"text": "And into whatever house you enter, stay there and depart from there. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:5",
"text": "And as for all those who do not welcome you\u2014when you depart from that town, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:6",
"text": "So they departed and went throughout the villages, proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:7",
"text": " Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed, because it was said by some that John has been raised from the dead, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:8",
"text": "and by some that Elijah had appeared, and others that some prophet of ancient times had risen. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:9",
"text": "And Herod said, \u201cJohn I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?\u201d And he was wanting to see him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:10",
"text": " And when they returned, the apostles described to him all that they had done. And he took them along and withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:11",
"text": "But when the crowds found out, they followed him, and welcoming them, he began to speak to them about the kingdom of God, and he cured those who had need of healing. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:12",
"text": "Now the day began to be far spent, and the twelve came up and said to him, \u201cSend away the crowd so that they can go into the surrounding villages and farms to obtain lodging and find provisions, because we are here in a desolate place. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:13",
"text": "But he said to them, \u201cYou give them something to eat!\u201d And they said, \u201c\u231eWe have no\u231f more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and purchase food for all these people.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:14",
"text": "(For there were about five thousand men.) So he said to his disciples, \u201cHave them sit down in groups of about fifty each.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:15",
"text": "And they did so, and had them all sit down. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:16",
"text": "And taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them and began giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:17",
"text": "And they all ate and were satisfied, and what was left over was picked up by them\u2014twelve baskets of broken pieces. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:18",
"text": " And it happened that while he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, saying, \u201cWho do the crowds say that I am?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:19",
"text": "And they answered and said, \u201cJohn the Baptist, but others, Elijah, and others, that one of the ancient prophets has risen.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:20",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cBut who do you say that I am?\u201d And Peter answered and said, \u201cThe Christ of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:21",
"text": " But he warned and commanded them to tell this to no one, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:22",
"text": "saying, \u201cIt is necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised on the third day. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:23",
"text": " And he said to them all, \u201cIf anyone wants to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross every day and follow me. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:24",
"text": "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me, this person will save it. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:25",
"text": "For what is a person benefited if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:26",
"text": "For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of this person when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:27",
"text": "But I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will never experience death until they see the kingdom of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:28",
"text": " Now it happened that about eight days after these words, he took along Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:29",
"text": "And as he was praying, the appearance of his face became different, and his clothing became white, gleaming like lightning. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:30",
"text": "And behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:31",
"text": "who appeared in glory and were speaking about his departure which he was about to fulfill in Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:32",
"text": " Now Peter and those with him were \u231every sleepy\u231f, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men who were standing with him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:33",
"text": "And it happened that as they were going away from him, Peter said to Jesus, \u201cMaster, it is good for us to be here. And let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah,\u201d not knowing what he was saying. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:34",
"text": "And while he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:35",
"text": "And a voice came from the cloud, saying, \u201cThis is my Son, my Chosen One. Listen to him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:36",
"text": "And after the voice had occurred, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:37",
"text": " Now it happened that on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a large crowd met him. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:38",
"text": "And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, saying, \u201cTeacher, I beg you to look with concern on my son, because he is my only son! "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:39",
"text": "And behold, a spirit seizes him and suddenly he screams, and it convulses him with foam and rarely withdraws from him, battering him severely. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:40",
"text": "And I begged your disciples that they would expel it, and they were not able to do so.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:41",
"text": "So Jesus answered and said, \u201cO unbelieving and perverted generation! \u231eHow long\u231f will I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:42",
"text": "And while he was still approaching, the demon threw him down and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:43",
"text": "And they were all astounded at the impressiveness of God. But while they were all marveling at all the things that he was doing, he said to his disciples, "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:44",
"text": "\u201c\u231eYou take these words to heart\u231f, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:45",
"text": "But they did not understand this statement, and it was concealed from them so that they could not understand it. And they were afraid to ask him about this statement. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:46",
"text": " And an argument developed among them as to who of them might be greatest. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:47",
"text": "But Jesus, because he knew the thoughts of their hearts, took hold of a child and had him stand beside him "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:48",
"text": "and said to them, \u201cWhoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For the one who is least among you all\u2014this one is great.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:49",
"text": " And John answered and said, \u201cMaster, we saw someone expelling demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him, because he does not follow in company with us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:50",
"text": "But Jesus said to him, \u201cDo not prevent him, because whoever is not against you is for you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:51",
"text": " Now it happened that when the days were approaching \u231efor him to be taken up\u231f, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:52",
"text": "And he sent messengers before \u231ehim\u231f, and they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans in order to prepare for him. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:53",
"text": "And they did not welcome him because \u231ehe was determined to go\u231f to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:54",
"text": "Now when the disciples James and John saw it, they said, \u201cLord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:55",
"text": "But he turned around and rebuked them, "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:56",
"text": "and they proceeded to another village. "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:57",
"text": " And as they were traveling on the road, someone said to him, \u201cI will follow you wherever you go!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:58",
"text": "And Jesus said to him, \u201cFoxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:59",
"text": "And he said to another, \u201cFollow me!\u201d But he said, \u201cLord, first allow me to go and bury my father.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:60",
"text": "But he said to him, \u201cLeave the dead to bury their own dead! But you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:61",
"text": "And another person also said, \u201cI will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say farewell to those in my house.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 9,
"name": "Luke 9:62",
"text": "But Jesus said, \u201cNo one who puts his hand on the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:1",
"text": " And after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy-two others and sent them out two by two before \u231ehim\u231f into every town and place where he was about to go. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:2",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cThe harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest that he send out workers into his harvest. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:3",
"text": "Go! Behold, I am sending you out like lambs in the midst of wolves! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:4",
"text": "Do not carry a money bag or a traveler\u2019s bag or sandals, and greet no one along the road. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:5",
"text": "And into whatever house you enter, first say, \u201cPeace be to this household!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:6",
"text": "And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him. But if not, it will return to you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:7",
"text": "And remain in the same house, eating and drinking \u231ewhatever they provide\u231f, for the worker is worthy of his pay. Do not move from house to house. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:8",
"text": "And into whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat \u231ewhatever is\u231f set before you, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:9",
"text": "and heal the sick in it, and say to them, \u201cThe kingdom of God has come near to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:10",
"text": "But into whatever town you enter and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:11",
"text": "\u201cEven the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you! Nevertheless know this: that the kingdom of God has come near!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:12",
"text": "I tell you that it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town! "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:13",
"text": " Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes! "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:14",
"text": "But it will be more bearable for Tyre and for Sidon in the judgment than for you! "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:15",
"text": "And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No! You will be brought down to Hades! "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:16",
"text": "The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me. But the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:17",
"text": " And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying, \u201cLord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:18",
"text": "So he said to them, \u201cI saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:19",
"text": "Behold, I have given you the authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will ever harm you. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:20",
"text": "Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are inscribed in heaven.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:21",
"text": " At that same time he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, \u201cI praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to young children. Yes, Father, for this was pleasing before you. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:22",
"text": "All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wants to reveal him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:23",
"text": " And turning to the disciples, he said privately, \u201cBlessed are the eyes that see the things which you see! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:24",
"text": "For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:25",
"text": " And behold, a certain legal expert stood up to test him, saying, \u201cTeacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:26",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cWhat is written in the law? How do you read it?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:27",
"text": "And he answered and said, \u201cYou shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:28",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cYou have answered correctly. Do this and you will live.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:29",
"text": " But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, \u201cAnd who is my neighbor?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:30",
"text": "And Jesus replied and said, \u201cA certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who both stripped him and beat him. After inflicting blows on him, they went away, leaving him half dead. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:31",
"text": "Now by coincidence a certain priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:32",
"text": "And in the same way also a Levite, when he came down to the place and saw him, passed by on the opposite side. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:33",
"text": "But a certain Samaritan who was traveling came up to him and, when he saw him, had compassion. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:34",
"text": "And he came up and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine, and he put him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:35",
"text": "And on the next day, he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, and said, \u201cTake care of him, and whatever you spend in addition, I will repay to you when I return. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:36",
"text": "Which of these three do you suppose became a neighbor of the man who fell among the robbers?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:37",
"text": "So he said, \u201cThe one who showed mercy to him.\u201d And Jesus said to him, \u201cYou go and do likewise.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:38",
"text": " Now as they traveled along, he entered into a certain village. And a certain woman \u231enamed\u231f Martha welcomed him. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:39",
"text": "And \u231eshe had\u231f a sister named Mary, who also sat at the feet of Jesus and was listening to his teaching. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:40",
"text": "But Martha was distracted with much preparation, so she approached and said, \u201cLord, is it not a concern to you that my sister has left me alone to make preparations? Then tell her that she should help me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:41",
"text": "But the Lord answered and said to her, \u201cMartha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things! "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 10,
"name": "Luke 10:42",
"text": "But few things are necessary, or only one thing, for Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:1",
"text": " And it happened that while he was in a certain place praying, when he stopped a certain one of his disciples said to him, \u201cLord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:2",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhen you pray, say, \u201cFather, may your name be treated as holy. May your kingdom come. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:3",
"text": " Give us each day our daily bread. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:4",
"text": " And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:5",
"text": " And he said to them, \u201cWho of you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight and say to him, \u2018Friend, lend me three loaves, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:6",
"text": "because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I do not have anything to set before him.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:7",
"text": "And that one will answer from inside and say, \u2018Do not cause me trouble! The door has already been shut and my children are with me in bed! I am not able to get up to give you anything.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:8",
"text": "I tell you, even if he does not give him anything after he gets up because he is his friend, at any rate because of his impudence he will get up and give him whatever he needs. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:9",
"text": " And I tell you, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:10",
"text": "For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:11",
"text": "But what father from among you, if his son will ask for a fish, instead of a fish will give him a snake? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:12",
"text": "Or also, if he will ask for an egg, will give him a scorpion? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:13",
"text": "Therefore if you, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:14",
"text": " And he was expelling a mute demon. Now it happened that when the demon came out, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were astonished. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:15",
"text": "But some of them said, \u201cBy Beelzebul the ruler of demons he expels demons!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:16",
"text": "And others, in order to test him, were demanding from him a sign from heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:17",
"text": "But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, \u201cEvery kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and \u231ea divided household\u231f falls. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:18",
"text": "So if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I expel demons by Beelzebul. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:19",
"text": "But if I expel demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons expel them? For this reason they will be your judges! "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:20",
"text": "But if I expel demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you! "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:21",
"text": "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are \u231esafe\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:22",
"text": "But when a stronger man attacks him and conquers him, he takes away his full armor in which he trusted and distributes his plunder. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:23",
"text": "The one who is not with me is against me, and the one who does not gather with me scatters. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:24",
"text": " \u201cWhenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find it. It says, \u2018I will return to my house from which I came out.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:25",
"text": "And when it arrives it finds the house swept and put in order. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:26",
"text": "Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. And the last state of that person becomes worse than the first!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:27",
"text": " Now it happened that as he said these things, a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, \u201cBlessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:28",
"text": "But he said, \u201cOn the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and follow it!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:29",
"text": " And as the crowds were increasing, he began to say, \u201cThis generation is an evil generation! It demands a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah! "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:30",
"text": "For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:31",
"text": "The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here! "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:32",
"text": "The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here! "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:33",
"text": " \u201cNo one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:34",
"text": "Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sincere, your whole body is full of light also. But when it is evil, your body is dark also. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:35",
"text": "Therefore pay careful attention that the light in you is not darkness! "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:36",
"text": "If therefore your whole body is full of light, not having any part dark, it will be completely full of light, as when the lamp with its light gives light to you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:37",
"text": " And as he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him \u231eto have a meal\u231f with him, and he went in and reclined at table. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:38",
"text": "And the Pharisee, when he saw it, was astonished that he did not first wash before the meal. "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:39",
"text": "But the Lord said to him, \u201cNow you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greediness and wickedness. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:40",
"text": "Fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:41",
"text": "But give as charitable giving the things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:42",
"text": " \u201cBut woe to you, Pharisees, because you pay a tenth of mint and rue and every garden herb, and neglect justice and love for God! But it was necessary to do these things without neglecting those things also. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:43",
"text": "Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces! "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:44",
"text": "Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, and the people who walk over them do not know it! "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:45",
"text": " And one of the legal experts answered and said to him, \u201cTeacher, when you say these things, you insult us also!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:46",
"text": "So he said, \u201cWoe to you also, legal experts, because you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers! "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:47",
"text": "Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them! "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:48",
"text": "As a result you are witnesses, and you approve of the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them and you build their tombs! "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:49",
"text": "For this reason also the wisdom of God said, \u2018I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:50",
"text": "so that the blood of all the prophets that has been shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:51",
"text": "from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple building. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation! "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:52",
"text": "Woe to you, legal experts, because you have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:53",
"text": " And when he departed from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly hostile, and to question him closely about many things, "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 11,
"name": "Luke 11:54",
"text": "plotting to catch him with reference to something \u231ehe might say\u231f. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:1",
"text": " During \u231ethis time\u231f when a crowd of many thousands had gathered together, so that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, \u201cBeware for yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:2",
"text": "But nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, and secret that will not be made known. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:3",
"text": "Therefore everything that you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what \u231eyou have whispered\u231f in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:4",
"text": " \u201cAnd I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after these things do not have anything more to do. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:5",
"text": "But I will show you whom you should fear: fear the one who has authority, after the killing, to throw you into hell! Yes, I tell you, fear this one! "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:6",
"text": "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:7",
"text": "But even the hairs of your head are all numbered! Do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:8",
"text": " \u201cAnd I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before people, the Son of Man also will acknowledge him before the angels of God, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:9",
"text": "but the one who denies me before people will be denied before the angels of God. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:10",
"text": "And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him, but to the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:11",
"text": "But when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you should speak in your own defense or what you should say, "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:12",
"text": "for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what it is necessary to say.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:13",
"text": " Now someone from the crowd said to him, \u201cTeacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:14",
"text": "But he said to him, \u201cMan, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:15",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWatch out and guard yourselves from all greediness, because not even when someone has an abundance \u231edoes\u231f his life consist of his possessions.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:16",
"text": "And he told a parable to them, saying, \u201cThe land of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:17",
"text": "And he reasoned to himself, saying, \u2018What should I do? For I do not have anywhere I can gather in my crops.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:18",
"text": "And he said, \u2018I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and I will gather in there all my grain and possessions. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:19",
"text": "And I will say to my soul, \u201cSoul, you have many possessions stored up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, celebrate!\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:20",
"text": "But God said to him, \u2018Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and the things which you have prepared\u2014whose will they be?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:21",
"text": "So is the one who stores up treasure for himself, and who is not rich toward God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:22",
"text": " And he said to his disciples, \u201cFor this reason I tell you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, or for your body, what you will wear. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:23",
"text": "For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:24",
"text": "Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; to them there is neither storeroom nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds? "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:25",
"text": "And which of you by being anxious is able to add an hour to his life span? "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:26",
"text": "If then you are not even able to do a very little thing, why are you anxious about the rest? "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:27",
"text": "Consider the lilies, how they grow: they do not toil or spin, but I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:28",
"text": "But if God clothes the grass in the field in this way, although it is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he do so for you, you of little faith? "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:29",
"text": "And you, do not consider what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not be anxious. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:30",
"text": "For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need these things. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:31",
"text": "But seek his kingdom and these things will be added to you. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:32",
"text": " \u201cDo not be afraid, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:33",
"text": "Sell your possessions and give charitable gifts. Make for yourselves money bags that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven where thief does not approach or moth destroy. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:34",
"text": "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:35",
"text": " \u201c\u231eYou must be prepared for action\u231f and your lamps burning. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:36",
"text": "And you, be like people who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that when he comes back and knocks, they can open the door for him immediately. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:37",
"text": "Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he returns! Truly I say to you that he will dress himself for service and have them recline at the table and will come by and serve them. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:38",
"text": "Even if he should come back in the second or in the third watch of the night and find them like this, blessed are they! "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:39",
"text": "But understand this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:40",
"text": "You also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think he will come.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:41",
"text": " And Peter said, \u201cLord, are you telling this parable for us, or also for everyone?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:42",
"text": "And the Lord said, \u201cWho then is the faithful wise manager whom the master will put in charge over his servants to give them their food allowance at the right time? "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:43",
"text": "Blessed is that slave whom his master will find so doing when he comes back. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:44",
"text": "Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:45",
"text": "But if that slave should say \u231eto himself\u231f, \u2018My master is taking a long time to return,\u2019 and he begins to beat the male slaves and the female slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:46",
"text": "the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and assign his place with the unbelievers. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:47",
"text": "And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will \u231ewill be given a severe beating\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:48",
"text": "But the one who did not know and did things deserving blows \u231ewill be given a light beating\u231f. And from everyone to whom much has been given, much will be demanded, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will ask him for even more. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:49",
"text": " \u201cI have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish that it had been kindled already! "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:50",
"text": "But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am distressed until it is accomplished! "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:51",
"text": "Do you think that I have come to grant peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:52",
"text": "For from now on there will be five in one household, divided three against two and two against three. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:53",
"text": "They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:54",
"text": " And he also said to the crowds, \u201cWhen you see a cloud coming up in the west, you say at once, \u2018A rainstorm is coming,\u2019 and so it happens. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:55",
"text": "And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, \u2018There will be burning heat,\u2019 and it happens. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:56",
"text": "Hypocrites! You know how to evaluate the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it you do not know how to evaluate this present time? "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:57",
"text": " And why do you not also judge for yourselves what is right? "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:58",
"text": "For as you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to come to a settlement with him on the way, so that he will not drag you to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you into prison. "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 12,
"name": "Luke 12:59",
"text": "I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid back even the last cent!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:1",
"text": " Now at the same time some had come to tell him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:2",
"text": "And he answered and said to them, \u201cDo you think that these Galileans were sinners worse than all the Galileans, because they suffered these things? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:3",
"text": "No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as well! "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:4",
"text": "Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them\u2014do you think that they were sinners worse than all the people who live in Jerusalem? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:5",
"text": "No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:6",
"text": " And he told this parable: \u201cA certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:7",
"text": "So he said to the gardener, \u2018Behold, \u231efor three years\u231f I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find any. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:8",
"text": "But he answered and said to him, \u2018Sir, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put manure on it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:9",
"text": "And if indeed it produces fruit in the coming year, so much the better, but if not, you can cut it down.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:10",
"text": " Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:11",
"text": "And behold, a woman was there who had a spirit \u231ethat had disabled her\u231f for eighteen years, and she was bent over and not able to straighten herself up completely. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:12",
"text": "And when he saw her, Jesus summoned her and said to her, \u201cWoman, you are freed from your disability!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:13",
"text": "And he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and glorified God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:14",
"text": "But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, answered and said to the crowd, \u201cThere are six days on which it is necessary to work. Therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the day of the Sabbath!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:15",
"text": "But the Lord answered and said to him, \u201cHypocrites! Does not each one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it away to water it? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:16",
"text": "And this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound \u231eeighteen\u231f long years\u2014is it not necessary that she be released from this bond on the day of the Sabbath?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:17",
"text": "And when he said these things, all those who opposed him were humiliated, and the whole crowd was rejoicing at all the splendid things that were being done by him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:18",
"text": " Therefore he said, \u201cWhat is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it? "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:19",
"text": "It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his own garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:20",
"text": " And again he said, \u201cTo what shall I compare the kingdom of God? "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:21",
"text": "It is like yeast that a woman took and hid in three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:22",
"text": " And he was going throughout towns and villages, teaching and making his journey toward Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:23",
"text": "And someone said to him, \u201cLord, \u231eare there only\u231f a few who are saved?\u201d And he said to them, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:24",
"text": "\u201cMake every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:25",
"text": "when once the master of the house has gotten up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, \u2018Lord, open the door for us!\u2019 And he will answer and say to you, \u2018I do not know where you are from!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:26",
"text": "Then you will begin to say, \u2018We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:27",
"text": "And he will reply, saying to you, \u2018I do not know where you are from! Go away from me, all you \u231eevildoers\u231f!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:28",
"text": "In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside! "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:29",
"text": "And they will come from east and west, and from north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:30",
"text": "And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:31",
"text": " At that same hour some Pharisees came up and said to him, \u201cGo out and depart from here, because Herod wants to kill you!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:32",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cGo and tell that fox, \u2018Behold, I am expelling demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:33",
"text": "Nevertheless, it is necessary for me to be on the way today and tomorrow and on the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:34",
"text": " \u201cJerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together \u231ethe way\u231f a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you were not willing! "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 13,
"name": "Luke 13:35",
"text": "Behold, your house has been left to you! And I tell you, you will never see me until the time will come when you say, \u2018Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:1",
"text": " And it happened that when he came to the house of a certain one of the leaders of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat \u231ea meal\u231f, they were watching him closely. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:2",
"text": "And behold, a certain man was in front of him, suffering from edema. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:3",
"text": "And Jesus answered and said to the legal experts and Pharisees, saying, \u201cIs it permitted to heal on the Sabbath, or not?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:4",
"text": "But they remained silent. And he took hold of him and healed him, and sent him away. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:5",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWho among you, if your son or your ox falls into a well on the day of the Sabbath, will not immediately pull him out?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:6",
"text": "And they were not able to make a reply to these things. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:7",
"text": " Now he told a parable to those who had been invited when he noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honor, saying to them, "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:8",
"text": "\u201cWhen you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline at the table in the place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you has been invited by him, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:9",
"text": "and the one who invited you \u231eboth\u231f will come and say to you, \u2018Give the place to this person,\u2019 and then with shame you will begin to take the last place. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:10",
"text": "But when you are invited, go and recline at the table in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, \u2018Friend, move up higher.\u2019 Then it will be an honor to you in the presence of all those who are reclining at the table with you. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:11",
"text": "For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:12",
"text": " And he also said to the one who had invited him, \u201cWhen you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and repayment come to you. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:13",
"text": "But whenever you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:14",
"text": "and you will be blessed, because they are not able to repay you. For it will be paid back to you at the resurrection of the righteous.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:15",
"text": " Now when one of those reclining at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, \u201cBlessed is \u231eeveryone who\u231f will eat bread in the kingdom of God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:16",
"text": "But he said to him, \u201cA certain man was giving a large banquet and invited many. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:17",
"text": "And he sent his slave at the hour of the banquet to say to those who have been invited, \u2018Come, because now it is ready!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:18",
"text": "And they all \u231ealike\u231f began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, \u2018I have purchased a field, and \u231eI must\u231f go out to look at it. I ask you, consider me excused.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:19",
"text": "And another said, \u2018I have purchased five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I ask you, consider me excused.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:20",
"text": "And another said, \u2018I have married a wife, and for this reason I am not able to come.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:21",
"text": "And the slave came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his slave, \u2018Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:22",
"text": "And the slave said, \u2018Sir, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:23",
"text": "And the master said to the slave, \u2018Go out into the highways and hedges and press them to come in, so that my house will be filled! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:24",
"text": "For I say to you that none of those persons who were invited will taste my banquet!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:25",
"text": " Now large crowds were going along with him, and he turned around and said to them, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:26",
"text": "\u201cIf anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, \u231ehe cannot be\u231f my disciple. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:27",
"text": "Whoever does not carry his own cross and \u231efollow\u231f me \u231ecannot be\u231f my disciple. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:28",
"text": "For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough \u231eto complete it\u231f? "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:29",
"text": "\u231eOtherwise\u231f after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all who see it will begin to ridicule him, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:30",
"text": "saying, \u2018This man began to build and was not able to finish!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:31",
"text": "Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:32",
"text": "But if not, while the other is still far away, he sends an ambassador and asks \u231efor terms of\u231f peace. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:33",
"text": "In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all his own possessions \u231ecannot be\u231f my disciple. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:34",
"text": " \u201cNow salt is good, but if salt becomes tasteless, with what will it be made salty? "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 14,
"name": "Luke 14:35",
"text": "It is usable neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; they throw it out. The one who has ears to hear, let him hear!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:1",
"text": " Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to hear him. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:2",
"text": "And both the Pharisees and the scribes were complaining, saying, \u201cThis man welcomes sinners and eats with them!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:3",
"text": " So he told them this parable, saying, "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:4",
"text": "\u201cWhat man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:5",
"text": "And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:6",
"text": "And when he returns to his home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, \u2018Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:7",
"text": "I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:8",
"text": " Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:9",
"text": "And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, \u2018Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that I had lost!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:10",
"text": "In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:11",
"text": " And he said, \u201cA certain man had two sons. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:12",
"text": "And the younger of them said to his father, \u2018Father, give me the share of the property that is coming to me.\u2019 So he divided his assets between them. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:13",
"text": "And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything and went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth by living wastefully. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:14",
"text": "And after he had spent everything, there was a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:15",
"text": "And he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:16",
"text": "And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving anything to him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:17",
"text": " \u201cBut when he came to himself, he said, \u2018How many of my father\u2019s hired workers have an abundance \u231eof food\u231f, and I am dying here from hunger! "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:18",
"text": "I will set out and go to my father and will say to him, \u2018Father, I have sinned against heaven and \u231ein your sight\u231f! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:19",
"text": "I am no longer worthy to be called your son! Make me like one of your hired workers.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:20",
"text": "And he set out and came to his own father. But while he was still a long way away, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran \u231eand embraced him\u231f and kissed him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:21",
"text": "And his son said to him, \u2018Father, I have sinned against heaven and \u231ein your sight\u231f! I am no longer worthy to be called your son!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:22",
"text": "But his father said to his slaves, \u2018Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet! "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:23",
"text": "And bring the fattened calf\u2014kill it and let us eat and celebrate, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:24",
"text": "because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again! He was lost and is found!\u2019 And they began to celebrate. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:25",
"text": " \u201cNow his older son was in the field, and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:26",
"text": "And he summoned one of the slaves and asked what these things meant. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:27",
"text": "And he said to him, \u2018Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has gotten him back healthy.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:28",
"text": "But he became angry and did not want to go in. So his father came out and began to implore him. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:29",
"text": "But he answered and said to his father, \u2018Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends! "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:30",
"text": "But when this son of yours returned\u2014who has consumed your assets with prostitutes\u2014you killed the fattened calf for him!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:31",
"text": "But he said to him, \u2018Child, you are always with me, and \u231eeverything I have belongs to you\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 15,
"name": "Luke 15:32",
"text": "But it was necessary to celebrate and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead, and is alive, and was lost, and is found!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:1",
"text": " And he also said to the disciples, \u201cA certain man was rich, who had a manager. And charges were brought to him that this person was squandering his possessions. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:2",
"text": "And he summoned him and said to him, \u2018What is this I hear about you? Give the account of your management, because you can no longer manage.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:3",
"text": "And the manager said to himself, \u2018What should I do, because my master is taking away the management from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:4",
"text": "I know what I should do, so that when I am removed from the management they will welcome me into their homes!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:5",
"text": "And he summoned each one of his own master\u2019s debtors and said to the first, \u2018How much do you owe my master?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:6",
"text": "And he said, \u2018A hundred measures of olive oil.\u2019 So he said to him, \u2018Take your promissory note and sit down quickly and write fifty.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:7",
"text": "Then he said to another, \u2018And how much do you owe?\u2019 And he said, \u2018A hundred measures of wheat.\u2019 He said to him, \u2018Take your promissory note and write eighty.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:8",
"text": "And the master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder than the sons of light with regard to their own generation. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:9",
"text": "And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it runs out they will welcome you into the eternal dwellings. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:10",
"text": " \u201cThe one who is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in very little is also dishonest in much. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:11",
"text": "If then you have not been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:12",
"text": "And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you your own? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:13",
"text": "No domestic slave is able to serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:14",
"text": " Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:15",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cYou are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For what is considered exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:16",
"text": " \u201cThe law and the prophets were until John; from that time on the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urgently pressed into it. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:17",
"text": "But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the law to become invalid. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:18",
"text": " \u201cEveryone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:19",
"text": " \u201cNow a certain man was rich, and dressed in purple cloth and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:20",
"text": "And a certain poor man \u231enamed\u231f Lazarus, covered with sores, lay at his gate, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:21",
"text": "and was longing to be filled with what fell from the table of the rich man. But even the dogs came and licked his sores. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:22",
"text": "Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to \u231eAbraham\u2019s side\u231f. And the rich man also died and was buried. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:23",
"text": "And in Hades he lifted up his eyes as he was in torment and saw Abraham from a distance, and Lazarus \u231eat his side\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:24",
"text": "And he called out and said, \u2018Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he could dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am suffering pain in this flame!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:25",
"text": "But Abraham said, \u2018Child, remember that you received your good things during your life, and Lazarus likewise bad things. But now he is comforted here, but you are suffering pain. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:26",
"text": "And in addition to all these things, a great chasm has been established between us and you, so that those who want to cross over from here to you are not able to do so, nor can they cross over from there to us.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:27",
"text": "So he said, \u2018Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father\u2019s house, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:28",
"text": "for I have five brothers, so that he could warn them, in order that they also should not come to this place of torment!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:29",
"text": "But Abraham said, \u2018They have Moses and the prophets; they must listen to them.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:30",
"text": "And he said, \u2018No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 16,
"name": "Luke 16:31",
"text": "But he said to him, \u2018If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone rises from the dead.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:1",
"text": " And he said to his disciples, \u201cIt is impossible for causes for stumbling not to come, but woe to him through whom they come! "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:2",
"text": "It would be better for him if \u231ea millstone\u231f is placed around his neck and he is thrown into the sea than that he causes one of these little ones to sin. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:3",
"text": " \u201cBe concerned about yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:4",
"text": "And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times he returns to you saying, \u2018I repent,\u2019 you must forgive him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:5",
"text": " And the apostles said to the Lord, \u201cIncrease our faith!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:6",
"text": "So the Lord said, \u201cIf you have faith like a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, \u2018Be uprooted and planted in the sea,\u2019 and it would obey you. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:7",
"text": " \u201cAnd which of you who has a slave plowing or shepherding sheep who comes in from the field will say to him, \u2018Come here at once and recline at the table\u2019? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:8",
"text": "Will he not rather say to him, \u2018Prepare something that I may eat, and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink, and after these things you will eat and drink.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:9",
"text": "He will not \u231ebe grateful\u231f to the slave because he did what was ordered, will he? "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:10",
"text": "Thus you also, when you have done all the \u231ethings you were ordered to do\u231f, say, \u2018We are unworthy slaves; we have done what we were obligated to do.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:11",
"text": " And it happened that while traveling toward Jerusalem, he was passing through \u231ethe region between\u231f Samaria and Galilee. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:12",
"text": "And as he was entering into a certain village, ten men met him\u2014lepers, who stood at a distance. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:13",
"text": "And they raised their voices, saying, \u201cJesus, Master, have mercy on us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:14",
"text": "And when he saw them he said to them, \u201cGo and show yourselves to the priests.\u201d And it happened that as they were going, they were cleansed. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:15",
"text": "But one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:16",
"text": "And he fell on his face at his feet, giving thanks to him. And he was a Samaritan. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:17",
"text": "So Jesus answered and said, \u201cWere not ten cleansed? And where are the nine? "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:18",
"text": "Was no one found to turn back and give praise to God except this foreigner?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:19",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cGet up and go your way. Your faith has saved you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:20",
"text": " Now when he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said, \u201cThe kingdom of God does not come with \u231ethings that can be observed\u231f, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:21",
"text": "nor will they say, \u2018Behold, here it is!\u2019 or \u2018There!\u2019 For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:22",
"text": " And he said to the disciples, \u201cDays will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:23",
"text": "And they will say to you, \u2018Behold, there!\u2019\u00a0\u2018Behold, here!\u2019 Do not go out or run after them! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:24",
"text": "For just as the lightning shines forth, flashing from one place under heaven to another place under heaven, so the Son of Man will be in his day. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:25",
"text": "But first it is necessary for him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:26",
"text": "And just as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:27",
"text": "they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:28",
"text": "Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot\u2014they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:29",
"text": "But on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:30",
"text": "It will be \u231ejust the same\u231f on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:31",
"text": "On that day, whoever is on the housetop and his goods are in the house must not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:32",
"text": "Remember Lot\u2019s wife! "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:33",
"text": "Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will keep it. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:34",
"text": "I tell you that in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:35",
"text": "There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:36",
"text": ""
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 17,
"name": "Luke 17:37",
"text": " And they answered and said to him, \u201cWhere, Lord?\u201d So he said to them, \u201cWhere the dead body is, there also the vultures will be gathered.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:1",
"text": " And he told them a parable to show that they must always pray and not be discouraged, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:2",
"text": "saying, \u201cThere was a certain judge in a certain town who did not fear God and did not respect people. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:3",
"text": "And there was a widow in that town, and she kept coming to him, saying, \u2018Grant me justice against my adversary!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:4",
"text": "And he was not willing for a time, but after these things he said to himself, \u2018Even if I do not fear God or respect people, "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:5",
"text": "yet because this widow is causing trouble for me, I will grant her justice, so that she does not wear me down in the end by her coming back!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:6",
"text": "And the Lord said, \u201cListen to what the unrighteous judge is saying! "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:7",
"text": "And will not God surely \u231esee to it that justice is done\u231f to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them? "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:8",
"text": "I tell you that \u231ehe will see to it that justice is done\u231f for them soon! Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, then will he find faith on earth?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:9",
"text": " And he also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and looked down on \u231eeveryone else\u231f: "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:10",
"text": "\u201cTwo men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:11",
"text": "The Pharisee stood and prayed these things with reference to himself: \u2018God, I give thanks to you that I am not like other people\u2014swindlers, unrighteous people, adulterers, or even like this tax collector! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:12",
"text": "I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all that I get.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:13",
"text": "But the tax collector, standing far away, did not want even to raise his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, \u2018God, be merciful to me, a sinner!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:14",
"text": "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that one! For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:15",
"text": " Now they were bringing even their babies to him so that he could touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:16",
"text": "But Jesus called them to himself, saying, \u201cAllow the children to come to me, and do not forbid them, \u231efor to such belongs\u231f the kingdom of God. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:17",
"text": "Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:18",
"text": " And a certain ruler asked him, saying, \u201cGood Teacher, by doing what will I inherit eternal life?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:19",
"text": "And Jesus said to him, \u201cWhy do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:20",
"text": "You know the commandments: \u2018Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:21",
"text": "And he said, \u201cAll these I have observed from my youth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:22",
"text": "And when he heard this, Jesus said to him, \u201c\u231eYou still lack one thing\u231f: Sell all that you have, and distribute the proceeds to the poor\u2014and you will have treasure in heaven\u2014and come, follow me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:23",
"text": "But when he heard these things he became very sad, because he was extremely wealthy. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:24",
"text": " And Jesus took notice of him and said, \u201cHow \u231edifficult it is for\u231f those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God! "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:25",
"text": "For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:26",
"text": "So those who heard this said, \u201cAnd who can be saved?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:27",
"text": "But he said, \u201cWhat is impossible with men is possible with God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:28",
"text": " And Peter said, \u201cBehold, we have left \u231eall that is ours\u231f and followed you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:29",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cTruly I say to you that there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children on account of the kingdom of God, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:30",
"text": "who will not receive many times more in this time and in the age to come, eternal life.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:31",
"text": " And taking aside the twelve, he said to them, \u201cBehold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written by the prophets with reference to the Son of Man will be accomplished. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:32",
"text": "For he will be handed over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and mistreated and spit on, "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:33",
"text": "and after flogging him they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:34",
"text": "And they understood none of these things, and this saying was concealed from them, and they did not comprehend the things that were said. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:35",
"text": " Now it happened that as he drew near to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting on the side of the road begging. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:36",
"text": "And when he heard a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:37",
"text": "And they told him, \u201cJesus the Nazarene is passing by.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:38",
"text": "And he called out, saying, \u201cJesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:39",
"text": "And those who were in front rebuked him, that he should be silent, but he cried out \u231eeven more loudly\u231f, \u201cSon of David, have mercy on me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:40",
"text": "So Jesus stopped and ordered him to be brought to him. And when he approached, he asked him, "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:41",
"text": "\u201cWhat do you want me to do for you?\u201d And he said, \u201cLord, that I may regain my sight. "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:42",
"text": "And Jesus said to him, \u201cRegain your sight! Your faith has saved you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 18,
"name": "Luke 18:43",
"text": "And immediately he regained his sight and began to follow him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:1",
"text": " And he entered and traveled through Jericho. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:2",
"text": "And \u231ethere was\u231f a man \u231enamed\u231f Zacchaeus, and he was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:3",
"text": "And he was seeking to see Jesus\u2014who he was\u2014and he was not able to as a result of the crowd, because he was short in stature. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:4",
"text": "And he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree so that he could see him, because he was going to go through that way. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:5",
"text": "And when he came to the place, Jesus looked up and said to him, \u201cZacchaeus, come down quickly, because it is necessary for me to stay at your house today!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:6",
"text": "And he came down quickly and welcomed him joyfully. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:7",
"text": "And when they saw it, they all began to complain, saying, \u201cHe has gone in to find lodging with a man who is a sinner!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:8",
"text": "And Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, \u201cBehold, half of my possessions, Lord, I am giving to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I am paying it back four times as much!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:9",
"text": "And Jesus said to him, \u201cToday salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:10",
"text": "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are lost.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:11",
"text": " Now while they were listening to these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:12",
"text": "Therefore he said, \u201cA certain nobleman traveled to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:13",
"text": "And summoning ten of his own slaves, he gave them ten minas and said to them, \u2018Do business \u231euntil I come back\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:14",
"text": "But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, \u2018We do not want this man to be king over us!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:15",
"text": "And it happened that when he returned after receiving the kingdom, he ordered these slaves to whom he had given the money to be summoned to him, so that he could know what they had gained by trading. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:16",
"text": "So the first arrived, saying, \u2018Sir, your mina has made ten minas more!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:17",
"text": "And he said to him, \u2018Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small thing, \u231ehave authority\u231f over ten cities.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:18",
"text": "And the second came, saying, \u2018Sir, your mina has made five minas.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:19",
"text": "So he said to this one also, \u2018And you be over five cities.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:20",
"text": "And another came, saying, \u2018Sir, behold your mina, which I had put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:21",
"text": "For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man\u2014you withdraw what you did not deposit, and you reap what you did not sow!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:22",
"text": "He said to him, \u2018\u231eBy your own words\u231f I will judge you, wicked slave! You knew that I am a severe man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:23",
"text": "And why did you not give my money to the bank, and I, when I returned, would have collected it with interest?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:24",
"text": "And to the bystanders he said, \u2018Take away from him the mina and give it to the one who has the ten minas!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:25",
"text": "And they said to him, \u2018Sir, he has ten minas.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:26",
"text": "\u2018I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:27",
"text": "But these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them\u2014bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:28",
"text": " And after he had said these things, he traveled on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:29",
"text": "And it happened that when he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, to the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:30",
"text": "saying, \u2018Go into the village in front of you, in which as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which \u231eno person has ever\u231f sat, and untie it and bring it. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:31",
"text": "And if anyone asks you, \u2018Why are you untying it?\u2019 you will say this: \u2018The Lord has need of it.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:32",
"text": "So those who were sent went and found it just as he had told them. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:33",
"text": "And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, \u2018Why are you untying the colt?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:34",
"text": "So they said, \u2018The Lord has need of it.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:35",
"text": "And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they put Jesus on it. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:36",
"text": "And as he was going along, they were spreading out their cloaks on the road. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:37",
"text": "Now as he was drawing near by this time to the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a loud voice for all the miracles that they had seen, "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:38",
"text": "saying, \u201cBlessed is the king, the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:39",
"text": " And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, \u201cTeacher, rebuke your disciples!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:40",
"text": "And he answered and said, \u201cI tell you that if these keep silent, the stones will cry out!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:41",
"text": " And when he approached and saw the city, he wept over it, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:42",
"text": "saying, \u201cIf you had known on this day\u2014even you\u2014the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:43",
"text": "For days will come upon you and your enemies will put up an embankment against you, and will surround you and press you hard from all directions. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:44",
"text": "And they will raze you to the ground, you and your children within you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone within you, \u231ebecause\u231f you did not recognize the time of your visitation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:45",
"text": " And he entered into the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:46",
"text": "saying to them, \u201cIt is written, \u2018And my house will be a house of prayer,\u2019 but you have made it a cave of robbers!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:47",
"text": " And he was teaching every day in the temple courts, and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 19,
"name": "Luke 19:48",
"text": "And they did not find anything they could do, because all the people were paying close attention to what they were hearing from him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:1",
"text": " And it happened that on one of the days while he was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes approached together with the elders "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:2",
"text": "and said, saying to him, \u201cTell us, by what authority you are doing these things, or who is the one who gave you this authority? "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:3",
"text": "And he answered and said to them, \u201cI also will ask you a question, and you tell me: "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:4",
"text": "The baptism of John\u2014was it from heaven or from men? "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:5",
"text": "And they discussed this with one another, saying, \u201cIf we say \u2018From heaven,\u2019 he will say, \u2018Why did you not believe him?\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:6",
"text": "But if we say, \u2018From men,\u2019 all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:7",
"text": "And they replied that they did not know where it was from. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:8",
"text": "And Jesus said to them, \u201cNeither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:9",
"text": " And he began to tell the people this parable: \u201cA man planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:10",
"text": "And at the proper time he sent a slave to the tenant farmers, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenant farmers sent him away empty-handed after beating him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:11",
"text": "And he proceeded to send another slave, but they beat and dishonored that one also, and sent him away empty-handed. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:12",
"text": "And he proceeded to send a third, but they wounded and threw out this one also. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:13",
"text": "So the owner of the vineyard said, \u2018What should I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:14",
"text": "But when the tenant farmers saw him, they began to reason with one another, saying, \u2018This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance will become ours!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:15",
"text": "And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:16",
"text": "He will come and destroy those tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others.\u201d And when they heard this, they said, \u201cMay this never happen!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:17",
"text": "But he looked intently at them and said, \u201cWhat then is this that is written: \u2018The stone which the builders rejected, this has become \u231ethe cornerstone\u231f.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:18",
"text": " Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls\u2014it will crush him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:19",
"text": "And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay their hands on him at that same hour, and they were afraid of the people, for they knew that he had told this parable with reference to them. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:20",
"text": " And they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended they were upright, in order that they could catch him in a statement, so that they could hand him over to the authority and the jurisdiction of the governor. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:21",
"text": "And they asked him, saying, \u201cTeacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and do not \u231eshow partiality\u231f, but teach the way of God in truth. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:22",
"text": "Is it permitted for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:23",
"text": "But seeing through their craftiness, he said to them, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:24",
"text": "\u201cShow me a denarius! Whose image and inscription does it have?\u201d And they answered and said, \u201cCaesar\u2019s.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:25",
"text": "So he said to them, \u201cWell then, give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:26",
"text": "And they were not able to catch him in a statement in the sight of the people, and astonished at his answer, they became silent. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:27",
"text": " Now some of the Sadducees\u2014who deny \u231ethat there is a resurrection\u231f\u2014came up and asked him, "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:28",
"text": "saying, \u201cTeacher, Moses wrote for us if someone\u2019s brother dies having a wife, and this man is childless, that his brother should take the wife and \u231efather\u231f descendants for his brother. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:29",
"text": "Now there were seven brothers, and the first took a wife and died childless, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:30",
"text": "and the second, "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:31",
"text": "and the third took her, and likewise also the seven did not leave children and died. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:32",
"text": "Finally the woman also died. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:33",
"text": "Therefore in the resurrection, the woman\u2014whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:34",
"text": "And Jesus said to them, \u201cThe sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:35",
"text": "but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:36",
"text": "for they are not even able to die any longer, because they are like the angels and are sons of God, because they are sons of the resurrection. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:37",
"text": "But that the dead are raised, even Moses revealed in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:38",
"text": "Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:39",
"text": "And some of the scribes answered and said, \u201cTeacher, you have spoken well.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:40",
"text": "For they no longer dared to ask him anything. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:41",
"text": " But he said to them, \u201cIn what sense do they say that the Christ is David\u2019s son? "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:42",
"text": "For David himself says in the book of Psalms, \u2018The Lord said to my Lord, \u201cSit at my right hand, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:43",
"text": " until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:44",
"text": " David therefore calls him \u2018Lord,\u2019 and how is he his son?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:45",
"text": " And while all the people were listening, he said to the disciples, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:46",
"text": "\u201cBeware of the scribes, who like walking around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 20,
"name": "Luke 20:47",
"text": "who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy prayers for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:1",
"text": " And he looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the contribution box, "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:2",
"text": "and he saw a certain poor widow putting in there two small copper coins. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:3",
"text": "And he said, \u201cTruly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than all of them. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:4",
"text": "For these all put gifts into the offering out of their abundance, but this woman out of her poverty put in all the means of subsistence that she had.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:5",
"text": " And while some were speaking about the temple, that it was adorned with precious stones and votive offerings, he said, "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:6",
"text": "\u201cAs for these things that you see\u2014days will come in which not one stone will be left on another stone that will not be thrown down!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:7",
"text": " And they asked him, saying, \u201cTeacher, when therefore will these things happen, and what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:8",
"text": "And he said, Watch out that you are not deceived! For many will come in my name, saying, \u2018I am he,\u2019 and \u2018The time is near!\u2019 Do not go after them! "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:9",
"text": "And when you hear about wars and insurrections, do not be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end will not be at once.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:10",
"text": "Then he said to them, \u201cnation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:11",
"text": "There will be great earthquakes and famines and plagues in various places. There will be terrible sights and great signs from heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:12",
"text": " \u201cBut before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors because of my name. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:13",
"text": "This will turn out to you for a time of witness. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:14",
"text": "\u231eTherefore make up your minds\u231f not to prepare in advance to speak in your own defense, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:15",
"text": "for I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all your opponents will not be able to resist or contradict. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:16",
"text": "And you will be handed over even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death some of you. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:17",
"text": "And you will be hated by all because of my name. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:18",
"text": "Even a hair of your head will never perish! "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:19",
"text": "By your patient endurance you will gain your lives. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:20",
"text": " \u201cBut when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:21",
"text": "Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those \u231einside it\u231f must depart, and those in the fields must not enter into it, "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:22",
"text": "because these are days of vengeance, so that all the things that are written can be fulfilled. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:23",
"text": "Woe to those \u231ewho are pregnant\u231f and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people, "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:24",
"text": "and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:25",
"text": " \u201cAnd there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity from the noise of the sea and its surging, "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:26",
"text": "people fainting from fear and expectation of what is coming on the inhabited earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:27",
"text": "And then they will see the Son of Man arriving in a cloud with power and great glory. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:28",
"text": "But when these things begin to happen, stand up straight and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:29",
"text": " And he told them a parable: \u201cLook at the fig tree and all the trees. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:30",
"text": "When they put out foliage, now you see for yourselves and know that by this time the summer is near. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:31",
"text": "So also you, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:32",
"text": "Truly I say to you that this generation will never pass away until all things take place! "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:33",
"text": "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:34",
"text": " \u201cBut take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:35",
"text": "like a trap. For it will come upon all who reside on the face of the whole earth. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:36",
"text": "But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:37",
"text": " So throughout the days he was teaching in the temple courts, and throughout the nights he was going out and spending the night on the hill that is called the Mount of Olives. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 21,
"name": "Luke 21:38",
"text": "And all the people were getting up very early in the morning to come to him in the temple courts to listen to him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:1",
"text": " Now the feast of Unleavened Bread (which is called Passover) was drawing near. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:2",
"text": "And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they could destroy him, because they were afraid of the people. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:3",
"text": " And Satan entered into Judas, the one called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:4",
"text": "And he went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he could betray him to them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:5",
"text": "And they were delighted, and came to an agreement with him to give him money. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:6",
"text": "And he agreed, and began looking for a favorable opportunity to betray him to them apart from the crowd. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:7",
"text": " And the day of the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which it was necessary for the Passover lamb to be sacrificed. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:8",
"text": "And he sent Peter and John, saying, \u201cGo and prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:9",
"text": "So they said to him, \u201cWhere do you want us to prepare it?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:10",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cBehold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:11",
"text": "And you will say to the master of the house, \u2018The Teacher says to you, \u201cWhere is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?\u201d\u00a0\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:12",
"text": "And he will show you a large furnished upstairs room. Make preparations there.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:13",
"text": "So they went and found everything just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:14",
"text": " And when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:15",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201c\u231eI have earnestly desired\u231f to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:16",
"text": "For I tell you that I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:17",
"text": "And he took in hand a cup, and after giving thanks he said, \u201cTake this and share it among yourselves. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:18",
"text": "For I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the product of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:19",
"text": " And he took bread, and after giving thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, \u201cThis is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:20",
"text": "And in the same way the cup after they had eaten, saying, \u201cThis cup is the new covenant in my blood which is poured out for you. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:21",
"text": " \u201cBut behold, the hand of the one who is betraying me is with me on the table! "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:22",
"text": "For the Son of Man is going according to what has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:23",
"text": "And they began to debate with one another who then of them it could be who was going to do this. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:24",
"text": " And a dispute also occurred among them as to which of them was recognized as being greatest. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:25",
"text": "So he said to them, \u201cThe kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called benefactors. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:26",
"text": "But you are not to be like this! But the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:27",
"text": "For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am in your midst as the one who serves. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:28",
"text": " \u201cAnd you are the ones who have remained with me in my trials, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:29",
"text": "and I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred on me, "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:30",
"text": "that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:31",
"text": " \u201cSimon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat, "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:32",
"text": "but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail. And you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:33",
"text": "But he said to him, \u201cLord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:34",
"text": "And he said, \u201cI tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:35",
"text": " And he said to them, \u201cWhen I sent you out without a money bag and a traveler\u2019s bag and sandals, you did not lack anything, did you?\u201d And they said, \u201cNothing.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:36",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cBut now the one who has a money bag must take it, and likewise a traveler\u2019s bag. And the one who does not have a sword must sell his cloak and buy one. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:37",
"text": "For I tell you that this that is written must be fulfilled in me: \u2018And he was counted with the criminals.\u2019 For indeed, what is written about me \u231eis being fulfilled\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:38",
"text": "So they said, \u201cLord, behold, here are two swords!\u201d And he said to them, \u201cIt is adequate.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:39",
"text": " And he went away and proceeded, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples also followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:40",
"text": "And when he came to the place, he said to them, \u201cPray that you will not enter into temptation.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:41",
"text": "And he withdrew from them about a stone\u2019s throw and \u231eknelt down\u231f and began to pray, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:42",
"text": "saying, \u201cFather, if you are willing, take away this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will but yours be done.\u201d \u301a "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:43",
"text": "And an angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:44",
"text": "And being in anguish, he began praying more fervently and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground.\u301b "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:45",
"text": "And when he got up from the prayer and came to the disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:46",
"text": "and he said to them, \u201cWhy are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not enter into temptation!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:47",
"text": " While he was still speaking, behold, there came a crowd, and the one named Judas, one of the twelve, leading them. And he approached Jesus to kiss him. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:48",
"text": "But Jesus said to him, \u201cJudas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:49",
"text": "And when those around him saw what was about to happen, they said, \u201cLord, should we strike with the sword?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:50",
"text": "And a certain one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:51",
"text": "But Jesus answered and said, \u201c\u231eStop! No more of this!\u231f\u201d And he touched his ear and healed him. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:52",
"text": "And Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders who had come out against him, \u201cHave you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber? "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:53",
"text": "Every day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not stretch out your hands against me! But this is your hour and the domain of darkness!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:54",
"text": " And they arrested him and led him away and brought him into the house of the high priest. But Peter was following at a distance. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:55",
"text": "And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:56",
"text": "And a certain female slave, seeing him sitting in the light and looking intently at him, said, \u201cThis man also was with him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 57,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:57",
"text": "But he denied it, saying, \u201cWoman, I do not know him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 58,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:58",
"text": "And after a short time another person saw him and said, \u201cYou also are one of them!\u201d But Peter said, \u201cMan, I am not!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 59,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:59",
"text": "And after about one hour had passed, someone else was insisting, saying, \u201cIn truth this man also was with him, because he is also a Galilean!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 60,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:60",
"text": "But Peter said, \u201cMan, I do not know what you are talking about!\u201d And immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. "
},
{
"verse": 61,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:61",
"text": "And the Lord turned around and looked intently at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, \u201cBefore the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 62,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:62",
"text": "And he went outside and wept bitterly. "
},
{
"verse": 63,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:63",
"text": " And the men who were guarding him began to mock him while they beat him, "
},
{
"verse": 64,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:64",
"text": "and after blindfolding him they repeatedly asked him, saying, \u201cProphesy! Who is the one who struck you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 65,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:65",
"text": "And they were saying many other things against him, reviling him. "
},
{
"verse": 66,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:66",
"text": " And when day came, the council of elders of the people gathered, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away to their Sanhedrin, "
},
{
"verse": 67,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:67",
"text": "saying, \u201cIf you are the Christ, tell us!\u201d But he said to them, \u201cIf I tell you, you will never believe, "
},
{
"verse": 68,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:68",
"text": "and if I ask you, you will never answer! "
},
{
"verse": 69,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:69",
"text": "But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 70,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:70",
"text": "So they all said, \u201cAre you then the Son of God?\u201d And he said to them, \u201cYou say that I am.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 71,
"chapter": 22,
"name": "Luke 22:71",
"text": "And they said, \u201cWhy do we have need of further testimony? For we ourselves have heard it from his mouth!\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:1",
"text": " And the whole assembly of them rose up and brought him before Pilate. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:2",
"text": "And they began to accuse him, saying, \u201cWe have found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying he himself is Christ, a king!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:3",
"text": "And Pilate asked him, saying, \u201cAre you the king of the Jews?\u201d And he answered him and said, \u201cYou say so.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:4",
"text": "So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, \u201cI find no basis for an accusation against this man.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:5",
"text": "But they insisted, saying, \u201cHe incites the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea and beginning from Galilee as far as here.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:6",
"text": " Now when Pilate heard this, he asked if the man was a Galilean. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:7",
"text": "And when he found out that he was from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him over to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem in those days. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:8",
"text": "And when Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see some miracle performed by him. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:9",
"text": "So he questioned him \u231eat considerable length\u231f, but he answered nothing to him. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:10",
"text": "And the chief priests and the scribes were standing there vehemently accusing him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:11",
"text": "And Herod with his soldiers also treated him with contempt, and after mocking him and dressing him in glistening clothing, he sent him back to Pilate. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:12",
"text": "And both Herod and Pilate became friends with one another on that same day, \u231efor they had previously been enemies of one another\u231f. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:13",
"text": " So Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:14",
"text": "and said to them, \u201cYou brought me this man as one who was misleading the people, and behold, when I examined him before you, I found nothing in this man as basis for the accusation which \u231eyou are making\u231f against him. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:15",
"text": "But neither did Herod, because he sent him back to us. And behold, nothing deserving death \u231ehas been done\u231f by him. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:16",
"text": "Therefore I will punish him and release him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:17",
"text": ""
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:18",
"text": "But they all cried out in unison, saying, \u201cTake this man away, and release for us Barabbas!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:19",
"text": "(who had been thrown in prison because of a certain insurrection that had taken place in the city, and for murder). "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:20",
"text": "And Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again, "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:21",
"text": "but they kept crying out, saying, \u201cCrucify! Crucify him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:22",
"text": "So he said to them a third time, \u201cWhy? What wrong has this man done? I found no basis for an accusation \u231edeserving death\u231f in him. Therefore I will punish him and release him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:23",
"text": "But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he be crucified. And their cries prevailed. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:24",
"text": "And Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:25",
"text": "And he released the one who had been thrown into prison because of insurrection and murder, whom they were asking for, but Jesus he handed over to their will. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:26",
"text": " And as they led him away, they seized Simon, a certain man of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and placed the cross on him, to carry it behind Jesus. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:27",
"text": "And a great crowd of the people were following him, and of women who were mourning and lamenting him. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:28",
"text": "But turning to them, Jesus said, \u201cDaughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children! "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:29",
"text": "For behold, days are coming in which they will say, \u2018Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that did not give birth, and the breasts that did not nurse!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:30",
"text": "Then they will begin to say to the mountains, \u2018Fall on us!\u2019 and to the hills, \u2018Cover us!\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:31",
"text": "For if they do these things \u231ewhen the wood is green\u231f, what will happen \u231ewhen it is dry\u231f?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:32",
"text": " And two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:33",
"text": "And when they came to the place that is called \u201cThe Skull,\u201d there they crucified him, and the criminals, the one on his right and the other on his left. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:34",
"text": "\u301aBut Jesus said, \u201cFather, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.\u201d\u301b And they cast lots to divide his clothes. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:35",
"text": "And the people stood there watching, but the rulers also ridiculed him, saying, \u201cHe saved others; let him save himself, if this man is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:36",
"text": "And the soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:37",
"text": "and saying, \u201cIf you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:38",
"text": "And there was also an inscription over him, \u201cThis is the king of the Jews.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:39",
"text": " And one of the criminals who were hanged there reviled him, saying, \u201cAre you not the Christ? Save yourself\u2014and us!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:40",
"text": "But the other answered and rebuked him, saying, \u201cDo you not even fear God, because you are undergoing the same condemnation? "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:41",
"text": "And we indeed justly, for we are receiving \u231ewhat we deserve\u231f for what we have done. But this man has done nothing wrong!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:42",
"text": "And he said, \u201cJesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:43",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cTruly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:44",
"text": " And by this time it was about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:45",
"text": "because the light of the sun failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn apart down the middle. "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:46",
"text": "And Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, \u201cFather, into your hands I entrust my spirit!\u201d And after he said this, he expired. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:47",
"text": " Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began to praise God, saying, \u201cCertainly this man was righteous!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:48",
"text": "And all the crowds that had come together for this spectacle, when they saw the things that had happened, returned home beating their breasts. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:49",
"text": "And all his acquaintances, and the women who had followed him from Galilee who saw these things, stood at a distance. "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:50",
"text": " And behold, a man \u231enamed\u231f Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:51",
"text": "(this man was not consenting to their plan and deed), from Arimathea, \u231ea Judean town\u231f, who was looking forward to the kingdom of God. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:52",
"text": "This man approached Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:53",
"text": "And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth and placed him in a tomb cut into the rock where no one had ever been placed. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:54",
"text": "And it was the day of preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. "
},
{
"verse": 55,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:55",
"text": "And the women who had been accompanying him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was placed. "
},
{
"verse": 56,
"chapter": 23,
"name": "Luke 23:56",
"text": "And they returned and prepared fragrant spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:1",
"text": " Now on the first day of the week, at very early dawn, they came back to the tomb bringing the fragrant spices which they had prepared. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:2",
"text": "And they found the stone had been rolled away from the tomb, "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:3",
"text": "but when they went in, they did not find the body. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:4",
"text": "And it happened that while they were perplexed about this, behold, two men in gleaming clothing stood near them. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:5",
"text": "And as they were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, \u201cWhy are you looking for the living among the dead? "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:6",
"text": "He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he spoke to you while he was still in Galilee, "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:7",
"text": "saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of men who are sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:8",
"text": "And they remembered his words, "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:9",
"text": "and when they returned from the tomb, they reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:10",
"text": "Now Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the others with them were telling these things to the apostles. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:11",
"text": "And these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they refused to believe them. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:12",
"text": "But Peter got up and ran to the tomb, and bending over to look, he saw only the strips of linen cloth, and he went away to his home wondering what had happened. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:13",
"text": " And behold, on that same day, two of them were traveling to a village \u231enamed\u231f Emmaus that was sixty stadia distant from Jerusalem, "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:14",
"text": "and they were conversing with one another about all these things that had happened. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:15",
"text": "And it happened that while they were conversing, and discussing, Jesus himself also approached and began to go along with them, "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:16",
"text": "but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:17",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhat are these matters that you are discussing with one another as you are walking along?\u201d And they stood still, looking sad. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:18",
"text": "And one of them, \u231enamed\u231f Cleopas, answered and said to him, \u201cAre you the only one living near Jerusalem and not knowing the things that have happened in it in these days?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:19",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhat things?\u201d So they said to him, \u201cThe things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet, powerful in deed and word before God and all the people, "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:20",
"text": "and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over to a sentence of death, and crucified him. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:21",
"text": "But we were hoping that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. But in addition to all these things, this is the third day \u231esince\u231f these things took place. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:22",
"text": "But also some women from among us astonished us, who were at the tomb early in the morning, "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:23",
"text": "and when they did not find his body, they came back saying they had seen even a vision of angels, who said that he was alive! "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:24",
"text": "And some of those with us went out to the tomb and found it like this, just as the women had also said, but him they did not see.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:25",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cO foolish and slow in heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:26",
"text": "Was it not necessary that the Christ suffer these things and enter into his glory?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:27",
"text": "And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures. "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:28",
"text": "And they drew near to the village where they were going, and he acted as though he was going farther. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:29",
"text": "And they urged him strongly, saying, \u201cStay with us, because it is getting toward evening, and by this time the day is far spent.\u201d And he went in to stay with them. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:30",
"text": "And it happened that when he reclined at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks, and after breaking it, he gave it to them. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:31",
"text": "And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became invisible to them. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:32",
"text": "And they said to one another, \u201cWere not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:33",
"text": "And they got up that same hour and returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven and those with them assembled, "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:34",
"text": "saying, \u201cThe Lord has really been raised, and has appeared to Simon!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:35",
"text": "And they began describing \u231ewhat happened\u231f on the road, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:36",
"text": " And while they were saying these things, he himself stood there among them. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:37",
"text": "But they were startled and became terrified, and thought they had seen a ghost. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:38",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhy are you frightened? And for what reason do doubts arise in your hearts? "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:39",
"text": "Look at my hands and my feet, that I am I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as \u231eyou see that I have\u231f.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:40",
"text": "And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:41",
"text": "And while they were still disbelieving because of joy and were marveling, he said to them, \u201cDo you have anything \u231eto eat\u231f here?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:42",
"text": "So they gave him a piece of broiled fish, "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:43",
"text": "and he took it and ate it in front of them. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:44",
"text": " And he said to them, \u201cThese are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything that is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:45",
"text": "Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:46",
"text": "and said to them, \u201cThus it is written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day, "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:47",
"text": "and repentance and the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:48",
"text": "You are witnesses of these things. "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:49",
"text": "And behold, I am sending out what was promised by my Father upon you, but you stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:50",
"text": " And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:51",
"text": "And it happened that while he was blessing them, he parted from them and was taken up into heaven. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:52",
"text": "And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 24,
"name": "Luke 24:53",
"text": "And they were \u231econtinually\u231f in the temple courts praising God. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "John",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:1",
"text": " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:2",
"text": "This one was in the beginning with God. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:3",
"text": "All things came into being through him, and apart from him not one thing came into being that has come into being. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:4",
"text": "In him was life, and the life was the light of humanity. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:5",
"text": "And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:6",
"text": " A man came, sent from God, \u231ewhose name was\u231f John. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:7",
"text": "This one came for a witness, in order that he could testify about the light, so that all would believe through him. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:8",
"text": "That one was not the light, but came in order that he could testify about the light. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:9",
"text": "The true light, who gives light to every person, was coming into the world. "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:10",
"text": "He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not recognize him. "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:11",
"text": "He came to his own things, and his own people did not receive him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:12",
"text": "But as many as received him\u2014to those who believe in his name\u2014he gave to them authority to become children of God, "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:13",
"text": "who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:14",
"text": " And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:15",
"text": "John testified about him and cried out, saying, \u201cThis one was he about whom I said, \u2018The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.\u2019\u00a0\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:16",
"text": "For from his fullness we have all received, and grace after grace. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:17",
"text": "For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:18",
"text": "No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father\u2014that one has made him known. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:19",
"text": " And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they could ask him, \u201cWho are you?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:20",
"text": "And he confessed\u2014and he did not deny, and confessed\u2014\u201cI am not the Christ!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:21",
"text": "And they asked him, \u201cThen who are you? Are you Elijah?\u201d And he said, \u201cI am not!\u201d\u00a0\u201cAre you the Prophet?\u201d And he answered, \u201cNo!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:22",
"text": "Then they said to him, \u201cWho are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:23",
"text": " He said, \u201cI am \u2018the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, \u201cMake straight the way of the Lord,\u201d\u00a0\u2019 just as Isaiah the prophet said.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:24",
"text": "(And they had been sent from the Pharisees.) "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:25",
"text": "And they asked him and said to him, \u201cWhy then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:26",
"text": " John answered them, saying, \u201cI baptize with water. In your midst stands one whom you do not know\u2014 "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:27",
"text": "the one who comes after me, of whom I am not worthy \u231eto untie\u231f the strap of his sandal!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:28",
"text": "These things took place in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing. "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:29",
"text": " On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, \u201cLook! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:30",
"text": "This one is the one about whom I said, \u2018After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:31",
"text": "And I did not know him, but in order that he could be revealed to Israel, because of this I came baptizing with water.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:32",
"text": " And John testified, saying, \u201cI have seen the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and remaining upon him. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:33",
"text": "And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, that one said to me, \u2018The one upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him\u2014this one is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:34",
"text": "And I have seen and testify that this one is the Chosen One of God. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:35",
"text": " On the next day again John was standing there, and two of his disciples, "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:36",
"text": "and looking at Jesus as he was walking by, he said, \u201cLook! The Lamb of God!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:37",
"text": "And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus. "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:38",
"text": "And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following him, said to them, \u201cWhat do you seek?\u201d And they said to him, \u201cRabbi\u201d (which means when translated \u201cTeacher\u201d), \u201cwhere are you staying?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:39",
"text": "He said to them, \u201cCome and you will see!\u201d So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day (it was about the tenth hour). "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:40",
"text": " Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed him. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:41",
"text": "This one first found his own brother Simon and said to him, \u201cWe have found the Messiah!\u201d (which is translated \u201cChrist\u201d). "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:42",
"text": "He brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, \u201cYou are Simon the son of John. You will be called Cephas\u201d (which is interpreted \u201cPeter\u201d). "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:43",
"text": " On the next day he wanted to depart for Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, \u201cFollow me!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:44",
"text": "(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.) "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:45",
"text": "Philip found Nathanael and said to him, \u201cWe have found the one whom Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets wrote about\u2014Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:46",
"text": "And Nathanael said to him, \u201cCan anything good come out of Nazareth?\u201d Philip said to him, \u201cCome and see!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:47",
"text": " Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, \u201cLook! \u231eA true Israelite\u231f in whom is no deceit!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:48",
"text": "Nathanael said to him, \u201cFrom where do you know me?\u201d Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cBefore Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:49",
"text": "Nathanael answered him, \u201cRabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the king of Israel!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:50",
"text": "Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cBecause I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "John 1:51",
"text": "And he said to him, \u201cTruly, truly I say to all of you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.\u201d "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:1",
"text": " And on the third day, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:2",
"text": "And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:3",
"text": "And when the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, \u201cThey have no wine!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:4",
"text": "And Jesus said to her, \u201cWhat \u231edoes your concern have to do with me\u231f, woman? My hour has not yet come.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:5",
"text": "His mother said to the servants, \u201cWhatever he says to you, do it!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:6",
"text": " Now six stone water jars were set there, in accordance with the ceremonial cleansing of the Jews, each holding two or three measures. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:7",
"text": "Jesus said to them, \u201cFill the water jars with water.\u201d And they filled them to the brim. "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:8",
"text": "And he said to them, \u201cNow draw some out and take it to the head steward. So they took it. "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:9",
"text": "Now when the head steward tasted the water which had become wine and did not know where it was from\u2014but the servants who had drawn the water knew\u2014the head steward summoned the bridegroom "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:10",
"text": "and said to him, \u201c\u231eEveryone\u231f serves the good wine first, and whenever they are drunk, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:11",
"text": "This beginning of signs Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him. "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:12",
"text": " After this he went down to Capernaum, and his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there \u231ea few\u231f days. "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:13",
"text": "And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:14",
"text": " And he found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated. "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:15",
"text": "And he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, both the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:16",
"text": "And to the ones selling the doves he said, \u201cTake these things away from here! Do not make my Father\u2019s house \u231ea marketplace\u231f!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:17",
"text": "His disciples remembered that it is written, \u201cZeal for your house will consume me.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:18",
"text": " So the Jews answered and said to him, \u201cWhat sign do you show to us, because you are doing these things?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:19",
"text": "Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cDestroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:20",
"text": "Then the Jews said, \u201cThis temple has been under construction forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:21",
"text": "But he was speaking about the temple of his body. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:22",
"text": "So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:23",
"text": " Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name because they saw his signs which he was doing. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:24",
"text": "But Jesus himself did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people, "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "John 2:25",
"text": "and because he did not \u231eneed\u231f anyone \u231eto testify\u231f about man, for he himself knew what was in man. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:1",
"text": " Now there was a man of the Pharisees \u231ewhose name was\u231f Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:2",
"text": "This man came to him at night and said to him, \u201cRabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:3",
"text": "Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cTruly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:4",
"text": "Nicodemus said to him, \u201cHow can a man be born when he is an old man? He is not able to enter into his mother\u2019s womb for the second time and be born, can he?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:5",
"text": " Jesus answered, \u201cTruly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born of water and spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:6",
"text": "What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:7",
"text": "Do not be astonished that I said to you, \u2018It is necessary for you to be born from above.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:8",
"text": "The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:9",
"text": " Nicodemus answered and said to him, \u201cHow can these things be?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:10",
"text": "Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cAre you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these things? "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:11",
"text": "Truly, truly I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify about what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony! "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:12",
"text": "If I tell you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:13",
"text": "And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven\u2014the Son of Man. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:14",
"text": "And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary that the Son of Man be lifted up, "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:15",
"text": "so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:16",
"text": " For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life. "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:17",
"text": "For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him. "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:18",
"text": "The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:19",
"text": "And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:20",
"text": "For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed. "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:21",
"text": "But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:22",
"text": " After these things Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:23",
"text": "Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and they were coming and were being baptized. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:24",
"text": "(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.) "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:25",
"text": " So a dispute occurred on the part of John\u2019s disciples with a Jew concerning purification. "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:26",
"text": "And they came to John and said to him, \u201cRabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified\u2014look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:27",
"text": " John answered and said, \u201cA man can receive not one thing unless it is granted to him from heaven! "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:28",
"text": "You yourselves testify about me that I said, \u2018I am not the Christ, but I am sent before that one.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:29",
"text": "The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices \u231egreatly\u231f because of the bridegroom\u2019s voice. So this joy of mine is complete. "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:30",
"text": "It is necessary for that one to increase, but for me to decrease.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:31",
"text": " The one who comes from above is over all. The one who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks from the earth; the one who comes from heaven is over all. "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:32",
"text": "What he has seen and heard, this he testifies, and no one accepts his testimony. "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:33",
"text": "The one who accepts his testimony has attested that God is true. "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:34",
"text": "For the one whom God sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit by measure. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:35",
"text": "The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "John 3:36",
"text": "The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life\u2014but the wrath of God remains on him. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:1",
"text": " Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:2",
"text": "(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples), "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:3",
"text": "he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:4",
"text": "And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria. "
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:5",
"text": " Now he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. "
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:6",
"text": "And Jacob\u2019s well was there, so Jesus, because he had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour. "
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:7",
"text": " A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, \u201cGive me water to drink.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:8",
"text": "(For his disciples had gone away into the town so that they could buy food.) "
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:9",
"text": "So the Samaritan woman said to him, \u201cHow do you, being a Jew, ask from me water to drink, since I am a Samaritan woman?\u201d (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) "
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:10",
"text": " Jesus answered and said to her, \u201cIf you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, \u2018Give me water to drink,\u2019 you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:11",
"text": "The woman said to him, \u201cSir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water? "
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:12",
"text": "You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:13",
"text": " Jesus answered and said to her, \u201cEveryone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. "
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:14",
"text": "But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:15",
"text": "The woman said to him, \u201cSir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw water!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:16",
"text": "He said to her, \u201cGo, call your husband and come here.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:17",
"text": "The woman answered and said to him, \u201cI do not have a husband.\u201d Jesus said to her, \u201cYou have said rightly, \u2018I do not have a husband,\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:18",
"text": "for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truthfully!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:19",
"text": " The woman said to him, \u201cSir, I see that you are a prophet. "
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:20",
"text": "Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 21,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:21",
"text": "Jesus said to her, \u201cBelieve me, woman, that an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. "
},
{
"verse": 22,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:22",
"text": "You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. "
},
{
"verse": 23,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:23",
"text": "But an hour is coming\u2014and now is here\u2014when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. "
},
{
"verse": 24,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:24",
"text": "God is spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 25,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:25",
"text": "The woman said to him, \u201cI know that Messiah is coming\u201d (the one called Christ); \u201cwhenever that one comes, he will proclaim all things to us.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 26,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:26",
"text": "Jesus said to her, \u201cI, the one speaking to you, am he. "
},
{
"verse": 27,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:27",
"text": " And at this point his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, \u201cWhat do you seek?\u201d or \u201cWhy are you speaking with her?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 28,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:28",
"text": "So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people, "
},
{
"verse": 29,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:29",
"text": "\u201cCome, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 30,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:30",
"text": "They went out from the town and were coming to him. "
},
{
"verse": 31,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:31",
"text": " In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, \u201cRabbi, eat something!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 32,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:32",
"text": "But he said to them, \u201cI have food to eat that you do not know about.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 33,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:33",
"text": "So the disciples began to say to one another, \u201cNo one brought him anything to eat, did they?\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 34,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:34",
"text": "Jesus said to them, \u201cMy food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work. "
},
{
"verse": 35,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:35",
"text": "Do you not say, \u2018There are yet four months and the harvest comes\u2019? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. "
},
{
"verse": 36,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:36",
"text": "The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. "
},
{
"verse": 37,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:37",
"text": "For in this instance the saying is true, \u2018It is one who sows and another who reaps.\u2019 "
},
{
"verse": 38,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:38",
"text": "I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 39,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:39",
"text": " Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, \u201cHe told me everything that I have done.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 40,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:40",
"text": "So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days. "
},
{
"verse": 41,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:41",
"text": "And many more believed because of his word, "
},
{
"verse": 42,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:42",
"text": "And they were saying to the woman, \u201cNo longer because of \u231ewhat you said\u231f do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 43,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:43",
"text": " And after the two days he departed from there into Galilee. "
},
{
"verse": 44,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:44",
"text": "For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland. "
},
{
"verse": 45,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:45",
"text": "So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come to the feast). "
},
{
"verse": 46,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:46",
"text": " Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick. "
},
{
"verse": 47,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:47",
"text": "This man, when he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die. "
},
{
"verse": 48,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:48",
"text": "So Jesus said to him, \u201cUnless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 49,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:49",
"text": "The royal official said to him, \u201cSir, come down before my child dies!\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 50,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:50",
"text": "Jesus said to him, \u201cGo, your son will live.\u201d The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed. "
},
{
"verse": 51,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:51",
"text": " Now as he was going down, his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive. "
},
{
"verse": 52,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:52",
"text": "So he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better. Then they said to him, \u201cYesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.\u201d "
},
{
"verse": 53,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:53",
"text": "So the father knew that it was that same hour at which Jesus said to him, \u201cYour son will live,\u201d and he himself believed, and his whole household. "
},
{
"verse": 54,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "John 4:54",
"text": "Now this is again a second sign Jesus performed when he came from Judea into Galilee. "
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "John 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "John 5:1",
"text": " After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. "
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "John 5:2",
"text": "Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool called in Aramaic Bethzatha, which has five porticoes. "
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "John 5:3",
"text": "In these were lying a large number of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed.<note placement=\"foot\">The majority of later manuscripts add the following words: \u201cwaiting for the moving of the water. "
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "John 5:4",
"text": "For an angel of the Lord from time to time went down in the pool and stirred up the water. So the one who went in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he suffered.\u201d</note>