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"1 Corinthians": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,",
"2": "To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:",
"3": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.",
"4": "I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,",
"5": "that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—",
"6": "even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you—",
"7": "so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,",
"8": "who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.",
"9": "God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.",
"10": "I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.",
"11": "For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.",
"12": "What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”",
"13": "Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?",
"14": "I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,",
"15": "so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name.",
"16": "(I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)",
"17": "For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.",
"18": "For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.",
"19": "For it is written,\n“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,\n and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”",
"20": "Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?",
"21": "For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.",
"22": "For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,",
"23": "but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,",
"24": "but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.",
"25": "For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.",
"26": "For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.",
"27": "But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;",
"28": "God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,",
"29": "so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.",
"30": "And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,",
"31": "so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”"
},
"2": {
"1": "And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.",
"2": "For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.",
"3": "And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling,",
"4": "and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,",
"5": "so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.",
"6": "Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.",
"7": "But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.",
"8": "None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.",
"9": "But, as it is written,\n“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,\n nor the heart of man imagined,\nwhat God has prepared for those who love him”—",
"10": "these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.",
"11": "For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.",
"12": "Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.",
"13": "And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.",
"14": "The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.",
"15": "The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.",
"16": "“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ."
},
"3": {
"1": "But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.",
"2": "I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,",
"3": "for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?",
"4": "For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?",
"5": "What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.",
"6": "I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.",
"7": "So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.",
"8": "He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.",
"9": "For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.",
"10": "According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.",
"11": "For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.",
"12": "Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—",
"13": "each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.",
"14": "If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.",
"15": "If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.",
"16": "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?",
"17": "If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.",
"18": "Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.",
"19": "For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”",
"20": "and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”",
"21": "So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,",
"22": "whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,",
"23": "and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's."
},
"4": {
"1": "This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.",
"2": "Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.",
"3": "But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.",
"4": "For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.",
"5": "Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.",
"6": "I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.",
"7": "For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?",
"8": "Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!",
"9": "For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.",
"10": "We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.",
"11": "To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless,",
"12": "and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;",
"13": "when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.",
"14": "I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.",
"15": "For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.",
"16": "I urge you, then, be imitators of me.",
"17": "That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.",
"18": "Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.",
"19": "But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.",
"20": "For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.",
"21": "What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?"
},
"5": {
"1": "It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.",
"2": "And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.",
"3": "For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.",
"4": "When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,",
"5": "you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.",
"6": "Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?",
"7": "Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.",
"8": "Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.",
"9": "I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—",
"10": "not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.",
"11": "But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.",
"12": "For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?",
"13": "God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”"
},
"6": {
"1": "When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?",
"2": "Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?",
"3": "Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!",
"4": "So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?",
"5": "I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,",
"6": "but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?",
"7": "To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?",
"8": "But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!",
"9": "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,",
"10": "nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.",
"11": "And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.",
"12": "“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.",
"13": "“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.",
"14": "And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.",
"15": "Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!",
"16": "Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”",
"17": "But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.",
"18": "Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.",
"19": "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,",
"20": "for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."
},
"7": {
"1": "Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”",
"2": "But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.",
"3": "The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.",
"4": "For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.",
"5": "Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.",
"6": "Now as a concession, not a command, I say this.",
"7": "I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.",
"8": "To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am.",
"9": "But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.",
"10": "To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband",
"11": "(but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.",
"12": "To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.",
"13": "If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.",
"14": "For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.",
"15": "But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.",
"16": "For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?",
"17": "Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.",
"18": "Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision.",
"19": "For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.",
"20": "Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called.",
"21": "Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)",
"22": "For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.",
"23": "You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men.",
"24": "So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.",
"25": "Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.",
"26": "I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is.",
"27": "Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.",
"28": "But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.",
"29": "This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,",
"30": "and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods,",
"31": "and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.",
"32": "I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.",
"33": "But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife,",
"34": "and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.",
"35": "I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.",
"36": "If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin.",
"37": "But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.",
"38": "So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.",
"39": "A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.",
"40": "Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God."
},
"8": {
"1": "Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.",
"2": "If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.",
"3": "But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.",
"4": "Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”",
"5": "For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”—",
"6": "yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.",
"7": "However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.",
"8": "Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.",
"9": "But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.",
"10": "For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?",
"11": "And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.",
"12": "Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.",
"13": "Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble."
},
"9": {
"1": "Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?",
"2": "If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.",
"3": "This is my defense to those who would examine me.",
"4": "Do we not have the right to eat and drink?",
"5": "Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?",
"6": "Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?",
"7": "Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?",
"8": "Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?",
"9": "For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?",
"10": "Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.",
"11": "If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?",
"12": "If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more?\nNevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.",
"13": "Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?",
"14": "In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.",
"15": "But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.",
"16": "For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!",
"17": "For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.",
"18": "What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.",
"19": "For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.",
"20": "To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.",
"21": "To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.",
"22": "To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.",
"23": "I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.",
"24": "Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.",
"25": "Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.",
"26": "So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.",
"27": "But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified."
},
"10": {
"1": "For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,",
"2": "and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,",
"3": "and all ate the same spiritual food,",
"4": "and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.",
"5": "Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.",
"6": "Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.",
"7": "Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”",
"8": "We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.",
"9": "We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents,",
"10": "nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.",
"11": "Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.",
"12": "Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.",
"13": "No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.",
"14": "Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.",
"15": "I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.",
"16": "The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?",
"17": "Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.",
"18": "Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?",
"19": "What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?",
"20": "No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.",
"21": "You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.",
"22": "Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?",
"23": "“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.",
"24": "Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.",
"25": "Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.",
"26": "For “the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.”",
"27": "If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.",
"28": "But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—",
"29": "I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?",
"30": "If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?",
"31": "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.",
"32": "Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,",
"33": "just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved."
},
"11": {
"1": "Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.",
"2": "Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.",
"3": "But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.",
"4": "Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head,",
"5": "but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven.",
"6": "For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.",
"7": "For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.",
"8": "For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.",
"9": "Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.",
"10": "That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.",
"11": "Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;",
"12": "for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.",
"13": "Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?",
"14": "Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,",
"15": "but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.",
"16": "If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.",
"17": "But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.",
"18": "For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,",
"19": "for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.",
"20": "When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.",
"21": "For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.",
"22": "What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.",
"23": "For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,",
"24": "and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”",
"25": "In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”",
"26": "For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.",
"27": "Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.",
"28": "Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.",
"29": "For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.",
"30": "That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.",
"31": "But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.",
"32": "But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.",
"33": "So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another—",
"34": "if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come."
},
"12": {
"1": "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.",
"2": "You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.",
"3": "Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.",
"4": "Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;",
"5": "and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;",
"6": "and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.",
"7": "To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.",
"8": "For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,",
"9": "to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,",
"10": "to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.",
"11": "All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.",
"12": "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.",
"13": "For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.",
"14": "For the body does not consist of one member but of many.",
"15": "If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.",
"16": "And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.",
"17": "If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?",
"18": "But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.",
"19": "If all were a single member, where would the body be?",
"20": "As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.",
"21": "The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”",
"22": "On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,",
"23": "and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,",
"24": "which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,",
"25": "that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.",
"26": "If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.",
"27": "Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.",
"28": "And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.",
"29": "Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?",
"30": "Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?",
"31": "But earnestly desire the higher gifts.\nAnd I will show you a still more excellent way."
},
"13": {
"1": "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.",
"2": "And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.",
"3": "If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.",
"4": "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant",
"5": "or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;",
"6": "it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.",
"7": "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.",
"8": "Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.",
"9": "For we know in part and we prophesy in part,",
"10": "but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.",
"11": "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.",
"12": "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.",
"13": "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
},
"14": {
"1": "Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.",
"2": "For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.",
"3": "On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.",
"4": "The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.",
"5": "Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.",
"6": "Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?",
"7": "If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played?",
"8": "And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?",
"9": "So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.",
"10": "There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning,",
"11": "but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.",
"12": "So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.",
"13": "Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.",
"14": "For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.",
"15": "What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.",
"16": "Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?",
"17": "For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up.",
"18": "I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.",
"19": "Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.",
"20": "Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.",
"21": "In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”",
"22": "Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.",
"23": "If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?",
"24": "But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,",
"25": "the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.",
"26": "What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.",
"27": "If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.",
"28": "But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.",
"29": "Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.",
"30": "If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent.",
"31": "For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged,",
"32": "and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.",
"33": "For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.\nAs in all the churches of the saints,",
"34": "the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.",
"35": "If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.",
"36": "Or was it from you that the word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has reached?",
"37": "If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord.",
"38": "If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.",
"39": "So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.",
"40": "But all things should be done decently and in order."
},
"15": {
"1": "Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,",
"2": "and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.",
"3": "For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,",
"4": "that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,",
"5": "and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.",
"6": "Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.",
"7": "Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.",
"8": "Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.",
"9": "For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.",
"10": "But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.",
"11": "Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.",
"12": "Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?",
"13": "But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.",
"14": "And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.",
"15": "We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.",
"16": "For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.",
"17": "And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.",
"18": "Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.",
"19": "If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.",
"20": "But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.",
"21": "For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.",
"22": "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.",
"23": "But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.",
"24": "Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.",
"25": "For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.",
"26": "The last enemy to be destroyed is death.",
"27": "For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.",
"28": "When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.",
"29": "Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?",
"30": "Why are we in danger every hour?",
"31": "I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!",
"32": "What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”",
"33": "Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”",
"34": "Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.",
"35": "But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?”",
"36": "You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.",
"37": "And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.",
"38": "But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.",
"39": "For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.",
"40": "There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.",
"41": "There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.",
"42": "So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.",
"43": "It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.",
"44": "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.",
"45": "Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.",
"46": "But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.",
"47": "The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.",
"48": "As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.",
"49": "Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.",
"50": "I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.",
"51": "Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,",
"52": "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.",
"53": "For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.",
"54": "When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:\n“Death is swallowed up in victory.”",
"55": "“O death, where is your victory?\n O death, where is your sting?”",
"56": "The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.",
"57": "But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.",
"58": "Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain."
},
"16": {
"1": "Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.",
"2": "On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.",
"3": "And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem.",
"4": "If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.",
"5": "I will visit you after passing through Macedonia, for I intend to pass through Macedonia,",
"6": "and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may help me on my journey, wherever I go.",
"7": "For I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.",
"8": "But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,",
"9": "for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.",
"10": "When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, as I am.",
"11": "So let no one despise him. Help him on his way in peace, that he may return to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.",
"12": "Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.",
"13": "Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.",
"14": "Let all that you do be done in love.",
"15": "Now I urge you, brothers—you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints—",
"16": "be subject to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.",
"17": "I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for your absence,",
"18": "for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such people.",
"19": "The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.",
"20": "All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.",
"21": "I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand.",
"22": "If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!",
"23": "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.",
"24": "My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen."
}
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"1 John": {
"1": {
"1": "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—",
"2": "the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—",
"3": "that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.",
"4": "And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.",
"5": "This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.",
"6": "If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.",
"7": "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.",
"8": "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.",
"9": "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.",
"10": "If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."
},
"2": {
"1": "My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.",
"2": "He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.",
"3": "And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.",
"4": "Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,",
"5": "but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:",
"6": "whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.",
"7": "Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.",
"8": "At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.",
"9": "Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.",
"10": "Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.",
"11": "But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.",
"12": "I am writing to you, little children,\n because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.",
"13": "I am writing to you, fathers,\n because you know him who is from the beginning.\nI am writing to you, young men,\n because you have overcome the evil one.\nI write to you, children,\n because you know the Father.",
"14": "I write to you, fathers,\n because you know him who is from the beginning.\nI write to you, young men,\n because you are strong,\n and the word of God abides in you,\n and you have overcome the evil one.",
"15": "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.",
"16": "For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.",
"17": "And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.",
"18": "Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.",
"19": "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.",
"20": "But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.",
"21": "I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.",
"22": "Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.",
"23": "No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.",
"24": "Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.",
"25": "And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.",
"26": "I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.",
"27": "But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.",
"28": "And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.",
"29": "If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him."
},
"3": {
"1": "See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.",
"2": "Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.",
"3": "And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.",
"4": "Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.",
"5": "You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.",
"6": "No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.",
"7": "Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.",
"8": "Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.",
"9": "No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.",
"10": "By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.",
"11": "For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.",
"12": "We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.",
"13": "Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.",
"14": "We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.",
"15": "Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.",
"16": "By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.",
"17": "But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?",
"18": "Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.",
"19": "By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;",
"20": "for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.",
"21": "Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;",
"22": "and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.",
"23": "And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.",
"24": "Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us."
},
"4": {
"1": "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.",
"2": "By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,",
"3": "and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.",
"4": "Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.",
"5": "They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.",
"6": "We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.",
"7": "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.",
"8": "Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.",
"9": "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.",
"10": "In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.",
"11": "Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.",
"12": "No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.",
"13": "By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.",
"14": "And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.",
"15": "Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.",
"16": "So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.",
"17": "By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.",
"18": "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.",
"19": "We love because he first loved us.",
"20": "If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.",
"21": "And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother."
},
"5": {
"1": "Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.",
"2": "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.",
"3": "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.",
"4": "For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.",
"5": "Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?",
"6": "This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.",
"7": "For there are three that testify:",
"8": "the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.",
"9": "If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son.",
"10": "Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.",
"11": "And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.",
"12": "Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.",
"13": "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.",
"14": "And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.",
"15": "And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.",
"16": "If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.",
"17": "All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.",
"18": "We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.",
"19": "We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.",
"20": "And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.",
"21": "Little children, keep yourselves from idols."
}
},
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"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:27.199051-04:00",
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"1": {
"1": "Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.",
"2": "Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.”",
"3": "So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.",
"4": "The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not.",
"5": "Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.",
"6": "His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.",
"7": "He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest. And they followed Adonijah and helped him.",
"8": "But Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and David's mighty men were not with Adonijah.",
"9": "Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,",
"10": "but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother.",
"11": "Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king and David our lord does not know it?",
"12": "Now therefore come, let me give you advice, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.",
"13": "Go in at once to King David, and say to him, ‘Did you not, my lord the king, swear to your servant, saying, “Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne”? Why then is Adonijah king?’",
"14": "Then while you are still speaking with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words.”",
"15": "So Bathsheba went to the king in his chamber (now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending to the king).",
"16": "Bathsheba bowed and paid homage to the king, and the king said, “What do you desire?”",
"17": "She said to him, “My lord, you swore to your servant by the Lord your God, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’",
"18": "And now, behold, Adonijah is king, although you, my lord the king, do not know it.",
"19": "He has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army, but Solomon your servant he has not invited.",
"20": "And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.",
"21": "Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders.”",
"22": "While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.",
"23": "And they told the king, “Here is Nathan the prophet.” And when he came in before the king, he bowed before the king, with his face to the ground.",
"24": "And Nathan said, “My lord the king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne’?",
"25": "For he has gone down this day and has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king's sons, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’",
"26": "But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he has not invited.",
"27": "Has this thing been brought about by my lord the king and you have not told your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”",
"28": "Then King David answered, “Call Bathsheba to me.” So she came into the king's presence and stood before the king.",
"29": "And the king swore, saying, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity,",
"30": "as I swore to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,’ even so will I do this day.”",
"31": "Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground and paid homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”",
"32": "King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king.",
"33": "And the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.",
"34": "And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’",
"35": "You shall then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne, for he shall be king in my place. And I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.”",
"36": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, “Amen! May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say so.",
"37": "As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.”",
"38": "So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule and brought him to Gihon.",
"39": "There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”",
"40": "And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.",
"41": "Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished feasting. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “What does this uproar in the city mean?”",
"42": "While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. And Adonijah said, “Come in, for you are a worthy man and bring good news.”",
"43": "Jonathan answered Adonijah, “No, for our lord King David has made Solomon king,",
"44": "and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites. And they had him ride on the king's mule.",
"45": "And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.",
"46": "Solomon sits on the royal throne.",
"47": "Moreover, the king's servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king bowed himself on the bed.",
"48": "And the king also said, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has granted someone to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.’”",
"49": "Then all the guests of Adonijah trembled and rose, and each went his own way.",
"50": "And Adonijah feared Solomon. So he arose and went and took hold of the horns of the altar.",
"51": "Then it was told Solomon, “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, for behold, he has laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.’”",
"52": "And Solomon said, “If he will show himself a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the earth, but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”",
"53": "So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and paid homage to King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”"
},
"2": {
"1": "When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying,",
"2": "“I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,",
"3": "and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,",
"4": "that the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’",
"5": "“Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals on his feet.",
"6": "Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.",
"7": "But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.",
"8": "And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’",
"9": "Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”",
"10": "Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.",
"11": "And the time that David reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.",
"12": "So Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established.",
"13": "Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, “Do you come peacefully?” He said, “Peacefully.”",
"14": "Then he said, “I have something to say to you.” She said, “Speak.”",
"15": "He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel fully expected me to reign. However, the kingdom has turned about and become my brother's, for it was his from the Lord.",
"16": "And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me.” She said to him, “Speak.”",
"17": "And he said, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”",
"18": "Bathsheba said, “Very well; I will speak for you to the king.”",
"19": "So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her and bowed down to her. Then he sat on his throne and had a seat brought for the king's mother, and she sat on his right.",
"20": "Then she said, “I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Make your request, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”",
"21": "She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as his wife.”",
"22": "King Solomon answered his mother, “And why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my older brother, and on his side are Abiathar the priest and Joab the son of Zeruiah.”",
"23": "Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life!",
"24": "Now therefore as the Lord lives, who has established me and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today.”",
"25": "So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he struck him down, and he died.",
"26": "And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because you shared in all my father's affliction.”",
"27": "So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, thus fulfilling the word of the Lord that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.",
"28": "When the news came to Joab—for Joab had supported Adonijah although he had not supported Absalom—Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and caught hold of the horns of the altar.",
"29": "And when it was told King Solomon, “Joab has fled to the tent of the Lord, and behold, he is beside the altar,” Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down.”",
"30": "So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord and said to him, “The king commands, ‘Come out.’” But he said, “No, I will die here.” Then Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”",
"31": "The king replied to him, “Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father's house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause.",
"32": "The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.",
"33": "So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the Lord forevermore.”",
"34": "Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck him down and put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.",
"35": "The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.",
"36": "Then the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there to any place whatever.",
"37": "For on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. Your blood shall be on your own head.”",
"38": "And Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good; as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.",
"39": "But it happened at the end of three years that two of Shimei's servants ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And when it was told Shimei, “Behold, your servants are in Gath,”",
"40": "Shimei arose and saddled a donkey and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants. Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath.",
"41": "And when Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and returned,",
"42": "the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the Lord and solemnly warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and go to any place whatever, you shall die’? And you said to me, ‘What you say is good; I will obey.’",
"43": "Why then have you not kept your oath to the Lord and the commandment with which I commanded you?”",
"44": "The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your own heart all the harm that you did to David my father. So the Lord will bring back your harm on your own head.",
"45": "But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord forever.”",
"46": "Then the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died.\nSo the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon."
},
"3": {
"1": "Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.",
"2": "The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.",
"3": "Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father, only he sacrificed and made offerings at the high places.",
"4": "And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.",
"5": "At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.”",
"6": "And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and have given him a son to sit on his throne this day.",
"7": "And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in.",
"8": "And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.",
"9": "Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”",
"10": "It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.",
"11": "And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,",
"12": "behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.",
"13": "I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.",
"14": "And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”",
"15": "And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.",
"16": "Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.",
"17": "The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.",
"18": "Then on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And we were alone. There was no one else with us in the house; only we two were in the house.",
"19": "And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on him.",
"20": "And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.",
"21": "When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne.”",
"22": "But the other woman said, “No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours.” The first said, “No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine.” Thus they spoke before the king.",
"23": "Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead’; and the other says, ‘No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.’”",
"24": "And the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So a sword was brought before the king.",
"25": "And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”",
"26": "Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.”",
"27": "Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.”",
"28": "And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice."
},
"4": {
"1": "King Solomon was king over all Israel,",
"2": "and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;",
"3": "Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;",
"4": "Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;",
"5": "Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend;",
"6": "Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.",
"7": "Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.",
"8": "These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;",
"9": "Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan;",
"10": "Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);",
"11": "Ben-abinadab, in all Naphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);",
"12": "Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean that is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam;",
"13": "Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);",
"14": "Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;",
"15": "Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);",
"16": "Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;",
"17": "Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;",
"18": "Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;",
"19": "Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one governor who was over the land.",
"20": "Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.",
"21": "Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.",
"22": "Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal,",
"23": "ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.",
"24": "For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. And he had peace on all sides around him.",
"25": "And Judah and Israel lived in safety, from Dan even to Beersheba, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon.",
"26": "Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.",
"27": "And those officers supplied provisions for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon's table, each one in his month. They let nothing be lacking.",
"28": "Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his duty.",
"29": "And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,",
"30": "so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.",
"31": "For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.",
"32": "He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.",
"33": "He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.",
"34": "And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom."
},
"5": {
"1": "Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David.",
"2": "And Solomon sent word to Hiram,",
"3": "“You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.",
"4": "But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary nor misfortune.",
"5": "And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’",
"6": "Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”",
"7": "As soon as Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the Lord this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people.”",
"8": "And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message that you have sent to me. I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber.",
"9": "My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household.”",
"10": "So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,",
"11": "while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.",
"12": "And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.",
"13": "King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men.",
"14": "And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft.",
"15": "Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country,",
"16": "besides Solomon's 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.",
"17": "At the king's command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.",
"18": "So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house."
},
"6": {
"1": "In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.",
"2": "The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.",
"3": "The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.",
"4": "And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.",
"5": "He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.",
"6": "The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.",
"7": "When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.",
"8": "The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.",
"9": "So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.",
"10": "He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.",
"11": "Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon,",
"12": "“Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.",
"13": "And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.”",
"14": "So Solomon built the house and finished it.",
"15": "He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.",
"16": "He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.",
"17": "The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.",
"18": "The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.",
"19": "The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.",
"20": "The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid an altar of cedar.",
"21": "And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.",
"22": "And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.",
"23": "In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.",
"24": "Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.",
"25": "The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.",
"26": "The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.",
"27": "He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.",
"28": "And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.",
"29": "Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.",
"30": "The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.",
"31": "For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided.",
"32": "He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.",
"33": "So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,",
"34": "and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.",
"35": "On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.",
"36": "He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.",
"37": "In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.",
"38": "And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it."
},
"7": {
"1": "Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.",
"2": "He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was built on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.",
"3": "And it was covered with cedar above the chambers that were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row.",
"4": "There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers.",
"5": "All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.",
"6": "And he made the Hall of Pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits. There was a porch in front with pillars, and a canopy in front of them.",
"7": "And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.",
"8": "His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.",
"9": "All these were made of costly stones, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside to the great court.",
"10": "The foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits.",
"11": "And above were costly stones, cut according to measurement, and cedar.",
"12": "The great court had three courses of cut stone all around, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord and the vestibule of the house.",
"13": "And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.",
"14": "He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.",
"15": "He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.",
"16": "He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.",
"17": "There were lattices of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, a lattice for the one capital and a lattice for the other capital.",
"18": "Likewise he made pomegranates in two rows around the one latticework to cover the capital that was on the top of the pillar, and he did the same with the other capital.",
"19": "Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.",
"20": "The capitals were on the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the latticework. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows all around, and so with the other capital.",
"21": "He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple. He set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Boaz.",
"22": "And on the tops of the pillars was lily-work. Thus the work of the pillars was finished.",
"23": "Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.",
"24": "Under its brim were gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.",
"25": "It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.",
"26": "Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.",
"27": "He also made the ten stands of bronze. Each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.",
"28": "This was the construction of the stands: they had panels, and the panels were set in the frames,",
"29": "and on the panels that were set in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the frames, both above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths of beveled work.",
"30": "Moreover, each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and at the four corners were supports for a basin. The supports were cast with wreaths at the side of each.",
"31": "Its opening was within a crown that projected upward one cubit. Its opening was round, as a pedestal is made, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were carvings, and its panels were square, not round.",
"32": "And the four wheels were underneath the panels. The axles of the wheels were of one piece with the stands, and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.",
"33": "The wheels were made like a chariot wheel; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast.",
"34": "There were four supports at the four corners of each stand. The supports were of one piece with the stands.",
"35": "And on the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of one piece with it.",
"36": "And on the surfaces of its stays and on its panels, he carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around.",
"37": "After this manner he made the ten stands. All of them were cast alike, of the same measure and the same form.",
"38": "And he made ten basins of bronze. Each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits, and there was a basin for each of the ten stands.",
"39": "And he set the stands, five on the south side of the house, and five on the north side of the house. And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.",
"40": "Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the Lord:",
"41": "the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;",
"42": "and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;",
"43": "the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands;",
"44": "and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath the sea.",
"45": "Now the pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the Lord, which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze.",
"46": "In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.",
"47": "And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.",
"48": "So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,",
"49": "the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;",
"50": "the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.",
"51": "Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord."
},
"8": {
"1": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.",
"2": "And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.",
"3": "And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.",
"4": "And they brought up the ark of the Lord, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.",
"5": "And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.",
"6": "Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.",
"7": "For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.",
"8": "And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.",
"9": "There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.",
"10": "And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the Lord,",
"11": "so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.",
"12": "Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.",
"13": "I have indeed built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.”",
"14": "Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.",
"15": "And he said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,",
"16": "‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.’",
"17": "Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"18": "But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.",
"19": "Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’",
"20": "Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"21": "And there I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”",
"22": "Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven,",
"23": "and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart;",
"24": "you have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.",
"25": "Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’",
"26": "Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David my father.",
"27": "“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!",
"28": "Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Lord my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you this day,",
"29": "that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.",
"30": "And listen to the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen in heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.",
"31": "“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,",
"32": "then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.",
"33": "“When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,",
"34": "then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.",
"35": "“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,",
"36": "then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.",
"37": "“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,",
"38": "whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,",
"39": "then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),",
"40": "that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.",
"41": "“Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name's sake",
"42": "(for they shall hear of your great name and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,",
"43": "hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.",
"44": "“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,",
"45": "then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.",
"46": "“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,",
"47": "yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’",
"48": "if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,",
"49": "then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause",
"50": "and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them",
"51": "(for they are your people, and your heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace).",
"52": "Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to you.",
"53": "For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, as you declared through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”",
"54": "Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.",
"55": "And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,",
"56": "“Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.",
"57": "The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us,",
"58": "that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.",
"59": "Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,",
"60": "that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.",
"61": "Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.”",
"62": "Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.",
"63": "Solomon offered as peace offerings to the Lord 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.",
"64": "The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.",
"65": "So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days.",
"66": "On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people."
},
"9": {
"1": "As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build,",
"2": "the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.",
"3": "And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.",
"4": "And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,",
"5": "then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’",
"6": "But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,",
"7": "then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.",
"8": "And this house will become a heap of ruins. Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’",
"9": "Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this disaster on them.’”",
"10": "At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,",
"11": "and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.",
"12": "But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.",
"13": "Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of Cabul to this day.",
"14": "Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.",
"15": "And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer",
"16": "(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife;",
"17": "so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and Lower Beth-horon",
"18": "and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,",
"19": "and all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.",
"20": "All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel—",
"21": "their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction—these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day.",
"22": "But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.",
"23": "These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work: 550 who had charge of the people who carried on the work.",
"24": "But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.",
"25": "Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the Lord, making offerings with it before the Lord. So he finished the house.",
"26": "King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.",
"27": "And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.",
"28": "And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon."
},
"10": {
"1": "Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.",
"2": "She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.",
"3": "And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king that he could not explain to her.",
"4": "And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,",
"5": "the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more breath in her.",
"6": "And she said to the king, “The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,",
"7": "but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard.",
"8": "Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!",
"9": "Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the Lord loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”",
"10": "Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again came such an abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.",
"11": "Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.",
"12": "And the king made of the almug wood supports for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, also lyres and harps for the singers. No such almug wood has come or been seen to this day.",
"13": "And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.",
"14": "Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,",
"15": "besides that which came from the explorers and from the business of the merchants, and from all the kings of the west and from the governors of the land.",
"16": "King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of gold went into each shield.",
"17": "And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.",
"18": "The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with the finest gold.",
"19": "The throne had six steps, and the throne had a round top, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests,",
"20": "while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.",
"21": "All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.",
"22": "For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.",
"23": "Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.",
"24": "And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.",
"25": "Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.",
"26": "And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.",
"27": "And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.",
"28": "And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's traders received them from Kue at a price.",
"29": "A chariot could be imported from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver and a horse for 150, and so through the king's traders they were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria."
},
"11": {
"1": "Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,",
"2": "from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.",
"3": "He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.",
"4": "For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.",
"5": "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.",
"6": "So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done.",
"7": "Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.",
"8": "And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.",
"9": "And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice",
"10": "and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded.",
"11": "Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.",
"12": "Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.",
"13": "However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.”",
"14": "And the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom.",
"15": "For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom",
"16": "(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom).",
"17": "But Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father's servants, Hadad still being a little child.",
"18": "They set out from Midian and came to Paran and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him an allowance of food and gave him land.",
"19": "And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.",
"20": "And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.",
"21": "But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”",
"22": "But Pharaoh said to him, “What have you lacked with me that you are now seeking to go to your own country?” And he said to him, “Only let me depart.”",
"23": "God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.",
"24": "And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus.",
"25": "He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, doing harm as Hadad did. And he loathed Israel and reigned over Syria.",
"26": "Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.",
"27": "And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.",
"28": "The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.",
"29": "And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country.",
"30": "Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.",
"31": "And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes",
"32": "(but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel),",
"33": "because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.",
"34": "Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes.",
"35": "But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand and will give it to you, ten tribes.",
"36": "Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.",
"37": "And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.",
"38": "And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.",
"39": "And I will afflict the offspring of David because of this, but not forever.’”",
"40": "Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.",
"41": "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?",
"42": "And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.",
"43": "And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place."
},
"12": {
"1": "Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.",
"2": "And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt.",
"3": "And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam,",
"4": "“Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.”",
"5": "He said to them, “Go away for three days, then come again to me.” So the people went away.",
"6": "Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”",
"7": "And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.”",
"8": "But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.",
"9": "And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”",
"10": "And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,’ thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's thighs.",
"11": "And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”",
"12": "So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.”",
"13": "And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him,",
"14": "he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”",
"15": "So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfill his word, which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.",
"16": "And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So Israel went to their tents.",
"17": "But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah.",
"18": "Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.",
"19": "So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.",
"20": "And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only.",
"21": "When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.",
"22": "But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:",
"23": "“Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,",
"24": "‘Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Every man return to his home, for this thing is from me.’” So they listened to the word of the Lord and went home again, according to the word of the Lord.",
"25": "Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel.",
"26": "And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David.",
"27": "If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”",
"28": "So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”",
"29": "And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.",
"30": "Then this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.",
"31": "He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.",
"32": "And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.",
"33": "He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings."
},
"13": {
"1": "And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings.",
"2": "And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”",
"3": "And he gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.’”",
"4": "And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.",
"5": "The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.",
"6": "And the king said to the man of God, “Entreat now the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him and became as it was before.",
"7": "And the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”",
"8": "And the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place,",
"9": "for so was it commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water nor return by the way that you came.’”",
"10": "So he went another way and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.",
"11": "Now an old prophet lived in Bethel. And his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told to their father the words that he had spoken to the king.",
"12": "And their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons showed him the way that the man of God who came from Judah had gone.",
"13": "And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him and he mounted it.",
"14": "And he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak. And he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.”",
"15": "Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”",
"16": "And he said, “I may not return with you, or go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place,",
"17": "for it was said to me by the word of the Lord, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.’”",
"18": "And he said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.",
"19": "So he went back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water.",
"20": "And as they sat at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back.",
"21": "And he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord and have not kept the command that the Lord your God commanded you,",
"22": "but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”",
"23": "And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.",
"24": "And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body.",
"25": "And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown in the road and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.",
"26": "And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the word of the Lord; therefore the Lord has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word that the Lord spoke to him.”",
"27": "And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled it.",
"28": "And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the donkey and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the donkey.",
"29": "And the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back to the city to mourn and to bury him.",
"30": "And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”",
"31": "And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.",
"32": "For the saying that he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.”",
"33": "After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.",
"34": "And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth."
},
"14": {
"1": "At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.",
"2": "And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people.",
"3": "Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.”",
"4": "Jeroboam's wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.",
"5": "And the Lord said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.”\nWhen she came, she pretended to be another woman.",
"6": "But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with unbearable news for you.",
"7": "Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over my people Israel",
"8": "and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes,",
"9": "but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,",
"10": "therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.",
"11": "Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat, for the Lord has spoken it.”’",
"12": "Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.",
"13": "And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.",
"14": "Moreover, the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth,",
"15": "the Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.",
"16": "And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.”",
"17": "Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.",
"18": "And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.",
"19": "Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.",
"20": "And the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.",
"21": "Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.",
"22": "And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.",
"23": "For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,",
"24": "and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.",
"25": "In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.",
"26": "He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made,",
"27": "and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.",
"28": "And as often as the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.",
"29": "Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"30": "And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.",
"31": "And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his place."
},
"15": {
"1": "Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.",
"2": "He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.",
"3": "And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.",
"4": "Nevertheless, for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem,",
"5": "because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.",
"6": "Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.",
"7": "The rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.",
"8": "And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place.",
"9": "In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah,",
"10": "and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.",
"11": "And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father had done.",
"12": "He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.",
"13": "He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.",
"14": "But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.",
"15": "And he brought into the house of the Lord the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.",
"16": "And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.",
"17": "Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.",
"18": "Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house and gave them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,",
"19": "“Let there be a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”",
"20": "And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.",
"21": "And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah.",
"22": "Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.",
"23": "Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet.",
"24": "And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.",
"25": "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.",
"26": "He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.",
"27": "Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.",
"28": "So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah and reigned in his place.",
"29": "And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.",
"30": "It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"31": "Now the rest of the acts of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"32": "And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.",
"33": "In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel at Tirzah, and he reigned twenty-four years.",
"34": "He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel to sin."
},
"16": {
"1": "And the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,",
"2": "“Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,",
"3": "behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.",
"4": "Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat.”",
"5": "Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"6": "And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried at Tirzah, and Elah his son reigned in his place.",
"7": "Moreover, the word of the Lord came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.",
"8": "In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and he reigned two years.",
"9": "But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah,",
"10": "Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.",
"11": "When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he struck down all the house of Baasha. He did not leave him a single male of his relatives or his friends.",
"12": "Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,",
"13": "for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.",
"14": "Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"15": "In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines,",
"16": "and the troops who were encamped heard it said, “Zimri has conspired, and he has killed the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.",
"17": "So Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.",
"18": "And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house over him with fire and died,",
"19": "because of his sins that he committed, doing evil in the sight of the Lord, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin.",
"20": "Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy that he made, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"21": "Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts. Half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.",
"22": "But the people who followed Omri overcame the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. So Tibni died, and Omri became king.",
"23": "In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for twelve years; six years he reigned in Tirzah.",
"24": "He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.",
"25": "Omri did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did more evil than all who were before him.",
"26": "For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sins that he made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.",
"27": "Now the rest of the acts of Omri that he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"28": "And Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his place.",
"29": "In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.",
"30": "And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him.",
"31": "And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.",
"32": "He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.",
"33": "And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.",
"34": "In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun."
},
"17": {
"1": "Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”",
"2": "And the word of the Lord came to him:",
"3": "“Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.",
"4": "You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”",
"5": "So he went and did according to the word of the Lord. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan.",
"6": "And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.",
"7": "And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.",
"8": "Then the word of the Lord came to him,",
"9": "“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”",
"10": "So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.”",
"11": "And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”",
"12": "And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”",
"13": "And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son.",
"14": "For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.’”",
"15": "And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days.",
"16": "The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah.",
"17": "After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill. And his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.",
"18": "And she said to Elijah, “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!”",
"19": "And he said to her, “Give me your son.” And he took him from her arms and carried him up into the upper chamber where he lodged, and laid him on his own bed.",
"20": "And he cried to the Lord, “O Lord my God, have you brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?”",
"21": "Then he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the Lord, “O Lord my God, let this child's life come into him again.”",
"22": "And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.",
"23": "And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house and delivered him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives.”",
"24": "And the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.”"
},
"18": {
"1": "After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.”",
"2": "So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.",
"3": "And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly,",
"4": "and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)",
"5": "And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals.”",
"6": "So they divided the land between them to pass through it. Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another direction by himself.",
"7": "And as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. And Obadiah recognized him and fell on his face and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”",
"8": "And he answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here.’”",
"9": "And he said, “How have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?",
"10": "As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, ‘He is not here,’ he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.",
"11": "And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’",
"12": "And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the Lord will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the Lord from my youth.",
"13": "Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?",
"14": "And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”’; and he will kill me.”",
"15": "And Elijah said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”",
"16": "So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.",
"17": "When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”",
"18": "And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.",
"19": "Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table.”",
"20": "So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel.",
"21": "And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.",
"22": "Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are 450 men.",
"23": "Let two bulls be given to us, and let them choose one bull for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood, but put no fire to it. And I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood and put no fire to it.",
"24": "And you call upon the name of your god, and I will call upon the name of the Lord, and the God who answers by fire, he is God.” And all the people answered, “It is well spoken.”",
"25": "Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are many, and call upon the name of your god, but put no fire to it.”",
"26": "And they took the bull that was given them, and they prepared it and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they had made.",
"27": "And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”",
"28": "And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.",
"29": "And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.",
"30": "Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that had been thrown down.",
"31": "Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, “Israel shall be your name,”",
"32": "and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord. And he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two seahs of seed.",
"33": "And he put the wood in order and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the wood. And he said, “Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.”",
"34": "And he said, “Do it a second time.” And they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third time.” And they did it a third time.",
"35": "And the water ran around the altar and filled the trench also with water.",
"36": "And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.",
"37": "Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.”",
"38": "Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.",
"39": "And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”",
"40": "And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.",
"41": "And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the rushing of rain.”",
"42": "So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel. And he bowed himself down on the earth and put his face between his knees.",
"43": "And he said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go again,” seven times.",
"44": "And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man's hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’”",
"45": "And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.",
"46": "And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel."
},
"19": {
"1": "Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.",
"2": "Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”",
"3": "Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.",
"4": "But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”",
"5": "And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.”",
"6": "And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again.",
"7": "And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.”",
"8": "And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.",
"9": "There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”",
"10": "He said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”",
"11": "And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.",
"12": "And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.",
"13": "And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”",
"14": "He said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”",
"15": "And the Lord said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.",
"16": "And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.",
"17": "And the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha put to death.",
"18": "Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”",
"19": "So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him.",
"20": "And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, “Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”",
"21": "And he returned from following him and took the yoke of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the yokes of the oxen and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and assisted him."
},
"20": {
"1": "Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together. Thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and closed in on Samaria and fought against it.",
"2": "And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him, “Thus says Ben-hadad:",
"3": "‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your best wives and children also are mine.’”",
"4": "And the king of Israel answered, “As you say, my lord, O king, I am yours, and all that I have.”",
"5": "The messengers came again and said, “Thus says Ben-hadad: ‘I sent to you, saying, “Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children.”",
"6": "Nevertheless I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants and lay hands on whatever pleases you and take it away.’”",
"7": "Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, “Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”",
"8": "And all the elders and all the people said to him, “Do not listen or consent.”",
"9": "So he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you first demanded of your servant I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” And the messengers departed and brought him word again.",
"10": "Ben-hadad sent to him and said, “The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”",
"11": "And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.’”",
"12": "When Ben-hadad heard this message as he was drinking with the kings in the booths, he said to his men, “Take your positions.” And they took their positions against the city.",
"13": "And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, “Thus says the Lord, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will give it into your hand this day, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”",
"14": "And Ahab said, “By whom?” He said, “Thus says the Lord, By the servants of the governors of the districts.” Then he said, “Who shall begin the battle?” He answered, “You.”",
"15": "Then he mustered the servants of the governors of the districts, and they were 232. And after them he mustered all the people of Israel, seven thousand.",
"16": "And they went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings who helped him.",
"17": "The servants of the governors of the districts went out first. And Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”",
"18": "He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive. Or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”",
"19": "So these went out of the city, the servants of the governors of the districts and the army that followed them.",
"20": "And each struck down his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them, but Ben-hadad king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.",
"21": "And the king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and struck the Syrians with a great blow.",
"22": "Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, “Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do, for in the spring the king of Syria will come up against you.”",
"23": "And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills, and so they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.",
"24": "And do this: remove the kings, each from his post, and put commanders in their places,",
"25": "and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.” And he listened to their voice and did so.",
"26": "In the spring, Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.",
"27": "And the people of Israel were mustered and were provisioned and went against them. The people of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the country.",
"28": "And a man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “The Lord is a god of the hills but he is not a god of the valleys,” therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’”",
"29": "And they encamped opposite one another seven days. Then on the seventh day the battle was joined. And the people of Israel struck down of the Syrians 100,000 foot soldiers in one day.",
"30": "And the rest fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell upon 27,000 men who were left.\nBen-hadad also fled and entered an inner chamber in the city.",
"31": "And his servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”",
"32": "So they tied sackcloth around their waists and put ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please, let me live.’” And he said, “Does he still live? He is my brother.”",
"33": "Now the men were watching for a sign, and they quickly took it up from him and said, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” Then he said, “Go and bring him.” Then Ben-hadad came out to him, and he caused him to come up into the chariot.",
"34": "And Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities that my father took from your father I will restore, and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” And Ahab said, “I will let you go on these terms.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.",
"35": "And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow at the command of the Lord, “Strike me, please.” But the man refused to strike him.",
"36": "Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as you have gone from me, a lion shall strike you down.” And as soon as he had departed from him, a lion met him and struck him down.",
"37": "Then he found another man and said, “Strike me, please.” And the man struck him—struck him and wounded him.",
"38": "So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.",
"39": "And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’",
"40": "And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.”",
"41": "Then he hurried to take the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.",
"42": "And he said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall be for his life, and your people for his people.’”",
"43": "And the king of Israel went to his house vexed and sullen and came to Samaria."
},
"21": {
"1": "Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.",
"2": "And after this Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.”",
"3": "But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”",
"4": "And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food.",
"5": "But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?”",
"6": "And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ And he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”",
"7": "And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”",
"8": "So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the leaders who lived with Naboth in his city.",
"9": "And she wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people.",
"10": "And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”",
"11": "And the men of his city, the elders and the leaders who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters that she had sent to them,",
"12": "they proclaimed a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people.",
"13": "And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.",
"14": "Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.”",
"15": "As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”",
"16": "And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.",
"17": "Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,",
"18": "“Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession.",
"19": "And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”",
"20": "Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.",
"21": "Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.",
"22": "And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin.",
"23": "And of Jezebel the Lord also said, ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within the walls of Jezreel.’",
"24": "Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat.”",
"25": "(There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.",
"26": "He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)",
"27": "And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.",
"28": "And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,",
"29": "“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”"
},
"22": {
"1": "For three years Syria and Israel continued without war.",
"2": "But in the third year Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.",
"3": "And the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”",
"4": "And he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”",
"5": "And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Inquire first for the word of the Lord.”",
"6": "Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”",
"7": "But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here another prophet of the Lord of whom we may inquire?”",
"8": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”",
"9": "Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, “Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.”",
"10": "Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.",
"11": "And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.’”",
"12": "And all the prophets prophesied so and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”",
"13": "And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”",
"14": "But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”",
"15": "And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?” And he answered him, “Go up and triumph; the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”",
"16": "But the king said to him, “How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?”",
"17": "And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’”",
"18": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”",
"19": "And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left;",
"20": "and the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.",
"21": "Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’",
"22": "And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’",
"23": "Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has declared disaster for you.”",
"24": "Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”",
"25": "And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”",
"26": "And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son,",
"27": "and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace.”’”",
"28": "And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!”",
"29": "So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.",
"30": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.",
"31": "Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”",
"32": "And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is surely the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out.",
"33": "And when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.",
"34": "But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.”",
"35": "And the battle continued that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died. And the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.",
"36": "And about sunset a cry went through the army, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”",
"37": "So the king died, and was brought to Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria.",
"38": "And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes washed themselves in it, according to the word of the Lord that he had spoken.",
"39": "Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory house that he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"40": "So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.",
"41": "Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.",
"42": "Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.",
"43": "He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.",
"44": "Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.",
"45": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"46": "And from the land he exterminated the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa.",
"47": "There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.",
"48": "Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.",
"49": "Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships,” but Jehoshaphat was not willing.",
"50": "And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.",
"51": "Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.",
"52": "He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.",
"53": "He served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger in every way that his father had done."
}
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"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:38.141812-04:00",
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"1 Peter": {
"1": {
"1": "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,\nTo those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,",
"2": "according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood:\nMay grace and peace be multiplied to you.",
"3": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,",
"4": "to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,",
"5": "who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.",
"6": "In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,",
"7": "so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.",
"8": "Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,",
"9": "obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.",
"10": "Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully,",
"11": "inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.",
"12": "It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.",
"13": "Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.",
"14": "As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,",
"15": "but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,",
"16": "since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”",
"17": "And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,",
"18": "knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,",
"19": "but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.",
"20": "He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you",
"21": "who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.",
"22": "Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,",
"23": "since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;",
"24": "for\n“All flesh is like grass\n and all its glory like the flower of grass.\nThe grass withers,\n and the flower falls,",
"25": "but the word of the Lord remains forever.”\nAnd this word is the good news that was preached to you."
},
"2": {
"1": "So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.",
"2": "Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—",
"3": "if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.",
"4": "As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,",
"5": "you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.",
"6": "For it stands in Scripture:\n“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,\n a cornerstone chosen and precious,\nand whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”",
"7": "So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,\n“The stone that the builders rejected\n has become the cornerstone,”",
"8": "and\n“A stone of stumbling,\n and a rock of offense.”\nThey stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.",
"9": "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.",
"10": "Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.",
"11": "Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.",
"12": "Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.",
"13": "Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,",
"14": "or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.",
"15": "For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.",
"16": "Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.",
"17": "Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.",
"18": "Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.",
"19": "For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.",
"20": "For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.",
"21": "For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.",
"22": "He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.",
"23": "When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.",
"24": "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.",
"25": "For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls."
},
"3": {
"1": "Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,",
"2": "when they see your respectful and pure conduct.",
"3": "Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—",
"4": "but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.",
"5": "For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,",
"6": "as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.",
"7": "Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.",
"8": "Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.",
"9": "Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.",
"10": "For\n“Whoever desires to love life\n and see good days,\nlet him keep his tongue from evil\n and his lips from speaking deceit;",
"11": "let him turn away from evil and do good;\n let him seek peace and pursue it.",
"12": "For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,\n and his ears are open to their prayer.\nBut the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”",
"13": "Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?",
"14": "But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,",
"15": "but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,",
"16": "having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.",
"17": "For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.",
"18": "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,",
"19": "in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,",
"20": "because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.",
"21": "Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,",
"22": "who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him."
},
"4": {
"1": "Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,",
"2": "so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.",
"3": "For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.",
"4": "With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;",
"5": "but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.",
"6": "For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.",
"7": "The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.",
"8": "Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.",
"9": "Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.",
"10": "As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:",
"11": "whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.",
"12": "Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.",
"13": "But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.",
"14": "If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.",
"15": "But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.",
"16": "Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.",
"17": "For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?",
"18": "And\n“If the righteous is scarcely saved,\n what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”",
"19": "Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good."
},
"5": {
"1": "So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:",
"2": "shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;",
"3": "not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.",
"4": "And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.",
"5": "Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”",
"6": "Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,",
"7": "casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.",
"8": "Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.",
"9": "Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.",
"10": "And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.",
"11": "To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.",
"12": "By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.",
"13": "She who is at Babylon, who is likewise chosen, sends you greetings, and so does Mark, my son.",
"14": "Greet one another with the kiss of love.\nPeace to all of you who are in Christ."
}
},
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"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:26.176945-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
}
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"1 Samuel": {
"1": {
"1": "There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite.",
"2": "He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.",
"3": "Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord.",
"4": "On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters.",
"5": "But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.",
"6": "And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.",
"7": "So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.",
"8": "And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”",
"9": "After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord.",
"10": "She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.",
"11": "And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”",
"12": "As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.",
"13": "Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman.",
"14": "And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.”",
"15": "But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord.",
"16": "Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.”",
"17": "Then Eli answered, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.”",
"18": "And she said, “Let your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.",
"19": "They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.",
"20": "And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”",
"21": "The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow.",
"22": "But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the Lord and dwell there forever.”",
"23": "Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him; only, may the Lord establish his word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him.",
"24": "And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh. And the child was young.",
"25": "Then they slaughtered the bull, and they brought the child to Eli.",
"26": "And she said, “Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord.",
"27": "For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.",
"28": "Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.”\nAnd he worshiped the Lord there."
},
"2": {
"1": "And Hannah prayed and said,\n“My heart exults in the Lord;\n my horn is exalted in the Lord.\nMy mouth derides my enemies,\n because I rejoice in your salvation.",
"2": "“There is none holy like the Lord:\n for there is none besides you;\n there is no rock like our God.",
"3": "Talk no more so very proudly,\n let not arrogance come from your mouth;\nfor the Lord is a God of knowledge,\n and by him actions are weighed.",
"4": "The bows of the mighty are broken,\n but the feeble bind on strength.",
"5": "Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,\n but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger.\nThe barren has borne seven,\n but she who has many children is forlorn.",
"6": "The Lord kills and brings to life;\n he brings down to Sheol and raises up.",
"7": "The Lord makes poor and makes rich;\n he brings low and he exalts.",
"8": "He raises up the poor from the dust;\n he lifts the needy from the ash heap\nto make them sit with princes\n and inherit a seat of honor.\nFor the pillars of the earth are the Lord's,\n and on them he has set the world.",
"9": "“He will guard the feet of his faithful ones,\n but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness,\n for not by might shall a man prevail.",
"10": "The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces;\n against them he will thunder in heaven.\nThe Lord will judge the ends of the earth;\n he will give strength to his king\n and exalt the horn of his anointed.”",
"11": "Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli the priest.",
"12": "Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the Lord.",
"13": "The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,",
"14": "and he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot. All that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.",
"15": "Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw.”",
"16": "And if the man said to him, “Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish,” he would say, “No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force.”",
"17": "Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the Lord, for the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt.",
"18": "Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy clothed with a linen ephod.",
"19": "And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.",
"20": "Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “May the Lord give you children by this woman for the petition she asked of the Lord.” So then they would return to their home.",
"21": "Indeed the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the Lord.",
"22": "Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.",
"23": "And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.",
"24": "No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.",
"25": "If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to put them to death.",
"26": "Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and also with man.",
"27": "And there came a man of God to Eli and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Did I indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt subject to the house of Pharaoh?",
"28": "Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.",
"29": "Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’",
"30": "Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.",
"31": "Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.",
"32": "Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.",
"33": "The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants of your house shall die by the sword of men.",
"34": "And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.",
"35": "And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.",
"36": "And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, “Please put me in one of the priests' places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”"
},
"3": {
"1": "Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.",
"2": "At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place.",
"3": "The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.",
"4": "Then the Lord called Samuel, and he said, “Here I am!”",
"5": "and ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” So he went and lay down.",
"6": "And the Lord called again, “Samuel!” and Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call, my son; lie down again.”",
"7": "Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.",
"8": "And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli perceived that the Lord was calling the boy.",
"9": "Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down, and if he calls you, you shall say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.",
"10": "And the Lord came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.”",
"11": "Then the Lord said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.",
"12": "On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.",
"13": "And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.",
"14": "Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.”",
"15": "Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.",
"16": "But Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son.” And he said, “Here I am.”",
"17": "And Eli said, “What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also if you hide anything from me of all that he told you.”",
"18": "So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, “It is the Lord. Let him do what seems good to him.”",
"19": "And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.",
"20": "And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the Lord.",
"21": "And the Lord appeared again at Shiloh, for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the Lord."
},
"4": {
"1": "And the word of Samuel came to all Israel.\nNow Israel went out to battle against the Philistines. They encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek.",
"2": "The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated before the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle.",
"3": "And when the people came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.”",
"4": "So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.",
"5": "As soon as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.",
"6": "And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, “What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” And when they learned that the ark of the Lord had come to the camp,",
"7": "the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “A god has come into the camp.” And they said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.",
"8": "Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.",
"9": "Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; be men and fight.”",
"10": "So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.",
"11": "And the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.",
"12": "A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.",
"13": "When he arrived, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out.",
"14": "When Eli heard the sound of the outcry, he said, “What is this uproar?” Then the man hurried and came and told Eli.",
"15": "Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were set so that he could not see.",
"16": "And the man said to Eli, “I am he who has come from the battle; I fled from the battle today.” And he said, “How did it go, my son?”",
"17": "He who brought the news answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great defeat among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”",
"18": "As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.",
"19": "Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her pains came upon her.",
"20": "And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer or pay attention.",
"21": "And she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.",
"22": "And she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”"
},
"5": {
"1": "When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.",
"2": "Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.",
"3": "And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.",
"4": "But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.",
"5": "This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.",
"6": "The hand of the Lord was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.",
"7": "And when the men of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for his hand is hard against us and against Dagon our god.”",
"8": "So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath.” So they brought the ark of the God of Israel there.",
"9": "But after they had brought it around, the hand of the Lord was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.",
"10": "So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But as soon as the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “They have brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our people.”",
"11": "They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there.",
"12": "The men who did not die were struck with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven."
},
"6": {
"1": "The ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.",
"2": "And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.”",
"3": "They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you.”",
"4": "And they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?” They answered, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was on all of you and on your lords.",
"5": "So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and your gods and your land.",
"6": "Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?",
"7": "Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.",
"8": "And take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way",
"9": "and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”",
"10": "The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.",
"11": "And they put the ark of the Lord on the cart and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.",
"12": "And the cows went straight in the direction of Beth-shemesh along one highway, lowing as they went. They turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.",
"13": "Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley. And when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.",
"14": "The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there. A great stone was there. And they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.",
"15": "And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them upon the great stone. And the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the Lord.",
"16": "And when the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.",
"17": "These are the golden tumors that the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the Lord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron,",
"18": "and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and unwalled villages. The great stone beside which they set down the ark of the Lord is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.",
"19": "And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the Lord. He struck seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great blow.",
"20": "Then the men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?”",
"21": "So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down and take it up to you.”"
},
"7": {
"1": "And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the Lord and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to have charge of the ark of the Lord.",
"2": "From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.",
"3": "And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”",
"4": "So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the Lord only.",
"5": "Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.”",
"6": "So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord and fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.",
"7": "Now when the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the people of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines.",
"8": "And the people of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”",
"9": "So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. And Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.",
"10": "As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel. But the Lord thundered with a mighty sound that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were defeated before Israel.",
"11": "And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and struck them, as far as below Beth-car.",
"12": "Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, “Till now the Lord has helped us.”",
"13": "So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.",
"14": "The cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites.",
"15": "Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.",
"16": "And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah. And he judged Israel in all these places.",
"17": "Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the Lord."
},
"8": {
"1": "When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.",
"2": "The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba.",
"3": "Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.",
"4": "Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah",
"5": "and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.”",
"6": "But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.",
"7": "And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.",
"8": "According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.",
"9": "Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.”",
"10": "So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king from him.",
"11": "He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.",
"12": "And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.",
"13": "He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.",
"14": "He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.",
"15": "He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.",
"16": "He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work.",
"17": "He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.",
"18": "And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”",
"19": "But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us,",
"20": "that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”",
"21": "And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord.",
"22": "And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey their voice and make them a king.” Samuel then said to the men of Israel, “Go every man to his city.”"
},
"9": {
"1": "There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth.",
"2": "And he had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.",
"3": "Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, “Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys.”",
"4": "And he passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them.",
"5": "When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.”",
"6": "But he said to him, “Behold, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes true. So now let us go there. Perhaps he can tell us the way we should go.”",
"7": "Then Saul said to his servant, “But if we go, what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”",
"8": "The servant answered Saul again, “Here, I have with me a quarter of a shekel of silver, and I will give it to the man of God to tell us our way.”",
"9": "(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for today's “prophet” was formerly called a seer.)",
"10": "And Saul said to his servant, “Well said; come, let us go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.",
"11": "As they went up the hill to the city, they met young women coming out to draw water and said to them, “Is the seer here?”",
"12": "They answered, “He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Hurry. He has come just now to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place.",
"13": "As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.”",
"14": "So they went up to the city. As they were entering the city, they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the high place.",
"15": "Now the day before Saul came, the Lord had revealed to Samuel:",
"16": "“Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me.”",
"17": "When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, “Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall restrain my people.”",
"18": "Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, “Tell me where is the house of the seer?”",
"19": "Samuel answered Saul, “I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind.",
"20": "As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father's house?”",
"21": "Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel? And is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?”",
"22": "Then Samuel took Saul and his young man and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, who were about thirty persons.",
"23": "And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Put it aside.’”",
"24": "So the cook took up the leg and what was on it and set them before Saul. And Samuel said, “See, what was kept is set before you. Eat, because it was kept for you until the hour appointed, that you might eat with the guests.”\nSo Saul ate with Samuel that day.",
"25": "And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.",
"26": "Then at the break of dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Up, that I may send you on your way.” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.",
"27": "As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on, stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God.”"
},
"10": {
"1": "Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, “Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.",
"2": "When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’",
"3": "Then you shall go on from there farther and come to the oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.",
"4": "And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from their hand.",
"5": "After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.",
"6": "Then the Spirit of the Lord will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.",
"7": "Now when these signs meet you, do what your hand finds to do, for God is with you.",
"8": "Then go down before me to Gilgal. And behold, I am coming down to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.”",
"9": "When he turned his back to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart. And all these signs came to pass that day.",
"10": "When they came to Gibeah, behold, a group of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.",
"11": "And when all who knew him previously saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, “What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”",
"12": "And a man of the place answered, “And who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”",
"13": "When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.",
"14": "Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?” And he said, “To seek the donkeys. And when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”",
"15": "And Saul's uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”",
"16": "And Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found.” But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.",
"17": "Now Samuel called the people together to the Lord at Mizpah.",
"18": "And he said to the people of Israel, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’",
"19": "But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.”",
"20": "Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.",
"21": "He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans, and the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot; and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.",
"22": "So they inquired again of the Lord, “Is there a man still to come?” and the Lord said, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”",
"23": "Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.",
"24": "And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? There is none like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”",
"25": "Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.",
"26": "Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.",
"27": "But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” And they despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace."
},
"11": {
"1": "Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”",
"2": "But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel.”",
"3": "The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days' respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”",
"4": "When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud.",
"5": "Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen. And Saul said, “What is wrong with the people, that they are weeping?” So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh.",
"6": "And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.",
"7": "He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.",
"8": "When he mustered them at Bezek, the people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.",
"9": "And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have salvation.’” When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.",
"10": "Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.”",
"11": "And the next day Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.",
"12": "Then the people said to Samuel, “Who is it that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring the men, that we may put them to death.”",
"13": "But Saul said, “Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel.”",
"14": "Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom.”",
"15": "So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly."
},
"12": {
"1": "And Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have obeyed your voice in all that you have said to me and have made a king over you.",
"2": "And now, behold, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.",
"3": "Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.”",
"4": "They said, “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand.”",
"5": "And he said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And they said, “He is witness.”",
"6": "And Samuel said to the people, “The Lord is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.",
"7": "Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous deeds of the Lord that he performed for you and for your fathers.",
"8": "When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried out to the Lord and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.",
"9": "But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.",
"10": "And they cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.’",
"11": "And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.",
"12": "And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the Lord your God was your king.",
"13": "And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the Lord has set a king over you.",
"14": "If you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well.",
"15": "But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king.",
"16": "Now therefore stand still and see this great thing that the Lord will do before your eyes.",
"17": "Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king.”",
"18": "So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.",
"19": "And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”",
"20": "And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.",
"21": "And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.",
"22": "For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.",
"23": "Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.",
"24": "Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.",
"25": "But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.”"
},
"13": {
"1": "Saul lived for one year and then became king, and when he had reigned for two years over Israel,",
"2": "Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.",
"3": "Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear.”",
"4": "And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become a stench to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal.",
"5": "And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.",
"6": "When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,",
"7": "and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.",
"8": "He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.",
"9": "So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering.",
"10": "As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.",
"11": "Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,",
"12": "I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the Lord.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.”",
"13": "And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.",
"14": "But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”",
"15": "And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin.\nAnd Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.",
"16": "And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.",
"17": "And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual;",
"18": "another company turned toward Beth-horon; and another company turned toward the border that looks down on the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.",
"19": "Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.”",
"20": "But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,",
"21": "and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.",
"22": "So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.",
"23": "And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash."
},
"14": {
"1": "One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side.” But he did not tell his father.",
"2": "Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave at Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men,",
"3": "including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.",
"4": "Within the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.",
"5": "The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.",
"6": "Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us, for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.”",
"7": "And his armor-bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul.”",
"8": "Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them.",
"9": "If they say to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them.",
"10": "But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hand. And this shall be the sign to us.”",
"11": "So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, “Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.”",
"12": "And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.” And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, “Come up after me, for the Lord has given them into the hand of Israel.”",
"13": "Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him.",
"14": "And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.",
"15": "And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even the raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic.",
"16": "And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude was dispersing here and there.",
"17": "Then Saul said to the people who were with him, “Count and see who has gone from us.” And when they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there.",
"18": "So Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark of God here.” For the ark of God went at that time with the people of Israel.",
"19": "Now while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”",
"20": "Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle. And behold, every Philistine's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.",
"21": "Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.",
"22": "Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle.",
"23": "So the Lord saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond Beth-aven.",
"24": "And the men of Israel had been hard pressed that day, so Saul had laid an oath on the people, saying, “Cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies.” So none of the people had tasted food.",
"25": "Now when all the people came to the forest, behold, there was honey on the ground.",
"26": "And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.",
"27": "But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.",
"28": "Then one of the people said, “Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food this day.’” And the people were faint.",
"29": "Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.",
"30": "How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found. For now the defeat among the Philistines has not been great.”",
"31": "They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint.",
"32": "The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.",
"33": "Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.”",
"34": "And Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, ‘Let every man bring his ox or his sheep and slaughter them here and eat, and do not sin against the Lord by eating with the blood.’” So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night and they slaughtered them there.",
"35": "And Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.",
"36": "Then Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them.” And they said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” But the priest said, “Let us draw near to God here.”",
"37": "And Saul inquired of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.",
"38": "And Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the people, and know and see how this sin has arisen today.",
"39": "For as the Lord lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.",
"40": "Then he said to all Israel, “You shall be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” And the people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”",
"41": "Therefore Saul said, “O Lord God of Israel, why have you not answered your servant this day? If this guilt is in me or in Jonathan my son, O Lord, God of Israel, give Urim. But if this guilt is in your people Israel, give Thummim.” And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.",
"42": "Then Saul said, “Cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan.” And Jonathan was taken.",
"43": "Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” And Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am; I will die.”",
"44": "And Saul said, “God do so to me and more also; you shall surely die, Jonathan.”",
"45": "Then the people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.",
"46": "Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place.",
"47": "When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned he routed them.",
"48": "And he did valiantly and struck the Amalekites and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.",
"49": "Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchi-shua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn was Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.",
"50": "And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.",
"51": "Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.",
"52": "There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul. And when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself."
},
"15": {
"1": "And Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord.",
"2": "Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.",
"3": "Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”",
"4": "So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.",
"5": "And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.",
"6": "Then Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.",
"7": "And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.",
"8": "And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.",
"9": "But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.",
"10": "The word of the Lord came to Samuel:",
"11": "“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.",
"12": "And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.”",
"13": "And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”",
"14": "And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?”",
"15": "Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.”",
"16": "Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”",
"17": "And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.",
"18": "And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’",
"19": "Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?”",
"20": "And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction.",
"21": "But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”",
"22": "And Samuel said,\n“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,\n as in obeying the voice of the Lord?\nBehold, to obey is better than sacrifice,\n and to listen than the fat of rams.",
"23": "For rebellion is as the sin of divination,\n and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.\nBecause you have rejected the word of the Lord,\n he has also rejected you from being king.”",
"24": "Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.",
"25": "Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may bow before the Lord.”",
"26": "And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”",
"27": "As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.",
"28": "And Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.",
"29": "And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”",
"30": "Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the Lord your God.”",
"31": "So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the Lord.",
"32": "Then Samuel said, “Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”",
"33": "And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.",
"34": "Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.",
"35": "And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel."
},
"16": {
"1": "The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”",
"2": "And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’",
"3": "And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.”",
"4": "Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, “Do you come peaceably?”",
"5": "And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.",
"6": "When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.”",
"7": "But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”",
"8": "Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.”",
"9": "Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.”",
"10": "And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen these.”",
"11": "Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.”",
"12": "And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.”",
"13": "Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.",
"14": "Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.",
"15": "And Saul's servants said to him, “Behold now, a harmful spirit from God is tormenting you.",
"16": "Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.”",
"17": "So Saul said to his servants, “Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me.”",
"18": "One of the young men answered, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him.”",
"19": "Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”",
"20": "And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.",
"21": "And David came to Saul and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.",
"22": "And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight.”",
"23": "And whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him."
},
"17": {
"1": "Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.",
"2": "And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.",
"3": "And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.",
"4": "And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.",
"5": "He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.",
"6": "And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.",
"7": "The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And his shield-bearer went before him.",
"8": "He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.",
"9": "If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.”",
"10": "And the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.”",
"11": "When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.",
"12": "Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.",
"13": "The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.",
"14": "David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul,",
"15": "but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.",
"16": "For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.",
"17": "And Jesse said to David his son, “Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers.",
"18": "Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them.”",
"19": "Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.",
"20": "And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry.",
"21": "And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army.",
"22": "And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.",
"23": "As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him.",
"24": "All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.",
"25": "And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.”",
"26": "And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”",
"27": "And the people answered him in the same way, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”",
"28": "Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”",
"29": "And David said, “What have I done now? Was it not but a word?”",
"30": "And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before.",
"31": "When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.",
"32": "And David said to Saul, “Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”",
"33": "And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.”",
"34": "But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,",
"35": "I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.",
"36": "Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”",
"37": "And David said, “The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!”",
"38": "Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail,",
"39": "and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off.",
"40": "Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd's pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.",
"41": "And the Philistine moved forward and came near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him.",
"42": "And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance.",
"43": "And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.",
"44": "The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”",
"45": "Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.",
"46": "This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,",
"47": "and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand.”",
"48": "When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.",
"49": "And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.",
"50": "So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David.",
"51": "Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.",
"52": "And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron.",
"53": "And the people of Israel came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.",
"54": "And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.",
"55": "As soon as Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”",
"56": "And the king said, “Inquire whose son the boy is.”",
"57": "And as soon as David returned from the striking down of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.",
"58": "And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”"
},
"18": {
"1": "As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.",
"2": "And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house.",
"3": "Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.",
"4": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.",
"5": "And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.",
"6": "As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.",
"7": "And the women sang to one another as they celebrated,\n“Saul has struck down his thousands,\n and David his ten thousands.”",
"8": "And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom?”",
"9": "And Saul eyed David from that day on.",
"10": "The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.",
"11": "And Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David evaded him twice.",
"12": "Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.",
"13": "So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people.",
"14": "And David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.",
"15": "And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him.",
"16": "But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.",
"17": "Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord's battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”",
"18": "And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father's clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”",
"19": "But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.",
"20": "Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.",
"21": "Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”",
"22": "And Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David in private and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now then become the king's son-in-law.’”",
"23": "And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, “Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?”",
"24": "And the servants of Saul told him, “Thus and so did David speak.”",
"25": "Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.’” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.",
"26": "And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. Before the time had expired,",
"27": "David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.",
"28": "But when Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him,",
"29": "Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David's enemy continually.",
"30": "Then the commanders of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed."
},
"19": {
"1": "And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.",
"2": "And Jonathan told David, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Therefore be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place and hide yourself.",
"3": "And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you. And if I learn anything I will tell you.”",
"4": "And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you.",
"5": "For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?”",
"6": "And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.”",
"7": "And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan reported to him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.",
"8": "And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him.",
"9": "Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre.",
"10": "And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.",
"11": "Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”",
"12": "So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.",
"13": "Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.",
"14": "And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”",
"15": "Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”",
"16": "And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.",
"17": "Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go. Why should I kill you?’”",
"18": "Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Naioth.",
"19": "And it was told Saul, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”",
"20": "Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.",
"21": "When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.",
"22": "Then he himself went to Ramah and came to the great well that is in Secu. And he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” And one said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”",
"23": "And he went there to Naioth in Ramah. And the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.",
"24": "And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”"
},
"20": {
"1": "Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”",
"2": "And he said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this from me? It is not so.”",
"3": "But David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”",
"4": "Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you say, I will do for you.”",
"5": "David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king. But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.",
"6": "If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the clan.’",
"7": "If he says, ‘Good!’ it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that harm is determined by him.",
"8": "Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”",
"9": "And Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! If I knew that it was determined by my father that harm should come to you, would I not tell you?”",
"10": "Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”",
"11": "And Jonathan said to David, “Come, let us go out into the field.” So they both went out into the field.",
"12": "And Jonathan said to David, “The Lord, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?",
"13": "But should it please my father to do you harm, the Lord do so to Jonathan and more also if I do not disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. May the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.",
"14": "If I am still alive, show me the steadfast love of the Lord, that I may not die;",
"15": "and do not cut off your steadfast love from my house forever, when the Lord cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”",
"16": "And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the Lord take vengeance on David's enemies.”",
"17": "And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.",
"18": "Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.",
"19": "On the third day go down quickly to the place where you hid yourself when the matter was in hand, and remain beside the stone heap.",
"20": "And I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.",
"21": "And behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them,’ then you are to come, for, as the Lord lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.",
"22": "But if I say to the youth, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go, for the Lord has sent you away.",
"23": "And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the Lord is between you and me forever.”",
"24": "So David hid himself in the field. And when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.",
"25": "The king sat on his seat, as at other times, on the seat by the wall. Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.",
"26": "Yet Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean; surely he is not clean.”",
"27": "But on the second day, the day after the new moon, David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”",
"28": "Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.",
"29": "He said, ‘Let me go, for our clan holds a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away and see my brothers.’ For this reason he has not come to the king's table.”",
"30": "Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?",
"31": "For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.”",
"32": "Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”",
"33": "But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.",
"34": "And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him.",
"35": "In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with David, and with him a little boy.",
"36": "And he said to his boy, “Run and find the arrows that I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.",
"37": "And when the boy came to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the boy and said, “Is not the arrow beyond you?”",
"38": "And Jonathan called after the boy, “Hurry! Be quick! Do not stay!” So Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows and came to his master.",
"39": "But the boy knew nothing. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.",
"40": "And Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy and said to him, “Go and carry them to the city.”",
"41": "And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most.",
"42": "Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city."
},
"21": {
"1": "Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”",
"2": "And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.",
"3": "Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.”",
"4": "And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.”",
"5": "And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?”",
"6": "So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.",
"7": "Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen.",
"8": "Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.”",
"9": "And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”",
"10": "And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to Achish the king of Gath.",
"11": "And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances,\n‘Saul has struck down his thousands,\n and David his ten thousands’?”",
"12": "And David took these words to heart and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.",
"13": "So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands and made marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.",
"14": "Then Achish said to his servants, “Behold, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?",
"15": "Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?”"
},
"22": {
"1": "David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.",
"2": "And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.",
"3": "And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.”",
"4": "And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.",
"5": "Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.",
"6": "Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.",
"7": "And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, “Hear now, people of Benjamin; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,",
"8": "that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.”",
"9": "Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub,",
"10": "and he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”",
"11": "Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king.",
"12": "And Saul said, “Hear now, son of Ahitub.” And he answered, “Here I am, my lord.”",
"13": "And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”",
"14": "Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?",
"15": "Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.”",
"16": "And the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house.”",
"17": "And the king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord.",
"18": "Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.",
"19": "And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.",
"20": "But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.",
"21": "And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord.",
"22": "And David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house.",
"23": "Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping.”"
},
"23": {
"1": "Now they told David, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are robbing the threshing floors.”",
"2": "Therefore David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” And the Lord said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”",
"3": "But David's men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”",
"4": "Then David inquired of the Lord again. And the Lord answered him, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”",
"5": "And David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their livestock and struck them with a great blow. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.",
"6": "When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech had fled to David to Keilah, he had come down with an ephod in his hand.",
"7": "Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has given him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.”",
"8": "And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.",
"9": "David knew that Saul was plotting harm against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”",
"10": "Then David said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city on my account.",
"11": "Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O Lord, the God of Israel, please tell your servant.” And the Lord said, “He will come down.”",
"12": "Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” And the Lord said, “They will surrender you.”",
"13": "Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.",
"14": "And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.",
"15": "David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.",
"16": "And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.",
"17": "And he said to him, “Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul my father also knows this.”",
"18": "And the two of them made a covenant before the Lord. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.",
"19": "Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon?",
"20": "Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desire to come down, and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand.”",
"21": "And Saul said, “May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.",
"22": "Go, make yet more sure. Know and see the place where his foot is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he is very cunning.",
"23": "See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you. And if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”",
"24": "And they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul.\nNow David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.",
"25": "And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.",
"26": "Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them,",
"27": "a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid against the land.”",
"28": "So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines. Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.",
"29": "And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of Engedi."
},
"24": {
"1": "When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.”",
"2": "Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats' Rocks.",
"3": "And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.",
"4": "And the men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul's robe.",
"5": "And afterward David's heart struck him, because he had cut off a corner of Saul's robe.",
"6": "He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord's anointed.”",
"7": "So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way.",
"8": "Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage.",
"9": "And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your harm’?",
"10": "Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed.’",
"11": "See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.",
"12": "May the Lord judge between me and you, may the Lord avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.",
"13": "As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness.’ But my hand shall not be against you.",
"14": "After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!",
"15": "May the Lord therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.”",
"16": "As soon as David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.",
"17": "He said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.",
"18": "And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands.",
"19": "For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.",
"20": "And now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.",
"21": "Swear to me therefore by the Lord that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.”",
"22": "And David swore this to Saul. Then Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold."
},
"25": {
"1": "Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah.\nThen David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.",
"2": "And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.",
"3": "Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite.",
"4": "David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.",
"5": "So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name.",
"6": "And thus you shall greet him: ‘Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.",
"7": "I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.",
"8": "Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”",
"9": "When David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David, and then they waited.",
"10": "And Nabal answered David's servants, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.",
"11": "Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?”",
"12": "So David's young men turned away and came back and told him all this.",
"13": "And David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.",
"14": "But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them.",
"15": "Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them.",
"16": "They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.",
"17": "Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.”",
"18": "Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.",
"19": "And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.",
"20": "And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.",
"21": "Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has returned me evil for good.",
"22": "God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.”",
"23": "When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground.",
"24": "She fell at his feet and said, “On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.",
"25": "Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.",
"26": "Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.",
"27": "And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.",
"28": "Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.",
"29": "If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the Lord your God. And the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.",
"30": "And when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince over Israel,",
"31": "my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord working salvation himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”",
"32": "And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!",
"33": "Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand!",
"34": "For as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.”",
"35": "Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition.”",
"36": "And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light.",
"37": "In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.",
"38": "And about ten days later the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.",
"39": "When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. The Lord has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.",
"40": "When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.”",
"41": "And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”",
"42": "And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.",
"43": "David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives.",
"44": "Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim."
},
"26": {
"1": "Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon?”",
"2": "So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.",
"3": "And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshimon. But David remained in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,",
"4": "David sent out spies and learned that Saul had indeed come.",
"5": "Then David rose and came to the place where Saul had encamped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. Saul was lying within the encampment, while the army was encamped around him.",
"6": "Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, “Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”",
"7": "So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him.",
"8": "Then Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.”",
"9": "But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?”",
"10": "And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.",
"11": "The Lord forbid that I should put out my hand against the Lord's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go.”",
"12": "So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head, and they went away. No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.",
"13": "Then David went over to the other side and stood far off on the top of the hill, with a great space between them.",
"14": "And David called to the army, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Will you not answer, Abner?” Then Abner answered, “Who are you who calls to the king?”",
"15": "And David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.",
"16": "This thing that you have done is not good. As the Lord lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the Lord's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head.”",
"17": "Saul recognized David's voice and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”",
"18": "And he said, “Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What evil is on my hands?",
"19": "Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’",
"20": "Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”",
"21": "Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake.”",
"22": "And David answered and said, “Here is the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and take it.",
"23": "The Lord rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the Lord gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the Lord's anointed.",
"24": "Behold, as your life was precious this day in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the Lord, and may he deliver me out of all tribulation.”",
"25": "Then Saul said to David, “Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will succeed in them.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place."
},
"27": {
"1": "Then David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”",
"2": "So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.",
"3": "And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal's widow.",
"4": "And when it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, he no longer sought him.",
"5": "Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”",
"6": "So that day Achish gave him Ziklag. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.",
"7": "And the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.",
"8": "Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.",
"9": "And David would strike the land and would leave neither man nor woman alive, but would take away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and come back to Achish.",
"10": "When Achish asked, “Where have you made a raid today?” David would say, “Against the Negeb of Judah,” or, “Against the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites,” or, “Against the Negeb of the Kenites.”",
"11": "And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, “lest they should tell about us and say, ‘So David has done.’” Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines.",
"12": "And Achish trusted David, thinking, “He has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant.”"
},
"28": {
"1": "In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, “Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.”",
"2": "David said to Achish, “Very well, you shall know what your servant can do.” And Achish said to David, “Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.”",
"3": "Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.",
"4": "The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa.",
"5": "When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.",
"6": "And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.",
"7": "Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.”",
"8": "So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, “Divine for me by a spirit and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you.”",
"9": "The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?”",
"10": "But Saul swore to her by the Lord, “As the Lord lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.”",
"11": "Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” He said, “Bring up Samuel for me.”",
"12": "When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul.”",
"13": "The king said to her, “Do not be afraid. What do you see?” And the woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”",
"14": "He said to her, “What is his appearance?” And she said, “An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped in a robe.” And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and paid homage.",
"15": "Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.”",
"16": "And Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?",
"17": "The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me, for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David.",
"18": "Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.",
"19": "Moreover, the Lord will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me. The Lord will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”",
"20": "Then Saul fell at once full length on the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night.",
"21": "And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, “Behold, your servant has obeyed you. I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to what you have said to me.",
"22": "Now therefore, you also obey your servant. Let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.”",
"23": "He refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.",
"24": "Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,",
"25": "and she put it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night."
},
"29": {
"1": "Now the Philistines had gathered all their forces at Aphek. And the Israelites were encamped by the spring that is in Jezreel.",
"2": "As the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear with Achish,",
"3": "the commanders of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews doing here?” And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, “Is this not David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me now for days and years, and since he deserted to me I have found no fault in him to this day.”",
"4": "But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him. And the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him. He shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?",
"5": "Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances,\n‘Saul has struck down his thousands,\n and David his ten thousands’?”",
"6": "Then Achish called David and said to him, “As the Lord lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that you should march out and in with me in the campaign. For I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not approve of you.",
"7": "So go back now; and go peaceably, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines.”",
"8": "And David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”",
"9": "And Achish answered David and said, “I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God. Nevertheless, the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’",
"10": "Now then rise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who came with you, and start early in the morning, and depart as soon as you have light.”",
"11": "So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel."
},
"30": {
"1": "Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire",
"2": "and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off and went their way.",
"3": "And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.",
"4": "Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep.",
"5": "David's two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.",
"6": "And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.",
"7": "And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.",
"8": "And David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.”",
"9": "So David set out, and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.",
"10": "But David pursued, he and four hundred men. Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.",
"11": "They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. And they gave him bread and he ate. They gave him water to drink,",
"12": "and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit revived, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.",
"13": "And David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite, and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.",
"14": "We had made a raid against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.”",
"15": "And David said to him, “Will you take me down to this band?” And he said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this band.”",
"16": "And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.",
"17": "And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.",
"18": "David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.",
"19": "Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken. David brought back all.",
"20": "David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people drove the livestock before him, and said, “This is David's spoil.”",
"21": "Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left at the brook Besor. And they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. And when David came near to the people he greeted them.",
"22": "Then all the wicked and worthless fellows among the men who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart.”",
"23": "But David said, “You shall not do so, my brothers, with what the Lord has given us. He has preserved us and given into our hand the band that came against us.",
"24": "Who would listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike.”",
"25": "And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.",
"26": "When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord.”",
"27": "It was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in Jattir,",
"28": "in Aroer, in Siphmoth, in Eshtemoa,",
"29": "in Racal, in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, in the cities of the Kenites,",
"30": "in Hormah, in Bor-ashan, in Athach,",
"31": "in Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed."
},
"31": {
"1": "Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.",
"2": "And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.",
"3": "The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by the archers.",
"4": "Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.",
"5": "And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him.",
"6": "Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.",
"7": "And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.",
"8": "The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.",
"9": "So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.",
"10": "They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.",
"11": "But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,",
"12": "all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.",
"13": "And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days."
}
},
"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:35.464781-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
}
}
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"1 Thessalonians": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,\nTo the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:\nGrace to you and peace.",
"2": "We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers,",
"3": "remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.",
"4": "For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,",
"5": "because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.",
"6": "And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,",
"7": "so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.",
"8": "For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.",
"9": "For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,",
"10": "and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come."
},
"2": {
"1": "For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.",
"2": "But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict.",
"3": "For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive,",
"4": "but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.",
"5": "For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness.",
"6": "Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.",
"7": "But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.",
"8": "So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.",
"9": "For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.",
"10": "You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.",
"11": "For you know how, like a father with his children,",
"12": "we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.",
"13": "And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.",
"14": "For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,",
"15": "who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind",
"16": "by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!",
"17": "But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face,",
"18": "because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us.",
"19": "For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?",
"20": "For you are our glory and joy."
},
"3": {
"1": "Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone,",
"2": "and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,",
"3": "that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.",
"4": "For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know.",
"5": "For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.",
"6": "But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—",
"7": "for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith.",
"8": "For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord.",
"9": "For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,",
"10": "as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?",
"11": "Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you,",
"12": "and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,",
"13": "so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints."
},
"4": {
"1": "Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.",
"2": "For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.",
"3": "For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;",
"4": "that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,",
"5": "not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;",
"6": "that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.",
"7": "For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.",
"8": "Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.",
"9": "Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,",
"10": "for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more,",
"11": "and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,",
"12": "so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.",
"13": "But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.",
"14": "For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.",
"15": "For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.",
"16": "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.",
"17": "Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.",
"18": "Therefore encourage one another with these words."
},
"5": {
"1": "Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you.",
"2": "For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.",
"3": "While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.",
"4": "But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.",
"5": "For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.",
"6": "So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.",
"7": "For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.",
"8": "But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.",
"9": "For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,",
"10": "who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.",
"11": "Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.",
"12": "We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,",
"13": "and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.",
"14": "And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.",
"15": "See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.",
"16": "Rejoice always,",
"17": "pray without ceasing,",
"18": "give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.",
"19": "Do not quench the Spirit.",
"20": "Do not despise prophecies,",
"21": "but test everything; hold fast what is good.",
"22": "Abstain from every form of evil.",
"23": "Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.",
"24": "He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.",
"25": "Brothers, pray for us.",
"26": "Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.",
"27": "I put you under oath before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers.",
"28": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you."
}
},
"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:21.357172-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
}
}
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"1 Timothy": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,",
"2": "To Timothy, my true child in the faith:\nGrace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.",
"3": "As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,",
"4": "nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.",
"5": "The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.",
"6": "Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion,",
"7": "desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.",
"8": "Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,",
"9": "understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,",
"10": "the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,",
"11": "in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.",
"12": "I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service,",
"13": "though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,",
"14": "and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.",
"15": "The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.",
"16": "But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.",
"17": "To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.",
"18": "This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,",
"19": "holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,",
"20": "among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme."
},
"2": {
"1": "First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,",
"2": "for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.",
"3": "This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,",
"4": "who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.",
"5": "For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,",
"6": "who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.",
"7": "For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.",
"8": "I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;",
"9": "likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,",
"10": "but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.",
"11": "Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.",
"12": "I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.",
"13": "For Adam was formed first, then Eve;",
"14": "and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.",
"15": "Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control."
},
"3": {
"1": "The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.",
"2": "Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,",
"3": "not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.",
"4": "He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,",
"5": "for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?",
"6": "He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.",
"7": "Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.",
"8": "Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.",
"9": "They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.",
"10": "And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.",
"11": "Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.",
"12": "Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.",
"13": "For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.",
"14": "I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that,",
"15": "if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.",
"16": "Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:\nHe was manifested in the flesh,\n vindicated by the Spirit,\n seen by angels,\nproclaimed among the nations,\n believed on in the world,\n taken up in glory."
},
"4": {
"1": "Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,",
"2": "through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,",
"3": "who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.",
"4": "For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,",
"5": "for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.",
"6": "If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.",
"7": "Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;",
"8": "for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.",
"9": "The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance.",
"10": "For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.",
"11": "Command and teach these things.",
"12": "Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.",
"13": "Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.",
"14": "Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.",
"15": "Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress.",
"16": "Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers."
},
"5": {
"1": "Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,",
"2": "older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.",
"3": "Honor widows who are truly widows.",
"4": "But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.",
"5": "She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,",
"6": "but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.",
"7": "Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach.",
"8": "But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.",
"9": "Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,",
"10": "and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.",
"11": "But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry",
"12": "and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith.",
"13": "Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.",
"14": "So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.",
"15": "For some have already strayed after Satan.",
"16": "If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.",
"17": "Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.",
"18": "For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”",
"19": "Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.",
"20": "As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.",
"21": "In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.",
"22": "Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.",
"23": "(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)",
"24": "The sins of some people are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later.",
"25": "So also good works are conspicuous, and even those that are not cannot remain hidden."
},
"6": {
"1": "Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.",
"2": "Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.\nTeach and urge these things.",
"3": "If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness,",
"4": "he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,",
"5": "and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.",
"6": "But godliness with contentment is great gain,",
"7": "for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.",
"8": "But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.",
"9": "But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.",
"10": "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.",
"11": "But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.",
"12": "Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.",
"13": "I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,",
"14": "to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,",
"15": "which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,",
"16": "who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.",
"17": "As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.",
"18": "They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,",
"19": "thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.",
"20": "O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”",
"21": "for by professing it some have swerved from the faith.\nGrace be with you."
}
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"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:22.740272-04:00",
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"1": {
"1": "Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.",
"2": "Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.",
"3": "And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there.",
"4": "(But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.)",
"5": "Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out.",
"6": "And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.",
"7": "In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, “Ask what I shall give you.”",
"8": "And Solomon said to God, “You have shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and have made me king in his place.",
"9": "O Lord God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.",
"10": "Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?”",
"11": "God answered Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked for long life, but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king,",
"12": "wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like.”",
"13": "So Solomon came from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem. And he reigned over Israel.",
"14": "Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.",
"15": "And the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.",
"16": "And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's traders would buy them from Kue for a price.",
"17": "They imported a chariot from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver, and a horse for 150. Likewise through them these were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria."
},
"2": {
"1": "Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the Lord, and a royal palace for himself.",
"2": "And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 to oversee them.",
"3": "And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: “As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.",
"4": "Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, as ordained forever for Israel.",
"5": "The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.",
"6": "But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?",
"7": "So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.",
"8": "Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,",
"9": "to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.",
"10": "I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil.”",
"11": "Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon, “Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you king over them.”",
"12": "Hiram also said, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, who has discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.",
"13": "“Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi,",
"14": "the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.",
"15": "Now therefore the wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which my lord has spoken, let him send to his servants.",
"16": "And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem.”",
"17": "Then Solomon counted all the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found 153,600.",
"18": "Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work."
},
"3": {
"1": "Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.",
"2": "He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.",
"3": "These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.",
"4": "The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.",
"5": "The nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold and made palms and chains on it.",
"6": "He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.",
"7": "So he lined the house with gold—its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors—and he carved cherubim on the walls.",
"8": "And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold.",
"9": "The weight of gold for the nails was fifty shekels. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.",
"10": "In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.",
"11": "The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub;",
"12": "and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub.",
"13": "The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. The cherubim stood on their feet, facing the nave.",
"14": "And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.",
"15": "In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.",
"16": "He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.",
"17": "He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz."
},
"4": {
"1": "He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.",
"2": "Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.",
"3": "Under it were figures of gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.",
"4": "It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.",
"5": "Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.",
"6": "He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.",
"7": "And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.",
"8": "He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.",
"9": "He made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid their doors with bronze.",
"10": "And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.",
"11": "Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:",
"12": "the two pillars, the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;",
"13": "and the 400 pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.",
"14": "He made the stands also, and the basins on the stands,",
"15": "and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it.",
"16": "The pots, the shovels, the forks, and all the equipment for these Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.",
"17": "In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.",
"18": "Solomon made all these things in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze was not sought.",
"19": "So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence,",
"20": "the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;",
"21": "the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of purest gold;",
"22": "the snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold, and the sockets of the temple, for the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and for the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold."
},
"5": {
"1": "Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.",
"2": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.",
"3": "And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month.",
"4": "And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.",
"5": "And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up.",
"6": "And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.",
"7": "Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.",
"8": "The cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.",
"9": "And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.",
"10": "There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.",
"11": "And when the priests came out of the Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, without regard to their divisions,",
"12": "and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 priests who were trumpeters;",
"13": "and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord,\n“For he is good,\n for his steadfast love endures forever,”\nthe house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,",
"14": "so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God."
},
"6": {
"1": "Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.",
"2": "But I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.”",
"3": "Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.",
"4": "And he said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,",
"5": "‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;",
"6": "but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’",
"7": "Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"8": "But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.",
"9": "Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’",
"10": "Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"11": "And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the people of Israel.”",
"12": "Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.",
"13": "Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven,",
"14": "and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,",
"15": "who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.",
"16": "Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’",
"17": "Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.",
"18": "“But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!",
"19": "Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Lord my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you,",
"20": "that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.",
"21": "And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.",
"22": "“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,",
"23": "then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.",
"24": "“If your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,",
"25": "then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.",
"26": "“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,",
"27": "then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.",
"28": "“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,",
"29": "whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house,",
"30": "then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,",
"31": "that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.",
"32": "“Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,",
"33": "hear from heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.",
"34": "“If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,",
"35": "then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.",
"36": "“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near,",
"37": "yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’",
"38": "if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,",
"39": "then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.",
"40": "Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.",
"41": "“And now arise, O Lord God, and go to your resting place,\n you and the ark of your might.\nLet your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation,\n and let your saints rejoice in your goodness.",
"42": "O Lord God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one!\n Remember your steadfast love for David your servant.”"
},
"7": {
"1": "As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.",
"2": "And the priests could not enter the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord's house.",
"3": "When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.”",
"4": "Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord.",
"5": "King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.",
"6": "The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord—for his steadfast love endures forever—whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.",
"7": "And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.",
"8": "At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt.",
"9": "And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.",
"10": "On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the Lord had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.",
"11": "Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house he successfully accomplished.",
"12": "Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.",
"13": "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,",
"14": "if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.",
"15": "Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.",
"16": "For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.",
"17": "And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,",
"18": "then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’",
"19": "“But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,",
"20": "then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.",
"21": "And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’",
"22": "Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.’”"
},
"8": {
"1": "At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house,",
"2": "Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.",
"3": "And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and took it.",
"4": "He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store cities that he built in Hamath.",
"5": "He also built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,",
"6": "and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.",
"7": "All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,",
"8": "from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon drafted as forced labor, and so they are to this day.",
"9": "But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers, and his officers, the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.",
"10": "And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, 250, who exercised authority over the people.",
"11": "Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy.”",
"12": "Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord that he had built before the vestibule,",
"13": "as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.",
"14": "According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.",
"15": "And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries.",
"16": "Thus was accomplished all the work of Solomon from the day the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was completed.",
"17": "Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Eloth on the shore of the sea, in the land of Edom.",
"18": "And Hiram sent to him by the hand of his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea, and they went to Ophir together with the servants of Solomon and brought from there 450 talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon."
},
"9": {
"1": "Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.",
"2": "And Solomon answered all her questions. There was nothing hidden from Solomon that he could not explain to her.",
"3": "And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,",
"4": "the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, and their clothing, his cupbearers, and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more breath in her.",
"5": "And she said to the king, “The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,",
"6": "but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard.",
"7": "Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!",
"8": "Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the Lord your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”",
"9": "Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.",
"10": "Moreover, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones.",
"11": "And the king made from the algum wood supports for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, lyres also and harps for the singers. There never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.",
"12": "And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what she had brought to the king. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.",
"13": "Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,",
"14": "besides that which the explorers and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon.",
"15": "King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of beaten gold went into each shield.",
"16": "And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; 300 shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.",
"17": "The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold.",
"18": "The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests,",
"19": "while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made for any kingdom.",
"20": "All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.",
"21": "For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.",
"22": "Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.",
"23": "And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.",
"24": "Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and of gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.",
"25": "And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.",
"26": "And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.",
"27": "And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.",
"28": "And horses were imported for Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.",
"29": "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?",
"30": "Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.",
"31": "And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place."
},
"10": {
"1": "Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.",
"2": "And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt.",
"3": "And they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and said to Rehoboam,",
"4": "“Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.”",
"5": "He said to them, “Come to me again in three days.” So the people went away.",
"6": "Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”",
"7": "And they said to him, “If you will be good to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”",
"8": "But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.",
"9": "And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”",
"10": "And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's thighs.",
"11": "And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”",
"12": "So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.”",
"13": "And the king answered them harshly; and forsaking the counsel of the old men,",
"14": "King Rehoboam spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”",
"15": "So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that the Lord might fulfill his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.",
"16": "And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each of you to your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So all Israel went to their tents.",
"17": "But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah.",
"18": "Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam quickly mounted his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.",
"19": "So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day."
},
"11": {
"1": "When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.",
"2": "But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God:",
"3": "“Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,",
"4": "‘Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.’” So they listened to the word of the Lord and returned and did not go against Jeroboam.",
"5": "Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah.",
"6": "He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,",
"7": "Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,",
"8": "Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,",
"9": "Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,",
"10": "Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities that are in Judah and in Benjamin.",
"11": "He made the fortresses strong, and put commanders in them, and stores of food, oil, and wine.",
"12": "And he put shields and spears in all the cities and made them very strong. So he held Judah and Benjamin.",
"13": "And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel presented themselves to him from all places where they lived.",
"14": "For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the Lord,",
"15": "and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.",
"16": "And those who had set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord, the God of their fathers.",
"17": "They strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and for three years they made Rehoboam the son of Solomon secure, for they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.",
"18": "Rehoboam took as wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse,",
"19": "and she bore him sons, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.",
"20": "After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.",
"21": "Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).",
"22": "And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.",
"23": "And he dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the districts of Judah and Benjamin, in all the fortified cities, and he gave them abundant provisions and procured wives for them."
},
"12": {
"1": "When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.",
"2": "In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem",
"3": "with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.",
"4": "And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.",
"5": "Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the Lord, ‘You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.’”",
"6": "Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”",
"7": "When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.",
"8": "Nevertheless, they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”",
"9": "So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made,",
"10": "and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.",
"11": "And as often as the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard came and carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.",
"12": "And when he humbled himself the wrath of the Lord turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction. Moreover, conditions were good in Judah.",
"13": "So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.",
"14": "And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.",
"15": "Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.",
"16": "And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place."
},
"13": {
"1": "In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.",
"2": "He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.\nNow there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.",
"3": "Abijah went out to battle, having an army of valiant men of war, 400,000 chosen men. And Jeroboam drew up his line of battle against him with 800,000 chosen mighty warriors.",
"4": "Then Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!",
"5": "Ought you not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?",
"6": "Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord,",
"7": "and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.",
"8": "“And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods.",
"9": "Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes for ordination with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are not gods.",
"10": "But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the Lord who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.",
"11": "They offer to the Lord every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening. For we keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken him.",
"12": "Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed.”",
"13": "Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.",
"14": "And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was in front of and behind them. And they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets.",
"15": "Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.",
"16": "The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.",
"17": "Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men.",
"18": "Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the Lord, the God of their fathers.",
"19": "And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.",
"20": "Jeroboam did not recover his power in the days of Abijah. And the Lord struck him down, and he died.",
"21": "But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.",
"22": "The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo."
},
"14": {
"1": "Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land had rest for ten years.",
"2": "And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.",
"3": "He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim",
"4": "and commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.",
"5": "He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.",
"6": "He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the Lord gave him peace.",
"7": "And he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the Lord our God. We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side.” So they built and prospered.",
"8": "And Asa had an army of 300,000 from Judah, armed with large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin that carried shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.",
"9": "Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.",
"10": "And Asa went out to meet him, and they drew up their lines of battle in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.",
"11": "And Asa cried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”",
"12": "So the Lord defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.",
"13": "Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah carried away very much spoil.",
"14": "And they attacked all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the Lord was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.",
"15": "And they struck down the tents of those who had livestock and carried away sheep in abundance and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem."
},
"15": {
"1": "The Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded,",
"2": "and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.",
"3": "For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,",
"4": "but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.",
"5": "In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.",
"6": "They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.",
"7": "But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”",
"8": "As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the Lord.",
"9": "And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.",
"10": "They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.",
"11": "They sacrificed to the Lord on that day from the spoil that they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep.",
"12": "And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,",
"13": "but that whoever would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.",
"14": "They swore an oath to the Lord with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with horns.",
"15": "And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the Lord gave them rest all around.",
"16": "Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.",
"17": "But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.",
"18": "And he brought into the house of God the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.",
"19": "And there was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa."
},
"16": {
"1": "In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.",
"2": "Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the Lord and the king's house and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,",
"3": "“There is a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”",
"4": "And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.",
"5": "And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah and let his work cease.",
"6": "Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.",
"7": "At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you.",
"8": "Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand.",
"9": "For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”",
"10": "Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.",
"11": "The acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.",
"12": "In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but sought help from physicians.",
"13": "And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign.",
"14": "They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor."
},
"17": {
"1": "Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place and strengthened himself against Israel.",
"2": "He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured.",
"3": "The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,",
"4": "but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel.",
"5": "Therefore the Lord established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor.",
"6": "His heart was courageous in the ways of the Lord. And furthermore, he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.",
"7": "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;",
"8": "and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah; and with these Levites, the priests Elishama and Jehoram.",
"9": "And they taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the Lord with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.",
"10": "And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, and they made no war against Jehoshaphat.",
"11": "Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute, and the Arabians also brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats.",
"12": "And Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built in Judah fortresses and store cities,",
"13": "and he had large supplies in the cities of Judah. He had soldiers, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.",
"14": "This was the muster of them by fathers' houses: Of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, with 300,000 mighty men of valor;",
"15": "and next to him Jehohanan the commander, with 280,000;",
"16": "and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the Lord, with 200,000 mighty men of valor.",
"17": "Of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, with 200,000 men armed with bow and shield;",
"18": "and next to him Jehozabad with 180,000 armed for war.",
"19": "These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah."
},
"18": {
"1": "Now Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor, and he made a marriage alliance with Ahab.",
"2": "After some years he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab killed an abundance of sheep and oxen for him and for the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.",
"3": "Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?” He answered him, “I am as you are, my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”",
"4": "And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Inquire first for the word of the Lord.”",
"5": "Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king.”",
"6": "But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here another prophet of the Lord of whom we may inquire?”",
"7": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”",
"8": "Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, “Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.”",
"9": "Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes. And they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.",
"10": "And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.’”",
"11": "And all the prophets prophesied so and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph. The Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”",
"12": "And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”",
"13": "But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what my God says, that I will speak.”",
"14": "And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I refrain?” And he answered, “Go up and triumph; they will be given into your hand.”",
"15": "But the king said to him, “How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?”",
"16": "And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’”",
"17": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”",
"18": "And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.",
"19": "And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.",
"20": "Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’",
"21": "And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’",
"22": "Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets. The Lord has declared disaster concerning you.”",
"23": "Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “Which way did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”",
"24": "And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”",
"25": "And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son,",
"26": "and say, ‘Thus says the king, Put this fellow in prison and feed him with meager rations of bread and water until I return in peace.’”",
"27": "And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!”",
"28": "So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.",
"29": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went into battle.",
"30": "Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”",
"31": "As soon as the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him; God drew them away from him.",
"32": "For as soon as the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.",
"33": "But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.”",
"34": "And the battle continued that day, and the king of Israel was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening. Then at sunset he died."
},
"19": {
"1": "Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned in safety to his house in Jerusalem.",
"2": "But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.",
"3": "Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”",
"4": "Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem. And he went out again among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.",
"5": "He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,",
"6": "and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the Lord. He is with you in giving judgment.",
"7": "Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”",
"8": "Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the Lord and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.",
"9": "And he charged them: “Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:",
"10": "whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the Lord and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.",
"11": "And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters, and the Levites will serve you as officers. Deal courageously, and may the Lord be with the upright!”"
},
"20": {
"1": "After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.",
"2": "Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, Engedi).",
"3": "Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.",
"4": "And Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.",
"5": "And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court,",
"6": "and said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.",
"7": "Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?",
"8": "And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying,",
"9": "‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you—for your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’",
"10": "And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—",
"11": "behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.",
"12": "O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”",
"13": "Meanwhile all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.",
"14": "And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.",
"15": "And he said, “Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the Lord to you, ‘Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God's.",
"16": "Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, east of the wilderness of Jeruel.",
"17": "You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the Lord will be with you.”",
"18": "Then Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord, worshiping the Lord.",
"19": "And the Levites, of the Kohathites and the Korahites, stood up to praise the Lord, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.",
"20": "And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.”",
"21": "And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the Lord and praise him in holy attire, as they went before the army, and say,\n“Give thanks to the Lord,\n for his steadfast love endures forever.”",
"22": "And when they began to sing and praise, the Lord set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.",
"23": "For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.",
"24": "When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked toward the horde, and behold, there were dead bodies lying on the ground; none had escaped.",
"25": "When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found among them, in great numbers, goods, clothing, and precious things, which they took for themselves until they could carry no more. They were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.",
"26": "On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, for there they blessed the Lord. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Beracah to this day.",
"27": "Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies.",
"28": "They came to Jerusalem with harps and lyres and trumpets, to the house of the Lord.",
"29": "And the fear of God came on all the kingdoms of the countries when they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel.",
"30": "So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around.",
"31": "Thus Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.",
"32": "He walked in the way of Asa his father and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord.",
"33": "The high places, however, were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their fathers.",
"34": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.",
"35": "After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted wickedly.",
"36": "He joined him in building ships to go to Tarshish, and they built the ships in Ezion-geber.",
"37": "Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined with Ahaziah, the Lord will destroy what you have made.” And the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish."
},
"21": {
"1": "Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.",
"2": "He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.",
"3": "Their father gave them great gifts of silver, gold, and valuable possessions, together with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.",
"4": "When Jehoram had ascended the throne of his father and was established, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.",
"5": "Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.",
"6": "And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.",
"7": "Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.",
"8": "In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up a king of their own.",
"9": "Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all his chariots, and he rose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and his chariot commanders.",
"10": "So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. At that time Libnah also revolted from his rule, because he had forsaken the Lord, the God of his fathers.",
"11": "Moreover, he made high places in the hill country of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom and made Judah go astray.",
"12": "And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,",
"13": "but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father's house, who were better than you,",
"14": "behold, the Lord will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,",
"15": "and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.’”",
"16": "And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians.",
"17": "And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king's house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son.",
"18": "And after all this the Lord struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.",
"19": "In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers.",
"20": "He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings."
},
"22": {
"1": "And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.",
"2": "Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.",
"3": "He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.",
"4": "He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done. For after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his undoing.",
"5": "He even followed their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead. And the Syrians wounded Joram,",
"6": "and he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was wounded.",
"7": "But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.",
"8": "And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.",
"9": "He searched for Ahaziah, and he was captured while hiding in Samaria, and he was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart.” And the house of Ahaziah had no one able to rule the kingdom.",
"10": "Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family of the house of Judah.",
"11": "But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king's sons who were about to be put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.",
"12": "And he remained with them six years, hidden in the house of God, while Athaliah reigned over the land."
},
"23": {
"1": "But in the seventh year Jehoiada took courage and entered into a covenant with 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 Zichri.",
"2": "And they went about through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.",
"3": "And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, “Behold, the king's son! Let him reign, as the Lord spoke concerning the sons of David.",
"4": "This is the thing that you shall do: of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the Sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers,",
"5": "and one third shall be at the king's house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.",
"6": "Let no one enter the house of the Lord except the priests and ministering Levites. They may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the charge of the Lord.",
"7": "The Levites shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever enters the house shall be put to death. Be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.”",
"8": "The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men, who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.",
"9": "And Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains the spears and the large and small shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of God.",
"10": "And he set all the people as a guard for the king, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house.",
"11": "Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king.”",
"12": "When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went into the house of the Lord to the people.",
"13": "And when she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and the singers with their musical instruments leading in the celebration. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!”",
"14": "Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains who were set over the army, saying to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and anyone who follows her is to be put to death with the sword.” For the priest said, “Do not put her to death in the house of the Lord.”",
"15": "So they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the horse gate of the king's house, and they put her to death there.",
"16": "And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the Lord's people.",
"17": "Then all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.",
"18": "And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the Lord under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.",
"19": "He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the Lord so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean.",
"20": "And he took the captains, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, marching through the upper gate to the king's house. And they set the king on the royal throne.",
"21": "So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword."
},
"24": {
"1": "Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.",
"2": "And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.",
"3": "Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.",
"4": "After this Joash decided to restore the house of the Lord.",
"5": "And he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you act quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.",
"6": "So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?”",
"7": "For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also used all the dedicated things of the house of the Lord for the Baals.",
"8": "So the king commanded, and they made a chest and set it outside the gate of the house of the Lord.",
"9": "And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the Lord the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.",
"10": "And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished.",
"11": "And whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was much money in it, the king's secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. Thus they did day after day, and collected money in abundance.",
"12": "And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the Lord, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the Lord, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the Lord.",
"13": "So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward in their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it.",
"14": "And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the Lord, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord regularly all the days of Jehoiada.",
"15": "But Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and died. He was 130 years old at his death.",
"16": "And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.",
"17": "Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them.",
"18": "And they abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.",
"19": "Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord. These testified against them, but they would not pay attention.",
"20": "Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you break the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.’”",
"21": "But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.",
"22": "Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”",
"23": "At the end of the year the army of the Syrians came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.",
"24": "Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the Lord delivered into their hand a very great army, because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.",
"25": "When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.",
"26": "Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabite.",
"27": "Accounts of his sons and of the many oracles against him and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Story of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place."
},
"25": {
"1": "Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.",
"2": "And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart.",
"3": "And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father.",
"4": "But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.”",
"5": "Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by fathers' houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were 300,000 choice men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.",
"6": "He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver.",
"7": "But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel, with all these Ephraimites.",
"8": "But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down.”",
"9": "And Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “The Lord is able to give you much more than this.”",
"10": "Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him from Ephraim to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah and returned home in fierce anger.",
"11": "But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 men of Seir.",
"12": "The men of Judah captured another 10,000 alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces.",
"13": "But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil.",
"14": "After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.",
"15": "Therefore the Lord was angry with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of a people who did not deliver their own people from your hand?”",
"16": "But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”",
"17": "Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”",
"18": "And Joash the king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.",
"19": "You say, ‘See, I have struck down Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”",
"20": "But Amaziah would not listen, for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.",
"21": "So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.",
"22": "And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.",
"23": "And Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for 400 cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.",
"24": "And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God, in the care of Obed-edom. He seized also the treasuries of the king's house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.",
"25": "Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.",
"26": "Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, from first to last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?",
"27": "From the time when he turned away from the Lord they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.",
"28": "And they brought him upon horses, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David."
},
"26": {
"1": "And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.",
"2": "He built Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.",
"3": "Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.",
"4": "And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.",
"5": "He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.",
"6": "He went out and made war against the Philistines and broke through the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.",
"7": "God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal and against the Meunites.",
"8": "The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.",
"9": "Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them.",
"10": "And he built towers in the wilderness and cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.",
"11": "Moreover, Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king's commanders.",
"12": "The whole number of the heads of fathers' houses of mighty men of valor was 2,600.",
"13": "Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.",
"14": "And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.",
"15": "In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.",
"16": "But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.",
"17": "But Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the Lord who were men of valor,",
"18": "and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God.”",
"19": "Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense.",
"20": "And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the Lord had struck him.",
"21": "And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord. And Jotham his son was over the king's household, governing the people of the land.",
"22": "Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, from first to last, Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz wrote.",
"23": "And Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field that belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” And Jotham his son reigned in his place."
},
"27": {
"1": "Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.",
"2": "And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord according to all that his father Uzziah had done, except he did not enter the temple of the Lord. But the people still followed corrupt practices.",
"3": "He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord and did much building on the wall of Ophel.",
"4": "Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.",
"5": "He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year 100 talents of silver, and 10,000 cors of wheat and 10,000 of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.",
"6": "So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God.",
"7": "Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.",
"8": "He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.",
"9": "And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place."
},
"28": {
"1": "Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done,",
"2": "but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made metal images for the Baals,",
"3": "and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.",
"4": "And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.",
"5": "Therefore the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.",
"6": "For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.",
"7": "And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son and Azrikam the commander of the palace and Elkanah the next in authority to the king.",
"8": "The men of Israel took captive 200,000 of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.",
"9": "But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.",
"10": "And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the Lord your God?",
"11": "Now hear me, and send back the captives from your relatives whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you.”",
"12": "Certain chiefs also of the men of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who were coming from the war",
"13": "and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the Lord in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”",
"14": "So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.",
"15": "And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.",
"16": "At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.",
"17": "For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives.",
"18": "And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.",
"19": "For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah act sinfully and had been very unfaithful to the Lord.",
"20": "So Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.",
"21": "For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the Lord and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.",
"22": "In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz.",
"23": "For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.",
"24": "And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.",
"25": "In every city of Judah he made high places to make offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the Lord, the God of his fathers.",
"26": "Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.",
"27": "And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place."
},
"29": {
"1": "Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.",
"2": "And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.",
"3": "In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.",
"4": "He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east",
"5": "and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.",
"6": "For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the Lord our God. They have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord and turned their backs.",
"7": "They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel.",
"8": "Therefore the wrath of the Lord came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.",
"9": "For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.",
"10": "Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.",
"11": "My sons, do not now be negligent, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him.”",
"12": "Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;",
"13": "and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;",
"14": "and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.",
"15": "They gathered their brothers and consecrated themselves and went in as the king had commanded, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.",
"16": "The priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it and carried it out to the brook Kidron.",
"17": "They began to consecrate on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the Lord. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the Lord, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.",
"18": "Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, “We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the showbread and all its utensils.",
"19": "All the utensils that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and consecrated, and behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.”",
"20": "Then Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the officials of the city and went up to the house of the Lord.",
"21": "And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the Lord.",
"22": "So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests received the blood and threw it against the altar. And they slaughtered the rams, and their blood was thrown against the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs, and their blood was thrown against the altar.",
"23": "Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them,",
"24": "and the priests slaughtered them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.",
"25": "And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king's seer and of Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the Lord through his prophets.",
"26": "The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.",
"27": "Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song to the Lord began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.",
"28": "The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.",
"29": "When the offering was finished, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.",
"30": "And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.",
"31": "Then Hezekiah said, “You have now consecrated yourselves to the Lord. Come near; bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the Lord.” And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.",
"32": "The number of the burnt offerings that the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.",
"33": "And the consecrated offerings were 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep.",
"34": "But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.",
"35": "Besides the great number of burnt offerings, there was the fat of the peace offerings, and there were the drink offerings for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the Lord was restored.",
"36": "And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had provided for the people, for the thing came about suddenly."
},
"30": {
"1": "Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"2": "For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month—",
"3": "for they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem—",
"4": "and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.",
"5": "So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come and keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it as often as prescribed.",
"6": "So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.",
"7": "Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.",
"8": "Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.",
"9": "For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”",
"10": "So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.",
"11": "However, some men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.",
"12": "The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.",
"13": "And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.",
"14": "They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the brook Kidron.",
"15": "And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.",
"16": "They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.",
"17": "For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the Lord.",
"18": "For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon everyone",
"19": "who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness.”",
"20": "And the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.",
"21": "And the people of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with all their might to the Lord.",
"22": "And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the Lord. So they ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord, the God of their fathers.",
"23": "Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.",
"24": "For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.",
"25": "The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced.",
"26": "So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.",
"27": "Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven."
},
"31": {
"1": "Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.",
"2": "And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the Lord and to give thanks and praise.",
"3": "The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed feasts, as it is written in the Law of the Lord.",
"4": "And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the Lord.",
"5": "As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.",
"6": "And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of the dedicated things that had been dedicated to the Lord their God, and laid them in heaps.",
"7": "In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.",
"8": "When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel.",
"9": "And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.",
"10": "Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, for the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.”",
"11": "Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.",
"12": "And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother as second,",
"13": "while Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers assisting Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the chief officer of the house of God.",
"14": "And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the east gate, was over the freewill offerings to God, to apportion the contribution reserved for the Lord and the most holy offerings.",
"15": "Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were faithfully assisting him in the cities of the priests, to distribute the portions to their brothers, old and young alike, by divisions,",
"16": "except those enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and upward—all who entered the house of the Lord as the duty of each day required—for their service according to their offices, by their divisions.",
"17": "The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers' houses; that of the Levites from twenty years old and upward was according to their offices, by their divisions.",
"18": "They were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole assembly, for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.",
"19": "And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of common land belonging to their cities, there were men in the several cities who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone among the Levites who was enrolled.",
"20": "Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God.",
"21": "And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered."
},
"32": {
"1": "After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.",
"2": "And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and intended to fight against Jerusalem,",
"3": "he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.",
"4": "A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?”",
"5": "He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.",
"6": "And he set combat commanders over the people and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,",
"7": "“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, for there are more with us than with him.",
"8": "With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.",
"9": "After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying,",
"10": "“Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, ‘On what are you trusting, that you endure the siege in Jerusalem?",
"11": "Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, “The Lord our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria”?",
"12": "Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, “Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices”?",
"13": "Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?",
"14": "Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?",
"15": "Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!’”",
"16": "And his servants said still more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.",
"17": "And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the Lord, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.”",
"18": "And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city.",
"19": "And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.",
"20": "Then Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven.",
"21": "And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.",
"22": "So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies, and he provided for them on every side.",
"23": "And many brought gifts to the Lord to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.",
"24": "In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the Lord, and he answered him and gave him a sign.",
"25": "But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem.",
"26": "But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.",
"27": "And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor, and he made for himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of costly vessels;",
"28": "storehouses also for the yield of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and sheepfolds.",
"29": "He likewise provided cities for himself, and flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great possessions.",
"30": "This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.",
"31": "And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.",
"32": "Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.",
"33": "And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper part of the tombs of the sons of David, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his place."
},
"33": {
"1": "Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.",
"2": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.",
"3": "For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.",
"4": "And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”",
"5": "And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.",
"6": "And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.",
"7": "And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,",
"8": "and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses.”",
"9": "Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.",
"10": "The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.",
"11": "Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.",
"12": "And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.",
"13": "He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.",
"14": "Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it around Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.",
"15": "And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.",
"16": "He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"17": "Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.",
"18": "Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.",
"19": "And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.",
"20": "So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.",
"21": "Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.",
"22": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.",
"23": "And he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.",
"24": "And his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house.",
"25": "But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place."
},
"34": {
"1": "Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.",
"2": "And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.",
"3": "For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.",
"4": "And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.",
"5": "He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.",
"6": "And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around,",
"7": "he broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.",
"8": "Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.",
"9": "They came to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim and from all the remnant of Israel and from all Judah and Benjamin and from the inhabitants of Jerusalem.",
"10": "And they gave it to the workmen who were working in the house of the Lord. And the workmen who were working in the house of the Lord gave it for repairing and restoring the house.",
"11": "They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.",
"12": "And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music,",
"13": "were over the burden-bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.",
"14": "While they were bringing out the money that had been brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the Lord given through Moses.",
"15": "Then Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.",
"16": "Shaphan brought the book to the king, and further reported to the king, “All that was committed to your servants they are doing.",
"17": "They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the Lord and have given it into the hand of the overseers and the workmen.”",
"18": "Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it before the king.",
"19": "And when the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes.",
"20": "And the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,",
"21": "“Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do according to all that is written in this book.”",
"22": "So Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter) and spoke to her to that effect.",
"23": "And she said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,",
"24": "Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book that was read before the king of Judah.",
"25": "Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.",
"26": "But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,",
"27": "because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.",
"28": "Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’” And they brought back word to the king.",
"29": "Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.",
"30": "And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.",
"31": "And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.",
"32": "Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.",
"33": "And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the Lord their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the Lord, the God of their fathers."
},
"35": {
"1": "Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.",
"2": "He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the Lord.",
"3": "And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the Lord, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. You need not carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel.",
"4": "Prepare yourselves according to your fathers' houses by your divisions, as prescribed in the writing of David king of Israel and the document of Solomon his son.",
"5": "And stand in the Holy Place according to the groupings of the fathers' houses of your brothers the lay people, and according to the division of the Levites by fathers' household.",
"6": "And slaughter the Passover lamb, and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the Lord by Moses.”",
"7": "Then Josiah contributed to the lay people, as Passover offerings for all who were present, lambs and young goats from the flock to the number of 30,000, and 3,000 bulls; these were from the king's possessions.",
"8": "And his officials contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 Passover lambs and 300 bulls.",
"9": "Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 lambs and young goats and 500 bulls.",
"10": "When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.",
"11": "And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them while the Levites flayed the sacrifices.",
"12": "And they set aside the burnt offerings that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the fathers' houses of the lay people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And so they did with the bulls.",
"13": "And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.",
"14": "And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night; so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.",
"15": "The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the gatekeepers were at each gate. They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.",
"16": "So all the service of the Lord was prepared that day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of King Josiah.",
"17": "And the people of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.",
"18": "No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.",
"19": "In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.",
"20": "After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.",
"21": "But he sent envoys to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. And God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you.”",
"22": "Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo.",
"23": "And the archers shot King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”",
"24": "So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.",
"25": "Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.",
"26": "Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds according to what is written in the Law of the Lord,",
"27": "and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah."
},
"36": {
"1": "The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.",
"2": "Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.",
"3": "Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.",
"4": "And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.",
"5": "Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.",
"6": "Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.",
"7": "Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.",
"8": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.",
"9": "Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.",
"10": "In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.",
"11": "Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.",
"12": "He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the Lord.",
"13": "He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"14": "All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.",
"15": "The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.",
"16": "But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.",
"17": "Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.",
"18": "And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.",
"19": "And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.",
"20": "He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,",
"21": "to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.",
"22": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:",
"23": "“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him. Let him go up.’”"
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"2 Corinthians": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,\nTo the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:",
"2": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.",
"3": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,",
"4": "who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.",
"5": "For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.",
"6": "If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.",
"7": "Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.",
"8": "For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.",
"9": "Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.",
"10": "He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.",
"11": "You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.",
"12": "For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.",
"13": "For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and understand and I hope you will fully understand—",
"14": "just as you did partially understand us—that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you.",
"15": "Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace.",
"16": "I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea.",
"17": "Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?",
"18": "As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.",
"19": "For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.",
"20": "For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.",
"21": "And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,",
"22": "and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.",
"23": "But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.",
"24": "Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith."
},
"2": {
"1": "For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.",
"2": "For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?",
"3": "And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.",
"4": "For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.",
"5": "Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.",
"6": "For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough,",
"7": "so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.",
"8": "So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.",
"9": "For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.",
"10": "Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,",
"11": "so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.",
"12": "When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,",
"13": "my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.",
"14": "But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.",
"15": "For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,",
"16": "to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?",
"17": "For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ."
},
"3": {
"1": "Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?",
"2": "You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.",
"3": "And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.",
"4": "Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.",
"5": "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,",
"6": "who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.",
"7": "Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end,",
"8": "will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory?",
"9": "For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.",
"10": "Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it.",
"11": "For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.",
"12": "Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,",
"13": "not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end.",
"14": "But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.",
"15": "Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.",
"16": "But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.",
"17": "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.",
"18": "And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit."
},
"4": {
"1": "Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.",
"2": "But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.",
"3": "And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.",
"4": "In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.",
"5": "For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.",
"6": "For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.",
"7": "But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.",
"8": "We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;",
"9": "persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;",
"10": "always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.",
"11": "For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.",
"12": "So death is at work in us, but life in you.",
"13": "Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,",
"14": "knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.",
"15": "For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.",
"16": "So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.",
"17": "For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,",
"18": "as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
},
"5": {
"1": "For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.",
"2": "For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling,",
"3": "if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked.",
"4": "For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.",
"5": "He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.",
"6": "So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,",
"7": "for we walk by faith, not by sight.",
"8": "Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.",
"9": "So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.",
"10": "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.",
"11": "Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.",
"12": "We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.",
"13": "For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.",
"14": "For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;",
"15": "and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.",
"16": "From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.",
"17": "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.",
"18": "All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;",
"19": "that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.",
"20": "Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.",
"21": "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
},
"6": {
"1": "Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.",
"2": "For he says,\n“In a favorable time I listened to you,\n and in a day of salvation I have helped you.”\nBehold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.",
"3": "We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,",
"4": "but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,",
"5": "beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;",
"6": "by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love;",
"7": "by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;",
"8": "through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;",
"9": "as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed;",
"10": "as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.",
"11": "We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open.",
"12": "You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections.",
"13": "In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also.",
"14": "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?",
"15": "What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?",
"16": "What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,\n“I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them,\n and I will be their God,\n and they shall be my people.",
"17": "Therefore go out from their midst,\n and be separate from them, says the Lord,\nand touch no unclean thing;\n then I will welcome you,",
"18": "and I will be a father to you,\n and you shall be sons and daughters to me,\nsays the Lord Almighty.”"
},
"7": {
"1": "Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.",
"2": "Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one.",
"3": "I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.",
"4": "I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.",
"5": "For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within.",
"6": "But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,",
"7": "and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.",
"8": "For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while.",
"9": "As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.",
"10": "For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.",
"11": "For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.",
"12": "So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.",
"13": "Therefore we are comforted.\nAnd besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.",
"14": "For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.",
"15": "And his affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.",
"16": "I rejoice, because I have complete confidence in you."
},
"8": {
"1": "We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,",
"2": "for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.",
"3": "For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord,",
"4": "begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints—",
"5": "and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.",
"6": "Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace.",
"7": "But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.",
"8": "I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.",
"9": "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.",
"10": "And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it.",
"11": "So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have.",
"12": "For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.",
"13": "For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness",
"14": "your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness.",
"15": "As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”",
"16": "But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same earnest care I have for you.",
"17": "For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord.",
"18": "With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.",
"19": "And not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel with us as we carry out this act of grace that is being ministered by us, for the glory of the Lord himself and to show our good will.",
"20": "We take this course so that no one should blame us about this generous gift that is being administered by us,",
"21": "for we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of man.",
"22": "And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.",
"23": "As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. And as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.",
"24": "So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men."
},
"9": {
"1": "Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the ministry for the saints,",
"2": "for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them.",
"3": "But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be.",
"4": "Otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated—to say nothing of you—for being so confident.",
"5": "So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction.",
"6": "The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.",
"7": "Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.",
"8": "And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.",
"9": "As it is written,\n“He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor;\n his righteousness endures forever.”",
"10": "He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.",
"11": "You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.",
"12": "For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.",
"13": "By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission that comes from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others,",
"14": "while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you.",
"15": "Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!"
},
"10": {
"1": "I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!—",
"2": "I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh.",
"3": "For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.",
"4": "For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.",
"5": "We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,",
"6": "being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.",
"7": "Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.",
"8": "For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed.",
"9": "I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters.",
"10": "For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”",
"11": "Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.",
"12": "Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.",
"13": "But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you.",
"14": "For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.",
"15": "We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged,",
"16": "so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence.",
"17": "“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”",
"18": "For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends."
},
"11": {
"1": "I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!",
"2": "For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.",
"3": "But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.",
"4": "For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.",
"5": "Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.",
"6": "Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.",
"7": "Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge?",
"8": "I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.",
"9": "And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.",
"10": "As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.",
"11": "And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!",
"12": "And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.",
"13": "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.",
"14": "And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.",
"15": "So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.",
"16": "I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.",
"17": "What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would but as a fool.",
"18": "Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.",
"19": "For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves!",
"20": "For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.",
"21": "To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that!\nBut whatever anyone else dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.",
"22": "Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.",
"23": "Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.",
"24": "Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.",
"25": "Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;",
"26": "on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;",
"27": "in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.",
"28": "And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.",
"29": "Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?",
"30": "If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.",
"31": "The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.",
"32": "At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me,",
"33": "but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands."
},
"12": {
"1": "I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.",
"2": "I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.",
"3": "And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—",
"4": "and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.",
"5": "On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses—",
"6": "though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.",
"7": "So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.",
"8": "Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.",
"9": "But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.",
"10": "For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.",
"11": "I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.",
"12": "The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.",
"13": "For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!",
"14": "Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.",
"15": "I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?",
"16": "But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by deceit.",
"17": "Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?",
"18": "I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?",
"19": "Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.",
"20": "For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.",
"21": "I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced."
},
"13": {
"1": "This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.",
"2": "I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not spare them—",
"3": "since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.",
"4": "For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.",
"5": "Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!",
"6": "I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test.",
"7": "But we pray to God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.",
"8": "For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.",
"9": "For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.",
"10": "For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.",
"11": "Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.",
"12": "Greet one another with a holy kiss.",
"13": "All the saints greet you.",
"14": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."
}
},
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"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:18.466868-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
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"2 John": {
"1": {
"1": "The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,",
"2": "because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:",
"3": "Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.",
"4": "I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.",
"5": "And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.",
"6": "And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.",
"7": "For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.",
"8": "Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.",
"9": "Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.",
"10": "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,",
"11": "for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.",
"12": "Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, so that our joy may be complete.",
"13": "The children of your elect sister greet you."
}
},
"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:27.709593-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
}
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"2 Kings": {
"1": {
"1": "After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.",
"2": "Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.”",
"3": "But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?",
"4": "Now therefore thus says the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went.",
"5": "The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?”",
"6": "And they said to him, “There came a man to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the Lord, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’”",
"7": "He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?”",
"8": "They answered him, “He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”",
"9": "Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”",
"10": "But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.",
"11": "Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king's order, ‘Come down quickly!’”",
"12": "But Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.",
"13": "Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, “O man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight.",
"14": "Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties, but now let my life be precious in your sight.”",
"15": "Then the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he arose and went down with him to the king",
"16": "and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?—therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’”",
"17": "So he died according to the word of the Lord that Elijah had spoken. Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, because Ahaziah had no son.",
"18": "Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?"
},
"2": {
"1": "Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.",
"2": "And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.",
"3": "And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you?” And he said, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”",
"4": "Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.",
"5": "The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you?” And he answered, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”",
"6": "Then Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.",
"7": "Fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan.",
"8": "Then Elijah took his cloak and rolled it up and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground.",
"9": "When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.”",
"10": "And he said, “You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you, but if you do not see me, it shall not be so.”",
"11": "And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.",
"12": "And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more.\nThen he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.",
"13": "And he took up the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.",
"14": "Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the water, saying, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” And when he had struck the water, the water was parted to the one side and to the other, and Elisha went over.",
"15": "Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him opposite them, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.",
"16": "And they said to him, “Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. It may be that the Spirit of the Lord has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.” And he said, “You shall not send.”",
"17": "But when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, “Send.” They sent therefore fifty men. And for three days they sought him but did not find him.",
"18": "And they came back to him while he was staying at Jericho, and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”",
"19": "Now the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees, but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful.”",
"20": "He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.",
"21": "Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “Thus says the Lord, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.”",
"22": "So the water has been healed to this day, according to the word that Elisha spoke.",
"23": "He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”",
"24": "And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.",
"25": "From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria."
},
"3": {
"1": "In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twelve years.",
"2": "He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, though not like his father and mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.",
"3": "Nevertheless, he clung to the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from it.",
"4": "Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he had to deliver to the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.",
"5": "But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.",
"6": "So King Jehoram marched out of Samaria at that time and mustered all Israel.",
"7": "And he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to battle against Moab?” And he said, “I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”",
"8": "Then he said, “By which way shall we march?” Jehoram answered, “By the way of the wilderness of Edom.”",
"9": "So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.",
"10": "Then the king of Israel said, “Alas! The Lord has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”",
"11": "And Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no prophet of the Lord here, through whom we may inquire of the Lord?” Then one of the king of Israel's servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.”",
"12": "And Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the Lord is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.",
"13": "And Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No; it is the Lord who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”",
"14": "And Elisha said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I have regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you.",
"15": "But now bring me a musician.” And when the musician played, the hand of the Lord came upon him.",
"16": "And he said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘I will make this dry streambed full of pools.’",
"17": "For thus says the Lord, ‘You shall not see wind or rain, but that streambed shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, you, your livestock, and your animals.’",
"18": "This is a light thing in the sight of the Lord. He will also give the Moabites into your hand,",
"19": "and you shall attack every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree and stop up all springs of water and ruin every good piece of land with stones.”",
"20": "The next morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came from the direction of Edom, till the country was filled with water.",
"21": "When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out and were drawn up at the border.",
"22": "And when they rose early in the morning and the sun shone on the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.",
"23": "And they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together and struck one another down. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!”",
"24": "But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and struck the Moabites, till they fled before them. And they went forward, striking the Moabites as they went.",
"25": "And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it.",
"26": "When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him 700 swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom, but they could not.",
"27": "Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land."
},
"4": {
"1": "Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”",
"2": "And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”",
"3": "Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few.",
"4": "Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these vessels. And when one is full, set it aside.”",
"5": "So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured they brought the vessels to her.",
"6": "When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There is not another.” Then the oil stopped flowing.",
"7": "She came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”",
"8": "One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.",
"9": "And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God who is continually passing our way.",
"10": "Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.”",
"11": "One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there.",
"12": "And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.",
"13": "And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”",
"14": "And he said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”",
"15": "He said, “Call her.” And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.",
"16": "And he said, “At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.”",
"17": "But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.",
"18": "When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.",
"19": "And he said to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!” The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”",
"20": "And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.",
"21": "And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door behind him and went out.",
"22": "Then she called to her husband and said, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again.”",
"23": "And he said, “Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “All is well.”",
"24": "Then she saddled the donkey, and she said to her servant, “Urge the animal on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.”",
"25": "So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.\nWhen the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, there is the Shunammite.",
"26": "Run at once to meet her and say to her, ‘Is all well with you? Is all well with your husband? Is all well with the child?’” And she answered, “All is well.”",
"27": "And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”",
"28": "Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”",
"29": "He said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not reply. And lay my staff on the face of the child.”",
"30": "Then the mother of the child said, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he arose and followed her.",
"31": "Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him and told him, “The child has not awakened.”",
"32": "When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.",
"33": "So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the Lord.",
"34": "Then he went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm.",
"35": "Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.",
"36": "Then he summoned Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, “Pick up your son.”",
"37": "She came and fell at his feet, bowing to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.",
"38": "And Elisha came again to Gilgal when there was a famine in the land. And as the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Set on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”",
"39": "One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.",
"40": "And they poured out some for the men to eat. But while they were eating of the stew, they cried out, “O man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.",
"41": "He said, “Then bring flour.” And he threw it into the pot and said, “Pour some out for the men, that they may eat.” And there was no harm in the pot.",
"42": "A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they may eat.”",
"43": "But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”",
"44": "So he set it before them. And they ate and had some left, according to the word of the Lord."
},
"5": {
"1": "Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.",
"2": "Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman's wife.",
"3": "She said to her mistress, “Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”",
"4": "So Naaman went in and told his lord, “Thus and so spoke the girl from the land of Israel.”",
"5": "And the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”\nSo he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.",
"6": "And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.”",
"7": "And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”",
"8": "But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.”",
"9": "So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha's house.",
"10": "And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.”",
"11": "But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.",
"12": "Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.",
"13": "But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”",
"14": "So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.",
"15": "Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, “Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.”",
"16": "But he said, “As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.",
"17": "Then Naaman said, “If not, please let there be given to your servant two mule loads of earth, for from now on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the Lord.",
"18": "In this matter may the Lord pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon your servant in this matter.”",
"19": "He said to him, “Go in peace.”\nBut when Naaman had gone from him a short distance,",
"20": "Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”",
"21": "So Gehazi followed Naaman. And when Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and said, “Is all well?”",
"22": "And he said, “All is well. My master has sent me to say, ‘There have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’”",
"23": "And Naaman said, “Be pleased to accept two talents.” And he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants. And they carried them before Gehazi.",
"24": "And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed.",
"25": "He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.”",
"26": "But he said to him, “Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants?",
"27": "Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow."
},
"6": {
"1": "Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.",
"2": "Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.” And he answered, “Go.”",
"3": "Then one of them said, “Be pleased to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I will go.”",
"4": "So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.",
"5": "But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.”",
"6": "Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float.",
"7": "And he said, “Take it up.” So he reached out his hand and took it.",
"8": "Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, “At such and such a place shall be my camp.”",
"9": "But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there.”",
"10": "And the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.",
"11": "And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing, and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?”",
"12": "And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”",
"13": "And he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him.” It was told him, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”",
"14": "So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army, and they came by night and surrounded the city.",
"15": "When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”",
"16": "He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”",
"17": "Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.",
"18": "And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.",
"19": "And Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he led them to Samaria.",
"20": "As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.” So the Lord opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.",
"21": "As soon as the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father, shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?”",
"22": "He answered, “You shall not strike them down. Would you strike down those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master.”",
"23": "So he prepared for them a great feast, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians did not come again on raids into the land of Israel.",
"24": "Afterward Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria.",
"25": "And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.",
"26": "Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”",
"27": "And he said, “If the Lord will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?”",
"28": "And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’",
"29": "So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”",
"30": "When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body—",
"31": "and he said, “May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.”",
"32": "Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?”",
"33": "And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”"
},
"7": {
"1": "But Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.”",
"2": "Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”",
"3": "Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?",
"4": "If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.”",
"5": "So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. But when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.",
"6": "For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us.”",
"7": "So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.",
"8": "And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them.",
"9": "Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell the king's household.”",
"10": "So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as they were.”",
"11": "Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king's household.",
"12": "And the king rose in the night and said to his servants, “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.’”",
"13": "And one of his servants said, “Let some men take five of the remaining horses, seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel who have already perished. Let us send and see.”",
"14": "So they took two horsemen, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, “Go and see.”",
"15": "So they went after them as far as the Jordan, and behold, all the way was littered with garments and equipment that the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.",
"16": "Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.",
"17": "Now the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. And the people trampled him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said when the king came down to him.",
"18": "For when the man of God had said to the king, “Two seahs of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria,”",
"19": "the captain had answered the man of God, “If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he had said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”",
"20": "And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate and he died."
},
"8": {
"1": "Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.”",
"2": "So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.",
"3": "And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.",
"4": "Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”",
"5": "And while he was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”",
"6": "And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.”",
"7": "Now Elisha came to Damascus. Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And when it was told him, “The man of God has come here,”",
"8": "the king said to Hazael, “Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord through him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”",
"9": "So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels' loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”",
"10": "And Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but the Lord has shown me that he shall certainly die.”",
"11": "And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, until he was embarrassed. And the man of God wept.",
"12": "And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”",
"13": "And Hazael said, “What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Syria.”",
"14": "Then he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he answered, “He told me that you would certainly recover.”",
"15": "But the next day he took the bed cloth and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his place.",
"16": "In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign.",
"17": "He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.",
"18": "And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.",
"19": "Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, since he promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.",
"20": "In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up a king of their own.",
"21": "Then Joram passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army fled home.",
"22": "So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.",
"23": "Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"24": "So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.",
"25": "In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.",
"26": "Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.",
"27": "He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.",
"28": "He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.",
"29": "And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick."
},
"9": {
"1": "Then Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tie up your garments, and take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.",
"2": "And when you arrive, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi. And go in and have him rise from among his fellows, and lead him to an inner chamber.",
"3": "Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, ‘Thus says the Lord, I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and flee; do not linger.”",
"4": "So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.",
"5": "And when he came, behold, the commanders of the army were in council. And he said, “I have a word for you, O commander.” And Jehu said, “To which of us all?” And he said, “To you, O commander.”",
"6": "So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the Lord, over Israel.",
"7": "And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord.",
"8": "For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.",
"9": "And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.",
"10": "And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.” Then he opened the door and fled.",
"11": "When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the fellow and his talk.”",
"12": "And they said, “That is not true; tell us now.” And he said, “Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord, I anoint you king over Israel.’”",
"13": "Then in haste every man of them took his garment and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet and proclaimed, “Jehu is king.”",
"14": "Thus Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram with all Israel had been on guard at Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Syria,",
"15": "but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, “If this is your decision, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”",
"16": "Then Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram.",
"17": "Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came and said, “I see a company.” And Joram said, “Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”",
"18": "So a man on horseback went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.” And the watchman reported, saying, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”",
"19": "Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, “Thus the king has said, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.”",
"20": "Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”",
"21": "Joram said, “Make ready.” And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.",
"22": "And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”",
"23": "Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahaziah, “Treachery, O Ahaziah!”",
"24": "And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot.",
"25": "Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the Lord made this pronouncement against him:",
"26": "‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the Lord—I will repay you on this plot of ground.’ Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”",
"27": "When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him and said, “Shoot him also.” And they shot him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.",
"28": "His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.",
"29": "In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.",
"30": "When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.",
"31": "And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?”",
"32": "And he lifted up his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.",
"33": "He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down. And some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her.",
"34": "Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king's daughter.”",
"35": "But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.",
"36": "When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel,",
"37": "and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”"
},
"10": {
"1": "Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,",
"2": "“Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,",
"3": "select the best and fittest of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne and fight for your master's house.”",
"4": "But they were exceedingly afraid and said, “Behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand?”",
"5": "So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and we will do all that you tell us. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your eyes.”",
"6": "Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master's sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.” Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.",
"7": "And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.",
"8": "When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king's sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”",
"9": "Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood and said to all the people, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck down all these?",
"10": "Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done what he said by his servant Elijah.”",
"11": "So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.",
"12": "Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,",
"13": "Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the relatives of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother.”",
"14": "He said, “Take them alive.” And they took them alive and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons, and he spared none of them.",
"15": "And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?” And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” Jehu said, “If it is, give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.",
"16": "And he said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord.” So he had him ride in his chariot.",
"17": "And when he came to Samaria, he struck down all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke to Elijah.",
"18": "Then Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.",
"19": "Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests. Let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.",
"20": "And Jehu ordered, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal.” So they proclaimed it.",
"21": "And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.",
"22": "He said to him who was in charge of the wardrobe, “Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Baal.” So he brought out the vestments for them.",
"23": "Then Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab, and he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that there is no servant of the Lord here among you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”",
"24": "Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.\nNow Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and said, “The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life.”",
"25": "So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, “Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape.” So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal,",
"26": "and they brought out the pillar that was in the house of Baal and burned it.",
"27": "And they demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.",
"28": "Thus Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel.",
"29": "But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin—that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.",
"30": "And the Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”",
"31": "But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.",
"32": "In those days the Lord began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:",
"33": "from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the Valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.",
"34": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"35": "So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.",
"36": "The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years."
},
"11": {
"1": "Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.",
"2": "But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king's sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death.",
"3": "And he remained with her six years, hidden in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah reigned over the land.",
"4": "But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the Lord. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the Lord, and he showed them the king's son.",
"5": "And he commanded them, “This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, those who come off duty on the Sabbath and guard the king's house",
"6": "(another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace.",
"7": "And the two divisions of you, which come on duty in force on the Sabbath and guard the house of the Lord on behalf of the king,",
"8": "shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever approaches the ranks is to be put to death. Be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.”",
"9": "The captains did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.",
"10": "And the priest gave to the captains the spears and shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of the Lord.",
"11": "And the guards stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house on behalf of the king.",
"12": "Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, “Long live the king!”",
"13": "When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she went into the house of the Lord to the people.",
"14": "And when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!”",
"15": "Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains who were set over the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to death with the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest said, “Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord.”",
"16": "So they laid hands on her; and she went through the horses' entrance to the king's house, and there she was put to death.",
"17": "And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, that they should be the Lord's people, and also between the king and the people.",
"18": "Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest posted watchmen over the house of the Lord.",
"19": "And he took the captains, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, marching through the gate of the guards to the king's house. And he took his seat on the throne of the kings.",
"20": "So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword at the king's house.",
"21": "Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign."
},
"12": {
"1": "In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.",
"2": "And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.",
"3": "Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.",
"4": "Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each man is assessed—the money from the assessment of persons—and the money that a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord,",
"5": "let the priests take, each from his donor, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.”",
"6": "But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had made no repairs on the house.",
"7": "Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house.”",
"8": "So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.",
"9": "Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the Lord. And the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.",
"10": "And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord.",
"11": "Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the Lord. And they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the Lord,",
"12": "and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the Lord, and for any outlay for the repairs of the house.",
"13": "But there were not made for the house of the Lord basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the Lord,",
"14": "for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the Lord with it.",
"15": "And they did not ask for an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.",
"16": "The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord; it belonged to the priests.",
"17": "At that time Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,",
"18": "Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king's house, and sent these to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.",
"19": "Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"20": "His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.",
"21": "It was Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his place."
},
"13": {
"1": "In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.",
"2": "He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from them.",
"3": "And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.",
"4": "Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.",
"5": "(Therefore the Lord gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians, and the people of Israel lived in their homes as formerly.",
"6": "Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)",
"7": "For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.",
"8": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"9": "So Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Joash his son reigned in his place.",
"10": "In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.",
"11": "He also did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, but he walked in them.",
"12": "Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, and the might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"13": "So Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne. And Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.",
"14": "Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”",
"15": "And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and arrows.” So he took a bow and arrows.",
"16": "Then he said to the king of Israel, “Draw the bow,” and he drew it. And Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands.",
"17": "And he said, “Open the window eastward,” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot,” and he shot. And he said, “The Lord's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Syria! For you shall fight the Syrians in Aphek until you have made an end of them.”",
"18": "And he said, “Take the arrows,” and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground with them.” And he struck three times and stopped.",
"19": "Then the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times.”",
"20": "So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.",
"21": "And as a man was being buried, behold, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha, and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.",
"22": "Now Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.",
"23": "But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.",
"24": "When Hazael king of Syria died, Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.",
"25": "Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel."
},
"14": {
"1": "In the second year of Joash the son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.",
"2": "He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.",
"3": "And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not like David his father. He did in all things as Joash his father had done.",
"4": "But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.",
"5": "And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand, he struck down his servants who had struck down the king his father.",
"6": "But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. But each one shall die for his own sin.”",
"7": "He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day.",
"8": "Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”",
"9": "And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.",
"10": "You have indeed struck down Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”",
"11": "But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.",
"12": "And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.",
"13": "And Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.",
"14": "And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.",
"15": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash that he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"16": "And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.",
"17": "Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.",
"18": "Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"19": "And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.",
"20": "And they brought him on horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.",
"21": "And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.",
"22": "He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.",
"23": "In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.",
"24": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.",
"25": "He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.",
"26": "For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.",
"27": "But the Lord had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.",
"28": "Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"29": "And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son reigned in his place."
},
"15": {
"1": "In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.",
"2": "He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.",
"3": "And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.",
"4": "Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.",
"5": "And the Lord touched the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, governing the people of the land.",
"6": "Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"7": "And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his place.",
"8": "In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.",
"9": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.",
"10": "Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him down at Ibleam and put him to death and reigned in his place.",
"11": "Now the rest of the deeds of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.",
"12": "(This was the promise of the Lord that he gave to Jehu, “Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” And so it came to pass.)",
"13": "Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria.",
"14": "Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and put him to death and reigned in his place.",
"15": "Now the rest of the deeds of Shallum, and the conspiracy that he made, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.",
"16": "At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.",
"17": "In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Samaria.",
"18": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart all his days from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.",
"19": "Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.",
"20": "Menahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.",
"21": "Now the rest of the deeds of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?",
"22": "And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.",
"23": "In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years.",
"24": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.",
"25": "And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the people of Gilead, and struck him down in Samaria, in the citadel of the king's house with Argob and Arieh; he put him to death and reigned in his place.",
"26": "Now the rest of the deeds of Pekahiah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.",
"27": "In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.",
"28": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.",
"29": "In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.",
"30": "Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.",
"31": "Now the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.",
"32": "In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.",
"33": "He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.",
"34": "And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done.",
"35": "Nevertheless, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.",
"36": "Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"37": "In those days the Lord began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.",
"38": "Jotham slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place."
},
"16": {
"1": "In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.",
"2": "Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as his father David had done,",
"3": "but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.",
"4": "And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.",
"5": "Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.",
"6": "At that time Rezin the king of Syria recovered Elath for Syria and drove the men of Judah from Elath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day.",
"7": "So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.”",
"8": "Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the king's house and sent a present to the king of Assyria.",
"9": "And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.",
"10": "When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.",
"11": "And Uriah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.",
"12": "And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar and went up on it",
"13": "and burned his burnt offering and his grain offering and poured his drink offering and threw the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.",
"14": "And the bronze altar that was before the Lord he removed from the front of the house, from the place between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.",
"15": "And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”",
"16": "Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.",
"17": "And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal.",
"18": "And the covered way for the Sabbath that had been built inside the house and the outer entrance for the king he caused to go around the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.",
"19": "Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"20": "And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place."
},
"17": {
"1": "In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.",
"2": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.",
"3": "Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.",
"4": "But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.",
"5": "Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.",
"6": "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.",
"7": "And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods",
"8": "and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.",
"9": "And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.",
"10": "They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,",
"11": "and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger,",
"12": "and they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.”",
"13": "Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”",
"14": "But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.",
"15": "They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.",
"16": "And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.",
"17": "And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.",
"18": "Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.",
"19": "Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.",
"20": "And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.",
"21": "When he had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord and made them commit great sin.",
"22": "The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them,",
"23": "until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.",
"24": "And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.",
"25": "And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the Lord. Therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.",
"26": "So the king of Assyria was told, “The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land.”",
"27": "Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land.”",
"28": "So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the Lord.",
"29": "But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.",
"30": "The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,",
"31": "and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.",
"32": "They also feared the Lord and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.",
"33": "So they feared the Lord but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.",
"34": "To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.",
"35": "The Lord made a covenant with them and commanded them, “You shall not fear other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them,",
"36": "but you shall fear the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm. You shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.",
"37": "And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,",
"38": "and you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods,",
"39": "but you shall fear the Lord your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”",
"40": "However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.",
"41": "So these nations feared the Lord and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day."
},
"18": {
"1": "In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.",
"2": "He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.",
"3": "And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.",
"4": "He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).",
"5": "He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.",
"6": "For he held fast to the Lord. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses.",
"7": "And the Lord was with him; wherever he went out, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.",
"8": "He struck down the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.",
"9": "In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it,",
"10": "and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.",
"11": "The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,",
"12": "because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.",
"13": "In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.",
"14": "And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.",
"15": "And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house.",
"16": "At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.",
"17": "And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer's Field.",
"18": "And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.",
"19": "And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?",
"20": "Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?",
"21": "Behold, you are trusting now in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.",
"22": "But if you say to me, “We trust in the Lord our God,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?",
"23": "Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.",
"24": "How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?",
"25": "Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”",
"26": "Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”",
"27": "But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”",
"28": "Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!",
"29": "Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand.",
"30": "Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord by saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’",
"31": "Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,",
"32": "until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The Lord will deliver us.”",
"33": "Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?",
"34": "Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?",
"35": "Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”",
"36": "But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, “Do not answer him.”",
"37": "Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh."
},
"19": {
"1": "As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.",
"2": "And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.",
"3": "They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.",
"4": "It may be that the Lord your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”",
"5": "When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,",
"6": "Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.",
"7": "Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.’”",
"8": "The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that the king had left Lachish.",
"9": "Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “Behold, he has set out to fight against you.” So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,",
"10": "“Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.",
"11": "Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?",
"12": "Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?",
"13": "Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”",
"14": "Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord.",
"15": "And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: “O Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.",
"16": "Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.",
"17": "Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands",
"18": "and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.",
"19": "So now, O Lord our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Lord, are God alone.”",
"20": "Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.",
"21": "This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:\n“She despises you, she scorns you—\n the virgin daughter of Zion;\nshe wags her head behind you—\n the daughter of Jerusalem.",
"22": "“Whom have you mocked and reviled?\n Against whom have you raised your voice\nand lifted your eyes to the heights?\n Against the Holy One of Israel!",
"23": "By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,\n and you have said, ‘With my many chariots\nI have gone up the heights of the mountains,\n to the far recesses of Lebanon;\nI felled its tallest cedars,\n its choicest cypresses;\nI entered its farthest lodging place,\n its most fruitful forest.",
"24": "I dug wells\n and drank foreign waters,\nand I dried up with the sole of my foot\n all the streams of Egypt.’",
"25": "“Have you not heard\n that I determined it long ago?\nI planned from days of old\n what now I bring to pass,\nthat you should turn fortified cities\n into heaps of ruins,",
"26": "while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,\n are dismayed and confounded,\nand have become like plants of the field\n and like tender grass,\nlike grass on the housetops,\n blighted before it is grown.",
"27": "“But I know your sitting down\n and your going out and coming in,\n and your raging against me.",
"28": "Because you have raged against me\n and your complacency has come into my ears,\nI will put my hook in your nose\n and my bit in your mouth,\nand I will turn you back on the way\n by which you came.",
"29": "“And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.",
"30": "And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.",
"31": "For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord will do this.",
"32": "“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.",
"33": "By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord.",
"34": "For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”",
"35": "And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.",
"36": "Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh.",
"37": "And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place."
},
"20": {
"1": "In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.’”",
"2": "Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying,",
"3": "“Now, O Lord, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.",
"4": "And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him:",
"5": "“Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord,",
"6": "and I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David's sake.”",
"7": "And Isaiah said, “Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover.”",
"8": "And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?”",
"9": "And Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”",
"10": "And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. Rather let the shadow go back ten steps.”",
"11": "And Isaiah the prophet called to the Lord, and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz.",
"12": "At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.",
"13": "And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.",
"14": "Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.”",
"15": "He said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”",
"16": "Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord:",
"17": "Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord.",
"18": "And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”",
"19": "Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?”",
"20": "The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"21": "And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place."
},
"21": {
"1": "Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.",
"2": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.",
"3": "For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.",
"4": "And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.”",
"5": "And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.",
"6": "And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.",
"7": "And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.",
"8": "And I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them.”",
"9": "But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.",
"10": "And the Lord said by his servants the prophets,",
"11": "“Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,",
"12": "therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.",
"13": "And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.",
"14": "And I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,",
"15": "because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.”",
"16": "Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.",
"17": "Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"18": "And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place.",
"19": "Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.",
"20": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.",
"21": "He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them.",
"22": "He abandoned the Lord, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.",
"23": "And the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house.",
"24": "But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.",
"25": "Now the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"26": "And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place."
},
"22": {
"1": "Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.",
"2": "And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.",
"3": "In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the Lord, saying,",
"4": "“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money that has been brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people.",
"5": "And let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord, and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the Lord, repairing the house",
"6": "(that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons), and let them use it for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.",
"7": "But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly.”",
"8": "And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.",
"9": "And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord.”",
"10": "Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it before the king.",
"11": "When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.",
"12": "And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,",
"13": "“Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”",
"14": "So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.",
"15": "And she said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,",
"16": "Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read.",
"17": "Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.",
"18": "But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,",
"19": "because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.",
"20": "Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.’” And they brought back word to the king."
},
"23": {
"1": "Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.",
"2": "And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.",
"3": "And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.",
"4": "And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.",
"5": "And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations and all the host of the heavens.",
"6": "And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.",
"7": "And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.",
"8": "And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the gate of the city.",
"9": "However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.",
"10": "And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.",
"11": "And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.",
"12": "And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down and broke in pieces and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.",
"13": "And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.",
"14": "And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.",
"15": "Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.",
"16": "And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.",
"17": "Then he said, “What is that monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel.”",
"18": "And he said, “Let him be; let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.",
"19": "And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the Lord to anger. He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.",
"20": "And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.",
"21": "And the king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”",
"22": "For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah.",
"23": "But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.",
"24": "Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.",
"25": "Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.",
"26": "Still the Lord did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.",
"27": "And the Lord said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.”",
"28": "Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"29": "In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.",
"30": "And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.",
"31": "Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.",
"32": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.",
"33": "And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.",
"34": "And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there.",
"35": "And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.",
"36": "Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.",
"37": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done."
},
"24": {
"1": "In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.",
"2": "And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.",
"3": "Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,",
"4": "and also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.",
"5": "Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?",
"6": "So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.",
"7": "And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.",
"8": "Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.",
"9": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done.",
"10": "At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.",
"11": "And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,",
"12": "and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign",
"13": "and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the Lord had foretold.",
"14": "He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.",
"15": "And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.",
"16": "And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war.",
"17": "And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.",
"18": "Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.",
"19": "And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.",
"20": "For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence.\nAnd Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon."
},
"25": {
"1": "And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.",
"2": "So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.",
"3": "On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.",
"4": "Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.",
"5": "But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.",
"6": "Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.",
"7": "They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.",
"8": "In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.",
"9": "And he burned the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.",
"10": "And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.",
"11": "And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.",
"12": "But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.",
"13": "And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.",
"14": "And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service,",
"15": "the fire pans also and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.",
"16": "As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands that Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.",
"17": "The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.",
"18": "And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold;",
"19": "and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and five men of the king's council who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.",
"20": "And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.",
"21": "And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.",
"22": "And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor.",
"23": "Now when all the captains and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite.",
"24": "And Gedaliah swore to them and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid because of the Chaldean officials. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.”",
"25": "But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down Gedaliah and put him to death along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.",
"26": "Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.",
"27": "And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.",
"28": "And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.",
"29": "So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table,",
"30": "and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, as long as he lived."
}
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"2 Peter": {
"1": {
"1": "Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,\nTo those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:",
"2": "May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.",
"3": "His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,",
"4": "by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.",
"5": "For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,",
"6": "and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,",
"7": "and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.",
"8": "For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.",
"9": "For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.",
"10": "Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.",
"11": "For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.",
"12": "Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.",
"13": "I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder,",
"14": "since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.",
"15": "And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.",
"16": "For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.",
"17": "For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”",
"18": "we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain.",
"19": "And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,",
"20": "knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.",
"21": "For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."
},
"2": {
"1": "But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.",
"2": "And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.",
"3": "And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.",
"4": "For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;",
"5": "if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;",
"6": "if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;",
"7": "and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked",
"8": "(for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard);",
"9": "then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,",
"10": "and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.\nBold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,",
"11": "whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.",
"12": "But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,",
"13": "suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.",
"14": "They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!",
"15": "Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,",
"16": "but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.",
"17": "These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.",
"18": "For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.",
"19": "They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.",
"20": "For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.",
"21": "For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.",
"22": "What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”"
},
"3": {
"1": "This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,",
"2": "that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,",
"3": "knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.",
"4": "They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”",
"5": "For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,",
"6": "and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.",
"7": "But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.",
"8": "But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.",
"9": "The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.",
"10": "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.",
"11": "Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,",
"12": "waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!",
"13": "But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.",
"14": "Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.",
"15": "And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,",
"16": "as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.",
"17": "You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.",
"18": "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen."
}
},
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"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:26.699020-04:00",
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"2 Samuel": {
"1": {
"1": "After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag.",
"2": "And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage.",
"3": "David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”",
"4": "And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”",
"5": "Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”",
"6": "And the young man who told him said, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.",
"7": "And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, ‘Here I am.’",
"8": "And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’",
"9": "And he said to me, ‘Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’",
"10": "So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”",
"11": "Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.",
"12": "And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.",
"13": "And David said to the young man who told him, “Where do you come from?” And he answered, “I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.”",
"14": "David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?”",
"15": "Then David called one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him.” And he struck him down so that he died.",
"16": "And David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord's anointed.’”",
"17": "And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,",
"18": "and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. He said:",
"19": "“Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places!\n How the mighty have fallen!",
"20": "Tell it not in Gath,\n publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon,\nlest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,\n lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.",
"21": "“You mountains of Gilboa,\n let there be no dew or rain upon you,\n nor fields of offerings!\nFor there the shield of the mighty was defiled,\n the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.",
"22": "“From the blood of the slain,\n from the fat of the mighty,\nthe bow of Jonathan turned not back,\n and the sword of Saul returned not empty.",
"23": "“Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely!\n In life and in death they were not divided;\nthey were swifter than eagles;\n they were stronger than lions.",
"24": "“You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,\n who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet,\n who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.",
"25": "“How the mighty have fallen\n in the midst of the battle!\n“Jonathan lies slain on your high places.",
"26": "I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;\nvery pleasant have you been to me;\n your love to me was extraordinary,\n surpassing the love of women.",
"27": "“How the mighty have fallen,\n and the weapons of war perished!”"
},
"2": {
"1": "After this David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” And the Lord said to him, “Go up.” David said, “To which shall I go up?” And he said, “To Hebron.”",
"2": "So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.",
"3": "And David brought up his men who were with him, everyone with his household, and they lived in the towns of Hebron.",
"4": "And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah.\nWhen they told David, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,”",
"5": "David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, “May you be blessed by the Lord, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord and buried him.",
"6": "Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.",
"7": "Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”",
"8": "But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim,",
"9": "and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.",
"10": "Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.",
"11": "And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.",
"12": "Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.",
"13": "And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.",
"14": "And Abner said to Joab, “Let the young men arise and compete before us.” And Joab said, “Let them arise.”",
"15": "Then they arose and passed over by number, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.",
"16": "And each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent's side, so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is at Gibeon.",
"17": "And the battle was very fierce that day. And Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.",
"18": "And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.",
"19": "And Asahel pursued Abner, and as he went, he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.",
"20": "Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is it you, Asahel?” And he answered, “It is I.”",
"21": "Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men and take his spoil.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.",
"22": "And Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?”",
"23": "But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.",
"24": "But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. And as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.",
"25": "And the people of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner and became one group and took their stand on the top of a hill.",
"26": "Then Abner called to Joab, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?”",
"27": "And Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the men would not have given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning.”",
"28": "So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the men stopped and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore.",
"29": "And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole morning, they came to Mahanaim.",
"30": "Joab returned from the pursuit of Abner. And when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing from David's servants nineteen men besides Asahel.",
"31": "But the servants of David had struck down of Benjamin 360 of Abner's men.",
"32": "And they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron."
},
"3": {
"1": "There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.",
"2": "And sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam of Jezreel;",
"3": "and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;",
"4": "and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;",
"5": "and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.",
"6": "While there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul.",
"7": "Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?”",
"8": "Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.",
"9": "God do so to Abner and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the Lord has sworn to him,",
"10": "to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”",
"11": "And Ish-bosheth could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.",
"12": "And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you.”",
"13": "And he said, “Good; I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face.”",
"14": "Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”",
"15": "And Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish.",
"16": "But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go, return.” And he returned.",
"17": "And Abner conferred with the elders of Israel, saying, “For some time past you have been seeking David as king over you.",
"18": "Now then bring it about, for the Lord has promised David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.’”",
"19": "Abner also spoke to Benjamin. And then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do.",
"20": "When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.",
"21": "And Abner said to David, “I will arise and go and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.",
"22": "Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.",
"23": "When Joab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace.”",
"24": "Then Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone?",
"25": "You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing.”",
"26": "When Joab came out from David's presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. But David did not know about it.",
"27": "And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the stomach, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.",
"28": "Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the Lord for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.",
"29": "May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!”",
"30": "So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.",
"31": "Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner.” And King David followed the bier.",
"32": "They buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.",
"33": "And the king lamented for Abner, saying,\n“Should Abner die as a fool dies?",
"34": "Your hands were not bound;\n your feet were not fettered;\nas one falls before the wicked\n you have fallen.”\nAnd all the people wept again over him.",
"35": "Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, “God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!”",
"36": "And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as everything that the king did pleased all the people.",
"37": "So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to put to death Abner the son of Ner.",
"38": "And the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?",
"39": "And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The Lord repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!”"
},
"4": {
"1": "When Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.",
"2": "Now Saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Beeroth (for Beeroth also is counted part of Benjamin;",
"3": "the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day).",
"4": "Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.",
"5": "Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest.",
"6": "And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.",
"7": "When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night,",
"8": "and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The Lord has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.”",
"9": "But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,",
"10": "when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.",
"11": "How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”",
"12": "And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron."
},
"5": {
"1": "Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.",
"2": "In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’”",
"3": "So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel.",
"4": "David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.",
"5": "At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.",
"6": "And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, “You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off”—thinking, “David cannot come in here.”",
"7": "Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.",
"8": "And David said on that day, “Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack ‘the lame and the blind,’ who are hated by David's soul.” Therefore it is said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”",
"9": "And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward.",
"10": "And David became greater and greater, for the Lord, the God of hosts, was with him.",
"11": "And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.",
"12": "And David knew that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.",
"13": "And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.",
"14": "And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,",
"15": "Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,",
"16": "Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.",
"17": "When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.",
"18": "Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.",
"19": "And David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?” And the Lord said to David, “Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand.”",
"20": "And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, “The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.",
"21": "And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.",
"22": "And the Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.",
"23": "And when David inquired of the Lord, he said, “You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come against them opposite the balsam trees.",
"24": "And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, for then the Lord has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.”",
"25": "And David did as the Lord commanded him, and struck down the Philistines from Geba to Gezer."
},
"6": {
"1": "David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.",
"2": "And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.",
"3": "And they carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart,",
"4": "with the ark of God, and Ahio went before the ark.",
"5": "And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.",
"6": "And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.",
"7": "And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God.",
"8": "And David was angry because the Lord had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzzah to this day.",
"9": "And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?”",
"10": "So David was not willing to take the ark of the Lord into the city of David. But David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.",
"11": "And the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household.",
"12": "And it was told King David, “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing.",
"13": "And when those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal.",
"14": "And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.",
"15": "So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn.",
"16": "As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.",
"17": "And they brought in the ark of the Lord and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.",
"18": "And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts",
"19": "and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed, each to his house.",
"20": "And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”",
"21": "And David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the Lord—and I will celebrate before the Lord.",
"22": "I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor.”",
"23": "And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death."
},
"7": {
"1": "Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,",
"2": "the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.”",
"3": "And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you.”",
"4": "But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan,",
"5": "“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: Would you build me a house to dwell in?",
"6": "I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.",
"7": "In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’",
"8": "Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.",
"9": "And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.",
"10": "And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,",
"11": "from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house.",
"12": "When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.",
"13": "He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.",
"14": "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,",
"15": "but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.",
"16": "And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’”",
"17": "In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.",
"18": "Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?",
"19": "And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God!",
"20": "And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God!",
"21": "Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.",
"22": "Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.",
"23": "And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?",
"24": "And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O Lord, became their God.",
"25": "And now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.",
"26": "And your name will be magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of hosts is God over Israel,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you.",
"27": "For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.",
"28": "And now, O Lord God, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.",
"29": "Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord God, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.”"
},
"8": {
"1": "After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.",
"2": "And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.",
"3": "David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.",
"4": "And David took from him 1,700 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for 100 chariots.",
"5": "And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down 22,000 men of the Syrians.",
"6": "Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.",
"7": "And David took the shields of gold that were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.",
"8": "And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took very much bronze.",
"9": "When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer,",
"10": "Toi sent his son Joram to King David, to ask about his health and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze.",
"11": "These also King David dedicated to the Lord, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,",
"12": "from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.",
"13": "And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.",
"14": "Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.",
"15": "So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.",
"16": "Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,",
"17": "and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was secretary,",
"18": "and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were priests."
},
"9": {
"1": "And David said, “Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?”",
"2": "Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David. And the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” And he said, “I am your servant.”",
"3": "And the king said, “Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet.”",
"4": "The king said to him, “Where is he?” And Ziba said to the king, “He is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.”",
"5": "Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.",
"6": "And Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage. And David said, “Mephibosheth!” And he answered, “Behold, I am your servant.”",
"7": "And David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.”",
"8": "And he paid homage and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?”",
"9": "Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's grandson.",
"10": "And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master's grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master's grandson shall always eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.",
"11": "Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David's table, like one of the king's sons.",
"12": "And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all who lived in Ziba's house became Mephibosheth's servants.",
"13": "So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate always at the king's table. Now he was lame in both his feet."
},
"10": {
"1": "After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.",
"2": "And David said, “I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me.” So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the Ammonites.",
"3": "But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?”",
"4": "So Hanun took David's servants and shaved off half the beard of each and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away.",
"5": "When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.”",
"6": "When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.",
"7": "And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the host of the mighty men.",
"8": "And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate, and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.",
"9": "When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Syrians.",
"10": "The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.",
"11": "And he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.",
"12": "Be of good courage, and let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”",
"13": "So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.",
"14": "And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.",
"15": "But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.",
"16": "And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates. They came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.",
"17": "And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to Helam. The Syrians arrayed themselves against David and fought with him.",
"18": "And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 700 chariots, and 40,000 horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.",
"19": "And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Syrians were afraid to save the Ammonites anymore."
},
"11": {
"1": "In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.",
"2": "It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.",
"3": "And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”",
"4": "So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.",
"5": "And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”",
"6": "So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David.",
"7": "When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going.",
"8": "Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.",
"9": "But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.",
"10": "When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”",
"11": "Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”",
"12": "Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.",
"13": "And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.",
"14": "In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.",
"15": "In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.”",
"16": "And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.",
"17": "And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.",
"18": "Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting.",
"19": "And he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,",
"20": "then, if the king's anger rises, and if he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?",
"21": "Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”",
"22": "So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.",
"23": "The messenger said to David, “The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.",
"24": "Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”",
"25": "David said to the messenger, “Thus shall you say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”",
"26": "When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband.",
"27": "And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord."
},
"12": {
"1": "And the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.",
"2": "The rich man had very many flocks and herds,",
"3": "but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.",
"4": "Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”",
"5": "Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die,",
"6": "and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”",
"7": "Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.",
"8": "And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.",
"9": "Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.",
"10": "Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’",
"11": "Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.",
"12": "For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’”",
"13": "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.",
"14": "Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”",
"15": "Then Nathan went to his house.\nAnd the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and he became sick.",
"16": "David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.",
"17": "And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.",
"18": "On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.”",
"19": "But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”",
"20": "Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.",
"21": "Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”",
"22": "He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’",
"23": "But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”",
"24": "Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the Lord loved him",
"25": "and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.",
"26": "Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.",
"27": "And Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.",
"28": "Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name.”",
"29": "So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it.",
"30": "And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.",
"31": "And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem."
},
"13": {
"1": "Now Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David's son, loved her.",
"2": "And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.",
"3": "But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother. And Jonadab was a very crafty man.",
"4": "And he said to him, “O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.”",
"5": "Jonadab said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’”",
"6": "So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. And when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.”",
"7": "Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go to your brother Amnon's house and prepare food for him.”",
"8": "So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, where he was lying down. And she took dough and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and baked the cakes.",
"9": "And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, “Send out everyone from me.” So everyone went out from him.",
"10": "Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.",
"11": "But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”",
"12": "She answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing.",
"13": "As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”",
"14": "But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her.",
"15": "Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Get up! Go!”",
"16": "But she said to him, “No, my brother, for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me.” But he would not listen to her.",
"17": "He called the young man who served him and said, “Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.”",
"18": "Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves, for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.",
"19": "And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.",
"20": "And her brother Absalom said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother; do not take this to heart.” So Tamar lived, a desolate woman, in her brother Absalom's house.",
"21": "When King David heard of all these things, he was very angry.",
"22": "But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had violated his sister Tamar.",
"23": "After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons.",
"24": "And Absalom came to the king and said, “Behold, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”",
"25": "But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.",
"26": "Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” And the king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”",
"27": "But Absalom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.",
"28": "Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”",
"29": "So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.",
"30": "While they were on the way, news came to David, “Absalom has struck down all the king's sons, and not one of them is left.”",
"31": "Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the earth. And all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.",
"32": "But Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David's brother, said, “Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men, the king's sons, for Amnon alone is dead. For by the command of Absalom this has been determined from the day he violated his sister Tamar.",
"33": "Now therefore let not my lord the king so take it to heart as to suppose that all the king's sons are dead, for Amnon alone is dead.”",
"34": "But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain.",
"35": "And Jonadab said to the king, “Behold, the king's sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about.”",
"36": "And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king's sons came and lifted up their voice and wept. And the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.",
"37": "But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.",
"38": "So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.",
"39": "And the spirit of the king longed to go out to Absalom, because he was comforted about Amnon, since he was dead."
},
"14": {
"1": "Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the king's heart went out to Absalom.",
"2": "And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.",
"3": "Go to the king and speak thus to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.",
"4": "When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, “Save me, O king.”",
"5": "And the king said to her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.",
"6": "And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.",
"7": "And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.’ And so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”",
"8": "Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”",
"9": "And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless.”",
"10": "The king said, “If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again.”",
"11": "Then she said, “Please let the king invoke the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed.” He said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”",
"12": "Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Speak.”",
"13": "And the woman said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.",
"14": "We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.",
"15": "Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.",
"16": "For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.’",
"17": "And your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’ for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”",
"18": "Then the king answered the woman, “Do not hide from me anything I ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king speak.”",
"19": "The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.",
"20": "In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”",
"21": "Then the king said to Joab, “Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Absalom.”",
"22": "And Joab fell on his face to the ground and paid homage and blessed the king. And Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant.”",
"23": "So Joab arose and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.",
"24": "And the king said, “Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence.” So Absalom lived apart in his own house and did not come into the king's presence.",
"25": "Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.",
"26": "And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight.",
"27": "There were born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman.",
"28": "So Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king's presence.",
"29": "Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Joab would not come.",
"30": "Then he said to his servants, “See, Joab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom's servants set the field on fire.",
"31": "Then Joab arose and went to Absalom at his house and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”",
"32": "Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent word to you, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.” Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king, and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.’”",
"33": "Then Joab went to the king and told him, and he summoned Absalom. So he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom."
},
"15": {
"1": "After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.",
"2": "And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,”",
"3": "Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.”",
"4": "Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”",
"5": "And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.",
"6": "Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.",
"7": "And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.",
"8": "For your servant vowed a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the Lord.’”",
"9": "The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose and went to Hebron.",
"10": "But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, ‘Absalom is king at Hebron!’”",
"11": "With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing.",
"12": "And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.",
"13": "And a messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.”",
"14": "Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee, or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Go quickly, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down ruin on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”",
"15": "And the king's servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides.”",
"16": "So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.",
"17": "And the king went out, and all the people after him. And they halted at the last house.",
"18": "And all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.",
"19": "Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home.",
"20": "You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you.”",
"21": "But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”",
"22": "And David said to Ittai, “Go then, pass on.” So Ittai the Gittite passed on with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.",
"23": "And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.",
"24": "And Abiathar came up, and behold, Zadok came also with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God until the people had all passed out of the city.",
"25": "Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place.",
"26": "But if he says, ‘I have no pleasure in you,’ behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.”",
"27": "The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Are you not a seer? Go back to the city in peace, with your two sons, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.",
"28": "See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”",
"29": "So Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and they remained there.",
"30": "But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.",
"31": "And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”",
"32": "While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt on his head.",
"33": "David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.",
"34": "But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.",
"35": "Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king's house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.",
"36": "Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son, and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.”",
"37": "So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem."
},
"16": {
"1": "When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.",
"2": "And the king said to Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink.”",
"3": "And the king said, “And where is your master's son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.’”",
"4": "Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” And Ziba said, “I pay homage; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king.”",
"5": "When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually.",
"6": "And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.",
"7": "And Shimei said as he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man!",
"8": "The Lord has avenged on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood.”",
"9": "Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.”",
"10": "But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”",
"11": "And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.",
"12": "It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing today.”",
"13": "So David and his men went on the road, while Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and flung dust.",
"14": "And the king, and all the people who were with him, arrived weary at the Jordan. And there he refreshed himself.",
"15": "Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.",
"16": "And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”",
"17": "And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”",
"18": "And Hushai said to Absalom, “No, for whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.",
"19": "And again, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? As I have served your father, so I will serve you.”",
"20": "Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel. What shall we do?”",
"21": "Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”",
"22": "So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.",
"23": "Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, both by David and by Absalom."
},
"17": {
"1": "Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.",
"2": "I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down only the king,",
"3": "and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man, and all the people will be at peace.”",
"4": "And the advice seemed right in the eyes of Absalom and all the elders of Israel.",
"5": "Then Absalom said, “Call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say.”",
"6": "And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him, “Thus has Ahithophel spoken; shall we do as he says? If not, you speak.”",
"7": "Then Hushai said to Absalom, “This time the counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good.”",
"8": "Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.",
"9": "Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in some other place. And as soon as some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’",
"10": "Then even the valiant man, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men.",
"11": "But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.",
"12": "So we shall come upon him in some place where he is to be found, and we shall light upon him as the dew falls on the ground, and of him and all the men with him not one will be left.",
"13": "If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we shall drag it into the valley, until not even a pebble is to be found there.”",
"14": "And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.",
"15": "Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and so have I counseled.",
"16": "Now therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’”",
"17": "Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at En-rogel. A female servant was to go and tell them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they were not to be seen entering the city.",
"18": "But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So both of them went away quickly and came to the house of a man at Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard. And they went down into it.",
"19": "And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth and scattered grain on it, and nothing was known of it.",
"20": "When Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” And the woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.",
"21": "After they had gone, the men came up out of the well, and went and told King David. They said to David, “Arise, and go quickly over the water, for thus and so has Ahithophel counseled against you.”",
"22": "Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan. By daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.",
"23": "When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.",
"24": "Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.",
"25": "Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.",
"26": "And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.",
"27": "When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,",
"28": "brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans and lentils,",
"29": "honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”"
},
"18": {
"1": "Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.",
"2": "And David sent out the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, “I myself will also go out with you.”",
"3": "But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”",
"4": "The king said to them, “Whatever seems best to you I will do.” So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.",
"5": "And the king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders about Absalom.",
"6": "So the army went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.",
"7": "And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.",
"8": "The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.",
"9": "And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.",
"10": "And a certain man saw it and told Joab, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”",
"11": "Joab said to the man who told him, “What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt.”",
"12": "But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king's son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’",
"13": "On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof.”",
"14": "Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” And he took three javelins in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak.",
"15": "And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.",
"16": "Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them.",
"17": "And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every one to his own home.",
"18": "Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.",
"19": "Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me run and carry news to the king that the Lord has delivered him from the hand of his enemies.”",
"20": "And Joab said to him, “You are not to carry news today. You may carry news another day, but today you shall carry no news, because the king's son is dead.”",
"21": "Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed before Joab, and ran.",
"22": "Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said again to Joab, “Come what may, let me also run after the Cushite.” And Joab said, “Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the news?”",
"23": "“Come what may,” he said, “I will run.” So he said to him, “Run.” Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.",
"24": "Now David was sitting between the two gates, and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.",
"25": "The watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” And he drew nearer and nearer.",
"26": "The watchman saw another man running. And the watchman called to the gate and said, “See, another man running alone!” The king said, “He also brings news.”",
"27": "The watchman said, “I think the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” And the king said, “He is a good man and comes with good news.”",
"28": "Then Ahimaaz cried out to the king, “All is well.” And he bowed before the king with his face to the earth and said, “Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king.”",
"29": "And the king said, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king's servant, your servant, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was.”",
"30": "And the king said, “Turn aside and stand here.” So he turned aside and stood still.",
"31": "And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, “Good news for my lord the king! For the Lord has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you.”",
"32": "The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” And the Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you for evil be like that young man.”",
"33": "And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”"
},
"19": {
"1": "It was told Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”",
"2": "So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard that day, “The king is grieving for his son.”",
"3": "And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.",
"4": "The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”",
"5": "Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life and the lives of your sons and your daughters and the lives of your wives and your concubines,",
"6": "because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.",
"7": "Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”",
"8": "Then the king arose and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” And all the people came before the king.\nNow Israel had fled every man to his own home.",
"9": "And all the people were arguing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and saved us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.",
"10": "But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”",
"11": "And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?",
"12": "You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’",
"13": "And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”",
"14": "And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, “Return, both you and all your servants.”",
"15": "So the king came back to the Jordan, and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.",
"16": "And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David.",
"17": "And with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,",
"18": "and they crossed the ford to bring over the king's household and to do his pleasure. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan,",
"19": "and said to the king, “Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.",
"20": "For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”",
"21": "Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?”",
"22": "But David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?”",
"23": "And the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king gave him his oath.",
"24": "And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.",
"25": "And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”",
"26": "He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ For your servant is lame.",
"27": "He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.",
"28": "For all my father's house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?”",
"29": "And the king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.”",
"30": "And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home.”",
"31": "Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.",
"32": "Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.",
"33": "And the king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”",
"34": "But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?",
"35": "I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?",
"36": "Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?",
"37": "Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him go over with my lord the king, and do for him whatever seems good to you.”",
"38": "And the king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you, and all that you desire of me I will do for you.”",
"39": "Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. And the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home.",
"40": "The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him. All the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.",
"41": "Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?”",
"42": "All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?”",
"43": "And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel."
},
"20": {
"1": "Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said,\n“We have no portion in David,\nand we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse;\nevery man to his tents, O Israel!”",
"2": "So all the men of Israel withdrew from David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.",
"3": "And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.",
"4": "Then the king said to Amasa, “Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself.”",
"5": "So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he delayed beyond the set time that had been appointed him.",
"6": "And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord's servants and pursue him, lest he get himself to fortified cities and escape from us.”",
"7": "And there went out after him Joab's men and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men. They went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.",
"8": "When they were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was wearing a soldier's garment, and over it was a belt with a sword in its sheath fastened on his thigh, and as he went forward it fell out.",
"9": "And Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.",
"10": "But Amasa did not observe the sword that was in Joab's hand. So Joab struck him with it in the stomach and spilled his entrails to the ground without striking a second blow, and he died.\nThen Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.",
"11": "And one of Joab's young men took his stand by Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.”",
"12": "And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him.",
"13": "When he was taken out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.",
"14": "And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-maacah, and all the Bichrites assembled and followed him in.",
"15": "And all the men who were with Joab came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah. They cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart, and they were battering the wall to throw it down.",
"16": "Then a wise woman called from the city, “Listen! Listen! Tell Joab, ‘Come here, that I may speak to you.’”",
"17": "And he came near her, and the woman said, “Are you Joab?” He answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Listen to the words of your servant.” And he answered, “I am listening.”",
"18": "Then she said, “They used to say in former times, ‘Let them but ask counsel at Abel,’ and so they settled a matter.",
"19": "I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”",
"20": "Joab answered, “Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy!",
"21": "That is not true. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David. Give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city.” And the woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.”",
"22": "Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.",
"23": "Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;",
"24": "and Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;",
"25": "and Sheva was secretary; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;",
"26": "and Ira the Jairite was also David's priest."
},
"21": {
"1": "Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”",
"2": "So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.",
"3": "And David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless the heritage of the Lord?”",
"4": "The Gibeonites said to him, “It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” And he said, “What do you say that I shall do for you?”",
"5": "They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,",
"6": "let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the Lord at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”",
"7": "But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.",
"8": "The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;",
"9": "and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.",
"10": "Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.",
"11": "When David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,",
"12": "David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.",
"13": "And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.",
"14": "And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that God responded to the plea for the land.",
"15": "There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary.",
"16": "And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David.",
"17": "But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”",
"18": "After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.",
"19": "And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.",
"20": "And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants.",
"21": "And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, struck him down.",
"22": "These four were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants."
},
"22": {
"1": "And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.",
"2": "He said,\n“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,",
"3": "my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,\nmy shield, and the horn of my salvation,\n my stronghold and my refuge,\n my savior; you save me from violence.",
"4": "I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,\n and I am saved from my enemies.",
"5": "“For the waves of death encompassed me,\n the torrents of destruction assailed me;",
"6": "the cords of Sheol entangled me;\n the snares of death confronted me.",
"7": "“In my distress I called upon the Lord;\n to my God I called.\nFrom his temple he heard my voice,\n and my cry came to his ears.",
"8": "“Then the earth reeled and rocked;\n the foundations of the heavens trembled\n and quaked, because he was angry.",
"9": "Smoke went up from his nostrils,\n and devouring fire from his mouth;\n glowing coals flamed forth from him.",
"10": "He bowed the heavens and came down;\n thick darkness was under his feet.",
"11": "He rode on a cherub and flew;\n he was seen on the wings of the wind.",
"12": "He made darkness around him his canopy,\n thick clouds, a gathering of water.",
"13": "Out of the brightness before him\n coals of fire flamed forth.",
"14": "The Lord thundered from heaven,\n and the Most High uttered his voice.",
"15": "And he sent out arrows and scattered them;\n lightning, and routed them.",
"16": "Then the channels of the sea were seen;\n the foundations of the world were laid bare,\nat the rebuke of the Lord,\n at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.",
"17": "“He sent from on high, he took me;\n he drew me out of many waters.",
"18": "He rescued me from my strong enemy,\n from those who hated me,\n for they were too mighty for me.",
"19": "They confronted me in the day of my calamity,\n but the Lord was my support.",
"20": "He brought me out into a broad place;\n he rescued me, because he delighted in me.",
"21": "“The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness;\n according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.",
"22": "For I have kept the ways of the Lord\n and have not wickedly departed from my God.",
"23": "For all his rules were before me,\n and from his statutes I did not turn aside.",
"24": "I was blameless before him,\n and I kept myself from guilt.",
"25": "And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,\n according to my cleanness in his sight.",
"26": "“With the merciful you show yourself merciful;\n with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;",
"27": "with the purified you deal purely,\n and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.",
"28": "You save a humble people,\n but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.",
"29": "For you are my lamp, O Lord,\n and my God lightens my darkness.",
"30": "For by you I can run against a troop,\n and by my God I can leap over a wall.",
"31": "This God—his way is perfect;\n the word of the Lord proves true;\n he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.",
"32": "“For who is God, but the Lord?\n And who is a rock, except our God?",
"33": "This God is my strong refuge\n and has made my way blameless.",
"34": "He made my feet like the feet of a deer\n and set me secure on the heights.",
"35": "He trains my hands for war,\n so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.",
"36": "You have given me the shield of your salvation,\n and your gentleness made me great.",
"37": "You gave a wide place for my steps under me,\n and my feet did not slip;",
"38": "I pursued my enemies and destroyed them,\n and did not turn back until they were consumed.",
"39": "I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise;\n they fell under my feet.",
"40": "For you equipped me with strength for the battle;\n you made those who rise against me sink under me.",
"41": "You made my enemies turn their backs to me,\n those who hated me, and I destroyed them.",
"42": "They looked, but there was none to save;\n they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.",
"43": "I beat them fine as the dust of the earth;\n I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.",
"44": "“You delivered me from strife with my people;\n you kept me as the head of the nations;\n people whom I had not known served me.",
"45": "Foreigners came cringing to me;\n as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.",
"46": "Foreigners lost heart\n and came trembling out of their fortresses.",
"47": "“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,\n and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,",
"48": "the God who gave me vengeance\n and brought down peoples under me,",
"49": "who brought me out from my enemies;\n you exalted me above those who rose against me;\n you delivered me from men of violence.",
"50": "“For this I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations,\n and sing praises to your name.",
"51": "Great salvation he brings to his king,\n and shows steadfast love to his anointed,\n to David and his offspring forever.”"
},
"23": {
"1": "Now these are the last words of David:\nThe oracle of David, the son of Jesse,\n the oracle of the man who was raised on high,\nthe anointed of the God of Jacob,\n the sweet psalmist of Israel:",
"2": "“The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me;\n his word is on my tongue.",
"3": "The God of Israel has spoken;\n the Rock of Israel has said to me:\nWhen one rules justly over men,\n ruling in the fear of God,",
"4": "he dawns on them like the morning light,\n like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning,\n like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.",
"5": "“For does not my house stand so with God?\n For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,\n ordered in all things and secure.\nFor will he not cause to prosper\n all my help and my desire?",
"6": "But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away,\n for they cannot be taken with the hand;",
"7": "but the man who touches them\n arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear,\n and they are utterly consumed with fire.”",
"8": "These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time.",
"9": "And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of Dodo, son of Ahohi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.",
"10": "He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clung to the sword. And the Lord brought about a great victory that day, and the men returned after him only to strip the slain.",
"11": "And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines.",
"12": "But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and struck down the Philistines, and the Lord worked a great victory.",
"13": "And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.",
"14": "David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.",
"15": "And David said longingly, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”",
"16": "Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it. He poured it out to the Lord",
"17": "and said, “Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?” Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.",
"18": "Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and killed them and won a name beside the three.",
"19": "He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three.",
"20": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.",
"21": "And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.",
"22": "These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.",
"23": "He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.",
"24": "Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,",
"25": "Shammah of Harod, Elika of Harod,",
"26": "Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa,",
"27": "Abiezer of Anathoth, Mebunnai the Hushathite,",
"28": "Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai of Netophah,",
"29": "Heleb the son of Baanah of Netophah, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin,",
"30": "Benaiah of Pirathon, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,",
"31": "Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of Bahurim,",
"32": "Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,",
"33": "Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,",
"34": "Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai of Maacah, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,",
"35": "Hezro of Carmel, Paarai the Arbite,",
"36": "Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,",
"37": "Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,",
"38": "Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,",
"39": "Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all."
},
"24": {
"1": "Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”",
"2": "So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, “Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.”",
"3": "But Joab said to the king, “May the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”",
"4": "But the king's word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.",
"5": "They crossed the Jordan and began from Aroer, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer.",
"6": "Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon,",
"7": "and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba.",
"8": "So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.",
"9": "And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000.",
"10": "But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”",
"11": "And when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,",
"12": "“Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’”",
"13": "So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”",
"14": "Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”",
"15": "So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.",
"16": "And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.",
"17": "Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father's house.”",
"18": "And Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”",
"19": "So David went up at Gad's word, as the Lord commanded.",
"20": "And when Araunah looked down, he saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. And Araunah went out and paid homage to the king with his face to the ground.",
"21": "And Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be averted from the people.”",
"22": "Then Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.",
"23": "All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept you.”",
"24": "But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.",
"25": "And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel."
}
},
"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:36.802098-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
}
}
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"2 Thessalonians": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,\nTo the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:",
"2": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.",
"3": "We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.",
"4": "Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.",
"5": "This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—",
"6": "since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,",
"7": "and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels",
"8": "in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.",
"9": "They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,",
"10": "when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.",
"11": "To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power,",
"12": "so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ."
},
"2": {
"1": "Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,",
"2": "not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.",
"3": "Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,",
"4": "who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.",
"5": "Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?",
"6": "And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.",
"7": "For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.",
"8": "And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.",
"9": "The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,",
"10": "and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.",
"11": "Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,",
"12": "in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.",
"13": "But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.",
"14": "To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.",
"15": "So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.",
"16": "Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,",
"17": "comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word."
},
"3": {
"1": "Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you,",
"2": "and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith.",
"3": "But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.",
"4": "And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command.",
"5": "May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.",
"6": "Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.",
"7": "For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you,",
"8": "nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.",
"9": "It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.",
"10": "For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.",
"11": "For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.",
"12": "Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.",
"13": "As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.",
"14": "If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.",
"15": "Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.",
"16": "Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.",
"17": "I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the sign of genuineness in every letter of mine; it is the way I write.",
"18": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all."
}
},
"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:21.883871-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
}
}
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"2 Timothy": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,",
"2": "To Timothy, my beloved child:\nGrace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.",
"3": "I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.",
"4": "As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy.",
"5": "I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.",
"6": "For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,",
"7": "for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.",
"8": "Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,",
"9": "who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,",
"10": "and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,",
"11": "for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher,",
"12": "which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.",
"13": "Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.",
"14": "By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.",
"15": "You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.",
"16": "May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains,",
"17": "but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me earnestly and found me—",
"18": "may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day!—and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus."
},
"2": {
"1": "You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,",
"2": "and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.",
"3": "Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.",
"4": "No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.",
"5": "An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.",
"6": "It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.",
"7": "Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.",
"8": "Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,",
"9": "for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!",
"10": "Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.",
"11": "The saying is trustworthy, for:\nIf we have died with him, we will also live with him;",
"12": "if we endure, we will also reign with him;\nif we deny him, he also will deny us;",
"13": "if we are faithless, he remains faithful—\nfor he cannot deny himself.",
"14": "Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.",
"15": "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.",
"16": "But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,",
"17": "and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,",
"18": "who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.",
"19": "But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”",
"20": "Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.",
"21": "Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.",
"22": "So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.",
"23": "Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.",
"24": "And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,",
"25": "correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,",
"26": "and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will."
},
"3": {
"1": "But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.",
"2": "For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,",
"3": "heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,",
"4": "treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,",
"5": "having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.",
"6": "For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,",
"7": "always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.",
"8": "Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.",
"9": "But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.",
"10": "You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,",
"11": "my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.",
"12": "Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,",
"13": "while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.",
"14": "But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it",
"15": "and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.",
"16": "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,",
"17": "that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work."
},
"4": {
"1": "I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:",
"2": "preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.",
"3": "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,",
"4": "and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.",
"5": "As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.",
"6": "For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.",
"7": "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.",
"8": "Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.",
"9": "Do your best to come to me soon.",
"10": "For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.",
"11": "Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry.",
"12": "Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.",
"13": "When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments.",
"14": "Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.",
"15": "Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message.",
"16": "At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!",
"17": "But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.",
"18": "The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.",
"19": "Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.",
"20": "Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Trophimus, who was ill, at Miletus.",
"21": "Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.",
"22": "The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you."
}
},
"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:23.268657-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
}
}
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"3 John": {
"1": {
"1": "The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.",
"2": "Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.",
"3": "For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.",
"4": "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.",
"5": "Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,",
"6": "who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.",
"7": "For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.",
"8": "Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.",
"9": "I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.",
"10": "So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.",
"11": "Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.",
"12": "Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.",
"13": "I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink.",
"14": "I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.",
"15": "Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, each by name."
}
},
"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:28.175447-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
}
}
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"Amos": {
"1": {
"1": "The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.",
"2": "And he said:\n“The Lord roars from Zion\n and utters his voice from Jerusalem;\nthe pastures of the shepherds mourn,\n and the top of Carmel withers.”",
"3": "Thus says the Lord:\n“For three transgressions of Damascus,\n and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,\nbecause they have threshed Gilead\n with threshing sledges of iron.",
"4": "So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael,\n and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.",
"5": "I will break the gate-bar of Damascus,\n and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven,\nand him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden;\n and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,”\nsays the Lord.",
"6": "Thus says the Lord:\n“For three transgressions of Gaza,\n and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,\nbecause they carried into exile a whole people\n to deliver them up to Edom.",
"7": "So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,\n and it shall devour her strongholds.",
"8": "I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod,\n and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;\nI will turn my hand against Ekron,\n and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”\nsays the Lord God.",
"9": "Thus says the Lord:\n“For three transgressions of Tyre,\n and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,\nbecause they delivered up a whole people to Edom,\n and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.",
"10": "So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,\n and it shall devour her strongholds.”",
"11": "Thus says the Lord:\n“For three transgressions of Edom,\n and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,\nbecause he pursued his brother with the sword\n and cast off all pity,\nand his anger tore perpetually,\n and he kept his wrath forever.",
"12": "So I will send a fire upon Teman,\n and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.”",
"13": "Thus says the Lord:\n“For three transgressions of the Ammonites,\n and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,\nbecause they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead,\n that they might enlarge their border.",
"14": "So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah,\n and it shall devour her strongholds,\nwith shouting on the day of battle,\n with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;",
"15": "and their king shall go into exile,\n he and his princes together,”\nsays the Lord."
},
"2": {
"1": "Thus says the Lord:\n“For three transgressions of Moab,\n and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,\nbecause he burned to lime\n the bones of the king of Edom.",
"2": "So I will send a fire upon Moab,\n and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth,\nand Moab shall die amid uproar,\n amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;",
"3": "I will cut off the ruler from its midst,\n and will kill all its princes with him,”\nsays the Lord.",
"4": "Thus says the Lord:\n“For three transgressions of Judah,\n and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,\nbecause they have rejected the law of the Lord,\n and have not kept his statutes,\nbut their lies have led them astray,\n those after which their fathers walked.",
"5": "So I will send a fire upon Judah,\n and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”",
"6": "Thus says the Lord:\n“For three transgressions of Israel,\n and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,\nbecause they sell the righteous for silver,\n and the needy for a pair of sandals—",
"7": "those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth\n and turn aside the way of the afflicted;\na man and his father go in to the same girl,\n so that my holy name is profaned;",
"8": "they lay themselves down beside every altar\n on garments taken in pledge,\nand in the house of their God they drink\n the wine of those who have been fined.",
"9": "“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,\n whose height was like the height of the cedars\n and who was as strong as the oaks;\nI destroyed his fruit above\n and his roots beneath.",
"10": "Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt\n and led you forty years in the wilderness,\n to possess the land of the Amorite.",
"11": "And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,\n and some of your young men for Nazirites.\n Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”\ndeclares the Lord.",
"12": "“But you made the Nazirites drink wine,\n and commanded the prophets,\n saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’",
"13": "“Behold, I will press you down in your place,\n as a cart full of sheaves presses down.",
"14": "Flight shall perish from the swift,\n and the strong shall not retain his strength,\n nor shall the mighty save his life;",
"15": "he who handles the bow shall not stand,\n and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself,\n nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;",
"16": "and he who is stout of heart among the mighty\n shall flee away naked in that day,”\ndeclares the Lord."
},
"3": {
"1": "Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:",
"2": "“You only have I known\n of all the families of the earth;\ntherefore I will punish you\n for all your iniquities.",
"3": "“Do two walk together,\n unless they have agreed to meet?",
"4": "Does a lion roar in the forest,\n when he has no prey?\nDoes a young lion cry out from his den,\n if he has taken nothing?",
"5": "Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth,\n when there is no trap for it?\nDoes a snare spring up from the ground,\n when it has taken nothing?",
"6": "Is a trumpet blown in a city,\n and the people are not afraid?\nDoes disaster come to a city,\n unless the Lord has done it?",
"7": "“For the Lord God does nothing\n without revealing his secret\n to his servants the prophets.",
"8": "The lion has roared;\n who will not fear?\nThe Lord God has spoken;\n who can but prophesy?”",
"9": "Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod\n and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt,\nand say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria,\n and see the great tumults within her,\n and the oppressed in her midst.”",
"10": "“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,\n “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”",
"11": "Therefore thus says the Lord God:\n“An adversary shall surround the land\n and bring down your defenses from you,\n and your strongholds shall be plundered.”",
"12": "Thus says the Lord: “As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed.",
"13": "“Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob,”\n declares the Lord God, the God of hosts,",
"14": "“that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions,\n I will punish the altars of Bethel,\nand the horns of the altar shall be cut off\n and fall to the ground.",
"15": "I will strike the winter house along with the summer house,\n and the houses of ivory shall perish,\nand the great houses shall come to an end,”\ndeclares the Lord."
},
"4": {
"1": "“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,\n who are on the mountain of Samaria,\nwho oppress the poor, who crush the needy,\n who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’",
"2": "The Lord God has sworn by his holiness\n that, behold, the days are coming upon you,\nwhen they shall take you away with hooks,\n even the last of you with fishhooks.",
"3": "And you shall go out through the breaches,\n each one straight ahead;\n and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”\ndeclares the Lord.",
"4": "“Come to Bethel, and transgress;\n to Gilgal, and multiply transgression;\nbring your sacrifices every morning,\n your tithes every three days;",
"5": "offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,\n and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them;\n for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”\ndeclares the Lord God.",
"6": "“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,\n and lack of bread in all your places,\nyet you did not return to me,”\ndeclares the Lord.",
"7": "“I also withheld the rain from you\n when there were yet three months to the harvest;\nI would send rain on one city,\n and send no rain on another city;\none field would have rain,\n and the field on which it did not rain would wither;",
"8": "so two or three cities would wander to another city\n to drink water, and would not be satisfied;\nyet you did not return to me,”\ndeclares the Lord.",
"9": "“I struck you with blight and mildew;\n your many gardens and your vineyards,\n your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured;\nyet you did not return to me,”\ndeclares the Lord.",
"10": "“I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;\n I killed your young men with the sword,\nand carried away your horses,\n and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;\nyet you did not return to me,”\ndeclares the Lord.",
"11": "“I overthrew some of you,\n as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,\n and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning;\nyet you did not return to me,”\ndeclares the Lord.",
"12": "“Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;\n because I will do this to you,\n prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”",
"13": "For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,\n and declares to man what is his thought,\nwho makes the morning darkness,\n and treads on the heights of the earth—\n the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!"
},
"5": {
"1": "Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:",
"2": "“Fallen, no more to rise,\n is the virgin Israel;\nforsaken on her land,\n with none to raise her up.”",
"3": "For thus says the Lord God:\n“The city that went out a thousand\n shall have a hundred left,\nand that which went out a hundred\n shall have ten left\n to the house of Israel.”",
"4": "For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:\n“Seek me and live;",
"5": "but do not seek Bethel,\nand do not enter into Gilgal\n or cross over to Beersheba;\nfor Gilgal shall surely go into exile,\n and Bethel shall come to nothing.”",
"6": "Seek the Lord and live,\n lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,\n and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,",
"7": "O you who turn justice to wormwood\n and cast down righteousness to the earth!",
"8": "He who made the Pleiades and Orion,\n and turns deep darkness into the morning\n and darkens the day into night,\nwho calls for the waters of the sea\n and pours them out on the surface of the earth,\nthe Lord is his name;",
"9": "who makes destruction flash forth against the strong,\n so that destruction comes upon the fortress.",
"10": "They hate him who reproves in the gate,\n and they abhor him who speaks the truth.",
"11": "Therefore because you trample on the poor\n and you exact taxes of grain from him,\nyou have built houses of hewn stone,\n but you shall not dwell in them;\nyou have planted pleasant vineyards,\n but you shall not drink their wine.",
"12": "For I know how many are your transgressions\n and how great are your sins—\nyou who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe,\n and turn aside the needy in the gate.",
"13": "Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time,\n for it is an evil time.",
"14": "Seek good, and not evil,\n that you may live;\nand so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,\n as you have said.",
"15": "Hate evil, and love good,\n and establish justice in the gate;\nit may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,\n will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.",
"16": "Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord:\n“In all the squares there shall be wailing,\n and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’\nThey shall call the farmers to mourning\n and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,",
"17": "and in all vineyards there shall be wailing,\n for I will pass through your midst,”\nsays the Lord.",
"18": "Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!\n Why would you have the day of the Lord?\nIt is darkness, and not light,",
"19": "as if a man fled from a lion,\n and a bear met him,\nor went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall,\n and a serpent bit him.",
"20": "Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light,\n and gloom with no brightness in it?",
"21": "“I hate, I despise your feasts,\n and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.",
"22": "Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,\n I will not accept them;\nand the peace offerings of your fattened animals,\n I will not look upon them.",
"23": "Take away from me the noise of your songs;\n to the melody of your harps I will not listen.",
"24": "But let justice roll down like waters,\n and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.",
"25": "“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?",
"26": "You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,",
"27": "and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts."
},
"6": {
"1": "“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,\n and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria,\nthe notable men of the first of the nations,\n to whom the house of Israel comes!",
"2": "Pass over to Calneh, and see,\n and from there go to Hamath the great;\n then go down to Gath of the Philistines.\nAre you better than these kingdoms?\n Or is their territory greater than your territory,",
"3": "O you who put far away the day of disaster\n and bring near the seat of violence?",
"4": "“Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory\n and stretch themselves out on their couches,\nand eat lambs from the flock\n and calves from the midst of the stall,",
"5": "who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp\n and like David invent for themselves instruments of music,",
"6": "who drink wine in bowls\n and anoint themselves with the finest oils,\n but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!",
"7": "Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile,\n and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.”",
"8": "The Lord God has sworn by himself, declares the Lord, the God of hosts:\n“I abhor the pride of Jacob\n and hate his strongholds,\n and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”",
"9": "And if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.",
"10": "And when one's relative, the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still anyone with you?” he shall say, “No”; and he shall say, “Silence! We must not mention the name of the Lord.”",
"11": "For behold, the Lord commands,\n and the great house shall be struck down into fragments,\n and the little house into bits.",
"12": "Do horses run on rocks?\n Does one plow there with oxen?\nBut you have turned justice into poison\n and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—",
"13": "you who rejoice in Lo-debar,\n who say, “Have we not by our own strength\n captured Karnaim for ourselves?”",
"14": "“For behold, I will raise up against you a nation,\n O house of Israel,” declares the Lord, the God of hosts;\n“and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath\n to the Brook of the Arabah.”"
},
"7": {
"1": "This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.",
"2": "When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,\n“O Lord God, please forgive!\n How can Jacob stand?\n He is so small!”",
"3": "The Lord relented concerning this:\n “It shall not be,” said the Lord.",
"4": "This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.",
"5": "Then I said,\n“O Lord God, please cease!\n How can Jacob stand?\n He is so small!”",
"6": "The Lord relented concerning this:\n “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.",
"7": "This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.",
"8": "And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,\n“Behold, I am setting a plumb line\n in the midst of my people Israel;\n I will never again pass by them;",
"9": "the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,\n and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,\n and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”",
"10": "Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.",
"11": "For thus Amos has said,\n“‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,\n and Israel must go into exile\n away from his land.’”",
"12": "And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there,",
"13": "but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”",
"14": "Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.",
"15": "But the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’",
"16": "Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.\n“You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,\n and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’",
"17": "Therefore thus says the Lord:\n“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,\n and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,\n and your land shall be divided up with a measuring line;\nyou yourself shall die in an unclean land,\n and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”"
},
"8": {
"1": "This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.",
"2": "And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,\n“The end has come upon my people Israel;\n I will never again pass by them.",
"3": "The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,”\ndeclares the Lord God.\n“So many dead bodies!”\n“They are thrown everywhere!”\n“Silence!”",
"4": "Hear this, you who trample on the needy\n and bring the poor of the land to an end,",
"5": "saying, “When will the new moon be over,\n that we may sell grain?\nAnd the Sabbath,\n that we may offer wheat for sale,\nthat we may make the ephah small and the shekel great\n and deal deceitfully with false balances,",
"6": "that we may buy the poor for silver\n and the needy for a pair of sandals\n and sell the chaff of the wheat?”",
"7": "The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:\n“Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.",
"8": "Shall not the land tremble on this account,\n and everyone mourn who dwells in it,\nand all of it rise like the Nile,\n and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”",
"9": "“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,\n “I will make the sun go down at noon\n and darken the earth in broad daylight.",
"10": "I will turn your feasts into mourning\n and all your songs into lamentation;\nI will bring sackcloth on every waist\n and baldness on every head;\nI will make it like the mourning for an only son\n and the end of it like a bitter day.",
"11": "“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,\n “when I will send a famine on the land—\nnot a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,\n but of hearing the words of the Lord.",
"12": "They shall wander from sea to sea,\n and from north to east;\nthey shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,\n but they shall not find it.",
"13": "“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men\n shall faint for thirst.",
"14": "Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria,\n and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’\nand, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’\n they shall fall, and never rise again.”"
},
"9": {
"1": "I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said:\n“Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake,\n and shatter them on the heads of all the people;\nand those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;\n not one of them shall flee away;\n not one of them shall escape.",
"2": "“If they dig into Sheol,\n from there shall my hand take them;\nif they climb up to heaven,\n from there I will bring them down.",
"3": "If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,\n from there I will search them out and take them;\nand if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,\n there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.",
"4": "And if they go into captivity before their enemies,\n there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;\nand I will fix my eyes upon them\n for evil and not for good.”",
"5": "The Lord God of hosts,\nhe who touches the earth and it melts,\n and all who dwell in it mourn,\nand all of it rises like the Nile,\n and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;",
"6": "who builds his upper chambers in the heavens\n and founds his vault upon the earth;\nwho calls for the waters of the sea\n and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—\nthe Lord is his name.",
"7": "“Are you not like the Cushites to me,\n O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.\n“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,\n and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?",
"8": "Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,\n and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,\n except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”\ndeclares the Lord.",
"9": "“For behold, I will command,\n and shake the house of Israel among all the nations\nas one shakes with a sieve,\n but no pebble shall fall to the earth.",
"10": "All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,\n who say, ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’",
"11": "“In that day I will raise up\n the booth of David that is fallen\nand repair its breaches,\n and raise up its ruins\n and rebuild it as in the days of old,",
"12": "that they may possess the remnant of Edom\n and all the nations who are called by my name,”\n declares the Lord who does this.",
"13": "“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,\n “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper\n and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;\nthe mountains shall drip sweet wine,\n and all the hills shall flow with it.",
"14": "I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,\n and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;\nthey shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,\n and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.",
"15": "I will plant them on their land,\n and they shall never again be uprooted\n out of the land that I have given them,”\nsays the Lord your God."
}
},
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"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:04.969249-04:00",
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"Colossians": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,",
"2": "To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae:\nGrace to you and peace from God our Father.",
"3": "We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,",
"4": "since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,",
"5": "because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,",
"6": "which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,",
"7": "just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf",
"8": "and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.",
"9": "And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,",
"10": "so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;",
"11": "being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;",
"12": "giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.",
"13": "He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,",
"14": "in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.",
"15": "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.",
"16": "For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.",
"17": "And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.",
"18": "And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.",
"19": "For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,",
"20": "and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.",
"21": "And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,",
"22": "he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,",
"23": "if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.",
"24": "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,",
"25": "of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,",
"26": "the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.",
"27": "To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.",
"28": "Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.",
"29": "For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me."
},
"2": {
"1": "For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,",
"2": "that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,",
"3": "in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.",
"4": "I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.",
"5": "For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.",
"6": "Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,",
"7": "rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.",
"8": "See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.",
"9": "For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,",
"10": "and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.",
"11": "In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,",
"12": "having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.",
"13": "And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,",
"14": "by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.",
"15": "He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.",
"16": "Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.",
"17": "These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.",
"18": "Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,",
"19": "and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.",
"20": "If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—",
"21": "“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”",
"22": "(referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings?",
"23": "These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh."
},
"3": {
"1": "If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.",
"2": "Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.",
"3": "For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.",
"4": "When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.",
"5": "Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.",
"6": "On account of these the wrath of God is coming.",
"7": "In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.",
"8": "But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.",
"9": "Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices",
"10": "and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.",
"11": "Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.",
"12": "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,",
"13": "bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.",
"14": "And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.",
"15": "And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.",
"16": "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.",
"17": "And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.",
"18": "Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.",
"19": "Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.",
"20": "Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.",
"21": "Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.",
"22": "Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.",
"23": "Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,",
"24": "knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.",
"25": "For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality."
},
"4": {
"1": "Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.",
"2": "Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.",
"3": "At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—",
"4": "that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.",
"5": "Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.",
"6": "Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.",
"7": "Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.",
"8": "I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts,",
"9": "and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.",
"10": "Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, welcome him),",
"11": "and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.",
"12": "Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.",
"13": "For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.",
"14": "Luke the beloved physician greets you, as does Demas.",
"15": "Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.",
"16": "And when this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.",
"17": "And say to Archippus, “See that you fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord.”",
"18": "I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you."
}
},
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"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:20.846298-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
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"Daniel": {
"1": {
"1": "In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.",
"2": "And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.",
"3": "Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility,",
"4": "youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.",
"5": "The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king.",
"6": "Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah.",
"7": "And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.",
"8": "But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.",
"9": "And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs,",
"10": "and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.”",
"11": "Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,",
"12": "“Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.",
"13": "Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”",
"14": "So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.",
"15": "At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food.",
"16": "So the steward took away their food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.",
"17": "As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.",
"18": "At the end of the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.",
"19": "And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king.",
"20": "And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.",
"21": "And Daniel was there until the first year of King Cyrus."
},
"2": {
"1": "In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him.",
"2": "Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.",
"3": "And the king said to them, “I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”",
"4": "Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”",
"5": "The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins.",
"6": "But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”",
"7": "They answered a second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show its interpretation.”",
"8": "The king answered and said, “I know with certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see that the word from me is firm—",
"9": "if you do not make the dream known to me, there is but one sentence for you. You have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the times change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.”",
"10": "The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who can meet the king's demand, for no great and powerful king has asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.",
"11": "The thing that the king asks is difficult, and no one can show it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”",
"12": "Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.",
"13": "So the decree went out, and the wise men were about to be killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them.",
"14": "Then Daniel replied with prudence and discretion to Arioch, the captain of the king's guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.",
"15": "He declared to Arioch, the king's captain, “Why is the decree of the king so urgent?” Then Arioch made the matter known to Daniel.",
"16": "And Daniel went in and requested the king to appoint him a time, that he might show the interpretation to the king.",
"17": "Then Daniel went to his house and made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions,",
"18": "and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.",
"19": "Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.",
"20": "Daniel answered and said:\n“Blessed be the name of God forever and ever,\n to whom belong wisdom and might.",
"21": "He changes times and seasons;\n he removes kings and sets up kings;\nhe gives wisdom to the wise\n and knowledge to those who have understanding;",
"22": "he reveals deep and hidden things;\n he knows what is in the darkness,\n and the light dwells with him.",
"23": "To you, O God of my fathers,\n I give thanks and praise,\nfor you have given me wisdom and might,\n and have now made known to me what we asked of you,\n for you have made known to us the king's matter.”",
"24": "Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus to him: “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show the king the interpretation.”",
"25": "Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste and said thus to him: “I have found among the exiles from Judah a man who will make known to the king the interpretation.”",
"26": "The king declared to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its interpretation?”",
"27": "Daniel answered the king and said, “No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery that the king has asked,",
"28": "but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:",
"29": "To you, O king, as you lay in bed came thoughts of what would be after this, and he who reveals mysteries made known to you what is to be.",
"30": "But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind.",
"31": "“You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening.",
"32": "The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze,",
"33": "its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.",
"34": "As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.",
"35": "Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.",
"36": "“This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation.",
"37": "You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory,",
"38": "and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.",
"39": "Another kingdom inferior to you shall arise after you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.",
"40": "And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall break and crush all these.",
"41": "And as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the soft clay.",
"42": "And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle.",
"43": "As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.",
"44": "And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,",
"45": "just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”",
"46": "Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and paid homage to Daniel, and commanded that an offering and incense be offered up to him.",
"47": "The king answered and said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.”",
"48": "Then the king gave Daniel high honors and many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.",
"49": "Daniel made a request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel remained at the king's court."
},
"3": {
"1": "King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.",
"2": "Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.",
"3": "Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.",
"4": "And the herald proclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,",
"5": "that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.",
"6": "And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace.”",
"7": "Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.",
"8": "Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and maliciously accused the Jews.",
"9": "They declared to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever!",
"10": "You, O king, have made a decree, that every man who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image.",
"11": "And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into a burning fiery furnace.",
"12": "There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, pay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”",
"13": "Then Nebuchadnezzar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. So they brought these men before the king.",
"14": "Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up?",
"15": "Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”",
"16": "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.",
"17": "If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.",
"18": "But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”",
"19": "Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated.",
"20": "And he ordered some of the mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.",
"21": "Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace.",
"22": "Because the king's order was urgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.",
"23": "And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell bound into the burning fiery furnace.",
"24": "Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste. He declared to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.”",
"25": "He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”",
"26": "Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace; he declared, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.",
"27": "And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men. The hair of their heads was not singed, their cloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them.",
"28": "Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set aside the king's command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.",
"29": "Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to rescue in this way.”",
"30": "Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon."
},
"4": {
"1": "King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you!",
"2": "It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me.",
"3": "How great are his signs,\n how mighty his wonders!\nHis kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,\n and his dominion endures from generation to generation.",
"4": "I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace.",
"5": "I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me.",
"6": "So I made a decree that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.",
"7": "Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its interpretation.",
"8": "At last Daniel came in before me—he who was named Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods—and I told him the dream, saying,",
"9": "“O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery is too difficult for you, tell me the visions of my dream that I saw and their interpretation.",
"10": "The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.",
"11": "The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth.",
"12": "Its leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.",
"13": "“I saw in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven.",
"14": "He proclaimed aloud and said thus: ‘Chop down the tree and lop off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches.",
"15": "But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, amid the tender grass of the field. Let him be wet with the dew of heaven. Let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.",
"16": "Let his mind be changed from a man's, and let a beast's mind be given to him; and let seven periods of time pass over him.",
"17": "The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’",
"18": "This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. And you, O Belteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”",
"19": "Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was dismayed for a while, and his thoughts alarmed him. The king answered and said, “Belteshazzar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you.” Belteshazzar answered and said, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its interpretation for your enemies!",
"20": "The tree you saw, which grew and became strong, so that its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth,",
"21": "whose leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which beasts of the field found shade, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens lived—",
"22": "it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. Your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.",
"23": "And because the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven periods of time pass over him,’",
"24": "this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king,",
"25": "that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.",
"26": "And as it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be confirmed for you from the time that you know that Heaven rules.",
"27": "Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you: break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your prosperity.”",
"28": "All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.",
"29": "At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,",
"30": "and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”",
"31": "While the words were still in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you,",
"32": "and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”",
"33": "Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles' feathers, and his nails were like birds' claws.",
"34": "At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever,\nfor his dominion is an everlasting dominion,\n and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;",
"35": "all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,\n and he does according to his will among the host of heaven\n and among the inhabitants of the earth;\nand none can stay his hand\n or say to him, “What have you done?”",
"36": "At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was added to me.",
"37": "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble."
},
"5": {
"1": "King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.",
"2": "Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.",
"3": "Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.",
"4": "They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.",
"5": "Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote.",
"6": "Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.",
"7": "The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”",
"8": "Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation.",
"9": "Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed, and his color changed, and his lords were perplexed.",
"10": "The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall, and the queen declared, “O king, live forever! Let not your thoughts alarm you or your color change.",
"11": "There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him, and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father—your father the king—made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers,",
"12": "because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”",
"13": "Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king answered and said to Daniel, “You are that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah.",
"14": "I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.",
"15": "Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they could not show the interpretation of the matter.",
"16": "But I have heard that you can give interpretations and solve problems. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”",
"17": "Then Daniel answered and said before the king, “Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation.",
"18": "O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty.",
"19": "And because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled.",
"20": "But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.",
"21": "He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will.",
"22": "And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,",
"23": "but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.",
"24": "“Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed.",
"25": "And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin.",
"26": "This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;",
"27": "Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;",
"28": "Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”",
"29": "Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.",
"30": "That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.",
"31": "And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old."
},
"6": {
"1": "It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom;",
"2": "and over them three high officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss.",
"3": "Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other high officials and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.",
"4": "Then the high officials and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.",
"5": "Then these men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”",
"6": "Then these high officials and satraps came by agreement to the king and said to him, “O King Darius, live forever!",
"7": "All the high officials of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.",
"8": "Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.”",
"9": "Therefore King Darius signed the document and injunction.",
"10": "When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.",
"11": "Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and plea before his God.",
"12": "Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the injunction, “O king! Did you not sign an injunction, that anyone who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered and said, “The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.”",
"13": "Then they answered and said before the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or the injunction you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”",
"14": "Then the king, when he heard these words, was much distressed and set his mind to deliver Daniel. And he labored till the sun went down to rescue him.",
"15": "Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed.”",
"16": "Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king declared to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”",
"17": "And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.",
"18": "Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him.",
"19": "Then, at break of day, the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions.",
"20": "As he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish. The king declared to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”",
"21": "Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!",
"22": "My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”",
"23": "Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.",
"24": "And the king commanded, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. And before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.",
"25": "Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: “Peace be multiplied to you.",
"26": "I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel,\nfor he is the living God,\n enduring forever;\nhis kingdom shall never be destroyed,\n and his dominion shall be to the end.",
"27": "He delivers and rescues;\n he works signs and wonders\n in heaven and on earth,\nhe who has saved Daniel\n from the power of the lions.”",
"28": "So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian."
},
"7": {
"1": "In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter.",
"2": "Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.",
"3": "And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another.",
"4": "The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.",
"5": "And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’",
"6": "After this I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.",
"7": "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.",
"8": "I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.",
"9": "“As I looked,\nthrones were placed,\n and the Ancient of Days took his seat;\nhis clothing was white as snow,\n and the hair of his head like pure wool;\nhis throne was fiery flames;\n its wheels were burning fire.",
"10": "A stream of fire issued\n and came out from before him;\na thousand thousands served him,\n and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him;\nthe court sat in judgment,\n and the books were opened.",
"11": "“I looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire.",
"12": "As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.",
"13": "“I saw in the night visions,\nand behold, with the clouds of heaven\n there came one like a son of man,\nand he came to the Ancient of Days\n and was presented before him.",
"14": "And to him was given dominion\n and glory and a kingdom,\nthat all peoples, nations, and languages\n should serve him;\nhis dominion is an everlasting dominion,\n which shall not pass away,\nand his kingdom one\n that shall not be destroyed.",
"15": "“As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious, and the visions of my head alarmed me.",
"16": "I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of the things.",
"17": "‘These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth.",
"18": "But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.’",
"19": "“Then I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrifying, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze, and which devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet,",
"20": "and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn that came up and before which three of them fell, the horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and that seemed greater than its companions.",
"21": "As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them,",
"22": "until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.",
"23": "“Thus he said: ‘As for the fourth beast,\nthere shall be a fourth kingdom on earth,\n which shall be different from all the kingdoms,\nand it shall devour the whole earth,\n and trample it down, and break it to pieces.",
"24": "As for the ten horns,\nout of this kingdom ten kings shall arise,\n and another shall arise after them;\nhe shall be different from the former ones,\n and shall put down three kings.",
"25": "He shall speak words against the Most High,\n and shall wear out the saints of the Most High,\n and shall think to change the times and the law;\nand they shall be given into his hand\n for a time, times, and half a time.",
"26": "But the court shall sit in judgment,\n and his dominion shall be taken away,\n to be consumed and destroyed to the end.",
"27": "And the kingdom and the dominion\n and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven\n shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High;\nhis kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom,\n and all dominions shall serve and obey him.’",
"28": "“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly alarmed me, and my color changed, but I kept the matter in my heart.”"
},
"8": {
"1": "In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.",
"2": "And I saw in the vision; and when I saw, I was in Susa the citadel, which is in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I was at the Ulai canal.",
"3": "I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.",
"4": "I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.",
"5": "As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.",
"6": "He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the canal, and he ran at him in his powerful wrath.",
"7": "I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him and struck the ram and broke his two horns. And the ram had no power to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled on him. And there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power.",
"8": "Then the goat became exceedingly great, but when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.",
"9": "Out of one of them came a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the glorious land.",
"10": "It grew great, even to the host of heaven. And some of the host and some of the stars it threw down to the ground and trampled on them.",
"11": "It became great, even as great as the Prince of the host. And the regular burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown.",
"12": "And a host will be given over to it together with the regular burnt offering because of transgression, and it will throw truth to the ground, and it will act and prosper.",
"13": "Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one who spoke, “For how long is the vision concerning the regular burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled underfoot?”",
"14": "And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”",
"15": "When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. And behold, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.",
"16": "And I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Ulai, and it called, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”",
"17": "So he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was frightened and fell on my face. But he said to me, “Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end.”",
"18": "And when he had spoken to me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face to the ground. But he touched me and made me stand up.",
"19": "He said, “Behold, I will make known to you what shall be at the latter end of the indignation, for it refers to the appointed time of the end.",
"20": "As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.",
"21": "And the goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king.",
"22": "As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.",
"23": "And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.",
"24": "His power shall be great—but not by his own power; and he shall cause fearful destruction and shall succeed in what he does, and destroy mighty men and the people who are the saints.",
"25": "By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken—but by no human hand.",
"26": "The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true, but seal up the vision, for it refers to many days from now.”",
"27": "And I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days. Then I rose and went about the king's business, but I was appalled by the vision and did not understand it."
},
"9": {
"1": "In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—",
"2": "in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.",
"3": "Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.",
"4": "I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,",
"5": "we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.",
"6": "We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.",
"7": "To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.",
"8": "To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.",
"9": "To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him",
"10": "and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.",
"11": "All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.",
"12": "He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.",
"13": "As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.",
"14": "Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.",
"15": "And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.",
"16": "“O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.",
"17": "Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate.",
"18": "O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.",
"19": "O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”",
"20": "While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God,",
"21": "while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice.",
"22": "He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you insight and understanding.",
"23": "At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision.",
"24": "“Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.",
"25": "Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.",
"26": "And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.",
"27": "And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”"
},
"10": {
"1": "In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision.",
"2": "In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks.",
"3": "I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.",
"4": "On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris)",
"5": "I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.",
"6": "His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.",
"7": "And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves.",
"8": "So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and no strength was left in me. My radiant appearance was fearfully changed, and I retained no strength.",
"9": "Then I heard the sound of his words, and as I heard the sound of his words, I fell on my face in deep sleep with my face to the ground.",
"10": "And behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.",
"11": "And he said to me, “O Daniel, man greatly loved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you.” And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling.",
"12": "Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.",
"13": "The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia,",
"14": "and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come.”",
"15": "When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and was mute.",
"16": "And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.",
"17": "How can my lord's servant talk with my lord? For now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me.”",
"18": "Again one having the appearance of a man touched me and strengthened me.",
"19": "And he said, “O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”",
"20": "Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come.",
"21": "But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince."
},
"11": {
"1": "“And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.",
"2": "“And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.",
"3": "Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills.",
"4": "And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these.",
"5": "“Then the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he and shall rule, and his authority shall be a great authority.",
"6": "After some years they shall make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement. But she shall not retain the strength of her arm, and he and his arm shall not endure, but she shall be given up, and her attendants, he who fathered her, and he who supported her in those times.",
"7": "“And from a branch from her roots one shall arise in his place. He shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail.",
"8": "He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold, and for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north.",
"9": "Then the latter shall come into the realm of the king of the south but shall return to his own land.",
"10": "“His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall keep coming and overflow and pass through, and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress.",
"11": "Then the king of the south, moved with rage, shall come out and fight against the king of the north. And he shall raise a great multitude, but it shall be given into his hand.",
"12": "And when the multitude is taken away, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.",
"13": "For the king of the north shall again raise a multitude, greater than the first. And after some years he shall come on with a great army and abundant supplies.",
"14": "“In those times many shall rise against the king of the south, and the violent among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they shall fail.",
"15": "Then the king of the north shall come and throw up siegeworks and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his best troops, for there shall be no strength to stand.",
"16": "But he who comes against him shall do as he wills, and none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in the glorious land, with destruction in his hand.",
"17": "He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and he shall bring terms of an agreement and perform them. He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy the kingdom, but it shall not stand or be to his advantage.",
"18": "Afterward he shall turn his face to the coastlands and shall capture many of them, but a commander shall put an end to his insolence. Indeed, he shall turn his insolence back upon him.",
"19": "Then he shall turn his face back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.",
"20": "“Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exactor of tribute for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle.",
"21": "In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given. He shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.",
"22": "Armies shall be utterly swept away before him and broken, even the prince of the covenant.",
"23": "And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people.",
"24": "Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province, and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers' fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time.",
"25": "And he shall stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south shall wage war with an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he shall not stand, for plots shall be devised against him.",
"26": "Even those who eat his food shall break him. His army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.",
"27": "And as for the two kings, their hearts shall be bent on doing evil. They shall speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for the end is yet to be at the time appointed.",
"28": "And he shall return to his land with great wealth, but his heart shall be set against the holy covenant. And he shall work his will and return to his own land.",
"29": "“At the time appointed he shall return and come into the south, but it shall not be this time as it was before.",
"30": "For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant.",
"31": "Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.",
"32": "He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.",
"33": "And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder.",
"34": "When they stumble, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery,",
"35": "and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.",
"36": "“And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done.",
"37": "He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.",
"38": "He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these. A god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.",
"39": "He shall deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. Those who acknowledge him he shall load with honor. He shall make them rulers over many and shall divide the land for a price.",
"40": "“At the time of the end, the king of the south shall attack him, but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through.",
"41": "He shall come into the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the main part of the Ammonites.",
"42": "He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape.",
"43": "He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Cushites shall follow in his train.",
"44": "But news from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go out with great fury to destroy and devote many to destruction.",
"45": "And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him."
},
"12": {
"1": "“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.",
"2": "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.",
"3": "And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.",
"4": "But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”",
"5": "Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream.",
"6": "And someone said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, “How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?”",
"7": "And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.",
"8": "I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?”",
"9": "He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.",
"10": "Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.",
"11": "And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.",
"12": "Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days.",
"13": "But go your way till the end. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.”"
}
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"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:02.711465-04:00",
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"Ecclesiastes": {
"1": {
"1": "The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.",
"2": "Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,\n vanity of vanities! All is vanity.",
"3": "What does man gain by all the toil\n at which he toils under the sun?",
"4": "A generation goes, and a generation comes,\n but the earth remains forever.",
"5": "The sun rises, and the sun goes down,\n and hastens to the place where it rises.",
"6": "The wind blows to the south\n and goes around to the north;\naround and around goes the wind,\n and on its circuits the wind returns.",
"7": "All streams run to the sea,\n but the sea is not full;\nto the place where the streams flow,\n there they flow again.",
"8": "All things are full of weariness;\n a man cannot utter it;\nthe eye is not satisfied with seeing,\n nor the ear filled with hearing.",
"9": "What has been is what will be,\n and what has been done is what will be done,\n and there is nothing new under the sun.",
"10": "Is there a thing of which it is said,\n “See, this is new”?\nIt has been already\n in the ages before us.",
"11": "There is no remembrance of former things,\n nor will there be any remembrance\nof later things yet to be\n among those who come after.",
"12": "I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.",
"13": "And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.",
"14": "I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.",
"15": "What is crooked cannot be made straight,\n and what is lacking cannot be counted.",
"16": "I said in my heart, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”",
"17": "And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.",
"18": "For in much wisdom is much vexation,\n and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow."
},
"2": {
"1": "I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity.",
"2": "I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”",
"3": "I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.",
"4": "I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.",
"5": "I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.",
"6": "I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.",
"7": "I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.",
"8": "I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the sons of man.",
"9": "So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.",
"10": "And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.",
"11": "Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.",
"12": "So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.",
"13": "Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.",
"14": "The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.",
"15": "Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.",
"16": "For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!",
"17": "So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.",
"18": "I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,",
"19": "and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.",
"20": "So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun,",
"21": "because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.",
"22": "What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?",
"23": "For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.",
"24": "There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,",
"25": "for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?",
"26": "For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind."
},
"3": {
"1": "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:",
"2": "a time to be born, and a time to die;\na time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;",
"3": "a time to kill, and a time to heal;\na time to break down, and a time to build up;",
"4": "a time to weep, and a time to laugh;\na time to mourn, and a time to dance;",
"5": "a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;\na time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;",
"6": "a time to seek, and a time to lose;\na time to keep, and a time to cast away;",
"7": "a time to tear, and a time to sew;\na time to keep silence, and a time to speak;",
"8": "a time to love, and a time to hate;\na time for war, and a time for peace.",
"9": "What gain has the worker from his toil?",
"10": "I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.",
"11": "He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.",
"12": "I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;",
"13": "also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.",
"14": "I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.",
"15": "That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.",
"16": "Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.",
"17": "I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.",
"18": "I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.",
"19": "For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.",
"20": "All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.",
"21": "Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?",
"22": "So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?"
},
"4": {
"1": "Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.",
"2": "And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.",
"3": "But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.",
"4": "Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.",
"5": "The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.",
"6": "Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.",
"7": "Again, I saw vanity under the sun:",
"8": "one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.",
"9": "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.",
"10": "For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!",
"11": "Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?",
"12": "And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.",
"13": "Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.",
"14": "For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor.",
"15": "I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was to stand in the king's place.",
"16": "There was no end of all the people, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind."
},
"5": {
"1": "Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.",
"2": "Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.",
"3": "For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.",
"4": "When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.",
"5": "It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.",
"6": "Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?",
"7": "For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.",
"8": "If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.",
"9": "But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.",
"10": "He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.",
"11": "When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?",
"12": "Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.",
"13": "There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,",
"14": "and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.",
"15": "As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.",
"16": "This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?",
"17": "Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.",
"18": "Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.",
"19": "Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.",
"20": "For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart."
},
"6": {
"1": "There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind:",
"2": "a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.",
"3": "If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.",
"4": "For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered.",
"5": "Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.",
"6": "Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place?",
"7": "All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.",
"8": "For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?",
"9": "Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.",
"10": "Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.",
"11": "The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?",
"12": "For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?"
},
"7": {
"1": "A good name is better than precious ointment,\n and the day of death than the day of birth.",
"2": "It is better to go to the house of mourning\n than to go to the house of feasting,\nfor this is the end of all mankind,\n and the living will lay it to heart.",
"3": "Sorrow is better than laughter,\n for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.",
"4": "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,\n but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.",
"5": "It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise\n than to hear the song of fools.",
"6": "For as the crackling of thorns under a pot,\n so is the laughter of the fools;\n this also is vanity.",
"7": "Surely oppression drives the wise into madness,\n and a bribe corrupts the heart.",
"8": "Better is the end of a thing than its beginning,\n and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.",
"9": "Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,\n for anger lodges in the heart of fools.",
"10": "Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”\n For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.",
"11": "Wisdom is good with an inheritance,\n an advantage to those who see the sun.",
"12": "For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money,\n and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.",
"13": "Consider the work of God:\n who can make straight what he has made crooked?",
"14": "In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.",
"15": "In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.",
"16": "Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?",
"17": "Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?",
"18": "It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.",
"19": "Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.",
"20": "Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.",
"21": "Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.",
"22": "Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.",
"23": "All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.",
"24": "That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?",
"25": "I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.",
"26": "And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.",
"27": "Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things—",
"28": "which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.",
"29": "See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes."
},
"8": {
"1": "Who is like the wise?\n And who knows the interpretation of a thing?\nA man's wisdom makes his face shine,\n and the hardness of his face is changed.",
"2": "I say: Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him.",
"3": "Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases.",
"4": "For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, “What are you doing?”",
"5": "Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.",
"6": "For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him.",
"7": "For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?",
"8": "No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.",
"9": "All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.",
"10": "Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.",
"11": "Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.",
"12": "Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.",
"13": "But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.",
"14": "There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.",
"15": "And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.",
"16": "When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep,",
"17": "then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out."
},
"9": {
"1": "But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him.",
"2": "It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.",
"3": "This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.",
"4": "But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.",
"5": "For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.",
"6": "Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.",
"7": "Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.",
"8": "Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.",
"9": "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.",
"10": "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.",
"11": "Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.",
"12": "For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.",
"13": "I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.",
"14": "There was a little city with few men in it, and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.",
"15": "But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.",
"16": "But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.",
"17": "The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.",
"18": "Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good."
},
"10": {
"1": "Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench;\n so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.",
"2": "A wise man's heart inclines him to the right,\n but a fool's heart to the left.",
"3": "Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense,\n and he says to everyone that he is a fool.",
"4": "If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place,\n for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.",
"5": "There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler:",
"6": "folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place.",
"7": "I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.",
"8": "He who digs a pit will fall into it,\n and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.",
"9": "He who quarries stones is hurt by them,\n and he who splits logs is endangered by them.",
"10": "If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge,\n he must use more strength,\n but wisdom helps one to succeed.",
"11": "If the serpent bites before it is charmed,\n there is no advantage to the charmer.",
"12": "The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor,\n but the lips of a fool consume him.",
"13": "The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness,\n and the end of his talk is evil madness.",
"14": "A fool multiplies words,\n though no man knows what is to be,\n and who can tell him what will be after him?",
"15": "The toil of a fool wearies him,\n for he does not know the way to the city.",
"16": "Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child,\n and your princes feast in the morning!",
"17": "Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility,\n and your princes feast at the proper time,\n for strength, and not for drunkenness!",
"18": "Through sloth the roof sinks in,\n and through indolence the house leaks.",
"19": "Bread is made for laughter,\n and wine gladdens life,\n and money answers everything.",
"20": "Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king,\n nor in your bedroom curse the rich,\nfor a bird of the air will carry your voice,\n or some winged creature tell the matter."
},
"11": {
"1": "Cast your bread upon the waters,\n for you will find it after many days.",
"2": "Give a portion to seven, or even to eight,\n for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.",
"3": "If the clouds are full of rain,\n they empty themselves on the earth,\nand if a tree falls to the south or to the north,\n in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.",
"4": "He who observes the wind will not sow,\n and he who regards the clouds will not reap.",
"5": "As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.",
"6": "In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.",
"7": "Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.",
"8": "So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.",
"9": "Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.",
"10": "Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity."
},
"12": {
"1": "Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;",
"2": "before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,",
"3": "in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed,",
"4": "and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low—",
"5": "they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—",
"6": "before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,",
"7": "and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.",
"8": "Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.",
"9": "Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care.",
"10": "The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.",
"11": "The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.",
"12": "My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.",
"13": "The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.",
"14": "For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil."
}
},
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"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:53.896869-04:00",
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"Ephesians": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,\nTo the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:",
"2": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.",
"3": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,",
"4": "even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love",
"5": "he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,",
"6": "to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.",
"7": "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,",
"8": "which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight",
"9": "making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ",
"10": "as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.",
"11": "In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,",
"12": "so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.",
"13": "In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,",
"14": "who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.",
"15": "For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,",
"16": "I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,",
"17": "that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,",
"18": "having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,",
"19": "and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might",
"20": "that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,",
"21": "far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.",
"22": "And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,",
"23": "which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all."
},
"2": {
"1": "And you were dead in the trespasses and sins",
"2": "in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—",
"3": "among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.",
"4": "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,",
"5": "even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—",
"6": "and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,",
"7": "so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.",
"8": "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,",
"9": "not a result of works, so that no one may boast.",
"10": "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.",
"11": "Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—",
"12": "remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.",
"13": "But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.",
"14": "For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility",
"15": "by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,",
"16": "and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.",
"17": "And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.",
"18": "For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.",
"19": "So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,",
"20": "built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,",
"21": "in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.",
"22": "In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit."
},
"3": {
"1": "For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—",
"2": "assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you,",
"3": "how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.",
"4": "When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ,",
"5": "which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.",
"6": "This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.",
"7": "Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power.",
"8": "To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,",
"9": "and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things,",
"10": "so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.",
"11": "This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,",
"12": "in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.",
"13": "So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.",
"14": "For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,",
"15": "from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,",
"16": "that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,",
"17": "so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,",
"18": "may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,",
"19": "and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.",
"20": "Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,",
"21": "to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."
},
"4": {
"1": "I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,",
"2": "with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,",
"3": "eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.",
"4": "There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—",
"5": "one Lord, one faith, one baptism,",
"6": "one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.",
"7": "But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.",
"8": "Therefore it says,\n“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,\n and he gave gifts to men.”",
"9": "(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?",
"10": "He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)",
"11": "And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,",
"12": "to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,",
"13": "until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,",
"14": "so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.",
"15": "Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,",
"16": "from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.",
"17": "Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.",
"18": "They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.",
"19": "They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.",
"20": "But that is not the way you learned Christ!—",
"21": "assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,",
"22": "to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,",
"23": "and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,",
"24": "and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.",
"25": "Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.",
"26": "Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,",
"27": "and give no opportunity to the devil.",
"28": "Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.",
"29": "Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.",
"30": "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.",
"31": "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.",
"32": "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you."
},
"5": {
"1": "Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.",
"2": "And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.",
"3": "But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.",
"4": "Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.",
"5": "For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.",
"6": "Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.",
"7": "Therefore do not become partners with them;",
"8": "for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light",
"9": "(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),",
"10": "and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.",
"11": "Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.",
"12": "For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.",
"13": "But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,",
"14": "for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,\n“Awake, O sleeper,\n and arise from the dead,\nand Christ will shine on you.”",
"15": "Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,",
"16": "making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.",
"17": "Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.",
"18": "And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,",
"19": "addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,",
"20": "giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,",
"21": "submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.",
"22": "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.",
"23": "For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.",
"24": "Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.",
"25": "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,",
"26": "that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,",
"27": "so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.",
"28": "In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.",
"29": "For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,",
"30": "because we are members of his body.",
"31": "“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”",
"32": "This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.",
"33": "However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband."
},
"6": {
"1": "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.",
"2": "“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),",
"3": "“that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”",
"4": "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.",
"5": "Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,",
"6": "not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,",
"7": "rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,",
"8": "knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free.",
"9": "Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.",
"10": "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.",
"11": "Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.",
"12": "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.",
"13": "Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.",
"14": "Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,",
"15": "and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.",
"16": "In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;",
"17": "and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,",
"18": "praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,",
"19": "and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,",
"20": "for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.",
"21": "So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything.",
"22": "I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts.",
"23": "Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.",
"24": "Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible."
}
},
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"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:19.714942-04:00",
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"Esther": {
"1": {
"1": "Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces,",
"2": "in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel,",
"3": "in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,",
"4": "while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his greatness for many days, 180 days.",
"5": "And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the citadel, both great and small, a feast lasting for seven days in the court of the garden of the king's palace.",
"6": "There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.",
"7": "Drinks were served in golden vessels, vessels of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king.",
"8": "And drinking was according to this edict: “There is no compulsion.” For the king had given orders to all the staff of his palace to do as each man desired.",
"9": "Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.",
"10": "On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,",
"11": "to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.",
"12": "But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him.",
"13": "Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for this was the king's procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment,",
"14": "the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom):",
"15": "“According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?”",
"16": "Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, “Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.",
"17": "For the queen's behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt, since they will say, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.’",
"18": "This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's behavior will say the same to all the king's officials, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.",
"19": "If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.",
"20": "So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”",
"21": "This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed.",
"22": "He sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, that every man be master in his own household and speak according to the language of his people."
},
"2": {
"1": "After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.",
"2": "Then the king's young men who attended him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.",
"3": "And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in Susa the citadel, under custody of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women. Let their cosmetics be given them.",
"4": "And let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did so.",
"5": "Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,",
"6": "who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away.",
"7": "He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.",
"8": "So when the king's order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many young women were gathered in Susa the citadel in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king's palace and put in custody of Hegai, who had charge of the women.",
"9": "And the young woman pleased him and won his favor. And he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her portion of food, and with seven chosen young women from the king's palace, and advanced her and her young women to the best place in the harem.",
"10": "Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known.",
"11": "And every day Mordecai walked in front of the court of the harem to learn how Esther was and what was happening to her.",
"12": "Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women—",
"13": "when the young woman went in to the king in this way, she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the harem to the king's palace.",
"14": "In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second harem in custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who was in charge of the concubines. She would not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.",
"15": "When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king's eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her.",
"16": "And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign,",
"17": "the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.",
"18": "Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther's feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity.",
"19": "Now when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate.",
"20": "Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him.",
"21": "In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.",
"22": "And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai.",
"23": "When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king."
},
"3": {
"1": "After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him.",
"2": "And all the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.",
"3": "Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king's command?”",
"4": "And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai's words would stand, for he had told them that he was a Jew.",
"5": "And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury.",
"6": "But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.",
"7": "In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.",
"8": "Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not to the king's profit to tolerate them.",
"9": "If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.”",
"10": "So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.",
"11": "And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”",
"12": "Then the king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king's satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king's signet ring.",
"13": "Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.",
"14": "A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province by proclamation to all the peoples to be ready for that day.",
"15": "The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion."
},
"4": {
"1": "When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.",
"2": "He went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.",
"3": "And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.",
"4": "When Esther's young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.",
"5": "Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.",
"6": "Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king's gate,",
"7": "and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.",
"8": "Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him on behalf of her people.",
"9": "And Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said.",
"10": "Then Esther spoke to Hathach and commanded him to go to Mordecai and say,",
"11": "“All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”",
"12": "And they told Mordecai what Esther had said.",
"13": "Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.",
"14": "For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”",
"15": "Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,",
"16": "“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”",
"17": "Mordecai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him."
},
"5": {
"1": "On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, in front of the king's quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace.",
"2": "And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.",
"3": "And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.”",
"4": "And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king.”",
"5": "Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther has asked.” So the king and Haman came to the feast that Esther had prepared.",
"6": "And as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king said to Esther, “What is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”",
"7": "Then Esther answered, “My wish and my request is:",
"8": "If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.”",
"9": "And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.",
"10": "Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh.",
"11": "And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.",
"12": "Then Haman said, “Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.",
"13": "Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.”",
"14": "Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made."
},
"6": {
"1": "On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.",
"2": "And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.",
"3": "And the king said, “What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” The king's young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”",
"4": "And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.",
"5": "And the king's young men told him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”",
"6": "So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?”",
"7": "And Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,",
"8": "let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set.",
"9": "And let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king's most noble officials. Let them dress the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them lead him on the horse through the square of the city, proclaiming before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.’”",
"10": "Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned.”",
"11": "So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.”",
"12": "Then Mordecai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.",
"13": "And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him.”",
"14": "While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared."
},
"7": {
"1": "So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.",
"2": "And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”",
"3": "Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request.",
"4": "For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”",
"5": "Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?”",
"6": "And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.",
"7": "And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king.",
"8": "And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face.",
"9": "Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman's house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.”",
"10": "So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated."
},
"8": {
"1": "On that day King Ahasuerus gave to 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.",
"2": "And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.",
"3": "Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.",
"4": "When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, Esther rose and stood before the king.",
"5": "And she said, “If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.",
"6": "For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”",
"7": "Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews.",
"8": "But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked.”",
"9": "The king's scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.",
"10": "And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud,",
"11": "saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods,",
"12": "on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.",
"13": "A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies.",
"14": "So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king's command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.",
"15": "Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.",
"16": "The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor.",
"17": "And in every province and in every city, wherever the king's command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them."
},
"9": {
"1": "Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.",
"2": "The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples.",
"3": "All the officials of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and the royal agents also helped the Jews, for the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.",
"4": "For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful.",
"5": "The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.",
"6": "In Susa the citadel itself the Jews killed and destroyed 500 men,",
"7": "and also killed Parshandatha and Dalphon and Aspatha",
"8": "and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha",
"9": "and Parmashta and Arisai and Aridai and Vaizatha,",
"10": "the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they laid no hand on the plunder.",
"11": "That very day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was reported to the king.",
"12": "And the king said to Queen Esther, “In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled.”",
"13": "And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows.”",
"14": "So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.",
"15": "The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.",
"16": "Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder.",
"17": "This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.",
"18": "But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.",
"19": "Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.",
"20": "And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,",
"21": "obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,",
"22": "as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.",
"23": "So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.",
"24": "For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.",
"25": "But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.",
"26": "Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,",
"27": "the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,",
"28": "that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every clan, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.",
"29": "Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew gave full written authority, confirming this second letter about Purim.",
"30": "Letters were sent to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, in words of peace and truth,",
"31": "that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther obligated them, and as they had obligated themselves and their offspring, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting.",
"32": "The command of Esther confirmed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded in writing."
},
"10": {
"1": "King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.",
"2": "And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?",
"3": "For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people."
}
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"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:45.069064-04:00",
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"Ezra": {
"1": {
"1": "In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:",
"2": "“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.",
"3": "Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem.",
"4": "And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”",
"5": "Then rose up the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem.",
"6": "And all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered.",
"7": "Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.",
"8": "Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.",
"9": "And this was the number of them: 30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers,",
"10": "30 bowls of gold, 410 bowls of silver, and 1,000 other vessels;",
"11": "all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem."
},
"2": {
"1": "Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.",
"2": "They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.\nThe number of the men of the people of Israel:",
"3": "the sons of Parosh, 2,172.",
"4": "The sons of Shephatiah, 372.",
"5": "The sons of Arah, 775.",
"6": "The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,812.",
"7": "The sons of Elam, 1,254.",
"8": "The sons of Zattu, 945.",
"9": "The sons of Zaccai, 760.",
"10": "The sons of Bani, 642.",
"11": "The sons of Bebai, 623.",
"12": "The sons of Azgad, 1,222.",
"13": "The sons of Adonikam, 666.",
"14": "The sons of Bigvai, 2,056.",
"15": "The sons of Adin, 454.",
"16": "The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, 98.",
"17": "The sons of Bezai, 323.",
"18": "The sons of Jorah, 112.",
"19": "The sons of Hashum, 223.",
"20": "The sons of Gibbar, 95.",
"21": "The sons of Bethlehem, 123.",
"22": "The men of Netophah, 56.",
"23": "The men of Anathoth, 128.",
"24": "The sons of Azmaveth, 42.",
"25": "The sons of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743.",
"26": "The sons of Ramah and Geba, 621.",
"27": "The men of Michmas, 122.",
"28": "The men of Bethel and Ai, 223.",
"29": "The sons of Nebo, 52.",
"30": "The sons of Magbish, 156.",
"31": "The sons of the other Elam, 1,254.",
"32": "The sons of Harim, 320.",
"33": "The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 725.",
"34": "The sons of Jericho, 345.",
"35": "The sons of Senaah, 3,630.",
"36": "The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, 973.",
"37": "The sons of Immer, 1,052.",
"38": "The sons of Pashhur, 1,247.",
"39": "The sons of Harim, 1,017.",
"40": "The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, 74.",
"41": "The singers: the sons of Asaph, 128.",
"42": "The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, in all 139.",
"43": "The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,",
"44": "the sons of Keros, the sons of Siaha, the sons of Padon,",
"45": "the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Akkub,",
"46": "the sons of Hagab, the sons of Shamlai, the sons of Hanan,",
"47": "the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Reaiah,",
"48": "the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, the sons of Gazzam,",
"49": "the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai,",
"50": "the sons of Asnah, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephisim,",
"51": "the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,",
"52": "the sons of Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,",
"53": "the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,",
"54": "the sons of Neziah, and the sons of Hatipha.",
"55": "The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda,",
"56": "the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,",
"57": "the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the sons of Ami.",
"58": "All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392.",
"59": "The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their fathers' houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:",
"60": "the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, and the sons of Nekoda, 652.",
"61": "Also, of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).",
"62": "These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, and so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.",
"63": "The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until there should be a priest to consult Urim and Thummim.",
"64": "The whole assembly together was 42,360,",
"65": "besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337, and they had 200 male and female singers.",
"66": "Their horses were 736, their mules were 245,",
"67": "their camels were 435, and their donkeys were 6,720.",
"68": "Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site.",
"69": "According to their ability they gave to the treasury of the work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priests' garments.",
"70": "Now the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel in their towns."
},
"3": {
"1": "When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.",
"2": "Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.",
"3": "They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening.",
"4": "And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,",
"5": "and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the Lord, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the Lord.",
"6": "From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.",
"7": "So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.",
"8": "Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the Lord.",
"9": "And Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together supervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers.",
"10": "And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the directions of David king of Israel.",
"11": "And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord,\n“For he is good,\n for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.”\nAnd all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.",
"12": "But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy,",
"13": "so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people's weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away."
},
"4": {
"1": "Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel,",
"2": "they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here.”",
"3": "But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses in Israel said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”",
"4": "Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build",
"5": "and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.",
"6": "And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.",
"7": "In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated.",
"8": "Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows:",
"9": "Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,",
"10": "and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River.",
"11": "(This is a copy of the letter that they sent.) “To Artaxerxes the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now",
"12": "be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.",
"13": "Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.",
"14": "Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king's dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king,",
"15": "in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.",
"16": "We make known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls finished, you will then have no possession in the province Beyond the River.”",
"17": "The king sent an answer: “To Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now",
"18": "the letter that you sent to us has been plainly read before me.",
"19": "And I made a decree, and search has been made, and it has been found that this city from of old has risen against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.",
"20": "And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.",
"21": "Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me.",
"22": "And take care not to be slack in this matter. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the king?”",
"23": "Then, when the copy of King Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.",
"24": "Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia."
},
"5": {
"1": "Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.",
"2": "Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.",
"3": "At the same time Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus: “Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?”",
"4": "They also asked them this: “What are the names of the men who are building this building?”",
"5": "But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report should reach Darius and then an answer be returned by letter concerning it.",
"6": "This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and his associates, the governors who were in the province Beyond the River, sent to Darius the king.",
"7": "They sent him a report, in which was written as follows: “To Darius the king, all peace.",
"8": "Be it known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built with huge stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on diligently and prospers in their hands.",
"9": "Then we asked those elders and spoke to them thus: ‘Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?’",
"10": "We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of their leaders.",
"11": "And this was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.",
"12": "But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.",
"13": "However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt.",
"14": "And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, these Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;",
"15": "and he said to him, “Take these vessels, go and put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its site.”",
"16": "Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it has been in building, and it is not yet finished.’",
"17": "Therefore, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by Cyrus the king for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send us his pleasure in this matter.”"
},
"6": {
"1": "Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored.",
"2": "And in Ecbatana, the citadel that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record.",
"3": "In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices were offered, and let its foundations be retained. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits,",
"4": "with three layers of great stones and one layer of timber. Let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.",
"5": "And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple that is in Jerusalem, each to its place. You shall put them in the house of God.”",
"6": "“Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away.",
"7": "Let the work on this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.",
"8": "Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.",
"9": "And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,",
"10": "that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.",
"11": "Also I make a decree that if anyone alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled on it, and his house shall be made a dunghill.",
"12": "May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”",
"13": "Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered.",
"14": "And the elders of the Jews built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by decree of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia;",
"15": "and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.",
"16": "And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.",
"17": "They offered at the dedication of this house of God 100 bulls, 200 rams, 400 lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel 12 male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.",
"18": "And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their divisions, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.",
"19": "On the fourteenth day of the first month, the returned exiles kept the Passover.",
"20": "For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.",
"21": "It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"22": "And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel."
},
"7": {
"1": "Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,",
"2": "son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub,",
"3": "son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth,",
"4": "son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki,",
"5": "son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest—",
"6": "this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.",
"7": "And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.",
"8": "And Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.",
"9": "For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him.",
"10": "For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.",
"11": "This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a man learned in matters of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel:",
"12": "“Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven. Peace. And now",
"13": "I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.",
"14": "For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand,",
"15": "and also to carry the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,",
"16": "with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God that is in Jerusalem.",
"17": "With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem.",
"18": "Whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.",
"19": "The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.",
"20": "And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which it falls to you to provide, you may provide it out of the king's treasury.",
"21": "“And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, requires of you, let it be done with all diligence,",
"22": "up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.",
"23": "Whatever is decreed by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.",
"24": "We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.",
"25": "“And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.",
"26": "Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”",
"27": "Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem,",
"28": "and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me."
},
"8": {
"1": "These are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:",
"2": "Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush.",
"3": "Of the sons of Shecaniah, who was of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, with whom were registered 150 men.",
"4": "Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him 200 men.",
"5": "Of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah the son of Jahaziel, and with him 300 men.",
"6": "Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him 50 men.",
"7": "Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men.",
"8": "Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him 80 men.",
"9": "Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men.",
"10": "Of the sons of Bani, Shelomith the son of Josiphiah, and with him 160 men.",
"11": "Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and with him 28 men.",
"12": "Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him 110 men.",
"13": "Of the sons of Adonikam, those who came later, their names being Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 men.",
"14": "Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur, and with them 70 men.",
"15": "I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.",
"16": "Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight,",
"17": "and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God.",
"18": "And by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18;",
"19": "also Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his kinsmen and their sons, 20;",
"20": "besides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name.",
"21": "Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.",
"22": "For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.”",
"23": "So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.",
"24": "Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them.",
"25": "And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered.",
"26": "I weighed out into their hand 650 talents of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, and 100 talents of gold,",
"27": "20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold.",
"28": "And I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers.",
"29": "Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the Lord.”",
"30": "So the priests and the Levites took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.",
"31": "Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.",
"32": "We came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days.",
"33": "On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui.",
"34": "The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded.",
"35": "At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord.",
"36": "They also delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps and to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and they aided the people and the house of God."
},
"9": {
"1": "After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.",
"2": "For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”",
"3": "As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.",
"4": "Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.",
"5": "And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God,",
"6": "saying:\n“O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.",
"7": "From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.",
"8": "But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.",
"9": "For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.",
"10": "“And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,",
"11": "which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.",
"12": "Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’",
"13": "And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,",
"14": "shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?",
"15": "O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this.”"
},
"10": {
"1": "While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.",
"2": "And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.",
"3": "Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.",
"4": "Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it.”",
"5": "Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.",
"6": "Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.",
"7": "And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,",
"8": "and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.",
"9": "Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.",
"10": "And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.",
"11": "Now then make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”",
"12": "Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “It is so; we must do as you have said.",
"13": "But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.",
"14": "Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.”",
"15": "Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.",
"16": "Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;",
"17": "and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.",
"18": "Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers.",
"19": "They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.",
"20": "Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.",
"21": "Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.",
"22": "Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.",
"23": "Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.",
"24": "Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.",
"25": "And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Hashabiah, and Benaiah.",
"26": "Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.",
"27": "Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.",
"28": "Of the sons of Bebai were Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.",
"29": "Of the sons of Bani were Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.",
"30": "Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.",
"31": "Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,",
"32": "Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.",
"33": "Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.",
"34": "Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,",
"35": "Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,",
"36": "Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,",
"37": "Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu.",
"38": "Of the sons of Binnui: Shimei,",
"39": "Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,",
"40": "Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,",
"41": "Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,",
"42": "Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.",
"43": "Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.",
"44": "All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children."
}
},
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"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:43.692213-04:00",
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"Galatians": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—",
"2": "and all the brothers who are with me,\nTo the churches of Galatia:",
"3": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,",
"4": "who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,",
"5": "to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.",
"6": "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—",
"7": "not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.",
"8": "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.",
"9": "As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.",
"10": "For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.",
"11": "For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel.",
"12": "For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.",
"13": "For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.",
"14": "And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.",
"15": "But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,",
"16": "was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;",
"17": "nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.",
"18": "Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days.",
"19": "But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother.",
"20": "(In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!)",
"21": "Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.",
"22": "And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.",
"23": "They only were hearing it said, “He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”",
"24": "And they glorified God because of me."
},
"2": {
"1": "Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.",
"2": "I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.",
"3": "But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.",
"4": "Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—",
"5": "to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.",
"6": "And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.",
"7": "On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised",
"8": "(for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),",
"9": "and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.",
"10": "Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.",
"11": "But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.",
"12": "For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.",
"13": "And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.",
"14": "But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”",
"15": "We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;",
"16": "yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.",
"17": "But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!",
"18": "For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.",
"19": "For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.",
"20": "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.",
"21": "I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose."
},
"3": {
"1": "O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.",
"2": "Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?",
"3": "Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?",
"4": "Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?",
"5": "Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—",
"6": "just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?",
"7": "Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.",
"8": "And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”",
"9": "So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.",
"10": "For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”",
"11": "Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”",
"12": "But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”",
"13": "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—",
"14": "so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.",
"15": "To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.",
"16": "Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.",
"17": "This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.",
"18": "For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.",
"19": "Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.",
"20": "Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.",
"21": "Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.",
"22": "But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.",
"23": "Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.",
"24": "So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.",
"25": "But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,",
"26": "for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.",
"27": "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.",
"28": "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.",
"29": "And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise."
},
"4": {
"1": "I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,",
"2": "but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.",
"3": "In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.",
"4": "But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,",
"5": "to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.",
"6": "And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”",
"7": "So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.",
"8": "Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.",
"9": "But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?",
"10": "You observe days and months and seasons and years!",
"11": "I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.",
"12": "Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong.",
"13": "You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,",
"14": "and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.",
"15": "What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.",
"16": "Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?",
"17": "They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.",
"18": "It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you,",
"19": "my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!",
"20": "I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.",
"21": "Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?",
"22": "For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.",
"23": "But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.",
"24": "Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.",
"25": "Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.",
"26": "But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.",
"27": "For it is written,\n“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;\n break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!\nFor the children of the desolate one will be more\n than those of the one who has a husband.”",
"28": "Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.",
"29": "But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.",
"30": "But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.”",
"31": "So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman."
},
"5": {
"1": "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.",
"2": "Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.",
"3": "I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.",
"4": "You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.",
"5": "For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.",
"6": "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.",
"7": "You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?",
"8": "This persuasion is not from him who calls you.",
"9": "A little leaven leavens the whole lump.",
"10": "I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.",
"11": "But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.",
"12": "I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!",
"13": "For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.",
"14": "For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”",
"15": "But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.",
"16": "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.",
"17": "For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.",
"18": "But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.",
"19": "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,",
"20": "idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,",
"21": "envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.",
"22": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,",
"23": "gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.",
"24": "And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.",
"25": "If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.",
"26": "Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."
},
"6": {
"1": "Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.",
"2": "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.",
"3": "For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.",
"4": "But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.",
"5": "For each will have to bear his own load.",
"6": "Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches.",
"7": "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.",
"8": "For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.",
"9": "And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.",
"10": "So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.",
"11": "See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.",
"12": "It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.",
"13": "For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.",
"14": "But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.",
"15": "For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.",
"16": "And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.",
"17": "From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.",
"18": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen."
}
},
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"Translation": "ESV"
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"Habakkuk": {
"1": {
"1": "The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.",
"2": "O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,\n and you will not hear?\nOr cry to you “Violence!”\n and you will not save?",
"3": "Why do you make me see iniquity,\n and why do you idly look at wrong?\nDestruction and violence are before me;\n strife and contention arise.",
"4": "So the law is paralyzed,\n and justice never goes forth.\nFor the wicked surround the righteous;\n so justice goes forth perverted.",
"5": "“Look among the nations, and see;\n wonder and be astounded.\nFor I am doing a work in your days\n that you would not believe if told.",
"6": "For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,\n that bitter and hasty nation,\nwho march through the breadth of the earth,\n to seize dwellings not their own.",
"7": "They are dreaded and fearsome;\n their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.",
"8": "Their horses are swifter than leopards,\n more fierce than the evening wolves;\n their horsemen press proudly on.\nTheir horsemen come from afar;\n they fly like an eagle swift to devour.",
"9": "They all come for violence,\n all their faces forward.\n They gather captives like sand.",
"10": "At kings they scoff,\n and at rulers they laugh.\nThey laugh at every fortress,\n for they pile up earth and take it.",
"11": "Then they sweep by like the wind and go on,\n guilty men, whose own might is their god!”",
"12": "Are you not from everlasting,\n O Lord my God, my Holy One?\n We shall not die.\nO Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment,\n and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.",
"13": "You who are of purer eyes than to see evil\n and cannot look at wrong,\nwhy do you idly look at traitors\n and remain silent when the wicked swallows up\n the man more righteous than he?",
"14": "You make mankind like the fish of the sea,\n like crawling things that have no ruler.",
"15": "He brings all of them up with a hook;\n he drags them out with his net;\nhe gathers them in his dragnet;\n so he rejoices and is glad.",
"16": "Therefore he sacrifices to his net\n and makes offerings to his dragnet;\nfor by them he lives in luxury,\n and his food is rich.",
"17": "Is he then to keep on emptying his net\n and mercilessly killing nations forever?"
},
"2": {
"1": "I will take my stand at my watchpost\n and station myself on the tower,\nand look out to see what he will say to me,\n and what I will answer concerning my complaint.",
"2": "And the Lord answered me:\n“Write the vision;\n make it plain on tablets,\n so he may run who reads it.",
"3": "For still the vision awaits its appointed time;\n it hastens to the end—it will not lie.\nIf it seems slow, wait for it;\n it will surely come; it will not delay.",
"4": "“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,\n but the righteous shall live by his faith.",
"5": "“Moreover, wine is a traitor,\n an arrogant man who is never at rest.\nHis greed is as wide as Sheol;\n like death he has never enough.\nHe gathers for himself all nations\n and collects as his own all peoples.”",
"6": "Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,\n“Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own—\n for how long?—\n and loads himself with pledges!”",
"7": "Will not your debtors suddenly arise,\n and those awake who will make you tremble?\n Then you will be spoil for them.",
"8": "Because you have plundered many nations,\n all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,\nfor the blood of man and violence to the earth,\n to cities and all who dwell in them.",
"9": "“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,\n to set his nest on high,\n to be safe from the reach of harm!",
"10": "You have devised shame for your house\n by cutting off many peoples;\n you have forfeited your life.",
"11": "For the stone will cry out from the wall,\n and the beam from the woodwork respond.",
"12": "“Woe to him who builds a town with blood\n and founds a city on iniquity!",
"13": "Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts\n that peoples labor merely for fire,\n and nations weary themselves for nothing?",
"14": "For the earth will be filled\n with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord\n as the waters cover the sea.",
"15": "“Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink—\n you pour out your wrath and make them drunk,\n in order to gaze at their nakedness!",
"16": "You will have your fill of shame instead of glory.\n Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision!\nThe cup in the Lord's right hand\n will come around to you,\n and utter shame will come upon your glory!",
"17": "The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,\n as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them,\nfor the blood of man and violence to the earth,\n to cities and all who dwell in them.",
"18": "“What profit is an idol\n when its maker has shaped it,\n a metal image, a teacher of lies?\nFor its maker trusts in his own creation\n when he makes speechless idols!",
"19": "Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake;\n to a silent stone, Arise!\nCan this teach?\nBehold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,\n and there is no breath at all in it.",
"20": "But the Lord is in his holy temple;\n let all the earth keep silence before him.”"
},
"3": {
"1": "A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.",
"2": "O Lord, I have heard the report of you,\n and your work, O Lord, do I fear.\nIn the midst of the years revive it;\n in the midst of the years make it known;\n in wrath remember mercy.",
"3": "God came from Teman,\n and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah\nHis splendor covered the heavens,\n and the earth was full of his praise.",
"4": "His brightness was like the light;\n rays flashed from his hand;\n and there he veiled his power.",
"5": "Before him went pestilence,\n and plague followed at his heels.",
"6": "He stood and measured the earth;\n he looked and shook the nations;\nthen the eternal mountains were scattered;\n the everlasting hills sank low.\n His were the everlasting ways.",
"7": "I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;\n the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.",
"8": "Was your wrath against the rivers, O Lord?\n Was your anger against the rivers,\n or your indignation against the sea,\nwhen you rode on your horses,\n on your chariot of salvation?",
"9": "You stripped the sheath from your bow,\n calling for many arrows. Selah\n You split the earth with rivers.",
"10": "The mountains saw you and writhed;\n the raging waters swept on;\nthe deep gave forth its voice;\n it lifted its hands on high.",
"11": "The sun and moon stood still in their place\n at the light of your arrows as they sped,\n at the flash of your glittering spear.",
"12": "You marched through the earth in fury;\n you threshed the nations in anger.",
"13": "You went out for the salvation of your people,\n for the salvation of your anointed.\nYou crushed the head of the house of the wicked,\n laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah",
"14": "You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors,\n who came like a whirlwind to scatter me,\n rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.",
"15": "You trampled the sea with your horses,\n the surging of mighty waters.",
"16": "I hear, and my body trembles;\n my lips quiver at the sound;\nrottenness enters into my bones;\n my legs tremble beneath me.\nYet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble\n to come upon people who invade us.",
"17": "Though the fig tree should not blossom,\n nor fruit be on the vines,\nthe produce of the olive fail\n and the fields yield no food,\nthe flock be cut off from the fold\n and there be no herd in the stalls,",
"18": "yet I will rejoice in the Lord;\n I will take joy in the God of my salvation.",
"19": "God, the Lord, is my strength;\n he makes my feet like the deer's;\n he makes me tread on my high places.\nTo the choirmaster: with stringed instruments."
}
},
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"Haggai": {
"1": {
"1": "In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest:",
"2": "“Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.”",
"3": "Then the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet,",
"4": "“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?",
"5": "Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.",
"6": "You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.",
"7": "“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.",
"8": "Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.",
"9": "You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.",
"10": "Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.",
"11": "And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.”",
"12": "Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared the Lord.",
"13": "Then Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, spoke to the people with the Lord's message, “I am with you, declares the Lord.”",
"14": "And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God,",
"15": "on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king."
},
"2": {
"1": "In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet:",
"2": "“Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say,",
"3": "‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?",
"4": "Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the Lord. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts,",
"5": "according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not.",
"6": "For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.",
"7": "And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts.",
"8": "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.",
"9": "The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.’”",
"10": "On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet,",
"11": "“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests about the law:",
"12": "‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, “No.”",
"13": "Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.”",
"14": "Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.",
"15": "Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord,",
"16": "how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.",
"17": "I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.",
"18": "Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, consider:",
"19": "Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you.”",
"20": "The word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month,",
"21": "“Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,",
"22": "and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother.",
"23": "On that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the Lord, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the Lord of hosts.”"
}
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"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:09.021346-04:00",
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"Hebrews": {
"1": {
"1": "Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,",
"2": "but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.",
"3": "He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,",
"4": "having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.",
"5": "For to which of the angels did God ever say,\n“You are my Son,\n today I have begotten you”?\nOr again,\n“I will be to him a father,\n and he shall be to me a son”?",
"6": "And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,\n“Let all God's angels worship him.”",
"7": "Of the angels he says,\n“He makes his angels winds,\n and his ministers a flame of fire.”",
"8": "But of the Son he says,\n“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,\n the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.",
"9": "You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;\ntherefore God, your God, has anointed you\n with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”",
"10": "And,\n“You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning,\n and the heavens are the work of your hands;",
"11": "they will perish, but you remain;\n they will all wear out like a garment,",
"12": "like a robe you will roll them up,\n like a garment they will be changed.\nBut you are the same,\n and your years will have no end.”",
"13": "And to which of the angels has he ever said,\n“Sit at my right hand\n until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?",
"14": "Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?"
},
"2": {
"1": "Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.",
"2": "For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,",
"3": "how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,",
"4": "while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.",
"5": "For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.",
"6": "It has been testified somewhere,\n“What is man, that you are mindful of him,\n or the son of man, that you care for him?",
"7": "You made him for a little while lower than the angels;\n you have crowned him with glory and honor,",
"8": "putting everything in subjection under his feet.”\nNow in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.",
"9": "But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.",
"10": "For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.",
"11": "For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,",
"12": "saying,\n“I will tell of your name to my brothers;\n in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”",
"13": "And again,\n“I will put my trust in him.”\nAnd again,\n“Behold, I and the children God has given me.”",
"14": "Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,",
"15": "and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.",
"16": "For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.",
"17": "Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.",
"18": "For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted."
},
"3": {
"1": "Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,",
"2": "who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house.",
"3": "For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.",
"4": "(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)",
"5": "Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,",
"6": "but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.",
"7": "Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,\n“Today, if you hear his voice,",
"8": "do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,\n on the day of testing in the wilderness,",
"9": "where your fathers put me to the test\n and saw my works for forty years.",
"10": "Therefore I was provoked with that generation,\nand said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;\n they have not known my ways.’",
"11": "As I swore in my wrath,\n ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”",
"12": "Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.",
"13": "But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.",
"14": "For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.",
"15": "As it is said,\n“Today, if you hear his voice,\ndo not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”",
"16": "For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?",
"17": "And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?",
"18": "And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?",
"19": "So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief."
},
"4": {
"1": "Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.",
"2": "For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.",
"3": "For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,\n“As I swore in my wrath,\n‘They shall not enter my rest,’”\nalthough his works were finished from the foundation of the world.",
"4": "For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”",
"5": "And again in this passage he said,\n“They shall not enter my rest.”",
"6": "Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,",
"7": "again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,\n“Today, if you hear his voice,\ndo not harden your hearts.”",
"8": "For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.",
"9": "So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,",
"10": "for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.",
"11": "Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.",
"12": "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.",
"13": "And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.",
"14": "Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.",
"15": "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.",
"16": "Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need."
},
"5": {
"1": "For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.",
"2": "He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.",
"3": "Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people.",
"4": "And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.",
"5": "So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him,\n“You are my Son,\n today I have begotten you”;",
"6": "as he says also in another place,\n“You are a priest forever,\n after the order of Melchizedek.”",
"7": "In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.",
"8": "Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.",
"9": "And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,",
"10": "being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.",
"11": "About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.",
"12": "For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,",
"13": "for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.",
"14": "But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil."
},
"6": {
"1": "Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,",
"2": "and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.",
"3": "And this we will do if God permits.",
"4": "For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,",
"5": "and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,",
"6": "and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.",
"7": "For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.",
"8": "But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.",
"9": "Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation.",
"10": "For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.",
"11": "And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,",
"12": "so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.",
"13": "For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,",
"14": "saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.”",
"15": "And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.",
"16": "For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.",
"17": "So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,",
"18": "so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.",
"19": "We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,",
"20": "where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."
},
"7": {
"1": "For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,",
"2": "and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.",
"3": "He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.",
"4": "See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!",
"5": "And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham.",
"6": "But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.",
"7": "It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.",
"8": "In the one case tithes are received by mortal men, but in the other case, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.",
"9": "One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,",
"10": "for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.",
"11": "Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?",
"12": "For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.",
"13": "For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.",
"14": "For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.",
"15": "This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,",
"16": "who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.",
"17": "For it is witnessed of him,\n“You are a priest forever,\n after the order of Melchizedek.”",
"18": "For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness",
"19": "(for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.",
"20": "And it was not without an oath. For those who formerly became priests were made such without an oath,",
"21": "but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him:\n“The Lord has sworn\n and will not change his mind,\n‘You are a priest forever.’”",
"22": "This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.",
"23": "The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office,",
"24": "but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.",
"25": "Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.",
"26": "For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.",
"27": "He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.",
"28": "For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever."
},
"8": {
"1": "Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,",
"2": "a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man.",
"3": "For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.",
"4": "Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.",
"5": "They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”",
"6": "But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.",
"7": "For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.",
"8": "For he finds fault with them when he says:\n“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,\n when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel\n and with the house of Judah,",
"9": "not like the covenant that I made with their fathers\n on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.\nFor they did not continue in my covenant,\n and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.",
"10": "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel\n after those days, declares the Lord:\nI will put my laws into their minds,\n and write them on their hearts,\nand I will be their God,\n and they shall be my people.",
"11": "And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor\n and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’\nfor they shall all know me,\n from the least of them to the greatest.",
"12": "For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,\n and I will remember their sins no more.”",
"13": "In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
},
"9": {
"1": "Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.",
"2": "For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place.",
"3": "Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place,",
"4": "having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.",
"5": "Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.",
"6": "These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties,",
"7": "but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.",
"8": "By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing",
"9": "(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,",
"10": "but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.",
"11": "But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)",
"12": "he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.",
"13": "For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,",
"14": "how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.",
"15": "Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.",
"16": "For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established.",
"17": "For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.",
"18": "Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.",
"19": "For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,",
"20": "saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.”",
"21": "And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.",
"22": "Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.",
"23": "Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.",
"24": "For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.",
"25": "Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,",
"26": "for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.",
"27": "And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,",
"28": "so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him."
},
"10": {
"1": "For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.",
"2": "Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?",
"3": "But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.",
"4": "For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.",
"5": "Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,\n“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,\n but a body have you prepared for me;",
"6": "in burnt offerings and sin offerings\n you have taken no pleasure.",
"7": "Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,\n as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”",
"8": "When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),",
"9": "then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.",
"10": "And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.",
"11": "And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.",
"12": "But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,",
"13": "waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.",
"14": "For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.",
"15": "And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,",
"16": "“This is the covenant that I will make with them\n after those days, declares the Lord:\nI will put my laws on their hearts,\n and write them on their minds,”",
"17": "then he adds,\n“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”",
"18": "Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.",
"19": "Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,",
"20": "by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,",
"21": "and since we have a great priest over the house of God,",
"22": "let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.",
"23": "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.",
"24": "And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,",
"25": "not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.",
"26": "For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,",
"27": "but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.",
"28": "Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.",
"29": "How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?",
"30": "For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”",
"31": "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.",
"32": "But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,",
"33": "sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.",
"34": "For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.",
"35": "Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.",
"36": "For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.",
"37": "For,\n“Yet a little while,\n and the coming one will come and will not delay;",
"38": "but my righteous one shall live by faith,\n and if he shrinks back,\nmy soul has no pleasure in him.”",
"39": "But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls."
},
"11": {
"1": "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.",
"2": "For by it the people of old received their commendation.",
"3": "By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.",
"4": "By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.",
"5": "By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.",
"6": "And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.",
"7": "By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.",
"8": "By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.",
"9": "By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.",
"10": "For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.",
"11": "By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.",
"12": "Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.",
"13": "These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.",
"14": "For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.",
"15": "If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.",
"16": "But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.",
"17": "By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,",
"18": "of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”",
"19": "He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.",
"20": "By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.",
"21": "By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.",
"22": "By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.",
"23": "By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.",
"24": "By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,",
"25": "choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.",
"26": "He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.",
"27": "By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.",
"28": "By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.",
"29": "By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.",
"30": "By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.",
"31": "By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.",
"32": "And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—",
"33": "who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,",
"34": "quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.",
"35": "Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.",
"36": "Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.",
"37": "They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—",
"38": "of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.",
"39": "And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,",
"40": "since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect."
},
"12": {
"1": "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,",
"2": "looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.",
"3": "Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.",
"4": "In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.",
"5": "And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?\n“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,\n nor be weary when reproved by him.",
"6": "For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,\n and chastises every son whom he receives.”",
"7": "It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?",
"8": "If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.",
"9": "Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?",
"10": "For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.",
"11": "For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.",
"12": "Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,",
"13": "and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.",
"14": "Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.",
"15": "See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;",
"16": "that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.",
"17": "For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.",
"18": "For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest",
"19": "and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.",
"20": "For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”",
"21": "Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”",
"22": "But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,",
"23": "and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,",
"24": "and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.",
"25": "See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.",
"26": "At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”",
"27": "This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.",
"28": "Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,",
"29": "for our God is a consuming fire."
},
"13": {
"1": "Let brotherly love continue.",
"2": "Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.",
"3": "Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.",
"4": "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.",
"5": "Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”",
"6": "So we can confidently say,\n“The Lord is my helper;\n I will not fear;\nwhat can man do to me?”",
"7": "Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.",
"8": "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.",
"9": "Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.",
"10": "We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.",
"11": "For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.",
"12": "So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.",
"13": "Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.",
"14": "For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.",
"15": "Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.",
"16": "Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.",
"17": "Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.",
"18": "Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.",
"19": "I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.",
"20": "Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,",
"21": "equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.",
"22": "I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.",
"23": "You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes soon.",
"24": "Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.",
"25": "Grace be with all of you."
}
},
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"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:24.750964-04:00",
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"Hosea": {
"1": {
"1": "The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.",
"2": "When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”",
"3": "So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.",
"4": "And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.",
"5": "And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”",
"6": "She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, “Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.",
"7": "But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”",
"8": "When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son.",
"9": "And the Lord said, “Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”",
"10": "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”",
"11": "And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel."
},
"2": {
"1": "Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.”",
"2": "“Plead with your mother, plead—\n for she is not my wife,\n and I am not her husband—\nthat she put away her whoring from her face,\n and her adultery from between her breasts;",
"3": "lest I strip her naked\n and make her as in the day she was born,\nand make her like a wilderness,\n and make her like a parched land,\n and kill her with thirst.",
"4": "Upon her children also I will have no mercy,\n because they are children of whoredom.",
"5": "For their mother has played the whore;\n she who conceived them has acted shamefully.\nFor she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,\n who give me my bread and my water,\n my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’",
"6": "Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns,\n and I will build a wall against her,\n so that she cannot find her paths.",
"7": "She shall pursue her lovers\n but not overtake them,\nand she shall seek them\n but shall not find them.\nThen she shall say,\n ‘I will go and return to my first husband,\n for it was better for me then than now.’",
"8": "And she did not know\n that it was I who gave her\n the grain, the wine, and the oil,\nand who lavished on her silver and gold,\n which they used for Baal.",
"9": "Therefore I will take back\n my grain in its time,\n and my wine in its season,\nand I will take away my wool and my flax,\n which were to cover her nakedness.",
"10": "Now I will uncover her lewdness\n in the sight of her lovers,\n and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.",
"11": "And I will put an end to all her mirth,\n her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths,\n and all her appointed feasts.",
"12": "And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,\n of which she said,\n‘These are my wages,\n which my lovers have given me.’\nI will make them a forest,\n and the beasts of the field shall devour them.",
"13": "And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals\n when she burned offerings to them\nand adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,\n and went after her lovers\n and forgot me, declares the Lord.",
"14": "“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,\n and bring her into the wilderness,\n and speak tenderly to her.",
"15": "And there I will give her her vineyards\n and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.\nAnd there she shall answer as in the days of her youth,\n as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.",
"16": "“And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’",
"17": "For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.",
"18": "And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.",
"19": "And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.",
"20": "I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.",
"21": "“And in that day I will answer, declares the Lord,\n I will answer the heavens,\n and they shall answer the earth,",
"22": "and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,\n and they shall answer Jezreel,",
"23": "and I will sow her for myself in the land.\nAnd I will have mercy on No Mercy,\n and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’;\n and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”"
},
"3": {
"1": "And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”",
"2": "So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.",
"3": "And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”",
"4": "For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.",
"5": "Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days."
},
"4": {
"1": "Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,\n for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.\nThere is no faithfulness or steadfast love,\n and no knowledge of God in the land;",
"2": "there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;\n they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.",
"3": "Therefore the land mourns,\n and all who dwell in it languish,\nand also the beasts of the field\n and the birds of the heavens,\n and even the fish of the sea are taken away.",
"4": "Yet let no one contend,\n and let none accuse,\n for with you is my contention, O priest.",
"5": "You shall stumble by day;\n the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;\n and I will destroy your mother.",
"6": "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;\n because you have rejected knowledge,\n I reject you from being a priest to me.\nAnd since you have forgotten the law of your God,\n I also will forget your children.",
"7": "The more they increased,\n the more they sinned against me;\n I will change their glory into shame.",
"8": "They feed on the sin of my people;\n they are greedy for their iniquity.",
"9": "And it shall be like people, like priest;\n I will punish them for their ways\n and repay them for their deeds.",
"10": "They shall eat, but not be satisfied;\n they shall play the whore, but not multiply,\nbecause they have forsaken the Lord\n to cherish",
"11": "whoredom, wine, and new wine,\n which take away the understanding.",
"12": "My people inquire of a piece of wood,\n and their walking staff gives them oracles.\nFor a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,\n and they have left their God to play the whore.",
"13": "They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains\n and burn offerings on the hills,\nunder oak, poplar, and terebinth,\n because their shade is good.\nTherefore your daughters play the whore,\n and your brides commit adultery.",
"14": "I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore,\n nor your brides when they commit adultery;\nfor the men themselves go aside with prostitutes\n and sacrifice with cult prostitutes,\nand a people without understanding shall come to ruin.",
"15": "Though you play the whore, O Israel,\n let not Judah become guilty.\nEnter not into Gilgal,\n nor go up to Beth-aven,\n and swear not, “As the Lord lives.”",
"16": "Like a stubborn heifer,\n Israel is stubborn;\ncan the Lord now feed them\n like a lamb in a broad pasture?",
"17": "Ephraim is joined to idols;\n leave him alone.",
"18": "When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring;\n their rulers dearly love shame.",
"19": "A wind has wrapped them in its wings,\n and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices."
},
"5": {
"1": "Hear this, O priests!\n Pay attention, O house of Israel!\nGive ear, O house of the king!\n For the judgment is for you;\nfor you have been a snare at Mizpah\n and a net spread upon Tabor.",
"2": "And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter,\n but I will discipline all of them.",
"3": "I know Ephraim,\n and Israel is not hidden from me;\nfor now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;\n Israel is defiled.",
"4": "Their deeds do not permit them\n to return to their God.\nFor the spirit of whoredom is within them,\n and they know not the Lord.",
"5": "The pride of Israel testifies to his face;\n Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;\n Judah also shall stumble with them.",
"6": "With their flocks and herds they shall go\n to seek the Lord,\nbut they will not find him;\n he has withdrawn from them.",
"7": "They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;\n for they have borne alien children.\n Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.",
"8": "Blow the horn in Gibeah,\n the trumpet in Ramah.\nSound the alarm at Beth-aven;\n we follow you, O Benjamin!",
"9": "Ephraim shall become a desolation\n in the day of punishment;\namong the tribes of Israel\n I make known what is sure.",
"10": "The princes of Judah have become\n like those who move the landmark;\nupon them I will pour out\n my wrath like water.",
"11": "Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,\n because he was determined to go after filth.",
"12": "But I am like a moth to Ephraim,\n and like dry rot to the house of Judah.",
"13": "When Ephraim saw his sickness,\n and Judah his wound,\nthen Ephraim went to Assyria,\n and sent to the great king.\nBut he is not able to cure you\n or heal your wound.",
"14": "For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,\n and like a young lion to the house of Judah.\nI, even I, will tear and go away;\n I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.",
"15": "I will return again to my place,\n until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,\n and in their distress earnestly seek me."
},
"6": {
"1": "“Come, let us return to the Lord;\n for he has torn us, that he may heal us;\n he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.",
"2": "After two days he will revive us;\n on the third day he will raise us up,\n that we may live before him.",
"3": "Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;\n his going out is sure as the dawn;\nhe will come to us as the showers,\n as the spring rains that water the earth.”",
"4": "What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?\n What shall I do with you, O Judah?\nYour love is like a morning cloud,\n like the dew that goes early away.",
"5": "Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;\n I have slain them by the words of my mouth,\n and my judgment goes forth as the light.",
"6": "For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,\n the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.",
"7": "But like Adam they transgressed the covenant;\n there they dealt faithlessly with me.",
"8": "Gilead is a city of evildoers,\n tracked with blood.",
"9": "As robbers lie in wait for a man,\n so the priests band together;\nthey murder on the way to Shechem;\n they commit villainy.",
"10": "In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;\n Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.",
"11": "For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed.\nWhen I restore the fortunes of my people,"
},
"7": {
"1": "when I would heal Israel,\n the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,\n and the evil deeds of Samaria,\nfor they deal falsely;\n the thief breaks in,\n and the bandits raid outside.",
"2": "But they do not consider\n that I remember all their evil.\nNow their deeds surround them;\n they are before my face.",
"3": "By their evil they make the king glad,\n and the princes by their treachery.",
"4": "They are all adulterers;\n they are like a heated oven\nwhose baker ceases to stir the fire,\n from the kneading of the dough\n until it is leavened.",
"5": "On the day of our king, the princes\n became sick with the heat of wine;\n he stretched out his hand with mockers.",
"6": "For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue;\n all night their anger smolders;\n in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.",
"7": "All of them are hot as an oven,\n and they devour their rulers.\nAll their kings have fallen,\n and none of them calls upon me.",
"8": "Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;\n Ephraim is a cake not turned.",
"9": "Strangers devour his strength,\n and he knows it not;\ngray hairs are sprinkled upon him,\n and he knows it not.",
"10": "The pride of Israel testifies to his face;\n yet they do not return to the Lord their God,\n nor seek him, for all this.",
"11": "Ephraim is like a dove,\n silly and without sense,\n calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.",
"12": "As they go, I will spread over them my net;\n I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;\n I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.",
"13": "Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!\n Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!\nI would redeem them,\n but they speak lies against me.",
"14": "They do not cry to me from the heart,\n but they wail upon their beds;\nfor grain and wine they gash themselves;\n they rebel against me.",
"15": "Although I trained and strengthened their arms,\n yet they devise evil against me.",
"16": "They return, but not upward;\n they are like a treacherous bow;\ntheir princes shall fall by the sword\n because of the insolence of their tongue.\nThis shall be their derision in the land of Egypt."
},
"8": {
"1": "Set the trumpet to your lips!\n One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord,\nbecause they have transgressed my covenant\n and rebelled against my law.",
"2": "To me they cry,\n “My God, we—Israel—know you.”",
"3": "Israel has spurned the good;\n the enemy shall pursue him.",
"4": "They made kings, but not through me.\n They set up princes, but I knew it not.\nWith their silver and gold they made idols\n for their own destruction.",
"5": "I have spurned your calf, O Samaria.\n My anger burns against them.\nHow long will they be incapable of innocence?",
"6": "For it is from Israel;\na craftsman made it;\n it is not God.\nThe calf of Samaria\n shall be broken to pieces.",
"7": "For they sow the wind,\n and they shall reap the whirlwind.\nThe standing grain has no heads;\n it shall yield no flour;\nif it were to yield,\n strangers would devour it.",
"8": "Israel is swallowed up;\n already they are among the nations\n as a useless vessel.",
"9": "For they have gone up to Assyria,\n a wild donkey wandering alone;\n Ephraim has hired lovers.",
"10": "Though they hire allies among the nations,\n I will soon gather them up.\nAnd the king and princes shall soon writhe\n because of the tribute.",
"11": "Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,\n they have become to him altars for sinning.",
"12": "Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands,\n they would be regarded as a strange thing.",
"13": "As for my sacrificial offerings,\n they sacrifice meat and eat it,\n but the Lord does not accept them.\nNow he will remember their iniquity\n and punish their sins;\n they shall return to Egypt.",
"14": "For Israel has forgotten his Maker\n and built palaces,\nand Judah has multiplied fortified cities;\n so I will send a fire upon his cities,\n and it shall devour her strongholds."
},
"9": {
"1": "Rejoice not, O Israel!\n Exult not like the peoples;\nfor you have played the whore, forsaking your God.\n You have loved a prostitute's wages\n on all threshing floors.",
"2": "Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,\n and the new wine shall fail them.",
"3": "They shall not remain in the land of the Lord,\n but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,\n and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.",
"4": "They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,\n and their sacrifices shall not please him.\nIt shall be like mourners' bread to them;\n all who eat of it shall be defiled;\nfor their bread shall be for their hunger only;\n it shall not come to the house of the Lord.",
"5": "What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,\n and on the day of the feast of the Lord?",
"6": "For behold, they are going away from destruction;\n but Egypt shall gather them;\n Memphis shall bury them.\nNettles shall possess their precious things of silver;\n thorns shall be in their tents.",
"7": "The days of punishment have come;\n the days of recompense have come;\n Israel shall know it.\nThe prophet is a fool;\n the man of the spirit is mad,\nbecause of your great iniquity\n and great hatred.",
"8": "The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God;\nyet a fowler's snare is on all his ways,\n and hatred in the house of his God.",
"9": "They have deeply corrupted themselves\n as in the days of Gibeah:\nhe will remember their iniquity;\n he will punish their sins.",
"10": "Like grapes in the wilderness,\n I found Israel.\nLike the first fruit on the fig tree\n in its first season,\n I saw your fathers.\nBut they came to Baal-peor\n and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,\n and became detestable like the thing they loved.",
"11": "Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird—\n no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!",
"12": "Even if they bring up children,\n I will bereave them till none is left.\nWoe to them\n when I depart from them!",
"13": "Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow;\n but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.",
"14": "Give them, O Lord—\n what will you give?\nGive them a miscarrying womb\n and dry breasts.",
"15": "Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal;\n there I began to hate them.\nBecause of the wickedness of their deeds\n I will drive them out of my house.\nI will love them no more;\n all their princes are rebels.",
"16": "Ephraim is stricken;\n their root is dried up;\n they shall bear no fruit.\nEven though they give birth,\n I will put their beloved children to death.",
"17": "My God will reject them\n because they have not listened to him;\n they shall be wanderers among the nations."
},
"10": {
"1": "Israel is a luxuriant vine\n that yields its fruit.\nThe more his fruit increased,\n the more altars he built;\nas his country improved,\n he improved his pillars.",
"2": "Their heart is false;\n now they must bear their guilt.\nThe Lord will break down their altars\n and destroy their pillars.",
"3": "For now they will say:\n “We have no king,\nfor we do not fear the Lord;\n and a king—what could he do for us?”",
"4": "They utter mere words;\n with empty oaths they make covenants;\nso judgment springs up like poisonous weeds\n in the furrows of the field.",
"5": "The inhabitants of Samaria tremble\n for the calf of Beth-aven.\nIts people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—\n those who rejoiced over it and over its glory—\n for it has departed from them.",
"6": "The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria\n as tribute to the great king.\nEphraim shall be put to shame,\n and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.",
"7": "Samaria's king shall perish\n like a twig on the face of the waters.",
"8": "The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,\n shall be destroyed.\nThorn and thistle shall grow up\n on their altars,\nand they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”\n and to the hills, “Fall on us.”",
"9": "From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel;\n there they have continued.\n Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?",
"10": "When I please, I will discipline them,\n and nations shall be gathered against them\n when they are bound up for their double iniquity.",
"11": "Ephraim was a trained calf\n that loved to thresh,\n and I spared her fair neck;\nbut I will put Ephraim to the yoke;\n Judah must plow;\n Jacob must harrow for himself.",
"12": "Sow for yourselves righteousness;\n reap steadfast love;\n break up your fallow ground,\nfor it is the time to seek the Lord,\n that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.",
"13": "You have plowed iniquity;\n you have reaped injustice;\n you have eaten the fruit of lies.\nBecause you have trusted in your own way\n and in the multitude of your warriors,",
"14": "therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people,\n and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,\nas Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;\n mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.",
"15": "Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel,\n because of your great evil.\nAt dawn the king of Israel\n shall be utterly cut off."
},
"11": {
"1": "When Israel was a child, I loved him,\n and out of Egypt I called my son.",
"2": "The more they were called,\n the more they went away;\nthey kept sacrificing to the Baals\n and burning offerings to idols.",
"3": "Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk;\n I took them up by their arms,\n but they did not know that I healed them.",
"4": "I led them with cords of kindness,\n with the bands of love,\nand I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,\n and I bent down to them and fed them.",
"5": "They shall not return to the land of Egypt,\n but Assyria shall be their king,\n because they have refused to return to me.",
"6": "The sword shall rage against their cities,\n consume the bars of their gates,\n and devour them because of their own counsels.",
"7": "My people are bent on turning away from me,\n and though they call out to the Most High,\n he shall not raise them up at all.",
"8": "How can I give you up, O Ephraim?\n How can I hand you over, O Israel?\nHow can I make you like Admah?\n How can I treat you like Zeboiim?\nMy heart recoils within me;\n my compassion grows warm and tender.",
"9": "I will not execute my burning anger;\n I will not again destroy Ephraim;\nfor I am God and not a man,\n the Holy One in your midst,\n and I will not come in wrath.",
"10": "They shall go after the Lord;\n he will roar like a lion;\nwhen he roars,\n his children shall come trembling from the west;",
"11": "they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt,\n and like doves from the land of Assyria,\n and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord.",
"12": "Ephraim has surrounded me with lies,\n and the house of Israel with deceit,\nbut Judah still walks with God\n and is faithful to the Holy One."
},
"12": {
"1": "Ephraim feeds on the wind\n and pursues the east wind all day long;\nthey multiply falsehood and violence;\n they make a covenant with Assyria,\n and oil is carried to Egypt.",
"2": "The Lord has an indictment against Judah\n and will punish Jacob according to his ways;\n he will repay him according to his deeds.",
"3": "In the womb he took his brother by the heel,\n and in his manhood he strove with God.",
"4": "He strove with the angel and prevailed;\n he wept and sought his favor.\nHe met God at Bethel,\n and there God spoke with us—",
"5": "the Lord, the God of hosts,\n the Lord is his memorial name:",
"6": "“So you, by the help of your God, return,\n hold fast to love and justice,\n and wait continually for your God.”",
"7": "A merchant, in whose hands are false balances,\n he loves to oppress.",
"8": "Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich;\n I have found wealth for myself;\nin all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”",
"9": "I am the Lord your God\n from the land of Egypt;\nI will again make you dwell in tents,\n as in the days of the appointed feast.",
"10": "I spoke to the prophets;\n it was I who multiplied visions,\n and through the prophets gave parables.",
"11": "If there is iniquity in Gilead,\n they shall surely come to nothing:\nin Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;\n their altars also are like stone heaps\n on the furrows of the field.",
"12": "Jacob fled to the land of Aram;\n there Israel served for a wife,\n and for a wife he guarded sheep.",
"13": "By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt,\n and by a prophet he was guarded.",
"14": "Ephraim has given bitter provocation;\n so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him\n and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds."
},
"13": {
"1": "When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;\n he was exalted in Israel,\n but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.",
"2": "And now they sin more and more,\n and make for themselves metal images,\nidols skillfully made of their silver,\n all of them the work of craftsmen.\nIt is said of them,\n “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!”",
"3": "Therefore they shall be like the morning mist\n or like the dew that goes early away,\nlike the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor\n or like smoke from a window.",
"4": "But I am the Lord your God\n from the land of Egypt;\nyou know no God but me,\n and besides me there is no savior.",
"5": "It was I who knew you in the wilderness,\n in the land of drought;",
"6": "but when they had grazed, they became full,\n they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;\n therefore they forgot me.",
"7": "So I am to them like a lion;\n like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.",
"8": "I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs;\n I will tear open their breast,\nand there I will devour them like a lion,\n as a wild beast would rip them open.",
"9": "He destroys you, O Israel,\n for you are against me, against your helper.",
"10": "Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?\n Where are all your rulers—\nthose of whom you said,\n “Give me a king and princes”?",
"11": "I gave you a king in my anger,\n and I took him away in my wrath.",
"12": "The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;\n his sin is kept in store.",
"13": "The pangs of childbirth come for him,\n but he is an unwise son,\nfor at the right time he does not present himself\n at the opening of the womb.",
"14": "I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol;\n I shall redeem them from Death.\nO Death, where are your plagues?\n O Sheol, where is your sting?\n Compassion is hidden from my eyes.",
"15": "Though he may flourish among his brothers,\n the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,\n rising from the wilderness,\nand his fountain shall dry up;\n his spring shall be parched;\nit shall strip his treasury\n of every precious thing.",
"16": "Samaria shall bear her guilt,\n because she has rebelled against her God;\nthey shall fall by the sword;\n their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,\n and their pregnant women ripped open."
},
"14": {
"1": "Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,\n for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.",
"2": "Take with you words\n and return to the Lord;\nsay to him,\n “Take away all iniquity;\naccept what is good,\n and we will pay with bulls\n the vows of our lips.",
"3": "Assyria shall not save us;\n we will not ride on horses;\nand we will say no more, ‘Our God,’\n to the work of our hands.\nIn you the orphan finds mercy.”",
"4": "I will heal their apostasy;\n I will love them freely,\n for my anger has turned from them.",
"5": "I will be like the dew to Israel;\n he shall blossom like the lily;\n he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;",
"6": "his shoots shall spread out;\n his beauty shall be like the olive,\n and his fragrance like Lebanon.",
"7": "They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow;\n they shall flourish like the grain;\nthey shall blossom like the vine;\n their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.",
"8": "O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?\n It is I who answer and look after you.\nI am like an evergreen cypress;\n from me comes your fruit.",
"9": "Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;\n whoever is discerning, let him know them;\nfor the ways of the Lord are right,\n and the upright walk in them,\n but transgressors stumble in them."
}
},
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"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:03.621263-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:25.557465-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"James": {
"1": {
"1": "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,\nTo the twelve tribes in the Dispersion:\nGreetings.",
"2": "Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,",
"3": "for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.",
"4": "And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.",
"5": "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.",
"6": "But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.",
"7": "For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;",
"8": "he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.",
"9": "Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,",
"10": "and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.",
"11": "For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.",
"12": "Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.",
"13": "Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.",
"14": "But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.",
"15": "Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.",
"16": "Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.",
"17": "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.",
"18": "Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.",
"19": "Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;",
"20": "for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.",
"21": "Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.",
"22": "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.",
"23": "For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.",
"24": "For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.",
"25": "But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.",
"26": "If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.",
"27": "Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world."
},
"2": {
"1": "My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.",
"2": "For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,",
"3": "and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,”",
"4": "have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?",
"5": "Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?",
"6": "But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?",
"7": "Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?",
"8": "If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.",
"9": "But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.",
"10": "For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.",
"11": "For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.",
"12": "So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.",
"13": "For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.",
"14": "What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?",
"15": "If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,",
"16": "and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?",
"17": "So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.",
"18": "But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.",
"19": "You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!",
"20": "Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?",
"21": "Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?",
"22": "You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;",
"23": "and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.",
"24": "You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.",
"25": "And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?",
"26": "For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead."
},
"3": {
"1": "Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.",
"2": "For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.",
"3": "If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.",
"4": "Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.",
"5": "So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things.\nHow great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!",
"6": "And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.",
"7": "For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind,",
"8": "but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.",
"9": "With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.",
"10": "From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.",
"11": "Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?",
"12": "Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.",
"13": "Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.",
"14": "But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.",
"15": "This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.",
"16": "For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.",
"17": "But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.",
"18": "And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace."
},
"4": {
"1": "What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?",
"2": "You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.",
"3": "You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.",
"4": "You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.",
"5": "Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?",
"6": "But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”",
"7": "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.",
"8": "Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.",
"9": "Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.",
"10": "Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.",
"11": "Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.",
"12": "There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?",
"13": "Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—",
"14": "yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.",
"15": "Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”",
"16": "As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.",
"17": "So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."
},
"5": {
"1": "Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.",
"2": "Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.",
"3": "Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.",
"4": "Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.",
"5": "You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.",
"6": "You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.",
"7": "Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.",
"8": "You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.",
"9": "Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.",
"10": "As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.",
"11": "Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.",
"12": "But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.",
"13": "Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.",
"14": "Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.",
"15": "And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.",
"16": "Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.",
"17": "Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.",
"18": "Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.",
"19": "My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,",
"20": "let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:04.436699-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Joel": {
"1": {
"1": "The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:",
"2": "Hear this, you elders;\n give ear, all inhabitants of the land!\nHas such a thing happened in your days,\n or in the days of your fathers?",
"3": "Tell your children of it,\n and let your children tell their children,\n and their children to another generation.",
"4": "What the cutting locust left,\n the swarming locust has eaten.\nWhat the swarming locust left,\n the hopping locust has eaten,\nand what the hopping locust left,\n the destroying locust has eaten.",
"5": "Awake, you drunkards, and weep,\n and wail, all you drinkers of wine,\nbecause of the sweet wine,\n for it is cut off from your mouth.",
"6": "For a nation has come up against my land,\n powerful and beyond number;\nits teeth are lions' teeth,\n and it has the fangs of a lioness.",
"7": "It has laid waste my vine\n and splintered my fig tree;\nit has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;\n their branches are made white.",
"8": "Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth\n for the bridegroom of her youth.",
"9": "The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off\n from the house of the Lord.\nThe priests mourn,\n the ministers of the Lord.",
"10": "The fields are destroyed,\n the ground mourns,\nbecause the grain is destroyed,\n the wine dries up,\n the oil languishes.",
"11": "Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil;\n wail, O vinedressers,\nfor the wheat and the barley,\n because the harvest of the field has perished.",
"12": "The vine dries up;\n the fig tree languishes.\nPomegranate, palm, and apple,\n all the trees of the field are dried up,\nand gladness dries up\n from the children of man.",
"13": "Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests;\n wail, O ministers of the altar.\nGo in, pass the night in sackcloth,\n O ministers of my God!\nBecause grain offering and drink offering\n are withheld from the house of your God.",
"14": "Consecrate a fast;\n call a solemn assembly.\nGather the elders\n and all the inhabitants of the land\nto the house of the Lord your God,\n and cry out to the Lord.",
"15": "Alas for the day!\nFor the day of the Lord is near,\n and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.",
"16": "Is not the food cut off\n before our eyes,\njoy and gladness\n from the house of our God?",
"17": "The seed shrivels under the clods;\n the storehouses are desolate;\nthe granaries are torn down\n because the grain has dried up.",
"18": "How the beasts groan!\n The herds of cattle are perplexed\nbecause there is no pasture for them;\n even the flocks of sheep suffer.",
"19": "To you, O Lord, I call.\nFor fire has devoured\n the pastures of the wilderness,\nand flame has burned\n all the trees of the field.",
"20": "Even the beasts of the field pant for you\n because the water brooks are dried up,\nand fire has devoured\n the pastures of the wilderness."
},
"2": {
"1": "Blow a trumpet in Zion;\n sound an alarm on my holy mountain!\nLet all the inhabitants of the land tremble,\n for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,",
"2": "a day of darkness and gloom,\n a day of clouds and thick darkness!\nLike blackness there is spread upon the mountains\n a great and powerful people;\ntheir like has never been before,\n nor will be again after them\n through the years of all generations.",
"3": "Fire devours before them,\n and behind them a flame burns.\nThe land is like the garden of Eden before them,\n but behind them a desolate wilderness,\n and nothing escapes them.",
"4": "Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,\n and like war horses they run.",
"5": "As with the rumbling of chariots,\n they leap on the tops of the mountains,\nlike the crackling of a flame of fire\n devouring the stubble,\nlike a powerful army\n drawn up for battle.",
"6": "Before them peoples are in anguish;\n all faces grow pale.",
"7": "Like warriors they charge;\n like soldiers they scale the wall.\nThey march each on his way;\n they do not swerve from their paths.",
"8": "They do not jostle one another;\n each marches in his path;\nthey burst through the weapons\n and are not halted.",
"9": "They leap upon the city,\n they run upon the walls,\nthey climb up into the houses,\n they enter through the windows like a thief.",
"10": "The earth quakes before them;\n the heavens tremble.\nThe sun and the moon are darkened,\n and the stars withdraw their shining.",
"11": "The Lord utters his voice\n before his army,\nfor his camp is exceedingly great;\n he who executes his word is powerful.\nFor the day of the Lord is great and very awesome;\n who can endure it?",
"12": "“Yet even now,” declares the Lord,\n “return to me with all your heart,\nwith fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;",
"13": "and rend your hearts and not your garments.”\nReturn to the Lord your God,\n for he is gracious and merciful,\nslow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;\n and he relents over disaster.",
"14": "Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,\n and leave a blessing behind him,\na grain offering and a drink offering\n for the Lord your God?",
"15": "Blow the trumpet in Zion;\n consecrate a fast;\ncall a solemn assembly;",
"16": "gather the people.\nConsecrate the congregation;\n assemble the elders;\ngather the children,\n even nursing infants.\nLet the bridegroom leave his room,\n and the bride her chamber.",
"17": "Between the vestibule and the altar\n let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep\nand say, “Spare your people, O Lord,\n and make not your heritage a reproach,\n a byword among the nations.\nWhy should they say among the peoples,\n ‘Where is their God?’”",
"18": "Then the Lord became jealous for his land\n and had pity on his people.",
"19": "The Lord answered and said to his people,\n“Behold, I am sending to you\n grain, wine, and oil,\n and you will be satisfied;\nand I will no more make you\n a reproach among the nations.",
"20": "“I will remove the northerner far from you,\n and drive him into a parched and desolate land,\nhis vanguard into the eastern sea,\n and his rear guard into the western sea;\nthe stench and foul smell of him will rise,\n for he has done great things.",
"21": "“Fear not, O land;\n be glad and rejoice,\n for the Lord has done great things!",
"22": "Fear not, you beasts of the field,\n for the pastures of the wilderness are green;\nthe tree bears its fruit;\n the fig tree and vine give their full yield.",
"23": "“Be glad, O children of Zion,\n and rejoice in the Lord your God,\nfor he has given the early rain for your vindication;\n he has poured down for you abundant rain,\n the early and the latter rain, as before.",
"24": "“The threshing floors shall be full of grain;\n the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.",
"25": "I will restore to you the years\n that the swarming locust has eaten,\nthe hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,\n my great army, which I sent among you.",
"26": "“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,\n and praise the name of the Lord your God,\n who has dealt wondrously with you.\nAnd my people shall never again be put to shame.",
"27": "You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,\n and that I am the Lord your God and there is none else.\nAnd my people shall never again be put to shame.",
"28": "“And it shall come to pass afterward,\n that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;\nyour sons and your daughters shall prophesy,\n your old men shall dream dreams,\n and your young men shall see visions.",
"29": "Even on the male and female servants\n in those days I will pour out my Spirit.",
"30": "“And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.",
"31": "The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.",
"32": "And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls."
},
"3": {
"1": "“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,",
"2": "I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,",
"3": "and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.",
"4": "“What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.",
"5": "For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.",
"6": "You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.",
"7": "Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.",
"8": "I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”",
"9": "Proclaim this among the nations:\nConsecrate for war;\n stir up the mighty men.\nLet all the men of war draw near;\n let them come up.",
"10": "Beat your plowshares into swords,\n and your pruning hooks into spears;\n let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”",
"11": "Hasten and come,\n all you surrounding nations,\n and gather yourselves there.\nBring down your warriors, O Lord.",
"12": "Let the nations stir themselves up\n and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;\nfor there I will sit to judge\n all the surrounding nations.",
"13": "Put in the sickle,\n for the harvest is ripe.\nGo in, tread,\n for the winepress is full.\nThe vats overflow,\n for their evil is great.",
"14": "Multitudes, multitudes,\n in the valley of decision!\nFor the day of the Lord is near\n in the valley of decision.",
"15": "The sun and the moon are darkened,\n and the stars withdraw their shining.",
"16": "The Lord roars from Zion,\n and utters his voice from Jerusalem,\n and the heavens and the earth quake.\nBut the Lord is a refuge to his people,\n a stronghold to the people of Israel.",
"17": "“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,\n who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain.\nAnd Jerusalem shall be holy,\n and strangers shall never again pass through it.",
"18": "“And in that day\nthe mountains shall drip sweet wine,\n and the hills shall flow with milk,\nand all the streambeds of Judah\n shall flow with water;\nand a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord\n and water the Valley of Shittim.",
"19": "“Egypt shall become a desolation\n and Edom a desolate wilderness,\nfor the violence done to the people of Judah,\n because they have shed innocent blood in their land.",
"20": "But Judah shall be inhabited forever,\n and Jerusalem to all generations.",
"21": "I will avenge their blood,\n blood I have not avenged,\n for the Lord dwells in Zion.”"
}
}
}
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"John": {
"1": {
"1": "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.",
"2": "He was in the beginning with God.",
"3": "All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.",
"4": "In him was life, and the life was the light of men.",
"5": "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.",
"6": "There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.",
"7": "He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.",
"8": "He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.",
"9": "The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.",
"10": "He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.",
"11": "He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.",
"12": "But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,",
"13": "who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.",
"14": "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.",
"15": "(John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”)",
"16": "For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.",
"17": "For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.",
"18": "No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.",
"19": "And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”",
"20": "He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”",
"21": "And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”",
"22": "So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”",
"23": "He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”",
"24": "(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)",
"25": "They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”",
"26": "John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,",
"27": "even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”",
"28": "These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.",
"29": "The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!",
"30": "This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’",
"31": "I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”",
"32": "And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.",
"33": "I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’",
"34": "And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”",
"35": "The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples,",
"36": "and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”",
"37": "The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.",
"38": "Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?”",
"39": "He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.",
"40": "One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.",
"41": "He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).",
"42": "He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).",
"43": "The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”",
"44": "Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.",
"45": "Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”",
"46": "Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”",
"47": "Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”",
"48": "Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”",
"49": "Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”",
"50": "Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”",
"51": "And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”"
},
"2": {
"1": "On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.",
"2": "Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.",
"3": "When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”",
"4": "And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”",
"5": "His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”",
"6": "Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.",
"7": "Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.",
"8": "And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.",
"9": "When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom",
"10": "and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”",
"11": "This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.",
"12": "After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.",
"13": "The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.",
"14": "In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.",
"15": "And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.",
"16": "And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.”",
"17": "His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”",
"18": "So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?”",
"19": "Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”",
"20": "The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?”",
"21": "But he was speaking about the temple of his body.",
"22": "When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.",
"23": "Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.",
"24": "But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people",
"25": "and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man."
},
"3": {
"1": "Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.",
"2": "This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”",
"3": "Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”",
"4": "Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”",
"5": "Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.",
"6": "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.",
"7": "Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’",
"8": "The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”",
"9": "Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”",
"10": "Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?",
"11": "Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.",
"12": "If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?",
"13": "No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.",
"14": "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,",
"15": "that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.",
"16": "“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.",
"17": "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.",
"18": "Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.",
"19": "And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.",
"20": "For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.",
"21": "But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”",
"22": "After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.",
"23": "John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized",
"24": "(for John had not yet been put in prison).",
"25": "Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over purification.",
"26": "And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”",
"27": "John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.",
"28": "You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’",
"29": "The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.",
"30": "He must increase, but I must decrease.”",
"31": "He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.",
"32": "He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.",
"33": "Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.",
"34": "For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.",
"35": "The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.",
"36": "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
},
"4": {
"1": "Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John",
"2": "(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),",
"3": "he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.",
"4": "And he had to pass through Samaria.",
"5": "So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.",
"6": "Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.",
"7": "A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”",
"8": "(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)",
"9": "The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)",
"10": "Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”",
"11": "The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?",
"12": "Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”",
"13": "Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,",
"14": "but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”",
"15": "The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”",
"16": "Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”",
"17": "The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;",
"18": "for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”",
"19": "The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.",
"20": "Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”",
"21": "Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.",
"22": "You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.",
"23": "But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.",
"24": "God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”",
"25": "The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”",
"26": "Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”",
"27": "Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”",
"28": "So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people,",
"29": "“Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”",
"30": "They went out of the town and were coming to him.",
"31": "Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”",
"32": "But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”",
"33": "So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”",
"34": "Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.",
"35": "Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.",
"36": "Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.",
"37": "For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’",
"38": "I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”",
"39": "Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”",
"40": "So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.",
"41": "And many more believed because of his word.",
"42": "They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”",
"43": "After the two days he departed for Galilee.",
"44": "(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)",
"45": "So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.",
"46": "So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.",
"47": "When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.",
"48": "So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”",
"49": "The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”",
"50": "Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.",
"51": "As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering.",
"52": "So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”",
"53": "The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.",
"54": "This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee."
},
"5": {
"1": "After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.",
"2": "Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.",
"3": "In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.",
"4": "",
"5": "One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.",
"6": "When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”",
"7": "The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”",
"8": "Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”",
"9": "And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.\nNow that day was the Sabbath.",
"10": "So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.”",
"11": "But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’”",
"12": "They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”",
"13": "Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.",
"14": "Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”",
"15": "The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.",
"16": "And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.",
"17": "But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”",
"18": "This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.",
"19": "So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.",
"20": "For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.",
"21": "For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.",
"22": "For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,",
"23": "that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.",
"24": "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.",
"25": "“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.",
"26": "For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.",
"27": "And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.",
"28": "Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice",
"29": "and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.",
"30": "“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.",
"31": "If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.",
"32": "There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.",
"33": "You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.",
"34": "Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.",
"35": "He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.",
"36": "But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.",
"37": "And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,",
"38": "and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.",
"39": "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,",
"40": "yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.",
"41": "I do not receive glory from people.",
"42": "But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.",
"43": "I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.",
"44": "How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?",
"45": "Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.",
"46": "For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.",
"47": "But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”"
},
"6": {
"1": "After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.",
"2": "And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.",
"3": "Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.",
"4": "Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.",
"5": "Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?”",
"6": "He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.",
"7": "Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”",
"8": "One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,",
"9": "“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”",
"10": "Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.",
"11": "Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted.",
"12": "And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.”",
"13": "So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.",
"14": "When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”",
"15": "Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.",
"16": "When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,",
"17": "got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.",
"18": "The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing.",
"19": "When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened.",
"20": "But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”",
"21": "Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.",
"22": "On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.",
"23": "Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.",
"24": "So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.",
"25": "When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”",
"26": "Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.",
"27": "Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”",
"28": "Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?”",
"29": "Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”",
"30": "So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?",
"31": "Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”",
"32": "Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.",
"33": "For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”",
"34": "They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”",
"35": "Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.",
"36": "But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.",
"37": "All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.",
"38": "For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.",
"39": "And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.",
"40": "For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”",
"41": "So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”",
"42": "They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”",
"43": "Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.",
"44": "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.",
"45": "It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—",
"46": "not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.",
"47": "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.",
"48": "I am the bread of life.",
"49": "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.",
"50": "This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.",
"51": "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”",
"52": "The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”",
"53": "So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.",
"54": "Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.",
"55": "For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.",
"56": "Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.",
"57": "As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.",
"58": "This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”",
"59": "Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.",
"60": "When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”",
"61": "But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this?",
"62": "Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?",
"63": "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.",
"64": "But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)",
"65": "And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”",
"66": "After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.",
"67": "So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?”",
"68": "Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,",
"69": "and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”",
"70": "Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”",
"71": "He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him."
},
"7": {
"1": "After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.",
"2": "Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand.",
"3": "So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.",
"4": "For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”",
"5": "For not even his brothers believed in him.",
"6": "Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.",
"7": "The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.",
"8": "You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”",
"9": "After saying this, he remained in Galilee.",
"10": "But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.",
"11": "The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?”",
"12": "And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.”",
"13": "Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.",
"14": "About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.",
"15": "The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”",
"16": "So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.",
"17": "If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.",
"18": "The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.",
"19": "Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”",
"20": "The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”",
"21": "Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel at it.",
"22": "Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.",
"23": "If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?",
"24": "Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”",
"25": "Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?",
"26": "And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?",
"27": "But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.”",
"28": "So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.",
"29": "I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”",
"30": "So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.",
"31": "Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”",
"32": "The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.",
"33": "Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.",
"34": "You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.”",
"35": "The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?",
"36": "What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”",
"37": "On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.",
"38": "Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”",
"39": "Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.",
"40": "When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.”",
"41": "Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee?",
"42": "Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”",
"43": "So there was a division among the people over him.",
"44": "Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.",
"45": "The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”",
"46": "The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!”",
"47": "The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived?",
"48": "Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?",
"49": "But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”",
"50": "Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,",
"51": "“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”",
"52": "They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”",
"53": "They went each to his own house,"
},
"8": {
"1": "but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.",
"2": "Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.",
"3": "The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst",
"4": "they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.",
"5": "Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”",
"6": "This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.",
"7": "And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”",
"8": "And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.",
"9": "But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.",
"10": "Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”",
"11": "She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”",
"12": "Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”",
"13": "So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”",
"14": "Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.",
"15": "You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.",
"16": "Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.",
"17": "In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.",
"18": "I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”",
"19": "They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”",
"20": "These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.",
"21": "So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”",
"22": "So the Jews said, “Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”",
"23": "He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.",
"24": "I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”",
"25": "So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.",
"26": "I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”",
"27": "They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.",
"28": "So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.",
"29": "And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”",
"30": "As he was saying these things, many believed in him.",
"31": "So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,",
"32": "and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”",
"33": "They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”",
"34": "Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.",
"35": "The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.",
"36": "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.",
"37": "I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.",
"38": "I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”",
"39": "They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,",
"40": "but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.",
"41": "You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.”",
"42": "Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.",
"43": "Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.",
"44": "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.",
"45": "But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.",
"46": "Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?",
"47": "Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”",
"48": "The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”",
"49": "Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.",
"50": "Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.",
"51": "Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”",
"52": "The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’",
"53": "Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?”",
"54": "Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’",
"55": "But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.",
"56": "Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.”",
"57": "So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”",
"58": "Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”",
"59": "So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple."
},
"9": {
"1": "As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.",
"2": "And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”",
"3": "Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.",
"4": "We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.",
"5": "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”",
"6": "Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud",
"7": "and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.",
"8": "The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”",
"9": "Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.”",
"10": "So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”",
"11": "He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.”",
"12": "They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”",
"13": "They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.",
"14": "Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.",
"15": "So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”",
"16": "Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.",
"17": "So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”",
"18": "The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight",
"19": "and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”",
"20": "His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.",
"21": "But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”",
"22": "(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)",
"23": "Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”",
"24": "So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”",
"25": "He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”",
"26": "They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”",
"27": "He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”",
"28": "And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.",
"29": "We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”",
"30": "The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.",
"31": "We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.",
"32": "Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.",
"33": "If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”",
"34": "They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.",
"35": "Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”",
"36": "He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”",
"37": "Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.”",
"38": "He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.",
"39": "Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”",
"40": "Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”",
"41": "Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains."
},
"10": {
"1": "“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.",
"2": "But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.",
"3": "To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.",
"4": "When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.",
"5": "A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”",
"6": "This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.",
"7": "So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.",
"8": "All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.",
"9": "I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.",
"10": "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.",
"11": "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.",
"12": "He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.",
"13": "He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.",
"14": "I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,",
"15": "just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.",
"16": "And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.",
"17": "For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.",
"18": "No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”",
"19": "There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.",
"20": "Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?”",
"21": "Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”",
"22": "At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,",
"23": "and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.",
"24": "So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”",
"25": "Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me,",
"26": "but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.",
"27": "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.",
"28": "I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.",
"29": "My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.",
"30": "I and the Father are one.”",
"31": "The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.",
"32": "Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”",
"33": "The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”",
"34": "Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?",
"35": "If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—",
"36": "do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?",
"37": "If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;",
"38": "but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”",
"39": "Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.",
"40": "He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.",
"41": "And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”",
"42": "And many believed in him there."
},
"11": {
"1": "Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.",
"2": "It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.",
"3": "So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”",
"4": "But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”",
"5": "Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.",
"6": "So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.",
"7": "Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”",
"8": "The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”",
"9": "Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.",
"10": "But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”",
"11": "After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”",
"12": "The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”",
"13": "Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.",
"14": "Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,",
"15": "and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”",
"16": "So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”",
"17": "Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.",
"18": "Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,",
"19": "and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.",
"20": "So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.",
"21": "Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.",
"22": "But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”",
"23": "Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”",
"24": "Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”",
"25": "Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,",
"26": "and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”",
"27": "She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”",
"28": "When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”",
"29": "And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him.",
"30": "Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.",
"31": "When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.",
"32": "Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”",
"33": "When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.",
"34": "And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”",
"35": "Jesus wept.",
"36": "So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”",
"37": "But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”",
"38": "Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.",
"39": "Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”",
"40": "Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”",
"41": "So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.",
"42": "I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”",
"43": "When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”",
"44": "The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”",
"45": "Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,",
"46": "but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.",
"47": "So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.",
"48": "If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”",
"49": "But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all.",
"50": "Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.”",
"51": "He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,",
"52": "and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.",
"53": "So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.",
"54": "Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.",
"55": "Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.",
"56": "They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?”",
"57": "Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him."
},
"12": {
"1": "Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.",
"2": "So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.",
"3": "Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.",
"4": "But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said,",
"5": "“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”",
"6": "He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.",
"7": "Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.",
"8": "For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”",
"9": "When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.",
"10": "So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well,",
"11": "because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.",
"12": "The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.",
"13": "So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”",
"14": "And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,",
"15": "“Fear not, daughter of Zion;\nbehold, your king is coming,\n sitting on a donkey's colt!”",
"16": "His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.",
"17": "The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness.",
"18": "The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.",
"19": "So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”",
"20": "Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.",
"21": "So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”",
"22": "Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.",
"23": "And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.",
"24": "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.",
"25": "Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.",
"26": "If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.",
"27": "“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.",
"28": "Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”",
"29": "The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”",
"30": "Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not mine.",
"31": "Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.",
"32": "And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”",
"33": "He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.",
"34": "So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”",
"35": "So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.",
"36": "While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”\nWhen Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.",
"37": "Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,",
"38": "so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:\n“Lord, who has believed what he heard from us,\n and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”",
"39": "Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,",
"40": "“He has blinded their eyes\n and hardened their heart,\nlest they see with their eyes,\n and understand with their heart, and turn,\n and I would heal them.”",
"41": "Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.",
"42": "Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;",
"43": "for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.",
"44": "And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.",
"45": "And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.",
"46": "I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.",
"47": "If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.",
"48": "The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.",
"49": "For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.",
"50": "And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”"
},
"13": {
"1": "Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.",
"2": "During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,",
"3": "Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,",
"4": "rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.",
"5": "Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.",
"6": "He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”",
"7": "Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”",
"8": "Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”",
"9": "Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”",
"10": "Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.”",
"11": "For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”",
"12": "When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you?",
"13": "You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.",
"14": "If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.",
"15": "For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.",
"16": "Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.",
"17": "If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.",
"18": "I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’",
"19": "I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.",
"20": "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”",
"21": "After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”",
"22": "The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke.",
"23": "One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus' side,",
"24": "so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking.",
"25": "So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?”",
"26": "Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.",
"27": "Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”",
"28": "Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him.",
"29": "Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.",
"30": "So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.",
"31": "When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.",
"32": "If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.",
"33": "Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’",
"34": "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.",
"35": "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”",
"36": "Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.”",
"37": "Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”",
"38": "Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times."
},
"14": {
"1": "“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.",
"2": "In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?",
"3": "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.",
"4": "And you know the way to where I am going.”",
"5": "Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”",
"6": "Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.",
"7": "If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”",
"8": "Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”",
"9": "Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?",
"10": "Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.",
"11": "Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.",
"12": "“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.",
"13": "Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.",
"14": "If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.",
"15": "“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.",
"16": "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,",
"17": "even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.",
"18": "“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.",
"19": "Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.",
"20": "In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.",
"21": "Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”",
"22": "Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”",
"23": "Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.",
"24": "Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.",
"25": "“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.",
"26": "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.",
"27": "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.",
"28": "You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.",
"29": "And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.",
"30": "I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,",
"31": "but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here."
},
"15": {
"1": "“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.",
"2": "Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.",
"3": "Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.",
"4": "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.",
"5": "I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.",
"6": "If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.",
"7": "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.",
"8": "By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.",
"9": "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.",
"10": "If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.",
"11": "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.",
"12": "“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.",
"13": "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.",
"14": "You are my friends if you do what I command you.",
"15": "No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.",
"16": "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.",
"17": "These things I command you, so that you will love one another.",
"18": "“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.",
"19": "If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.",
"20": "Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.",
"21": "But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.",
"22": "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.",
"23": "Whoever hates me hates my Father also.",
"24": "If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.",
"25": "But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’",
"26": "“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.",
"27": "And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning."
},
"16": {
"1": "“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.",
"2": "They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.",
"3": "And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.",
"4": "But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.\n“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.",
"5": "But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’",
"6": "But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.",
"7": "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.",
"8": "And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:",
"9": "concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;",
"10": "concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer;",
"11": "concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.",
"12": "“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.",
"13": "When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.",
"14": "He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.",
"15": "All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.",
"16": "“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.”",
"17": "So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”",
"18": "So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”",
"19": "Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?",
"20": "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.",
"21": "When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.",
"22": "So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.",
"23": "In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.",
"24": "Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.",
"25": "“I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.",
"26": "In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;",
"27": "for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.",
"28": "I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”",
"29": "His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech!",
"30": "Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”",
"31": "Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?",
"32": "Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.",
"33": "I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”"
},
"17": {
"1": "When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,",
"2": "since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.",
"3": "And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.",
"4": "I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.",
"5": "And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.",
"6": "“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.",
"7": "Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.",
"8": "For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.",
"9": "I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.",
"10": "All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.",
"11": "And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.",
"12": "While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.",
"13": "But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.",
"14": "I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.",
"15": "I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.",
"16": "They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.",
"17": "Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.",
"18": "As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.",
"19": "And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.",
"20": "“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,",
"21": "that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.",
"22": "The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,",
"23": "I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.",
"24": "Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.",
"25": "O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.",
"26": "I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”"
},
"18": {
"1": "When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.",
"2": "Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.",
"3": "So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.",
"4": "Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”",
"5": "They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.",
"6": "When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.",
"7": "So he asked them again, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”",
"8": "Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. So, if you seek me, let these men go.”",
"9": "This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: “Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one.”",
"10": "Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)",
"11": "So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”",
"12": "So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.",
"13": "First they led him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.",
"14": "It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.",
"15": "Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest,",
"16": "but Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the door, and brought Peter in.",
"17": "The servant girl at the door said to Peter, “You also are not one of this man's disciples, are you?” He said, “I am not.”",
"18": "Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves. Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.",
"19": "The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.",
"20": "Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.",
"21": "Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said.”",
"22": "When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”",
"23": "Jesus answered him, “If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?”",
"24": "Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.",
"25": "Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, “You also are not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”",
"26": "One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”",
"27": "Peter again denied it, and at once a rooster crowed.",
"28": "Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.",
"29": "So Pilate went outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”",
"30": "They answered him, “If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you.”",
"31": "Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.”",
"32": "This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death he was going to die.",
"33": "So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”",
"34": "Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?”",
"35": "Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?”",
"36": "Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”",
"37": "Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”",
"38": "Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”\nAfter he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.",
"39": "But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”",
"40": "They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber."
},
"19": {
"1": "Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him.",
"2": "And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.",
"3": "They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.",
"4": "Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”",
"5": "So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”",
"6": "When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”",
"7": "The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.”",
"8": "When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid.",
"9": "He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.",
"10": "So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?”",
"11": "Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”",
"12": "From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”",
"13": "So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha.",
"14": "Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”",
"15": "They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”",
"16": "So he delivered him over to them to be crucified.\nSo they took Jesus,",
"17": "and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.",
"18": "There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.",
"19": "Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”",
"20": "Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.",
"21": "So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’”",
"22": "Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”",
"23": "When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom,",
"24": "so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says,\n“They divided my garments among them,\n and for my clothing they cast lots.”\nSo the soldiers did these things,",
"25": "but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.",
"26": "When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”",
"27": "Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.",
"28": "After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.”",
"29": "A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.",
"30": "When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.",
"31": "Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.",
"32": "So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him.",
"33": "But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.",
"34": "But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.",
"35": "He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.",
"36": "For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”",
"37": "And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”",
"38": "After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.",
"39": "Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight.",
"40": "So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.",
"41": "Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.",
"42": "So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there."
},
"20": {
"1": "Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.",
"2": "So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”",
"3": "So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb.",
"4": "Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.",
"5": "And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.",
"6": "Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there,",
"7": "and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself.",
"8": "Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;",
"9": "for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.",
"10": "Then the disciples went back to their homes.",
"11": "But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb.",
"12": "And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.",
"13": "They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”",
"14": "Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus.",
"15": "Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”",
"16": "Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher).",
"17": "Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”",
"18": "Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.",
"19": "On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”",
"20": "When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.",
"21": "Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”",
"22": "And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.",
"23": "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”",
"24": "Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came.",
"25": "So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”",
"26": "Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”",
"27": "Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”",
"28": "Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”",
"29": "Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”",
"30": "Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;",
"31": "but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name."
},
"21": {
"1": "After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way.",
"2": "Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.",
"3": "Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.",
"4": "Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.",
"5": "Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.”",
"6": "He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish.",
"7": "That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, for he was stripped for work, and threw himself into the sea.",
"8": "The other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off.",
"9": "When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire in place, with fish laid out on it, and bread.",
"10": "Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.”",
"11": "So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, 153 of them. And although there were so many, the net was not torn.",
"12": "Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.",
"13": "Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish.",
"14": "This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.",
"15": "When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”",
"16": "He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”",
"17": "He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.",
"18": "Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.”",
"19": "(This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”",
"20": "Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them, the one who also had leaned back against him during the supper and had said, “Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?”",
"21": "When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”",
"22": "Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!”",
"23": "So the saying spread abroad among the brothers that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?”",
"24": "This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.",
"25": "Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written."
}
}
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"Jonah": {
"1": {
"1": "Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,",
"2": "“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”",
"3": "But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.",
"4": "But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.",
"5": "Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.",
"6": "So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”",
"7": "And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.",
"8": "Then they said to him, “Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?”",
"9": "And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”",
"10": "Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.",
"11": "Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.",
"12": "He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”",
"13": "Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.",
"14": "Therefore they called out to the Lord, “O Lord, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.”",
"15": "So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.",
"16": "Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.",
"17": "And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights."
},
"2": {
"1": "Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,",
"2": "saying,\n“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,\n and he answered me;\nout of the belly of Sheol I cried,\n and you heard my voice.",
"3": "For you cast me into the deep,\n into the heart of the seas,\n and the flood surrounded me;\nall your waves and your billows\n passed over me.",
"4": "Then I said, ‘I am driven away\n from your sight;\nyet I shall again look\n upon your holy temple.’",
"5": "The waters closed in over me to take my life;\n the deep surrounded me;\nweeds were wrapped about my head",
"6": "at the roots of the mountains.\nI went down to the land\n whose bars closed upon me forever;\nyet you brought up my life from the pit,\n O Lord my God.",
"7": "When my life was fainting away,\n I remembered the Lord,\nand my prayer came to you,\n into your holy temple.",
"8": "Those who pay regard to vain idols\n forsake their hope of steadfast love.",
"9": "But I with the voice of thanksgiving\n will sacrifice to you;\nwhat I have vowed I will pay.\n Salvation belongs to the Lord!”",
"10": "And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land."
},
"3": {
"1": "Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,",
"2": "“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”",
"3": "So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.",
"4": "Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”",
"5": "And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.",
"6": "The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.",
"7": "And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,",
"8": "but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.",
"9": "Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”",
"10": "When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it."
},
"4": {
"1": "But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.",
"2": "And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.",
"3": "Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”",
"4": "And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?”",
"5": "Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.",
"6": "Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.",
"7": "But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.",
"8": "When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”",
"9": "But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”",
"10": "And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.",
"11": "And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”"
}
}
}
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"Language": "English",
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"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:32.787245-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Joshua": {
"1": {
"1": "After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant,",
"2": "“Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.",
"3": "Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.",
"4": "From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.",
"5": "No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.",
"6": "Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.",
"7": "Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.",
"8": "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.",
"9": "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”",
"10": "And Joshua commanded the officers of the people,",
"11": "“Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.’”",
"12": "And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh Joshua said,",
"13": "“Remember the word that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, ‘The Lord your God is providing you a place of rest and will give you this land.’",
"14": "Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brothers and shall help them,",
"15": "until the Lord gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they also take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and shall possess it, the land that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”",
"16": "And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.",
"17": "Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses!",
"18": "Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”"
},
"2": {
"1": "And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.",
"2": "And it was told to the king of Jericho, “Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.”",
"3": "Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.”",
"4": "But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, “True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.",
"5": "And when the gate was about to be closed at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”",
"6": "But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof.",
"7": "So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out.",
"8": "Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof",
"9": "and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.",
"10": "For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.",
"11": "And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.",
"12": "Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a sure sign",
"13": "that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.”",
"14": "And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”",
"15": "Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.",
"16": "And she said to them, “Go into the hills, or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there three days until the pursuers have returned. Then afterward you may go your way.”",
"17": "The men said to her, “We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours that you have made us swear.",
"18": "Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.",
"19": "Then if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.",
"20": "But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath that you have made us swear.”",
"21": "And she said, “According to your words, so be it.” Then she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.",
"22": "They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.",
"23": "Then the two men returned. They came down from the hills and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they told him all that had happened to them.",
"24": "And they said to Joshua, “Truly the Lord has given all the land into our hands. And also, all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of us.”"
},
"3": {
"1": "Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.",
"2": "At the end of three days the officers went through the camp",
"3": "and commanded the people, “As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.",
"4": "Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”",
"5": "Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”",
"6": "And Joshua said to the priests, “Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.",
"7": "The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.",
"8": "And as for you, command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”",
"9": "And Joshua said to the people of Israel, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God.”",
"10": "And Joshua said, “Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.",
"11": "Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan.",
"12": "Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.",
"13": "And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.”",
"14": "So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,",
"15": "and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest),",
"16": "the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.",
"17": "Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan."
},
"4": {
"1": "When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,",
"2": "“Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,",
"3": "and command them, saying, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests' feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.’”",
"4": "Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe.",
"5": "And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel,",
"6": "that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’",
"7": "then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.”",
"8": "And the people of Israel did just as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, just as the Lord told Joshua. And they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there.",
"9": "And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.",
"10": "For the priests bearing the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua.\nThe people passed over in haste.",
"11": "And when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the Lord and the priests passed over before the people.",
"12": "The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had told them.",
"13": "About 40,000 ready for war passed over before the Lord for battle, to the plains of Jericho.",
"14": "On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.",
"15": "And the Lord said to Joshua,",
"16": "“Command the priests bearing the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan.”",
"17": "So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up out of the Jordan.”",
"18": "And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.",
"19": "The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.",
"20": "And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.",
"21": "And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’",
"22": "then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’",
"23": "For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,",
"24": "so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”"
},
"5": {
"1": "As soon as 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 the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.",
"2": "At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.”",
"3": "So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.",
"4": "And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt.",
"5": "Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.",
"6": "For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord; the Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.",
"7": "So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.",
"8": "When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.",
"9": "And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.",
"10": "While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.",
"11": "And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.",
"12": "And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.",
"13": "When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”",
"14": "And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”",
"15": "And the commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so."
},
"6": {
"1": "Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out, and none came in.",
"2": "And the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor.",
"3": "You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days.",
"4": "Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.",
"5": "And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him.”",
"6": "So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord.”",
"7": "And he said to the people, “Go forward. March around the city and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord.”",
"8": "And just as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the Lord went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the Lord following them.",
"9": "The armed men were walking before the priests who were blowing the trumpets, and the rear guard was walking after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually.",
"10": "But Joshua commanded the people, “You shall not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”",
"11": "So he caused the ark of the Lord to circle the city, going about it once. And they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.",
"12": "Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.",
"13": "And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord walked on, and they blew the trumpets continually. And the armed men were walking before them, and the rear guard was walking after the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets blew continually.",
"14": "And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.",
"15": "On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.",
"16": "And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city.",
"17": "And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.",
"18": "But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it.",
"19": "But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.”",
"20": "So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city.",
"21": "Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.",
"22": "But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “Go into the prostitute's house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, as you swore to her.”",
"23": "So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.",
"24": "And they burned the city with fire, and everything in it. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.",
"25": "But Rahab the prostitute and her father's household and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive. And she has lived in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.",
"26": "Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, “Cursed before the Lord be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho.\n“At the cost of his firstborn shall he\n lay its foundation,\nand at the cost of his youngest son\n shall he set up its gates.”",
"27": "So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land."
},
"7": {
"1": "But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the Lord burned against the people of Israel.",
"2": "Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.",
"3": "And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.”",
"4": "So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai,",
"5": "and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.",
"6": "Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.",
"7": "And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!",
"8": "O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!",
"9": "For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?”",
"10": "The Lord said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face?",
"11": "Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings.",
"12": "Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.",
"13": "Get up! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.”",
"14": "In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. And the tribe that the Lord takes by lot shall come near by clans. And the clan that the Lord takes shall come near by households. And the household that the Lord takes shall come near man by man.",
"15": "And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.’”",
"16": "So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken.",
"17": "And he brought near the clans of Judah, and the clan of the Zerahites was taken. And he brought near the clan of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken.",
"18": "And he brought near his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.",
"19": "Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel and give praise to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”",
"20": "And Achan answered Joshua, “Truly I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I did:",
"21": "when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”",
"22": "So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath.",
"23": "And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the people of Israel. And they laid them down before the Lord.",
"24": "And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had. And they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.",
"25": "And Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.",
"26": "And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor."
},
"8": {
"1": "And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land.",
"2": "And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”",
"3": "So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out by night.",
"4": "And he commanded them, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready.",
"5": "And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us just as before, we shall flee before them.",
"6": "And they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city. For they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, just as before.’ So we will flee before them.",
"7": "Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will give it into your hand.",
"8": "And as soon as you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire. You shall do according to the word of the Lord. See, I have commanded you.”",
"9": "So Joshua sent them out. And they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua spent that night among the people.",
"10": "Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.",
"11": "And all the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.",
"12": "He took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.",
"13": "So they stationed the forces, the main encampment that was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.",
"14": "And as soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the men of the city, hurried and went out early to the appointed place toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.",
"15": "And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness.",
"16": "So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city.",
"17": "Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel.",
"18": "Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.",
"19": "And the men in the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it. And they hurried to set the city on fire.",
"20": "So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.",
"21": "And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.",
"22": "And the others came out from the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And Israel struck them down, until there was left none that survived or escaped.",
"23": "But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him near to Joshua.",
"24": "When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword.",
"25": "And all who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000, all the people of Ai.",
"26": "But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction.",
"27": "Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the Lord that he commanded Joshua.",
"28": "So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.",
"29": "And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.",
"30": "At that time Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,",
"31": "just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, “an altar of uncut stones, upon which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings.",
"32": "And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.",
"33": "And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.",
"34": "And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.",
"35": "There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them."
},
"9": {
"1": "As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,",
"2": "they gathered together as one to fight against Joshua and Israel.",
"3": "But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,",
"4": "they on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,",
"5": "with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes. And all their provisions were dry and crumbly.",
"6": "And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant country, so now make a covenant with us.”",
"7": "But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?”",
"8": "They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” And Joshua said to them, “Who are you? And where do you come from?”",
"9": "They said to him, “From a very distant country your servants have come, because of the name of the Lord your God. For we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt,",
"10": "and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon the king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.",
"11": "So our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, ‘Take provisions in your hand for the journey and go to meet them and say to them, “We are your servants. Come now, make a covenant with us.”’",
"12": "Here is our bread. It was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey on the day we set out to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and crumbly.",
"13": "These wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they have burst. And these garments and sandals of ours are worn out from the very long journey.”",
"14": "So the men took some of their provisions, but did not ask counsel from the Lord.",
"15": "And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.",
"16": "At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them.",
"17": "And the people of Israel set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.",
"18": "But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders.",
"19": "But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.",
"20": "This we will do to them: let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them.”",
"21": "And the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said of them.",
"22": "Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you dwell among us?",
"23": "Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”",
"24": "They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you—so we feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing.",
"25": "And now, behold, we are in your hand. Whatever seems good and right in your sight to do to us, do it.”",
"26": "So he did this to them and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel, and they did not kill them.",
"27": "But Joshua made them that day cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the place that he should choose."
},
"10": {
"1": "As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,",
"2": "he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were warriors.",
"3": "So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,",
"4": "“Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon. For it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel.”",
"5": "Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered their forces and went up with all their armies and encamped against Gibeon and made war against it.",
"6": "And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, “Do not relax your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us.”",
"7": "So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.",
"8": "And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you.”",
"9": "So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal.",
"10": "And the Lord threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.",
"11": "And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.",
"12": "At that time Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel,\n“Sun, stand still at Gibeon,\n and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”",
"13": "And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped,\n until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.\nIs this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.",
"14": "There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord heeded the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.",
"15": "So Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.",
"16": "These five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.",
"17": "And it was told to Joshua, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”",
"18": "And Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave and set men by it to guard them,",
"19": "but do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies; attack their rear guard. Do not let them enter their cities, for the Lord your God has given them into your hand.”",
"20": "When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,",
"21": "then all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah. Not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel.",
"22": "Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me from the cave.”",
"23": "And they did so, and brought those five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.",
"24": "And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, “Come near; put your feet on the necks of these kings.” Then they came near and put their feet on their necks.",
"25": "And Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous. For thus the Lord will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.”",
"26": "And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening.",
"27": "But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.",
"28": "As for Makkedah, Joshua captured it on that day and struck it, and its king, with the edge of the sword. He devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.",
"29": "Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.",
"30": "And the Lord gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel. And he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.",
"31": "Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it.",
"32": "And the Lord gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah.",
"33": "Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining.",
"34": "Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon. And they laid siege to it and fought against it.",
"35": "And they captured it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. And he devoted every person in it to destruction that day, as he had done to Lachish.",
"36": "Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron. And they fought against it",
"37": "and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and devoted it to destruction and every person in it.",
"38": "Then Joshua and all Israel with him turned back to Debir and fought against it",
"39": "and he captured it with its king and all its towns. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king.",
"40": "So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel commanded.",
"41": "And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon.",
"42": "And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.",
"43": "Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal."
},
"11": {
"1": "When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,",
"2": "and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west,",
"3": "to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.",
"4": "And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.",
"5": "And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.",
"6": "And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”",
"7": "So Joshua and all his warriors came suddenly against them by the waters of Merom and fell upon them.",
"8": "And the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.",
"9": "And Joshua did to them just as the Lord said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.",
"10": "And Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms.",
"11": "And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire.",
"12": "And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.",
"13": "But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned.",
"14": "And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the people of Israel took for their plunder. But every person they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed.",
"15": "Just as the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.",
"16": "So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland",
"17": "from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And he captured all their kings and struck them and put them to death.",
"18": "Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.",
"19": "There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took them all in battle.",
"20": "For it was the Lord's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the Lord commanded Moses.",
"21": "And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities.",
"22": "There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.",
"23": "So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war."
},
"12": {
"1": "Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward:",
"2": "Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,",
"3": "and the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;",
"4": "and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei",
"5": "and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon.",
"6": "Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the Lord gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.",
"7": "And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments,",
"8": "in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):",
"9": "the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;",
"10": "the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;",
"11": "the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;",
"12": "the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;",
"13": "the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;",
"14": "the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;",
"15": "the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;",
"16": "the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;",
"17": "the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;",
"18": "the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;",
"19": "the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;",
"20": "the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;",
"21": "the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;",
"22": "the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;",
"23": "the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee, one;",
"24": "the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings."
},
"13": {
"1": "Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.",
"2": "This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites",
"3": "(from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim,",
"4": "in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,",
"5": "and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath,",
"6": "all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.",
"7": "Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”",
"8": "With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them:",
"9": "from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon;",
"10": "and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;",
"11": "and Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;",
"12": "all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); these Moses had struck and driven out.",
"13": "Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.",
"14": "To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.",
"15": "And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans.",
"16": "So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;",
"17": "with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,",
"18": "and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,",
"19": "and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,",
"20": "and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,",
"21": "that is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.",
"22": "Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain.",
"23": "And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.",
"24": "Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans.",
"25": "Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah,",
"26": "and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,",
"27": "and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.",
"28": "This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.",
"29": "And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans.",
"30": "Their region extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,",
"31": "and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.",
"32": "These are the inheritances that Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.",
"33": "But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, just as he said to them."
},
"14": {
"1": "These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.",
"2": "Their inheritance was by lot, just as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.",
"3": "For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.",
"4": "For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance.",
"5": "The people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land.",
"6": "Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.",
"7": "I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.",
"8": "But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.",
"9": "And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’",
"10": "And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.",
"11": "I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.",
"12": "So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”",
"13": "Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.",
"14": "Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"15": "Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war."
},
"15": {
"1": "The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.",
"2": "And their south boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward.",
"3": "It goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka,",
"4": "passes along to Azmon, goes out by the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary.",
"5": "And the east boundary is the Salt Sea, to the mouth of the Jordan. And the boundary on the north side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.",
"6": "And the boundary goes up to Beth-hoglah and passes along north of Beth-arabah. And the boundary goes up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.",
"7": "And the boundary goes up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. And the boundary passes along to the waters of En-shemesh and ends at En-rogel.",
"8": "Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.",
"9": "Then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron. Then the boundary bends around to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).",
"10": "And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh and passes along by Timnah.",
"11": "The boundary goes out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then the boundary bends around to Shikkeron and passes along to Mount Baalah and goes out to Jabneel. Then the boundary comes to an end at the sea.",
"12": "And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary around the people of Judah according to their clans.",
"13": "According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).",
"14": "And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.",
"15": "And he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir. Now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher.",
"16": "And Caleb said, “Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.”",
"17": "And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.",
"18": "When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”",
"19": "She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.",
"20": "This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans.",
"21": "The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,",
"22": "Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,",
"23": "Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,",
"24": "Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,",
"25": "Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),",
"26": "Amam, Shema, Moladah,",
"27": "Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet,",
"28": "Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,",
"29": "Baalah, Iim, Ezem,",
"30": "Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,",
"31": "Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,",
"32": "Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.",
"33": "And in the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,",
"34": "Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,",
"35": "Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,",
"36": "Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages.",
"37": "Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad,",
"38": "Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel,",
"39": "Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,",
"40": "Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,",
"41": "Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages.",
"42": "Libnah, Ether, Ashan,",
"43": "Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,",
"44": "Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.",
"45": "Ekron, with its towns and its villages;",
"46": "from Ekron to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.",
"47": "Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coastline.",
"48": "And in the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,",
"49": "Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir),",
"50": "Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,",
"51": "Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.",
"52": "Arab, Dumah, Eshan,",
"53": "Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah,",
"54": "Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages.",
"55": "Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,",
"56": "Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,",
"57": "Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages.",
"58": "Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,",
"59": "Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon: six cities with their villages.",
"60": "Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.",
"61": "In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,",
"62": "Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi: six cities with their villages.",
"63": "But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day."
},
"16": {
"1": "The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.",
"2": "Then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites.",
"3": "Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea.",
"4": "The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.",
"5": "The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,",
"6": "and the boundary goes from there to the sea. On the north is Michmethath. Then on the east the boundary turns around toward Taanath-shiloh and passes along beyond it on the east to Janoah,",
"7": "then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan.",
"8": "From Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans,",
"9": "together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.",
"10": "However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor."
},
"17": {
"1": "Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.",
"2": "And allotments were made to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their clans.",
"3": "Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters, and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.",
"4": "They approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders and said, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers.” So according to the mouth of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.",
"5": "Thus there fell to Manasseh ten portions, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan,",
"6": "because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons. The land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the people of Manasseh.",
"7": "The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to Michmethath, which is east of Shechem. Then the boundary goes along southward to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.",
"8": "The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim.",
"9": "Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea,",
"10": "the land to the south being Ephraim's and that to the north being Manasseh's, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar.",
"11": "Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.",
"12": "Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.",
"13": "Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.",
"14": "Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the Lord has blessed me?”",
"15": "And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”",
"16": "The people of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”",
"17": "Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, “You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only,",
"18": "but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”"
},
"18": {
"1": "Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.",
"2": "There remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned.",
"3": "So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?",
"4": "Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me.",
"5": "They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall continue in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall continue in their territory on the north.",
"6": "And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.",
"7": "The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the Lord is their heritage. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.”",
"8": "So the men arose and went, and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, “Go up and down in the land and write a description and return to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh.”",
"9": "So the men went and passed up and down in the land and wrote in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions. Then they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh,",
"10": "and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord. And there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, to each his portion.",
"11": "The lot of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to its clans came up, and the territory allotted to it fell between the people of Judah and the people of Joseph.",
"12": "On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan. Then the boundary goes up to the shoulder north of Jericho, then up through the hill country westward, and it ends at the wilderness of Beth-aven.",
"13": "From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (that is, Bethel), then the boundary goes down to Ataroth-addar, on the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.",
"14": "Then the boundary goes in another direction, turning on the western side southward from the mountain that lies to the south, opposite Beth-horon, and it ends at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city belonging to the people of Judah. This forms the western side.",
"15": "And the southern side begins at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim. And the boundary goes from there to Ephron, to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.",
"16": "Then the boundary goes down to the border of the mountain that overlooks the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim. And it then goes down the Valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jebusites, and downward to En-rogel.",
"17": "Then it bends in a northerly direction going on to En-shemesh, and from there goes to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim. Then it goes down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,",
"18": "and passing on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-arabah it goes down to the Arabah.",
"19": "Then the boundary passes on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-hoglah. And the boundary ends at the northern bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this is the southern border.",
"20": "The Jordan forms its boundary on the eastern side. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin, according to their clans, boundary by boundary all around.",
"21": "Now the cities of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to their clans were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,",
"22": "Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,",
"23": "Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,",
"24": "Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, Geba—twelve cities with their villages:",
"25": "Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,",
"26": "Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,",
"27": "Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,",
"28": "Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans."
},
"19": {
"1": "The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the people of Simeon, according to their clans, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the people of Judah.",
"2": "And they had for their inheritance Beersheba, Sheba, Moladah,",
"3": "Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem,",
"4": "Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,",
"5": "Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,",
"6": "Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen cities with their villages;",
"7": "Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities with their villages,",
"8": "together with all the villages around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Simeon according to their clans.",
"9": "The inheritance of the people of Simeon formed part of the territory of the people of Judah. Because the portion of the people of Judah was too large for them, the people of Simeon obtained an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.",
"10": "The third lot came up for the people of Zebulun, according to their clans. And the territory of their inheritance reached as far as Sarid.",
"11": "Then their boundary goes up westward and on to Mareal and touches Dabbesheth, then the brook that is east of Jokneam.",
"12": "From Sarid it goes in the other direction eastward toward the sunrise to the boundary of Chisloth-tabor. From there it goes to Daberath, then up to Japhia.",
"13": "From there it passes along on the east toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and going on to Rimmon it bends toward Neah,",
"14": "then on the north the boundary turns about to Hannathon, and it ends at the Valley of Iphtahel;",
"15": "and Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve cities with their villages.",
"16": "This is the inheritance of the people of Zebulun, according to their clans—these cities with their villages.",
"17": "The fourth lot came out for Issachar, for the people of Issachar, according to their clans.",
"18": "Their territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,",
"19": "Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,",
"20": "Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,",
"21": "Remeth, En-gannim, En-haddah, Beth-pazzez.",
"22": "The boundary also touches Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and its boundary ends at the Jordan—sixteen cities with their villages.",
"23": "This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Issachar, according to their clans—the cities with their villages.",
"24": "The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans.",
"25": "Their territory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,",
"26": "Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west it touches Carmel and Shihor-libnath,",
"27": "then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel. Then it continues in the north to Cabul,",
"28": "Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as Sidon the Great.",
"29": "Then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre. Then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab, Achzib,",
"30": "Ummah, Aphek and Rehob—twenty-two cities with their villages.",
"31": "This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans—these cities with their villages.",
"32": "The sixth lot came out for the people of Naphtali, for the people of Naphtali, according to their clans.",
"33": "And their boundary ran from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, and it ended at the Jordan.",
"34": "Then the boundary turns westward to Aznoth-tabor and goes from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun at the south and Asher on the west and Judah on the east at the Jordan.",
"35": "The fortified cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,",
"36": "Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,",
"37": "Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,",
"38": "Yiron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh—nineteen cities with their villages.",
"39": "This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Naphtali according to their clans—the cities with their villages.",
"40": "The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the people of Dan, according to their clans.",
"41": "And the territory of its inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,",
"42": "Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,",
"43": "Elon, Timnah, Ekron,",
"44": "Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,",
"45": "Jehud, Bene-berak, Gath-rimmon,",
"46": "and Me-jarkon and Rakkon with the territory over against Joppa.",
"47": "When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.",
"48": "This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Dan, according to their clans—these cities with their villages.",
"49": "When they had finished distributing the several territories of the land as inheritances, the people of Israel gave an inheritance among them to Joshua the son of Nun.",
"50": "By command of the Lord they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city and settled in it.",
"51": "These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land."
},
"20": {
"1": "Then the Lord said to Joshua,",
"2": "“Say to the people of Israel, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,",
"3": "that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.",
"4": "He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they shall take him into the city and give him a place, and he shall remain with them.",
"5": "And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him in the past.",
"6": "And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.’”",
"7": "So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.",
"8": "And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.",
"9": "These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation."
},
"21": {
"1": "Then the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel.",
"2": "And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, “The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock.”",
"3": "So by command of the Lord the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasturelands out of their inheritance.",
"4": "The lot came out for the clans of the Kohathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities.",
"5": "And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.",
"6": "The Gershonites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.",
"7": "The Merarites according to their clans received from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.",
"8": "These cities and their pasturelands the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.",
"9": "Out of the tribe of the people of Judah and the tribe of the people of Simeon they gave the following cities mentioned by name,",
"10": "which went to the descendants of Aaron, one of the clans of the Kohathites who belonged to the people of Levi; since the lot fell to them first.",
"11": "They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.",
"12": "But the fields of the city and its villages had been given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.",
"13": "And to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, Libnah with its pasturelands,",
"14": "Jattir with its pasturelands, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,",
"15": "Holon with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,",
"16": "Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands—nine cities out of these two tribes;",
"17": "then out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasturelands, Geba with its pasturelands,",
"18": "Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands—four cities.",
"19": "The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.",
"20": "As to the rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Kohathite clans of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of Ephraim.",
"21": "To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,",
"22": "Kibzaim with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands—four cities;",
"23": "and out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasturelands, Gibbethon with its pasturelands,",
"24": "Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands—four cities;",
"25": "and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasturelands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands—two cities.",
"26": "The cities of the clans of the rest of the Kohathites were ten in all with their pasturelands.",
"27": "And to the Gershonites, one of the clans of the Levites, were given out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah with its pasturelands—two cities;",
"28": "and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands,",
"29": "Jarmuth with its pasturelands, En-gannim with its pasturelands—four cities;",
"30": "and out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands,",
"31": "Helkath with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands—four cities;",
"32": "and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands—three cities.",
"33": "The cities of the several clans of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.",
"34": "And to the rest of the Levites, the Merarite clans, were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands,",
"35": "Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands—four cities;",
"36": "and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasturelands, Jahaz with its pasturelands,",
"37": "Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities;",
"38": "and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,",
"39": "Heshbon with its pasturelands, Jazer with its pasturelands—four cities in all.",
"40": "As for the cities of the several Merarite clans, that is, the remainder of the clans of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities.",
"41": "The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands.",
"42": "These cities each had its pasturelands around it. So it was with all these cities.",
"43": "Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there.",
"44": "And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands.",
"45": "Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass."
},
"22": {
"1": "At that time Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,",
"2": "and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that I have commanded you.",
"3": "You have not forsaken your brothers these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the Lord your God.",
"4": "And now the Lord your God has given rest to your brothers, as he promised them. Therefore turn and go to your tents in the land where your possession lies, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan.",
"5": "Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”",
"6": "So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.",
"7": "Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua had given a possession beside their brothers in the land west of the Jordan. And when Joshua sent them away to their homes and blessed them,",
"8": "he said to them, “Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”",
"9": "So the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the people of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had possessed themselves by command of the Lord through Moses.",
"10": "And when they came to the region of the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of imposing size.",
"11": "And the people of Israel heard it said, “Behold, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built the altar at the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the people of Israel.”",
"12": "And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war against them.",
"13": "Then the people of Israel sent to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,",
"14": "and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel.",
"15": "And they came to the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them,",
"16": "“Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, ‘What is this breach of faith that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the Lord by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the Lord?",
"17": "Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which there came a plague upon the congregation of the Lord,",
"18": "that you too must turn away this day from following the Lord? And if you too rebel against the Lord today then tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.",
"19": "But now, if the land of your possession is unclean, pass over into the Lord's land where the Lord's tabernacle stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us. Only do not rebel against the Lord or make us as rebels by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God.",
"20": "Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity.’”",
"21": "Then the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,",
"22": "“The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the Lord, do not spare us today",
"23": "for building an altar to turn away from following the Lord. Or if we did so to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings or peace offerings on it, may the Lord himself take vengeance.",
"24": "No, but we did it from fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, ‘What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?",
"25": "For the Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you people of Reuben and people of Gad. You have no portion in the Lord.’ So your children might make our children cease to worship the Lord.",
"26": "Therefore we said, ‘Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice,",
"27": "but to be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we do perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings, so your children will not say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.”’",
"28": "And we thought, ‘If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, “Behold, the copy of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be a witness between us and you.”’",
"29": "Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord and turn away this day from following the Lord by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the Lord our God that stands before his tabernacle!”",
"30": "When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh spoke, it was good in their eyes.",
"31": "And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh, “Today we know that the Lord is in our midst, because you have not committed this breach of faith against the Lord. Now you have delivered the people of Israel from the hand of the Lord.”",
"32": "Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs, returned from the people of Reuben and the people of Gad in the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the people of Israel, and brought back word to them.",
"33": "And the report was good in the eyes of the people of Israel. And the people of Israel blessed God and spoke no more of making war against them to destroy the land where the people of Reuben and the people of Gad were settled.",
"34": "The people of Reuben and the people of Gad called the altar Witness, “For,” they said, “it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”"
},
"23": {
"1": "A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,",
"2": "Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years.",
"3": "And you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.",
"4": "Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.",
"5": "The Lord your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, just as the Lord your God promised you.",
"6": "Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,",
"7": "that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,",
"8": "but you shall cling to the Lord your God just as you have done to this day.",
"9": "For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.",
"10": "One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, just as he promised you.",
"11": "Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.",
"12": "For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,",
"13": "know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.",
"14": "“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.",
"15": "But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you,",
"16": "if you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.”"
},
"24": {
"1": "Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.",
"2": "And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.",
"3": "Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.",
"4": "And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.",
"5": "And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it, and afterward I brought you out.",
"6": "“‘Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea. And the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.",
"7": "And when they cried to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time.",
"8": "Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.",
"9": "Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,",
"10": "but I would not listen to Balaam. Indeed, he blessed you. So I delivered you out of his hand.",
"11": "And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand.",
"12": "And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.",
"13": "I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.’",
"14": "“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.",
"15": "And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”",
"16": "Then the people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods,",
"17": "for it is the Lord our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed.",
"18": "And the Lord drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord, for he is our God.”",
"19": "But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.",
"20": "If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.”",
"21": "And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the Lord.”",
"22": "Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”",
"23": "He said, “Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.”",
"24": "And the people said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.”",
"25": "So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.",
"26": "And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.",
"27": "And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.”",
"28": "So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.",
"29": "After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old.",
"30": "And they buried him in his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.",
"31": "Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work that the Lord did for Israel.",
"32": "As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.",
"33": "And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:28.632308-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Jude": {
"1": {
"1": "Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,\nTo those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:",
"2": "May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.",
"3": "Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.",
"4": "For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.",
"5": "Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.",
"6": "And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—",
"7": "just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.",
"8": "Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.",
"9": "But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”",
"10": "But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.",
"11": "Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion.",
"12": "These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;",
"13": "wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.",
"14": "It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,",
"15": "to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”",
"16": "These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.",
"17": "But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.",
"18": "They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”",
"19": "It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.",
"20": "But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,",
"21": "keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.",
"22": "And have mercy on those who doubt;",
"23": "save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.",
"24": "Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,",
"25": "to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:33.922584-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Judges": {
"1": {
"1": "After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the Lord, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”",
"2": "The Lord said, “Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.”",
"3": "And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you.” So Simeon went with him.",
"4": "Then Judah went up and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek.",
"5": "They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.",
"6": "Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.",
"7": "And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.",
"8": "And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.",
"9": "And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.",
"10": "And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.",
"11": "From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.",
"12": "And Caleb said, “He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife.”",
"13": "And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.",
"14": "When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”",
"15": "She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.",
"16": "And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.",
"17": "And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.",
"18": "Judah also captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.",
"19": "And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.",
"20": "And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said. And he drove out from it the three sons of Anak.",
"21": "But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.",
"22": "The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.",
"23": "And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)",
"24": "And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”",
"25": "And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.",
"26": "And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.",
"27": "Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.",
"28": "When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.",
"29": "And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.",
"30": "Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.",
"31": "Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob,",
"32": "so the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.",
"33": "Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.",
"34": "The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.",
"35": "The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor.",
"36": "And the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward."
},
"2": {
"1": "Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,",
"2": "and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?",
"3": "So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”",
"4": "As soon as the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.",
"5": "And they called the name of that place Bochim. And they sacrificed there to the Lord.",
"6": "When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land.",
"7": "And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel.",
"8": "And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110 years.",
"9": "And they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.",
"10": "And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.",
"11": "And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.",
"12": "And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger.",
"13": "They abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.",
"14": "So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.",
"15": "Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.",
"16": "Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.",
"17": "Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.",
"18": "Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.",
"19": "But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.",
"20": "So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,",
"21": "I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,",
"22": "in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not.”",
"23": "So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua."
},
"3": {
"1": "Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.",
"2": "It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.",
"3": "These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.",
"4": "They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.",
"5": "So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.",
"6": "And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.",
"7": "And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.",
"8": "Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.",
"9": "But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.",
"10": "The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.",
"11": "So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.",
"12": "And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.",
"13": "He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of the city of palms.",
"14": "And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.",
"15": "Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.",
"16": "And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.",
"17": "And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.",
"18": "And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.",
"19": "But he himself turned back at the idols near Gilgal and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” And he commanded, “Silence.” And all his attendants went out from his presence.",
"20": "And Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you.” And he arose from his seat.",
"21": "And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.",
"22": "And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.",
"23": "Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him and locked them.",
"24": "When he had gone, the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, “Surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber.”",
"25": "And they waited till they were embarrassed. But when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor.",
"26": "Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond the idols and escaped to Seirah.",
"27": "When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.",
"28": "And he said to them, “Follow after me, for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over.",
"29": "And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.",
"30": "So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.",
"31": "After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel."
},
"4": {
"1": "And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.",
"2": "And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.",
"3": "Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.",
"4": "Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.",
"5": "She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.",
"6": "She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.",
"7": "And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin's army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand’?”",
"8": "Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”",
"9": "And she said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.",
"10": "And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.",
"11": "Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.",
"12": "When Sisera was told that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,",
"13": "Sisera called out all his chariots, 900 chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon.",
"14": "And Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the Lord go out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him.",
"15": "And the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot.",
"16": "And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.",
"17": "But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.",
"18": "And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.",
"19": "And he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.",
"20": "And he said to her, “Stand at the opening of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, ‘Is anyone here?’ say, ‘No.’”",
"21": "But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.",
"22": "And behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he went in to her tent, and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple.",
"23": "So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel.",
"24": "And the hand of the people of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan."
},
"5": {
"1": "Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:",
"2": "“That the leaders took the lead in Israel,\n that the people offered themselves willingly,\n bless the Lord!",
"3": "“Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;\n to the Lord I will sing;\n I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"4": "“Lord, when you went out from Seir,\n when you marched from the region of Edom,\nthe earth trembled\n and the heavens dropped,\n yes, the clouds dropped water.",
"5": "The mountains quaked before the Lord,\n even Sinai before the Lord, the God of Israel.",
"6": "“In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath,\n in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned,\n and travelers kept to the byways.",
"7": "The villagers ceased in Israel;\n they ceased to be until I arose;\n I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.",
"8": "When new gods were chosen,\n then war was in the gates.\nWas shield or spear to be seen\n among forty thousand in Israel?",
"9": "My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel\n who offered themselves willingly among the people.\n Bless the Lord.",
"10": "“Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys,\n you who sit on rich carpets\n and you who walk by the way.",
"11": "To the sound of musicians at the watering places,\n there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the Lord,\n the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel.\n“Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.",
"12": "“Awake, awake, Deborah!\n Awake, awake, break out in a song!\nArise, Barak, lead away your captives,\n O son of Abinoam.",
"13": "Then down marched the remnant of the noble;\n the people of the Lord marched down for me against the mighty.",
"14": "From Ephraim their root they marched down into the valley,\n following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen;\nfrom Machir marched down the commanders,\n and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant's staff;",
"15": "the princes of Issachar came with Deborah,\n and Issachar faithful to Barak;\n into the valley they rushed at his heels.\nAmong the clans of Reuben\n there were great searchings of heart.",
"16": "Why did you sit still among the sheepfolds,\n to hear the whistling for the flocks?\nAmong the clans of Reuben\n there were great searchings of heart.",
"17": "Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan;\n and Dan, why did he stay with the ships?\nAsher sat still at the coast of the sea,\n staying by his landings.",
"18": "Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death;\n Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.",
"19": "“The kings came, they fought;\n then fought the kings of Canaan,\nat Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo;\n they got no spoils of silver.",
"20": "From heaven the stars fought,\n from their courses they fought against Sisera.",
"21": "The torrent Kishon swept them away,\n the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.\n March on, my soul, with might!",
"22": "“Then loud beat the horses' hoofs\n with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.",
"23": "“Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord,\n curse its inhabitants thoroughly,\nbecause they did not come to the help of the Lord,\n to the help of the Lord against the mighty.",
"24": "“Most blessed of women be Jael,\n the wife of Heber the Kenite,\n of tent-dwelling women most blessed.",
"25": "He asked for water and she gave him milk;\n she brought him curds in a noble's bowl.",
"26": "She sent her hand to the tent peg\n and her right hand to the workmen's mallet;\nshe struck Sisera;\n she crushed his head;\n she shattered and pierced his temple.",
"27": "Between her feet\n he sank, he fell, he lay still;\nbetween her feet\n he sank, he fell;\nwhere he sank,\n there he fell—dead.",
"28": "“Out of the window she peered,\n the mother of Sisera wailed through the lattice:\n‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?\n Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’",
"29": "Her wisest princesses answer,\n indeed, she answers herself,",
"30": "‘Have they not found and divided the spoil?—\n A womb or two for every man;\nspoil of dyed materials for Sisera,\n spoil of dyed materials embroidered,\n two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?’",
"31": "“So may all your enemies perish, O Lord!\n But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.”\nAnd the land had rest for forty years."
},
"6": {
"1": "The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.",
"2": "And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.",
"3": "For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.",
"4": "They would encamp against them and devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey.",
"5": "For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in.",
"6": "And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel cried out for help to the Lord.",
"7": "When the people of Israel cried out to the Lord on account of the Midianites,",
"8": "the Lord sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of slavery.",
"9": "And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land.",
"10": "And I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.’ But you have not obeyed my voice.”",
"11": "Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.",
"12": "And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.”",
"13": "And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.”",
"14": "And the Lord turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?”",
"15": "And he said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.”",
"16": "And the Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”",
"17": "And he said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.",
"18": "Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.” And he said, “I will stay till you return.”",
"19": "So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.",
"20": "And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” And he did so.",
"21": "Then the angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.",
"22": "Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.”",
"23": "But the Lord said to him, “Peace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die.”",
"24": "Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.",
"25": "That night the Lord said to him, “Take your father's bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it",
"26": "and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down.”",
"27": "So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the Lord had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.",
"28": "When the men of the town rose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built.",
"29": "And they said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” And after they had searched and inquired, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”",
"30": "Then the men of the town said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has broken down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it.”",
"31": "But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down.”",
"32": "Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend against him,” because he broke down his altar.",
"33": "Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.",
"34": "But the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him.",
"35": "And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them.",
"36": "Then Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,",
"37": "behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.”",
"38": "And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water.",
"39": "Then Gideon said to God, “Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.”",
"40": "And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew."
},
"7": {
"1": "Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.",
"2": "The Lord said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’",
"3": "Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.’” Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.",
"4": "And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”",
"5": "So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.”",
"6": "And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.",
"7": "And the Lord said to Gideon, “With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.”",
"8": "So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the 300 men. And the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.",
"9": "That same night the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.",
"10": "But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant.",
"11": "And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp.",
"12": "And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.",
"13": "When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”",
"14": "And his comrade answered, “This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.”",
"15": "As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the Lord has given the host of Midian into your hand.”",
"16": "And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.",
"17": "And he said to them, “Look at me, and do likewise. When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.",
"18": "When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon.’”",
"19": "So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.",
"20": "Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. And they cried out, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”",
"21": "Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.",
"22": "When they blew the 300 trumpets, the Lord set every man's sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.",
"23": "And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.",
"24": "Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.",
"25": "And they captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. Then they pursued Midian, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan."
},
"8": {
"1": "Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely.",
"2": "And he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?",
"3": "God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger against him subsided when he said this.",
"4": "And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing.",
"5": "So he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”",
"6": "And the officials of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”",
"7": "So Gideon said, “Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”",
"8": "And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way, and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.",
"9": "And he said to the men of Penuel, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”",
"10": "Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.",
"11": "And Gideon went up by the way of the tent dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the army, for the army felt secure.",
"12": "And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic.",
"13": "Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.",
"14": "And he captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men.",
"15": "And he came to the men of Succoth and said, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are exhausted?’”",
"16": "And he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth a lesson.",
"17": "And he broke down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.",
"18": "Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “Where are the men whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “As you are, so were they. Every one of them resembled the son of a king.”",
"19": "And he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”",
"20": "So he said to Jether his firstborn, “Rise and kill them!” But the young man did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a young man.",
"21": "Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength.” And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.",
"22": "Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”",
"23": "Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.”",
"24": "And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)",
"25": "And they answered, “We will willingly give them.” And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil.",
"26": "And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.",
"27": "And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.",
"28": "So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.",
"29": "Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.",
"30": "Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.",
"31": "And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.",
"32": "And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.",
"33": "As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.",
"34": "And the people of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side,",
"35": "and they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel."
},
"9": {
"1": "Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,",
"2": "“Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”",
"3": "And his mother's relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”",
"4": "And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.",
"5": "And he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.",
"6": "And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.",
"7": "When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you.",
"8": "The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’",
"9": "But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, and go hold sway over the trees?’",
"10": "And the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and reign over us.’",
"11": "But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go hold sway over the trees?’",
"12": "And the trees said to the vine, ‘You come and reign over us.’",
"13": "But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?’",
"14": "Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘You come and reign over us.’",
"15": "And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’",
"16": "“Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and integrity when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house and have done to him as his deeds deserved—",
"17": "for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian,",
"18": "and you have risen up against my father's house this day and have killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the leaders of Shechem, because he is your relative—",
"19": "if you then have acted in good faith and integrity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.",
"20": "But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.”",
"21": "And Jotham ran away and fled and went to Beer and lived there, because of Abimelech his brother.",
"22": "Abimelech ruled over Israel three years.",
"23": "And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,",
"24": "that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.",
"25": "And the leaders of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountaintops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way. And it was told to Abimelech.",
"26": "And Gaal the son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his relatives, and the leaders of Shechem put confidence in him.",
"27": "And they went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.",
"28": "And Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?",
"29": "Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. I would say to Abimelech, ‘Increase your army, and come out.’”",
"30": "When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.",
"31": "And he sent messengers to Abimelech secretly, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you.",
"32": "Now therefore, go by night, you and the people who are with you, and set an ambush in the field.",
"33": "Then in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, rise early and rush upon the city. And when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you may do to them as your hand finds to do.”",
"34": "So Abimelech and all the men who were with him rose up by night and set an ambush against Shechem in four companies.",
"35": "And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city, and Abimelech and the people who were with him rose from the ambush.",
"36": "And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountaintops!” And Zebul said to him, “You mistake the shadow of the mountains for men.”",
"37": "Gaal spoke again and said, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming from the direction of the Diviners' Oak.”",
"38": "Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your mouth now, you who said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them.”",
"39": "And Gaal went out at the head of the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.",
"40": "And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. And many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.",
"41": "And Abimelech lived at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives, so that they could not dwell at Shechem.",
"42": "On the following day, the people went out into the field, and Abimelech was told.",
"43": "He took his people and divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. And he looked and saw the people coming out of the city. So he rose against them and killed them.",
"44": "Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the field and killed them.",
"45": "And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.",
"46": "When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith.",
"47": "Abimelech was told that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together.",
"48": "And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do as I have done.”",
"49": "So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women.",
"50": "Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez and captured it.",
"51": "But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women and all the leaders of the city fled to it and shut themselves in, and they went up to the roof of the tower.",
"52": "And Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.",
"53": "And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and crushed his skull.",
"54": "Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.",
"55": "And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, everyone departed to his home.",
"56": "Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.",
"57": "And God also made all the evil of the men of Shechem return on their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal."
},
"10": {
"1": "After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.",
"2": "And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir.",
"3": "After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.",
"4": "And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.",
"5": "And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.",
"6": "The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him.",
"7": "So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,",
"8": "and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.",
"9": "And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.",
"10": "And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.”",
"11": "And the Lord said to the people of Israel, “Did I not save you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?",
"12": "The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand.",
"13": "Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.",
"14": "Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.”",
"15": "And the people of Israel said to the Lord, “We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day.”",
"16": "So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel.",
"17": "Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead. And the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.",
"18": "And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”"
},
"11": {
"1": "Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.",
"2": "And Gilead's wife also bore him sons. And when his wife's sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.”",
"3": "Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.",
"4": "After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel.",
"5": "And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob.",
"6": "And they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our leader, that we may fight against the Ammonites.”",
"7": "But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”",
"8": "And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”",
"9": "Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the Lord gives them over to me, I will be your head.”",
"10": "And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The Lord will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say.”",
"11": "So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.",
"12": "Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”",
"13": "And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.”",
"14": "Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites",
"15": "and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,",
"16": "but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.",
"17": "Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.",
"18": "“Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.",
"19": "Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to our country,’",
"20": "but Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people together and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.",
"21": "And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.",
"22": "And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.",
"23": "So then the Lord, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?",
"24": "Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.",
"25": "Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them?",
"26": "While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them within that time?",
"27": "I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The Lord, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.”",
"28": "But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent to him.",
"29": "Then the Spirit of the Lord was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.",
"30": "And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand,",
"31": "then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”",
"32": "So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the Lord gave them into his hand.",
"33": "And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.",
"34": "Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.",
"35": "And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I cannot take back my vow.”",
"36": "And she said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to the Lord; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the Lord has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites.”",
"37": "So she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go up and down on the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions.”",
"38": "So he said, “Go.” Then he sent her away for two months, and she departed, she and her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains.",
"39": "And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel",
"40": "that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year."
},
"12": {
"1": "The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.”",
"2": "And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand.",
"3": "And when I saw that you would not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”",
"4": "Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh.”",
"5": "And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” When he said, “No,”",
"6": "they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.",
"7": "Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.",
"8": "After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.",
"9": "He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.",
"10": "Then Ibzan died and was buried at Bethlehem.",
"11": "After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.",
"12": "Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.",
"13": "After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.",
"14": "He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.",
"15": "Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites."
},
"13": {
"1": "And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.",
"2": "There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children.",
"3": "And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.",
"4": "Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,",
"5": "for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”",
"6": "Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,",
"7": "but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”",
"8": "Then Manoah prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born.”",
"9": "And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her.",
"10": "So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.”",
"11": "And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to this woman?” And he said, “I am.”",
"12": "And Manoah said, “Now when your words come true, what is to be the child's manner of life, and what is his mission?”",
"13": "And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful.",
"14": "She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.”",
"15": "Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Please let us detain you and prepare a young goat for you.”",
"16": "And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord.” (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.)",
"17": "And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?”",
"18": "And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?”",
"19": "So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching.",
"20": "And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground.",
"21": "The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.",
"22": "And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, for we have seen God.”",
"23": "But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.”",
"24": "And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the Lord blessed him.",
"25": "And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol."
},
"14": {
"1": "Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.",
"2": "Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”",
"3": "But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”",
"4": "His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.",
"5": "Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.",
"6": "Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.",
"7": "Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson's eyes.",
"8": "After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.",
"9": "He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.",
"10": "His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.",
"11": "As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.",
"12": "And Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes,",
"13": "but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.”",
"14": "And he said to them,\n“Out of the eater came something to eat.\nOut of the strong came something sweet.”\nAnd in three days they could not solve the riddle.",
"15": "On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, “Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?”",
"16": "And Samson's wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”",
"17": "She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.",
"18": "And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,\n“What is sweeter than honey?\nWhat is stronger than a lion?”\nAnd he said to them,\n“If you had not plowed with my heifer,\nyou would not have found out my riddle.”",
"19": "And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house.",
"20": "And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man."
},
"15": {
"1": "After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in.",
"2": "And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”",
"3": "And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm.”",
"4": "So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails.",
"5": "And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.",
"6": "Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.",
"7": "And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit.”",
"8": "And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.",
"9": "Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and made a raid on Lehi.",
"10": "And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us.”",
"11": "Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to them.”",
"12": "And they said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”",
"13": "They said to him, “No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.",
"14": "When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.",
"15": "And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men.",
"16": "And Samson said,\n“With the jawbone of a donkey,\n heaps upon heaps,\nwith the jawbone of a donkey\n have I struck down a thousand men.”",
"17": "As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.",
"18": "And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the Lord and said, “You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”",
"19": "And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.",
"20": "And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years."
},
"16": {
"1": "Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute, and he went in to her.",
"2": "The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”",
"3": "But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.",
"4": "After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.",
"5": "And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”",
"6": "So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.”",
"7": "Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”",
"8": "Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.",
"9": "Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.",
"10": "Then Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you might be bound.”",
"11": "And he said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”",
"12": "So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.",
"13": "Then Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”",
"14": "So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.",
"15": "And she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.”",
"16": "And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.",
"17": "And he told her all his heart, and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.”",
"18": "When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up again, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands.",
"19": "She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.",
"20": "And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had left him.",
"21": "And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.",
"22": "But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.",
"23": "Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, “Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.”",
"24": "And when the people saw him, they praised their god. For they said, “Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us.”",
"25": "And when their hearts were merry, they said, “Call Samson, that he may entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars.",
"26": "And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.”",
"27": "Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained.",
"28": "Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.”",
"29": "And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.",
"30": "And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life.",
"31": "Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years."
},
"17": {
"1": "There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.",
"2": "And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.”",
"3": "And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”",
"4": "So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah.",
"5": "And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.",
"6": "In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.",
"7": "Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.",
"8": "And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.",
"9": "And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place.”",
"10": "And Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living.” And the Levite went in.",
"11": "And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.",
"12": "And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.",
"13": "Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.”"
},
"18": {
"1": "In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.",
"2": "So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go and explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.",
"3": "When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. And they turned aside and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”",
"4": "And he said to them, “This is how Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”",
"5": "And they said to him, “Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”",
"6": "And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the Lord.”",
"7": "Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.",
"8": "And when they came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, “What do you report?”",
"9": "They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land.",
"10": "As soon as you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”",
"11": "So 600 men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol,",
"12": "and went up and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. On this account that place is called Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath-jearim.",
"13": "And they passed on from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.",
"14": "Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.”",
"15": "And they turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him about his welfare.",
"16": "Now the 600 men of the Danites, armed with their weapons of war, stood by the entrance of the gate.",
"17": "And the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.",
"18": "And when these went into Micah's house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”",
"19": "And they said to him, “Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”",
"20": "And the priest's heart was glad. He took the ephod and the household gods and the carved image and went along with the people.",
"21": "So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the livestock and the goods in front of them.",
"22": "When they had gone a distance from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house were called out, and they overtook the people of Dan.",
"23": "And they shouted to the people of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you, that you come with such a company?”",
"24": "And he said, “You take my gods that I made and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”",
"25": "And the people of Dan said to him, “Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household.”",
"26": "Then the people of Dan went their way. And when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.",
"27": "But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.",
"28": "And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.",
"29": "And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first.",
"30": "And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.",
"31": "So they set up Micah's carved image that he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh."
},
"19": {
"1": "In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.",
"2": "And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.",
"3": "Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father's house. And when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him.",
"4": "And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there.",
"5": "And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.”",
"6": "So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl's father said to the man, “Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.”",
"7": "And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law pressed him, till he spent the night there again.",
"8": "And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart. And the girl's father said, “Strengthen your heart and wait until the day declines.” So they ate, both of them.",
"9": "And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, “Behold, now the day has waned toward evening. Please, spend the night. Behold, the day draws to its close. Lodge here and let your heart be merry, and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home.”",
"10": "But the man would not spend the night. He rose up and departed and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.",
"11": "When they were near Jebus, the day was nearly over, and the servant said to his master, “Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.”",
"12": "And his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to Gibeah.”",
"13": "And he said to his young man, “Come and let us draw near to one of these places and spend the night at Gibeah or at Ramah.”",
"14": "So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin,",
"15": "and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.",
"16": "And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. The men of the place were Benjaminites.",
"17": "And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city. And the old man said, “Where are you going? And where do you come from?”",
"18": "And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to the house of the Lord, but no one has taken me into his house.",
"19": "We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant and the young man with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”",
"20": "And the old man said, “Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants. Only, do not spend the night in the square.”",
"21": "So he brought him into his house and gave the donkeys feed. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.",
"22": "As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.”",
"23": "And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.",
"24": "Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”",
"25": "But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.",
"26": "And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man's house where her master was, until it was light.",
"27": "And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.",
"28": "He said to her, “Get up, let us be going.” But there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey, and the man rose up and went away to his home.",
"29": "And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and taking hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.",
"30": "And all who saw it said, “Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.”"
},
"20": {
"1": "Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah.",
"2": "And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword.",
"3": "(Now the people of Benjamin heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this evil happen?”",
"4": "And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.",
"5": "And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead.",
"6": "So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.",
"7": "Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here.”",
"8": "And all the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.",
"9": "But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot,",
"10": "and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may repay Gibeah of Benjamin for all the outrage that they have committed in Israel.”",
"11": "So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man.",
"12": "And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What evil is this that has taken place among you?",
"13": "Now therefore give up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and purge evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the people of Israel.",
"14": "Then the people of Benjamin came together out of the cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the people of Israel.",
"15": "And the people of Benjamin mustered out of their cities on that day 26,000 men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered 700 chosen men.",
"16": "Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.",
"17": "And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered 400,000 men who drew the sword; all these were men of war.",
"18": "The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of God, “Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?” And the Lord said, “Judah shall go up first.”",
"19": "Then the people of Israel rose in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.",
"20": "And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin, and the men of Israel drew up the battle line against them at Gibeah.",
"21": "The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed on that day 22,000 men of the Israelites.",
"22": "But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.",
"23": "And the people of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until the evening. And they inquired of the Lord, “Shall we again draw near to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?” And the Lord said, “Go up against them.”",
"24": "So the people of Israel came near against the people of Benjamin the second day.",
"25": "And Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed 18,000 men of the people of Israel. All these were men who drew the sword.",
"26": "Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.",
"27": "And the people of Israel inquired of the Lord (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,",
"28": "and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, “Shall we go out once more to battle against our brothers, the people of Benjamin, or shall we cease?” And the Lord said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hand.”",
"29": "So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.",
"30": "And the people of Israel went up against the people of Benjamin on the third day and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.",
"31": "And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.",
"32": "And the people of Benjamin said, “They are routed before us, as at the first.” But the people of Israel said, “Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.”",
"33": "And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar, and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place from Maareh-geba.",
"34": "And there came against Gibeah 10,000 chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard, but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them.",
"35": "And the Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the people of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day. All these were men who drew the sword.",
"36": "So the people of Benjamin saw that they were defeated.\nThe men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.",
"37": "Then the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.",
"38": "Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in the main ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city",
"39": "the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel. They said, “Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.”",
"40": "But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.",
"41": "Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.",
"42": "Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst.",
"43": "Surrounding the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah as far as opposite Gibeah on the east.",
"44": "Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.",
"45": "And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. Five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways. And they were pursued hard to Gidom, and 2,000 men of them were struck down.",
"46": "So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,000 men who drew the sword, all of them men of valor.",
"47": "But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.",
"48": "And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire."
},
"21": {
"1": "Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, “No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.”",
"2": "And the people came to Bethel and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.",
"3": "And they said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?”",
"4": "And the next day the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.",
"5": "And the people of Israel said, “Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord?” For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”",
"6": "And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.",
"7": "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?”",
"8": "And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.",
"9": "For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.",
"10": "So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.",
"11": "This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.”",
"12": "And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.",
"13": "Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.",
"14": "And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them.",
"15": "And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.",
"16": "Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”",
"17": "And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.",
"18": "Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”",
"19": "So they said, “Behold, there is the yearly feast of the Lord at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”",
"20": "And they commanded the people of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in ambush in the vineyards",
"21": "and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.",
"22": "And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’”",
"23": "And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and lived in them.",
"24": "And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.",
"25": "In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes."
}
}
}
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{
"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:00.259825-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Lamentations": {
"1": {
"1": "How lonely sits the city\n that was full of people!\nHow like a widow has she become,\n she who was great among the nations!\nShe who was a princess among the provinces\n has become a slave.",
"2": "She weeps bitterly in the night,\n with tears on her cheeks;\namong all her lovers\n she has none to comfort her;\nall her friends have dealt treacherously with her;\n they have become her enemies.",
"3": "Judah has gone into exile because of affliction\n and hard servitude;\nshe dwells now among the nations,\n but finds no resting place;\nher pursuers have all overtaken her\n in the midst of her distress.",
"4": "The roads to Zion mourn,\n for none come to the festival;\nall her gates are desolate;\n her priests groan;\nher virgins have been afflicted,\n and she herself suffers bitterly.",
"5": "Her foes have become the head;\n her enemies prosper,\nbecause the Lord has afflicted her\n for the multitude of her transgressions;\nher children have gone away,\n captives before the foe.",
"6": "From the daughter of Zion\n all her majesty has departed.\nHer princes have become like deer\n that find no pasture;\nthey fled without strength\n before the pursuer.",
"7": "Jerusalem remembers\n in the days of her affliction and wandering\nall the precious things\n that were hers from days of old.\nWhen her people fell into the hand of the foe,\n and there was none to help her,\nher foes gloated over her;\n they mocked at her downfall.",
"8": "Jerusalem sinned grievously;\n therefore she became filthy;\nall who honored her despise her,\n for they have seen her nakedness;\nshe herself groans\n and turns her face away.",
"9": "Her uncleanness was in her skirts;\n she took no thought of her future;\ntherefore her fall is terrible;\n she has no comforter.\n“O Lord, behold my affliction,\n for the enemy has triumphed!”",
"10": "The enemy has stretched out his hands\n over all her precious things;\nfor she has seen the nations\n enter her sanctuary,\nthose whom you forbade\n to enter your congregation.",
"11": "All her people groan\n as they search for bread;\nthey trade their treasures for food\n to revive their strength.\n“Look, O Lord, and see,\n for I am despised.”",
"12": "“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?\n Look and see\nif there is any sorrow like my sorrow,\n which was brought upon me,\nwhich the Lord inflicted\n on the day of his fierce anger.",
"13": "“From on high he sent fire;\n into my bones he made it descend;\nhe spread a net for my feet;\n he turned me back;\nhe has left me stunned,\n faint all the day long.",
"14": "“My transgressions were bound into a yoke;\n by his hand they were fastened together;\nthey were set upon my neck;\n he caused my strength to fail;\nthe Lord gave me into the hands\n of those whom I cannot withstand.",
"15": "“The Lord rejected\n all my mighty men in my midst;\nhe summoned an assembly against me\n to crush my young men;\nthe Lord has trodden as in a winepress\n the virgin daughter of Judah.",
"16": "“For these things I weep;\n my eyes flow with tears;\nfor a comforter is far from me,\n one to revive my spirit;\nmy children are desolate,\n for the enemy has prevailed.”",
"17": "Zion stretches out her hands,\n but there is none to comfort her;\nthe Lord has commanded against Jacob\n that his neighbors should be his foes;\nJerusalem has become\n a filthy thing among them.",
"18": "“The Lord is in the right,\n for I have rebelled against his word;\nbut hear, all you peoples,\n and see my suffering;\nmy young women and my young men\n have gone into captivity.",
"19": "“I called to my lovers,\n but they deceived me;\nmy priests and elders\n perished in the city,\nwhile they sought food\n to revive their strength.",
"20": "“Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;\n my stomach churns;\nmy heart is wrung within me,\n because I have been very rebellious.\nIn the street the sword bereaves;\n in the house it is like death.",
"21": "“They heard my groaning,\n yet there is no one to comfort me.\nAll my enemies have heard of my trouble;\n they are glad that you have done it.\nYou have brought the day you announced;\n now let them be as I am.",
"22": "“Let all their evildoing come before you,\n and deal with them\nas you have dealt with me\n because of all my transgressions;\nfor my groans are many,\n and my heart is faint.”"
},
"2": {
"1": "How the Lord in his anger\n has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud!\nHe has cast down from heaven to earth\n the splendor of Israel;\nhe has not remembered his footstool\n in the day of his anger.",
"2": "The Lord has swallowed up without mercy\n all the habitations of Jacob;\nin his wrath he has broken down\n the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;\nhe has brought down to the ground in dishonor\n the kingdom and its rulers.",
"3": "He has cut down in fierce anger\n all the might of Israel;\nhe has withdrawn from them his right hand\n in the face of the enemy;\nhe has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,\n consuming all around.",
"4": "He has bent his bow like an enemy,\n with his right hand set like a foe;\nand he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes\n in the tent of the daughter of Zion;\nhe has poured out his fury like fire.",
"5": "The Lord has become like an enemy;\n he has swallowed up Israel;\nhe has swallowed up all its palaces;\n he has laid in ruins its strongholds,\nand he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah\n mourning and lamentation.",
"6": "He has laid waste his booth like a garden,\n laid in ruins his meeting place;\nthe Lord has made Zion forget\n festival and Sabbath,\nand in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.",
"7": "The Lord has scorned his altar,\n disowned his sanctuary;\nhe has delivered into the hand of the enemy\n the walls of her palaces;\nthey raised a clamor in the house of the Lord\n as on the day of festival.",
"8": "The Lord determined to lay in ruins\n the wall of the daughter of Zion;\nhe stretched out the measuring line;\n he did not restrain his hand from destroying;\nhe caused rampart and wall to lament;\n they languished together.",
"9": "Her gates have sunk into the ground;\n he has ruined and broken her bars;\nher king and princes are among the nations;\n the law is no more,\nand her prophets find\n no vision from the Lord.",
"10": "The elders of the daughter of Zion\n sit on the ground in silence;\nthey have thrown dust on their heads\n and put on sackcloth;\nthe young women of Jerusalem\n have bowed their heads to the ground.",
"11": "My eyes are spent with weeping;\n my stomach churns;\nmy bile is poured out to the ground\n because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,\nbecause infants and babies faint\n in the streets of the city.",
"12": "They cry to their mothers,\n “Where is bread and wine?”\nas they faint like a wounded man\n in the streets of the city,\nas their life is poured out\n on their mothers' bosom.",
"13": "What can I say for you, to what compare you,\n O daughter of Jerusalem?\nWhat can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,\n O virgin daughter of Zion?\nFor your ruin is vast as the sea;\n who can heal you?",
"14": "Your prophets have seen for you\n false and deceptive visions;\nthey have not exposed your iniquity\n to restore your fortunes,\nbut have seen for you oracles\n that are false and misleading.",
"15": "All who pass along the way\n clap their hands at you;\nthey hiss and wag their heads\n at the daughter of Jerusalem:\n“Is this the city that was called\n the perfection of beauty,\n the joy of all the earth?”",
"16": "All your enemies\n rail against you;\nthey hiss, they gnash their teeth,\n they cry: “We have swallowed her!\nAh, this is the day we longed for;\n now we have it; we see it!”",
"17": "The Lord has done what he purposed;\n he has carried out his word,\nwhich he commanded long ago;\n he has thrown down without pity;\nhe has made the enemy rejoice over you\n and exalted the might of your foes.",
"18": "Their heart cried to the Lord.\n O wall of the daughter of Zion,\nlet tears stream down like a torrent\n day and night!\nGive yourself no rest,\n your eyes no respite!",
"19": "“Arise, cry out in the night,\n at the beginning of the night watches!\nPour out your heart like water\n before the presence of the Lord!\nLift your hands to him\n for the lives of your children,\nwho faint for hunger\n at the head of every street.”",
"20": "Look, O Lord, and see!\n With whom have you dealt thus?\nShould women eat the fruit of their womb,\n the children of their tender care?\nShould priest and prophet be killed\n in the sanctuary of the Lord?",
"21": "In the dust of the streets\n lie the young and the old;\nmy young women and my young men\n have fallen by the sword;\nyou have killed them in the day of your anger,\n slaughtering without pity.",
"22": "You summoned as if to a festival day\n my terrors on every side,\nand on the day of the anger of the Lord\n no one escaped or survived;\nthose whom I held and raised\n my enemy destroyed."
},
"3": {
"1": "I am the man who has seen affliction\n under the rod of his wrath;",
"2": "he has driven and brought me\n into darkness without any light;",
"3": "surely against me he turns his hand\n again and again the whole day long.",
"4": "He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;\n he has broken my bones;",
"5": "he has besieged and enveloped me\n with bitterness and tribulation;",
"6": "he has made me dwell in darkness\n like the dead of long ago.",
"7": "He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;\n he has made my chains heavy;",
"8": "though I call and cry for help,\n he shuts out my prayer;",
"9": "he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;\n he has made my paths crooked.",
"10": "He is a bear lying in wait for me,\n a lion in hiding;",
"11": "he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces;\n he has made me desolate;",
"12": "he bent his bow and set me\n as a target for his arrow.",
"13": "He drove into my kidneys\n the arrows of his quiver;",
"14": "I have become the laughingstock of all peoples,\n the object of their taunts all day long.",
"15": "He has filled me with bitterness;\n he has sated me with wormwood.",
"16": "He has made my teeth grind on gravel,\n and made me cower in ashes;",
"17": "my soul is bereft of peace;\n I have forgotten what happiness is;",
"18": "so I say, “My endurance has perished;\n so has my hope from the Lord.”",
"19": "Remember my affliction and my wanderings,\n the wormwood and the gall!",
"20": "My soul continually remembers it\n and is bowed down within me.",
"21": "But this I call to mind,\n and therefore I have hope:",
"22": "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;\n his mercies never come to an end;",
"23": "they are new every morning;\n great is your faithfulness.",
"24": "“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,\n “therefore I will hope in him.”",
"25": "The Lord is good to those who wait for him,\n to the soul who seeks him.",
"26": "It is good that one should wait quietly\n for the salvation of the Lord.",
"27": "It is good for a man that he bear\n the yoke in his youth.",
"28": "Let him sit alone in silence\n when it is laid on him;",
"29": "let him put his mouth in the dust—\n there may yet be hope;",
"30": "let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,\n and let him be filled with insults.",
"31": "For the Lord will not\n cast off forever,",
"32": "but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion\n according to the abundance of his steadfast love;",
"33": "for he does not afflict from his heart\n or grieve the children of men.",
"34": "To crush underfoot\n all the prisoners of the earth,",
"35": "to deny a man justice\n in the presence of the Most High,",
"36": "to subvert a man in his lawsuit,\n the Lord does not approve.",
"37": "Who has spoken and it came to pass,\n unless the Lord has commanded it?",
"38": "Is it not from the mouth of the Most High\n that good and bad come?",
"39": "Why should a living man complain,\n a man, about the punishment of his sins?",
"40": "Let us test and examine our ways,\n and return to the Lord!",
"41": "Let us lift up our hearts and hands\n to God in heaven:",
"42": "“We have transgressed and rebelled,\n and you have not forgiven.",
"43": "“You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,\n killing without pity;",
"44": "you have wrapped yourself with a cloud\n so that no prayer can pass through.",
"45": "You have made us scum and garbage\n among the peoples.",
"46": "“All our enemies\n open their mouths against us;",
"47": "panic and pitfall have come upon us,\n devastation and destruction;",
"48": "my eyes flow with rivers of tears\n because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.",
"49": "“My eyes will flow without ceasing,\n without respite,",
"50": "until the Lord from heaven\n looks down and sees;",
"51": "my eyes cause me grief\n at the fate of all the daughters of my city.",
"52": "“I have been hunted like a bird\n by those who were my enemies without cause;",
"53": "they flung me alive into the pit\n and cast stones on me;",
"54": "water closed over my head;\n I said, ‘I am lost.’",
"55": "“I called on your name, O Lord,\n from the depths of the pit;",
"56": "you heard my plea, ‘Do not close\n your ear to my cry for help!’",
"57": "You came near when I called on you;\n you said, ‘Do not fear!’",
"58": "“You have taken up my cause, O Lord;\n you have redeemed my life.",
"59": "You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord;\n judge my cause.",
"60": "You have seen all their vengeance,\n all their plots against me.",
"61": "“You have heard their taunts, O Lord,\n all their plots against me.",
"62": "The lips and thoughts of my assailants\n are against me all the day long.",
"63": "Behold their sitting and their rising;\n I am the object of their taunts.",
"64": "“You will repay them, O Lord,\n according to the work of their hands.",
"65": "You will give them dullness of heart;\n your curse will be on them.",
"66": "You will pursue them in anger and destroy them\n from under your heavens, O Lord.”"
},
"4": {
"1": "How the gold has grown dim,\n how the pure gold is changed!\nThe holy stones lie scattered\n at the head of every street.",
"2": "The precious sons of Zion,\n worth their weight in fine gold,\nhow they are regarded as earthen pots,\n the work of a potter's hands!",
"3": "Even jackals offer the breast;\n they nurse their young;\nbut the daughter of my people has become cruel,\n like the ostriches in the wilderness.",
"4": "The tongue of the nursing infant sticks\n to the roof of its mouth for thirst;\nthe children beg for food,\n but no one gives to them.",
"5": "Those who once feasted on delicacies\n perish in the streets;\nthose who were brought up in purple\n embrace ash heaps.",
"6": "For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater\n than the punishment of Sodom,\nwhich was overthrown in a moment,\n and no hands were wrung for her.",
"7": "Her princes were purer than snow,\n whiter than milk;\ntheir bodies were more ruddy than coral,\n the beauty of their form was like sapphire.",
"8": "Now their face is blacker than soot;\n they are not recognized in the streets;\ntheir skin has shriveled on their bones;\n it has become as dry as wood.",
"9": "Happier were the victims of the sword\n than the victims of hunger,\nwho wasted away, pierced\n by lack of the fruits of the field.",
"10": "The hands of compassionate women\n have boiled their own children;\nthey became their food\n during the destruction of the daughter of my people.",
"11": "The Lord gave full vent to his wrath;\n he poured out his hot anger,\nand he kindled a fire in Zion\n that consumed its foundations.",
"12": "The kings of the earth did not believe,\n nor any of the inhabitants of the world,\nthat foe or enemy could enter\n the gates of Jerusalem.",
"13": "This was for the sins of her prophets\n and the iniquities of her priests,\nwho shed in the midst of her\n the blood of the righteous.",
"14": "They wandered, blind, through the streets;\n they were so defiled with blood\nthat no one was able to touch\n their garments.",
"15": "“Away! Unclean!” people cried at them.\n “Away! Away! Do not touch!”\nSo they became fugitives and wanderers;\n people said among the nations,\n “They shall stay with us no longer.”",
"16": "The Lord himself has scattered them;\n he will regard them no more;\nno honor was shown to the priests,\n no favor to the elders.",
"17": "Our eyes failed, ever watching\n vainly for help;\nin our watching we watched\n for a nation which could not save.",
"18": "They dogged our steps\n so that we could not walk in our streets;\nour end drew near; our days were numbered,\n for our end had come.",
"19": "Our pursuers were swifter\n than the eagles in the heavens;\nthey chased us on the mountains;\n they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.",
"20": "The breath of our nostrils, the Lord's anointed,\n was captured in their pits,\nof whom we said, “Under his shadow\n we shall live among the nations.”",
"21": "Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,\n you who dwell in the land of Uz;\nbut to you also the cup shall pass;\n you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.",
"22": "The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished;\n he will keep you in exile no longer;\nbut your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish;\n he will uncover your sins."
},
"5": {
"1": "Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;\n look, and see our disgrace!",
"2": "Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,\n our homes to foreigners.",
"3": "We have become orphans, fatherless;\n our mothers are like widows.",
"4": "We must pay for the water we drink;\n the wood we get must be bought.",
"5": "Our pursuers are at our necks;\n we are weary; we are given no rest.",
"6": "We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,\n to get bread enough.",
"7": "Our fathers sinned, and are no more;\n and we bear their iniquities.",
"8": "Slaves rule over us;\n there is none to deliver us from their hand.",
"9": "We get our bread at the peril of our lives,\n because of the sword in the wilderness.",
"10": "Our skin is hot as an oven\n with the burning heat of famine.",
"11": "Women are raped in Zion,\n young women in the towns of Judah.",
"12": "Princes are hung up by their hands;\n no respect is shown to the elders.",
"13": "Young men are compelled to grind at the mill,\n and boys stagger under loads of wood.",
"14": "The old men have left the city gate,\n the young men their music.",
"15": "The joy of our hearts has ceased;\n our dancing has been turned to mourning.",
"16": "The crown has fallen from our head;\n woe to us, for we have sinned!",
"17": "For this our heart has become sick,\n for these things our eyes have grown dim,",
"18": "for Mount Zion which lies desolate;\n jackals prowl over it.",
"19": "But you, O Lord, reign forever;\n your throne endures to all generations.",
"20": "Why do you forget us forever,\n why do you forsake us for so many days?",
"21": "Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored!\n Renew our days as of old—",
"22": "unless you have utterly rejected us,\n and you remain exceedingly angry with us."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:28.692005-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Leviticus": {
"1": {
"1": "The Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,",
"2": "“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock.",
"3": "“If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord.",
"4": "He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.",
"5": "Then he shall kill the bull before the Lord, and Aaron's sons the priests shall bring the blood and throw the blood against the sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.",
"6": "Then he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces,",
"7": "and the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.",
"8": "And Aaron's sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat, on the wood that is on the fire on the altar;",
"9": "but its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar, as a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.",
"10": "“If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he shall bring a male without blemish,",
"11": "and he shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord, and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar.",
"12": "And he shall cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that is on the fire on the altar,",
"13": "but the entrails and the legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.",
"14": "“If his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or pigeons.",
"15": "And the priest shall bring it to the altar and wring off its head and burn it on the altar. Its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar.",
"16": "He shall remove its crop with its contents and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes.",
"17": "He shall tear it open by its wings, but shall not sever it completely. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord."
},
"2": {
"1": "“When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it",
"2": "and bring it to Aaron's sons the priests. And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense, and the priest shall burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.",
"3": "But the rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the Lord's food offerings.",
"4": "“When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.",
"5": "And if your offering is a grain offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil.",
"6": "You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.",
"7": "And if your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.",
"8": "And you shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the Lord, and when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar.",
"9": "And the priest shall take from the grain offering its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.",
"10": "But the rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the Lord's food offerings.",
"11": "“No grain offering that you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey as a food offering to the Lord.",
"12": "As an offering of firstfruits you may bring them to the Lord, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing aroma.",
"13": "You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.",
"14": "“If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.",
"15": "And you shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.",
"16": "And the priest shall burn as its memorial portion some of the crushed grain and some of the oil with all of its frankincense; it is a food offering to the Lord."
},
"3": {
"1": "“If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.",
"2": "And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar.",
"3": "And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the Lord, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,",
"4": "and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys.",
"5": "Then Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering, which is on the wood on the fire; it is a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.",
"6": "“If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.",
"7": "If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the Lord,",
"8": "lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it in front of the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar.",
"9": "Then from the sacrifice of the peace offering he shall offer as a food offering to the Lord its fat; he shall remove the whole fat tail, cut off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails",
"10": "and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys.",
"11": "And the priest shall burn it on the altar as a food offering to the Lord.",
"12": "“If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord",
"13": "and lay his hand on its head and kill it in front of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar.",
"14": "Then he shall offer from it, as his offering for a food offering to the Lord, the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails",
"15": "and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys.",
"16": "And the priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering with a pleasing aroma. All fat is the Lord's.",
"17": "It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”"
},
"4": {
"1": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them,",
"3": "if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering.",
"4": "He shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the Lord.",
"5": "And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting,",
"6": "and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil of the sanctuary.",
"7": "And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the Lord that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.",
"8": "And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall remove from it, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails",
"9": "and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys",
"10": "(just as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings); and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.",
"11": "But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung—",
"12": "all the rest of the bull—he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up.",
"13": "“If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt,",
"14": "when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting.",
"15": "And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the Lord, and the bull shall be killed before the Lord.",
"16": "Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting,",
"17": "and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord in front of the veil.",
"18": "And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is in the tent of meeting before the Lord, and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.",
"19": "And all its fat he shall take from it and burn on the altar.",
"20": "Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.",
"21": "And he shall carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.",
"22": "“When a leader sins, doing unintentionally any one of all the things that by the commandments of the Lord his God ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt,",
"23": "or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish,",
"24": "and shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord; it is a sin offering.",
"25": "Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.",
"26": "And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.",
"27": "“If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt,",
"28": "or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.",
"29": "And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.",
"30": "And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.",
"31": "And all its fat he shall remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.",
"32": "“If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish",
"33": "and lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.",
"34": "Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.",
"35": "And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on top of the Lord's food offerings. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven."
},
"5": {
"1": "“If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity;",
"2": "or if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt;",
"3": "or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt;",
"4": "or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these;",
"5": "when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed,",
"6": "he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation for the sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.",
"7": "“But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.",
"8": "He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering. He shall wring its head from its neck but shall not sever it completely,",
"9": "and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.",
"10": "Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.",
"11": "“But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.",
"12": "And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, on the Lord's food offerings; it is a sin offering.",
"13": "Thus the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven. And the remainder shall be for the priest, as in the grain offering.”",
"14": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"15": "“If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.",
"16": "He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.",
"17": "“If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.",
"18": "He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven.",
"19": "It is a guilt offering; he has indeed incurred guilt before the Lord.”"
},
"6": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor",
"3": "or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby—",
"4": "if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found",
"5": "or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt.",
"6": "And he shall bring to the priest as his compensation to the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering.",
"7": "And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty.”",
"8": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"9": "“Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.",
"10": "And the priest shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them beside the altar.",
"11": "Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.",
"12": "The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.",
"13": "Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.",
"14": "“And this is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord in front of the altar.",
"15": "And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and its oil and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering and burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.",
"16": "And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place. In the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.",
"17": "It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.",
"18": "Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the Lord's food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy.”",
"19": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"20": "“This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to the Lord on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.",
"21": "It shall be made with oil on a griddle. You shall bring it well mixed, in baked pieces like a grain offering, and offer it for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.",
"22": "The priest from among Aaron's sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the Lord as decreed forever. The whole of it shall be burned.",
"23": "Every grain offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”",
"24": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"25": "“Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord; it is most holy.",
"26": "The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.",
"27": "Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place.",
"28": "And the earthenware vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. But if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be scoured and rinsed in water.",
"29": "Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy.",
"30": "But no sin offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it shall be burned up with fire."
},
"7": {
"1": "“This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.",
"2": "In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown against the sides of the altar.",
"3": "And all its fat shall be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails,",
"4": "the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys.",
"5": "The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the Lord; it is a guilt offering.",
"6": "Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.",
"7": "The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.",
"8": "And the priest who offers any man's burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered.",
"9": "And every grain offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it.",
"10": "And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron.",
"11": "“And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the Lord.",
"12": "If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil.",
"13": "With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread.",
"14": "And from it he shall offer one loaf from each offering, as a gift to the Lord. It shall belong to the priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings.",
"15": "And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.",
"16": "But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten.",
"17": "But what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned up with fire.",
"18": "If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be credited to him. It is tainted, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.",
"19": "“Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned up with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh,",
"20": "but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the Lord's peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people.",
"21": "And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the Lord's peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.”",
"22": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"23": "“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat.",
"24": "The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it.",
"25": "For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the Lord shall be cut off from his people.",
"26": "Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.",
"27": "Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”",
"28": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"29": "“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.",
"30": "His own hands shall bring the Lord's food offerings. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord.",
"31": "The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.",
"32": "And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings.",
"33": "Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion.",
"34": "For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.",
"35": "This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the Lord's food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the Lord.",
"36": "The Lord commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations.”",
"37": "This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the ordination offering, and of the peace offering,",
"38": "which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai."
},
"8": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“Take 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 unleavened bread.",
"3": "And assemble all the congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting.”",
"4": "And Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and the congregation was assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting.",
"5": "And Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing that the Lord has commanded to be done.”",
"6": "And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.",
"7": "And he put the coat on him and tied the sash around his waist and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him and tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod around him, binding it to him with the band.",
"8": "And he placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim.",
"9": "And he set the turban on his head, and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord commanded Moses.",
"10": "Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.",
"11": "And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.",
"12": "And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.",
"13": "And Moses brought Aaron's sons and clothed them with coats and tied sashes around their waists and bound caps on them, as the Lord commanded Moses.",
"14": "Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.",
"15": "And he killed it, and Moses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it.",
"16": "And he took all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.",
"17": "But the bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned up with fire outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.",
"18": "Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.",
"19": "And he killed it, and Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar.",
"20": "He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.",
"21": "He washed the entrails and the legs with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering for the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.",
"22": "Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.",
"23": "And he killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.",
"24": "Then he presented Aaron's sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar.",
"25": "Then he took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat and the right thigh,",
"26": "and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord he took one unleavened loaf and one loaf of bread with oil and one wafer and placed them on the pieces of fat and on the right thigh.",
"27": "And he put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and waved them as a wave offering before the Lord.",
"28": "Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.",
"29": "And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord. It was Moses' portion of the ram of ordination, as the Lord commanded Moses.",
"30": "Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons' garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.",
"31": "And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’",
"32": "And what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall burn up with fire.",
"33": "And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you.",
"34": "As has been done today, the Lord has commanded to be done to make atonement for you.",
"35": "At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the Lord has charged, so that you do not die, for so I have been commanded.”",
"36": "And Aaron and his sons did all the things that the Lord commanded by Moses."
},
"9": {
"1": "On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel,",
"2": "and he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.",
"3": "And say to the people of Israel, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering,",
"4": "and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain offering mixed with oil, for today the Lord will appear to you.’”",
"5": "And they brought what Moses commanded in front of the tent of meeting, and all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord.",
"6": "And Moses said, “This is the thing that the Lord commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you.”",
"7": "Then Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people, and bring the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as the Lord has commanded.”",
"8": "So Aaron drew near to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.",
"9": "And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar.",
"10": "But the fat and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering he burned on the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses.",
"11": "The flesh and the skin he burned up with fire outside the camp.",
"12": "Then he killed the burnt offering, and Aaron's sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar.",
"13": "And they handed the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head, and he burned them on the altar.",
"14": "And he washed the entrails and the legs and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.",
"15": "Then he presented the people's offering and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people and killed it and offered it as a sin offering, like the first one.",
"16": "And he presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the rule.",
"17": "And he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.",
"18": "Then he killed the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings for the people. And Aaron's sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar.",
"19": "But the fat pieces of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail and that which covers the entrails and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver—",
"20": "they put the fat pieces on the breasts, and he burned the fat pieces on the altar,",
"21": "but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses commanded.",
"22": "Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.",
"23": "And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.",
"24": "And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces."
},
"10": {
"1": "Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them.",
"2": "And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.",
"3": "Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” And Aaron held his peace.",
"4": "And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Come near; carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary and out of the camp.”",
"5": "So they came near and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.",
"6": "And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not tear your clothes, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning that the Lord has kindled.",
"7": "And do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you.” And they did according to the word of Moses.",
"8": "And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying,",
"9": "“Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.",
"10": "You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,",
"11": "and you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them by Moses.”",
"12": "Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his surviving sons: “Take the grain offering that is left of the Lord's food offerings, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.",
"13": "You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons' due, from the Lord's food offerings, for so I am commanded.",
"14": "But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, for they are given as your due and your sons' due from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the people of Israel.",
"15": "The thigh that is contributed and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the food offerings of the fat pieces to wave for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be yours and your sons' with you as a due forever, as the Lord has commanded.”",
"16": "Now Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it was burned up! And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the surviving sons of Aaron, saying,",
"17": "“Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is a thing most holy and has been given to you that you may bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?",
"18": "Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”",
"19": "And Aaron said to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord, and yet such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would the Lord have approved?”",
"20": "And when Moses heard that, he approved."
},
"11": {
"1": "And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,",
"2": "“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.",
"3": "Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.",
"4": "Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.",
"5": "And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.",
"6": "And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.",
"7": "And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.",
"8": "You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.",
"9": "“These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.",
"10": "But anything in the seas or the rivers that does not have fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you.",
"11": "You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.",
"12": "Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.",
"13": "“And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,",
"14": "the kite, the falcon of any kind,",
"15": "every raven of any kind,",
"16": "the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind,",
"17": "the little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl,",
"18": "the barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture,",
"19": "the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.",
"20": "“All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you.",
"21": "Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground.",
"22": "Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.",
"23": "But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you.",
"24": "“And by these you shall become unclean. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,",
"25": "and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.",
"26": "Every animal that parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.",
"27": "And all that walk on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,",
"28": "and he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.",
"29": "“And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the ground: the mole rat, the mouse, the great lizard of any kind,",
"30": "the gecko, the monitor lizard, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.",
"31": "These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.",
"32": "And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean.",
"33": "And if any of them falls into any earthenware vessel, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.",
"34": "Any food in it that could be eaten, on which water comes, shall be unclean. And all drink that could be drunk from every such vessel shall be unclean.",
"35": "And everything on which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean. Whether oven or stove, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean and shall remain unclean for you.",
"36": "Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, but whoever touches a carcass in them shall be unclean.",
"37": "And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean,",
"38": "but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.",
"39": "“And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,",
"40": "and whoever eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.",
"41": "“Every swarming thing that swarms on the ground is detestable; it shall not be eaten.",
"42": "Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, any swarming thing that swarms on the ground, you shall not eat, for they are detestable.",
"43": "You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you shall not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them.",
"44": "For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.",
"45": "For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”",
"46": "This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground,",
"47": "to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten."
},
"12": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.",
"3": "And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.",
"4": "Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She shall not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.",
"5": "But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.",
"6": "“And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering,",
"7": "and he shall offer it before the Lord and make atonement for her. Then she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female.",
"8": "And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”"
},
"13": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,",
"2": "“When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,",
"3": "and the priest shall examine the diseased area on the skin of his body. And if the hair in the diseased area has turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a case of leprous disease. When the priest has examined him, he shall pronounce him unclean.",
"4": "But if the spot is white in the skin of his body and appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall shut up the diseased person for seven days.",
"5": "And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the disease is checked and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up for another seven days.",
"6": "And the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased area has faded and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only an eruption. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.",
"7": "But if the eruption spreads in the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again before the priest.",
"8": "And the priest shall look, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.",
"9": "“When a man is afflicted with a leprous disease, he shall be brought to the priest,",
"10": "and the priest shall look. And if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,",
"11": "it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.",
"12": "And if the leprous disease breaks out in the skin, so that the leprous disease covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,",
"13": "then the priest shall look, and if the leprous disease has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him clean of the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean.",
"14": "But when raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean.",
"15": "And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean, for it is a leprous disease.",
"16": "But if the raw flesh recovers and turns white again, then he shall come to the priest,",
"17": "and the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the diseased person clean; he is clean.",
"18": "“If there is in the skin of one's body a boil and it heals,",
"19": "and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, then it shall be shown to the priest.",
"20": "And the priest shall look, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a case of leprous disease that has broken out in the boil.",
"21": "But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.",
"22": "And if it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a disease.",
"23": "But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.",
"24": "“Or, when the body has a burn on its skin and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a spot, reddish-white or white,",
"25": "the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the spot has turned white and it appears deeper than the skin, then it is a leprous disease. It has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease.",
"26": "But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and it is no deeper than the skin, but has faded, the priest shall shut him up seven days,",
"27": "and the priest shall examine him the seventh day. If it is spreading in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease.",
"28": "But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread in the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar of the burn.",
"29": "“When a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard,",
"30": "the priest shall examine the disease. And if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch, a leprous disease of the head or the beard.",
"31": "And if the priest examines the itching disease and it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for seven days,",
"32": "and on the seventh day the priest shall examine the disease. If the itch has not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the itch appears to be no deeper than the skin,",
"33": "then he shall shave himself, but the itch he shall not shave; and the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for another seven days.",
"34": "And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the itch, and if the itch has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.",
"35": "But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,",
"36": "then the priest shall examine him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean.",
"37": "But if in his eyes the itch is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed and he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.",
"38": "“When a man or a woman has spots on the skin of the body, white spots,",
"39": "the priest shall look, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is leukoderma that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.",
"40": "“If a man's hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean.",
"41": "And if a man's hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean.",
"42": "But if there is on the bald head or the bald forehead a reddish-white diseased area, it is a leprous disease breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead.",
"43": "Then the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprous disease in the skin of the body,",
"44": "he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.",
"45": "“The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’",
"46": "He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.",
"47": "“When there is a case of leprous disease in a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment,",
"48": "in warp or woof of linen or wool, or in a skin or in anything made of skin,",
"49": "if the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin or in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin, it is a case of leprous disease, and it shall be shown to the priest.",
"50": "And the priest shall examine the disease and shut up that which has the disease for seven days.",
"51": "Then he shall examine the disease on the seventh day. If the disease has spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in the skin, whatever be the use of the skin, the disease is a persistent leprous disease; it is unclean.",
"52": "And he shall burn the garment, or the warp or the woof, the wool or the linen, or any article made of skin that is diseased, for it is a persistent leprous disease. It shall be burned in the fire.",
"53": "“And if the priest examines, and if the disease has not spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin,",
"54": "then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the disease, and he shall shut it up for another seven days.",
"55": "And the priest shall examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the appearance of the diseased area has not changed, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You shall burn it in the fire, whether the rot is on the back or on the front.",
"56": "“But if the priest examines, and if the diseased area has faded after it has been washed, he shall tear it out of the garment or the skin or the warp or the woof.",
"57": "Then if it appears again in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire whatever has the disease.",
"58": "But the garment, or the warp or the woof, or any article made of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and be clean.”",
"59": "This is the law for a case of leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, to determine whether it is clean or unclean."
},
"14": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,",
"3": "and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person,",
"4": "the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.",
"5": "And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water.",
"6": "He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.",
"7": "And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird go into the open field.",
"8": "And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days.",
"9": "And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.",
"10": "“And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.",
"11": "And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.",
"12": "And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.",
"13": "And he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.",
"14": "The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.",
"15": "Then the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand",
"16": "and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.",
"17": "And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.",
"18": "And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord.",
"19": "The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering.",
"20": "And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.",
"21": "“But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil;",
"22": "also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.",
"23": "And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the Lord.",
"24": "And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.",
"25": "And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering. And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.",
"26": "And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,",
"27": "and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord.",
"28": "And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the guilt offering was put.",
"29": "And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the Lord.",
"30": "And he shall offer, of the turtledoves or pigeons, whichever he can afford,",
"31": "one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for him who is being cleansed.",
"32": "This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.”",
"33": "The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,",
"34": "“When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,",
"35": "then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.’",
"36": "Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean. And afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.",
"37": "And he shall examine the disease. And if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface,",
"38": "then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days.",
"39": "And the priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the disease has spread in the walls of the house,",
"40": "then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.",
"41": "And he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city.",
"42": "Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.",
"43": "“If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,",
"44": "then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean.",
"45": "And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place.",
"46": "Moreover, whoever enters the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening,",
"47": "and whoever sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.",
"48": "“But if the priest comes and looks, and if the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed.",
"49": "And for the cleansing of the house he shall take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop,",
"50": "and shall kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water",
"51": "and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, along with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water and sprinkle the house seven times.",
"52": "Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn.",
"53": "And he shall let the live bird go out of the city into the open country. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.”",
"54": "This is the law for any case of leprous disease: for an itch,",
"55": "for leprous disease in a garment or in a house,",
"56": "and for a swelling or an eruption or a spot,",
"57": "to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprous disease."
},
"15": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,",
"2": "“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.",
"3": "And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is blocked up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.",
"4": "Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.",
"5": "And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.",
"6": "And whoever sits on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.",
"7": "And whoever touches the body of the one with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.",
"8": "And if the one with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.",
"9": "And any saddle on which the one with the discharge rides shall be unclean.",
"10": "And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries such things shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.",
"11": "Anyone whom the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.",
"12": "And an earthenware vessel that the one with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.",
"13": "“And when the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes. And he shall bathe his body in fresh water and shall be clean.",
"14": "And on the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the Lord to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.",
"15": "And the priest shall use them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord for his discharge.",
"16": "“If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening.",
"17": "And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.",
"18": "If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.",
"19": "“When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.",
"20": "And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean. Everything also on which she sits shall be unclean.",
"21": "And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.",
"22": "And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.",
"23": "Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening.",
"24": "And if any man lies with her and her menstrual impurity comes upon him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.",
"25": "“If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean.",
"26": "Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge, shall be to her as the bed of her impurity. And everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity.",
"27": "And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.",
"28": "But if she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.",
"29": "And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.",
"30": "And the priest shall use one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean discharge.",
"31": "“Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”",
"32": "This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby;",
"33": "also for her who is unwell with her menstrual impurity, that is, for anyone, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean."
},
"16": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the Lord and died,",
"2": "and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.",
"3": "But in this way Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.",
"4": "He shall put on the holy linen coat and shall have the linen undergarment on his body, and he shall tie the linen sash around his waist, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and then put them on.",
"5": "And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.",
"6": "“Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.",
"7": "Then he shall take the two goats and set them before the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting.",
"8": "And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel.",
"9": "And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord and use it as a sin offering,",
"10": "but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.",
"11": "“Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house. He shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself.",
"12": "And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he shall bring it inside the veil",
"13": "and put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is over the testimony, so that he does not die.",
"14": "And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.",
"15": "“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.",
"16": "Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.",
"17": "No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel.",
"18": "Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around.",
"19": "And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and consecrate it from the uncleannesses of the people of Israel.",
"20": "“And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat.",
"21": "And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.",
"22": "The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.",
"23": "“Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting and shall take off the linen garments that he put on when he went into the Holy Place and shall leave them there.",
"24": "And he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people.",
"25": "And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.",
"26": "And he who lets the goat go to Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.",
"27": "And the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp. Their skin and their flesh and their dung shall be burned up with fire.",
"28": "And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.",
"29": "“And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.",
"30": "For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the Lord from all your sins.",
"31": "It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever.",
"32": "And the priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father's place shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments.",
"33": "He shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.",
"34": "And this shall be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” And Aaron did as the Lord commanded Moses."
},
"17": {
"1": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel and say to them, This is the thing that the Lord has commanded.",
"3": "If any one of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp,",
"4": "and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.",
"5": "This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord.",
"6": "And the priest shall throw the blood on the altar of the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.",
"7": "So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.",
"8": "“And you shall say to them, Any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice",
"9": "and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it to the Lord, that man shall be cut off from his people.",
"10": "“If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.",
"11": "For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.",
"12": "Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.",
"13": "“Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.",
"14": "For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.",
"15": "And every person who eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.",
"16": "But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he shall bear his iniquity.”"
},
"18": {
"1": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God.",
"3": "You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.",
"4": "You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.",
"5": "You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.",
"6": "“None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.",
"7": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.",
"8": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.",
"9": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.",
"10": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.",
"11": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister.",
"12": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's relative.",
"13": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's relative.",
"14": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.",
"15": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.",
"16": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.",
"17": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.",
"18": "And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.",
"19": "“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.",
"20": "And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her.",
"21": "You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.",
"22": "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.",
"23": "And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.",
"24": "“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,",
"25": "and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.",
"26": "But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you",
"27": "(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),",
"28": "lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.",
"29": "For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.",
"30": "So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.”"
},
"19": {
"1": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.",
"3": "Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.",
"4": "Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.",
"5": "“When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.",
"6": "It shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after, and anything left over until the third day shall be burned up with fire.",
"7": "If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is tainted; it will not be accepted,",
"8": "and everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned what is holy to the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from his people.",
"9": "“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.",
"10": "And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.",
"11": "“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.",
"12": "You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.",
"13": "“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.",
"14": "You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.",
"15": "“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.",
"16": "You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.",
"17": "“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.",
"18": "You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.",
"19": "“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.",
"20": "“If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free;",
"21": "but he shall bring his compensation to the Lord, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.",
"22": "And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.",
"23": "“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.",
"24": "And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord.",
"25": "But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the Lord your God.",
"26": "“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.",
"27": "You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.",
"28": "You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.",
"29": "“Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.",
"30": "You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.",
"31": "“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.",
"32": "“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.",
"33": "“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.",
"34": "You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.",
"35": "“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.",
"36": "You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.",
"37": "And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the Lord.”"
},
"20": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.",
"3": "I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name.",
"4": "And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,",
"5": "then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.",
"6": "“If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.",
"7": "Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.",
"8": "Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.",
"9": "For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.",
"10": "“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.",
"11": "If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.",
"12": "If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them.",
"13": "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.",
"14": "If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.",
"15": "If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.",
"16": "If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.",
"17": "“If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity.",
"18": "If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.",
"19": "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked one's relative; they shall bear their iniquity.",
"20": "If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.",
"21": "If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.",
"22": "“You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.",
"23": "And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.",
"24": "But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.",
"25": "You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.",
"26": "You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.",
"27": "“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”"
},
"21": {
"1": "And the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people,",
"2": "except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,",
"3": "or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean).",
"4": "He shall not make himself unclean as a husband among his people and so profane himself.",
"5": "They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.",
"6": "They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord's food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.",
"7": "They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.",
"8": "You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I, the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy.",
"9": "And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.",
"10": "“The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes.",
"11": "He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.",
"12": "He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord.",
"13": "And he shall take a wife in her virginity.",
"14": "A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people,",
"15": "that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.”",
"16": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"17": "“Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God.",
"18": "For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,",
"19": "or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,",
"20": "or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.",
"21": "No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the Lord's food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.",
"22": "He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,",
"23": "but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.”",
"24": "So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel."
},
"22": {
"1": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name: I am the Lord.",
"3": "Say to them, ‘If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the Lord, while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.",
"4": "None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or a man who has had an emission of semen,",
"5": "and whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be—",
"6": "the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.",
"7": "When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because they are his food.",
"8": "He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the Lord.’",
"9": "They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the Lord who sanctifies them.",
"10": "“A lay person shall not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired worker shall eat of a holy thing,",
"11": "but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.",
"12": "If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things.",
"13": "But if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and returns to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; yet no lay person shall eat of it.",
"14": "And if anyone eats of a holy thing unintentionally, he shall add the fifth of its value to it and give the holy thing to the priest.",
"15": "They shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, which they contribute to the Lord,",
"16": "and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.”",
"17": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"18": "“Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents a burnt offering as his offering, for any of their vows or freewill offerings that they offer to the Lord,",
"19": "if it is to be accepted for you it shall be a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.",
"20": "You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you.",
"21": "And when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.",
"22": "Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the Lord or give them to the Lord as a food offering on the altar.",
"23": "You may present a bull or a lamb that has a part too long or too short for a freewill offering, but for a vow offering it cannot be accepted.",
"24": "Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut you shall not offer to the Lord; you shall not do it within your land,",
"25": "neither shall you offer as the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”",
"26": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"27": "“When an ox or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a food offering to the Lord.",
"28": "But you shall not kill an ox or a sheep and her young in one day.",
"29": "And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.",
"30": "It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until morning: I am the Lord.",
"31": "“So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the Lord.",
"32": "And you shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,",
"33": "who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord.”"
},
"23": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.",
"3": "“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.",
"4": "“These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.",
"5": "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord's Passover.",
"6": "And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.",
"7": "On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.",
"8": "But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.”",
"9": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"10": "“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest,",
"11": "and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.",
"12": "And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord.",
"13": "And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the Lord with a pleasing aroma, and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.",
"14": "And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.",
"15": "“You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.",
"16": "You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord.",
"17": "You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord.",
"18": "And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.",
"19": "And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings.",
"20": "And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.",
"21": "And you shall make a proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.",
"22": "“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”",
"23": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"24": "“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.",
"25": "You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the Lord.”",
"26": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"27": "“Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord.",
"28": "And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.",
"29": "For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people.",
"30": "And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people.",
"31": "You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.",
"32": "It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath.”",
"33": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"34": "“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.",
"35": "On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.",
"36": "For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.",
"37": "“These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the Lord food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day,",
"38": "besides the Lord's Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the Lord.",
"39": "“On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.",
"40": "And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.",
"41": "You shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.",
"42": "You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths,",
"43": "that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”",
"44": "Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of the Lord."
},
"24": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.",
"3": "Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.",
"4": "He shall arrange the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord regularly.",
"5": "“You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.",
"6": "And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, on the table of pure gold before the Lord.",
"7": "And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord.",
"8": "Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.",
"9": "And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord's food offerings, a perpetual due.”",
"10": "Now an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel. And the Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel fought in the camp,",
"11": "and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.",
"12": "And they put him in custody, till the will of the Lord should be clear to them.",
"13": "Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"14": "“Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.",
"15": "And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.",
"16": "Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.",
"17": "“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.",
"18": "Whoever takes an animal's life shall make it good, life for life.",
"19": "If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him,",
"20": "fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.",
"21": "Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, and whoever kills a person shall be put to death.",
"22": "You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the Lord your God.”",
"23": "So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and they brought out of the camp the one who had cursed and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses."
},
"25": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,",
"2": "“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord.",
"3": "For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits,",
"4": "but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.",
"5": "You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.",
"6": "The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you,",
"7": "and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food.",
"8": "“You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years.",
"9": "Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.",
"10": "And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.",
"11": "That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.",
"12": "For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field.",
"13": "“In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.",
"14": "And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.",
"15": "You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops.",
"16": "If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.",
"17": "You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.",
"18": "“Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.",
"19": "The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and dwell in it securely.",
"20": "And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’",
"21": "I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.",
"22": "When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.",
"23": "“The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.",
"24": "And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.",
"25": "“If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.",
"26": "If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,",
"27": "let him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property.",
"28": "But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.",
"29": "“If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.",
"30": "If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.",
"31": "But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.",
"32": "As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.",
"33": "And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.",
"34": "But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.",
"35": "“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.",
"36": "Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.",
"37": "You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.",
"38": "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.",
"39": "“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:",
"40": "he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.",
"41": "Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.",
"42": "For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.",
"43": "You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.",
"44": "As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.",
"45": "You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.",
"46": "You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.",
"47": "“If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger's clan,",
"48": "then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,",
"49": "or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.",
"50": "He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker.",
"51": "If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price.",
"52": "If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.",
"53": "He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.",
"54": "And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee.",
"55": "For it is to me that the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."
},
"26": {
"1": "“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.",
"2": "You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.",
"3": "“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,",
"4": "then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.",
"5": "Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.",
"6": "I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.",
"7": "You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.",
"8": "Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.",
"9": "I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.",
"10": "You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.",
"11": "I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.",
"12": "And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.",
"13": "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.",
"14": "“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,",
"15": "if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,",
"16": "then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.",
"17": "I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.",
"18": "And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,",
"19": "and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.",
"20": "And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.",
"21": "“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.",
"22": "And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.",
"23": "“And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,",
"24": "then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.",
"25": "And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.",
"26": "When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.",
"27": "“But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me,",
"28": "then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.",
"29": "You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.",
"30": "And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.",
"31": "And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.",
"32": "And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it.",
"33": "And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.",
"34": "“Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.",
"35": "As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.",
"36": "And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.",
"37": "They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.",
"38": "And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.",
"39": "And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.",
"40": "“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,",
"41": "so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,",
"42": "then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.",
"43": "But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.",
"44": "Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.",
"45": "But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”",
"46": "These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai."
},
"27": {
"1": "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,",
"2": "“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons,",
"3": "then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.",
"4": "If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.",
"5": "If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.",
"6": "If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver.",
"7": "And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.",
"8": "And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.",
"9": "“If the vow is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the Lord, all of it that he gives to the Lord is holy.",
"10": "He shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy.",
"11": "And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the Lord, then he shall stand the animal before the priest,",
"12": "and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be.",
"13": "But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.",
"14": "“When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.",
"15": "And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.",
"16": "“If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.",
"17": "If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand,",
"18": "but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.",
"19": "And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his.",
"20": "But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.",
"21": "But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.",
"22": "If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession,",
"23": "then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord.",
"24": "In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.",
"25": "Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.",
"26": "“But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord's.",
"27": "And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.",
"28": "“But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.",
"29": "No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.",
"30": "“Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord's; it is holy to the Lord.",
"31": "If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.",
"32": "And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff, shall be holy to the Lord.",
"33": "One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”",
"34": "These are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:10.322470-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Malachi": {
"1": {
"1": "The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.",
"2": "“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob's brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob",
"3": "but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”",
"4": "If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’”",
"5": "Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, “Great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel!”",
"6": "“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’",
"7": "By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the Lord's table may be despised.",
"8": "When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts.",
"9": "And now entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With such a gift from your hand, will he show favor to any of you? says the Lord of hosts.",
"10": "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.",
"11": "For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.",
"12": "But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.",
"13": "But you say, ‘What a weariness this is,’ and you snort at it, says the Lord of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord.",
"14": "Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations."
},
"2": {
"1": "“And now, O priests, this command is for you.",
"2": "If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.",
"3": "Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.",
"4": "So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the Lord of hosts.",
"5": "My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name.",
"6": "True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.",
"7": "For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.",
"8": "But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,",
"9": "and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”",
"10": "Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?",
"11": "Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.",
"12": "May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts!",
"13": "And this second thing you do. You cover the Lord's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.",
"14": "But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.",
"15": "Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.",
"16": "“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”",
"17": "You have wearied the Lord with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”"
},
"3": {
"1": "“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.",
"2": "But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.",
"3": "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.",
"4": "Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.",
"5": "“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.",
"6": "“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.",
"7": "From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’",
"8": "Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions.",
"9": "You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.",
"10": "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.",
"11": "I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.",
"12": "Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.",
"13": "“Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’",
"14": "You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?",
"15": "And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.’”",
"16": "Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.",
"17": "“They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.",
"18": "Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him."
},
"4": {
"1": "“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.",
"2": "But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.",
"3": "And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.",
"4": "“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.",
"5": "“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.",
"6": "And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”"
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:12.121329-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Mark": {
"1": {
"1": "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.",
"2": "As it is written in Isaiah the prophet,\n“Behold, I send my messenger before your face,\n who will prepare your way,",
"3": "the voice of one crying in the wilderness:\n ‘Prepare the way of the Lord,\n make his paths straight,’”",
"4": "John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.",
"5": "And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.",
"6": "Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.",
"7": "And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.",
"8": "I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”",
"9": "In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.",
"10": "And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.",
"11": "And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”",
"12": "The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.",
"13": "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.",
"14": "Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God,",
"15": "and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”",
"16": "Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.",
"17": "And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.”",
"18": "And immediately they left their nets and followed him.",
"19": "And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets.",
"20": "And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him.",
"21": "And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching.",
"22": "And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.",
"23": "And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out,",
"24": "“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”",
"25": "But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!”",
"26": "And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him.",
"27": "And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”",
"28": "And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.",
"29": "And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.",
"30": "Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.",
"31": "And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.",
"32": "That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons.",
"33": "And the whole city was gathered together at the door.",
"34": "And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.",
"35": "And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.",
"36": "And Simon and those who were with him searched for him,",
"37": "and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.”",
"38": "And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.”",
"39": "And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.",
"40": "And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.”",
"41": "Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”",
"42": "And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.",
"43": "And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once,",
"44": "and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”",
"45": "But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter."
},
"2": {
"1": "And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home.",
"2": "And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.",
"3": "And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.",
"4": "And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.",
"5": "And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”",
"6": "Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,",
"7": "“Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”",
"8": "And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts?",
"9": "Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’?",
"10": "But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—",
"11": "“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.”",
"12": "And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”",
"13": "He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.",
"14": "And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.",
"15": "And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.",
"16": "And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”",
"17": "And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”",
"18": "Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”",
"19": "And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.",
"20": "The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.",
"21": "No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.",
"22": "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”",
"23": "One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.",
"24": "And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”",
"25": "And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:",
"26": "how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?”",
"27": "And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.",
"28": "So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”"
},
"3": {
"1": "Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.",
"2": "And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.",
"3": "And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.”",
"4": "And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.",
"5": "And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.",
"6": "The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.",
"7": "Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea",
"8": "and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.",
"9": "And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him,",
"10": "for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him.",
"11": "And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”",
"12": "And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.",
"13": "And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him.",
"14": "And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach",
"15": "and have authority to cast out demons.",
"16": "He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);",
"17": "James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);",
"18": "Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,",
"19": "and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.",
"20": "Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat.",
"21": "And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.”",
"22": "And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.”",
"23": "And he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?",
"24": "If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.",
"25": "And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.",
"26": "And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.",
"27": "But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.",
"28": "“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,",
"29": "but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—",
"30": "for they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”",
"31": "And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him.",
"32": "And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.”",
"33": "And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”",
"34": "And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!",
"35": "For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”"
},
"4": {
"1": "Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.",
"2": "And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:",
"3": "“Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.",
"4": "And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.",
"5": "Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil.",
"6": "And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.",
"7": "Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.",
"8": "And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”",
"9": "And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”",
"10": "And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.",
"11": "And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,",
"12": "so that\n“‘they may indeed see but not perceive,\n and may indeed hear but not understand,\nlest they should turn and be forgiven.’”",
"13": "And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?",
"14": "The sower sows the word.",
"15": "And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.",
"16": "And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.",
"17": "And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.",
"18": "And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word,",
"19": "but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.",
"20": "But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”",
"21": "And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand?",
"22": "For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light.",
"23": "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”",
"24": "And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.",
"25": "For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”",
"26": "And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground.",
"27": "He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how.",
"28": "The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.",
"29": "But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”",
"30": "And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it?",
"31": "It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,",
"32": "yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”",
"33": "With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.",
"34": "He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.",
"35": "On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”",
"36": "And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him.",
"37": "And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.",
"38": "But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”",
"39": "And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.",
"40": "He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”",
"41": "And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”"
},
"5": {
"1": "They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.",
"2": "And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.",
"3": "He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,",
"4": "for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.",
"5": "Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.",
"6": "And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him.",
"7": "And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”",
"8": "For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”",
"9": "And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”",
"10": "And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.",
"11": "Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside,",
"12": "and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.”",
"13": "So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.",
"14": "The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened.",
"15": "And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.",
"16": "And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs.",
"17": "And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region.",
"18": "As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.",
"19": "And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”",
"20": "And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.",
"21": "And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea.",
"22": "Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet",
"23": "and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.”",
"24": "And he went with him.\nAnd a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.",
"25": "And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years,",
"26": "and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.",
"27": "She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.",
"28": "For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.”",
"29": "And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.",
"30": "And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?”",
"31": "And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’”",
"32": "And he looked around to see who had done it.",
"33": "But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.",
"34": "And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”",
"35": "While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”",
"36": "But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”",
"37": "And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.",
"38": "They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.",
"39": "And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.”",
"40": "And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.",
"41": "Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”",
"42": "And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.",
"43": "And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat."
},
"6": {
"1": "He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.",
"2": "And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands?",
"3": "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?” And they took offense at him.",
"4": "And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”",
"5": "And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.",
"6": "And he marveled because of their unbelief.\nAnd he went about among the villages teaching.",
"7": "And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.",
"8": "He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—",
"9": "but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics.",
"10": "And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there.",
"11": "And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”",
"12": "So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent.",
"13": "And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.",
"14": "King Herod heard of it, for Jesus' name had become known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.”",
"15": "But others said, “He is Elijah.” And others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”",
"16": "But when Herod heard of it, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.”",
"17": "For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because he had married her.",
"18": "For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.”",
"19": "And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death. But she could not,",
"20": "for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly.",
"21": "But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.",
"22": "For when Herodias's daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”",
"23": "And he vowed to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”",
"24": "And she went out and said to her mother, “For what should I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.”",
"25": "And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”",
"26": "And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.",
"27": "And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head. He went and beheaded him in the prison",
"28": "and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.",
"29": "When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.",
"30": "The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught.",
"31": "And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.",
"32": "And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves.",
"33": "Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.",
"34": "When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.",
"35": "And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late.",
"36": "Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”",
"37": "But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”",
"38": "And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”",
"39": "Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.",
"40": "So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.",
"41": "And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all.",
"42": "And they all ate and were satisfied.",
"43": "And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish.",
"44": "And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.",
"45": "Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.",
"46": "And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray.",
"47": "And when evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land.",
"48": "And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them,",
"49": "but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out,",
"50": "for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”",
"51": "And he got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded,",
"52": "for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.",
"53": "When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored to the shore.",
"54": "And when they got out of the boat, the people immediately recognized him",
"55": "and ran about the whole region and began to bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard he was.",
"56": "And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well."
},
"7": {
"1": "Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,",
"2": "they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.",
"3": "(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders,",
"4": "and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.)",
"5": "And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”",
"6": "And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,\n“‘This people honors me with their lips,\n but their heart is far from me;",
"7": "in vain do they worship me,\n teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’",
"8": "You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”",
"9": "And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!",
"10": "For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’",
"11": "But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)—",
"12": "then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,",
"13": "thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”",
"14": "And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:",
"15": "There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”",
"16": "",
"17": "And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.",
"18": "And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,",
"19": "since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)",
"20": "And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.",
"21": "For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,",
"22": "coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.",
"23": "All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”",
"24": "And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.",
"25": "But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.",
"26": "Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.",
"27": "And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”",
"28": "But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”",
"29": "And he said to her, “For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”",
"30": "And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.",
"31": "Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.",
"32": "And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.",
"33": "And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue.",
"34": "And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.”",
"35": "And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.",
"36": "And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.",
"37": "And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”"
},
"8": {
"1": "In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,",
"2": "“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.",
"3": "And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.”",
"4": "And his disciples answered him, “How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?”",
"5": "And he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.”",
"6": "And he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and they set them before the crowd.",
"7": "And they had a few small fish. And having blessed them, he said that these also should be set before them.",
"8": "And they ate and were satisfied. And they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.",
"9": "And there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away.",
"10": "And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.",
"11": "The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him.",
"12": "And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.”",
"13": "And he left them, got into the boat again, and went to the other side.",
"14": "Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.",
"15": "And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”",
"16": "And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread.",
"17": "And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?",
"18": "Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?",
"19": "When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.”",
"20": "“And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him, “Seven.”",
"21": "And he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”",
"22": "And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him.",
"23": "And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?”",
"24": "And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.”",
"25": "Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.",
"26": "And he sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”",
"27": "And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”",
"28": "And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.”",
"29": "And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”",
"30": "And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.",
"31": "And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.",
"32": "And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.",
"33": "But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”",
"34": "And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.",
"35": "For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.",
"36": "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?",
"37": "For what can a man give in return for his soul?",
"38": "For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”"
},
"9": {
"1": "And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”",
"2": "And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,",
"3": "and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.",
"4": "And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.",
"5": "And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”",
"6": "For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified.",
"7": "And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”",
"8": "And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus only.",
"9": "And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.",
"10": "So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead might mean.",
"11": "And they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?”",
"12": "And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?",
"13": "But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”",
"14": "And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.",
"15": "And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him.",
"16": "And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?”",
"17": "And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute.",
"18": "And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.”",
"19": "And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”",
"20": "And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.",
"21": "And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.",
"22": "And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”",
"23": "And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”",
"24": "Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”",
"25": "And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”",
"26": "And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.”",
"27": "But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.",
"28": "And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”",
"29": "And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”",
"30": "They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know,",
"31": "for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”",
"32": "But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.",
"33": "And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”",
"34": "But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.",
"35": "And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”",
"36": "And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them,",
"37": "“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”",
"38": "John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.”",
"39": "But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.",
"40": "For the one who is not against us is for us.",
"41": "For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.",
"42": "“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.",
"43": "And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.",
"44": "",
"45": "And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.",
"46": "",
"47": "And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,",
"48": "‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’",
"49": "For everyone will be salted with fire.",
"50": "Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”"
},
"10": {
"1": "And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.",
"2": "And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”",
"3": "He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”",
"4": "They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”",
"5": "And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.",
"6": "But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’",
"7": "‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,",
"8": "and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.",
"9": "What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”",
"10": "And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.",
"11": "And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,",
"12": "and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”",
"13": "And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them.",
"14": "But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.",
"15": "Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”",
"16": "And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.",
"17": "And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”",
"18": "And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.",
"19": "You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”",
"20": "And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.”",
"21": "And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”",
"22": "Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.",
"23": "And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”",
"24": "And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!",
"25": "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”",
"26": "And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?”",
"27": "Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”",
"28": "Peter began to say to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you.”",
"29": "Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,",
"30": "who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.",
"31": "But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”",
"32": "And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him,",
"33": "saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.",
"34": "And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”",
"35": "And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”",
"36": "And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”",
"37": "And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.”",
"38": "Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”",
"39": "And they said to him, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized,",
"40": "but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”",
"41": "And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant at James and John.",
"42": "And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.",
"43": "But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,",
"44": "and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.",
"45": "For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”",
"46": "And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.",
"47": "And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”",
"48": "And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”",
"49": "And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart. Get up; he is calling you.”",
"50": "And throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus.",
"51": "And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me recover my sight.”",
"52": "And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way."
},
"11": {
"1": "Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples",
"2": "and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.",
"3": "If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’”",
"4": "And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it.",
"5": "And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”",
"6": "And they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go.",
"7": "And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it.",
"8": "And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.",
"9": "And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!",
"10": "Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”",
"11": "And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.",
"12": "On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.",
"13": "And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.",
"14": "And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.",
"15": "And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.",
"16": "And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.",
"17": "And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”",
"18": "And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.",
"19": "And when evening came they went out of the city.",
"20": "As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.",
"21": "And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”",
"22": "And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.",
"23": "Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.",
"24": "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.",
"25": "And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”",
"26": "",
"27": "And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,",
"28": "and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?”",
"29": "Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.",
"30": "Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me.”",
"31": "And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’",
"32": "But shall we say, ‘From man’?”—they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet.",
"33": "So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”"
},
"12": {
"1": "And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.",
"2": "When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.",
"3": "And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.",
"4": "Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully.",
"5": "And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed.",
"6": "He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’",
"7": "But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’",
"8": "And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.",
"9": "What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.",
"10": "Have you not read this Scripture:\n“‘The stone that the builders rejected\n has become the cornerstone;",
"11": "this was the Lord's doing,\n and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”",
"12": "And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.",
"13": "And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.",
"14": "And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?”",
"15": "But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”",
"16": "And they brought one. And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar's.”",
"17": "Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” And they marveled at him.",
"18": "And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying,",
"19": "“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.",
"20": "There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring.",
"21": "And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise.",
"22": "And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died.",
"23": "In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”",
"24": "Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?",
"25": "For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.",
"26": "And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?",
"27": "He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”",
"28": "And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”",
"29": "Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.",
"30": "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’",
"31": "The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”",
"32": "And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him.",
"33": "And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”",
"34": "And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.",
"35": "And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?",
"36": "David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared,\n“‘The Lord said to my Lord,\n“Sit at my right hand,\n until I put your enemies under your feet.”’",
"37": "David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly.",
"38": "And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces",
"39": "and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,",
"40": "who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”",
"41": "And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums.",
"42": "And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny.",
"43": "And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box.",
"44": "For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”"
},
"13": {
"1": "And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!”",
"2": "And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”",
"3": "And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,",
"4": "“Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?”",
"5": "And Jesus began to say to them, “See that no one leads you astray.",
"6": "Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and they will lead many astray.",
"7": "And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet.",
"8": "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.",
"9": "“But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.",
"10": "And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.",
"11": "And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.",
"12": "And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.",
"13": "And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.",
"14": "“But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.",
"15": "Let the one who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything out,",
"16": "and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.",
"17": "And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!",
"18": "Pray that it may not happen in winter.",
"19": "For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be.",
"20": "And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.",
"21": "And then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.",
"22": "For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.",
"23": "But be on guard; I have told you all things beforehand.",
"24": "“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,",
"25": "and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.",
"26": "And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.",
"27": "And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.",
"28": "“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.",
"29": "So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates.",
"30": "Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.",
"31": "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.",
"32": "“But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.",
"33": "Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.",
"34": "It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.",
"35": "Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—",
"36": "lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.",
"37": "And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.”"
},
"14": {
"1": "It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him,",
"2": "for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.”",
"3": "And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.",
"4": "There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that?",
"5": "For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her.",
"6": "But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.",
"7": "For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.",
"8": "She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial.",
"9": "And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”",
"10": "Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.",
"11": "And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.",
"12": "And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?”",
"13": "And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,",
"14": "and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’",
"15": "And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us.”",
"16": "And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.",
"17": "And when it was evening, he came with the twelve.",
"18": "And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.”",
"19": "They began to be sorrowful and to say to him one after another, “Is it I?”",
"20": "He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the dish with me.",
"21": "For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”",
"22": "And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.”",
"23": "And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.",
"24": "And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.",
"25": "Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”",
"26": "And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.",
"27": "And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’",
"28": "But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”",
"29": "Peter said to him, “Even though they all fall away, I will not.”",
"30": "And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”",
"31": "But he said emphatically, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And they all said the same.",
"32": "And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”",
"33": "And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled.",
"34": "And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.”",
"35": "And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.",
"36": "And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”",
"37": "And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?",
"38": "Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”",
"39": "And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words.",
"40": "And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him.",
"41": "And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.",
"42": "Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”",
"43": "And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.",
"44": "Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.”",
"45": "And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” And he kissed him.",
"46": "And they laid hands on him and seized him.",
"47": "But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.",
"48": "And Jesus said to them, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me?",
"49": "Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.”",
"50": "And they all left him and fled.",
"51": "And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him,",
"52": "but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.",
"53": "And they led Jesus to the high priest. And all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together.",
"54": "And Peter had followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the guards and warming himself at the fire.",
"55": "Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none.",
"56": "For many bore false witness against him, but their testimony did not agree.",
"57": "And some stood up and bore false witness against him, saying,",
"58": "“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’”",
"59": "Yet even about this their testimony did not agree.",
"60": "And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?”",
"61": "But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”",
"62": "And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”",
"63": "And the high priest tore his garments and said, “What further witnesses do we need?",
"64": "You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?” And they all condemned him as deserving death.",
"65": "And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him, saying to him, “Prophesy!” And the guards received him with blows.",
"66": "And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came,",
"67": "and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.”",
"68": "But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you mean.” And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed.",
"69": "And the servant girl saw him and began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”",
"70": "But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, “Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean.”",
"71": "But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak.”",
"72": "And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept."
},
"15": {
"1": "And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate.",
"2": "And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.”",
"3": "And the chief priests accused him of many things.",
"4": "And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.”",
"5": "But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.",
"6": "Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.",
"7": "And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.",
"8": "And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them.",
"9": "And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”",
"10": "For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.",
"11": "But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead.",
"12": "And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?”",
"13": "And they cried out again, “Crucify him.”",
"14": "And Pilate said to them, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.”",
"15": "So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.",
"16": "And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion.",
"17": "And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.",
"18": "And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”",
"19": "And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him.",
"20": "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 to crucify him.",
"21": "And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.",
"22": "And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull).",
"23": "And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.",
"24": "And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.",
"25": "And it was the third hour when they crucified him.",
"26": "And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.”",
"27": "And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.",
"28": "",
"29": "And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,",
"30": "save yourself, and come down from the cross!”",
"31": "So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself.",
"32": "Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.",
"33": "And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.",
"34": "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”",
"35": "And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”",
"36": "And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.”",
"37": "And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last.",
"38": "And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.",
"39": "And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”",
"40": "There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.",
"41": "When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.",
"42": "And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,",
"43": "Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.",
"44": "Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.",
"45": "And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph.",
"46": "And Joseph bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.",
"47": "Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid."
},
"16": {
"1": "When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.",
"2": "And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.",
"3": "And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”",
"4": "And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large.",
"5": "And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed.",
"6": "And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.",
"7": "But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.”",
"8": "And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.",
"9": "Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.",
"10": "She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.",
"11": "But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.",
"12": "After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country.",
"13": "And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.",
"14": "Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.",
"15": "And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.",
"16": "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.",
"17": "And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;",
"18": "they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”",
"19": "So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.",
"20": "And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:06.614113-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Micah": {
"1": {
"1": "The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.",
"2": "Hear, you peoples, all of you;\n pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,\nand let the Lord God be a witness against you,\n the Lord from his holy temple.",
"3": "For behold, the Lord is coming out of his place,\n and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.",
"4": "And the mountains will melt under him,\n and the valleys will split open,\nlike wax before the fire,\n like waters poured down a steep place.",
"5": "All this is for the transgression of Jacob\n and for the sins of the house of Israel.\nWhat is the transgression of Jacob?\n Is it not Samaria?\nAnd what is the high place of Judah?\n Is it not Jerusalem?",
"6": "Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country,\n a place for planting vineyards,\nand I will pour down her stones into the valley\n and uncover her foundations.",
"7": "All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,\n all her wages shall be burned with fire,\n and all her idols I will lay waste,\nfor from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,\n and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.",
"8": "For this I will lament and wail;\n I will go stripped and naked;\nI will make lamentation like the jackals,\n and mourning like the ostriches.",
"9": "For her wound is incurable,\n and it has come to Judah;\nit has reached to the gate of my people,\n to Jerusalem.",
"10": "Tell it not in Gath;\n weep not at all;\nin Beth-le-aphrah\n roll yourselves in the dust.",
"11": "Pass on your way,\n inhabitants of Shaphir,\n in nakedness and shame;\nthe inhabitants of Zaanan\n do not come out;\nthe lamentation of Beth-ezel\n shall take away from you its standing place.",
"12": "For the inhabitants of Maroth\n wait anxiously for good,\nbecause disaster has come down from the Lord\n to the gate of Jerusalem.",
"13": "Harness the steeds to the chariots,\n inhabitants of Lachish;\nit was the beginning of sin\n to the daughter of Zion,\nfor in you were found\n the transgressions of Israel.",
"14": "Therefore you shall give parting gifts\n to Moresheth-gath;\nthe houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing\n to the kings of Israel.",
"15": "I will again bring a conqueror to you,\n inhabitants of Mareshah;\nthe glory of Israel\n shall come to Adullam.",
"16": "Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,\n for the children of your delight;\nmake yourselves as bald as the eagle,\n for they shall go from you into exile."
},
"2": {
"1": "Woe to those who devise wickedness\n and work evil on their beds!\nWhen the morning dawns, they perform it,\n because it is in the power of their hand.",
"2": "They covet fields and seize them,\n and houses, and take them away;\nthey oppress a man and his house,\n a man and his inheritance.",
"3": "Therefore thus says the Lord:\nbehold, against this family I am devising disaster,\n from which you cannot remove your necks,\nand you shall not walk haughtily,\n for it will be a time of disaster.",
"4": "In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you\n and moan bitterly,\nand say, “We are utterly ruined;\n he changes the portion of my people;\nhow he removes it from me!\n To an apostate he allots our fields.”",
"5": "Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot\n in the assembly of the Lord.",
"6": "“Do not preach”—thus they preach—\n “one should not preach of such things;\n disgrace will not overtake us.”",
"7": "Should this be said, O house of Jacob?\n Has the Lord grown impatient?\n Are these his deeds?\nDo not my words do good\n to him who walks uprightly?",
"8": "But lately my people have risen up as an enemy;\nyou strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly\n with no thought of war.",
"9": "The women of my people you drive out\n from their delightful houses;\nfrom their young children you take away\n my splendor forever.",
"10": "Arise and go,\n for this is no place to rest,\nbecause of uncleanness that destroys\n with a grievous destruction.",
"11": "If a man should go about and utter wind and lies,\n saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”\n he would be the preacher for this people!",
"12": "I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;\n I will gather the remnant of Israel;\nI will set them together\n like sheep in a fold,\nlike a flock in its pasture,\n a noisy multitude of men.",
"13": "He who opens the breach goes up before them;\n they break through and pass the gate,\n going out by it.\nTheir king passes on before them,\n the Lord at their head."
},
"3": {
"1": "And I said:\nHear, you heads of Jacob\n and rulers of the house of Israel!\nIs it not for you to know justice?—",
"2": "you who hate the good and love the evil,\nwho tear the skin from off my people\n and their flesh from off their bones,",
"3": "who eat the flesh of my people,\n and flay their skin from off them,\nand break their bones in pieces\n and chop them up like meat in a pot,\n like flesh in a cauldron.",
"4": "Then they will cry to the Lord,\n but he will not answer them;\nhe will hide his face from them at that time,\n because they have made their deeds evil.",
"5": "Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets\n who lead my people astray,\nwho cry “Peace”\n when they have something to eat,\nbut declare war against him\n who puts nothing into their mouths.",
"6": "Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision,\n and darkness to you, without divination.\nThe sun shall go down on the prophets,\n and the day shall be black over them;",
"7": "the seers shall be disgraced,\n and the diviners put to shame;\nthey shall all cover their lips,\n for there is no answer from God.",
"8": "But as for me, I am filled with power,\n with the Spirit of the Lord,\n and with justice and might,\nto declare to Jacob his transgression\n and to Israel his sin.",
"9": "Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob\n and rulers of the house of Israel,\nwho detest justice\n and make crooked all that is straight,",
"10": "who build Zion with blood\n and Jerusalem with iniquity.",
"11": "Its heads give judgment for a bribe;\n its priests teach for a price;\n its prophets practice divination for money;\nyet they lean on the Lord and say,\n “Is not the Lord in the midst of us?\n No disaster shall come upon us.”",
"12": "Therefore because of you\n Zion shall be plowed as a field;\nJerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,\n and the mountain of the house a wooded height."
},
"4": {
"1": "It shall come to pass in the latter days\n that the mountain of the house of the Lord\nshall be established as the highest of the mountains,\n and it shall be lifted up above the hills;\nand peoples shall flow to it,",
"2": "and many nations shall come, and say:\n“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,\n to the house of the God of Jacob,\nthat he may teach us his ways\n and that we may walk in his paths.”\nFor out of Zion shall go forth the law,\n and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.",
"3": "He shall judge between many peoples,\n and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;\nand they shall beat their swords into plowshares,\n and their spears into pruning hooks;\nnation shall not lift up sword against nation,\n neither shall they learn war anymore;",
"4": "but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,\n and no one shall make them afraid,\n for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.",
"5": "For all the peoples walk\n each in the name of its god,\nbut we will walk in the name of the Lord our God\n forever and ever.",
"6": "In that day, declares the Lord,\n I will assemble the lame\nand gather those who have been driven away\n and those whom I have afflicted;",
"7": "and the lame I will make the remnant,\n and those who were cast off, a strong nation;\nand the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion\n from this time forth and forevermore.",
"8": "And you, O tower of the flock,\n hill of the daughter of Zion,\nto you shall it come,\n the former dominion shall come,\n kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.",
"9": "Now why do you cry aloud?\n Is there no king in you?\nHas your counselor perished,\n that pain seized you like a woman in labor?",
"10": "Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion,\n like a woman in labor,\nfor now you shall go out from the city\n and dwell in the open country;\n you shall go to Babylon.\nThere you shall be rescued;\n there the Lord will redeem you\n from the hand of your enemies.",
"11": "Now many nations\n are assembled against you,\nsaying, “Let her be defiled,\n and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”",
"12": "But they do not know\n the thoughts of the Lord;\nthey do not understand his plan,\n that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.",
"13": "Arise and thresh,\n O daughter of Zion,\nfor I will make your horn iron,\n and I will make your hoofs bronze;\nyou shall beat in pieces many peoples;\n and shall devote their gain to the Lord,\n their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth."
},
"5": {
"1": "Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops;\n siege is laid against us;\nwith a rod they strike the judge of Israel\n on the cheek.",
"2": "But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,\n who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,\nfrom you shall come forth for me\n one who is to be ruler in Israel,\nwhose coming forth is from of old,\n from ancient days.",
"3": "Therefore he shall give them up until the time\n when she who is in labor has given birth;\nthen the rest of his brothers shall return\n to the people of Israel.",
"4": "And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord,\n in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.\nAnd they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great\n to the ends of the earth.",
"5": "And he shall be their peace.\nWhen the Assyrian comes into our land\n and treads in our palaces,\nthen we will raise against him seven shepherds\n and eight princes of men;",
"6": "they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,\n and the land of Nimrod at its entrances;\nand he shall deliver us from the Assyrian\n when he comes into our land\n and treads within our border.",
"7": "Then the remnant of Jacob shall be\n in the midst of many peoples\nlike dew from the Lord,\n like showers on the grass,\nwhich delay not for a man\n nor wait for the children of man.",
"8": "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations,\n in the midst of many peoples,\nlike a lion among the beasts of the forest,\n like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,\nwhich, when it goes through, treads down\n and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.",
"9": "Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries,\n and all your enemies shall be cut off.",
"10": "And in that day, declares the Lord,\n I will cut off your horses from among you\n and will destroy your chariots;",
"11": "and I will cut off the cities of your land\n and throw down all your strongholds;",
"12": "and I will cut off sorceries from your hand,\n and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;",
"13": "and I will cut off your carved images\n and your pillars from among you,\nand you shall bow down no more\n to the work of your hands;",
"14": "and I will root out your Asherah images from among you\n and destroy your cities.",
"15": "And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance\n on the nations that did not obey."
},
"6": {
"1": "Hear what the Lord says:\nArise, plead your case before the mountains,\n and let the hills hear your voice.",
"2": "Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord,\n and you enduring foundations of the earth,\nfor the Lord has an indictment against his people,\n and he will contend with Israel.",
"3": "“O my people, what have I done to you?\n How have I wearied you? Answer me!",
"4": "For I brought you up from the land of Egypt\n and redeemed you from the house of slavery,\nand I sent before you Moses,\n Aaron, and Miriam.",
"5": "O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised,\n and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,\nand what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,\n that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.”",
"6": "“With what shall I come before the Lord,\n and bow myself before God on high?\nShall I come before him with burnt offerings,\n with calves a year old?",
"7": "Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,\n with ten thousands of rivers of oil?\nShall I give my firstborn for my transgression,\n the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”",
"8": "He has told you, O man, what is good;\n and what does the Lord require of you\nbut to do justice, and to love kindness,\n and to walk humbly with your God?",
"9": "The voice of the Lord cries to the city—\n and it is sound wisdom to fear your name:\n“Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!",
"10": "Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,\n and the scant measure that is accursed?",
"11": "Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales\n and with a bag of deceitful weights?",
"12": "Your rich men are full of violence;\n your inhabitants speak lies,\n and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.",
"13": "Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow,\n making you desolate because of your sins.",
"14": "You shall eat, but not be satisfied,\n and there shall be hunger within you;\nyou shall put away, but not preserve,\n and what you preserve I will give to the sword.",
"15": "You shall sow, but not reap;\n you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;\n you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.",
"16": "For you have kept the statutes of Omri,\n and all the works of the house of Ahab;\n and you have walked in their counsels,\nthat I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing;\n so you shall bear the scorn of my people.”"
},
"7": {
"1": "Woe is me! For I have become\n as when the summer fruit has been gathered,\n as when the grapes have been gleaned:\nthere is no cluster to eat,\n no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.",
"2": "The godly has perished from the earth,\n and there is no one upright among mankind;\nthey all lie in wait for blood,\n and each hunts the other with a net.",
"3": "Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well;\n the prince and the judge ask for a bribe,\nand the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;\n thus they weave it together.",
"4": "The best of them is like a brier,\n the most upright of them a thorn hedge.\nThe day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;\n now their confusion is at hand.",
"5": "Put no trust in a neighbor;\n have no confidence in a friend;\nguard the doors of your mouth\n from her who lies in your arms;",
"6": "for the son treats the father with contempt,\n the daughter rises up against her mother,\nthe daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;\n a man's enemies are the men of his own house.",
"7": "But as for me, I will look to the Lord;\n I will wait for the God of my salvation;\n my God will hear me.",
"8": "Rejoice not over me, O my enemy;\n when I fall, I shall rise;\nwhen I sit in darkness,\n the Lord will be a light to me.",
"9": "I will bear the indignation of the Lord\n because I have sinned against him,\nuntil he pleads my cause\n and executes judgment for me.\nHe will bring me out to the light;\n I shall look upon his vindication.",
"10": "Then my enemy will see,\n and shame will cover her who said to me,\n “Where is the Lord your God?”\nMy eyes will look upon her;\n now she will be trampled down\n like the mire of the streets.",
"11": "A day for the building of your walls!\n In that day the boundary shall be far extended.",
"12": "In that day they will come to you,\n from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,\nand from Egypt to the River,\n from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.",
"13": "But the earth will be desolate\n because of its inhabitants,\n for the fruit of their deeds.",
"14": "Shepherd your people with your staff,\n the flock of your inheritance,\nwho dwell alone in a forest\n in the midst of a garden land;\nlet them graze in Bashan and Gilead\n as in the days of old.",
"15": "As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,\n I will show them marvelous things.",
"16": "The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;\nthey shall lay their hands on their mouths;\n their ears shall be deaf;",
"17": "they shall lick the dust like a serpent,\n like the crawling things of the earth;\nthey shall come trembling out of their strongholds;\n they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,\n and they shall be in fear of you.",
"18": "Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity\n and passing over transgression\n for the remnant of his inheritance?\nHe does not retain his anger forever,\n because he delights in steadfast love.",
"19": "He will again have compassion on us;\n he will tread our iniquities underfoot.\nYou will cast all our sins\n into the depths of the sea.",
"20": "You will show faithfulness to Jacob\n and steadfast love to Abraham,\nas you have sworn to our fathers\n from the days of old."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:07.424906-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Nahum": {
"1": {
"1": "An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.",
"2": "The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;\n the Lord is avenging and wrathful;\nthe Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries\n and keeps wrath for his enemies.",
"3": "The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,\n and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.\nHis way is in whirlwind and storm,\n and the clouds are the dust of his feet.",
"4": "He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;\n he dries up all the rivers;\nBashan and Carmel wither;\n the bloom of Lebanon withers.",
"5": "The mountains quake before him;\n the hills melt;\nthe earth heaves before him,\n the world and all who dwell in it.",
"6": "Who can stand before his indignation?\n Who can endure the heat of his anger?\nHis wrath is poured out like fire,\n and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.",
"7": "The Lord is good,\n a stronghold in the day of trouble;\nhe knows those who take refuge in him.",
"8": "But with an overflowing flood\nhe will make a complete end of the adversaries,\n and will pursue his enemies into darkness.",
"9": "What do you plot against the Lord?\n He will make a complete end;\n trouble will not rise up a second time.",
"10": "For they are like entangled thorns,\n like drunkards as they drink;\n they are consumed like stubble fully dried.",
"11": "From you came one\n who plotted evil against the Lord,\n a worthless counselor.",
"12": "Thus says the Lord,\n“Though they are at full strength and many,\n they will be cut down and pass away.\nThough I have afflicted you,\n I will afflict you no more.",
"13": "And now I will break his yoke from off you\n and will burst your bonds apart.”",
"14": "The Lord has given commandment about you:\n “No more shall your name be perpetuated;\nfrom the house of your gods I will cut off\n the carved image and the metal image.\nI will make your grave, for you are vile.”",
"15": "Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him\n who brings good news,\n who publishes peace!\nKeep your feasts, O Judah;\n fulfill your vows,\nfor never again shall the worthless pass through you;\n he is utterly cut off."
},
"2": {
"1": "The scatterer has come up against you.\n Man the ramparts;\n watch the road;\ndress for battle;\n collect all your strength.",
"2": "For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob\n as the majesty of Israel,\nfor plunderers have plundered them\n and ruined their branches.",
"3": "The shield of his mighty men is red;\n his soldiers are clothed in scarlet.\nThe chariots come with flashing metal\n on the day he musters them;\n the cypress spears are brandished.",
"4": "The chariots race madly through the streets;\n they rush to and fro through the squares;\nthey gleam like torches;\n they dart like lightning.",
"5": "He remembers his officers;\n they stumble as they go,\nthey hasten to the wall;\n the siege tower is set up.",
"6": "The river gates are opened;\n the palace melts away;",
"7": "its mistress is stripped; she is carried off,\n her slave girls lamenting,\nmoaning like doves\n and beating their breasts.",
"8": "Nineveh is like a pool\n whose waters run away.\n“Halt! Halt!” they cry,\n but none turns back.",
"9": "Plunder the silver,\n plunder the gold!\nThere is no end of the treasure\n or of the wealth of all precious things.",
"10": "Desolate! Desolation and ruin!\n Hearts melt and knees tremble;\nanguish is in all loins;\n all faces grow pale!",
"11": "Where is the lions' den,\n the feeding place of the young lions,\nwhere the lion and lioness went,\n where his cubs were, with none to disturb?",
"12": "The lion tore enough for his cubs\n and strangled prey for his lionesses;\nhe filled his caves with prey\n and his dens with torn flesh.",
"13": "Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard."
},
"3": {
"1": "Woe to the bloody city,\n all full of lies and plunder—\n no end to the prey!",
"2": "The crack of the whip, and rumble of the wheel,\n galloping horse and bounding chariot!",
"3": "Horsemen charging,\n flashing sword and glittering spear,\nhosts of slain,\n heaps of corpses,\ndead bodies without end—\n they stumble over the bodies!",
"4": "And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute,\n graceful and of deadly charms,\nwho betrays nations with her whorings,\n and peoples with her charms.",
"5": "Behold, I am against you,\n declares the Lord of hosts,\n and will lift up your skirts over your face;\nand I will make nations look at your nakedness\n and kingdoms at your shame.",
"6": "I will throw filth at you\n and treat you with contempt\n and make you a spectacle.",
"7": "And all who look at you will shrink from you and say,\n“Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?”\n Where shall I seek comforters for you?",
"8": "Are you better than Thebes\n that sat by the Nile,\nwith water around her,\n her rampart a sea,\n and water her wall?",
"9": "Cush was her strength;\n Egypt too, and that without limit;\n Put and the Libyans were her helpers.",
"10": "Yet she became an exile;\n she went into captivity;\nher infants were dashed in pieces\n at the head of every street;\nfor her honored men lots were cast,\n and all her great men were bound in chains.",
"11": "You also will be drunken;\n you will go into hiding;\nyou will seek a refuge from the enemy.",
"12": "All your fortresses are like fig trees\n with first-ripe figs—\nif shaken they fall\n into the mouth of the eater.",
"13": "Behold, your troops\n are women in your midst.\nThe gates of your land\n are wide open to your enemies;\n fire has devoured your bars.",
"14": "Draw water for the siege;\n strengthen your forts;\ngo into the clay;\n tread the mortar;\n take hold of the brick mold!",
"15": "There will the fire devour you;\n the sword will cut you off.\n It will devour you like the locust.\nMultiply yourselves like the locust;\n multiply like the grasshopper!",
"16": "You increased your merchants\n more than the stars of the heavens.\n The locust spreads its wings and flies away.",
"17": "Your princes are like grasshoppers,\n your scribes like clouds of locusts\nsettling on the fences\n in a day of cold—\nwhen the sun rises, they fly away;\n no one knows where they are.",
"18": "Your shepherds are asleep,\n O king of Assyria;\n your nobles slumber.\nYour people are scattered on the mountains\n with none to gather them.",
"19": "There is no easing your hurt;\n your wound is grievous.\nAll who hear the news about you\n clap their hands over you.\nFor upon whom has not come\n your unceasing evil?"
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:44.244052-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Nehemiah": {
"1": {
"1": "The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.\nNow it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel,",
"2": "that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem.",
"3": "And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”",
"4": "As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.",
"5": "And I said, “O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,",
"6": "let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned.",
"7": "We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.",
"8": "Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,",
"9": "but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’",
"10": "They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.",
"11": "O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”\nNow I was cupbearer to the king."
},
"2": {
"1": "In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.",
"2": "And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid.",
"3": "I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”",
"4": "Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.",
"5": "And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it.”",
"6": "And the king said to me (the queen sitting beside him), “How long will you be gone, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me when I had given him a time.",
"7": "And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah,",
"8": "and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.",
"9": "Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.",
"10": "But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.",
"11": "So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days.",
"12": "Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.",
"13": "I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.",
"14": "Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass.",
"15": "Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.",
"16": "And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest who were to do the work.",
"17": "Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”",
"18": "And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.",
"19": "But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”",
"20": "Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem.”"
},
"3": {
"1": "Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.",
"2": "And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.",
"3": "The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.",
"4": "And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired.",
"5": "And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles would not stoop to serve their Lord.",
"6": "Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Gate of Yeshanah. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.",
"7": "And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, the seat of the governor of the province Beyond the River.",
"8": "Next to them Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, repaired. Next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, repaired, and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.",
"9": "Next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired.",
"10": "Next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. And next to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah repaired.",
"11": "Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens.",
"12": "Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.",
"13": "Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.",
"14": "Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.",
"15": "And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.",
"16": "After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men.",
"17": "After him the Levites repaired: Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district.",
"18": "After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai the son of Henadad, ruler of half the district of Keilah.",
"19": "Next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armory at the buttress.",
"20": "After him Baruch the son of Zabbai repaired another section from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.",
"21": "After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.",
"22": "After him the priests, the men of the surrounding area, repaired.",
"23": "After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah the son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah repaired beside his own house.",
"24": "After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the buttress and to the corner.",
"25": "Palal the son of Uzai repaired opposite the buttress and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh",
"26": "and the temple servants living on Ophel repaired to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.",
"27": "After him the Tekoites repaired another section opposite the great projecting tower as far as the wall of Ophel.",
"28": "Above the Horse Gate the priests repaired, each one opposite his own house.",
"29": "After them Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his own house. After him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, repaired.",
"30": "After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah repaired opposite his chamber.",
"31": "After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate, and to the upper chamber of the corner.",
"32": "And between the upper chamber of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants repaired."
},
"4": {
"1": "Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews.",
"2": "And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”",
"3": "Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!”",
"4": "Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.",
"5": "Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.",
"6": "So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.",
"7": "But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry.",
"8": "And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.",
"9": "And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.",
"10": "In Judah it was said, “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”",
"11": "And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work.”",
"12": "At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, “You must return to us.”",
"13": "So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.",
"14": "And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”",
"15": "When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.",
"16": "From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah,",
"17": "who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other.",
"18": "And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.",
"19": "And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.",
"20": "In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”",
"21": "So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.",
"22": "I also said to the people at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day.”",
"23": "So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon at his right hand."
},
"5": {
"1": "Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.",
"2": "For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”",
"3": "There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”",
"4": "And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards.",
"5": "Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”",
"6": "I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words.",
"7": "I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them",
"8": "and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.",
"9": "So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?",
"10": "Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest.",
"11": "Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”",
"12": "Then they said, “We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.",
"13": "I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.",
"14": "Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor.",
"15": "The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.",
"16": "I also persevered in the work on this wall, and we acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.",
"17": "Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.",
"18": "Now what was prepared at my expense for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people.",
"19": "Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people."
},
"6": {
"1": "Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),",
"2": "Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to do me harm.",
"3": "And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”",
"4": "And they sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.",
"5": "In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand.",
"6": "In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.",
"7": "And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, ‘There is a king in Judah.’ And now the king will hear of these reports. So now come and let us take counsel together.”",
"8": "Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”",
"9": "For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.",
"10": "Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. They are coming to kill you by night.”",
"11": "But I said, “Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in.”",
"12": "And I understood and saw that God had not sent him, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.",
"13": "For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me a bad name in order to taunt me.",
"14": "Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.",
"15": "So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.",
"16": "And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.",
"17": "Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah's letters came to them.",
"18": "For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah: and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as his wife.",
"19": "Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to make me afraid."
},
"7": {
"1": "Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,",
"2": "I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.",
"3": "And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes.”",
"4": "The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt.",
"5": "Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:",
"6": "These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.",
"7": "They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah.\nThe number of the men of the people of Israel:",
"8": "the sons of Parosh, 2,172.",
"9": "The sons of Shephatiah, 372.",
"10": "The sons of Arah, 652.",
"11": "The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,818.",
"12": "The sons of Elam, 1,254.",
"13": "The sons of Zattu, 845.",
"14": "The sons of Zaccai, 760.",
"15": "The sons of Binnui, 648.",
"16": "The sons of Bebai, 628.",
"17": "The sons of Azgad, 2,322.",
"18": "The sons of Adonikam, 667.",
"19": "The sons of Bigvai, 2,067.",
"20": "The sons of Adin, 655.",
"21": "The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, 98.",
"22": "The sons of Hashum, 328.",
"23": "The sons of Bezai, 324.",
"24": "The sons of Hariph, 112.",
"25": "The sons of Gibeon, 95.",
"26": "The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188.",
"27": "The men of Anathoth, 128.",
"28": "The men of Beth-azmaveth, 42.",
"29": "The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743.",
"30": "The men of Ramah and Geba, 621.",
"31": "The men of Michmas, 122.",
"32": "The men of Bethel and Ai, 123.",
"33": "The men of the other Nebo, 52.",
"34": "The sons of the other Elam, 1,254.",
"35": "The sons of Harim, 320.",
"36": "The sons of Jericho, 345.",
"37": "The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 721.",
"38": "The sons of Senaah, 3,930.",
"39": "The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, namely the house of Jeshua, 973.",
"40": "The sons of Immer, 1,052.",
"41": "The sons of Pashhur, 1,247.",
"42": "The sons of Harim, 1,017.",
"43": "The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, namely of Kadmiel of the sons of Hodevah, 74.",
"44": "The singers: the sons of Asaph, 148.",
"45": "The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, 138.",
"46": "The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,",
"47": "the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon,",
"48": "the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Shalmai,",
"49": "the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,",
"50": "the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,",
"51": "the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah,",
"52": "the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephushesim,",
"53": "the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,",
"54": "the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,",
"55": "the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,",
"56": "the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha.",
"57": "The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,",
"58": "the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,",
"59": "the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Amon.",
"60": "All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392.",
"61": "The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers' houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:",
"62": "the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 642.",
"63": "Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).",
"64": "These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.",
"65": "The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.",
"66": "The whole assembly together was 42,360,",
"67": "besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337. And they had 245 singers, male and female.",
"68": "Their horses were 736, their mules 245,",
"69": "their camels 435, and their donkeys 6,720.",
"70": "Now some of the heads of fathers' houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests' garments and 500 minas of silver.",
"71": "And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.",
"72": "And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priests' garments.",
"73": "So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns.\nAnd when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns."
},
"8": {
"1": "And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel.",
"2": "So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month.",
"3": "And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.",
"4": "And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand.",
"5": "And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood.",
"6": "And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.",
"7": "Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the Law, while the people remained in their places.",
"8": "They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.",
"9": "And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.",
"10": "Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”",
"11": "So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.”",
"12": "And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.",
"13": "On the second day the heads of fathers' houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law.",
"14": "And they found it written in the Law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,",
"15": "and that they should proclaim it and publish it in all their towns and in Jerusalem, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written.”",
"16": "So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.",
"17": "And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths, for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing.",
"18": "And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule."
},
"9": {
"1": "Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads.",
"2": "And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.",
"3": "And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the Lord their God.",
"4": "On the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.",
"5": "Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.",
"6": "“You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.",
"7": "You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.",
"8": "You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.",
"9": "“And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea,",
"10": "and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day.",
"11": "And you divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on dry land, and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into mighty waters.",
"12": "By a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.",
"13": "You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,",
"14": "and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.",
"15": "You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.",
"16": "“But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.",
"17": "They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.",
"18": "Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,",
"19": "you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go.",
"20": "You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.",
"21": "Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.",
"22": "“And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan.",
"23": "You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.",
"24": "So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.",
"25": "And they captured fortified cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.",
"26": "“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.",
"27": "Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.",
"28": "But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you delivered them according to your mercies.",
"29": "And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.",
"30": "Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.",
"31": "Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.",
"32": "“Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.",
"33": "Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.",
"34": "Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.",
"35": "Even in their own kingdom, and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works.",
"36": "Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.",
"37": "And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.",
"38": "“Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests."
},
"10": {
"1": "“On the seals are the names of Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, Zedekiah,",
"2": "Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,",
"3": "Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,",
"4": "Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,",
"5": "Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,",
"6": "Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,",
"7": "Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,",
"8": "Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these are the priests.",
"9": "And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;",
"10": "and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,",
"11": "Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,",
"12": "Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,",
"13": "Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.",
"14": "The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,",
"15": "Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,",
"16": "Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,",
"17": "Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,",
"18": "Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,",
"19": "Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,",
"20": "Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,",
"21": "Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,",
"22": "Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,",
"23": "Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,",
"24": "Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,",
"25": "Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,",
"26": "Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,",
"27": "Malluch, Harim, Baanah.",
"28": "“The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,",
"29": "join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord and his rules and his statutes.",
"30": "We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.",
"31": "And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.",
"32": "“We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:",
"33": "for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.",
"34": "We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the Law.",
"35": "We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord;",
"36": "also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks;",
"37": "and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.",
"38": "And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse.",
"39": "For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.”"
},
"11": {
"1": "Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns.",
"2": "And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem.",
"3": "These are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the towns of Judah everyone lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon's servants.",
"4": "And in Jerusalem lived certain of the sons of Judah and of the sons of Benjamin. Of the sons of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, of the sons of Perez;",
"5": "and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, son of Col-hozeh, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Joiarib, son of Zechariah, son of the Shilonite.",
"6": "All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were 468 valiant men.",
"7": "And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah,",
"8": "and his brothers, men of valor, 928.",
"9": "Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.",
"10": "Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,",
"11": "Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, ruler of the house of God,",
"12": "and their brothers who did the work of the house, 822; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah,",
"13": "and his brothers, heads of fathers' houses, 242; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,",
"14": "and their brothers, mighty men of valor, 128; their overseer was Zabdiel the son of Haggedolim.",
"15": "And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, son of Bunni;",
"16": "and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God;",
"17": "and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader of the praise, who gave thanks, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.",
"18": "All the Levites in the holy city were 284.",
"19": "The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were 172.",
"20": "And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his inheritance.",
"21": "But the temple servants lived on Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.",
"22": "The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of God.",
"23": "For there was a command from the king concerning them, and a fixed provision for the singers, as every day required.",
"24": "And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's side in all matters concerning the people.",
"25": "And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,",
"26": "and in Jeshua and in Moladah and Beth-pelet,",
"27": "in Hazar-shual, in Beersheba and its villages,",
"28": "in Ziklag, in Meconah and its villages,",
"29": "in En-rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,",
"30": "Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its villages. So they encamped from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.",
"31": "The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,",
"32": "Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,",
"33": "Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,",
"34": "Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,",
"35": "Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.",
"36": "And certain divisions of the Levites in Judah were assigned to Benjamin."
},
"12": {
"1": "These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,",
"2": "Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,",
"3": "Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,",
"4": "Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,",
"5": "Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,",
"6": "Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah,",
"7": "Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.",
"8": "And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who with his brothers was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.",
"9": "And Bakbukiah and Unni and their brothers stood opposite them in the service.",
"10": "And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada,",
"11": "Joiada the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan the father of Jaddua.",
"12": "And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;",
"13": "of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;",
"14": "of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;",
"15": "of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;",
"16": "of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;",
"17": "of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;",
"18": "of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;",
"19": "of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;",
"20": "of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;",
"21": "of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.",
"22": "In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the Levites were recorded as heads of fathers' houses; so too were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian.",
"23": "As for the sons of Levi, their heads of fathers' houses were written in the Book of the Chronicles until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.",
"24": "And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers who stood opposite them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch by watch.",
"25": "Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.",
"26": "These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra, the priest and scribe.",
"27": "And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres.",
"28": "And the sons of the singers gathered together from the district surrounding Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;",
"29": "also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem.",
"30": "And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.",
"31": "Then I brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great choirs that gave thanks. One went to the south on the wall to the Dung Gate.",
"32": "And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the leaders of Judah,",
"33": "and Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,",
"34": "Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,",
"35": "and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph;",
"36": "and his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them.",
"37": "At the Fountain Gate they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, to the Water Gate on the east.",
"38": "The other choir of those who gave thanks went to the north, and I followed them with half of the people, on the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, to the Broad Wall,",
"39": "and above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Gate of Yeshanah, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.",
"40": "So both choirs of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I and half of the officials with me;",
"41": "and the priests Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;",
"42": "and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jezrahiah as their leader.",
"43": "And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.",
"44": "On that day men were appointed over the storerooms, the contributions, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the Law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.",
"45": "And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.",
"46": "For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.",
"47": "And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron."
},
"13": {
"1": "On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,",
"2": "for they did not meet the people of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.",
"3": "As soon as the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.",
"4": "Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah,",
"5": "prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.",
"6": "While this was taking place, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king",
"7": "and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.",
"8": "And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the chamber.",
"9": "Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the chambers, and I brought back there the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.",
"10": "I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.",
"11": "So I confronted the officials and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.",
"12": "Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses.",
"13": "And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered reliable, and their duty was to distribute to their brothers.",
"14": "Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.",
"15": "In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food.",
"16": "Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself!",
"17": "Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?",
"18": "Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”",
"19": "As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day.",
"20": "Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.",
"21": "But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.",
"22": "Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.",
"23": "In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.",
"24": "And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.",
"25": "And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.",
"26": "Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.",
"27": "Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”",
"28": "And one of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me.",
"29": "Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.",
"30": "Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work;",
"31": "and I provided for the wood offering at appointed times, and for the firstfruits.\nRemember me, O my God, for good."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:05.649428-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Obadiah": {
"1": {
"1": "The vision of Obadiah.\nThus says the Lord God concerning Edom:\nWe have heard a report from the Lord,\n and a messenger has been sent among the nations:\n“Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”",
"2": "Behold, I will make you small among the nations;\n you shall be utterly despised.",
"3": "The pride of your heart has deceived you,\n you who live in the clefts of the rock,\n in your lofty dwelling,\nwho say in your heart,\n “Who will bring me down to the ground?”",
"4": "Though you soar aloft like the eagle,\n though your nest is set among the stars,\n from there I will bring you down,\ndeclares the Lord.",
"5": "If thieves came to you,\n if plunderers came by night—\n how you have been destroyed!—\n would they not steal only enough for themselves?\nIf grape gatherers came to you,\n would they not leave gleanings?",
"6": "How Esau has been pillaged,\n his treasures sought out!",
"7": "All your allies have driven you to your border;\n those at peace with you have deceived you;\nthey have prevailed against you;\n those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you—\n you have no understanding.",
"8": "Will I not on that day, declares the Lord,\n destroy the wise men out of Edom,\n and understanding out of Mount Esau?",
"9": "And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman,\n so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.",
"10": "Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,\n shame shall cover you,\n and you shall be cut off forever.",
"11": "On the day that you stood aloof,\n on the day that strangers carried off his wealth\nand foreigners entered his gates\n and cast lots for Jerusalem,\n you were like one of them.",
"12": "But do not gloat over the day of your brother\n in the day of his misfortune;\ndo not rejoice over the people of Judah\n in the day of their ruin;\ndo not boast\n in the day of distress.",
"13": "Do not enter the gate of my people\n in the day of their calamity;\ndo not gloat over his disaster\n in the day of his calamity;\ndo not loot his wealth\n in the day of his calamity.",
"14": "Do not stand at the crossroads\n to cut off his fugitives;\ndo not hand over his survivors\n in the day of distress.",
"15": "For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.\nAs you have done, it shall be done to you;\n your deeds shall return on your own head.",
"16": "For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,\n so all the nations shall drink continually;\nthey shall drink and swallow,\n and shall be as though they had never been.",
"17": "But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,\n and it shall be holy,\nand the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.",
"18": "The house of Jacob shall be a fire,\n and the house of Joseph a flame,\n and the house of Esau stubble;\nthey shall burn them and consume them,\n and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,\nfor the Lord has spoken.",
"19": "Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau,\n and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines;\nthey shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria,\n and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.",
"20": "The exiles of this host of the people of Israel\n shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,\nand the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad\n shall possess the cities of the Negeb.",
"21": "Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion\n to rule Mount Esau,\n and the kingdom shall be the Lord's."
}
}
}
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{
"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:24.305353-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Philemon": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,\nTo Philemon our beloved fellow worker",
"2": "and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:",
"3": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.",
"4": "I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,",
"5": "because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,",
"6": "and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.",
"7": "For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.",
"8": "Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,",
"9": "yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—",
"10": "I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment.",
"11": "(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)",
"12": "I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.",
"13": "I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel,",
"14": "but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own accord.",
"15": "For this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever,",
"16": "no longer as a bondservant but more than a bondservant, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.",
"17": "So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.",
"18": "If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.",
"19": "I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.",
"20": "Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.",
"21": "Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.",
"22": "At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you.",
"23": "Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,",
"24": "and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.",
"25": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit."
}
}
}
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{
"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:20.286903-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Philippians": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus,\nTo all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:",
"2": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.",
"3": "I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,",
"4": "always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,",
"5": "because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.",
"6": "And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.",
"7": "It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.",
"8": "For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.",
"9": "And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,",
"10": "so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,",
"11": "filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.",
"12": "I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,",
"13": "so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.",
"14": "And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.",
"15": "Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.",
"16": "The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.",
"17": "The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.",
"18": "What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.\nYes, and I will rejoice,",
"19": "for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,",
"20": "as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.",
"21": "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.",
"22": "If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell.",
"23": "I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.",
"24": "But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.",
"25": "Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,",
"26": "so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again.",
"27": "Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,",
"28": "and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God.",
"29": "For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,",
"30": "engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have."
},
"2": {
"1": "So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,",
"2": "complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.",
"3": "Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.",
"4": "Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.",
"5": "Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,",
"6": "who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,",
"7": "but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.",
"8": "And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.",
"9": "Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,",
"10": "so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,",
"11": "and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.",
"12": "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,",
"13": "for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.",
"14": "Do all things without grumbling or disputing,",
"15": "that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,",
"16": "holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.",
"17": "Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.",
"18": "Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.",
"19": "I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you.",
"20": "For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.",
"21": "For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.",
"22": "But you know Timothy's proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.",
"23": "I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me,",
"24": "and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.",
"25": "I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,",
"26": "for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.",
"27": "Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.",
"28": "I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.",
"29": "So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and honor such men,",
"30": "for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me."
},
"3": {
"1": "Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.",
"2": "Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.",
"3": "For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—",
"4": "though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:",
"5": "circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;",
"6": "as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.",
"7": "But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.",
"8": "Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ",
"9": "and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—",
"10": "that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,",
"11": "that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.",
"12": "Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.",
"13": "Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,",
"14": "I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.",
"15": "Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.",
"16": "Only let us hold true to what we have attained.",
"17": "Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.",
"18": "For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.",
"19": "Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.",
"20": "But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,",
"21": "who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself."
},
"4": {
"1": "Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.",
"2": "I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.",
"3": "Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.",
"4": "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.",
"5": "Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;",
"6": "do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.",
"7": "And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.",
"8": "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.",
"9": "What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.",
"10": "I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity.",
"11": "Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.",
"12": "I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.",
"13": "I can do all things through him who strengthens me.",
"14": "Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble.",
"15": "And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only.",
"16": "Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my needs once and again.",
"17": "Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.",
"18": "I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.",
"19": "And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.",
"20": "To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.",
"21": "Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.",
"22": "All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar's household.",
"23": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:52.397288-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Proverbs": {
"1": {
"1": "The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:",
"2": "To know wisdom and instruction,\n to understand words of insight,",
"3": "to receive instruction in wise dealing,\n in righteousness, justice, and equity;",
"4": "to give prudence to the simple,\n knowledge and discretion to the youth—",
"5": "Let the wise hear and increase in learning,\n and the one who understands obtain guidance,",
"6": "to understand a proverb and a saying,\n the words of the wise and their riddles.",
"7": "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;\n fools despise wisdom and instruction.",
"8": "Hear, my son, your father's instruction,\n and forsake not your mother's teaching,",
"9": "for they are a graceful garland for your head\n and pendants for your neck.",
"10": "My son, if sinners entice you,\n do not consent.",
"11": "If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;\n let us ambush the innocent without reason;",
"12": "like Sheol let us swallow them alive,\n and whole, like those who go down to the pit;",
"13": "we shall find all precious goods,\n we shall fill our houses with plunder;",
"14": "throw in your lot among us;\n we will all have one purse”—",
"15": "my son, do not walk in the way with them;\n hold back your foot from their paths,",
"16": "for their feet run to evil,\n and they make haste to shed blood.",
"17": "For in vain is a net spread\n in the sight of any bird,",
"18": "but these men lie in wait for their own blood;\n they set an ambush for their own lives.",
"19": "Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain;\n it takes away the life of its possessors.",
"20": "Wisdom cries aloud in the street,\n in the markets she raises her voice;",
"21": "at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;\n at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:",
"22": "“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?\nHow long will scoffers delight in their scoffing\n and fools hate knowledge?",
"23": "If you turn at my reproof,\nbehold, I will pour out my spirit to you;\n I will make my words known to you.",
"24": "Because I have called and you refused to listen,\n have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,",
"25": "because you have ignored all my counsel\n and would have none of my reproof,",
"26": "I also will laugh at your calamity;\n I will mock when terror strikes you,",
"27": "when terror strikes you like a storm\n and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,\n when distress and anguish come upon you.",
"28": "Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;\n they will seek me diligently but will not find me.",
"29": "Because they hated knowledge\n and did not choose the fear of the Lord,",
"30": "would have none of my counsel\n and despised all my reproof,",
"31": "therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way,\n and have their fill of their own devices.",
"32": "For the simple are killed by their turning away,\n and the complacency of fools destroys them;",
"33": "but whoever listens to me will dwell secure\n and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”"
},
"2": {
"1": "My son, if you receive my words\n and treasure up my commandments with you,",
"2": "making your ear attentive to wisdom\n and inclining your heart to understanding;",
"3": "yes, if you call out for insight\n and raise your voice for understanding,",
"4": "if you seek it like silver\n and search for it as for hidden treasures,",
"5": "then you will understand the fear of the Lord\n and find the knowledge of God.",
"6": "For the Lord gives wisdom;\n from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;",
"7": "he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;\n he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,",
"8": "guarding the paths of justice\n and watching over the way of his saints.",
"9": "Then you will understand righteousness and justice\n and equity, every good path;",
"10": "for wisdom will come into your heart,\n and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;",
"11": "discretion will watch over you,\n understanding will guard you,",
"12": "delivering you from the way of evil,\n from men of perverted speech,",
"13": "who forsake the paths of uprightness\n to walk in the ways of darkness,",
"14": "who rejoice in doing evil\n and delight in the perverseness of evil,",
"15": "men whose paths are crooked,\n and who are devious in their ways.",
"16": "So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,\n from the adulteress with her smooth words,",
"17": "who forsakes the companion of her youth\n and forgets the covenant of her God;",
"18": "for her house sinks down to death,\n and her paths to the departed;",
"19": "none who go to her come back,\n nor do they regain the paths of life.",
"20": "So you will walk in the way of the good\n and keep to the paths of the righteous.",
"21": "For the upright will inhabit the land,\n and those with integrity will remain in it,",
"22": "but the wicked will be cut off from the land,\n and the treacherous will be rooted out of it."
},
"3": {
"1": "My son, do not forget my teaching,\n but let your heart keep my commandments,",
"2": "for length of days and years of life\n and peace they will add to you.",
"3": "Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you;\n bind them around your neck;\n write them on the tablet of your heart.",
"4": "So you will find favor and good success\n in the sight of God and man.",
"5": "Trust in the Lord with all your heart,\n and do not lean on your own understanding.",
"6": "In all your ways acknowledge him,\n and he will make straight your paths.",
"7": "Be not wise in your own eyes;\n fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.",
"8": "It will be healing to your flesh\n and refreshment to your bones.",
"9": "Honor the Lord with your wealth\n and with the firstfruits of all your produce;",
"10": "then your barns will be filled with plenty,\n and your vats will be bursting with wine.",
"11": "My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline\n or be weary of his reproof,",
"12": "for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,\n as a father the son in whom he delights.",
"13": "Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,\n and the one who gets understanding,",
"14": "for the gain from her is better than gain from silver\n and her profit better than gold.",
"15": "She is more precious than jewels,\n and nothing you desire can compare with her.",
"16": "Long life is in her right hand;\n in her left hand are riches and honor.",
"17": "Her ways are ways of pleasantness,\n and all her paths are peace.",
"18": "She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her;\n those who hold her fast are called blessed.",
"19": "The Lord by wisdom founded the earth;\n by understanding he established the heavens;",
"20": "by his knowledge the deeps broke open,\n and the clouds drop down the dew.",
"21": "My son, do not lose sight of these—\n keep sound wisdom and discretion,",
"22": "and they will be life for your soul\n and adornment for your neck.",
"23": "Then you will walk on your way securely,\n and your foot will not stumble.",
"24": "If you lie down, you will not be afraid;\n when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.",
"25": "Do not be afraid of sudden terror\n or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes,",
"26": "for the Lord will be your confidence\n and will keep your foot from being caught.",
"27": "Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,\n when it is in your power to do it.",
"28": "Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,\n tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.",
"29": "Do not plan evil against your neighbor,\n who dwells trustingly beside you.",
"30": "Do not contend with a man for no reason,\n when he has done you no harm.",
"31": "Do not envy a man of violence\n and do not choose any of his ways,",
"32": "for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord,\n but the upright are in his confidence.",
"33": "The Lord's curse is on the house of the wicked,\n but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.",
"34": "Toward the scorners he is scornful,\n but to the humble he gives favor.",
"35": "The wise will inherit honor,\n but fools get disgrace."
},
"4": {
"1": "Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,\n and be attentive, that you may gain insight,",
"2": "for I give you good precepts;\n do not forsake my teaching.",
"3": "When I was a son with my father,\n tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,",
"4": "he taught me and said to me,\n“Let your heart hold fast my words;\n keep my commandments, and live.",
"5": "Get wisdom; get insight;\n do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.",
"6": "Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;\n love her, and she will guard you.",
"7": "The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,\n and whatever you get, get insight.",
"8": "Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;\n she will honor you if you embrace her.",
"9": "She will place on your head a graceful garland;\n she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”",
"10": "Hear, my son, and accept my words,\n that the years of your life may be many.",
"11": "I have taught you the way of wisdom;\n I have led you in the paths of uprightness.",
"12": "When you walk, your step will not be hampered,\n and if you run, you will not stumble.",
"13": "Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;\n guard her, for she is your life.",
"14": "Do not enter the path of the wicked,\n and do not walk in the way of the evil.",
"15": "Avoid it; do not go on it;\n turn away from it and pass on.",
"16": "For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;\n they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.",
"17": "For they eat the bread of wickedness\n and drink the wine of violence.",
"18": "But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,\n which shines brighter and brighter until full day.",
"19": "The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;\n they do not know over what they stumble.",
"20": "My son, be attentive to my words;\n incline your ear to my sayings.",
"21": "Let them not escape from your sight;\n keep them within your heart.",
"22": "For they are life to those who find them,\n and healing to all their flesh.",
"23": "Keep your heart with all vigilance,\n for from it flow the springs of life.",
"24": "Put away from you crooked speech,\n and put devious talk far from you.",
"25": "Let your eyes look directly forward,\n and your gaze be straight before you.",
"26": "Ponder the path of your feet;\n then all your ways will be sure.",
"27": "Do not swerve to the right or to the left;\n turn your foot away from evil."
},
"5": {
"1": "My son, be attentive to my wisdom;\n incline your ear to my understanding,",
"2": "that you may keep discretion,\n and your lips may guard knowledge.",
"3": "For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,\n and her speech is smoother than oil,",
"4": "but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,\n sharp as a two-edged sword.",
"5": "Her feet go down to death;\n her steps follow the path to Sheol;",
"6": "she does not ponder the path of life;\n her ways wander, and she does not know it.",
"7": "And now, O sons, listen to me,\n and do not depart from the words of my mouth.",
"8": "Keep your way far from her,\n and do not go near the door of her house,",
"9": "lest you give your honor to others\n and your years to the merciless,",
"10": "lest strangers take their fill of your strength,\n and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,",
"11": "and at the end of your life you groan,\n when your flesh and body are consumed,",
"12": "and you say, “How I hated discipline,\n and my heart despised reproof!",
"13": "I did not listen to the voice of my teachers\n or incline my ear to my instructors.",
"14": "I am at the brink of utter ruin\n in the assembled congregation.”",
"15": "Drink water from your own cistern,\n flowing water from your own well.",
"16": "Should your springs be scattered abroad,\n streams of water in the streets?",
"17": "Let them be for yourself alone,\n and not for strangers with you.",
"18": "Let your fountain be blessed,\n and rejoice in the wife of your youth,",
"19": "a lovely deer, a graceful doe.\nLet her breasts fill you at all times with delight;\n be intoxicated always in her love.",
"20": "Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman\n and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?",
"21": "For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord,\n and he ponders all his paths.",
"22": "The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,\n and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.",
"23": "He dies for lack of discipline,\n and because of his great folly he is led astray."
},
"6": {
"1": "My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,\n have given your pledge for a stranger,",
"2": "if you are snared in the words of your mouth,\n caught in the words of your mouth,",
"3": "then do this, my son, and save yourself,\n for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:\n go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.",
"4": "Give your eyes no sleep\n and your eyelids no slumber;",
"5": "save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,\n like a bird from the hand of the fowler.",
"6": "Go to the ant, O sluggard;\n consider her ways, and be wise.",
"7": "Without having any chief,\n officer, or ruler,",
"8": "she prepares her bread in summer\n and gathers her food in harvest.",
"9": "How long will you lie there, O sluggard?\n When will you arise from your sleep?",
"10": "A little sleep, a little slumber,\n a little folding of the hands to rest,",
"11": "and poverty will come upon you like a robber,\n and want like an armed man.",
"12": "A worthless person, a wicked man,\n goes about with crooked speech,",
"13": "winks with his eyes, signals with his feet,\n points with his finger,",
"14": "with perverted heart devises evil,\n continually sowing discord;",
"15": "therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;\n in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.",
"16": "There are six things that the Lord hates,\n seven that are an abomination to him:",
"17": "haughty eyes, a lying tongue,\n and hands that shed innocent blood,",
"18": "a heart that devises wicked plans,\n feet that make haste to run to evil,",
"19": "a false witness who breathes out lies,\n and one who sows discord among brothers.",
"20": "My son, keep your father's commandment,\n and forsake not your mother's teaching.",
"21": "Bind them on your heart always;\n tie them around your neck.",
"22": "When you walk, they will lead you;\n when you lie down, they will watch over you;\n and when you awake, they will talk with you.",
"23": "For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,\n and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,",
"24": "to preserve you from the evil woman,\n from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.",
"25": "Do not desire her beauty in your heart,\n and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;",
"26": "for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,\n but a married woman hunts down a precious life.",
"27": "Can a man carry fire next to his chest\n and his clothes not be burned?",
"28": "Or can one walk on hot coals\n and his feet not be scorched?",
"29": "So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;\n none who touches her will go unpunished.",
"30": "People do not despise a thief if he steals\n to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,",
"31": "but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;\n he will give all the goods of his house.",
"32": "He who commits adultery lacks sense;\n he who does it destroys himself.",
"33": "He will get wounds and dishonor,\n and his disgrace will not be wiped away.",
"34": "For jealousy makes a man furious,\n and he will not spare when he takes revenge.",
"35": "He will accept no compensation;\n he will refuse though you multiply gifts."
},
"7": {
"1": "My son, keep my words\n and treasure up my commandments with you;",
"2": "keep my commandments and live;\n keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;",
"3": "bind them on your fingers;\n write them on the tablet of your heart.",
"4": "Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”\n and call insight your intimate friend,",
"5": "to keep you from the forbidden woman,\n from the adulteress with her smooth words.",
"6": "For at the window of my house\n I have looked out through my lattice,",
"7": "and I have seen among the simple,\n I have perceived among the youths,\n a young man lacking sense,",
"8": "passing along the street near her corner,\n taking the road to her house",
"9": "in the twilight, in the evening,\n at the time of night and darkness.",
"10": "And behold, the woman meets him,\n dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.",
"11": "She is loud and wayward;\n her feet do not stay at home;",
"12": "now in the street, now in the market,\n and at every corner she lies in wait.",
"13": "She seizes him and kisses him,\n and with bold face she says to him,",
"14": "“I had to offer sacrifices,\n and today I have paid my vows;",
"15": "so now I have come out to meet you,\n to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.",
"16": "I have spread my couch with coverings,\n colored linens from Egyptian linen;",
"17": "I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,\n aloes, and cinnamon.",
"18": "Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;\n let us delight ourselves with love.",
"19": "For my husband is not at home;\n he has gone on a long journey;",
"20": "he took a bag of money with him;\n at full moon he will come home.”",
"21": "With much seductive speech she persuades him;\n with her smooth talk she compels him.",
"22": "All at once he follows her,\n as an ox goes to the slaughter,\nor as a stag is caught fast",
"23": "till an arrow pierces its liver;\nas a bird rushes into a snare;\n he does not know that it will cost him his life.",
"24": "And now, O sons, listen to me,\n and be attentive to the words of my mouth.",
"25": "Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;\n do not stray into her paths,",
"26": "for many a victim has she laid low,\n and all her slain are a mighty throng.",
"27": "Her house is the way to Sheol,\n going down to the chambers of death."
},
"8": {
"1": "Does not wisdom call?\n Does not understanding raise her voice?",
"2": "On the heights beside the way,\n at the crossroads she takes her stand;",
"3": "beside the gates in front of the town,\n at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:",
"4": "“To you, O men, I call,\n and my cry is to the children of man.",
"5": "O simple ones, learn prudence;\n O fools, learn sense.",
"6": "Hear, for I will speak noble things,\n and from my lips will come what is right,",
"7": "for my mouth will utter truth;\n wickedness is an abomination to my lips.",
"8": "All the words of my mouth are righteous;\n there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.",
"9": "They are all straight to him who understands,\n and right to those who find knowledge.",
"10": "Take my instruction instead of silver,\n and knowledge rather than choice gold,",
"11": "for wisdom is better than jewels,\n and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.",
"12": "“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,\n and I find knowledge and discretion.",
"13": "The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.\nPride and arrogance and the way of evil\n and perverted speech I hate.",
"14": "I have counsel and sound wisdom;\n I have insight; I have strength.",
"15": "By me kings reign,\n and rulers decree what is just;",
"16": "by me princes rule,\n and nobles, all who govern justly.",
"17": "I love those who love me,\n and those who seek me diligently find me.",
"18": "Riches and honor are with me,\n enduring wealth and righteousness.",
"19": "My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold,\n and my yield than choice silver.",
"20": "I walk in the way of righteousness,\n in the paths of justice,",
"21": "granting an inheritance to those who love me,\n and filling their treasuries.",
"22": "“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work,\n the first of his acts of old.",
"23": "Ages ago I was set up,\n at the first, before the beginning of the earth.",
"24": "When there were no depths I was brought forth,\n when there were no springs abounding with water.",
"25": "Before the mountains had been shaped,\n before the hills, I was brought forth,",
"26": "before he had made the earth with its fields,\n or the first of the dust of the world.",
"27": "When he established the heavens, I was there;\n when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,",
"28": "when he made firm the skies above,\n when he established the fountains of the deep,",
"29": "when he assigned to the sea its limit,\n so that the waters might not transgress his command,\nwhen he marked out the foundations of the earth,",
"30": "then I was beside him, like a master workman,\nand I was daily his delight,\n rejoicing before him always,",
"31": "rejoicing in his inhabited world\n and delighting in the children of man.",
"32": "“And now, O sons, listen to me:\n blessed are those who keep my ways.",
"33": "Hear instruction and be wise,\n and do not neglect it.",
"34": "Blessed is the one who listens to me,\n watching daily at my gates,\n waiting beside my doors.",
"35": "For whoever finds me finds life\n and obtains favor from the Lord,",
"36": "but he who fails to find me injures himself;\n all who hate me love death.”"
},
"9": {
"1": "Wisdom has built her house;\n she has hewn her seven pillars.",
"2": "She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine;\n she has also set her table.",
"3": "She has sent out her young women to call\n from the highest places in the town,",
"4": "“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”\n To him who lacks sense she says,",
"5": "“Come, eat of my bread\n and drink of the wine I have mixed.",
"6": "Leave your simple ways, and live,\n and walk in the way of insight.”",
"7": "Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse,\n and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.",
"8": "Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;\n reprove a wise man, and he will love you.",
"9": "Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser;\n teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.",
"10": "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,\n and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.",
"11": "For by me your days will be multiplied,\n and years will be added to your life.",
"12": "If you are wise, you are wise for yourself;\n if you scoff, you alone will bear it.",
"13": "The woman Folly is loud;\n she is seductive and knows nothing.",
"14": "She sits at the door of her house;\n she takes a seat on the highest places of the town,",
"15": "calling to those who pass by,\n who are going straight on their way,",
"16": "“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”\n And to him who lacks sense she says,",
"17": "“Stolen water is sweet,\n and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”",
"18": "But he does not know that the dead are there,\n that her guests are in the depths of Sheol."
},
"10": {
"1": "The proverbs of Solomon.\nA wise son makes a glad father,\n but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.",
"2": "Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit,\n but righteousness delivers from death.",
"3": "The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry,\n but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.",
"4": "A slack hand causes poverty,\n but the hand of the diligent makes rich.",
"5": "He who gathers in summer is a prudent son,\n but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.",
"6": "Blessings are on the head of the righteous,\n but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.",
"7": "The memory of the righteous is a blessing,\n but the name of the wicked will rot.",
"8": "The wise of heart will receive commandments,\n but a babbling fool will come to ruin.",
"9": "Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,\n but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.",
"10": "Whoever winks the eye causes trouble,\n and a babbling fool will come to ruin.",
"11": "The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,\n but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.",
"12": "Hatred stirs up strife,\n but love covers all offenses.",
"13": "On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found,\n but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.",
"14": "The wise lay up knowledge,\n but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.",
"15": "A rich man's wealth is his strong city;\n the poverty of the poor is their ruin.",
"16": "The wage of the righteous leads to life,\n the gain of the wicked to sin.",
"17": "Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life,\n but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.",
"18": "The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,\n and whoever utters slander is a fool.",
"19": "When words are many, transgression is not lacking,\n but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.",
"20": "The tongue of the righteous is choice silver;\n the heart of the wicked is of little worth.",
"21": "The lips of the righteous feed many,\n but fools die for lack of sense.",
"22": "The blessing of the Lord makes rich,\n and he adds no sorrow with it.",
"23": "Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool,\n but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.",
"24": "What the wicked dreads will come upon him,\n but the desire of the righteous will be granted.",
"25": "When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more,\n but the righteous is established forever.",
"26": "Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,\n so is the sluggard to those who send him.",
"27": "The fear of the Lord prolongs life,\n but the years of the wicked will be short.",
"28": "The hope of the righteous brings joy,\n but the expectation of the wicked will perish.",
"29": "The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless,\n but destruction to evildoers.",
"30": "The righteous will never be removed,\n but the wicked will not dwell in the land.",
"31": "The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom,\n but the perverse tongue will be cut off.",
"32": "The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,\n but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse."
},
"11": {
"1": "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,\n but a just weight is his delight.",
"2": "When pride comes, then comes disgrace,\n but with the humble is wisdom.",
"3": "The integrity of the upright guides them,\n but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.",
"4": "Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,\n but righteousness delivers from death.",
"5": "The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight,\n but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.",
"6": "The righteousness of the upright delivers them,\n but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.",
"7": "When the wicked dies, his hope will perish,\n and the expectation of wealth perishes too.",
"8": "The righteous is delivered from trouble,\n and the wicked walks into it instead.",
"9": "With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor,\n but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.",
"10": "When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices,\n and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.",
"11": "By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted,\n but by the mouth of the wicked it is overthrown.",
"12": "Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense,\n but a man of understanding remains silent.",
"13": "Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets,\n but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.",
"14": "Where there is no guidance, a people falls,\n but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.",
"15": "Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm,\n but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.",
"16": "A gracious woman gets honor,\n and violent men get riches.",
"17": "A man who is kind benefits himself,\n but a cruel man hurts himself.",
"18": "The wicked earns deceptive wages,\n but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.",
"19": "Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live,\n but he who pursues evil will die.",
"20": "Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the Lord,\n but those of blameless ways are his delight.",
"21": "Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished,\n but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.",
"22": "Like a gold ring in a pig's snout\n is a beautiful woman without discretion.",
"23": "The desire of the righteous ends only in good,\n the expectation of the wicked in wrath.",
"24": "One gives freely, yet grows all the richer;\n another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.",
"25": "Whoever brings blessing will be enriched,\n and one who waters will himself be watered.",
"26": "The people curse him who holds back grain,\n but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.",
"27": "Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor,\n but evil comes to him who searches for it.",
"28": "Whoever trusts in his riches will fall,\n but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.",
"29": "Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind,\n and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.",
"30": "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,\n and whoever captures souls is wise.",
"31": "If the righteous is repaid on earth,\n how much more the wicked and the sinner!"
},
"12": {
"1": "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,\n but he who hates reproof is stupid.",
"2": "A good man obtains favor from the Lord,\n but a man of evil devices he condemns.",
"3": "No one is established by wickedness,\n but the root of the righteous will never be moved.",
"4": "An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,\n but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.",
"5": "The thoughts of the righteous are just;\n the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.",
"6": "The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood,\n but the mouth of the upright delivers them.",
"7": "The wicked are overthrown and are no more,\n but the house of the righteous will stand.",
"8": "A man is commended according to his good sense,\n but one of twisted mind is despised.",
"9": "Better to be lowly and have a servant\n than to play the great man and lack bread.",
"10": "Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast,\n but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.",
"11": "Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread,\n but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.",
"12": "Whoever is wicked covets the spoil of evildoers,\n but the root of the righteous bears fruit.",
"13": "An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips,\n but the righteous escapes from trouble.",
"14": "From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good,\n and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.",
"15": "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,\n but a wise man listens to advice.",
"16": "The vexation of a fool is known at once,\n but the prudent ignores an insult.",
"17": "Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence,\n but a false witness utters deceit.",
"18": "There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,\n but the tongue of the wise brings healing.",
"19": "Truthful lips endure forever,\n but a lying tongue is but for a moment.",
"20": "Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,\n but those who plan peace have joy.",
"21": "No ill befalls the righteous,\n but the wicked are filled with trouble.",
"22": "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,\n but those who act faithfully are his delight.",
"23": "A prudent man conceals knowledge,\n but the heart of fools proclaims folly.",
"24": "The hand of the diligent will rule,\n while the slothful will be put to forced labor.",
"25": "Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down,\n but a good word makes him glad.",
"26": "One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor,\n but the way of the wicked leads them astray.",
"27": "Whoever is slothful will not roast his game,\n but the diligent man will get precious wealth.",
"28": "In the path of righteousness is life,\n and in its pathway there is no death."
},
"13": {
"1": "A wise son hears his father's instruction,\n but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.",
"2": "From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good,\n but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.",
"3": "Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;\n he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.",
"4": "The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,\n while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.",
"5": "The righteous hates falsehood,\n but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.",
"6": "Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless,\n but sin overthrows the wicked.",
"7": "One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing;\n another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.",
"8": "The ransom of a man's life is his wealth,\n but a poor man hears no threat.",
"9": "The light of the righteous rejoices,\n but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.",
"10": "By insolence comes nothing but strife,\n but with those who take advice is wisdom.",
"11": "Wealth gained hastily will dwindle,\n but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.",
"12": "Hope deferred makes the heart sick,\n but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.",
"13": "Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself,\n but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.",
"14": "The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,\n that one may turn away from the snares of death.",
"15": "Good sense wins favor,\n but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.",
"16": "Every prudent man acts with knowledge,\n but a fool flaunts his folly.",
"17": "A wicked messenger falls into trouble,\n but a faithful envoy brings healing.",
"18": "Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction,\n but whoever heeds reproof is honored.",
"19": "A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul,\n but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.",
"20": "Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,\n but the companion of fools will suffer harm.",
"21": "Disaster pursues sinners,\n but the righteous are rewarded with good.",
"22": "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children,\n but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.",
"23": "The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food,\n but it is swept away through injustice.",
"24": "Whoever spares the rod hates his son,\n but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.",
"25": "The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite,\n but the belly of the wicked suffers want."
},
"14": {
"1": "The wisest of women builds her house,\n but folly with her own hands tears it down.",
"2": "Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord,\n but he who is devious in his ways despises him.",
"3": "By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back,\n but the lips of the wise will preserve them.",
"4": "Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean,\n but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.",
"5": "A faithful witness does not lie,\n but a false witness breathes out lies.",
"6": "A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain,\n but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.",
"7": "Leave the presence of a fool,\n for there you do not meet words of knowledge.",
"8": "The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way,\n but the folly of fools is deceiving.",
"9": "Fools mock at the guilt offering,\n but the upright enjoy acceptance.",
"10": "The heart knows its own bitterness,\n and no stranger shares its joy.",
"11": "The house of the wicked will be destroyed,\n but the tent of the upright will flourish.",
"12": "There is a way that seems right to a man,\n but its end is the way to death.",
"13": "Even in laughter the heart may ache,\n and the end of joy may be grief.",
"14": "The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways,\n and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.",
"15": "The simple believes everything,\n but the prudent gives thought to his steps.",
"16": "One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil,\n but a fool is reckless and careless.",
"17": "A man of quick temper acts foolishly,\n and a man of evil devices is hated.",
"18": "The simple inherit folly,\n but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.",
"19": "The evil bow down before the good,\n the wicked at the gates of the righteous.",
"20": "The poor is disliked even by his neighbor,\n but the rich has many friends.",
"21": "Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner,\n but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.",
"22": "Do they not go astray who devise evil?\n Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness.",
"23": "In all toil there is profit,\n but mere talk tends only to poverty.",
"24": "The crown of the wise is their wealth,\n but the folly of fools brings folly.",
"25": "A truthful witness saves lives,\n but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.",
"26": "In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence,\n and his children will have a refuge.",
"27": "The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,\n that one may turn away from the snares of death.",
"28": "In a multitude of people is the glory of a king,\n but without people a prince is ruined.",
"29": "Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,\n but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.",
"30": "A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh,\n but envy makes the bones rot.",
"31": "Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker,\n but he who is generous to the needy honors him.",
"32": "The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing,\n but the righteous finds refuge in his death.",
"33": "Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding,\n but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.",
"34": "Righteousness exalts a nation,\n but sin is a reproach to any people.",
"35": "A servant who deals wisely has the king's favor,\n but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully."
},
"15": {
"1": "A soft answer turns away wrath,\n but a harsh word stirs up anger.",
"2": "The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,\n but the mouths of fools pour out folly.",
"3": "The eyes of the Lord are in every place,\n keeping watch on the evil and the good.",
"4": "A gentle tongue is a tree of life,\n but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.",
"5": "A fool despises his father's instruction,\n but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.",
"6": "In the house of the righteous there is much treasure,\n but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.",
"7": "The lips of the wise spread knowledge;\n not so the hearts of fools.",
"8": "The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,\n but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.",
"9": "The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,\n but he loves him who pursues righteousness.",
"10": "There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way;\n whoever hates reproof will die.",
"11": "Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord;\n how much more the hearts of the children of man!",
"12": "A scoffer does not like to be reproved;\n he will not go to the wise.",
"13": "A glad heart makes a cheerful face,\n but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.",
"14": "The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge,\n but the mouths of fools feed on folly.",
"15": "All the days of the afflicted are evil,\n but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.",
"16": "Better is a little with the fear of the Lord\n than great treasure and trouble with it.",
"17": "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is\n than a fattened ox and hatred with it.",
"18": "A hot-tempered man stirs up strife,\n but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.",
"19": "The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns,\n but the path of the upright is a level highway.",
"20": "A wise son makes a glad father,\n but a foolish man despises his mother.",
"21": "Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense,\n but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.",
"22": "Without counsel plans fail,\n but with many advisers they succeed.",
"23": "To make an apt answer is a joy to a man,\n and a word in season, how good it is!",
"24": "The path of life leads upward for the prudent,\n that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.",
"25": "The Lord tears down the house of the proud\n but maintains the widow's boundaries.",
"26": "The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord,\n but gracious words are pure.",
"27": "Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household,\n but he who hates bribes will live.",
"28": "The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer,\n but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.",
"29": "The Lord is far from the wicked,\n but he hears the prayer of the righteous.",
"30": "The light of the eyes rejoices the heart,\n and good news refreshes the bones.",
"31": "The ear that listens to life-giving reproof\n will dwell among the wise.",
"32": "Whoever ignores instruction despises himself,\n but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.",
"33": "The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom,\n and humility comes before honor."
},
"16": {
"1": "The plans of the heart belong to man,\n but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.",
"2": "All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,\n but the Lord weighs the spirit.",
"3": "Commit your work to the Lord,\n and your plans will be established.",
"4": "The Lord has made everything for its purpose,\n even the wicked for the day of trouble.",
"5": "Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord;\n be assured, he will not go unpunished.",
"6": "By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,\n and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.",
"7": "When a man's ways please the Lord,\n he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.",
"8": "Better is a little with righteousness\n than great revenues with injustice.",
"9": "The heart of man plans his way,\n but the Lord establishes his steps.",
"10": "An oracle is on the lips of a king;\n his mouth does not sin in judgment.",
"11": "A just balance and scales are the Lord's;\n all the weights in the bag are his work.",
"12": "It is an abomination to kings to do evil,\n for the throne is established by righteousness.",
"13": "Righteous lips are the delight of a king,\n and he loves him who speaks what is right.",
"14": "A king's wrath is a messenger of death,\n and a wise man will appease it.",
"15": "In the light of a king's face there is life,\n and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.",
"16": "How much better to get wisdom than gold!\n To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.",
"17": "The highway of the upright turns aside from evil;\n whoever guards his way preserves his life.",
"18": "Pride goes before destruction,\n and a haughty spirit before a fall.",
"19": "It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor\n than to divide the spoil with the proud.",
"20": "Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good,\n and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.",
"21": "The wise of heart is called discerning,\n and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness.",
"22": "Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it,\n but the instruction of fools is folly.",
"23": "The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious\n and adds persuasiveness to his lips.",
"24": "Gracious words are like a honeycomb,\n sweetness to the soul and health to the body.",
"25": "There is a way that seems right to a man,\n but its end is the way to death.",
"26": "A worker's appetite works for him;\n his mouth urges him on.",
"27": "A worthless man plots evil,\n and his speech is like a scorching fire.",
"28": "A dishonest man spreads strife,\n and a whisperer separates close friends.",
"29": "A man of violence entices his neighbor\n and leads him in a way that is not good.",
"30": "Whoever winks his eyes plans dishonest things;\n he who purses his lips brings evil to pass.",
"31": "Gray hair is a crown of glory;\n it is gained in a righteous life.",
"32": "Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,\n and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.",
"33": "The lot is cast into the lap,\n but its every decision is from the Lord."
},
"17": {
"1": "Better is a dry morsel with quiet\n than a house full of feasting with strife.",
"2": "A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully\n and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.",
"3": "The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,\n and the Lord tests hearts.",
"4": "An evildoer listens to wicked lips,\n and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.",
"5": "Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker;\n he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.",
"6": "Grandchildren are the crown of the aged,\n and the glory of children is their fathers.",
"7": "Fine speech is not becoming to a fool;\n still less is false speech to a prince.",
"8": "A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it;\n wherever he turns he prospers.",
"9": "Whoever covers an offense seeks love,\n but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.",
"10": "A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding\n than a hundred blows into a fool.",
"11": "An evil man seeks only rebellion,\n and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.",
"12": "Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs\n rather than a fool in his folly.",
"13": "If anyone returns evil for good,\n evil will not depart from his house.",
"14": "The beginning of strife is like letting out water,\n so quit before the quarrel breaks out.",
"15": "He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous\n are both alike an abomination to the Lord.",
"16": "Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom\n when he has no sense?",
"17": "A friend loves at all times,\n and a brother is born for adversity.",
"18": "One who lacks sense gives a pledge\n and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.",
"19": "Whoever loves transgression loves strife;\n he who makes his door high seeks destruction.",
"20": "A man of crooked heart does not discover good,\n and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.",
"21": "He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow,\n and the father of a fool has no joy.",
"22": "A joyful heart is good medicine,\n but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.",
"23": "The wicked accepts a bribe in secret\n to pervert the ways of justice.",
"24": "The discerning sets his face toward wisdom,\n but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.",
"25": "A foolish son is a grief to his father\n and bitterness to her who bore him.",
"26": "To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good,\n nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.",
"27": "Whoever restrains his words has knowledge,\n and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.",
"28": "Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;\n when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent."
},
"18": {
"1": "Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire;\n he breaks out against all sound judgment.",
"2": "A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,\n but only in expressing his opinion.",
"3": "When wickedness comes, contempt comes also,\n and with dishonor comes disgrace.",
"4": "The words of a man's mouth are deep waters;\n the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.",
"5": "It is not good to be partial to the wicked\n or to deprive the righteous of justice.",
"6": "A fool's lips walk into a fight,\n and his mouth invites a beating.",
"7": "A fool's mouth is his ruin,\n and his lips are a snare to his soul.",
"8": "The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;\n they go down into the inner parts of the body.",
"9": "Whoever is slack in his work\n is a brother to him who destroys.",
"10": "The name of the Lord is a strong tower;\n the righteous man runs into it and is safe.",
"11": "A rich man's wealth is his strong city,\n and like a high wall in his imagination.",
"12": "Before destruction a man's heart is haughty,\n but humility comes before honor.",
"13": "If one gives an answer before he hears,\n it is his folly and shame.",
"14": "A man's spirit will endure sickness,\n but a crushed spirit who can bear?",
"15": "An intelligent heart acquires knowledge,\n and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.",
"16": "A man's gift makes room for him\n and brings him before the great.",
"17": "The one who states his case first seems right,\n until the other comes and examines him.",
"18": "The lot puts an end to quarrels\n and decides between powerful contenders.",
"19": "A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city,\n and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.",
"20": "From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied;\n he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.",
"21": "Death and life are in the power of the tongue,\n and those who love it will eat its fruits.",
"22": "He who finds a wife finds a good thing\n and obtains favor from the Lord.",
"23": "The poor use entreaties,\n but the rich answer roughly.",
"24": "A man of many companions may come to ruin,\n but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
},
"19": {
"1": "Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity\n than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.",
"2": "Desire without knowledge is not good,\n and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.",
"3": "When a man's folly brings his way to ruin,\n his heart rages against the Lord.",
"4": "Wealth brings many new friends,\n but a poor man is deserted by his friend.",
"5": "A false witness will not go unpunished,\n and he who breathes out lies will not escape.",
"6": "Many seek the favor of a generous man,\n and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.",
"7": "All a poor man's brothers hate him;\n how much more do his friends go far from him!\nHe pursues them with words, but does not have them.",
"8": "Whoever gets sense loves his own soul;\n he who keeps understanding will discover good.",
"9": "A false witness will not go unpunished,\n and he who breathes out lies will perish.",
"10": "It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury,\n much less for a slave to rule over princes.",
"11": "Good sense makes one slow to anger,\n and it is his glory to overlook an offense.",
"12": "A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion,\n but his favor is like dew on the grass.",
"13": "A foolish son is ruin to his father,\n and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.",
"14": "House and wealth are inherited from fathers,\n but a prudent wife is from the Lord.",
"15": "Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep,\n and an idle person will suffer hunger.",
"16": "Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life;\n he who despises his ways will die.",
"17": "Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord,\n and he will repay him for his deed.",
"18": "Discipline your son, for there is hope;\n do not set your heart on putting him to death.",
"19": "A man of great wrath will pay the penalty,\n for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.",
"20": "Listen to advice and accept instruction,\n that you may gain wisdom in the future.",
"21": "Many are the plans in the mind of a man,\n but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.",
"22": "What is desired in a man is steadfast love,\n and a poor man is better than a liar.",
"23": "The fear of the Lord leads to life,\n and whoever has it rests satisfied;\n he will not be visited by harm.",
"24": "The sluggard buries his hand in the dish\n and will not even bring it back to his mouth.",
"25": "Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence;\n reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge.",
"26": "He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother\n is a son who brings shame and reproach.",
"27": "Cease to hear instruction, my son,\n and you will stray from the words of knowledge.",
"28": "A worthless witness mocks at justice,\n and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.",
"29": "Condemnation is ready for scoffers,\n and beating for the backs of fools."
},
"20": {
"1": "Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,\n and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.",
"2": "The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion;\n whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.",
"3": "It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,\n but every fool will be quarreling.",
"4": "The sluggard does not plow in the autumn;\n he will seek at harvest and have nothing.",
"5": "The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water,\n but a man of understanding will draw it out.",
"6": "Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love,\n but a faithful man who can find?",
"7": "The righteous who walks in his integrity—\n blessed are his children after him!",
"8": "A king who sits on the throne of judgment\n winnows all evil with his eyes.",
"9": "Who can say, “I have made my heart pure;\n I am clean from my sin”?",
"10": "Unequal weights and unequal measures\n are both alike an abomination to the Lord.",
"11": "Even a child makes himself known by his acts,\n by whether his conduct is pure and upright.",
"12": "The hearing ear and the seeing eye,\n the Lord has made them both.",
"13": "Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty;\n open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.",
"14": "“Bad, bad,” says the buyer,\n but when he goes away, then he boasts.",
"15": "There is gold and abundance of costly stones,\n but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.",
"16": "Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger,\n and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.",
"17": "Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man,\n but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.",
"18": "Plans are established by counsel;\n by wise guidance wage war.",
"19": "Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets;\n therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.",
"20": "If one curses his father or his mother,\n his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.",
"21": "An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning\n will not be blessed in the end.",
"22": "Do not say, “I will repay evil”;\n wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.",
"23": "Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord,\n and false scales are not good.",
"24": "A man's steps are from the Lord;\n how then can man understand his way?",
"25": "It is a snare to say rashly, “It is holy,”\n and to reflect only after making vows.",
"26": "A wise king winnows the wicked\n and drives the wheel over them.",
"27": "The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord,\n searching all his innermost parts.",
"28": "Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king,\n and by steadfast love his throne is upheld.",
"29": "The glory of young men is their strength,\n but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.",
"30": "Blows that wound cleanse away evil;\n strokes make clean the innermost parts."
},
"21": {
"1": "The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord;\n he turns it wherever he will.",
"2": "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,\n but the Lord weighs the heart.",
"3": "To do righteousness and justice\n is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.",
"4": "Haughty eyes and a proud heart,\n the lamp of the wicked, are sin.",
"5": "The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance,\n but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.",
"6": "The getting of treasures by a lying tongue\n is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.",
"7": "The violence of the wicked will sweep them away,\n because they refuse to do what is just.",
"8": "The way of the guilty is crooked,\n but the conduct of the pure is upright.",
"9": "It is better to live in a corner of the housetop\n than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.",
"10": "The soul of the wicked desires evil;\n his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.",
"11": "When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise;\n when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.",
"12": "The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked;\n he throws the wicked down to ruin.",
"13": "Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor\n will himself call out and not be answered.",
"14": "A gift in secret averts anger,\n and a concealed bribe, strong wrath.",
"15": "When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous\n but terror to evildoers.",
"16": "One who wanders from the way of good sense\n will rest in the assembly of the dead.",
"17": "Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man;\n he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.",
"18": "The wicked is a ransom for the righteous,\n and the traitor for the upright.",
"19": "It is better to live in a desert land\n than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.",
"20": "Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling,\n but a foolish man devours it.",
"21": "Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness\n will find life, righteousness, and honor.",
"22": "A wise man scales the city of the mighty\n and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.",
"23": "Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue\n keeps himself out of trouble.",
"24": "“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man\n who acts with arrogant pride.",
"25": "The desire of the sluggard kills him,\n for his hands refuse to labor.",
"26": "All day long he craves and craves,\n but the righteous gives and does not hold back.",
"27": "The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination;\n how much more when he brings it with evil intent.",
"28": "A false witness will perish,\n but the word of a man who hears will endure.",
"29": "A wicked man puts on a bold face,\n but the upright gives thought to his ways.",
"30": "No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel\n can avail against the Lord.",
"31": "The horse is made ready for the day of battle,\n but the victory belongs to the Lord."
},
"22": {
"1": "A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,\n and favor is better than silver or gold.",
"2": "The rich and the poor meet together;\n the Lord is the Maker of them all.",
"3": "The prudent sees danger and hides himself,\n but the simple go on and suffer for it.",
"4": "The reward for humility and fear of the Lord\n is riches and honor and life.",
"5": "Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked;\n whoever guards his soul will keep far from them.",
"6": "Train up a child in the way he should go;\n even when he is old he will not depart from it.",
"7": "The rich rules over the poor,\n and the borrower is the slave of the lender.",
"8": "Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity,\n and the rod of his fury will fail.",
"9": "Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed,\n for he shares his bread with the poor.",
"10": "Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out,\n and quarreling and abuse will cease.",
"11": "He who loves purity of heart,\n and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.",
"12": "The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,\n but he overthrows the words of the traitor.",
"13": "The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!\n I shall be killed in the streets!”",
"14": "The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit;\n he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.",
"15": "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,\n but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.",
"16": "Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,\n or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.",
"17": "Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise,\n and apply your heart to my knowledge,",
"18": "for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,\n if all of them are ready on your lips.",
"19": "That your trust may be in the Lord,\n I have made them known to you today, even to you.",
"20": "Have I not written for you thirty sayings\n of counsel and knowledge,",
"21": "to make you know what is right and true,\n that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?",
"22": "Do not rob the poor, because he is poor,\n or crush the afflicted at the gate,",
"23": "for the Lord will plead their cause\n and rob of life those who rob them.",
"24": "Make no friendship with a man given to anger,\n nor go with a wrathful man,",
"25": "lest you learn his ways\n and entangle yourself in a snare.",
"26": "Be not one of those who give pledges,\n who put up security for debts.",
"27": "If you have nothing with which to pay,\n why should your bed be taken from under you?",
"28": "Do not move the ancient landmark\n that your fathers have set.",
"29": "Do you see a man skillful in his work?\n He will stand before kings;\n he will not stand before obscure men."
},
"23": {
"1": "When you sit down to eat with a ruler,\n observe carefully what is before you,",
"2": "and put a knife to your throat\n if you are given to appetite.",
"3": "Do not desire his delicacies,\n for they are deceptive food.",
"4": "Do not toil to acquire wealth;\n be discerning enough to desist.",
"5": "When your eyes light on it, it is gone,\n for suddenly it sprouts wings,\n flying like an eagle toward heaven.",
"6": "Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;\n do not desire his delicacies,",
"7": "for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.\n “Eat and drink!” he says to you,\n but his heart is not with you.",
"8": "You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten,\n and waste your pleasant words.",
"9": "Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,\n for he will despise the good sense of your words.",
"10": "Do not move an ancient landmark\n or enter the fields of the fatherless,",
"11": "for their Redeemer is strong;\n he will plead their cause against you.",
"12": "Apply your heart to instruction\n and your ear to words of knowledge.",
"13": "Do not withhold discipline from a child;\n if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.",
"14": "If you strike him with the rod,\n you will save his soul from Sheol.",
"15": "My son, if your heart is wise,\n my heart too will be glad.",
"16": "My inmost being will exult\n when your lips speak what is right.",
"17": "Let not your heart envy sinners,\n but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.",
"18": "Surely there is a future,\n and your hope will not be cut off.",
"19": "Hear, my son, and be wise,\n and direct your heart in the way.",
"20": "Be not among drunkards\n or among gluttonous eaters of meat,",
"21": "for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,\n and slumber will clothe them with rags.",
"22": "Listen to your father who gave you life,\n and do not despise your mother when she is old.",
"23": "Buy truth, and do not sell it;\n buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.",
"24": "The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;\n he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.",
"25": "Let your father and mother be glad;\n let her who bore you rejoice.",
"26": "My son, give me your heart,\n and let your eyes observe my ways.",
"27": "For a prostitute is a deep pit;\n an adulteress is a narrow well.",
"28": "She lies in wait like a robber\n and increases the traitors among mankind.",
"29": "Who has woe? Who has sorrow?\n Who has strife? Who has complaining?\nWho has wounds without cause?\n Who has redness of eyes?",
"30": "Those who tarry long over wine;\n those who go to try mixed wine.",
"31": "Do not look at wine when it is red,\n when it sparkles in the cup\n and goes down smoothly.",
"32": "In the end it bites like a serpent\n and stings like an adder.",
"33": "Your eyes will see strange things,\n and your heart utter perverse things.",
"34": "You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,\n like one who lies on the top of a mast.",
"35": "“They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt;\n they beat me, but I did not feel it.\nWhen shall I awake?\n I must have another drink.”"
},
"24": {
"1": "Be not envious of evil men,\n nor desire to be with them,",
"2": "for their hearts devise violence,\n and their lips talk of trouble.",
"3": "By wisdom a house is built,\n and by understanding it is established;",
"4": "by knowledge the rooms are filled\n with all precious and pleasant riches.",
"5": "A wise man is full of strength,\n and a man of knowledge enhances his might,",
"6": "for by wise guidance you can wage your war,\n and in abundance of counselors there is victory.",
"7": "Wisdom is too high for a fool;\n in the gate he does not open his mouth.",
"8": "Whoever plans to do evil\n will be called a schemer.",
"9": "The devising of folly is sin,\n and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.",
"10": "If you faint in the day of adversity,\n your strength is small.",
"11": "Rescue those who are being taken away to death;\n hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.",
"12": "If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”\n does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?\nDoes not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,\n and will he not repay man according to his work?",
"13": "My son, eat honey, for it is good,\n and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.",
"14": "Know that wisdom is such to your soul;\n if you find it, there will be a future,\n and your hope will not be cut off.",
"15": "Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous;\n do no violence to his home;",
"16": "for the righteous falls seven times and rises again,\n but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.",
"17": "Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,\n and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,",
"18": "lest the Lord see it and be displeased,\n and turn away his anger from him.",
"19": "Fret not yourself because of evildoers,\n and be not envious of the wicked,",
"20": "for the evil man has no future;\n the lamp of the wicked will be put out.",
"21": "My son, fear the Lord and the king,\n and do not join with those who do otherwise,",
"22": "for disaster will arise suddenly from them,\n and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?",
"23": "These also are sayings of the wise.\nPartiality in judging is not good.",
"24": "Whoever says to the wicked, “You are in the right,”\n will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations,",
"25": "but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight,\n and a good blessing will come upon them.",
"26": "Whoever gives an honest answer\n kisses the lips.",
"27": "Prepare your work outside;\n get everything ready for yourself in the field,\n and after that build your house.",
"28": "Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause,\n and do not deceive with your lips.",
"29": "Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;\n I will pay the man back for what he has done.”",
"30": "I passed by the field of a sluggard,\n by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,",
"31": "and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns;\n the ground was covered with nettles,\n and its stone wall was broken down.",
"32": "Then I saw and considered it;\n I looked and received instruction.",
"33": "A little sleep, a little slumber,\n a little folding of the hands to rest,",
"34": "and poverty will come upon you like a robber,\n and want like an armed man."
},
"25": {
"1": "These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied.",
"2": "It is the glory of God to conceal things,\n but the glory of kings is to search things out.",
"3": "As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth,\n so the heart of kings is unsearchable.",
"4": "Take away the dross from the silver,\n and the smith has material for a vessel;",
"5": "take away the wicked from the presence of the king,\n and his throne will be established in righteousness.",
"6": "Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence\n or stand in the place of the great,",
"7": "for it is better to be told, “Come up here,”\n than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.\nWhat your eyes have seen",
"8": "do not hastily bring into court,\nfor what will you do in the end,\n when your neighbor puts you to shame?",
"9": "Argue your case with your neighbor himself,\n and do not reveal another's secret,",
"10": "lest he who hears you bring shame upon you,\n and your ill repute have no end.",
"11": "A word fitly spoken\n is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.",
"12": "Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold\n is a wise reprover to a listening ear.",
"13": "Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest\n is a faithful messenger to those who send him;\n he refreshes the soul of his masters.",
"14": "Like clouds and wind without rain\n is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.",
"15": "With patience a ruler may be persuaded,\n and a soft tongue will break a bone.",
"16": "If you have found honey, eat only enough for you,\n lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.",
"17": "Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house,\n lest he have his fill of you and hate you.",
"18": "A man who bears false witness against his neighbor\n is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.",
"19": "Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble\n is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.",
"20": "Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart\n is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day,\n and like vinegar on soda.",
"21": "If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat,\n and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,",
"22": "for you will heap burning coals on his head,\n and the Lord will reward you.",
"23": "The north wind brings forth rain,\n and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.",
"24": "It is better to live in a corner of the housetop\n than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.",
"25": "Like cold water to a thirsty soul,\n so is good news from a far country.",
"26": "Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain\n is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.",
"27": "It is not good to eat much honey,\n nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory.",
"28": "A man without self-control\n is like a city broken into and left without walls."
},
"26": {
"1": "Like snow in summer or rain in harvest,\n so honor is not fitting for a fool.",
"2": "Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,\n a curse that is causeless does not alight.",
"3": "A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,\n and a rod for the back of fools.",
"4": "Answer not a fool according to his folly,\n lest you be like him yourself.",
"5": "Answer a fool according to his folly,\n lest he be wise in his own eyes.",
"6": "Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool\n cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.",
"7": "Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless,\n is a proverb in the mouth of fools.",
"8": "Like one who binds the stone in the sling\n is one who gives honor to a fool.",
"9": "Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard\n is a proverb in the mouth of fools.",
"10": "Like an archer who wounds everyone\n is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.",
"11": "Like a dog that returns to his vomit\n is a fool who repeats his folly.",
"12": "Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes?\n There is more hope for a fool than for him.",
"13": "The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!\n There is a lion in the streets!”",
"14": "As a door turns on its hinges,\n so does a sluggard on his bed.",
"15": "The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;\n it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.",
"16": "The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes\n than seven men who can answer sensibly.",
"17": "Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own\n is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.",
"18": "Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death",
"19": "is the man who deceives his neighbor\n and says, “I am only joking!”",
"20": "For lack of wood the fire goes out,\n and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.",
"21": "As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,\n so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.",
"22": "The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;\n they go down into the inner parts of the body.",
"23": "Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel\n are fervent lips with an evil heart.",
"24": "Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips\n and harbors deceit in his heart;",
"25": "when he speaks graciously, believe him not,\n for there are seven abominations in his heart;",
"26": "though his hatred be covered with deception,\n his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.",
"27": "Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,\n and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.",
"28": "A lying tongue hates its victims,\n and a flattering mouth works ruin."
},
"27": {
"1": "Do not boast about tomorrow,\n for you do not know what a day may bring.",
"2": "Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;\n a stranger, and not your own lips.",
"3": "A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty,\n but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.",
"4": "Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming,\n but who can stand before jealousy?",
"5": "Better is open rebuke\n than hidden love.",
"6": "Faithful are the wounds of a friend;\n profuse are the kisses of an enemy.",
"7": "One who is full loathes honey,\n but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.",
"8": "Like a bird that strays from its nest\n is a man who strays from his home.",
"9": "Oil and perfume make the heart glad,\n and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.",
"10": "Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend,\n and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.\nBetter is a neighbor who is near\n than a brother who is far away.",
"11": "Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad,\n that I may answer him who reproaches me.",
"12": "The prudent sees danger and hides himself,\n but the simple go on and suffer for it.",
"13": "Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger,\n and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.",
"14": "Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice,\n rising early in the morning,\n will be counted as cursing.",
"15": "A continual dripping on a rainy day\n and a quarrelsome wife are alike;",
"16": "to restrain her is to restrain the wind\n or to grasp oil in one's right hand.",
"17": "Iron sharpens iron,\n and one man sharpens another.",
"18": "Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,\n and he who guards his master will be honored.",
"19": "As in water face reflects face,\n so the heart of man reflects the man.",
"20": "Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,\n and never satisfied are the eyes of man.",
"21": "The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,\n and a man is tested by his praise.",
"22": "Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle\n along with crushed grain,\n yet his folly will not depart from him.",
"23": "Know well the condition of your flocks,\n and give attention to your herds,",
"24": "for riches do not last forever;\n and does a crown endure to all generations?",
"25": "When the grass is gone and the new growth appears\n and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered,",
"26": "the lambs will provide your clothing,\n and the goats the price of a field.",
"27": "There will be enough goats' milk for your food,\n for the food of your household\n and maintenance for your girls."
},
"28": {
"1": "The wicked flee when no one pursues,\n but the righteous are bold as a lion.",
"2": "When a land transgresses, it has many rulers,\n but with a man of understanding and knowledge,\n its stability will long continue.",
"3": "A poor man who oppresses the poor\n is a beating rain that leaves no food.",
"4": "Those who forsake the law praise the wicked,\n but those who keep the law strive against them.",
"5": "Evil men do not understand justice,\n but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.",
"6": "Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity\n than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.",
"7": "The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding,\n but a companion of gluttons shames his father.",
"8": "Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit\n gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.",
"9": "If one turns away his ear from hearing the law,\n even his prayer is an abomination.",
"10": "Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way\n will fall into his own pit,\n but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.",
"11": "A rich man is wise in his own eyes,\n but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.",
"12": "When the righteous triumph, there is great glory,\n but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves.",
"13": "Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,\n but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.",
"14": "Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always,\n but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.",
"15": "Like a roaring lion or a charging bear\n is a wicked ruler over a poor people.",
"16": "A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor,\n but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.",
"17": "If one is burdened with the blood of another,\n he will be a fugitive until death;\n let no one help him.",
"18": "Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered,\n but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.",
"19": "Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread,\n but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.",
"20": "A faithful man will abound with blessings,\n but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.",
"21": "To show partiality is not good,\n but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.",
"22": "A stingy man hastens after wealth\n and does not know that poverty will come upon him.",
"23": "Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor\n than he who flatters with his tongue.",
"24": "Whoever robs his father or his mother\n and says, “That is no transgression,”\n is a companion to a man who destroys.",
"25": "A greedy man stirs up strife,\n but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.",
"26": "Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool,\n but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.",
"27": "Whoever gives to the poor will not want,\n but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.",
"28": "When the wicked rise, people hide themselves,\n but when they perish, the righteous increase."
},
"29": {
"1": "He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck,\n will suddenly be broken beyond healing.",
"2": "When the righteous increase, the people rejoice,\n but when the wicked rule, the people groan.",
"3": "He who loves wisdom makes his father glad,\n but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.",
"4": "By justice a king builds up the land,\n but he who exacts gifts tears it down.",
"5": "A man who flatters his neighbor\n spreads a net for his feet.",
"6": "An evil man is ensnared in his transgression,\n but a righteous man sings and rejoices.",
"7": "A righteous man knows the rights of the poor;\n a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.",
"8": "Scoffers set a city aflame,\n but the wise turn away wrath.",
"9": "If a wise man has an argument with a fool,\n the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.",
"10": "Bloodthirsty men hate one who is blameless\n and seek the life of the upright.",
"11": "A fool gives full vent to his spirit,\n but a wise man quietly holds it back.",
"12": "If a ruler listens to falsehood,\n all his officials will be wicked.",
"13": "The poor man and the oppressor meet together;\n the Lord gives light to the eyes of both.",
"14": "If a king faithfully judges the poor,\n his throne will be established forever.",
"15": "The rod and reproof give wisdom,\n but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.",
"16": "When the wicked increase, transgression increases,\n but the righteous will look upon their downfall.",
"17": "Discipline your son, and he will give you rest;\n he will give delight to your heart.",
"18": "Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint,\n but blessed is he who keeps the law.",
"19": "By mere words a servant is not disciplined,\n for though he understands, he will not respond.",
"20": "Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?\n There is more hope for a fool than for him.",
"21": "Whoever pampers his servant from childhood\n will in the end find him his heir.",
"22": "A man of wrath stirs up strife,\n and one given to anger causes much transgression.",
"23": "One's pride will bring him low,\n but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.",
"24": "The partner of a thief hates his own life;\n he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.",
"25": "The fear of man lays a snare,\n but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.",
"26": "Many seek the face of a ruler,\n but it is from the Lord that a man gets justice.",
"27": "An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous,\n but one whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked."
},
"30": {
"1": "The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle.\nThe man declares, I am weary, O God;\n I am weary, O God, and worn out.",
"2": "Surely I am too stupid to be a man.\n I have not the understanding of a man.",
"3": "I have not learned wisdom,\n nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.",
"4": "Who has ascended to heaven and come down?\n Who has gathered the wind in his fists?\nWho has wrapped up the waters in a garment?\n Who has established all the ends of the earth?\nWhat is his name, and what is his son's name?\n Surely you know!",
"5": "Every word of God proves true;\n he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.",
"6": "Do not add to his words,\n lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.",
"7": "Two things I ask of you;\n deny them not to me before I die:",
"8": "Remove far from me falsehood and lying;\n give me neither poverty nor riches;\n feed me with the food that is needful for me,",
"9": "lest I be full and deny you\n and say, “Who is the Lord?”\nor lest I be poor and steal\n and profane the name of my God.",
"10": "Do not slander a servant to his master,\n lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.",
"11": "There are those who curse their fathers\n and do not bless their mothers.",
"12": "There are those who are clean in their own eyes\n but are not washed of their filth.",
"13": "There are those—how lofty are their eyes,\n how high their eyelids lift!",
"14": "There are those whose teeth are swords,\n whose fangs are knives,\nto devour the poor from off the earth,\n the needy from among mankind.",
"15": "The leech has two daughters:\n Give and Give.\nThree things are never satisfied;\n four never say, “Enough”:",
"16": "Sheol, the barren womb,\n the land never satisfied with water,\n and the fire that never says, “Enough.”",
"17": "The eye that mocks a father\n and scorns to obey a mother\nwill be picked out by the ravens of the valley\n and eaten by the vultures.",
"18": "Three things are too wonderful for me;\n four I do not understand:",
"19": "the way of an eagle in the sky,\n the way of a serpent on a rock,\nthe way of a ship on the high seas,\n and the way of a man with a virgin.",
"20": "This is the way of an adulteress:\n she eats and wipes her mouth\n and says, “I have done no wrong.”",
"21": "Under three things the earth trembles;\n under four it cannot bear up:",
"22": "a slave when he becomes king,\n and a fool when he is filled with food;",
"23": "an unloved woman when she gets a husband,\n and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.",
"24": "Four things on earth are small,\n but they are exceedingly wise:",
"25": "the ants are a people not strong,\n yet they provide their food in the summer;",
"26": "the rock badgers are a people not mighty,\n yet they make their homes in the cliffs;",
"27": "the locusts have no king,\n yet all of them march in rank;",
"28": "the lizard you can take in your hands,\n yet it is in kings' palaces.",
"29": "Three things are stately in their tread;\n four are stately in their stride:",
"30": "the lion, which is mightiest among beasts\n and does not turn back before any;",
"31": "the strutting rooster, the he-goat,\n and a king whose army is with him.",
"32": "If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,\n or if you have been devising evil,\n put your hand on your mouth.",
"33": "For pressing milk produces curds,\n pressing the nose produces blood,\n and pressing anger produces strife."
},
"31": {
"1": "The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him:",
"2": "What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb?\n What are you doing, son of my vows?",
"3": "Do not give your strength to women,\n your ways to those who destroy kings.",
"4": "It is not for kings, O Lemuel,\n it is not for kings to drink wine,\n or for rulers to take strong drink,",
"5": "lest they drink and forget what has been decreed\n and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.",
"6": "Give strong drink to the one who is perishing,\n and wine to those in bitter distress;",
"7": "let them drink and forget their poverty\n and remember their misery no more.",
"8": "Open your mouth for the mute,\n for the rights of all who are destitute.",
"9": "Open your mouth, judge righteously,\n defend the rights of the poor and needy.",
"10": "An excellent wife who can find?\n She is far more precious than jewels.",
"11": "The heart of her husband trusts in her,\n and he will have no lack of gain.",
"12": "She does him good, and not harm,\n all the days of her life.",
"13": "She seeks wool and flax,\n and works with willing hands.",
"14": "She is like the ships of the merchant;\n she brings her food from afar.",
"15": "She rises while it is yet night\n and provides food for her household\n and portions for her maidens.",
"16": "She considers a field and buys it;\n with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.",
"17": "She dresses herself with strength\n and makes her arms strong.",
"18": "She perceives that her merchandise is profitable.\n Her lamp does not go out at night.",
"19": "She puts her hands to the distaff,\n and her hands hold the spindle.",
"20": "She opens her hand to the poor\n and reaches out her hands to the needy.",
"21": "She is not afraid of snow for her household,\n for all her household are clothed in scarlet.",
"22": "She makes bed coverings for herself;\n her clothing is fine linen and purple.",
"23": "Her husband is known in the gates\n when he sits among the elders of the land.",
"24": "She makes linen garments and sells them;\n she delivers sashes to the merchant.",
"25": "Strength and dignity are her clothing,\n and she laughs at the time to come.",
"26": "She opens her mouth with wisdom,\n and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.",
"27": "She looks well to the ways of her household\n and does not eat the bread of idleness.",
"28": "Her children rise up and call her blessed;\n her husband also, and he praises her:",
"29": "“Many women have done excellently,\n but you surpass them all.”",
"30": "Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,\n but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.",
"31": "Give her of the fruit of her hands,\n and let her works praise her in the gates."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:29.071016-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Revelation": {
"1": {
"1": "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,",
"2": "who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.",
"3": "Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.",
"4": "John to the seven churches that are in Asia:\nGrace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,",
"5": "and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.\nTo him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood",
"6": "and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.",
"7": "Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.",
"8": "“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”",
"9": "I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.",
"10": "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet",
"11": "saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”",
"12": "Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,",
"13": "and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.",
"14": "The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,",
"15": "his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.",
"16": "In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.",
"17": "When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,",
"18": "and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.",
"19": "Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this.",
"20": "As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches."
},
"2": {
"1": "“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.",
"2": "“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.",
"3": "I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.",
"4": "But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.",
"5": "Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.",
"6": "Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.",
"7": "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’",
"8": "“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.",
"9": "“‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.",
"10": "Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.",
"11": "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’",
"12": "“And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.",
"13": "“‘I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.",
"14": "But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.",
"15": "So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.",
"16": "Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.",
"17": "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’",
"18": "“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.",
"19": "“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.",
"20": "But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.",
"21": "I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.",
"22": "Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,",
"23": "and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.",
"24": "But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.",
"25": "Only hold fast what you have until I come.",
"26": "The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,",
"27": "and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.",
"28": "And I will give him the morning star.",
"29": "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’"
},
"3": {
"1": "“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.\n“‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.",
"2": "Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.",
"3": "Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.",
"4": "Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.",
"5": "The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.",
"6": "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’",
"7": "“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.",
"8": "“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.",
"9": "Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.",
"10": "Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.",
"11": "I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.",
"12": "The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.",
"13": "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’",
"14": "“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.",
"15": "“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!",
"16": "So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.",
"17": "For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.",
"18": "I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.",
"19": "Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.",
"20": "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.",
"21": "The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.",
"22": "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”"
},
"4": {
"1": "After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”",
"2": "At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.",
"3": "And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.",
"4": "Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.",
"5": "From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God,",
"6": "and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.\nAnd around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind:",
"7": "the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.",
"8": "And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,\n“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,\n who was and is and is to come!”",
"9": "And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,",
"10": "the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,",
"11": "“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,\n to receive glory and honor and power,\nfor you created all things,\n and by your will they existed and were created.”"
},
"5": {
"1": "Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.",
"2": "And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”",
"3": "And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it,",
"4": "and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.",
"5": "And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”",
"6": "And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.",
"7": "And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.",
"8": "And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.",
"9": "And they sang a new song, saying,\n“Worthy are you to take the scroll\n and to open its seals,\nfor you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God\n from every tribe and language and people and nation,",
"10": "and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,\n and they shall reign on the earth.”",
"11": "Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,",
"12": "saying with a loud voice, \n“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,\nto receive power and wealth and wisdom and might\nand honor and glory and blessing!”",
"13": "And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, \n“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb\nbe blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”",
"14": "And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped."
},
"6": {
"1": "Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!”",
"2": "And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.",
"3": "When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”",
"4": "And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.",
"5": "When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand.",
"6": "And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”",
"7": "When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”",
"8": "And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.",
"9": "When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.",
"10": "They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”",
"11": "Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.",
"12": "When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,",
"13": "and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.",
"14": "The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.",
"15": "Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,",
"16": "calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,",
"17": "for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”"
},
"7": {
"1": "After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree.",
"2": "Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea,",
"3": "saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”",
"4": "And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:",
"5": "12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,\n12,000 from the tribe of Reuben,\n12,000 from the tribe of Gad,",
"6": "12,000 from the tribe of Asher,\n12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali,\n12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,",
"7": "12,000 from the tribe of Simeon,\n12,000 from the tribe of Levi,\n12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,",
"8": "12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun,\n12,000 from the tribe of Joseph,\n12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.",
"9": "After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,",
"10": "and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”",
"11": "And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,",
"12": "saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”",
"13": "Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?”",
"14": "I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.",
"15": "“Therefore they are before the throne of God,\n and serve him day and night in his temple;\n and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.",
"16": "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;\n the sun shall not strike them,\n nor any scorching heat.",
"17": "For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,\n and he will guide them to springs of living water,\nand God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”"
},
"8": {
"1": "When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.",
"2": "Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.",
"3": "And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne,",
"4": "and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.",
"5": "Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.",
"6": "Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.",
"7": "The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.",
"8": "The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.",
"9": "A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.",
"10": "The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.",
"11": "The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.",
"12": "The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.",
"13": "Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”"
},
"9": {
"1": "And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.",
"2": "He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.",
"3": "Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.",
"4": "They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.",
"5": "They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.",
"6": "And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.",
"7": "In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,",
"8": "their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth;",
"9": "they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.",
"10": "They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.",
"11": "They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.",
"12": "The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.",
"13": "Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,",
"14": "saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”",
"15": "So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind.",
"16": "The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number.",
"17": "And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.",
"18": "By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.",
"19": "For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.",
"20": "The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,",
"21": "nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts."
},
"10": {
"1": "Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.",
"2": "He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land,",
"3": "and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded.",
"4": "And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.”",
"5": "And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven",
"6": "and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay,",
"7": "but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.",
"8": "Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”",
"9": "So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”",
"10": "And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.",
"11": "And I was told, “You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.”"
},
"11": {
"1": "Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there,",
"2": "but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.",
"3": "And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”",
"4": "These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.",
"5": "And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed.",
"6": "They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.",
"7": "And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,",
"8": "and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.",
"9": "For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,",
"10": "and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.",
"11": "But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.",
"12": "Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.",
"13": "And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.",
"14": "The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.",
"15": "Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”",
"16": "And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,",
"17": "saying,\n“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,\n who is and who was,\nfor you have taken your great power\n and begun to reign.",
"18": "The nations raged,\n but your wrath came,\n and the time for the dead to be judged,\nand for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,\n and those who fear your name,\n both small and great,\nand for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”",
"19": "Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail."
},
"12": {
"1": "And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.",
"2": "She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.",
"3": "And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.",
"4": "His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.",
"5": "She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,",
"6": "and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.",
"7": "Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,",
"8": "but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.",
"9": "And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.",
"10": "And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.",
"11": "And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.",
"12": "Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”",
"13": "And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.",
"14": "But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.",
"15": "The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.",
"16": "But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.",
"17": "Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea."
},
"13": {
"1": "And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.",
"2": "And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.",
"3": "One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast.",
"4": "And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”",
"5": "And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.",
"6": "It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven.",
"7": "Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,",
"8": "and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.",
"9": "If anyone has an ear, let him hear:",
"10": "If anyone is to be taken captive,\n to captivity he goes;\nif anyone is to be slain with the sword,\n with the sword must he be slain.\nHere is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.",
"11": "Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.",
"12": "It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.",
"13": "It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people,",
"14": "and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.",
"15": "And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.",
"16": "Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,",
"17": "so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.",
"18": "This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666."
},
"14": {
"1": "Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.",
"2": "And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps,",
"3": "and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.",
"4": "It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,",
"5": "and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.",
"6": "Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.",
"7": "And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”",
"8": "Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.”",
"9": "And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,",
"10": "he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.",
"11": "And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”",
"12": "Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.",
"13": "And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”",
"14": "Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.",
"15": "And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”",
"16": "So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.",
"17": "Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.",
"18": "And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.”",
"19": "So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.",
"20": "And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia."
},
"15": {
"1": "Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.",
"2": "And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.",
"3": "And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,\n“Great and amazing are your deeds,\n O Lord God the Almighty!\nJust and true are your ways,\n O King of the nations!",
"4": "Who will not fear, O Lord,\n and glorify your name?\nFor you alone are holy.\n All nations will come\n and worship you,\nfor your righteous acts have been revealed.”",
"5": "After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened,",
"6": "and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests.",
"7": "And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever,",
"8": "and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished."
},
"16": {
"1": "Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”",
"2": "So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.",
"3": "The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea.",
"4": "The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.",
"5": "And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say,\n“Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was,\n for you brought these judgments.",
"6": "For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets,\n and you have given them blood to drink.\nIt is what they deserve!”",
"7": "And I heard the altar saying,\n“Yes, Lord God the Almighty,\n true and just are your judgments!”",
"8": "The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire.",
"9": "They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.",
"10": "The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish",
"11": "and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores. They did not repent of their deeds.",
"12": "The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.",
"13": "And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.",
"14": "For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.",
"15": "(“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)",
"16": "And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.",
"17": "The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”",
"18": "And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake.",
"19": "The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.",
"20": "And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found.",
"21": "And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe."
},
"17": {
"1": "Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,",
"2": "with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”",
"3": "And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.",
"4": "The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.",
"5": "And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.”",
"6": "And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.\nWhen I saw her, I marveled greatly.",
"7": "But the angel said to me, “Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.",
"8": "The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.",
"9": "This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated;",
"10": "they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.",
"11": "As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction.",
"12": "And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast.",
"13": "These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast.",
"14": "They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”",
"15": "And the angel said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.",
"16": "And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire,",
"17": "for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and handing over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.",
"18": "And the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth.”"
},
"18": {
"1": "After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory.",
"2": "And he called out with a mighty voice,\n“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!\n She has become a dwelling place for demons,\na haunt for every unclean spirit,\n a haunt for every unclean bird,\n a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.",
"3": "For all nations have drunk\n the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,\nand the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,\n and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”",
"4": "Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,\n“Come out of her, my people,\n lest you take part in her sins,\nlest you share in her plagues;",
"5": "for her sins are heaped high as heaven,\n and God has remembered her iniquities.",
"6": "Pay her back as she herself has paid back others,\n and repay her double for her deeds;\n mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed.",
"7": "As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,\n so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,\nsince in her heart she says,\n ‘I sit as a queen,\nI am no widow,\n and mourning I shall never see.’",
"8": "For this reason her plagues will come in a single day,\n death and mourning and famine,\nand she will be burned up with fire;\n for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”",
"9": "And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning.",
"10": "They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,\n“Alas! Alas! You great city,\n you mighty city, Babylon!\nFor in a single hour your judgment has come.”",
"11": "And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore,",
"12": "cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble,",
"13": "cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.",
"14": "“The fruit for which your soul longed\n has gone from you,\nand all your delicacies and your splendors\n are lost to you,\n never to be found again!”",
"15": "The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,",
"16": "“Alas, alas, for the great city\n that was clothed in fine linen,\n in purple and scarlet,\n adorned with gold,\n with jewels, and with pearls!",
"17": "For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste.”\nAnd all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off",
"18": "and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning,\n“What city was like the great city?”",
"19": "And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,\n“Alas, alas, for the great city\n where all who had ships at sea\n grew rich by her wealth!\nFor in a single hour she has been laid waste.",
"20": "Rejoice over her, O heaven,\n and you saints and apostles and prophets,\nfor God has given judgment for you against her!”",
"21": "Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,\n“So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence,\n and will be found no more;",
"22": "and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,\n will be heard in you no more,\nand a craftsman of any craft\n will be found in you no more,\nand the sound of the mill\n will be heard in you no more,",
"23": "and the light of a lamp\n will shine in you no more,\nand the voice of bridegroom and bride\n will be heard in you no more,\nfor your merchants were the great ones of the earth,\n and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.",
"24": "And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints,\n and of all who have been slain on earth.”"
},
"19": {
"1": "After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out,\n“Hallelujah!\nSalvation and glory and power belong to our God,",
"2": "for his judgments are true and just;\nfor he has judged the great prostitute\n who corrupted the earth with her immorality,\nand has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”",
"3": "Once more they cried out,\n“Hallelujah!\nThe smoke from her goes up forever and ever.”",
"4": "And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!”",
"5": "And from the throne came a voice saying,\n“Praise our God,\n all you his servants,\nyou who fear him,\n small and great.”",
"6": "Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out,\n“Hallelujah!\nFor the Lord our God\n the Almighty reigns.",
"7": "Let us rejoice and exult\n and give him the glory,\nfor the marriage of the Lamb has come,\n and his Bride has made herself ready;",
"8": "it was granted her to clothe herself\n with fine linen, bright and pure”—\nfor the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.",
"9": "And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”",
"10": "Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.",
"11": "Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.",
"12": "His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself.",
"13": "He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.",
"14": "And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses.",
"15": "From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.",
"16": "On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.",
"17": "Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, “Come, gather for the great supper of God,",
"18": "to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.”",
"19": "And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army.",
"20": "And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.",
"21": "And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh."
},
"20": {
"1": "Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.",
"2": "And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,",
"3": "and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.",
"4": "Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.",
"5": "The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.",
"6": "Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.",
"7": "And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison",
"8": "and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.",
"9": "And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,",
"10": "and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.",
"11": "Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.",
"12": "And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.",
"13": "And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.",
"14": "Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.",
"15": "And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
},
"21": {
"1": "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.",
"2": "And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.",
"3": "And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.",
"4": "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”",
"5": "And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”",
"6": "And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.",
"7": "The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.",
"8": "But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”",
"9": "Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”",
"10": "And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,",
"11": "having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.",
"12": "It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed—",
"13": "on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.",
"14": "And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.",
"15": "And the one who spoke with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls.",
"16": "The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia. Its length and width and height are equal.",
"17": "He also measured its wall, 144 cubits by human measurement, which is also an angel's measurement.",
"18": "The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, like clear glass.",
"19": "The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,",
"20": "the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.",
"21": "And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.",
"22": "And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.",
"23": "And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.",
"24": "By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it,",
"25": "and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.",
"26": "They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.",
"27": "But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life."
},
"22": {
"1": "Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb",
"2": "through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.",
"3": "No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.",
"4": "They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.",
"5": "And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.",
"6": "And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.”",
"7": "“And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”",
"8": "I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me,",
"9": "but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”",
"10": "And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near.",
"11": "Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”",
"12": "“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.",
"13": "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”",
"14": "Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.",
"15": "Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.",
"16": "“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”",
"17": "The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.",
"18": "I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,",
"19": "and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.",
"20": "He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!",
"21": "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen."
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:16.613257-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Romans": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,",
"2": "which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,",
"3": "concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh",
"4": "and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,",
"5": "through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,",
"6": "including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,",
"7": "To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints:\nGrace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.",
"8": "First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.",
"9": "For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you",
"10": "always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.",
"11": "For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—",
"12": "that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.",
"13": "I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.",
"14": "I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.",
"15": "So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.",
"16": "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.",
"17": "For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”",
"18": "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.",
"19": "For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.",
"20": "For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.",
"21": "For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.",
"22": "Claiming to be wise, they became fools,",
"23": "and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.",
"24": "Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,",
"25": "because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.",
"26": "For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;",
"27": "and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.",
"28": "And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.",
"29": "They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,",
"30": "slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,",
"31": "foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.",
"32": "Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them."
},
"2": {
"1": "Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.",
"2": "We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.",
"3": "Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?",
"4": "Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?",
"5": "But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.",
"6": "He will render to each one according to his works:",
"7": "to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;",
"8": "but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.",
"9": "There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,",
"10": "but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.",
"11": "For God shows no partiality.",
"12": "For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.",
"13": "For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.",
"14": "For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.",
"15": "They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them",
"16": "on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.",
"17": "But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God",
"18": "and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;",
"19": "and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,",
"20": "an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—",
"21": "you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?",
"22": "You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?",
"23": "You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.",
"24": "For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”",
"25": "For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.",
"26": "So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?",
"27": "Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.",
"28": "For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.",
"29": "But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God."
},
"3": {
"1": "Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?",
"2": "Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.",
"3": "What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?",
"4": "By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written,\n“That you may be justified in your words,\n and prevail when you are judged.”",
"5": "But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)",
"6": "By no means! For then how could God judge the world?",
"7": "But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?",
"8": "And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.",
"9": "What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,",
"10": "as it is written:\n“None is righteous, no, not one;",
"11": "no one understands;\n no one seeks for God.",
"12": "All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;\n no one does good,\n not even one.”",
"13": "“Their throat is an open grave;\n they use their tongues to deceive.”\n“The venom of asps is under their lips.”",
"14": "“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”",
"15": "“Their feet are swift to shed blood;",
"16": "in their paths are ruin and misery,",
"17": "and the way of peace they have not known.”",
"18": "“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”",
"19": "Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.",
"20": "For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.",
"21": "But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—",
"22": "the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:",
"23": "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,",
"24": "and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,",
"25": "whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.",
"26": "It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.",
"27": "Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.",
"28": "For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.",
"29": "Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,",
"30": "since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.",
"31": "Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law."
},
"4": {
"1": "What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?",
"2": "For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.",
"3": "For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”",
"4": "Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.",
"5": "And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,",
"6": "just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:",
"7": "“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,\n and whose sins are covered;",
"8": "blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”",
"9": "Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.",
"10": "How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.",
"11": "He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,",
"12": "and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.",
"13": "For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.",
"14": "For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.",
"15": "For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.",
"16": "That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,",
"17": "as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.",
"18": "In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”",
"19": "He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.",
"20": "No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,",
"21": "fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.",
"22": "That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.”",
"23": "But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone,",
"24": "but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,",
"25": "who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification."
},
"5": {
"1": "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.",
"2": "Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.",
"3": "Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,",
"4": "and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,",
"5": "and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.",
"6": "For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.",
"7": "For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—",
"8": "but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.",
"9": "Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.",
"10": "For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.",
"11": "More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.",
"12": "Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—",
"13": "for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.",
"14": "Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.",
"15": "But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.",
"16": "And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.",
"17": "For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.",
"18": "Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.",
"19": "For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.",
"20": "Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,",
"21": "so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
},
"6": {
"1": "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?",
"2": "By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?",
"3": "Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?",
"4": "We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.",
"5": "For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.",
"6": "We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.",
"7": "For one who has died has been set free from sin.",
"8": "Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.",
"9": "We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.",
"10": "For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.",
"11": "So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.",
"12": "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.",
"13": "Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.",
"14": "For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.",
"15": "What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!",
"16": "Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?",
"17": "But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,",
"18": "and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.",
"19": "I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.",
"20": "For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.",
"21": "But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.",
"22": "But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.",
"23": "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
},
"7": {
"1": "Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?",
"2": "For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.",
"3": "Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.",
"4": "Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.",
"5": "For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.",
"6": "But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.",
"7": "What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”",
"8": "But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.",
"9": "I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.",
"10": "The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.",
"11": "For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.",
"12": "So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.",
"13": "Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.",
"14": "For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.",
"15": "For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.",
"16": "Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.",
"17": "So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.",
"18": "For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.",
"19": "For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.",
"20": "Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.",
"21": "So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.",
"22": "For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,",
"23": "but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.",
"24": "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?",
"25": "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin."
},
"8": {
"1": "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.",
"2": "For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.",
"3": "For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,",
"4": "in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.",
"5": "For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.",
"6": "For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.",
"7": "For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.",
"8": "Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.",
"9": "You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.",
"10": "But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.",
"11": "If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.",
"12": "So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.",
"13": "For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.",
"14": "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.",
"15": "For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”",
"16": "The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,",
"17": "and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.",
"18": "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.",
"19": "For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.",
"20": "For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope",
"21": "that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.",
"22": "For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.",
"23": "And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.",
"24": "For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?",
"25": "But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.",
"26": "Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.",
"27": "And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.",
"28": "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.",
"29": "For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.",
"30": "And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.",
"31": "What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?",
"32": "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?",
"33": "Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.",
"34": "Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.",
"35": "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?",
"36": "As it is written,\n“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;\n we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”",
"37": "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.",
"38": "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,",
"39": "nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
},
"9": {
"1": "I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—",
"2": "that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.",
"3": "For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.",
"4": "They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.",
"5": "To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.",
"6": "But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,",
"7": "and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”",
"8": "This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.",
"9": "For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.”",
"10": "And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,",
"11": "though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—",
"12": "she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”",
"13": "As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”",
"14": "What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!",
"15": "For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”",
"16": "So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.",
"17": "For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”",
"18": "So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.",
"19": "You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”",
"20": "But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”",
"21": "Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?",
"22": "What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,",
"23": "in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—",
"24": "even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?",
"25": "As indeed he says in Hosea,\n“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’\n and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”",
"26": "“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’\n there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”",
"27": "And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,",
"28": "for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.”",
"29": "And as Isaiah predicted,\n“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,\n we would have been like Sodom\n and become like Gomorrah.”",
"30": "What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;",
"31": "but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.",
"32": "Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,",
"33": "as it is written,\n“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;\n and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”"
},
"10": {
"1": "Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.",
"2": "For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.",
"3": "For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.",
"4": "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.",
"5": "For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.",
"6": "But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)",
"7": "“or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).",
"8": "But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);",
"9": "because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.",
"10": "For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.",
"11": "For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”",
"12": "For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.",
"13": "For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”",
"14": "How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?",
"15": "And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”",
"16": "But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”",
"17": "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.",
"18": "But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for\n“Their voice has gone out to all the earth,\n and their words to the ends of the world.”",
"19": "But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,\n“I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation;\n with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”",
"20": "Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,\n“I have been found by those who did not seek me;\n I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.”",
"21": "But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”"
},
"11": {
"1": "I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.",
"2": "God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?",
"3": "“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”",
"4": "But what is God's reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”",
"5": "So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.",
"6": "But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.",
"7": "What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,",
"8": "as it is written,\n“God gave them a spirit of stupor,\n eyes that would not see\n and ears that would not hear,\ndown to this very day.”",
"9": "And David says,\n“Let their table become a snare and a trap,\n a stumbling block and a retribution for them;",
"10": "let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,\n and bend their backs forever.”",
"11": "So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.",
"12": "Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!",
"13": "Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry",
"14": "in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.",
"15": "For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?",
"16": "If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.",
"17": "But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree,",
"18": "do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.",
"19": "Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”",
"20": "That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.",
"21": "For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.",
"22": "Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.",
"23": "And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.",
"24": "For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.",
"25": "Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.",
"26": "And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,\n“The Deliverer will come from Zion,\n he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;",
"27": "“and this will be my covenant with them\n when I take away their sins.”",
"28": "As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.",
"29": "For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.",
"30": "For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,",
"31": "so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy.",
"32": "For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.",
"33": "Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!",
"34": "“For who has known the mind of the Lord,\n or who has been his counselor?”",
"35": "“Or who has given a gift to him\n that he might be repaid?”",
"36": "For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen."
},
"12": {
"1": "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.",
"2": "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.",
"3": "For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.",
"4": "For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,",
"5": "so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.",
"6": "Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;",
"7": "if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;",
"8": "the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.",
"9": "Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.",
"10": "Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.",
"11": "Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.",
"12": "Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.",
"13": "Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.",
"14": "Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.",
"15": "Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.",
"16": "Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.",
"17": "Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.",
"18": "If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.",
"19": "Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”",
"20": "To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”",
"21": "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
},
"13": {
"1": "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.",
"2": "Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.",
"3": "For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,",
"4": "for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.",
"5": "Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.",
"6": "For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.",
"7": "Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.",
"8": "Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.",
"9": "For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”",
"10": "Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.",
"11": "Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.",
"12": "The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.",
"13": "Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.",
"14": "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires."
},
"14": {
"1": "As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.",
"2": "One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.",
"3": "Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.",
"4": "Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.",
"5": "One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.",
"6": "The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.",
"7": "For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.",
"8": "For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.",
"9": "For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.",
"10": "Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;",
"11": "for it is written,\n“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,\n and every tongue shall confess to God.”",
"12": "So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.",
"13": "Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.",
"14": "I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.",
"15": "For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.",
"16": "So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.",
"17": "For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.",
"18": "Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.",
"19": "So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.",
"20": "Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.",
"21": "It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.",
"22": "The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.",
"23": "But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin."
},
"15": {
"1": "We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.",
"2": "Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.",
"3": "For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”",
"4": "For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.",
"5": "May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,",
"6": "that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.",
"7": "Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.",
"8": "For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,",
"9": "and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,\n“Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles,\n and sing to your name.”",
"10": "And again it is said,\n“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”",
"11": "And again,\n“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,\n and let all the peoples extol him.”",
"12": "And again Isaiah says,\n“The root of Jesse will come,\n even he who arises to rule the Gentiles;\nin him will the Gentiles hope.”",
"13": "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.",
"14": "I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.",
"15": "But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God",
"16": "to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.",
"17": "In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.",
"18": "For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed,",
"19": "by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;",
"20": "and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation,",
"21": "but as it is written,\n“Those who have never been told of him will see,\n and those who have never heard will understand.”",
"22": "This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.",
"23": "But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you,",
"24": "I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while.",
"25": "At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem bringing aid to the saints.",
"26": "For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.",
"27": "For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.",
"28": "When therefore I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected, I will leave for Spain by way of you.",
"29": "I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.",
"30": "I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,",
"31": "that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,",
"32": "so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.",
"33": "May the God of peace be with you all. Amen."
},
"16": {
"1": "I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,",
"2": "that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.",
"3": "Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,",
"4": "who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.",
"5": "Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.",
"6": "Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you.",
"7": "Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.",
"8": "Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.",
"9": "Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.",
"10": "Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the family of Aristobulus.",
"11": "Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcissus.",
"12": "Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.",
"13": "Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well.",
"14": "Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.",
"15": "Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.",
"16": "Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.",
"17": "I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.",
"18": "For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.",
"19": "For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.",
"20": "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.",
"21": "Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.",
"22": "I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.",
"23": "Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.",
"24": "",
"25": "Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages",
"26": "but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—",
"27": "to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:34.943070-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Ruth": {
"1": {
"1": "In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.",
"2": "The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.",
"3": "But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons.",
"4": "These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years,",
"5": "and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.",
"6": "Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food.",
"7": "So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.",
"8": "But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.",
"9": "The Lord grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband!” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.",
"10": "And they said to her, “No, we will return with you to your people.”",
"11": "But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?",
"12": "Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons,",
"13": "would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me.”",
"14": "Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.",
"15": "And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”",
"16": "But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.",
"17": "Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”",
"18": "And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.",
"19": "So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them. And the women said, “Is this Naomi?”",
"20": "She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.",
"21": "I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the Lord has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?”",
"22": "So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest."
},
"2": {
"1": "Now Naomi had a relative of her husband's, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.",
"2": "And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”",
"3": "So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.",
"4": "And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, “The Lord be with you!” And they answered, “The Lord bless you.”",
"5": "Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose young woman is this?”",
"6": "And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, “She is the young Moabite woman, who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.",
"7": "She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’ So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest.”",
"8": "Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women.",
"9": "Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”",
"10": "Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”",
"11": "But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.",
"12": "The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”",
"13": "Then she said, “I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”",
"14": "And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.",
"15": "When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.",
"16": "And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”",
"17": "So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.",
"18": "And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.",
"19": "And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”",
"20": "And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.”",
"21": "And Ruth the Moabite said, “Besides, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”",
"22": "And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted.”",
"23": "So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law."
},
"3": {
"1": "Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?",
"2": "Is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.",
"3": "Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.",
"4": "But when he lies down, observe the place where he lies. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down, and he will tell you what to do.”",
"5": "And she replied, “All that you say I will do.”",
"6": "So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her.",
"7": "And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down.",
"8": "At midnight the man was startled and turned over, and behold, a woman lay at his feet!",
"9": "He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your servant. Spread your wings over your servant, for you are a redeemer.”",
"10": "And he said, “May you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.",
"11": "And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman.",
"12": "And now it is true that I am a redeemer. Yet there is a redeemer nearer than I.",
"13": "Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.”",
"14": "So she lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could recognize another. And he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”",
"15": "And he said, “Bring the garment you are wearing and hold it out.” So she held it, and he measured out six measures of barley and put it on her. Then she went into the city.",
"16": "And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did you fare, my daughter?” Then she told her all that the man had done for her,",
"17": "saying, “These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said to me, ‘You must not go back empty-handed to your mother-in-law.’”",
"18": "She replied, “Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today.”"
},
"4": {
"1": "Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, “Turn aside, friend; sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down.",
"2": "And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.",
"3": "Then he said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech.",
"4": "So I thought I would tell you of it and say, ‘Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you.” And he said, “I will redeem it.”",
"5": "Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”",
"6": "Then the redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”",
"7": "Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.",
"8": "So when the redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” he drew off his sandal.",
"9": "Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon.",
"10": "Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”",
"11": "Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem,",
"12": "and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”",
"13": "So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.",
"14": "Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel!",
"15": "He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”",
"16": "Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse.",
"17": "And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.",
"18": "Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron,",
"19": "Hezron fathered Ram, Ram fathered Amminadab,",
"20": "Amminadab fathered Nahshon, Nahshon fathered Salmon,",
"21": "Salmon fathered Boaz, Boaz fathered Obed,",
"22": "Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:36:54.755888-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Song Of Solomon": {
"1": {
"1": "The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.",
"2": "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!\nFor your love is better than wine;",
"3": "your anointing oils are fragrant;\nyour name is oil poured out;\n therefore virgins love you.",
"4": "Draw me after you; let us run.\n The king has brought me into his chambers.\nWe will exult and rejoice in you;\n we will extol your love more than wine;\n rightly do they love you.",
"5": "I am very dark, but lovely,\n O daughters of Jerusalem,\nlike the tents of Kedar,\n like the curtains of Solomon.",
"6": "Do not gaze at me because I am dark,\n because the sun has looked upon me.\nMy mother's sons were angry with me;\n they made me keeper of the vineyards,\n but my own vineyard I have not kept!",
"7": "Tell me, you whom my soul loves,\n where you pasture your flock,\n where you make it lie down at noon;\nfor why should I be like one who veils herself\n beside the flocks of your companions?",
"8": "If you do not know,\n O most beautiful among women,\nfollow in the tracks of the flock,\n and pasture your young goats\n beside the shepherds' tents.",
"9": "I compare you, my love,\n to a mare among Pharaoh's chariots.",
"10": "Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,\n your neck with strings of jewels.",
"11": "We will make for you ornaments of gold,\n studded with silver.",
"12": "While the king was on his couch,\n my nard gave forth its fragrance.",
"13": "My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh\n that lies between my breasts.",
"14": "My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms\n in the vineyards of Engedi.",
"15": "Behold, you are beautiful, my love;\n behold, you are beautiful;\n your eyes are doves.",
"16": "Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful.\nOur couch is green;",
"17": "the beams of our house are cedar;\n our rafters are pine."
},
"2": {
"1": "I am a rose of Sharon,\n a lily of the valleys.",
"2": "As a lily among brambles,\n so is my love among the young women.",
"3": "As an apple tree among the trees of the forest,\n so is my beloved among the young men.\nWith great delight I sat in his shadow,\n and his fruit was sweet to my taste.",
"4": "He brought me to the banqueting house,\n and his banner over me was love.",
"5": "Sustain me with raisins;\n refresh me with apples,\n for I am sick with love.",
"6": "His left hand is under my head,\n and his right hand embraces me!",
"7": "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,\n by the gazelles or the does of the field,\nthat you not stir up or awaken love\n until it pleases.",
"8": "The voice of my beloved!\n Behold, he comes,\nleaping over the mountains,\n bounding over the hills.",
"9": "My beloved is like a gazelle\n or a young stag.\nBehold, there he stands\n behind our wall,\ngazing through the windows,\n looking through the lattice.",
"10": "My beloved speaks and says to me:\n“Arise, my love, my beautiful one,\n and come away,",
"11": "for behold, the winter is past;\n the rain is over and gone.",
"12": "The flowers appear on the earth,\n the time of singing has come,\nand the voice of the turtledove\n is heard in our land.",
"13": "The fig tree ripens its figs,\n and the vines are in blossom;\n they give forth fragrance.\nArise, my love, my beautiful one,\n and come away.",
"14": "O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,\n in the crannies of the cliff,\nlet me see your face,\n let me hear your voice,\nfor your voice is sweet,\n and your face is lovely.",
"15": "Catch the foxes for us,\n the little foxes\nthat spoil the vineyards,\n for our vineyards are in blossom.”",
"16": "My beloved is mine, and I am his;\n he grazes among the lilies.",
"17": "Until the day breathes\n and the shadows flee,\nturn, my beloved, be like a gazelle\n or a young stag on cleft mountains."
},
"3": {
"1": "On my bed by night\nI sought him whom my soul loves;\n I sought him, but found him not.",
"2": "I will rise now and go about the city,\n in the streets and in the squares;\nI will seek him whom my soul loves.\n I sought him, but found him not.",
"3": "The watchmen found me\n as they went about in the city.\n“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”",
"4": "Scarcely had I passed them\n when I found him whom my soul loves.\nI held him, and would not let him go\n until I had brought him into my mother's house,\n and into the chamber of her who conceived me.",
"5": "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,\n by the gazelles or the does of the field,\nthat you not stir up or awaken love\n until it pleases.",
"6": "What is that coming up from the wilderness\n like columns of smoke,\nperfumed with myrrh and frankincense,\n with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?",
"7": "Behold, it is the litter of Solomon!\nAround it are sixty mighty men,\n some of the mighty men of Israel,",
"8": "all of them wearing swords\n and expert in war,\neach with his sword at his thigh,\n against terror by night.",
"9": "King Solomon made himself a carriage\n from the wood of Lebanon.",
"10": "He made its posts of silver,\n its back of gold, its seat of purple;\nits interior was inlaid with love\n by the daughters of Jerusalem.",
"11": "Go out, O daughters of Zion,\n and look upon King Solomon,\nwith the crown with which his mother crowned him\n on the day of his wedding,\n on the day of the gladness of his heart."
},
"4": {
"1": "Behold, you are beautiful, my love,\n behold, you are beautiful!\nYour eyes are doves\n behind your veil.\nYour hair is like a flock of goats\n leaping down the slopes of Gilead.",
"2": "Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes\n that have come up from the washing,\nall of which bear twins,\n and not one among them has lost its young.",
"3": "Your lips are like a scarlet thread,\n and your mouth is lovely.\nYour cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate\n behind your veil.",
"4": "Your neck is like the tower of David,\n built in rows of stone;\non it hang a thousand shields,\n all of them shields of warriors.",
"5": "Your two breasts are like two fawns,\n twins of a gazelle,\n that graze among the lilies.",
"6": "Until the day breathes\n and the shadows flee,\nI will go away to the mountain of myrrh\n and the hill of frankincense.",
"7": "You are altogether beautiful, my love;\n there is no flaw in you.",
"8": "Come with me from Lebanon, my bride;\n come with me from Lebanon.\nDepart from the peak of Amana,\n from the peak of Senir and Hermon,\nfrom the dens of lions,\n from the mountains of leopards.",
"9": "You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride;\n you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes,\n with one jewel of your necklace.",
"10": "How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!\n How much better is your love than wine,\n and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!",
"11": "Your lips drip nectar, my bride;\n honey and milk are under your tongue;\n the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.",
"12": "A garden locked is my sister, my bride,\n a spring locked, a fountain sealed.",
"13": "Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates\n with all choicest fruits,\n henna with nard,",
"14": "nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,\n with all trees of frankincense,\nmyrrh and aloes,\n with all choice spices—",
"15": "a garden fountain, a well of living water,\n and flowing streams from Lebanon.",
"16": "Awake, O north wind,\n and come, O south wind!\nBlow upon my garden,\n let its spices flow.\nLet my beloved come to his garden,\n and eat its choicest fruits."
},
"5": {
"1": "I came to my garden, my sister, my bride,\n I gathered my myrrh with my spice,\n I ate my honeycomb with my honey,\n I drank my wine with my milk.\nEat, friends, drink,\n and be drunk with love!",
"2": "I slept, but my heart was awake.\nA sound! My beloved is knocking.\n“Open to me, my sister, my love,\n my dove, my perfect one,\nfor my head is wet with dew,\n my locks with the drops of the night.”",
"3": "I had put off my garment;\n how could I put it on?\nI had bathed my feet;\n how could I soil them?",
"4": "My beloved put his hand to the latch,\n and my heart was thrilled within me.",
"5": "I arose to open to my beloved,\n and my hands dripped with myrrh,\nmy fingers with liquid myrrh,\n on the handles of the bolt.",
"6": "I opened to my beloved,\n but my beloved had turned and gone.\nMy soul failed me when he spoke.\nI sought him, but found him not;\n I called him, but he gave no answer.",
"7": "The watchmen found me\n as they went about in the city;\nthey beat me, they bruised me,\n they took away my veil,\n those watchmen of the walls.",
"8": "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,\n if you find my beloved,\nthat you tell him\n I am sick with love.",
"9": "What is your beloved more than another beloved,\n O most beautiful among women?\nWhat is your beloved more than another beloved,\n that you thus adjure us?",
"10": "My beloved is radiant and ruddy,\n distinguished among ten thousand.",
"11": "His head is the finest gold;\n his locks are wavy,\n black as a raven.",
"12": "His eyes are like doves\n beside streams of water,\nbathed in milk,\n sitting beside a full pool.",
"13": "His cheeks are like beds of spices,\n mounds of sweet-smelling herbs.\nHis lips are lilies,\n dripping liquid myrrh.",
"14": "His arms are rods of gold,\n set with jewels.\nHis body is polished ivory,\n bedecked with sapphires.",
"15": "His legs are alabaster columns,\n set on bases of gold.\nHis appearance is like Lebanon,\n choice as the cedars.",
"16": "His mouth is most sweet,\n and he is altogether desirable.\nThis is my beloved and this is my friend,\n O daughters of Jerusalem."
},
"6": {
"1": "Where has your beloved gone,\n O most beautiful among women?\nWhere has your beloved turned,\n that we may seek him with you?",
"2": "My beloved has gone down to his garden\n to the beds of spices,\nto graze in the gardens\n and to gather lilies.",
"3": "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine;\n he grazes among the lilies.",
"4": "You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love,\n lovely as Jerusalem,\n awesome as an army with banners.",
"5": "Turn away your eyes from me,\n for they overwhelm me—\nYour hair is like a flock of goats\n leaping down the slopes of Gilead.",
"6": "Your teeth are like a flock of ewes\n that have come up from the washing;\nall of them bear twins;\n not one among them has lost its young.",
"7": "Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate\n behind your veil.",
"8": "There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,\n and virgins without number.",
"9": "My dove, my perfect one, is the only one,\n the only one of her mother,\n pure to her who bore her.\nThe young women saw her and called her blessed;\n the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.",
"10": "“Who is this who looks down like the dawn,\n beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,\n awesome as an army with banners?”",
"11": "I went down to the nut orchard\n to look at the blossoms of the valley,\nto see whether the vines had budded,\n whether the pomegranates were in bloom.",
"12": "Before I was aware, my desire set me\n among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.",
"13": "Return, return, O Shulammite,\n return, return, that we may look upon you.\nWhy should you look upon the Shulammite,\n as upon a dance before two armies?"
},
"7": {
"1": "How beautiful are your feet in sandals,\n O noble daughter!\nYour rounded thighs are like jewels,\n the work of a master hand.",
"2": "Your navel is a rounded bowl\n that never lacks mixed wine.\nYour belly is a heap of wheat,\n encircled with lilies.",
"3": "Your two breasts are like two fawns,\n twins of a gazelle.",
"4": "Your neck is like an ivory tower.\nYour eyes are pools in Heshbon,\n by the gate of Bath-rabbim.\nYour nose is like a tower of Lebanon,\n which looks toward Damascus.",
"5": "Your head crowns you like Carmel,\n and your flowing locks are like purple;\n a king is held captive in the tresses.",
"6": "How beautiful and pleasant you are,\n O loved one, with all your delights!",
"7": "Your stature is like a palm tree,\n and your breasts are like its clusters.",
"8": "I say I will climb the palm tree\n and lay hold of its fruit.\nOh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,\n and the scent of your breath like apples,",
"9": "and your mouth like the best wine.\nIt goes down smoothly for my beloved,\n gliding over lips and teeth.",
"10": "I am my beloved's,\n and his desire is for me.",
"11": "Come, my beloved,\n let us go out into the fields\n and lodge in the villages;",
"12": "let us go out early to the vineyards\n and see whether the vines have budded,\nwhether the grape blossoms have opened\n and the pomegranates are in bloom.\nThere I will give you my love.",
"13": "The mandrakes give forth fragrance,\n and beside our doors are all choice fruits,\nnew as well as old,\n which I have laid up for you, O my beloved."
},
"8": {
"1": "Oh that you were like a brother to me\n who nursed at my mother's breasts!\nIf I found you outside, I would kiss you,\n and none would despise me.",
"2": "I would lead you and bring you\n into the house of my mother—\n she who used to teach me.\nI would give you spiced wine to drink,\n the juice of my pomegranate.",
"3": "His left hand is under my head,\n and his right hand embraces me!",
"4": "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,\n that you not stir up or awaken love\n until it pleases.",
"5": "Who is that coming up from the wilderness,\n leaning on her beloved?\nUnder the apple tree I awakened you.\nThere your mother was in labor with you;\n there she who bore you was in labor.",
"6": "Set me as a seal upon your heart,\n as a seal upon your arm,\nfor love is strong as death,\n jealousy is fierce as the grave.\nIts flashes are flashes of fire,\n the very flame of the Lord.",
"7": "Many waters cannot quench love,\n neither can floods drown it.\nIf a man offered for love\n all the wealth of his house,\n he would be utterly despised.",
"8": "We have a little sister,\n and she has no breasts.\nWhat shall we do for our sister\n on the day when she is spoken for?",
"9": "If she is a wall,\n we will build on her a battlement of silver,\nbut if she is a door,\n we will enclose her with boards of cedar.",
"10": "I was a wall,\n and my breasts were like towers;\nthen I was in his eyes\n as one who finds peace.",
"11": "Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;\n he let out the vineyard to keepers;\n each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.",
"12": "My vineyard, my very own, is before me;\n you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,\n and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.",
"13": "O you who dwell in the gardens,\n with companions listening for your voice;\n let me hear it.",
"14": "Make haste, my beloved,\n and be like a gazelle\nor a young stag\n on the mountains of spices."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:23.800408-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Titus": {
"1": {
"1": "Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,",
"2": "in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began",
"3": "and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;",
"4": "To Titus, my true child in a common faith:\nGrace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.",
"5": "This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—",
"6": "if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.",
"7": "For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,",
"8": "but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.",
"9": "He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.",
"10": "For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.",
"11": "They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.",
"12": "One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”",
"13": "This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,",
"14": "not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.",
"15": "To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.",
"16": "They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work."
},
"2": {
"1": "But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.",
"2": "Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.",
"3": "Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,",
"4": "and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,",
"5": "to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.",
"6": "Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.",
"7": "Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,",
"8": "and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.",
"9": "Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,",
"10": "not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.",
"11": "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,",
"12": "training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,",
"13": "waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,",
"14": "who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.",
"15": "Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you."
},
"3": {
"1": "Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,",
"2": "to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.",
"3": "For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.",
"4": "But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,",
"5": "he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,",
"6": "whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,",
"7": "so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.",
"8": "The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.",
"9": "But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.",
"10": "As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,",
"11": "knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.",
"12": "When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.",
"13": "Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing.",
"14": "And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.",
"15": "All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith.\nGrace be with you all."
}
}
}
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"Info": {
"Language": "English",
"Meaningless": "1.2.0",
"Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:37:09.509906-04:00",
"Translation": "ESV"
},
"Zechariah": {
"1": {
"1": "In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,",
"2": "“The Lord was very angry with your fathers.",
"3": "Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.",
"4": "Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.",
"5": "Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?",
"6": "But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, ‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”",
"7": "On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,",
"8": "“I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.",
"9": "Then I said, ‘What are these, my lord?’ The angel who talked with me said to me, ‘I will show you what they are.’",
"10": "So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, ‘These are they whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth.’",
"11": "And they answered the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, ‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.’",
"12": "Then the angel of the Lord said, ‘O Lord of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?’",
"13": "And the Lord answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.",
"14": "So the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.",
"15": "And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.",
"16": "Therefore, thus says the Lord, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the Lord of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.",
"17": "Cry out again, Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’”",
"18": "And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns!",
"19": "And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”",
"20": "Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen.",
"21": "And I said, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”"
},
"2": {
"1": "And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!",
"2": "Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”",
"3": "And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him",
"4": "and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in it.",
"5": "And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the Lord, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”",
"6": "Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north, declares the Lord. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares the Lord.",
"7": "Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.",
"8": "For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:",
"9": "“Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.",
"10": "Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the Lord.",
"11": "And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.",
"12": "And the Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.”",
"13": "Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling."
},
"3": {
"1": "Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.",
"2": "And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?”",
"3": "Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments.",
"4": "And the angel said to those who were standing before him, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him he said, “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.”",
"5": "And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord was standing by.",
"6": "And the angel of the Lord solemnly assured Joshua,",
"7": "“Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here.",
"8": "Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.",
"9": "For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.",
"10": "In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.”"
},
"4": {
"1": "And the angel who talked with me came again and woke me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep.",
"2": "And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it.",
"3": "And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”",
"4": "And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”",
"5": "Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”",
"6": "Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.",
"7": "Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”",
"8": "Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,",
"9": "“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.",
"10": "For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.\n“These seven are the eyes of the Lord, which range through the whole earth.”",
"11": "Then I said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?”",
"12": "And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil is poured out?”",
"13": "He said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”",
"14": "Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”"
},
"5": {
"1": "Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!",
"2": "And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”",
"3": "Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.",
"4": "I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”",
"5": "Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out.”",
"6": "And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”",
"7": "And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket!",
"8": "And he said, “This is Wickedness.” And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening.",
"9": "Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.",
"10": "Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”",
"11": "He said to me, “To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base.”"
},
"6": {
"1": "Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains. And the mountains were mountains of bronze.",
"2": "The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,",
"3": "the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled horses—all of them strong.",
"4": "Then I answered and said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”",
"5": "And the angel answered and said to me, “These are going out to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.",
"6": "The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country.”",
"7": "When the strong horses came out, they were impatient to go and patrol the earth. And he said, “Go, patrol the earth.” So they patrolled the earth.",
"8": "Then he cried to me, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have set my Spirit at rest in the north country.”",
"9": "And the word of the Lord came to me:",
"10": "“Take from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon, and go the same day to the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah.",
"11": "Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.",
"12": "And say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall branch out from his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord.",
"13": "It is he who shall build the temple of the Lord and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on his throne. And there shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.”’",
"14": "And the crown shall be in the temple of the Lord as a reminder to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah.",
"15": "“And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the Lord. And you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.”"
},
"7": {
"1": "In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.",
"2": "Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord,",
"3": "saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”",
"4": "Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:",
"5": "“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?",
"6": "And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?",
"7": "Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”",
"8": "And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,",
"9": "“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,",
"10": "do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”",
"11": "But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.",
"12": "They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.",
"13": "“As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,",
"14": "“and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate.”"
},
"8": {
"1": "And the word of the Lord of hosts came, saying,",
"2": "“Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.",
"3": "Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.",
"4": "Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age.",
"5": "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.",
"6": "Thus says the Lord of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my sight, declares the Lord of hosts?",
"7": "Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country,",
"8": "and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness.”",
"9": "Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.",
"10": "For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in, for I set every man against his neighbor.",
"11": "But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days, declares the Lord of hosts.",
"12": "For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.",
"13": "And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong.”",
"14": "For thus says the Lord of hosts: “As I purposed to bring disaster to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the Lord of hosts,",
"15": "so again have I purposed in these days to bring good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not.",
"16": "These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;",
"17": "do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the Lord.”",
"18": "And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,",
"19": "“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.",
"20": "“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities.",
"21": "The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going.’",
"22": "Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.",
"23": "Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”"
},
"9": {
"1": "The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach\n and Damascus is its resting place.\nFor the Lord has an eye on mankind\n and on all the tribes of Israel,",
"2": "and on Hamath also, which borders on it,\n Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.",
"3": "Tyre has built herself a rampart\n and heaped up silver like dust,\n and fine gold like the mud of the streets.",
"4": "But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions\n and strike down her power on the sea,\n and she shall be devoured by fire.",
"5": "Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid;\n Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish;\n Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded.\nThe king shall perish from Gaza;\n Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;",
"6": "a mixed people shall dwell in Ashdod,\n and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.",
"7": "I will take away its blood from its mouth,\n and its abominations from between its teeth;\nit too shall be a remnant for our God;\n it shall be like a clan in Judah,\n and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.",
"8": "Then I will encamp at my house as a guard,\n so that none shall march to and fro;\nno oppressor shall again march over them,\n for now I see with my own eyes.",
"9": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!\n Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!\nBehold, your king is coming to you;\n righteous and having salvation is he,\nhumble and mounted on a donkey,\n on a colt, the foal of a donkey.",
"10": "I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim\n and the war horse from Jerusalem;\nand the battle bow shall be cut off,\n and he shall speak peace to the nations;\nhis rule shall be from sea to sea,\n and from the River to the ends of the earth.",
"11": "As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,\n I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.",
"12": "Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;\n today I declare that I will restore to you double.",
"13": "For I have bent Judah as my bow;\n I have made Ephraim its arrow.\nI will stir up your sons, O Zion,\n against your sons, O Greece,\n and wield you like a warrior's sword.",
"14": "Then the Lord will appear over them,\n and his arrow will go forth like lightning;\nthe Lord God will sound the trumpet\n and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.",
"15": "The Lord of hosts will protect them,\n and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones,\nand they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,\n and be full like a bowl,\n drenched like the corners of the altar.",
"16": "On that day the Lord their God will save them,\n as the flock of his people;\nfor like the jewels of a crown\n they shall shine on his land.",
"17": "For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty!\n Grain shall make the young men flourish,\n and new wine the young women."
},
"10": {
"1": "Ask rain from the Lord\n in the season of the spring rain,\nfrom the Lord who makes the storm clouds,\n and he will give them showers of rain,\n to everyone the vegetation in the field.",
"2": "For the household gods utter nonsense,\n and the diviners see lies;\nthey tell false dreams\n and give empty consolation.\nTherefore the people wander like sheep;\n they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.",
"3": "“My anger is hot against the shepherds,\n and I will punish the leaders;\nfor the Lord of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah,\n and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.",
"4": "From him shall come the cornerstone,\n from him the tent peg,\nfrom him the battle bow,\n from him every ruler—all of them together.",
"5": "They shall be like mighty men in battle,\n trampling the foe in the mud of the streets;\nthey shall fight because the Lord is with them,\n and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.",
"6": "“I will strengthen the house of Judah,\n and I will save the house of Joseph.\nI will bring them back because I have compassion on them,\n and they shall be as though I had not rejected them,\n for I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.",
"7": "Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior,\n and their hearts shall be glad as with wine.\nTheir children shall see it and be glad;\n their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.",
"8": "“I will whistle for them and gather them in,\n for I have redeemed them,\n and they shall be as many as they were before.",
"9": "Though I scattered them among the nations,\n yet in far countries they shall remember me,\n and with their children they shall live and return.",
"10": "I will bring them home from the land of Egypt,\n and gather them from Assyria,\nand I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon,\n till there is no room for them.",
"11": "He shall pass through the sea of troubles\n and strike down the waves of the sea,\n and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up.\nThe pride of Assyria shall be laid low,\n and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.",
"12": "I will make them strong in the Lord,\n and they shall walk in his name,”\ndeclares the Lord."
},
"11": {
"1": "Open your doors, O Lebanon,\n that the fire may devour your cedars!",
"2": "Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,\n for the glorious trees are ruined!\nWail, oaks of Bashan,\n for the thick forest has been felled!",
"3": "The sound of the wail of the shepherds,\n for their glory is ruined!\nThe sound of the roar of the lions,\n for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!",
"4": "Thus said the Lord my God: “Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.",
"5": "Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.",
"6": "For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”",
"7": "So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.",
"8": "In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.",
"9": "So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.”",
"10": "And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.",
"11": "So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.",
"12": "Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.",
"13": "Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter.",
"14": "Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.",
"15": "Then the Lord said to me, “Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.",
"16": "For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.",
"17": "“Woe to my worthless shepherd,\n who deserts the flock!\nMay the sword strike his arm\n and his right eye!\nLet his arm be wholly withered,\n his right eye utterly blinded!”"
},
"12": {
"1": "The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:",
"2": "“Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah.",
"3": "On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.",
"4": "On that day, declares the Lord, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.",
"5": "Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the Lord of hosts, their God.’",
"6": "“On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.",
"7": "“And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.",
"8": "On that day the Lord will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the Lord, going before them.",
"9": "And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.",
"10": "“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.",
"11": "On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.",
"12": "The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;",
"13": "the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves;",
"14": "and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves."
},
"13": {
"1": "“On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.",
"2": "“And on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.",
"3": "And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.",
"4": "“On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive,",
"5": "but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’",
"6": "And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’ he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’",
"7": "“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,\n against the man who stands next to me,”\ndeclares the Lord of hosts.\n“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;\n I will turn my hand against the little ones.",
"8": "In the whole land, declares the Lord,\n two thirds shall be cut off and perish,\n and one third shall be left alive.",
"9": "And I will put this third into the fire,\n and refine them as one refines silver,\n and test them as gold is tested.\nThey will call upon my name,\n and I will answer them.\nI will say, ‘They are my people’;\n and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”"
},
"14": {
"1": "Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.",
"2": "For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.",
"3": "Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.",
"4": "On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.",
"5": "And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.",
"6": "On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost.",
"7": "And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light.",
"8": "On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.",
"9": "And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.",
"10": "The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.",
"11": "And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security.",
"12": "And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.",
"13": "And on that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other.",
"14": "Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.",
"15": "And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.",
"16": "Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.",
"17": "And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them.",
"18": "And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.",
"19": "This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.",
"20": "And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to the Lord.” And the pots in the house of the Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar.",
"21": "And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day."
}
}
}
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"Zephaniah": {
"1": {
"1": "The word of the Lord that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.",
"2": "“I will utterly sweep away everything\n from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.",
"3": "“I will sweep away man and beast;\n I will sweep away the birds of the heavens\n and the fish of the sea,\nand the rubble with the wicked.\n I will cut off mankind\n from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.",
"4": "“I will stretch out my hand against Judah\n and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem;\nand I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal\n and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests,",
"5": "those who bow down on the roofs\n to the host of the heavens,\nthose who bow down and swear to the Lord\n and yet swear by Milcom,",
"6": "those who have turned back from following the Lord,\n who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”",
"7": "Be silent before the Lord God!\n For the day of the Lord is near;\nthe Lord has prepared a sacrifice\n and consecrated his guests.",
"8": "And on the day of the Lord's sacrifice—\n“I will punish the officials and the king's sons\n and all who array themselves in foreign attire.",
"9": "On that day I will punish\n everyone who leaps over the threshold,\nand those who fill their master's house\n with violence and fraud.",
"10": "“On that day,” declares the Lord,\n “a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate,\na wail from the Second Quarter,\n a loud crash from the hills.",
"11": "Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar!\n For all the traders are no more;\n all who weigh out silver are cut off.",
"12": "At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps,\n and I will punish the men\nwho are complacent,\n those who say in their hearts,\n‘The Lord will not do good,\n nor will he do ill.’",
"13": "Their goods shall be plundered,\n and their houses laid waste.\nThough they build houses,\n they shall not inhabit them;\nthough they plant vineyards,\n they shall not drink wine from them.”",
"14": "The great day of the Lord is near,\n near and hastening fast;\nthe sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;\n the mighty man cries aloud there.",
"15": "A day of wrath is that day,\n a day of distress and anguish,\na day of ruin and devastation,\n a day of darkness and gloom,\na day of clouds and thick darkness,",
"16": "a day of trumpet blast and battle cry\nagainst the fortified cities\n and against the lofty battlements.",
"17": "I will bring distress on mankind,\n so that they shall walk like the blind,\n because they have sinned against the Lord;\ntheir blood shall be poured out like dust,\n and their flesh like dung.",
"18": "Neither their silver nor their gold\n shall be able to deliver them\n on the day of the wrath of the Lord.\nIn the fire of his jealousy,\n all the earth shall be consumed;\nfor a full and sudden end\n he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth."
},
"2": {
"1": "Gather together, yes, gather,\n O shameless nation,",
"2": "before the decree takes effect\n —before the day passes away like chaff—\nbefore there comes upon you\n the burning anger of the Lord,\nbefore there comes upon you\n the day of the anger of the Lord.",
"3": "Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,\n who do his just commands;\nseek righteousness; seek humility;\n perhaps you may be hidden\n on the day of the anger of the Lord.",
"4": "For Gaza shall be deserted,\n and Ashkelon shall become a desolation;\nAshdod's people shall be driven out at noon,\n and Ekron shall be uprooted.",
"5": "Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast,\n you nation of the Cherethites!\nThe word of the Lord is against you,\n O Canaan, land of the Philistines;\n and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.",
"6": "And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures,\n with meadows for shepherds\n and folds for flocks.",
"7": "The seacoast shall become the possession\n of the remnant of the house of Judah,\n on which they shall graze,\nand in the houses of Ashkelon\n they shall lie down at evening.\nFor the Lord their God will be mindful of them\n and restore their fortunes.",
"8": "“I have heard the taunts of Moab\n and the revilings of the Ammonites,\nhow they have taunted my people\n and made boasts against their territory.",
"9": "Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,\n the God of Israel,\n“Moab shall become like Sodom,\n and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,\na land possessed by nettles and salt pits,\n and a waste forever.\nThe remnant of my people shall plunder them,\n and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”",
"10": "This shall be their lot in return for their pride,\n because they taunted and boasted\n against the people of the Lord of hosts.",
"11": "The Lord will be awesome against them;\n for he will famish all the gods of the earth,\nand to him shall bow down,\n each in its place,\n all the lands of the nations.",
"12": "You also, O Cushites,\n shall be slain by my sword.",
"13": "And he will stretch out his hand against the north\n and destroy Assyria,\nand he will make Nineveh a desolation,\n a dry waste like the desert.",
"14": "Herds shall lie down in her midst,\n all kinds of beasts;\neven the owl and the hedgehog\n shall lodge in her capitals;\na voice shall hoot in the window;\n devastation will be on the threshold;\n for her cedar work will be laid bare.",
"15": "This is the exultant city\n that lived securely,\nthat said in her heart,\n “I am, and there is no one else.”\nWhat a desolation she has become,\n a lair for wild beasts!\nEveryone who passes by her\n hisses and shakes his fist."
},
"3": {
"1": "Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,\n the oppressing city!",
"2": "She listens to no voice;\n she accepts no correction.\nShe does not trust in the Lord;\n she does not draw near to her God.",
"3": "Her officials within her\n are roaring lions;\nher judges are evening wolves\n that leave nothing till the morning.",
"4": "Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;\nher priests profane what is holy;\n they do violence to the law.",
"5": "The Lord within her is righteous;\n he does no injustice;\nevery morning he shows forth his justice;\n each dawn he does not fail;\n but the unjust knows no shame.",
"6": "“I have cut off nations;\n their battlements are in ruins;\nI have laid waste their streets\n so that no one walks in them;\ntheir cities have been made desolate,\n without a man, without an inhabitant.",
"7": "I said, ‘Surely you will fear me;\n you will accept correction.\nThen your dwelling would not be cut off\n according to all that I have appointed against you.’\nBut all the more they were eager\n to make all their deeds corrupt.",
"8": "“Therefore wait for me,” declares the Lord,\n “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey.\nFor my decision is to gather nations,\n to assemble kingdoms,\nto pour out upon them my indignation,\n all my burning anger;\nfor in the fire of my jealousy\n all the earth shall be consumed.",
"9": "“For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples\n to a pure speech,\nthat all of them may call upon the name of the Lord\n and serve him with one accord.",
"10": "From beyond the rivers of Cush\n my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones,\n shall bring my offering.",
"11": "“On that day you shall not be put to shame\n because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me;\nfor then I will remove from your midst\n your proudly exultant ones,\nand you shall no longer be haughty\n in my holy mountain.",
"12": "But I will leave in your midst\n a people humble and lowly.\nThey shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord,",
"13": "those who are left in Israel;\nthey shall do no injustice\n and speak no lies,\nnor shall there be found in their mouth\n a deceitful tongue.\nFor they shall graze and lie down,\n and none shall make them afraid.”",
"14": "Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion;\n shout, O Israel!\nRejoice and exult with all your heart,\n O daughter of Jerusalem!",
"15": "The Lord has taken away the judgments against you;\n he has cleared away your enemies.\nThe King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst;\n you shall never again fear evil.",
"16": "On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:\n“Fear not, O Zion;\n let not your hands grow weak.",
"17": "The Lord your God is in your midst,\n a mighty one who will save;\nhe will rejoice over you with gladness;\n he will quiet you by his love;\nhe will exult over you with loud singing.",
"18": "I will gather those of you who mourn for the festival,\n so that you will no longer suffer reproach.",
"19": "Behold, at that time I will deal\n with all your oppressors.\nAnd I will save the lame\n and gather the outcast,\nand I will change their shame into praise\n and renown in all the earth.",
"20": "At that time I will bring you in,\n at the time when I gather you together;\nfor I will make you renowned and praised\n among all the peoples of the earth,\nwhen I restore your fortunes\n before your eyes,” says the Lord."
}
}
}