Deuteronomy 20 Cross References - BBE

¹ When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt. ² And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people, ³ Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you; ⁴ For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you. ⁵ And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his house for himself. ⁶ Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit. ⁷ Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her. ⁸ And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble. ⁹ Then, after saying these words to the people, let the overseers put captains over the army. ¹⁰ When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace. ¹¹ And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants. ¹² If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides: ¹³ And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy. ¹⁴ But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food. ¹⁵ So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations. ¹⁶ But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death: ¹⁷ Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders: ¹⁸ So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God. ¹⁹ If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them? ²⁰ Only those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and put to destruction: and you are to make walls of attack against the town till it is taken.

³ Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

¹⁴ The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet.

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.

³¹ I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you. ³² Make no agreement with them or with their gods. ³³ Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

³³ Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

¹⁶ Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

²³ And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food. ²⁴ And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord. ²⁵ But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

⁴² For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another. ⁴³ Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you. ⁴⁴ But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants. ⁴⁵ And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property. ⁴⁶ And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

⁸ The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation. ⁹ And if you go to war in your land against any who do you wrong, then let the loud note of the horn be sounded; and the Lord your God will keep you in mind and give you salvation from those who are against you.

³¹ But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

² Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns. ³ And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.

³⁵ So they overcame him and his sons and his people, driving them all out: and they took his land for their heritage.

²¹ He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them.

⁶ And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war. ⁷ And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male. ⁸ They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword. ⁹ The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;

⁹ The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;

¹² And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

¹⁴ And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.

¹⁷ So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man. ¹⁸ But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

¹⁸ But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

³⁵ And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man. ³⁶ And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep, ³⁷ Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five. ³⁸ The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two; ³⁹ The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one. ⁴⁰ And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons. ⁴¹ And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses. ⁴² And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men, ⁴³ {\I Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep, ⁴⁴ And thirty-six thousand oxen, ⁴⁵ And thirty thousand, five hundred asses, ⁴⁶ And sixteen thousand persons;} ⁴⁷ Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses. ⁴⁸ Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses,

⁴⁸ Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses, ⁴⁹ And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present; ⁵⁰ And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord. ⁵¹ So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments. ⁵² And the gold which the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds gave, as an offering to be lifted up before the Lord, came to sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels. ⁵³ For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war. ⁵⁴ Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it into the Tent of meeting, to be a sign in memory of the children of Israel before the Lord.

⁹ For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they took from the children of Israel the desire to go into the land which the Lord had given them.

⁵² See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

¹⁵ So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.

²⁸ Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

³⁰ The Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting for you, and will do such wonders as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

⁷ For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.

²¹ And I gave orders to Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen what the Lord your God has done to these two kings: so will the Lord do to all the kingdoms into which you come. ²² Have no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be fighting for you.

²² Have no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be fighting for you.

¹ When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;

¹ When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;

¹ When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you; ² And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

² And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them: ³ Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons. ⁴ For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

⁴ For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly. 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.

¹⁶ And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.

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.

³⁰ After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did. ³¹ Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

¹⁸ You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

¹⁹ And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.

²³ If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her; ²⁴ Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you. ²⁵ But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is to be put to death;

⁹ When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.

⁵ A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.

⁶ And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:

¹ Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth: ² And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God. ³ A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field. ⁴ A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock. ⁵ A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. ⁶ A blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out. ⁷ By the power of the Lord, those who take arms against you will be overcome before you: they will come out against you one way, and will go in flight from you seven ways. ⁸ The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. ⁹ The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways. ¹⁰ And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is on you, and they will go in fear of you. ¹¹ And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you. ¹² Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs. ¹³ The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the highest place, if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God which I give you today, to keep and to do them; ¹⁴ Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship. ¹⁵ But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you: ¹⁶ You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field. ¹⁷ A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. ¹⁸ A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. ¹⁹ You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. ²⁰ The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me. ²¹ The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going. ²² The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete. ²³ And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron. ²⁴ The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete. ²⁵ The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away. ²⁷ The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well. ²⁸ He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear: ²⁹ You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour. ³⁰ You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

³⁰ You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

⁶ Be strong and take heart, and have no fear of them: for it is the Lord your God who is going with you; he will not take away his help from you.

⁸ It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not take away his help from you or give you up: so have no fear.

³⁰ How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?

⁵ While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up.

⁹ Have I not given you your orders? Take heart and be strong; have no fear and do not be troubled; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go,

¹⁷ And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent. ¹⁸ And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel. ¹⁹ But all the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron are holy to the Lord: they are to come into the store-house of the Lord. ²⁰ So the people gave a loud cry, and the horns were sounded; and on hearing the horns the people gave a loud cry, and the wall came down flat, so that the people went up into the town, every man going straight before him, and they took the town. ²¹ And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.

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.

²² Then Joshua sent for them, and said to them, Why have you been false to us, saying, We are very far from you, when you are living among us? ²³ Now because of this you are cursed, and you will for ever be our servants, cutting wood and getting water for the house of my God. 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.

²⁷ And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day.

⁵ So 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, were banded together, and went up with all their armies and took up their position before Gibeon and made war against it. ⁶ And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, saying, Be not slow to send help to your servants; come up quickly to our support and keep us safe: for all the kings of the Amorites from the hill-country have come together against us. ⁷ So Joshua went up from Gilgal with all his army and all his men of war. ⁸ And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them, for I have given them into your hands; they will all give way before you.

²⁸ That day Joshua took Makkedah, and put it and its king to the sword; every soul in it he gave up to the curse without mercy: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

⁴⁰ So Joshua overcame all the land, the hill-country and the South and the lowland and the mountain slopes, and all their kings; all were put to death: and every living thing he gave up to the curse, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.

⁴² And all these kings and their land Joshua took at the same time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for Israel.

⁴ And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number. ⁵ And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel. ⁶ And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

⁹ And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to him; he had the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

¹¹ And they put every person in it to death without mercy, giving every living thing up to the curse, and burning Hazor. ¹² And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings, Joshua took, and put them to the sword: he gave them up to the curse, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had said.

¹⁴ And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.

¹⁹ Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war. ²⁰ For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

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.

⁸ And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.

¹⁰ One man of you is able to put to flight a thousand; for it is the Lord your God who is fighting for you, as he has said to you.

¹³ Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

²⁸ And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out completely.

³⁰ Zebulun did not make the people of Kitron or the people of Nahalol go out; but the Canaanites went on living among them and were put to forced work. ³¹ And Asher did not take the land of the people of Acco, or Zidon, or Ahlab, or Achzib, or Helbah, or Aphik, or Rehob, driving them out; ³² But the Asherites went on living among the Canaanites, the people of the land, without driving them out. ³³ Naphtali did not take the land of the people of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, driving them out; but he was living among the Canaanites in the land; however, the people of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath were put to forced work. ³⁴ And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley; ³⁵ For the Amorites would go on living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the children of Joseph became stronger than they, and put them to forced work.

³ And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.

³ Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel. ⁴ Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time. ⁵ And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged. 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. ⁸ And Barak said to her, If you will go with me then I will go; but if you will not go with me I will not go. ⁹ And she said, I will certainly go with you: though you will get no honour in your undertaking, for the Lord will give Sisera into the hands of a woman. So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

¹² And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.

³ So now, let it be given out to the people that anyone who is shaking with fear is to go back from Mount Galud. So twenty-two thousand of the people went back, but there were still ten thousand.

²⁷ And the children of Israel made request to the Lord, {\I for the ark of the agreement of the Lord was there in those days, ²⁸ And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was in his place before it,} and said, Am I still to go on with the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother, or am I to give it up? And the Lord said, Go on; for tomorrow I will give him into your hands.

¹⁸ And Saul said to Ahijah, Let the ephod come here. For he went before Israel with the ephod at that time.

¹⁸ And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.

⁷ And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Come here to me with the ephod. And Abiathar took the ephod to David. 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.

¹⁸ Then she said, In the old days, there was a saying, Let them put the question in Abel and in Dan, saying, Has what was ordered by men of good faith in Israel ever come to an end? ¹⁹ Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord? ²⁰ And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction; ²¹ Not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba, son of Bichri, by name, has taken up arms against the king, against David: give up this man only, and I will go away from the town. And the woman said to Joab, His head will be dropped over the wall to you. ²² Then the woman in her wisdom had talk with all the town. And they had Sheba's head cut off and sent out to Joab. And he had the horn sounded, and sent them all away from the town, every man to his tent. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.

²¹ Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day. ²² But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.

¹⁵ And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom; ¹⁶ For Joab and all Israel were there six months till every male in Edom had been cut off;

¹² And now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.

¹¹ And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.

¹³ And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods. ¹⁴ And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them. ¹⁵ And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

¹² O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

²⁵ And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their goods from them, they saw beasts in great numbers, and wealth and clothing and things of value, more than they were able to take away; all this they took for themselves, and they were three days getting it away, there was so much.

¹⁵ And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong.

⁷ Be strong and take heart; have no fear, and do not be troubled on account of the king of Assyria and all the great army with him: for there is a greater with us. ⁸ With him is an arm of flesh; but we have the Lord our God, helping us and fighting for us. And the people put their faith in what Hezekiah, king of Judah, said.

²⁷ And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.

⁶ But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion. ⁷ I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being. ⁸ Make your request to me, and I will give you the nations for your heritage, and the farthest limits of the earth will be under your hand. ⁹ They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel. ¹⁰ So now be wise, you kings: take his teaching, you judges of the earth. ¹¹ Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour, ¹² For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.

⁶ I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me.

⁷ Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.

⁸ Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you. ⁹ You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

¹ Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me? ² When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame. ³ Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

¹ A Psalm. A Song at the blessing of the House. Of David. I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

¹⁶ A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength. ¹⁷ A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

⁷ The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. Selah.

¹¹ The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. Selah.

¹² Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods.

³⁴ They did not put an end to the peoples, as the Lord had said; ³⁵ But they were joined to the nations, learning their works. ³⁶ And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them: ³⁷ They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits, ³⁸ And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood. ³⁹ So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires. ⁴⁰ Then the wrath of the Lord was burning against his people, and he was angry with his heritage.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.

⁶ The Lord is on my side; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

⁷ I am for peace: but when I say so, they are for war.

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: ² He is my strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.

¹⁴ There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.

¹⁴ For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.

⁹ Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth: ¹⁰ Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

¹² Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of. ¹³ But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him.

¹⁶ For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.

¹ Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;

⁵ For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse. ⁶ The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom.

³ Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees. ⁴ Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.

²⁴ You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods. ²⁵ I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

³³ For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.

¹⁰ Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support. ¹¹ Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen. ¹² You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction. ¹³ For I, the Lord your God, have taken your right hand in mine, saying to you, Have no fear; I will be your helper. ¹⁴ Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

² When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

⁷ You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering. ⁸ And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it

¹⁹ I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.

²² They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.

⁶ For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.

⁵ Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.

⁴ For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and (UNTRANSLATED TEXT);

¹⁰ Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.

³⁵ A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men. ³⁶ A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken. ³⁷ A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers. ³⁸ A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods. ³⁹ For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation. ⁴⁰ As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

¹⁷ And Pharaoh with his strong army and great forces will be no help to him in the war, when they put up earthworks and make strong walls for the cutting off of lives:

²¹ And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother. ²² And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning. ²³ And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

¹³ And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

¹⁰ And he will have the war-carriage cut off from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be cut off: and he will say words of peace to the nations: and his rule will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

¹⁵ Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves. ¹⁶ By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit. ¹⁸ It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire. ²⁰ So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them.

²⁶ And he said to them, Why are you full of fear, O you of little faith? Then he got up and gave orders to the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

¹⁶ See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

²⁸ And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

³¹ Then have no fear; you are of more value than a flock of sparrows.

¹⁹ And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.

⁶ And he said to them, Do not be troubled: you are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been put to death on the cross; he has come back from the dead; he is not here: see, the place where they put him!

¹⁸ They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well.

⁶² But Jesus said, No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is good enough for the kingdom of God.

⁵ And whenever you go into a house, first say, Peace be to this house. ⁶ And if a son of peace is there, your peace will be with him: but if not, it will come back to you again.

⁷ And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space? ⁸ And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile: ⁹ And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.

¹⁸ And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come. ¹⁹ And another said, I have got some cattle, and I am going to make a test of them: I am full of regret that I am unable to come. ²⁰ And another said, I have been married, and so I am not able to come.

¹⁴ But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.

²⁷ And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.

² He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit. ³ You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you. ⁴ Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing. ⁶ If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned. ⁷ If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you. ⁸ Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.

³⁶ The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ who is Lord of all--

³⁷ And Barnabas had a desire to take with them John, named Mark. ³⁸ But Paul was of the opinion that it was not right to take with them one who had gone away from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with the work.

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in the night, in a vision, Have no fear and go on preaching: ¹⁰ For I am with you, and no one will make an attack on you to do you damage: for I have a number of people in this town.

²⁴ Saying, Have no fear, Paul, for you will come before Caesar, and God has given to you all those who are sailing with you.

³¹ What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

³⁷ But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

³³ Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

¹⁸ But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace;

¹⁷ For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

¹⁷ And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near;

¹¹ And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

¹¹ Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One. ¹² For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens. ¹³ For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place. ¹⁴ Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness; ¹⁵ Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet; ¹⁶ And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One. ¹⁷ And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸ With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

¹⁵ Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.

⁷ And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire, ⁸ To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus: ⁹ Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

¹⁴ And if any man does not give attention to what we have said in this letter, take note of that man, and keep away from him, so that he may be shamed.

⁵ Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

¹² Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.

⁴ A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

¹⁷ And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus; ¹⁸ Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.

¹² For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong, ¹³ And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.

⁶ So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

¹⁰ Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

¹⁶ So because you are not one thing or the other, I will have no more to do with you.

³ For through the wine of the wrath of her evil desires all the nations have come to destruction; and the kings of the earth made themselves unclean with her, and the traders of the earth had their wealth increased by the power of her evil ways. ⁴ And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments. ⁵ For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.

¹⁸ So that you may take for your food the flesh of kings, and of captains, and of strong men, and of horses and of those who are seated on them, and the flesh of all men, free and unfree, small and great.

⁸ But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.