1 Chronicles 14 Cross References - BBE

¹ And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house. ² And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, lifting up his kingdom on high because of his people Israel. ³ And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters. ⁴ These are the names of the children he had in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab, Nathan and Solomon ⁵ And Ibhar and Elishua and Elpelet ⁶ And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia ⁷ And Elishama and Beeliada and Eliphelet. ⁸ And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over all Israel, they went up in search of David, and David, hearing of it, went out against them. ⁹ Now the Philistines had come, and had gone out in every direction in the valley of Rephaim. ¹⁰ And David, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? and will you give them into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up; for I will give them into your hands. ¹¹ So they went up to Baal-perazim, and David overcame them there, and David said, God has let the forces fighting against me be broken by my hand, as a wall is broken down by rushing water; so they gave that place the name of Baal-perazim. ¹² And the Philistines did not take their images with them in their flight; and at David's orders they were burned with fire. ¹³ Then the Philistines again went out in every direction in the valley. ¹⁴ And David went for directions to God; and God said to him, You are not to go up after them; but, turning away from them, come face to face with them opposite the spice-trees. ¹⁵ And at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go out to the fight, for God has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines. ¹⁶ And David did as the Lord had said; and they overcame the army of the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon as far as Gezer. ¹⁷ And David's name was honoured in all lands; and the Lord put the fear of him on all nations.

²² And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.

¹² For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord.

²⁸ And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not one of them was to be seen.

¹⁴ Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain. ¹⁵ The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water. ¹⁶ Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours.

²⁰ And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it.

⁴² The children of Israel did everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses. ⁴³ Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his blessing.

³⁶ And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

⁷ Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour.

²⁵ From now on I will put the fear of you in all peoples under heaven, who, hearing of you, will be shaking with fear and grief of heart because of you.

⁵ But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

²⁵ The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

²⁵ All people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land through which you go, as he has said.

¹⁷ And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.

⁹ And said to them, It is clear to me that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has come on us; ¹⁰ For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse. ¹¹ And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.

²⁷ So the Lord was with Joshua; and news of him went through all the land.

² And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back. ³ So Joshua and the fighting-men got ready to go up against Ai; and Joshua took thirty thousand men of war, and sent them out by night. ⁴ And he gave them their orders, saying, Go and take up your position secretly at the back of the town: do not go very far away, and let all of you be ready: ⁵ And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them; ⁶ And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them; ⁷ Then you will get up from your secret position and take the town, for the Lord your God will give it up into your hands.

²⁴ And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.

¹⁰ And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.

⁶ And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? ⁷ And I will make Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his war-carriages and his forces, come against you at the river Kishon, where I will give him into your hands.

¹⁴ Then Deborah said to Barak, Up! for today the Lord has given Sisera into your hands: has not the Lord gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him.

⁹ The same night the Lord said to him, Up! go down now against their army, for I have given them into your hands.

¹⁵ Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.

² They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and put it by the side of Dagon. ³ And when the people of Ashdod got up early on the morning after, they saw that Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon up and put him in his place again. ⁴ And when they got up early on the morning after, Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord; and his head and his hands were broken off on the doorstep; only the base was in its place. ⁵ So to this day no priest of Dagon, or any who come into Dagon's house, will put his foot on the doorstep of the house of Dagon in Ashdod. ⁶ But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.

⁹ If they say to us, Keep quiet where you are till we come to you; then we will keep our places and 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 hands: and this will be the sign to us. ¹¹ And they let the Philistine force see the two of them: and the Philistines said, Look! the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have taken cover. ¹² And the armed men of the force gave Jonathan and his servant their answer, saying, Come up here to us, and we will let you see something. Then Jonathan said to his servant, Come up after me: for the Lord has given them up into the hands of Israel. ¹³ And Jonathan went up, gripping with his hands and his feet, his servant going up after him; and the Philistines gave way before Jonathan when he made an attack on them, and his servant put them to death after him. ¹⁴ And at their first attack, Jonathan and his servant put to the sword about twenty men, all inside the space of half an acre of land. ¹⁵ And there was great fear in the tents and in the field and among all the men of the armed force, and the attackers were shaking with fear; even the earth was moved with a great shaking and there was a fear as from God. ¹⁶ And the watchmen of Saul, looking out from Geba in the land of Benjamin, saw all the army flowing away and running here and there. ¹⁷ Then Saul said to the people who were with him, Let everyone be numbered and let us see who has gone from us. And when they had been numbered, it was seen that Jonathan and his servant were not there. ¹⁸ And Saul said to Ahijah, Let the ephod come here. For he went before Israel with the ephod at that time. ¹⁹ Now while Saul was talking to the priest, the noise in the tents of the Philistines became louder and louder; and Saul said to the priest, Take back your hand. ²⁰ And Saul and all the people with him came together and went forward to the fight: and every man's sword was turned against the man at his side, and there was a very great noise. ²¹ Then the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines for some time, and had gone up with them to their tents, turning round were joined to those who were with Saul and Jonathan. ²² And all the men of Israel who had taken cover in the hill-country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had been put to flight, went after them, attacking them.

¹¹ And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David, the king of the land? did they not make songs about him in their dances, saying, Saul has put to death thousands, and David tens of thousands?

² So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands. ³ And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines? ⁴ Then David put the question to the Lord again, and the Lord answering said, Up! go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hands.

⁹ And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod. ¹⁰ Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me. ¹¹ And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down. ¹² Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.

⁸ Then David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go after this band? will I be able to overtake them? And in answer he said, Go after them, for you will certainly overtake them, and get back everything.

¹ Now after this, David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go up into any of the towns of Judah? And the Lord said to him, Go up. And David said, Where am I to go? And he said, To Hebron.

³ So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

¹¹ And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house. ¹² And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, and that he had made his kingdom great because of his people Israel. ¹³ And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

¹³ And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters. ¹⁴ These are the names of those whose birth took place in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon

¹⁴ These are the names of those whose birth took place in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon ¹⁵ And Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia

¹⁵ And Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia ¹⁶ And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet.

¹⁶ And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet. ¹⁷ And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over Israel, they all went up in search of David; and David, hearing of it, went down to the strong place. ¹⁸ And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

¹⁸ And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim. ¹⁹ And David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands.

¹⁹ And David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands. ²⁰ And David went to Baal-perazim, and overcame them there; and he said, The Lord has let the forces fighting against me be broken before me as a wall is broken by rushing waters. So that place was named Baal-perazim.

²⁰ And David went to Baal-perazim, and overcame them there; and he said, The Lord has let the forces fighting against me be broken before me as a wall is broken by rushing waters. So that place was named Baal-perazim. ²¹ And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away. ²² And the Philistines came up again, and went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim. ²³ And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees.

²³ And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees. ²⁴ Then at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go forward quickly, for the Lord has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines. ²⁵ And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.

²⁵ And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.

² The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

⁸ Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

¹⁶ And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned.

¹ And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.

²⁴ And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord. ²⁵ And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.

¹³ And three of the thirty went down at the start of the grain-cutting, and they came to David at the strong place of Adullam; and the band of Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.

¹³ Come now, go to King David and say to him, Did you not, O my lord, take an oath to me, your servant, saying, Truly Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom? why then is Adonijah acting as king?

¹⁷ And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.

¹⁵ And he said, You saw how the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had the idea that I would be their king; but now the kingdom is turned about, and has become my brother's, for it was given to him by the Lord.

³ And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

⁵ In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you. ⁶ And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day. ⁷ And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in. ⁸ And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given. ⁹ Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people? ¹⁰ Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹ And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;

¹ Now Hiram, king of Tyre, hearing that Solomon had been made king in place of his father, sent his servants to him; for Hiram had ever been a friend to David.

⁶ So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.

⁸ Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying; The words you sent have been given to me: I will do all your desire in the question of cedar-wood and cypress-wood. ⁹ My men will take them down from Lebanon to the sea, where I will have them corded together to go by sea to whatever place you say, and I will have them cut up there so that you may take them away; as for payment, it will be enough if you give me food for my people. ¹⁰ So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of; ¹¹ And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year. ¹² Now the Lord had given Solomon wisdom, as he had said to him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they made an agreement together.

¹⁸ Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

¹ Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete. ² And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars. ³ And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line. ⁴ There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line. ⁵ And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines. ⁶ And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) with steps before it. ⁷ Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof. ⁸ And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife. ⁹ All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments. ¹⁰ And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square. ¹¹ Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood. ¹² The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

⁹ May the Lord your God be praised, whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; because the Lord's love for Israel is eternal, he has made you king, to be their judge in righteousness.

³ He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

²² Then the prophet came up to the king of Israel, and said to him, Now make yourself strong, and take care what you do, or a year from now the king of Aram will come up against you again.

⁶ So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.

¹⁵ When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And in answer he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and the Lord will give it into the hands of the king. ¹⁶ Then the king said to him, Have I not, again and again, put you on your oath to say nothing to me but what is true in the name of the Lord? ¹⁷ Then he said, I saw all Israel wandering on the mountains like sheep without a keeper; and the Lord said, These have no master: let them go back, every man to his house in peace.

⁶ For the Lord had made the sound of carriages and horses, and the noise of a great army, come to the ears of the Aramaeans, so that they said to one another, Truly, the king of Israel has got the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians for a price to make an attack on us.

⁷ See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death by the sword.

¹⁸ And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

¹ Now these were David's sons, whose birth took place in Hebron: the oldest Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite woman; ² The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith; ³ The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his wife. ⁴ He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years. ⁵ And in Jerusalem he had four sons, Shimea and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon, by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel; ⁶ And Ibhar and Elishama and Eliphelet

⁶ And Ibhar and Elishama and Eliphelet ⁷ And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia ⁸ And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine.

⁸ And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine. ⁹ All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of his servant-wives; and Tamar was their sister.

⁶⁷ And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts,

³ So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.

¹⁵ And three of the thirty went down to David, to the rock, into the strong place of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.

³ And let us get back for ourselves the ark of our God: for in the days of Saul we did not go to it for directions.

⁹ Now the Philistines had come, and had gone out in every direction in the valley of Rephaim. ¹⁰ And David, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? and will you give them into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up; for I will give them into your hands.

¹³ Then the Philistines again went out in every direction in the valley. ¹⁴ And David went for directions to God; and God said to him, You are not to go up after them; but, turning away from them, come face to face with them opposite the spice-trees.

¹ Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent.

¹⁷ And this was only a small thing to you, O God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, looking on me as on one of high position, O Lord God.

² And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

⁹ But you will have a son who will be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from wars on every side. His name will be Solomon, and in his time I will give Israel peace and quiet; ¹⁰ He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever. ¹¹ Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do well, and put up the house of the Lord your God, as he has said of you. ¹² Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

⁵ And of all my sons for the Lord has given me a great number of sons he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. ⁶ And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder of my house and the open spaces round it; for I have taken him to be my son, and I will be his father.

³ And Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, As you did for my father David, sending him cedar-trees for the building of his house,

⁸ And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your servants are expert wood-cutters in Lebanon; and my servants will be with yours, ⁹ To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder. ¹⁰ And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil. ¹¹ Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them.

¹¹ Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them. ¹² And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

⁸ The Ammonites gave offerings to Uzziah: and news of him went out as far as the limit of Egypt; for he became very great in power.

⁷ And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.

¹⁴ If at this time you say nothing, then help and salvation will come to the Jews from some other place, but you and your father's family will come to destruction: and who is to say that you have not come to the kingdom even for such a time as this?

¹⁴ As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

¹ Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish? ² The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying, ³ Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us. ⁴ Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them. ⁵ Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled: ⁶ But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.

¹³ The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire. ¹⁴ He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled. ¹⁵ Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

⁴⁴ From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

⁴ One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

³ For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

²⁰ I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head. ²¹ My hand will be his support; my arm will give him strength. ²² The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil. ²³ I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows. ²⁴ But my faith and my mercy will be with him; and in my name will his horn be lifted up. ²⁵ I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. ²⁶ He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation. ²⁷ And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth. ²⁸ I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed. ²⁹ His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens. ³⁰ If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions; ³¹ If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept; ³² Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing. ³³ But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith. ³⁴ I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed. ³⁵ I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David. ³⁶ His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me. ³⁷ It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. Selah.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:

¹⁰ It is God who gives salvation to kings; and who kept his servant David from the wounding sword.

⁶ In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

¹⁸ Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years. ¹⁹ As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

²⁶ And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her. ²⁷ Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account, ²⁸ For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen. ²⁹ This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.

⁹ Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

²⁵ And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal; ²⁶ And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town. ²⁷ Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.

⁴ The noise of great numbers in the mountains, like the noise of a strong people! The noise of the kingdoms of the nations meeting together! The Lord of armies is numbering his forces for war.

⁵ And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.

²¹ For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.

¹ The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut; ² I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

¹³ A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work; ¹⁴ Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red. ¹⁵ Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

³⁰ As for me, this secret is not made clear to me because of any wisdom which I have more than any living man, but in order that the sense of the dream may be made clear to the king, and that you may have knowledge of the thoughts of your heart.

¹² I will certainly make all of you, O Jacob, come together; I will get together the rest of Israel; I will put them together like the sheep in their circle: like a flock in their green field; they will be full of the noise of men. ¹³ The opener of the way will go up before them: forcing their way out they will go on to the doorway and out through it: their king will go on before them, and the Lord at their head. ¹⁴ But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

⁶ And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah;

²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

⁴ And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said, ⁵ For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

⁸ He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

³¹ The son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

⁵ His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it.

⁶ Having said these words, he put earth, mixed with water from his mouth, on the man's eyes, ⁷ And said to him, Go and make yourself clean in the bath of Siloam the sense of the name is, Sent. So he went away and, after washing, came back able to see.

¹⁷ If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

² And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like the rushing of a violent wind, and all the house where they were was full of it.

¹² So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts; ¹³ For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

¹⁵ And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever. ¹⁶ And the four and twenty rulers, who are seated before God on their high seats, went down on their faces and gave worship to God, saying, ¹⁷ We give you praise, O Lord God, Ruler of all, who is and who was; because you have taken up your great power and are ruling your kingdom. ¹⁸ And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.