Ruth Cross References - MLV

¹ And it happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to journey in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. ² And the name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. And they came into the country of Moab and continued there.
³ And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died and she was left and her two sons. ⁴ And they took wives for them of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth and they dwelt there about ten years. ⁵ And Mahlon and Chilion died, both of them and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.
⁶ Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab how that Jehovah had visited his people in giving them bread. ⁷ And she went forth out of the place where she was and her two daughters-in-law with her and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
⁸ And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you* to her mother's house. Jehovah deal kindly with you*, as you* have dealt with the dead and with me. ⁹ Jehovah grant you* 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, but we will return with you to your people.
¹¹ And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Why will you* go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your* husbands? ¹² Turn again, my daughters. Go your* way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope. If I should even have a husband tonight and should also bear sons, ¹³ would you* therefore delay till they were grown? Would you* therefore stay from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your* sakes, for the hand of Jehovah has gone forth against me.
¹⁴ And they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. ¹⁵ And she said, Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Return after your sister-in-law.
¹⁶ And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people and your God my God. ¹⁷ Where you die, I will die and there I will be buried. Jehovah do so to me and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.
¹⁸ And when she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
¹⁹ So those two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they came to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them and the women said, Is this Naomi? ²⁰ And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full and Jehovah has brought me home again empty. Why do you* call me Naomi, seeing Jehovah has testified against me and the Almighty has afflicted me?
²² So Naomi returned and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to journey there, because the famine was severe in the land.

¹ And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech King of the Philistines, to Gerar.

¹ And the famine was severe in the land.

¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your* power. And I will make your* sky as iron and your* earth as brass,

²³ And your sky that is over your head will be brass and the earth that is under you will be iron. ²⁴ Jehovah will make the rain of your land powder and dust. From the sky it will come down upon you, until you are destroyed.

³⁸ You will carry much seed out into the field and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

¹⁶ And Jehovah raised up judges who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them. ¹⁷ And yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the prostitute after other gods and bowed themselves to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah. They did not do so.
¹⁸ And when Jehovah raised up judges for them, then Jehovah was with the judge and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For Jehovah regretted because of their groaning because of those who oppressed them and distressed them.

⁸ And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

⁸ And the man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem in Judah, to journey where he could find a place. And he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

¹ And it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite traveling on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem in Judah. ² And his concubine played the prostitute against him and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem in Judah and was there the space of four months.

¹ And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the travelers of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
² And the word of Jehovah came to him, saying, ³ You get from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan. ⁴ And it will be, that you will drink of the brook and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.
⁵ So he went and did according to the word of Jehovah, for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening and he drank of the brook. ⁷ And it happened after a while, that the brook dried up because there was no rain in the land.
⁸ And the word of Jehovah came to him, saying, ⁹ Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain 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, I beseech you, fetch me a little water in a vessel that I may drink. ¹¹ And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her and said, I beseech you, bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.
¹² And she said, As Jehovah your God lives, I do not have a cake, but a handful of meal in the pitcher and a little oil in the jar. And behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it and die.

² And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.

¹ Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise and go and your household and journey wherever you can journey, for Jehovah has called for a famine and it will also come upon the land seven years. ² And the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. And she went with her household and traveled in the land of the Philistines seven years.

¹⁶ And he called for a famine upon the land. He broke the whole staff of bread.

³⁴ a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

¹ The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

¹³ Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass and I stretch out my hand upon it and break the staff of the bread of it and send famine upon it and cut off from it man and beast,

²¹ For thus says the lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword and the famine and the evil beasts and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

¹⁰ The field is laid waste; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
¹¹ Be confounded, O you* farmer. Wail, O you* vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field has perished.

¹⁶ Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? ¹⁷ The seeds rot under their clods. The garners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down. For the grain is withered. ¹⁸ How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture, yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
¹⁹ O Jehovah, I cry to you. For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Yes, the beasts of the field pant to you, for the water brooks are dried up and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

⁶ And I also have given you* cleanness of teeth in all your* cities and want of bread in all your* places.
Yet you* have not returned to me, says Jehovah.

¹⁹ And Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (what is Bethlehem).

¹ Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill-country of Ephraim. And his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

²¹ And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

² But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of you he will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from long-ago, from the days of everlasting.

¹ Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead and you know that your servant feared Jehovah and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bondmen.

¹⁹ The afflictions of the righteous are many, but Jehovah delivers him out of them all.

⁶ For whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and scourges every son whom he is accepting.’

¹⁰ For they indeed were disciplining us for a few days according to what did seem right to them, but he does it upon what is advantageous for us, that we may receive of his holiness. ¹¹ Now indeed all disciplining does not seem to be a thing of joy for the present, but of sorrow; now later it gives peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised because of it.

³ Neither will you make marriages with them. Your daughter you will not give to his son, nor his daughter will you take to your son.

³ An Ammonite or a Moabite will not enter into the assembly of Jehovah, even to the tenth generation none belonging to them will enter into the assembly of Jehovah everlasting,

¹ Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites, ² of the nations concerning which Jehovah said to the sons of Israel, You* will not go among them, neither will they come among you*, for surely they will turn away your* heart after their gods. Solomon clung to these in love.

⁵ and Salmon fathered Boaz from Rahab; and Boaz fathered Obed from Ruth; and Obed fathered Jesse;

³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he and there is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

³⁰ If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my ordinances, ³¹ if they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments, ³² then I will visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes,

²¹ Then you will say in your heart, Who has fathered these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons and am solitary, an exile and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were they?

¹⁹ Your own wickedness will discipline you and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Jehovah your God and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

²⁵ Now seven brethren were with us, and the first having married, but after he was dead, his wife had no seed left to his brother; ²⁶ likewise also the second and the third, until the seventh. ²⁷ But after them all, the woman also died.

¹² Now as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold also, one who had died, was being entombed, the only begotten son of his mother and she was a widow and a considerable crowd from the city was together with her.

¹ And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken.

²⁰ And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat and garments to put on,

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

²⁵ And Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you* and you* will carry up my bones from here.

¹⁶ Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your* fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you* and seen what is done to you* in Egypt.

³¹ And the people believed. And when they heard that Jehovah had visited the sons of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

⁴ Then Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you* and the people will go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. ⁵ And it will happen on the sixth day, that they will prepare what they bring in and it will be twice as much as they gather daily.
⁶ And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, At evening, then you* will know that Jehovah has brought you* out from the land of Egypt,

²¹ And Jehovah visited Hannah and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before Jehovah.

¹⁴ He causes the grass to grow for the cattle and herbage for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth, ¹⁵ and wine that gladdens the heart of man and oil to make his face to shine and bread that strengthens man's heart.

⁵ He has given food to those who fear him. He will ever be mindful of his everlasting covenant.

¹⁵ I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait for you and you give them their food in due season.

⁷ who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. Jehovah releases the prisoners.

¹⁴ He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.

⁸ Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

¹⁰ For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven and returns not there, but waters the earth and makes it bring forth and bud and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

¹⁰ For Jehovah says thus, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you* and perform my good word toward you* in causing you* to return to this place.

⁷ And the coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will feed their flocks upon it. In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down in the evening. For Jehovah their God will visit them and bring back their captivity.

¹¹ Give our needful bread to us today.

⁶⁸ The Lord, the God of Israel is gracious. Because he has visited and made redemption for his people,

⁴⁴ and will be leveling you to the bedrock, and your children among you, and they will not be leaving in you one stone upon another stone, because you did not know the time of your visitation.

⁸ but we will be content with these things, having nourishment and clothes.

¹² having your good conduct seen among the Gentiles; in order that, in what they are speaking against you, as evildoers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, having eye-witnessed things from your good works.

²⁷ And Moses let his father-in-law depart and he went his way into his own land.

¹⁰ And they said to her, No, but we will return with you to your people.

¹⁴ And they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

³ And it happened at the end of seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you* to serve Jehovah, choose you* this day whom you* will serve: whether the gods which your* fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you* dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
¹⁶ And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods. ¹⁷ For Jehovah our God, he it is who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed. ¹⁸ And Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who dwelt in the land. Therefore we also will serve Jehovah, for he is our God.
¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You* cannot serve Jehovah, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your* transgression nor your* sins. ²⁰ If you* forsake Jehovah and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you* evil and consume you*, after he has done you* good. ²¹ And the people said to Joshua, No, but we will serve Jehovah.
²² And Joshua said to the people, You* are witnesses against yourselves that you* have chosen for you*, Jehovah, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. ²³ Now therefore, he said, put away the foreign gods which are among you* and incline your* heart to Jehovah, the God of Israel. ²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, we will serve Jehovah our God and we will listen to his voice.
²⁵ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
²⁶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God. And he took a great stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Jehovah.
²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of Jehovah which he spoke to us. It will be therefore a witness against you*, lest you* deny your* God.
²⁸ So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

⁵ And Mahlon and Chilion died, both of them and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.

²⁰ And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, He of Jehovah is blessed who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said to her, The man is near of kin to us, one of our near kinsmen.

²⁵ Now large crowds were traveling together with him and he turned and said to them, ²⁶ If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and also, still his own life, he is not able to be my disciple. ²⁷ And whoever does not bear his own cross, and comes after me, is not able to be my disciple.
²⁸ For which out of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, if he has the means toward its realization? ²⁹ Lest, when he has laid a foundation and is not strong-enough to complete, all who view it may begin to mock him, ³⁰ saying, This one began to build and was not strong-enough to complete.
³¹ Or what king, while traveling to encounter a different king in war, has not sit down first and plans if he is able at ten-thousand to encounter the one who is coming against him with twenty thousand? ³² Otherwise, having sent an ambassador, while still being faraway, he asks for the terms of peace. ³³ Therefore, so everyone out of you who is not bidding farewell to all his own possessions, he is not able to be my disciple.

²² The wives be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

² Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment in the promise), ³ in order that it may become well with you, and you may be upon the earth a long time.

¹⁸ But I have all things, and I am abounding. I have been filled, having accepted from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, an aroma of a sweet-fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God. ¹⁹ Now my God will be filling every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ The wives: be subject to your own husbands, as is proper in the Lord.

²⁴ knowing that you will be receiving from the Lord the payment of the inheritance; for you are serving the Lord Christ.

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and is not ashamed of my chain; ¹⁷ but, when he happened to be in Rome, he diligently sought me and found me, ¹⁸ (may the Lord give to him to find mercy from the Lord in that day), and how-much he served me in Ephesus, you know this quite-well.

²⁷ And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that Jehovah has blessed.

¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept.

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And after that his brothers talked with him.

¹ And Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

³⁷ But there became considerable weeping from all, and having fallen upon Paul’s neck, they were kissing him,

³ As for the holy ones who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

⁶³ I am a companion of all those who fear you and of those who observe your precepts.

²³ Jehovah of hosts says thus: In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you*, for we have heard that God is with you*.

¹¹ Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in law, Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up, because he said, Lest he also die, like his brothers. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

⁵ If brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man will not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother will go in to her and take her to him as a wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

¹⁷ Then Abraham fell upon his face and laughed and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

⁹ Do not let a widow be enrolled who is less than sixty years old, having become the wife of one man,

¹⁵ Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

¹⁵ Wherever they went out, the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah had spoken and as Jehovah had sworn to them. And they were exceedingly distressed.

¹¹ They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you* my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

⁴ Because day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.

² Because your arrows stick fast in me and your hand presses me severely.

⁹ I was mute. I did not open my mouth, because you did it. ¹⁰ Remove your stroke away from me. I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

²⁸ and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.

⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.

⁴ But you* who clung to Jehovah your* God are alive every one of you* this day.

²⁰ You will fear Jehovah your God. Him you will serve and to him you will cling and by his name you will swear.

²⁰ And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, I beseech you, 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?

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity.

²⁴ He who makes many friends does it to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

¹ For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob and will yet choose Israel and set them in their own land. And the traveler will join himself with them and they will cling to the house of Jacob.

³⁷ He who loves his father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves his son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, If anyone is willing to come after me, let him deny himself and lift up his cross and follow me.

²² But when the young-man heard the word, he went away and was sorrowing; for he had many properties.

²¹ Now Jesus looking at him, loved him, and said to him, You are lacking in one thing. Go, sell as many things as you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. And come-here, follow me, having lifted up your cross. ²² But being dismal upon the word, he went away and was sorrowing; for he had many properties.

⁶⁶ Many of his disciples went away from this speech to things left behind and were walking no more with him. ⁶⁷ Therefore Jesus said to the twelve, You will not also be going away, will you?
⁶⁸ Therefore Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of everlasting life. ⁶⁹ And we have believed and have known that you are the Christ the Son of the living God.

³⁴ But some men, having joined themselves to him, believed; among whom was also Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman, Damaris by name, and others together with them.

¹⁰ for Demas forsook me and traveled to Thessalonica, having loved this current age; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

³⁹ But we are not from this retreating back leading to destruction, but we are from the faith leading to the preservation of the soul.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you* to serve Jehovah, choose you* this day whom you* will serve: whether the gods which your* fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you* dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You* cannot serve Jehovah, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your* transgression nor your* sins.

²⁴ Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whomever Jehovah our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

¹⁹ Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why do you also go with us? Return and abide with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile. Return to your own place. ²⁰ You came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, seeing I go where I may? Return and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.

² And Elijah said to Elisha, I beseech you, remain here for Jehovah has sent me as far as Bethel. And Elisha said, As Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel.

³ The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

⁵ But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of wickedness.
Peace be upon Israel.

⁶ and those who are turned back from following Jehovah and those who have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.

²⁰ And he who was sown upon the rocky-areas, this is he who hears the word and immediately is receiving it with joy; ²¹ but he does not have root in himself, but is temporary, and when affliction or persecution has happened to him because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

²⁸ And they drew near to the village, where they were traveling and he was making-like that he was to travel farther.

³⁸ But my righteous one will be living from faith and if he retreats back, my soul does not delight in him.’

¹⁹ They went out away from us, but they were not from us; for if they had been from us, they would have remained with us, but they went out, in order that they might be made manifest that all of them are not from us.

¹⁸ And Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who dwelt in the land. Therefore we also will serve Jehovah, for he is our God.

¹¹ And Boaz answered and said to her, It has been fully shown me all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband and how you have left your father and your mother and the land of your nativity and have come to a people that you did not know formerly.
¹² Jehovah recompense your work and a full reward be given you of Jehovah, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.

²¹ And Ittai answered the king and said, As Jehovah lives and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king will be, whether for death or for life, even there your servant will also be.

² And Elijah said to Elisha, I beseech you, remain here for Jehovah has sent me as far as Bethel. And Elisha said, As Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel.
³ And the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, Do you know that Jehovah will take away your master from your head today? And he said, Yes, I know it; hold your* peace. ⁴ And Elijah said to him, Elisha, I beseech you, remain here because Jehovah has sent me to Jericho. And he said, As Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho.
⁵ And the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha and said to him, Do you know that Jehovah will take away your master from your head today? And he answered, Yes, I know it; hold your* peace. ⁶ And Elijah said to him, I beseech you, remain here because Jehovah has sent me to the Jordan. And he said, As Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And the two went on.

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter and consider and incline your ear. Forget also your own people and your father's house.

⁴⁷ The king answered to Daniel and said, Of a truth your* God is the God of gods and Lord of kings and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.

²⁹ Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation and language, which speaks anything negligent against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, will be cut in pieces and their houses will be made a dunghill, because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth and his ways justice. And he is able to humble those who walk in pride.

⁴ Yet I am Jehovah your God from the land of Egypt and you will know no god but me and besides me there is no savior.

¹⁹ And one scribe came to him, and said, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.

²⁸ And they drew near to the village, where they were traveling and he was making-like that he was to travel farther.
²⁹ And they constrained him, saying, Abide with us, because it is toward dusk and the day is far-spent. And he entered in to abide together with them.

³⁷ Peter says to him, Lord, why am I not able to follow you even now? I will lay down my life on your behalf.

¹³ But Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and crushing my heart? For I am not only ready to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem on behalf of the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁶ And what alliance has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; just-as God said, ‘I will be dwelling among them and will be walking among them, and I will be their God and they will be a people to me.’ ¹⁷ Hence ‘Come out from the midst of them and be separate,’says the Lord, ‘And touch no unclean thing, and I will accept you\super\'b0 ¹⁸ and will be a Father to you and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.’

⁹ For they themselves are reporting concerning us, what sort of entrance we had toward you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a living and true God,

⁴ These are those who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are those who are following the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought by Jesus from mankind, as the first-fruit to God and to the Lamb,

¹⁷ And he said, What is the thing that Jehovah has spoken to you? I beseech you, do not hide it from me. God do so to you and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you.

²² God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if I leave of all that pertains to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on the wall.

⁹ God do so to Abner and more also, if, as Jehovah has sworn to David, I do not even so to him,

³⁵ And all the people came to cause 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 is down.

¹³ And say you* to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you not be captain of the army before me continually in the place of Joab.

²³ Then king Solomon swore by Jehovah, saying, God do so to me and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

² Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

¹⁰ And Ben-hadad sent to him and said, The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

³¹ Then he said, God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat will stand on him this day.

²³ who, having come and having seen the favor of God, rejoiced and was encouraging all with purpose of heart to remain in the Lord,

²⁴ But I make account of nothing, nor am I holding my life as precious to myself, as I desire to complete my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to thoroughly testify the good-news of the favor of God.

⁴² Now they were persevering in the apostles’teaching and in fellowship and in the breaking of the bread and in prayers.

¹⁴ But when he was not persuaded, we were quiet, saying, Let the will of the Lord happen.

¹⁰ Furthermore, my brethren, be empowered in the Lord and in the dominion of his strength.

⁷ Is this your* joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to journey?

¹⁵ All who pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

¹⁰ And having entered into Jerusalem, all the city was shaken up, saying, Who is this?

¹ And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me and you will be perfect.

¹⁴ And God Almighty give you* mercy before the man, that he may release to you* your* other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my sons, I am bereaved.

³ And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but I was not known by them by my name Jehovah.

¹⁷ Behold, fortunate is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise you the chastening of the Almighty.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

⁷ Can you find out God by searching? Can you find out the Almighty to perfection?

⁶ know now that God has subverted me and has encompassed me with his net.

¹⁴ I have been plagued for all the day long and rebukes every morning.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors I am confounded.

¹³ I quieted myself until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will you make an end of me.

¹ I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. ² He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light. ³ Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day. ⁴ He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones. ⁵ He has built against me and encompassed me with gall and travail. ⁶ He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have been dead of old.
⁷ He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy. ⁸ Yes, when I cry and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹ He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.
¹⁰ He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places. ¹¹ He has turned aside my ways and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate. ¹² He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. ¹⁴ I have become a laughing-stock to all my people and their song all the day.
¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood. ¹⁶ He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes. ¹⁷ And you have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. ¹⁸ And I said, My strength has perished and my expectation from Jehovah.
¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ²⁰ My soul still has them in remembrance and is bowed down within me.

¹¹ Now indeed all disciplining does not seem to be a thing of joy for the present, but of sorrow; now later it gives peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised because of it.

⁸ I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, Who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

²² And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

⁷ Jehovah makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. ⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with rulers and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's and he has set the world upon them.

²¹ And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb and naked I will return there. Jehovah gave and Jehovah has taken away, praise the name of Jehovah.

¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me and increase your indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.

²⁶ For you write bitter things against me and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.

⁸ And you have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.

⁵ And I will come near to you* to judgment and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against the false swearers and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless and who turn aside the traveler and do not fear me, says Jehovah of hosts.

³¹ And the flax and the barley were struck, because the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bloom. ³² But the wheat and the rye were not struck, becausethey were not grown up.

²³ So she kept close by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest. And she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

⁹ And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites. And they hanged them in the mountain before Jehovah and they fell all seven together. And they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.