Matthew Cross References - CLV

¹ The scroll of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham. ² Abraham begets Isaac; now Isaac begets Jacob; now Jacob begets Judah and his brothers. ³ Now Judah begets Pharez and Zarah of Thamar. Now Pharez begets Hesron; now Hesron begets Aram; ⁴ now Aram begets Amminadab; now Amminadab begets Nahshon; now Nahshon begets Salmon; ⁵ now Salmon begets Boaz of Rahab; now Boaz begets Obed of Ruth; now Obed begets Jesse; ⁶ now Jesse begets David the king. Now David begets Solomon of the wife of Uriah; ⁷ now Solomon begets Rehoboam; now Rehoboam begets Abiah; now Abiah begets Asaph; ⁸ now Asaph begets Joshaphat; now Joshaphat begets Jehoram; now Jehoram begets Uzziah; ⁹ now Uzziah begets Jotham; now Jotham begets Ahaz; now Ahaz begets Hezekiah; ¹⁰ now Hezekiah begets Manasseh; now Manasseh begets Amos; now Amos begets Josiah; ¹¹ now Josiah begets Jeconiah and his brothers at the Babylonian exile. ¹² Now after the Babylonian exile Jeconiah begets Shalthiel; now Shalthiel begets Zerubbabel; ¹³ now Zerubbabel begets Abihud; now Abihud begets Eliakim; now Eliakim begets Azor; ¹⁴ now Azor begets Zadok; now Zadok begets Achim; now Achim begets Eliud; ¹⁵ now Eliud begets Eleazar; now Eleazar begets Matthan; now Matthan begets Jacob; ¹⁶ now Jacob begets Joseph, the husband of Mary of whom was born Jesus, Who is termed "Christ." ¹⁷ Then all the generations from Abraham till David are fourteen generations, and from David till the Babylonian exile are fourteen generations, and from the Babylonian exile till the Christ are fourteen generations. ¹⁸ Now Jesus Christ's birth was thus: At the espousal of His mother, Mary, to Joseph, ere their coming together, she was found pregnant by holy spirit. ¹⁹ Now Joseph, her husband, being just and not willing to hold her up to infamy, intended covertly to dismiss her. ²⁰ Now at his brooding over these things, lo! a messenger of the Lord appeared to him in a trance, saying, "Joseph, son of David, you may not be afraid to accept Miriam, your wife, for that which is being generated in her is of holy spirit. ²¹ Now she shall be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling His name Jesus, for He shall be saving His people from their sins." ²² Now the whole of this has occurred that that may be fulfilled which is declared by the Lord through the prophet, saying: ²³ "Lo! The virgin shall be pregnant
And shall be bringing forth a Son,
And they shall be calling His name 'Emmanuel,'
which is, being construed, "God with us." ²⁴ Now, being roused from sleep, Joseph does as the messenger of the Lord bids him. And he accepted his wife, ²⁵ and he knew her not till she brought forth a Son, and he calls His name Jesus.

⁴ These are the genealogical annals of the heavens and the earth, when they were created. In the day Yahweh Elohim made the earth and the heavens,

¹⁵ And enmity am I setting between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He shall hurt your head and you shall hurt his heel.

¹ This is the scroll of the genealogical annals of Adam: In the day the Elohim created Adam, in the likeness of the Elohim He made him.

⁹ These are the genealogical annals of Noah: Noah is a just man. Flawless became he in his generations. With the Elohim walks Noah.

²² And doing is Noah according to all which Yahweh Elohim instructs him. So does he.

⁵ And doing is Noah according to all which Yahweh Elohim instructs him.

³ And bless those will I who bless you, and those making light of you will I curse. And blessed in you and in your seed are all the families of the ground.

¹⁹ And saying is the Elohim to Abraham, "Nevertheless, behold, Sarah, your wife is bearing you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I set up My covenant with him for a covenant eonian, and with his seed after him.

²¹ Yet My covenant will I set up with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear for you at this, the appointed time another year.

¹⁰ And saying is He, "Return, yea, return will I to you according to this season of life, and, behold! A son has Sarah, your wife.And Sarah is hearing at the opening of the tent, for she was behind him.

² And pregnant is Sarah and is bearing for Abraham a son for his old age, at the appointed time of which the Elohim had spoken to him. ³ And Abraham is calling the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah bears for him, Isaac. ⁴ And circumcising is Abraham Isaac, his son, at eight days of age as the Elohim had instructed him. ⁵ And Abraham is a hundred years of age when his son Isaac is born to him.

² And saying is He, "Take, pray, your son, your only one, whom you love, Isaac, and go you to the land of Moriah, and offer him up there for an ascent offering on one of the mountains of which I will apprize you. ³ And early in the morning is Abraham rising, and is saddling his ass, and is taking two of his lads with him, and Isaac, his son, and is rending the wood for the ascent offering. And rising is he and going, and came to the place of which the Elohim apprized him on the third day.

¹⁸ and blessed, in your seed, shall be all the nations of the earth, inasmuch as you hearken to My voice.

²⁶ And afterward his brother fares forth. And his hand is holding the heel of Esau. And calling are they his name Jacob. And Isaac is sixty years of age when Rebecca bears them.

³ Sojourn in this land, and I come to be with you and will bless you. For to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, and carry out will I the oath which I swore to Abraham, your father. ⁴ And increase will I your seed as the stars of the heavens, and give will I to your seed all these lands. And blessed, in your seed, are all the nations of the earth, ⁵ inasmuch as hearken did Abraham, your father, to My voice and kept My charge, My instructions. My statutes, and My laws.

¹³ And behold! Yahweh is stationed on it. And saying is He, "I am Yahweh, the Elohim of Abraham, your forefather, and the Elohim of Isaac. Do not fear. The land on which you are lying, to you will I give it, and to your seed. ¹⁴ And become shall your seed as the soil of the land. And breach forth will you seaward and eastward and northward and toward the south-rim. And blessed, in you, are all the families of the ground, and in your seed.

³² And pregnant is Leah and is bearing a son for Jacob. And calling is she his name Reuben for she says, "For see does Yahweh my humiliation and gives me a son, for now my husband will love me. ³³ And pregnant is Leah again, and is bearing a second son for Jacob. And saying is she, "For hearing is Yahweh that hated am I, and giving to me is He this one, moreover.And calling is she his name Simeon. ³⁴ And pregnant is she again and is bearing a son. And saying is she, "Now once more will my husband be obligated to me, for I bear for him three sons.Therefore calling is she his name Levi. ³⁵ And pregnant is she again, and is bearing a son. And saying is she, "Now once more will I acclaim Yahweh.Therefore calling is she his name Judah. And staying is she from bearing.

⁵ And pregnant is Rachel's maid, Bilhah, and is bearing for Jacob a son. ⁶ And saying is Rachel, "Adjudicated has the Elohim for me, and, moreover, He hears my voice, and is giving to me a son.Therefore she calls his name Dan. ⁷ And pregnant is she again, and bearing is Bilhah, Rachel's maid, a second son for Jacob. ⁸ And saying is Rachel, "With twistings of the Elohim am I twisted with my sister, and moreover, I prevail.And calling is she his name Naphtali. ⁹ And seeing is Leah that she stays from bearing. And taking is she Zilpah, her maid, and is giving her to Jacob for a wife. And coming is Jacob to her, ¹⁰ and Zilpah, Leah's maid, is pregnant and bearing for Jacob a son. ¹¹ And saying is Leah, "Coming is a raid!"And calling is she his name Gad. ¹² And pregnant is Zilpah, Leah's maid, and is bearing a second son for Jacob. ¹³ And saying is Leah "Happiness is mine, for the daughters call me happy.And calling is she his name Ashur. ¹⁴ And going is Reuben in the days of wheat harvest and finding mandrakes in the field, and is bringing them to his mother, Leah. And saying is Rachel to Leah, her sister, "Give to me, pray, of your son's mandrakes. ¹⁵ And saying is Leah to her, "No! Is it little of you to take my husband, then to take, moreover, my son's mandrakes?And saying is Rachel, "Not so! He shall lie with you this night, for your son's mandrakes. ¹⁶ And coming is Jacob from the field in the evening, and forth is faring Leah to meet him. And saying is she, "To me are you coming tonight, for I hired, yea, hired you with my son's mandrakes.And lying is he with her in that night. ¹⁷ And hearkening is the Elohim to Leah, and pregnant is she and is bearing for Jacob a fifth son. ¹⁸ And saying is Leah, "Giving is the Elohim my hire, for I give my maid to my husband.And calling is she his name Issachar. ¹⁹ And pregnant again is Leah, and is bearing a sixth son for Jacob. ²⁰ And saying is Leah, "Dowering me is the Elohim with a good dowry this time. My husband will prefer me, for I bear for him six sons.And calling is she his name Zebulon.

¹¹ And saying to me is a messenger of the Elohim in a dream. `Jacob!' And saying am I,`Behold me!.

¹⁶ And journeying is Jacob from Beth-El, and it comes to be still some distance over land to come to Ephrath. And bearing is Rachel, and hard is she having it in her bearing. ¹⁷ And coming is it, as she has it hard in her bearing, then saying to her is the midwife, "You must not fear, for this, moreover, is a son for you!" ¹⁸ And coming is it, when forth fares her soul (for she died), that she is calling his name Ben-oni. Yet his father calls his name Benjamin. ¹⁹ And dying is Rachel, and is being entombed on the way to Ephrath. (It is now Bethlehem..

⁶ And taking is Judah a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name is Thamar.

¹¹ And saying is Judah to Thamar, his daughter-in-law, "Dwell a widow at your father's house till my son Shelah shall be grown. For,says he, "lest he, moreover, will die as his brothers.And going is Thamar and dwelling in her father's house.

²⁴ And coming is it, about three months from this, that it is being told Judah, saying, "Your daughter-in-law Thamar commits prostitution, and moreover, behold! Pregnant is she by prostitutions.And saying is Judah, "Bring her forth, and burned shall she be.

²⁴ And coming is it, about three months from this, that it is being told Judah, saying, "Your daughter-in-law Thamar commits prostitution, and moreover, behold! Pregnant is she by prostitutions.And saying is Judah, "Bring her forth, and burned shall she be. ²⁵ Forth is she brought. Yet she sends to her husband's father, saying, "By the man whose these are am I pregnant.And saying is she, "Identify, pray, whose these are: the seal and the twist and the staff. ²⁶ And identifying them is Judah, and is saying, "More just is Thamar than I, therefore, for I did not give her to Shelah, my son.Yet not continue does he to know her further. ²⁷ And coming is it, at the time of her bearing, that, behold! Twins are in her belly.

²⁹ And coming is it, as his hand is returning, then, behold! Forth fares his brother. And saying is she, "What! Breached have you. On you be the breach!"And calling is she his name Pharez. ³⁰ And afterward forth comes his brother, who had on his hand the double-dipped token. And calling is she his name Zarah.

³ And saying is He, "I am the El, the Elohim of your forefather. You must not fear to go down to Egypt, for a great nation will I constitute you there.

⁸ And these are the names of the sons of Israel coming to Egypt: Jacob and his sons: The firstborn of Jacob, Reuben. ⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Enoch and Phallu and Hezron and Carmi. ¹⁰ And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, son of a Canaanitess. ¹¹ And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohas and Merari. ¹² And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Pharez and Zarah. Yet Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And there come to be sons of Pharez: Hezron and Hamul.

¹² And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Pharez and Zarah. Yet Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And there come to be sons of Pharez: Hezron and Hamul. ¹³ And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Phuvah and Jashub and Shimron. ¹⁴ And the sons of Zebulon: Sered and Elon and Jahleel. ¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, which she bears for Jacob in Padan, Syria, and Dinah, his daughter. All the souls of his sons and his daughters are thirty-three. ¹⁶ And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi and Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli. ¹⁷ And the sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishuah and Ishui and Beriah; and Serah, their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. ¹⁸ These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gives to his daughter Leah, and she bears these for Jacob--sixteen souls. ¹⁹ The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And sons are born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bears for him, Manasseh and Ephraim. And the sons are born to Manasseh, whom a Syrian concubine bears for him, Machir. And Machir begets Galaad. And the sons of Ephraim, Manasseh's brother: Soutalaam and Taam. And the son of Soutalaam: Edem. ²¹ And the sons of Benjamin: Belah and Becher and Ashbel. And sons were born to Belah: Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and to Gera is born Ard. ²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob. All the souls are eighteen. ²³ And the sons of Dan: Hushim. ²⁴ And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem. ²⁵ These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gives to Rachel, his daughter. And she bears these for Jacob. All the souls are seven. ²⁶ All the souls coming with Jacob to Egypt, which fare forth from his thighs, aside from the wives of Jacob's sons--all the souls are sixty six. ²⁷ And the sons of Joseph who are born to him in Egypt are two souls. All the souls pertaining to the house of Jacob coming to Egypt are seventy-five.

⁸ Judah, you and your brothers will acclaim. Your hands shall be on the scruff of your enemies. Prostrate to you shall the sons of your father. ⁹ The whelp of a lion is Judah. From the prey, my son, bow will he, recline as a lion. And as a parent lion, who will make him rise? ¹⁰ Not withdraw shall the sceptre from Judah, nor a statue-maker's staff from between his feet, till it be that ease shall come to him. And to it shall the expectation of the people be. ¹¹ Bind to a vine will he his colt, and to a yellow muscat grape the foal of his she-ass, he rinses in wine his apparel, and in the blood of grapes his coverlet. ¹² Flushed will be his eyes from wine, and white, his teeth, from milk.

² Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, ³ Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin, ⁴ Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ⁵ All the souls having come forth from the thigh of Jacob had become seventy souls. As for Joseph, he was in Egypt.

² Hallow to Me every firstborn male, opening up every womb, among the sons of Israel, among human and among beast. It is Mine.

²⁹ You shall not delay to offer from your fullness and your fruit juice. The firstborn of your sons shall you give to Me.

¹⁶ Thus Moses did according to all that Yahweh had instructed him. So he did.

¹⁹ Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and placed the cover of the tent over it above, just as Yahweh had instructed Moses.

²⁵ and set up the lamps before Yahweh, just as Yahweh had instructed Moses.

²⁷ and caused incense of spices to fume on it just as Yahweh had instructed Moses.

³² When they entered into the tent of appointment and came near to the altar they washed, just as Yahweh had instructed Moses.

²⁰ In case a man who lies with a woman has an emission of semen when she is a bondmaid designated for another man, yet has not been ransomed, yea ransomed nor freedom given to her, a distinction shall there be:they shall not be put to death since she was not freed.

¹⁰ As for a man who commits adultery with another man's wife--one who commits adultery with his associate's wife--the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death, yea death.

⁷ for Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;"

³ Those encamping eastward, toward the sunrise, are under the standard of the camp of Judah, by their militia hosts. The prince for the sons of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab;"

¹² The one bringing near his approach present on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab, for the stock of Judah.

¹⁷ and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five year-old he-lambs. This was the approach present of Nahshon son of Amminadab.

¹⁴ The standard of the camp of the sons of Judah decamped first by their militia hosts; and over his host was Nahshon son of Amminadab.

⁶ He said:Oh hear My words. If there were a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, in an appearance shall make Myself known to him; in a dream shall I speak to him.

²⁰ The sons of Judah were, by their families:through Shelah the Shelanite family; through Perez the Perezite family; through Zerah the Zerahite family. ²¹ The sons of Perez were:through Hezron the Hezronite family; through Hamul the Hamulite family.

²¹ then they will bring forth the maiden to the portal of her father's house, and the men of her city will stone her with stones so that she dies, for she committed decadence in Israel so as to prostitute herself while in her father's house. Thus you will eradicate the evil from among you. ²² In case a man should be found lying with a woman possessed by a possessor, then they must die, indeed both of them, the man who was lying with the woman and the woman. Thus you will eradicate the evil from Israel. ²³ In case there should be a maiden, a virgin, who is betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city, and he lies with her, ²⁴ then you must bring forth both of them to the gate of that city and stone them with stones so that they die, the maiden on the score that she did not cry for help in the city, and the man on the score that he humiliated the wife of his associate. Thus you will eradicate the evil from among you.

¹ When a man takes a wife and possesses her, and it comes to be that she should not find favor in his eyes, because he has found in her the nakedness of anything, then he would write for her a scroll of divorce, give it into her hand and send her away from his house. ² When she goes forth from his house, goes and becomes another man's, ³ and the man (the latter one) dislikes her, then he would write for her a scroll of divorce, give it into her hand and send her away from his house. Or when the man should die (the latter one who took her to himself as a wife), ⁴ then her possessor (the former one who had sent her away) shall not be able to reverse himself to take her back to become his wife after she had had herself defiled, for that is an abhorrence before Yahweh. You shall not bring about sin in the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment.

¹ And Joshua son of Nun sends from Shittim, two men, spies, silently, saying, `Go, see the land--and Jericho;' and they go and come into the house of a woman, a harlot, and her name [is] Rahab, and they lie down there. <sup>2</sup> And it is told to the king of Jericho, saying, `Lo, men have come in hither to-night, from the sons of Israel, to search the land. ³ And the king of Jericho sends unto Rahab, saying, `Bring out the men who are coming in unto you, who have come into your house, for to search the whole of the land they have come in. <sup>4</sup> And the woman takes the two men, and hides them, and said thus:`The men came in unto me, and I have not known whence they [are];" ⁵ and it comes to pass--the gate is to [be] shut--in the dark, and the men have gone out; I have not known whither the men have gone; pursue you, hasten after them, for you overtake them;. ⁶ and she has caused them to go up on the roof, and hides them with the flax wood, which is arranged for her on the roof. ⁷ And the men have pursued after them the way of the Jordan, by the fords, and the gate they have shut afterwards, when the pursuers have gone out after them. ⁸ And--before they lie down--she has gone up unto them on the roof, ⁹ and she said unto the men, `I have known that Yahweh has given to you the land, and that your terror has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted at your presence. <sup>10</sup> `For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the waters of the Red Sea at your presence, in your going out of Egypt, and that which you have done to the two kings of the Amorite who [are] beyond the Jordan; to Sihon and to Og whom you devoted. ¹¹ And we hear, and melt does our heart, and there has not stood any more spirit in [any] man, from your presence, for Yahweh your Elohim, He [is] Elohim in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath. ¹² `And now, swear you, I pray you, to me by Yahweh--because I have done with you kindness--that you have done, even you, kindness with the house of my father, and have given to me a true token, <sup>13</sup> and have kept alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and have delivered our souls from death.. <sup>14</sup> And the men say to her, `Our soul for yours--to die; if you declare not this our matter, then it has been, in Yahweh's giving to us this land, that we have done with you kindness and truth.. ¹⁵ And she causes them to go down by a rope through the window, for her house [is] in the side of the wall, and in the wall she [is] dwelling;" ¹⁶ and she said to them, `To the mountain go, lest the pursuers come upon you; and you have been hidden there three days till the turning back of the pursuers, and afterwards you go on your way.. <sup>17</sup> And the men say unto her, `We are acquitted of this your oath which you have caused us to swear. ¹⁸ lo, we are coming into the land, this line of scarlet thread you do bind to the window by which you have caused us to go down, and your father, and your mother, and your brethren, and all the house of your father you do gather unto you, to the house;" ¹⁹ and it has been, any one who goes out from the doors of your house without, his blood [is] on his head, and we are innocent; and any one who is with you in the house, his blood [is] on our head, if a hand is on him;" ²⁰ and if you declare this our matter, then we have been acquitted from your oath which you have caused us to swear.. ²¹ And she said, `According unto your words, so it [is];' and she sends them away, and they go; and she binds the scarlet line to the window. ²² And they go, and come in to the mountain, and abide there three days until the pursuers have turned back; and the pursuers seek in all the way, and have not found.

²² And to the two men who are spying the land Joshua said, `Go into the house of the woman, the harlot, and bring out thence the woman, and all whom she has, as you have sworn to her.. ²³ And the young man, the spies, go in and bring out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all whom she has; yea, all her families they have brought out, and place them at the outside of the camp of Israel. ²⁴ And the city they have burnt with fire, and all that [is] in it; only, the silver and the gold, and the vessels of brass, and of iron, they have given [to] the treasury of the house of Yahweh;" ²⁵ and Rahab the harlot, and the house of her father, and all whom she has, has Joshua kept alive; and she dwells in the midst of Israel unto this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

² And Joshua said unto all the people, `Thus said Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, Beyond the River have your fathers dwelt of old--Terah father of Abraham and father of Nachor--and they serve other elohims;" ³ and I take your father Abraham from beyond the River, and cause him to go through all the land of Canaan, and multiply his seed, and give to him Isaac. ⁴ And I give to Isaac, Jacob and Esau; and I give to Esau mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob and his sons have gone down to Egypt.

³ and a messenger of Yahweh appears unto the woman, and said unto her, `Lo, I pray you, you [are] barren, and have not borne; when you have conceived, then you have borne a son.

⁸ And Manoah makes entreaty unto Yahweh, and said, `O, my Lord, the man of Elohim whom You did send, let him come in, I pray you, again unto us, and direct us what we do to the youth who is born.. ⁹ And Elohim hearkens to the voice of Manoah, and the messenger of Elohim comes again unto the woman, and she [is] sitting in a field, and Manoah her husband is not with her,

⁴ They took up Moabite wives for themselves; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the second was Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years.

¹⁶ Ruth replied, You must not persuade me to forsake you, to turn away from following you; for wherever you go I shall go, and wherever you lodge I shall lodge. Your people will be my people, and your Elohim my Elohim. ¹⁷ Where you die, I shall die; and there I shall be entombed. Thus may Yahweh do to me and thus add to it if anything but death parts me from you.

²² Thus Naomi returned, and Ruth her Moabite daughter-in-law being with her who had turned away from the fields of Moab. They came to Bethlehem at the start of the barley harvest.

¹⁸ These are the genealogical records of Perez:Perez begot Hezron, ¹⁹ Hezron begot Aram, Aram begot Amminadab,

¹⁹ Hezron begot Aram, Aram begot Amminadab, ²⁰ Amminadab begot Nahshon, Nahshon begot Salmon,

²⁰ Amminadab begot Nahshon, Nahshon begot Salmon, ²¹ Salmon begot Boaz, Boaz begot Obed,

²¹ Salmon begot Boaz, Boaz begot Obed, ²² Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.

²² Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.

¹ And Yahweh said unto Samuel, `Till when are you mourning for Saul, and I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go, I send you unto Jesse the Beth-Lehemite, for I have seen among his sons for Myself a king.

¹¹ And Samuel said unto Jesse, `Are the youngest men finished?' and he said, `Yet has been left the young; and lo, he delights himself among the flock;' and Samuel said unto Jesse, `Send and take him, for we do not turn round till his coming in hither.. <sup>12</sup> And he sends, and brings him in, and he [is] ruddy, with beauty of eyes, and of good appearance; and Yahweh said, `Rise, anoint him, for this [is] he.. ¹³ And Samuel takes the horn of oil, and anoints him in the midst of his brethren, and prosper over David does the Spirit of Yahweh from that day and onwards; and Samuel rises and goes to Ramath.

¹² And David [is] son of this Ephrathite of Beth-Lehem-Judah, whose name [is] Jesse, and he has eight sons, and the man in the days of Saul has become aged among men;"

⁵⁸ and Saul said unto him, `Whose son [are] you, O youth?' and David said, `Son of your servant Jesse, the Beth-Lehemite..

³⁰ And the anger of Saul burns against Jonathan, and he said to him, `Son of a perverse rebellious woman! have I not known that you are fixing on the son of Jesse to your shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of your mother? ³¹ for all the days that the son of Jesse lives on the ground you are not established, you and your kingdom; and now, send and bring him unto me, for he [is] a son of death..

⁸ for you have conspired all of you against me, and there is none uncovering mine ear about my son's covenanting with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you grieving for me, and uncovering mine ear, that my son has raised up my servant against me, to lie in wait as [at] this day..

¹² `When your days are full, and you have lain with your fathers, then I have raised up your seed after you which goes out from your bowels, and have established his kingdom;" ¹³ He does build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the eon. ¹⁴ I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam, ¹⁵ and My kindness does not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before you, ¹⁶ and stedfast [is] your house and your kingdom unto the eon before you, your throne is established unto the eon..

³ and David sends and inquires about the woman, and said, `Is not this Bath-Sheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?.

²⁶ And the wife of Uriah hears that Uriah her husband [is] dead, and laments for her lord;" ²⁷ and the mourning passes by, and David sends and gathers her unto his house, and she is to him for a wife, and bears to him a son; and the thing which David has done is evil in the eyes of Yahweh.

²⁴ And David comforts Bath-Sheba his wife, and goes in unto her, and lies with her, and she bears a son, and he calls his name Solomon; and Yahweh has loved him, ²⁵ and sends by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and calls his name Jedidiah, because of Yahweh.

¹ And these [are] the last words of David:--`The affirmation of David son of Jesse--And the affirmation of the man raised up--Concerning the Anointed of the Elohim of Jacob, And the Sweetness of the Songs of Israel.

³⁹ Uriah the Hittite; in all thirty and seven.

¹¹ And Nathan speaks unto Bath-Sheba, mother of Solomon, saying, `Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has reigned, and our lord David has not known? <sup>12</sup> and now, come, let me counsel you, I pray you, and deliver your life, and the life of your son Solomon;" <sup>13</sup> go and enter in unto king David, and you have said unto him, Have you not, my lord, O king, sworn to your handmaid, saying, Surely Solomon your son does reign after me, and he does sit on my throne? and wherefore has Adonijah reigned? <sup>14</sup> Lo, you are yet speaking there with the king, and I come in after you, and have completed your words.. <sup>15</sup> And Bath-Sheba comes in unto the king, to the inner chamber, and the king [is] very aged, and Abishag the Shunammite is serving the king. <sup>16</sup> and Bath-Sheba bows and does obeisance to the king, and the king said, `What--to you?. ¹⁷ And she said to him, `My lord, you have sworn by Yahweh your Elohim to your handmaid:Surely Solomon your son does reign after me, and he does sit on my throne;"

²⁸ And king David answers and said, `Call for me for Bath-Sheba;' and she comes in before the king, and stands before the king. <sup>29</sup> And the king swears and said, `Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity;" ³⁰ surely as I sware to you by Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, saying, Surely Solomon your son does reign after me, and he does sit on my throne in my stead; surely so I do this day.. ³¹ And Bath-Sheba bows--face to the earth--and does obeisance to the king, and said, `Let my lord, king David, live to the eon..

¹⁵ And he said, `Blessed [is] Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, who spoke by His mouth with David my father, and by His hand has fulfilled [it], saying,

²⁴ who have kept for Your servant David my father that which You spoke to him; yea, You speak with Your mouth, and with Your hand have fulfilled [it], as [at] this day.

⁴³ and Solomon lies with his fathers, and is buried in the city of David his father, and reign does Rehoboam his son in his stead.

² and he calls against the altar, by the word of Yahweh, and said, `Altar! altar! thus said Yahweh, Lo, a son is born to the house of David--Josiah his name--and he has sacrificed on you the priests of the high places who are making perfume on you, and bones of man are burnt on you..

³¹ and Rehoboam lies with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers, in the city of David, and the name of his mother [is] Naamah the Ammonitess, and reign does Abijam his son in his stead.

⁵ in that David did that which [is] right in the eyes of Yahweh, and turned not aside from all that He commanded him all days of his life--only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite;"

⁸ and Abijam lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David, and reign does Asa his son in his stead. ⁹ And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned has Asa over Judah, ¹⁰ and forty and one years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Maachah daughter of Abishalom. ¹¹ And Asa does that which [is] right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his father, ¹² and removes the whoremongers out of the land, and turns aside all the idols that his fathers made;" ¹³ and also Maachah his mother--he turns her aside from being mistress, in that she made a horrible thing for a shrine, and Asa cuts down her horrible thing, and burns [it] by the brook Kidron;" ¹⁴ and the high places have not turned aside; only, the heart of Asa has been perfect with Yahweh all his days, ¹⁵ and he brings in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of Yahweh, silver, and gold, and vessels. ¹⁶ And war has been between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days, ¹⁷ and Baasha king of Israel goes up against Judah, and builds Ramah, not to permit any one going out and coming in to Asa king of Judah. ¹⁸ And Asa takes all the silver and the gold that are left in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the house of the king, and gives them into the hand of his servants, and king Asa sends them unto Ben-Hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion king of Aram, who is dwelling in Damascus, saying, ¹⁹ `A covenant [is] between me and you, between my father and your father; lo, I have sent to you a reward of silver and gold; go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, and he goes up from off me.. ²⁰ And Ben-Hadad hearkens unto king Asa, and sends the heads of the forces that he has against cities of Israel, and smites Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and all Chinneroth, besides all the land of Naphtali;" ²¹ and it comes to pass at Baasha's hearing, that he ceases from building Ramah, and dwells in Tirzah. ²² And king Asa has summoned all Judah--there is none exempt--and they lift up the stones of Ramah, and its wood, that Baasha has built, and king Asa builds with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. ²³ And the rest of all the matters of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? Only, at the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet;" ²⁴ and Asa lies with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son reigns in his stead.

¹³ And Elijah said unto her, `Fear not, go, do according to your word, only make for me thence a little cake, in the first place, and you have brought out to me; and for you and for your son make--last;"

² and it comes to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat king of Judah comes down unto the king of Israel, ³ and the king of Israel said unto his servants, `Have you not known that ours [is] Ramoth-Gilead? and we are keeping silent from taking it out of the hand of the king of Aram!. <sup>4</sup> And he said unto Jehoshaphat, `Do you go with me to battle [to] Ramoth-Gilead?' and Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, `As I am, so you; as my people, so your people; as my horses, so your horses.. <sup>5</sup> And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, `Seek, I pray you, to-day, the word of Yahweh;. ⁶ and the king of Israel gathers the prophets, about four hundred men, and said unto them, `Do I go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I forbear?' and they say, `Go up, and the Lord does give [it] into the hand of the king.. ⁷ And Jehoshaphat said, `Is there not here a prophet of Yahweh besides, and we seek by him?. <sup>8</sup> And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet--one man to seek Yahweh by him, and I have hated him, for he does not prophesy concerning me good, but evil--Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat said, `Let not the king say so.. <sup>9</sup> And the king of Israel calls unto a certain eunuch, and said, `Hasten Micaiah son of Imlah.. ¹⁰ And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah are sitting, each on his throne, clothed with garments, in a threshing-floor, at the opening of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets are prophesying before them. ¹¹ And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah makes for himself horns of iron, and said, `Thus said Yahweh, By these you do push the Arameans till they are consumed;. <sup>12</sup> and all the prophets are prophesying so, saying, `Go up to Ramoth-Gilead, and prosper, and Yahweh has given [it] into the hand of the king.. ¹³ And the messenger who has gone to call Micaiah has spoken unto him, saying, `Lo, I pray you, the words of the prophets, with one mouth, [are] good towards the king; let it be, I pray you, your word as the word of one of them--and you have spoken good.. <sup>14</sup> And Micaiah said, `Yahweh lives; surely that which Yahweh said unto me--it I speak.. ¹⁵ And he comes in unto the king, and the king said unto him, `Micaiah, do we go unto Ramoth-Gilead, to battle, or do we forbear?' and he said unto him, `Go up, and prosper, and Yahweh has given [it] into the hand of the king.. ¹⁶ And the king said unto him, `How many times am I adjuring you that you speak nothing unto me but truth in the name of Yahweh?. <sup>17</sup> And he said, `I have seen all Israel scattered on the hills as sheep that have no shepherd, and Yahweh said, These have no master; they turn back each to his house in peace.. ¹⁸ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, `Have I not said unto you, He does not prophesy of me good, but evil?. <sup>19</sup> And he said, `Therefore, hear a word of Yahweh; I have seen Yahweh sitting on His throne, and all the host of the heavens standing by Him, on His right and on His left;" ²⁰ and Yahweh said, Who does entice Ahab, and he does go up and fall in Ramoth-Gilead? and this one said thus, and that one is saying thus. ²¹ `And the spirit goes out, and stands before Yahweh, and said, I--I do entice him; and Yahweh said unto him, By what? <sup>22</sup> and he said, I go out, and have been a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets; and He said, You do entice, and also you are able; go out and do so. <sup>23</sup> And now, lo, Yahweh has put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all these your prophets, and Yahweh has spoken concerning you--evil.. <sup>24</sup> And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah draws nigh, and smites Micaiah on the cheek, and said, `Where [is] this--he has passed over--the Spirit of Yahweh--from me to speak with you?. ²⁵ And Micaiah said, `Lo, you are seeing on that day, when you go in to the innermost chamber to be hidden.. <sup>26</sup> And the king of Israel said, `Take Micaiah, and turn him back unto Amon head of the city, and unto Joash son of the king, ²⁷ and you have said, Thus said the king, Place you this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat bread of oppression, and water of oppression, till my coming in peace.. ²⁸ And Micaiah said, `If you at all return in peace--Yahweh has not spoken by me;' and he said, `Hear, O peoples, all of them.. ²⁹ And the king of Israel goes up, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, to Ramoth-Gilead. ³⁰ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat to disguise himself, and to go into battle, `And you, put on your garments.' And the king of Israel disguises himself, and goes into battle. <sup>31</sup> And the king of Aram commanded the heads of the charioteers whom he has--thirty and two--saying, `You do not fight with small or with great, but with the king of Israel by himself.. ³² And it comes to pass, at the heads of the charioteers seeing Jehoshaphat, that they said, `He [is] only the king of Israel;' and they turn aside to him to fight, and Jehoshaphat cries out, <sup>33</sup> and it comes to pass, at the heads of the charioteers seeing that he [is] not the king of Israel, that they turn back from after him. <sup>34</sup> And a man has drawn with a bow, in his simplicity, and smites the king of Israel between the joinings and the coat of mail, and he said to his charioteer, `Turn your hand, and take me out from the camp, for I have become sick.. ³⁵ And the battle increases on that day, and the king has been caused to stand in the chariot, over-against Aram, and he dies in the evening, and the blood of the wound runs out unto the midst of the chariot, ³⁶ and he causes the cry to pass over through the camp, at the going in of the sun, saying, `Each unto his city, and each unto his land.. <sup>37</sup> And the king dies, and comes into Samaria, and they bury the king in Samaria;" <sup>38</sup> and [one] rinses the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs lick his blood--when the armor they had washed--according to the word of Yahweh that He spoke. <sup>39</sup> And the rest of the matters of Ahab, and all that he did, and the house of ivory that he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? <sup>40</sup> And Ahab lies with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son reigns in his stead. <sup>41</sup> And Jehoshaphat son of Asa has reigned over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel, <sup>42</sup> Jehoshaphat [is] a son of thirty and five years in his reigning, and twenty and five years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Azubah daughter of Shilhi. <sup>43</sup> And he walks in all the way of Asa his father, he has not turned aside from it, to do that which [is] right in the eyes of Yahweh; only the high places have not turned aside, yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places. <sup>44</sup> And Jehoshaphat makes peace with the king of Israel; <sup>45</sup> and the rest of the matters of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he got, and with which he fought, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? <sup>46</sup> And the remnant of the whoremongers who were left in the days of Asa his father he took away out of the land; <sup>47</sup> and there is no king in Edom; he set up a king. <sup>48</sup> Jehoshaphat made ships at Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, and they went not, for the ships were broken in Ezion-Geber. <sup>49</sup> Then said Ahaziah son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, `Let my servants go with your servants in the ships;' and Jehoshaphat was not willing. ⁵⁰ And Jehoshaphat lies with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoram his son reigns in his stead.

¹ And Jehoram son of Ahab has reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigns twelve years,

¹⁶ and he said, `At this season, according to the time of life, you are embracing a son;' and she said, `Nay, my lord, O man of Elohim, do not lie unto your maid-servant.. ¹⁷ And the woman conceives and bears a son, at this season, according to the time of life, that Elisha spoke of unto her.

¹¹ And Naaman is wroth, and goes on, and said, `Lo, I said, Unto me he does certainly come out, and has stood and called in the name of Yahweh his Elohim, and waved his hand over the place, and recovered the leper. <sup>12</sup> Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? do I not wash in them and I have been clean?' and he turns and goes on in fury. <sup>13</sup> And his servants come nigh, and speak unto him, and say, `My father, a great thing had the prophet spoken unto you--do you not do [it]? and surely, when he has said unto you, Wash, and be clean.. ¹⁴ And he goes down and dips in Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of Elohim, and his flesh does turn back as the flesh of a little youth, and is clean.

¹⁶ And in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel--and Jehoshaphat [is] king of Judah--has Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah reigned;

²¹ And all the people of Judah take Azariah, and he [is] a son of sixteen years, and cause him to reign instead of his father Amaziah;"

¹ In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned has Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah, ² a son of sixteen years was he in his reigning, and fifty and two years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Jecholiah of Jerusalem, ³ and he does that which [is] right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father did, ⁴ only, the high places have not turned aside--yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places. ⁵ And Yahweh smites the king, and he is a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwells in a separate house, and Jotham son of the king [is] over the house, judging the people of the land. ⁶ And the rest of the matters of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? ⁷ And Azariah lies with his fathers, and they bury him with his fathers, in the city of David, and reign does Jotham his son in his stead.

³² In the second year of Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel reigned has Jotham son of Uzziah king of Judah.

¹ And it comes to pass, in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, reigned has Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah;" ² a son of twenty and five years was he in his reigning, and twenty and nine years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Abi daughter of Zechariah. ³ And he does that which [is] right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father did, ⁴ he has turned aside the high places, and broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cut down the shrine, and beaten down the brazen serpent that Moses made, for unto these days were the sons of Israel making perfume to it, and he calls it `a piece of brass.. <sup>5</sup> In Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, he has trusted, and after him there has not been like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among any] who were before him;" <sup>6</sup> and he cleaves to Yahweh, he has not turned aside from after Him, and keeps His commands that Yahweh commanded Moses. <sup>7</sup> And Yahweh has been with him, in every place where he goes out he acts wisely, and he rebels against the king of Asshur, and has not served him;" <sup>8</sup> he has smitten the Philistines unto Gaza, and its borders, from a tower of watchers unto the fenced city. <sup>9</sup> And it comes to pass, in the fourth year of king Hezekiah--it [is] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel--come up has Shalmaneser king of Asshur against Samaria, and lays siege to it, <sup>10</sup> and they capture it at the end of three years; in the sixth year of Hezekiah--it [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel--has Samaria been captures, <sup>11</sup> and the king of Asshur removes Israel to Asshur, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor [by] the river Gozan, and [in] cities of the Medes, <sup>12</sup> because that they have not hearkened to the voice of Yahweh their Elohim, and transgress His covenant--all that He commanded Moses, servant of Yahweh--yea, they have not hearkened nor done [it]. <sup>13</sup> And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah has Sennacherib king of Asshur come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and seizes them, <sup>14</sup> and Hezekiah king of Judah sends unto the king of Asshur to Lachish, saying, `I have sinned, turn back from off me; that which you put on me I bear;' and the king of Asshur lays on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold, ¹⁵ and Hezekiah gives all the silver that is found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the house of the king;" ¹⁶ at that time has Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of Yahweh, and the pillars that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gives them to the king of Asshur. ¹⁷ And the king of Asshur sends Tartan, and the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the butlers, from Lachish, unto king Hezekiah, with a heavy force, to Jerusalem, and they go up and come in to Jerusalem, and they go up, and come in and stand by the conduit of the upper pool that [is] in the highway of the fuller's field. ¹⁸ And they call unto the king, and go out unto them does Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the remembrancer. ¹⁹ And the chief of the butlers said unto them, `Say, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What [is] this confidence in which you have confided? ²⁰ You have said:Only a word of the lips! counsel and might [are] for battle; now, on whom have you trusted that you have rebelled against me?

²¹ And Hezekiah lies with his fathers, and reign does Manasseh his son in his stead.

²¹ and walks in all the way that his father walked in, and serves the idols that his father served, and bows himself to them, ²² and forsakes Yahweh, Elohim of his fathers, and has not walked in the way of Yahweh. ²³ And the servants of Amon conspire against him, and put the king to death in his own house, ²⁴ and the people of the land smite all those conspiring against king Amon, and the people of the land cause Josiah his son to reign in his stead. ²⁵ And the rest of the matters of Amon that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? ²⁶ and [one] buries him in his burying-place in the garden of Uzza, and reign does Josiah his son in his stead.

²¹ And the king commands the whole of the people, saying, `Make you a passover to Yahweh your Elohim, as it is written on this book of the covenant.. <sup>22</sup> Surely there has not been made like this passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, even all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Judah;" <sup>23</sup> but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, has this passover been made to Yahweh in Jerusalem. <sup>24</sup> And also, those having familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah, and in Jerusalem, has Josiah put away, in order to establish the words of the law that are written on the book that Hilkiah the priest has found in the house of Yahweh. <sup>25</sup> And like him there has not been before him a king who turned back unto Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses, and after him there has none risen like him. <sup>26</sup> Only, Yahweh has not turned back from the fierceness of His great anger with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh provoked him, <sup>27</sup> and Yahweh said, `Also Judah I turn aside from my presence, as I turned Israel aside, and I have rejected this city that I have chosen--Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name is there.. ²⁸ And the rest of the matters of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? ²⁹ In his days has Pharaoh-Nechoh king of Egypt come up against the king of Asshur, by the river Phrat, and king Josiah goes out to meet him, and he puts him to death in Megiddo, when he sees him. ³⁰ And his servants cause him to ride dying from Megiddo, and bring him in to Jerusalem, and bury him in his own grave, and the people of the land take Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and anoint him, and cause him to reign instead of his father. ³¹ A son of twenty and three years [is] Jehoahaz in his reigning, and three months he has reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah,

³ only, by the command of Yahweh it has been against Judah to turn [them] aside from His presence, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, ⁴ and also the innocent blood that he has shed, and he fills Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh was not willing to forgive.

¹⁴ And he has removed all Jerusalem, and all the chiefs, and all the mighty ones of valor--ten thousand [is] the removal--and every artificer and smith, none has been left save the poor of the people of the land.

¹¹ And the rest of the people, those left in the city, and those falling who have fallen to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude, has Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners removed;"

²⁷ And it comes to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and seventh of the month has Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reigning, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of the house of restraint,

²⁸ Sons of Abraham:Isaac and Ishmael.

³⁴ And Abraham begets Isaac. Sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.

¹ These [are] sons of Israel:Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

¹ These [are] sons of Israel:Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, ² Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

² Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. ³ Sons of Judah:Er, and Onan, and Shelah, three have been born to him of a daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, first-born of Judah, is evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and He puts him to death.

³ Sons of Judah:Er, and Onan, and Shelah, three have been born to him of a daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, first-born of Judah, is evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and He puts him to death. ⁴ And Tamar his daughter-in-law has borne to him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah [are] five.

⁴ And Tamar his daughter-in-law has borne to him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah [are] five. ⁵ Sons of Pharez:Hezron, and Hamul.

⁵ Sons of Pharez:Hezron, and Hamul. ⁶ And sons of Zerah:Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; all of them five.

⁶ And sons of Zerah:Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; all of them five. ⁷ And sons of Carmi:Achar, troubler of Israel, who trespassed in the devoted thing.

⁷ And sons of Carmi:Achar, troubler of Israel, who trespassed in the devoted thing. ⁸ And sons of Ethan:Azariah.

⁸ And sons of Ethan:Azariah. ⁹ And sons of Hezron who were born to him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai. ¹⁰ And Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah;"

¹⁰ And Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah;" ¹¹ and Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,

¹¹ and Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz, ¹² and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse;"

¹² and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse;" ¹³ and Jesse begat his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third, ¹⁴ Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, ¹⁵ Ozem the sixth, David the seventh,

¹⁵ Ozem the sixth, David the seventh,

⁵ And these were born to him in Jerusalem:Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon--four, of Bath-Sheba daughter of Ammiel.

¹⁰ And the son of Solomon [is] Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, ¹¹ Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

¹¹ Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

¹¹ Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, ¹² Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

¹² Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, ¹³ Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

¹³ Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

¹³ Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, ¹⁴ Amon his son, Josiah his son.

¹⁴ Amon his son, Josiah his son. ¹⁵ And sons of Josiah:the first-born Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

¹⁵ And sons of Josiah:the first-born Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. ¹⁶ And sons of Jehoiakim:Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. ¹⁷ And sons of Jeconiah:Assir; Salathiel his son;

¹⁷ And sons of Jeconiah:Assir; Salathiel his son;

¹⁹ And sons of Pedaiah:Zerubbabel, and Shimei. And sons of Zerubbabel:Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister, ²⁰ and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-Hesed, five. ²¹ And sons of Hananiah:Pelatiah, and Jesaiah, sons of Rephaiah, sons of Arnan, sons of Obadiah, sons of Shechaniah. ²² And sons of Shechaniah:Shemaiah; and sons of Shemaiah:Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six. ²³ And sons of Neariah:Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three. ²⁴ And sons of Elioenai:Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven.

¹ Sons of Judah:Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

¹ As to sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel--for he [is] the first-born, and on account of his profaning the couch of his father has his birthright been given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, and [he is] not to be reckoned by genealogy for the birthright, ² for Judah has been mighty over his brother, and for leader above him, and the birthright [is] to Joseph.

⁶ And of the sons of Zerah:Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.

⁴¹ Uriah the Hittite, Zabad son of Ahlai,

⁴ and these [are] the names of the children whom he has in Jerusalem:Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,

⁵ and out of all my sons--for many sons has Yahweh given to me--He also fixes on Solomon my son, to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel,

³¹ and Solomon lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David his father, and reign does Rehoboam his son in his stead.

¹ And it comes to pass, at the establishing of the kingdom of Rehoboam, and at his strengthening himself, he has forsaken the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him.

⁷ `And there are gathered unto him vain men, sons of worthlessness, and they strengthen themselves against Rehoboam son of Solomon, and Rehoboam was a youth, and tender of heart, and has not strengthened himself against them.

¹ And Abijah lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David, and reign does Asa his son in his stead:in his days was the land quiet ten years. ² And Asa does that which is good, and that which is right, in the eyes of Yahweh his Elohim, ³ and turns aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaks the standing-pillars, and cuts down the shrines, ⁴ and said to Judah to seek Yahweh, Elohim of their fathers, and to do the law and the command;" ⁵ and he turns aside out of all cities of Judah the high places and the images, and the kingdom is quiet before him. ⁶ And he builds cities of bulwarks in Judah, for the land has quiet, and there is no war with him in these years, because Yahweh has given rest to him. ⁷ And he said to Judah, `Let us build these cities, and compass [them] with wall, and towers, two-leaved doors, and bars, while the land [is] before us, because we have sought Yahweh our Elohim, we have sought, and He gives rest to us round about;' and they build and prosper. <sup>8</sup> And there is to Asa a force bearing target and spear, out of Judah three hundred thousand, and out of Benjamin, bearing shield and treading bow, two hundred and eighty thousand:all these [are] mighty of valor. <sup>9</sup> And come out unto them does Zerah the Cushite with a force of a thousand thousand, and chariots three hundred, and he comes in unto Mareshah, <sup>10</sup> and Asa goes out before him, and they set battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. <sup>11</sup> And Asa calls unto Yahweh his Elohim, and said, `Yahweh! it is nothing with You to help, between the mighty and those who have no power; help us, O Yahweh, our Elohim, for on You we have leant, and in Your name we have come against this multitude; O Yahweh, our Elohim you [are]; let him not prevail with You--mortal man!" ¹² And Yahweh smites the Cushim before Asa, and before Judah, and the Cushim flee, ¹³ and Asa and the people who [are] with him pursue them even to Gerar, and there fall of the Cushim, for they have no preserving, because they have been broken before Yahweh, and before His camp; and they bear away very much spoil, ¹⁴ and smite all the cities round about Gerar, for a fear of Yahweh has been upon them, and they spoil all the cities, for abundant spoil has been in them;" ¹⁵ and also tents of cattle they have smitten, and they capture sheep in abundance, and camels, and turn back to Jerusalem.

¹ And Jehoshaphat his son reigns in his stead, and he strengthens himself against Israel, ² and puts a force in all the fenced cities of Judah, and puts garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured. ³ And Yahweh is with Jehoshaphat, for he has walked in the first ways of David his father, and has not sought to Baalim, ⁴ for to the Elohim of his father he has sought, and in His commands he has walked, and not according to the work of Israel. ⁵ And Yahweh does establish the kingdom in his hand, and all Judah give a present to Jehoshaphat, and he has riches and honor in abundance, ⁶ and his heart is high in the ways of Yahweh, and again he has turned aside the high places and the shrines out of Judah. ⁷ And in the third year of his reign he has sent for his heads, for Ben-Hail, and for Obadiah, and for Zechariah, and for Nethaneel, and for Michaiah, to teach in cities of Judah, ⁸ and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijath, and Tob-Adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. ⁹ And they teach in Judah, and with them [is] the Book of the Law of Yahweh, and they go round about into all cities of Judah, and teach among the people. ¹⁰ And here is a fear of Yahweh on all kingdoms of the lands that [are] round about Judah, and they have not fought with Jehoshaphat;" ¹¹ and of the Philistines they are bringing in to Jehoshaphat a present, and tribute silver; also, the Arabians are bringing to him a flock, rams seven thousand an seven hundred, and he-goats seven thousand and seven hundred. ¹² And Jehoshaphat is going on and becoming very great, and he builds in Judah palaces and cities of store, ¹³ and he has much work in cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty of valor, [are] in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And these [are] their numbers, for the house of their fathers:Of Judah, heads of thousands, Adnah the head, and with him mighty ones of valor, three hundred chiefs. ¹⁵ And at his hand [is] Jehohanan the head, and with him two hundred and eighty chiefs. ¹⁶ And at his hand [is] Amasiah son of Zichri, who is willingly offering himself to Yahweh, and with him two hundred chiefs, mighty of valor. ¹⁷ And of Benjamin:mighty of valor, Eliada, and with him, armed with bow and shield, two hundred chiefs. ¹⁸ And at his hand [is] Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty chiefs, armed ones of the host. ¹⁹ These [are] those serving the king, apart from those whom the king put in the cities of fortress, in all Judah.

¹ And Jehoshaphat lies with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigns in his stead.

¹ And all the people of Judah take Uzziah (and he [is] a son of sixteen years), and cause him to reign instead of his father Amaziah. ² He has built Eloth, and restores it to Judah after the king's lying with his fathers. ³ A son of sixteen years [is] Uzziah in his reigning, and fifty and two years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Jecholiah of Jerusalem. ⁴ And he does that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father did, ⁵ and he is as one seeking Elohim in the days of Zechariah who has understanding in visions of Elohim:and in the days of his seeking Yahweh, Elohim has caused him to prosper. ⁶ And he goes forth, and fights with the Philistines, and breaks down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and builds cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines. ⁷ And Elohim helps him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who are dwelling in Gur-Baal and the Mehunim. ⁸ And the Ammonites give a present to Uzziah, and his name goes unto the entering in of Egypt, for he strengthened himself greatly. ⁹ And Uzziah builds towers in Jerusalem, by the gate of the corner, and by the gate of the valley, and by the angle, and strengthens them;" ¹⁰ and he builds towers in the wilderness, and digs many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plain, husbandmen and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the ground. ¹¹ And Uzziah has a force, making war, going forth to the host, by troops, in the number of their reckoning by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Masseiah the officer, by the hand of Hananiah [one] of the heads of the king. ¹² The whole number of heads of the fathers of the mighty ones of valor [is] two thousand and six hundred; ¹³ and by their hand [is] the force of the host, three hundred thousand, and seven thousand, and five hundred warriors, with mighty power to give help to the king against the enemy. ¹⁴ And Uzziah prepares for them, for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, even to stones of the slings. ¹⁵ And he makes in Jerusalem inventions--a device of an inventor--to be on the towers, and on the corners, to shoot with arrows and with great stones, and his name goes out unto a distance, for he has been wonderfully helped till that he has been strong. ¹⁶ And at his being strong his heart has been high unto destruction, and he trespasses against Yahweh his Elohim, and goes in unto the temple of Yahweh to make perfume upon the altar of perfume. ¹⁷ And Azariah the priest goes in after him, and with him priests of Yahweh eighty, sons of valor, ¹⁸ and they stand up against Uzziah the king, and say to him, `Not for you, O Uzziah, to make perfume to Yahweh, but for priests, sons of Aaron, who are sanctified to make perfume; go forth from the sanctuary, for you have trespassed, and [it is] not to you for honor from Yahweh Elohim.. ¹⁹ And Uzziah is wroth, and in his hand [is] a censer to make perfume, and in his being wroth with the priests--the leprosy has risen in his forehead, before the priests, in the house of Yahweh, from beside the altar of perfume. ²⁰ And Azariah the head priest looks unto him, and all the priests, and lo, he [is] leprous in his forehead, and they hasten him thence, and also he himself has hastened to go out, for Yahweh has plagued him. ²¹ And Uzziah the king is a leper unto the day of his death, and inhabits a separate house--a leper, for he has been cut off from the house of Yahweh, and Jotham his son [is] over the house of the king, judging the people of the land.

²¹ And Uzziah the king is a leper unto the day of his death, and inhabits a separate house--a leper, for he has been cut off from the house of Yahweh, and Jotham his son [is] over the house of the king, judging the people of the land. ²² And the rest of the matters of Uzziah, the first and the last, has Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet written;" ²³ and Uzziah lies with his fathers, and they bury him with his fathers, in the field of the burying-place that the kings have, for they said, `He [is] a leper;' and reign does Jotham his son in his stead.

¹ A son of twenty and five years [is] Jotham in his reigning, and sixteen years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Jerushah daughter of Zadok. ² And he does that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Uzziah his father did; only, he has not come in unto the temple of Yahweh; and again are the people doing corruptly. ³ He has built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and in the wall of Ophel he has built abundantly;" ⁴ and cities he has built in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he has built palaces and towers. ⁵ And he has fought with the king of the sons of Ammon, and prevails over them, and the sons of Ammon give to him in that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat, and of barley ten thousand; this have the sons of Ammon returned to him both in the second year, and in the third. ⁶ And Jotham does strengthen himself, for he has prepared his ways before Yahweh his Elohim. ⁷ And the rest of the matters of Jotham, and all his battles, and his ways, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. ⁸ A son of twenty and five years was he in his reigning, and sixteen years he has reigned in Jerusalem;" ⁹ and Jotham lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David, and reign does Ahaz his son in his stead.

¹ A son of twenty years [is] Ahaz in his reigning, and sixteen years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and he has not done that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh, as David his father, ² and walks in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also, molten images has made for Baalim, ³ and himself has made perfume in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burns his sons with fire according to the abominations of the nations that Yahweh dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, ⁴ and sacrifices and makes perfume in high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree. ⁵ And Yahweh his Elohim gives him into the hand of the king of Aram, and they smite him, and take captive from him a great captivity, and bring [them] in to Damascus, and also into the hand of the king of Israel he has been given, and he smites him--a great smiting. ⁶ And Pekah son of Remaliah slays in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day (the whole [are] sons of valor), because of their forsaking Yahweh, Elohim of their fathers. ⁷ And Zichri, a mighty one of Ephraim, slays Maaseiah son of the king, and Azrikam leader of the house, and Elkanah second to the king. ⁸ And the sons of Israel take captive of their brethren, two hundred thousand, wives, sons and daughters, and also much spoil they have seized from them, and they bring in the spoil to Samaria. ⁹ And there has been there a prophet of Yahweh (Oded [is] his name), and he goes out before the host that has come in to Samaria, and said to them, `Lo, in the fury of Yahweh Elohim of your fathers against Judah, He has given them into your hand, and you slay among them in rage--unto the heavens it has come;" <sup>10</sup> and now, sons of Judah and Jerusalem you are saying to subdue for men-servants and for maid-servants to you; but are there not with you causes of guilt before Yahweh your Elohim? <sup>11</sup> and now, hear me, and send back the captives whom you have taken captive of your brethren, for the heat of the anger of Yahweh [is] upon you.. <sup>12</sup> And certain of the heads of the sons of Ephraim (Azariah son of Johanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai), rise up against those coming in from the host, <sup>13</sup> and say to them, `You do not bring in the captives hither, for, to guilt against Yahweh on us, you are saying to add unto our sin and unto our guilt? for abundant [is] the guilt we have, and the fierceness of anger on Israel.. ¹⁴ And the armed men leave the captives and the prey before the heads and all the assembly; ¹⁵ and the men who have been expressed by name rise and take hold on the captives, and all their naked ones they have clothed from the spoil, yea, they clothe them, and shoe them, and cause them to eat and drink, and anoint them, and lead them on asses, even every feeble one, and bring them in to Jericho, the city of palms, near their brethren, and turn back to Samaria. ¹⁶ At that time has king Ahaz sent unto the king of Asshur to give help to him; ¹⁷ and again the Edomites have come, and smite in Judah, and take captive a captivity. ¹⁸ And the Philistines have rushed against the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and capture Beth-Shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho and its villages, and Timnah and its villages, and Gimzo and its villages, and dwell there, ¹⁹ for Yahweh has humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he made free with Judah, even to commit a trespass against Yahweh. ²⁰ And Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur comes in unto him, and does distress him, and has not strengthened him, ²¹ though Ahaz has taken a portion [out] of the house of Yahweh, and [out] of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gives to the king of Asshur, yet it is no help to him. ²² And in the time of his distress--he adds to trespass against Yahweh, (this king Ahaz), ²³ and he sacrifices to the elohims of Damascus--those smiting him, and said, `Because the elohims of the kings of Aram are helping them, to them I sacrifice, and they help me,' and they have been to him to cause him to stumble, and to all Israel. ²⁴ And Ahaz gathers the vessels of the house of Elohim, and cuts in pieces the vessels of the house of Elohim, and shuts the doors of the house of Yahweh, and makes to himself altars in every corner in Jerusalem. ²⁵ And in every city and city of Judah he has made high places to make perfume to other elohims, and provokes Yahweh, Elohim of his fathers. ²⁶ And the rest of his matters, and all his ways, the first and the last, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. ²⁷ And Ahaz lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the city, in Jerusalem, but have not brought him in to the graves of the kings of Israel, and reign does Hezekiah his son in his stead.

¹ Hezekiah has reigned--a son of twenty and five years, and twenty and nine years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Abijah daughter of Zechariah;" ² and he does that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father did. ³ He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, has opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and strengthens them, ⁴ and brings in the priests and the Levites, and gathers them to the broad place to the east. ⁵ And he said to them, `Hear me, O Levites, now, sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, Elohim of your fathers, and bring out the impurity from the sanctuary, <sup>6</sup> for our fathers have trespassed, and done that which is evil in the eyes of Yahweh our Elohim, and forsake him, and turn round their faces from the tabernacle of Yahweh, and give the neck. <sup>7</sup> `Also--they have shut the doors of the porch, and quench the lamps, and perfume they have not made, and burnt-offering have not caused to ascend in the sanctuary to the Elohim of Israel, ⁸ and the wrath of Yahweh is on Judah and Jerusalem, and He gives them for a trembling, for an astonishment, and for a hissing, as you are seeing with your eyes. ⁹ And lo, fallen have our fathers by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives [are] in captivity for this. ¹⁰ `Now--with my heart--to make a covenant before Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, and the fierceness of His anger does turn back from us. <sup>11</sup> My sons, be not now at rest, for on you has Yahweh fixed to stand before Him, to serve Him, and to be to Him ministering and making perfume.. <sup>12</sup> And the Levites rise--Mahath son of Amasai, and Joel son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathite; and of the sons of Merari:Kish son of Abdi, and Azariah son of Jehalelel; and of the Gershonite:Joah son of Zimmah, and Eden son of Joah;" <sup>13</sup> and of the sons of Elizaphan:Shimri, and Jeiel; and of the sons of Asaph:Zechariah and Mattaniah;" <sup>14</sup> and of the sons of Heman:Jehiel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun:Shemaiah and Uzziel-- <sup>15</sup> and they gather their brethren, and sanctify themselves, and come in, according to the command of the king in the matters of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh, <sup>16</sup> and the priests come in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh to cleanse [it], and bring out all the uncleanness that they have found in the temple of Yahweh to the court of the house of Yahweh, and the Levites receive [it], to take [it] out to the brook Kidron without. <sup>17</sup> And they begin on the first of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they have come to the porch of Yahweh, and they sanctify the house of Yahweh in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they have finished. <sup>18</sup> And they come in within unto Hezekiah the king, and say, `We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh, and the altar of the burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and the table of the arrangement, and all its vessels, ¹⁹ and all the vessels that king Ahaz cast away in his reign--in his trespass--we have prepared and sanctified, and lo, they [are] before the altar of Yahweh.. ²⁰ And Hezekiah the king rises early, and gathers the heads of the city, and goes up to the house of Yahweh;" ²¹ and they bring in seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven young he-goats, for a sin-offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah; and he said to sons of Aaron, the priests, to cause [them] to ascend on the altar of Yahweh. ²² And they slaughter the oxen, and the priests receive the blood, and sprinkle on the altar; and they slaughter the rams, and sprinkle the blood on the altar; and they slaughter the lambs, and sprinkle the blood on the altar;" ²³ and they bring nigh the he-goats of the sin-offering before the king and the assembly, and they lay their hands upon them;" ²⁴ and the priests slaughter them, and make a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel, for `For all Israel,' said the king, `[is] the burnt-offering and the sin-offering.. ²⁵ And he appoints the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, by the command of David, and of Gad, seer of the king, and of Nathan the prophet, for by the hand of Yahweh [is] the command, by the hand of His prophets;" ²⁶ and the Levites stand with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. ²⁷ And Hezekiah said to cause the burnt-offering to ascend on the altar; and at the time the burnt-offering began--began the song of Yahweh, and the trumpets, even by the hands of the instruments of David king of Israel. ²⁸ And all the assembly are doing obeisance, and the singers singing, and the trumpeters blowing; the whole [is] till the completion of the burnt-offering. ²⁹ And at the completion of the offering up bowed have the king and all those found with him, and do obeisance. ³⁰ And Hezekiah the king said, and the princes, to the Levites to give praise to Yahweh in the words of David, and of Asaph the seer, and they praise--unto joy, and they bow, and do obeisance. ³¹ And Hezekiah answers and said, `Now you have filled your hand to Yahweh, come nigh, and bring in sacrifices and thank-offerings to the house of Yahweh;' and the assembly bring in sacrifices and thank-offerings, and every willing-hearted one--burnt-offerings. ³² And the number of the burnt-offerings that the assembly have brought in, is seventy oxen, a hundred rams, lambs two hundred; for a burnt-offering to Yahweh [are] all these.

³³ And Hezekiah lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the uppermost of the graves of the sons of David, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have done honor to him at his death, and reign does Manasseh his son in his stead.

¹ And the people of the land take Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and cause him to reign instead of his father in Jerusalem. ² A son of three and twenty years [is] Jehoahaz in his reigning, and three months he has reigned in Jerusalem, ³ and turn him aside does the king of Egypt in Jerusalem, and fines the land a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold;" ⁴ and the king of Egypt causes Eliakim his brother to reign over Judah and Jerusalem, and turns his name to Jehoiakim; and Jehoahaz his brother has Necho taken, and brings him in to Egypt. ⁵ A son of twenty and five years [is] Jehoiakim in his reigning, and eleven years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and he does the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh his Elohim;" ⁶ against him has Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon come up, and binds him in brazen fetters to take him away to Babylon. ⁷ And of the vessels of the house of Yahweh has Nebuchadnezzar brought in to Babylon, and puts them in his temple in Babylon. ⁸ And the rest of the matters of Jehoiakim, and his abominations that he has done, and that which is found against him, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, and reign does Jehoiachin his son in his stead.

¹⁰ and at the turn of the year has king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brings him in to Babylon, with the desirable vessels of the house of Yahweh, and causes Zedekiah his brother to reign over Judah and Jerusalem.

²⁰ And he removes those left of the sword unto Babylon, and they are to him and to his sons for servants, till the reigning of the kingdom of Persia,

¹ In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to conclude the word of Yahweh from the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh roused the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia so that he caused a notification to pass through all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,

² Then Jeshua son of Jozadak arose with his brother priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and his brothers. They built the altar of the Elohim of Israel, to offer up on it ascent offerings as it is written in the law of Moses the man of Elohim.

² Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the House of Eloah in Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of the One, Eloah, giving them aid.

¹ And these [are] the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua; Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

¹³ In disquieting thoughts from visions of the night, In that stupor which falls on mortals, ¹⁴ Alarm befell me and quivering, And it made the multitude of my bones afraid. ¹⁵ Then a spirit passed on before my face; The hair of my flesh bristled. ¹⁶ Something stood there, yet I could not recognize its appearance; A representation was in front of my eyes; It was still, and I heard a voice.

⁴ Who can bring what is clean from the unclean? No one.

¹⁴ What is a mortal that he should be purged, Or that one born of a woman should be justified?

¹⁵ In a dream, a vision of the night, When stupor falls upon men, In slumberings on their bed;" ¹⁶ Then He reveals matters to the ear of men, And He dismays them with admonitions, ¹⁷ To withdraw a human from his deed, And that He may obliterate pride in a master.

⁸ Good and upright is Yahweh; Therefore, He shall direct sinners in the way;" ⁹ He shall cause the humble to tread in right judgment, And He shall teach the humble His way."

⁷ Yahweh of hosts is with us; Our Impregnable Retreat is the Elohim of Jacob. {Interlude{

¹¹ Yahweh of hosts is with us; Our Impregnable Retreat is the Elohim of Jacob. {Permanent{

²⁰ The prayers of David son of Jesse are ended.

³⁶ His seed shall continue for the eon, And his throne as the sun in front of Me,

¹⁹ When my disquieting thoughts within me are many, Your consolations, they are heartening my soul."

⁴ In the darkness he radiates as a light for the upright ones; He is gracious, compassionate and righteous." ⁵ It is good when a man is gracious and obliging; He shall sustain his affairs with right judgment.

¹²⁵ I am Your servant; give me understanding So that I may know Your testimonies.

⁷ Wait, Israel, for Yahweh, For with Yahweh is benignity, And with Him abundant ransom." ⁸ And He Himself shall ransom Israel From all its depravities.

¹¹ Yahweh has sworn to David the truth; He shall not turn back from it:Out of the fruit of your loin Shall I set One on your throne.

⁸ Let me hear of Your benignity in each morning, For I trust in You; Let me know that way I should go, For I lift up my soul to You."

⁵ Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, And do not lean to your own understanding." ⁶ In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He Himself shall straighten your paths."

⁵ The designs of the righteous are duly just; The strategies of the wicked are deceitful.

¹ And coming is it in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, up goes Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem to fight against it. Yet they cannot fight against it." ² And it is being told the house of David, saying, "Guided is Syria over Ephraim.And swaying is his heart, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wildwood sway from facing the wind."

² And it is being told the house of David, saying, "Guided is Syria over Ephraim.And swaying is his heart, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wildwood sway from facing the wind." ³ And Yahweh is saying to Isaiah, "Fare forth, pray, to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub, your son, to the end of the trench of the uppermost reservoir, to the highway of the field of the launderer." ⁴ And say to him, `Beware! And be quiet! You must not fear, and your heart must not be tender, because of these two tails of the smoking wooden pokers, that are by the hot anger of Rezin and Syria, and Remaliah's son." ⁵ Forasmuch as Syria counsels evil against you, with Ephraim and Remaliah's son, saying, ⁶ We will go up into Judah and end it, and we will rend it to us, and we will cause a king to reign in its midst--the son of Tabeal;"'" ⁷ Thus says my Lord, Yahweh of hosts, "This counsel shall not be confirmed, and it shall not come to pass." ⁸ For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and in sixty five years further Ephraim shall be cracked from being a people." ⁹ And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you are not believing, then you are not being faithful." ¹⁰ And Yahweh is proceeding to speak to Ahaz, saying:" ¹¹ Ask for yourself a sign from Yahweh, your Elohim; deepen the asking, or elevate it toward that above." ¹² And saying is Ahaz, "I will not ask, nor will I probe Yahweh." ¹³ And saying is he. "Hear, pray, house of David! A little thing is it for you to tire mortals, that you are tiring even Yahweh, my Elohim?

¹³ And saying is he. "Hear, pray, house of David! A little thing is it for you to tire mortals, that you are tiring even Yahweh, my Elohim? ¹⁴ Wherefore, Yahweh Himself will give a sign to you:Behold! the damsel shall be pregnant and bear a son, and you call his name Emmanu-El."

⁸ And it passes on into Judah, overflows and passes till it will touch the neck. And its outstretched wings come to fill the width of your land. Emmanu-El." ⁹ Know, you peoples, and be dismayed! And give ear, all you far from the land! Belt yourselves and be dismayed! Belt yourselves and be dismayed!" ¹⁰ Counsel with counsel, yet it shall be annulled! Speak the word, yet it shall not be confirmed! For with us is El!"

⁶ For a Boy is born to us; a Son is given to us, and the chieftainship shall come to be on His shoulder, and His name is called "Marvelous.Counsel to the master shall He bring, to the chief of the future, welfare." ⁷ To the increase of the chieftainship, and to the welfare shall be no end. On the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to prepare it, and to brace it with judgment and with justice, henceforth and in the future eon. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this."

¹ And a Twig shall fare forth from the set slip of Jesse, and a Scion from his roots shall be fruitful."

¹ And you will say, in that day, "I am acclaiming You, Yahweh, for You wast angry with me, yet reversing is Your anger, and You are comforting me." ² Behold! El is my Salvation. I am trusting in Him and am not afraid. For my Strength and Melody is Yah, Yahweh, and He is becoming mine for salvation."

² Behold! El is my Salvation. I am trusting in Him and am not afraid. For my Strength and Melody is Yah, Yahweh, and He is becoming mine for salvation."

³ It is formed to support the preservation of welfare, welfare that trusts in You."

²¹ and your ears shall hear a word from behind you saying, "This is the way, go in it,in case you shall go right, and in case you shall go left."

¹ Now it is coming, in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, that up comes Sennacherib, king of Assyria, against all the defended cities of Judah, and is taking them." ² And the king of Assyria is sending the grand cupbearer from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah, with a very heavy army. And he is standing in the trench of the uppermost reservoir, in the highway of the field of the launderer." ³ And faring forth to him is Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who is over the household, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the recorder." ⁴ And saying to them is the grand cupbearer, "Say, pray, to Hezekiah, `Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What trust is this in which you trust? <sup>5</sup> You say, yea, a word of the lips, `Counsel and mastery for war.' Now, on whom do you trust, that you revolt against me? ⁶ Behold! You trust on a staff, this bruised reed, on Egypt, which, when a man is supported by it, then it enters into his palm and pierces it. So is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all those trusting in him." ⁷ `"And, in case you are saying to me, `In Yahweh, our Elohim, we trust,' is it not He Whose fane heights and altars Hezekiah took away when he is saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, `Before this altar shall you worship in Jerusalem'"? <sup>8</sup> `And now, pray, give hostages to my lord, the king of Assyria, and I will give to you two thousand horses, if you can put your riders on them." ⁹ Then how will you reverse the face of one viceroy of my lord's small servants? Yet you yourself are trusting on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen. ¹⁰ `And now, apart from Yahweh, did I come up against this land to ruin it? Yahweh said to me, "Go up to this land to ruin it."'" <sup>11</sup> And saying are Eliakim, and Shebna and Joah to the grand cupbearer, "Speak, pray, with your servants, with us in Syrian, for we have hearers, and you must not speak these words to us in Jewish. And why are you speaking in the ears of the people, these mortals who are sitting on the wall? <sup>12</sup> Yet saying is the grand cupbearer, "Is it to your lord and to you that my lord sends me to speak these words? Not to the mortals sitting on the wall, that shall eat their own excrement and drink their urine, with you? <sup>13</sup> And the grand cupbearer is standing and calling in a loud voice in Jewish, and saying, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria." <sup>14</sup> Thus saith the king of Assyria, `Hezekiah must not lure you by words, for he cannot rescue you." ¹⁵ Nor must Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, by saying, "Rescue, yea rescue us will Yahweh, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." ¹⁶ You must not hearken to Hezekiah.' "For thus says the king of Assyria, `Make of me a blessing, and fare forth to me, and eat, each man of his vine and each man of his fig tree, and drink, each man the waters of his cistern, ¹⁷ till I come and take you to a land as your land, to a land of grain and grape juice, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olives, fresh oil and honey, and you shall live and not die. And you must not be hearkening to Hezekiah, ¹⁸ lest Hezekiah shall incite you, saying, "Yahweh will rescue you.Did the elohim of the nations rescue any man's land from the hand of the king of Assyria? ¹⁹ Where are the elohim of Hamath and Arphad? Where are the elohim of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivah? And where are the elohim of the land of Samaria? And when have they rescued Samaria from my hand? ²⁰ Which, among all the elohim of these lands, have rescued their land from my hand, assuring you that Yahweh will rescue Jerusalem from my hand?'" ²¹ Yet they are silent, and do not answer him a word, for it is the instruction of the king, saying, "You shall not answer him." ²² And coming are Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who is over the household, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah, with torn garments, and they are telling him the words of the grand cupbearer."

⁸ Now you, Israel, My servant; Jacob, whom I have chosen; the seed of Abraham, My love, whom I encourage;"

²¹ Tell, and bring them close. Indeed, they shall consult together. Who announced this from aforetime? Hitherto, Who told it? Not I, Yahweh? And no one else is Elohim, apart from Me. An El, just, and a Saviour. And none is there, except Me." ²² Face to Me and be saved, all the limits of the earth, for I am El, and there is none else."

² Look to Abraham, your forefather, and to Sarah, who travailed with you, for one was he when I called him and blessed him, and I loved him and will increase him."

⁷ Hearken to Me, knowers of righteousness, My people with My law in their heart. You must not fear the reproach of a mortal, and by their taunts you must not be dismayed."

⁸ From restraint and from judgment is He taken, and on His generation, who shall meditate? For He was severed from the land of the living; because of the transgression of My people was He touched by death."

² unto whom the word of Yahweh has been in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign, ³ and it is in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, till the completion of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, till the removal of Jerusalem in the fifth month."

¹⁰ For, pass to the isles of Chittim, and see, And to Kedar send, and consider well, And see if there has been like this:" ¹¹ Has a nation changed elohims? (And they [are] no elohims!) And My people has changed its honor For that which does not profit. ¹² Be astonished, you heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of Yahweh." ¹³ For two evils has My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells--broken wells, That contain not the waters." ¹⁴ A servant [is] Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore has he been for a prey? ¹⁵ Against him roar do young lions, They have given forth their voice, And make his land become a desolation, His cities have been burnt without inhabitant." ¹⁶ Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume you--the crown of the head! ¹⁷ Do you not do this to yourself? [By] your forsaking Yahweh your Elohim, At the time He is leading you in the way? ¹⁸ And now, what--to you in the way of Egypt, To drink the waters of Sihor? And what--to you in the way of Asshur, To drink the waters of the River? ¹⁹ Instruct you does your wickedness, And your backslidings reprove you, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing [Is] your forsaking Yahweh your Elohim, And My fear not being on you, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh of Hosts." ²⁰ For from of old you have broken your yoke, Drawn away your bands, and say, `I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, You are wandering--a harlot." <sup>21</sup> And I planted you a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how have you been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine? <sup>22</sup> But though you do wash with nitre, And do multiply to yourself soap, Marked is your iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh." <sup>23</sup> How say you, `I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See your way in a valley, know what you have done, A swift dromedary winding her ways, ²⁴ A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she has swallowed up wind, Her meeting--who does turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her." ²⁵ Withhold your foot from being unshod, And your throat from thirst, And you say, `It is incurable, No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I go.'" <sup>26</sup> As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets, <sup>27</sup> Saying to wood, `My father [are] you!' And to a stone, `You have brought me forth,' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, `Arise You, and save us.'" ²⁸ And where [are] your elohims, that you have made to yourself? Let them arise, if they may save you, In the time of your vexation, For--the number of your cities have been your elohims, O Judah,

²⁴ I live--an affirmation of Yahweh, Though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah Were a seal on My right hand, Surely thence I draw you away,

²⁸ A grief--a despised broken thing--is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Wherefore have they been cast up and down, He and his seed, Yea, they were cast on to a land that they knew not?

⁵ Lo, days are coming--an affirmation of Yahweh, And I have raised to David a righteous shoot, And a king has reigned and acted wisely, And done judgment and righteousness in the earth." ⁶ In his days is Judah saved, and Israel dwells confidently, And this his name that Yahweh proclaims him, `Our Righteousness.'"

²⁰ That Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has not taken, in his removing Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon with all the freemen of Judah and Jerusalem,

²² Till when do you withdraw yourself, O backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has prepared a new thing in the land, Woman does compass man."

¹⁵ In those days, and at that time, I cause to shoot up to David a shoot of righteousness, And he has done judgment and righteousness in the earth." ¹⁶ In those days is Judah saved, And Jerusalem does dwell confidently, And this [is] he whom Yahweh proclaims to her:`Our Righteousness.'"

¹⁶ In those days is Judah saved, And Jerusalem does dwell confidently, And this [is] he whom Yahweh proclaims to her:`Our Righteousness.'" <sup>17</sup> For thus said Yahweh:`Not cut off to David is one sitting on the throne of the house of Israel,

²⁶ Also the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, I reject, Against taking from his seed rulers For the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, For I turn back [to] their captivity, and have pitied them.'"

⁹ And the remnant of the people who are left in the city, and those falling who have fallen to him, and the remnant of the people who are left, has Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, removed [to] Babylon."

⁹ And swear to them does Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, and to their men, saying, `Be not afraid of serving the Chaldeans, abide in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it is well for you;"

¹¹ and the eyes of Zedekiah he has blinded, and he binds him in brazen fetters, and the king of Babylon brings him to Babylon, and puts him in the house of inspection unto the day of his death." ¹² And in the fifth month, in the tenth of the month--it [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon--come has Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners; he has stood before the king of Babylon in Jerusalem, ¹³ and he burns the house of Yahweh, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he has burned with fire, ¹⁴ and all the walls of Jerusalem round about broken down have all the forces of the Chaldeans that [are] with the chief of the executioners. ¹⁵ And of the poor of the people, and the remnant of the people who are left in the city, and those who are falling away, who have fallen unto the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the multitude, has Nebuzar-Adan chief of the executioners, removed;"

²⁸ This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar has removed:in the seventh year, of Jews, three thousand and twenty and three;" ²⁹ in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar--from Jerusalem, souls, eight hundred thirty and two;" ³⁰ in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar, has Nebuzar-Adan chief of the guard removed of Jewish souls, seven hundred forty and five; all the souls [are] four thousand and six hundred."

²⁵ And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And you have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you." ²⁶ And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh." ²⁷ And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes you walk, And My judgments you keep, and have done them." ²⁸ And you have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers, And you have been to Me for a people, And I--I am to you for Elohim." ²⁹ And I have saved you from all your uncleannesses, And I have called unto the corn, and multiplied it, And I have put no famine upon you."

² Yet Yahweh is giving into his hand Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and at the end, the furnishings of the house of Elohim. Then he is bringing them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his Elohim, and the furnishings he brings to the treasure-house of his Elohim."

²⁴ Seventy sevens are segregated for your people and for your holy city:To detain transgression, to cause sin to end, to make a propitiatory shelter for depravity; to bring the righteousness of the eons, to seal the vision and the prophet, to anoint the holy of holies."

²⁸ And it comes afterward, I shall pour out My spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your elders shall dream dreams, your chosen ones shall see visions."

¹¹ In that day will I raise up the fallen booth of David, and I will dike with stones its breaches, and its demolished places will I raise, and I will build it as in the days of the eon,

¹ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on day one of the month, the word of Yahweh comes by the hand of Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, viceroy of Judah, and to Joshua, son of Josedech, the great priest, saying,

¹² Then Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, viceroy of Judah, and Joshua, son of Josedech, the great priest, and all the remnant of the people, are hearkening to the voice of Yahweh, their Elohim, and to the words of Haggai, the prophet, just as Yahweh, their Elohim, sends him to them, and the people are fearing before the face of Yahweh."

¹⁴ And Yahweh is rousing the spirit of Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, viceroy of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, son of Josedech, the great priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they are coming and doing work on the house of Yahweh of hosts, their Elohim,

² Say, I pray, to Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, viceroy of Judah, and to Joshua, son of Josedech, the great priest, and to all the remnant of the people, saying:"

²³ In that day, (averring is Yahweh of hosts), I will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My servant, (averring is Yahweh), and will place you as a seal, for I have chosen you, (averring is Yahweh of hosts)."

⁹ Exult exceedingly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold! your King shall come to you! Righteous and endowed with salvation is He. Humble and riding on an ass, and on a colt, the foal of a she-ass."

⁸ In that day Yahweh shall be a protection about the dwellers of Jerusalem, and the stumbler among them, in that day, shall become as David, and the house of David as the house of Elohim, as a messenger of Yahweh before them."

² I love you, says Yahweh. Yet you say, In what way do you love us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? (averring is Yahweh), yet I am loving Jacob, ³ yet Esau I hate. And I will make his mountains a desolation, and his allotment is for the jackals of the wilderness."

¹ The scroll of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.

¹¹ now Josiah begets Jeconiah and his brothers at the Babylonian exile. ¹² Now after the Babylonian exile Jeconiah begets Shalthiel; now Shalthiel begets Zerubbabel;

¹⁸ Now Jesus Christ's birth was thus: At the espousal of His mother, Mary, to Joseph, ere their coming together, she was found pregnant by holy spirit.

¹⁸ Now Jesus Christ's birth was thus: At the espousal of His mother, Mary, to Joseph, ere their coming together, she was found pregnant by holy spirit. ¹⁹ Now Joseph, her husband, being just and not willing to hold her up to infamy, intended covertly to dismiss her. ²⁰ Now at his brooding over these things, lo! a messenger of the Lord appeared to him in a trance, saying, "Joseph, son of David, you may not be afraid to accept Miriam, your wife, for that which is being generated in her is of holy spirit. ²¹ Now she shall be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling His name Jesus, for He shall be saving His people from their sins."

²¹ Now she shall be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling His name Jesus, for He shall be saving His people from their sins." ²² Now the whole of this has occurred that that may be fulfilled which is declared by the Lord through the prophet, saying: ²³ "Lo! The virgin shall be pregnant
And shall be bringing forth a Son,
And they shall be calling His name 'Emmanuel,'
which is, being construed, "God with us." ²⁴ Now, being roused from sleep, Joseph does as the messenger of the Lord bids him. And he accepted his wife, ²⁵ and he knew her not till she brought forth a Son, and he calls His name Jesus.

¹ Now, at Jesus' being born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, lo! magi from the East came along into Jerusalem, ² saying, "Where is He Who is brought forth King of the Jews? For we perceived His star in the East, and we came to worship Him."

¹³ Now, at their retiring into their country, lo! a messenger of the Lord is appearing in a trance to Joseph, saying, "Being roused, take along the little Boy and His mother and flee into Egypt, and be there till I should speak to you, for Herod is about to be seeking the little Boy to destroy Him"

¹⁵ And He was there till the decease of Herod, that that may be fulfilled which is declared by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I call My Son."

¹⁹ Now at the decease of Herod, lo! a messenger of the Lord is appearing in a trance to Joseph in Egypt,

²² Yet, hearing that Archelaus is reigning in Judea in the stead of his father Herod, he was afraid to pass forth there. Now, being apprised in a trance, he retires into parts of Galilee. ²³ And coming, he dwells in a city termed Nazareth, so that that may be fulfilled which is declared through the prophets that: A Nazarene shall He be called.

¹⁶ Now, being baptized, Jesus straightway stepped up from the water, and lo! opened up to Him were the heavens, and He perceived the spirit of God descending as if a dove, and coming on Him.

¹⁷ You should not infer that I came to demolish the law or the prophets. I came not to demolish, but to fulfill.

¹⁷ so that may be fulfilled which is declared through Isaiah the prophet, saying, He our infirmities got, and the diseases He bears."

²⁷ And as Jesus is passing by thence, two blind men follow Him, clamoring and saying, "Be merciful to us, Son of David!"

² Now John, hearing in the prison of the works of Christ, sending through his disciples,

¹⁷ that fulfilled may be that which is declared through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

²¹ yet has no root in himself, but is temporary. Now at the coming of affliction or persecution because of the word, straightway he is snared."

³⁵ so that fulfilled may be that which is declared through the prophet saying, I shall be opening My mouth in parables, I shall be emitting what is hid from the disruption."

²² And lo! a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those boundaries, cried, saying, "Be merciful to me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is evilly demonized."

⁴² saying, "What are you supposing concerning the Christ? Whose Son is He? ⁴³ He is saying to them, "How, then, is David, in spirit, calling Him Lord, saying, ⁴⁴ Said the Lord to my Lord, 'Sit at My right, Till I should be placing Thine enemies underneath "Thy feet!"'? ⁴⁵ If, then, David is calling Him Lord, how is He his Son?

¹⁷ At their having gathered, then, Pilate said to them, "Whom are you wanting I should be releasing to you, Bar-Abbas, or Jesus, who is termed Christ?

²² Pilate is saying to them, "What, then, shall I be doing with Jesus, who is termed Christ?They are all saying, "Let him be crucified!"

⁵ Now, answering, the messenger said to the women, "Fear you not! For I am aware that you are seeking Jesus, the Crucified."

²⁰ teaching them to be keeping all, whatever I direct you. And lo! I am with you all the days till the conclusion of the eon! Amen!"

³ Is not this the artisan, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?And they were snared in Him."

²⁰ for Herod feared John, being aware that he is a just and holy man, and he preserved him. And hearing him, he was much perplexed, and heard him with relish."

⁴ Yet they say, "Moses permits us to write a scroll of divorce, and to dismiss her."

¹⁰ And the entire multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense. ¹¹ Now there was seen by him a messenger of the Lord, standing at the right of the altar of incense." ¹² And disturbed was Zechariah at perceiving it, and fear fell on him." ¹³ Now the messenger said to him, "Fear not, Zechariah, because hearkened to is your petition, and your wife Elizabeth shall be bearing you a son, and you shall be calling his name John."

¹³ Now the messenger said to him, "Fear not, Zechariah, because hearkened to is your petition, and your wife Elizabeth shall be bearing you a son, and you shall be calling his name John."

¹⁹ And answering, the messenger said to him, "I am Gabriel, who stands before God, and I was dispatched to speak to you and to bring you this evangel."

²⁵ And she kept herself close five months, saying that "Thus has the Lord done to me, in the days in which He took notice to eliminate my reproach among men." ²⁶ Now in the sixth month, the messenger Gabriel was dispatched from God to a city of Galilee, which is named Nazareth, ²⁷ to a virgin, espoused to a man whose name is Joseph, of the house and kindred of David. And the name of the virgin is Miriam."

²⁷ to a virgin, espoused to a man whose name is Joseph, of the house and kindred of David. And the name of the virgin is Miriam." ²⁸ And, entering to her, the messenger said, "Rejoice, favored one! The Lord is with you, you blessed among women!" ²⁹ Now she, perceiving it, was agitated at his word, and she reasoned what manner of salutation this may be." ³⁰ And the messenger said to her, "Fear not, Miriam, for you found favor with God. " ³¹ And lo! you shall be conceiving and be pregnant and be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling His name Jesus."

³¹ And lo! you shall be conceiving and be pregnant and be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling His name Jesus."

³¹ And lo! you shall be conceiving and be pregnant and be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling His name Jesus."

³¹ And lo! you shall be conceiving and be pregnant and be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling His name Jesus." ³² He shall be great, and Son of the Most High shall He be called. And the Lord God shall be giving Him the throne of David,

³² He shall be great, and Son of the Most High shall He be called. And the Lord God shall be giving Him the throne of David,

³² He shall be great, and Son of the Most High shall He be called. And the Lord God shall be giving Him the throne of David, ³³ His father, and He shall reign over the house of Jacob for the eons. And of His kingdom there shall be no consummation."

³³ His father, and He shall reign over the house of Jacob for the eons. And of His kingdom there shall be no consummation." ³⁴ Yet Miriam said to the messenger, "How shall this be, since I know not a man?

³⁴ Yet Miriam said to the messenger, "How shall this be, since I know not a man? ³⁵ And answering, the messenger said to her, "Holy spirit shall be coming on you, and the power of the Most High shall be overshadowing you; wherefore also the holy One Who is being generated shall be called the Son of God."

³⁵ And answering, the messenger said to her, "Holy spirit shall be coming on you, and the power of the Most High shall be overshadowing you; wherefore also the holy One Who is being generated shall be called the Son of God."

³⁵ And answering, the messenger said to her, "Holy spirit shall be coming on you, and the power of the Most High shall be overshadowing you; wherefore also the holy One Who is being generated shall be called the Son of God." ³⁶ And lo! Elizabeth, your relative, she also has conceived a son in her decrepitude, and this is the sixth month with her who is called barren,

³⁶ And lo! Elizabeth, your relative, she also has conceived a son in her decrepitude, and this is the sixth month with her who is called barren, ³⁷ seeing that it will not be impossible with God to fulfill His every declaration." ³⁸ Now Miriam said, "Lo! the slave of the Lord! May it come to be with me according to your declaration! And the messenger came away from her."

⁶⁹ And rouses a horn of salvation for us In the house of David, His boy, ⁷⁰ According as He speaks through the mouth of His holy prophets, who are from the eon; "

⁴ Now Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, into the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and kindred of David,

⁴ Now Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, into the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and kindred of David, ⁵ to register together with Miriam, his espoused wife, who is parturient."

⁷ And she brought forth her Son, the firstborn, and swaddles Him, and cradles Him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the caravansary." ⁸ And shepherds were in the same district in the field fold, and maintaining watches at night over their flock." ⁹ And lo! a messenger of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of God shines about them, and they were afraid with a great fear." ¹⁰ And the messenger said to them, "Fear not, for lo! I am bringing you an evangel of great joy which will be for the entire people,

¹⁰ And the messenger said to them, "Fear not, for lo! I am bringing you an evangel of great joy which will be for the entire people, ¹¹ for today was brought forth to you a Saviour, Who is Christ, the Lord,

¹¹ for today was brought forth to you a Saviour, Who is Christ, the Lord,

¹¹ for today was brought forth to you a Saviour, Who is Christ, the Lord, ¹² in the city of David. And this is the sign to you: you will be finding a Babe, swaddled and lying in a manger." ¹³ And suddenly with the messenger there came to be a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, ¹⁴ Glory to God among the Highest! And on earth peace, Among men, delight!"

²¹ And when the eight days to His circumcising are fulfilled, His name also was called Jesus, which He was called by the messenger before His conception in the womb."

²⁵ And lo! there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name is Simeon. And this man is just and pious, anticipating the consolation of Israel, and holy spirit was on him."

⁴⁸ And perceiving Him, they were astonished. And His mother said to Him, "Child, why do you thus to us? Lo! your father and I painfully sought you."

²³ And He, Jesus, when beginning, was about thirty years old, being a son (as to the law) of Joseph, of Eli, of Matthat, of Levi,

²³ And He, Jesus, when beginning, was about thirty years old, being a son (as to the law) of Joseph, of Eli, of Matthat, of Levi, ²⁴ of Melchi, of Jannai, of Joseph, ²⁵ of Mattathias, of Amos, of Nahum, of Esli, of Naggai, ²⁶ of Maath, of Mattithiah, of Shemei, of Josech, of Joda, ²⁷ of Joanna, of Rhesa, of Zerubbabel, of Shalthiel, of Neri,

²⁷ of Joanna, of Rhesa, of Zerubbabel, of Shalthiel, of Neri, ²⁸ of Melchi, of Addi, of Cosam, of Elmadam, of Er, ²⁹ of Jesus, of Eliezer, of Jorim, of Matthat, of Levi, ³⁰ of Simeon, of Judah, of Joseph, of Jonam, of Eliakim, ³¹ of Melea, of Menna, of Mattathah, of Nathan, of David, ³² of Jesse, of Obed, of Boaz, of Salmon, of Nahson,

³² of Jesse, of Obed, of Boaz, of Salmon, of Nahson, ³³ of Amminadab, of Admein, of Arni, of Hezron, of Pharez, of Judah,

³³ of Amminadab, of Admein, of Arni, of Hezron, of Pharez, of Judah,

³³ of Amminadab, of Admein, of Arni, of Hezron, of Pharez, of Judah, ³⁴ of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Tera, of Nahor,

³⁴ of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Tera, of Nahor, ³⁵ of Serug, of Reu, of Peleg, of Eber, of Shelah, ³⁶ of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Shem, of Noah, of Lamech, ³⁷ of Methuselah, of Enoch, of Jared, of Maleleel, of Cainan, ³⁸ of Enosh, of Seth, of Adam, of God."

²² And all testified of Him and marveled at the gracious words which are issuing out of His mouth. And they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?

²² for days of vengeance are these, to fulfill all that is written."

⁴⁴ Now He said to them, "These are My words, which I speak to you, still being with you, for all must be fulfilled that is written in the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms concerning Me."

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and tabernacles among us, and we gaze at His glory, a glory as of an only-begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth."

²⁹ On the morrow he is observing Jesus coming toward him, and is saying, "Lo! the Lamb of God Which is taking away the sin of the world!"

⁴¹ This one first is finding his own brother, Simon, and is saying to him, "We have found the Messiah!(which is, being construed, "Christ")."

⁵ His mother is saying to the servants, "Anything which He should be saying to you, do." ⁶ Now there were six stone water pots lying there, in accord with the cleansing of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece." ⁷ And Jesus is saying to them, "Brim fill the water pots with water.And up to the brim they fill them." ⁸ And He is saying to them, "Draw now and bring to the chief of the dining room.Now they bring it."

²⁵ The woman is saying to Him, "We are aware that Messiah is coming, Who is termed 'Christ,' Whenever He should be coming, He will be informing us of all things."

⁴² Did not the scripture say that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was, comes the Christ?

⁴ they are saying to Him, "Teacher, this woman has been overtaken and detected committing adultery." ⁵ Now in the law, Moses directs us that such are to be stoned. You, then, what are you saying?

³⁵ If He said those were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the scripture can not be annulled),

³⁸ that the word of Isaiah the prophet, which he said, may be being fulfilled, "Lord, who believes our tidings? And the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed? ³⁹ Therefore they could not believe, seeing that Isaiah said again" ⁴⁰ that He has blinded their eyes and callouses their heart, lest they may be perceiving with their eyes, and should be apprehending with their heart, and may be turning about, and I shall be healing them."

¹⁴ You are My friends, if you should be doing whatever I am directing you."

²⁵ but it is that the word written in their law may be fulfilled, that they hate Me gratuitously."

¹² When I was with them in the world, I kept those whom Thou hast given Me in Thy name, and I guard them, and not one of them perished, except the son of destruction, that the scripture may be fulfilled."

⁹ that fulfilled may be the saying which He said, that "Of those whom Thou hast given Me, of them I do not lose anyone."

³⁶ For these things occurred that the scripture may be fulfilled, "A bone of it shall not be crushed." ³⁷ And again, a different scripture is saying, they shall see Him whom they stab."

³⁰ Being, then, inherently, a prophet, and having perceived that God swears to him with an oath, out of the fruit of his loin to seat One on his throne,

¹⁸ Yet what God announces before through the mouth of all the prophets - the suffering of His Christ - He thus fulfills.

²⁶ To you first, God, raising His Boy, commissions Him to bless you by turning away each of you from your wickedness."

¹² And there is no salvation in any other one, for neither is there any other name, given under heaven among men, in which we must be saved."

³¹ This Inaugurator and Saviour, God exalts to His right hand, to give repentance to Israel and the pardon of sins."

⁸ And He gives him the covenant of circumcision. And thus he begets Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs."

²² Now they say, "Cornelius, a centurion, a man just and God-fearing, besides being attested by the whole nation of the Jews, is apprized by a holy messenger to send after you to come into his house, and to hear declarations from you."

²² And, deposing him, He rouses David for their king, to whom He said also, in testifying, 'I found David, of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who will be doing all My will.'" ²³ From this one's seed, God, according to the promise, led to Israel a Saviour, Jesus. "

²³ From this one's seed, God, according to the promise, led to Israel a Saviour, Jesus. "

²⁷ For those dwelling in Jerusalem and their chiefs, being ignorant of Him and of the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, fulfill them in judging Him." ²⁸ And, finding not one cause of death, they request Pilate to have Him despatched." ²⁹ Now as they accomplish all that which is written concerning Him, taking Him down from the pole, they place Him in a tomb."

³⁸ Let it then be known to you, men, brethren that through this One is being announced to you the pardon of sins, ³⁹ and from all from which you could not be justified in the law of Moses, in this One everyone who is believing is being justified."

⁹ Now the Lord said to Paul, in the night, through a vision, "Fear not! but be speaking; and you should not be silent,

³ concerning His Son (Who comes of the seed of David according to the flesh,

³ concerning His Son (Who comes of the seed of David according to the flesh, ⁴ Who is designated Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection of the dead),

¹³ For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his Seed, for him to be enjoyer of the allotment of the world, but through faith's righteousness."

³ For what was impossible to the law, in which it was infirm through the flesh, did God, sending His own Son in the likeness of sin's flesh and concerning sin, He condemns sin in the flesh,

²⁹ that, whom He foreknew, He designates beforehand, also, to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be Firstborn among many brethren."

⁵ whose are the fathers, and out of whom is the Christ according to the flesh, Who is over all, God be blessed for the eons. Amen!"

⁷ neither that Abraham's seed are all children, but "In Isaac shall your seed be called." ⁸ That is, that the children of the flesh, not these are the children of God, but the children of the promise is He reckoning for the seed." ⁹ For the word of the promise is this: At "this seasonI shall come "and there will be for Sarah a son." ¹⁰ Yet, not only so, but Rebecca also is having her bed of one, Isaac, our father." ¹¹ For, not as yet being born, nor putting into practice anything good or bad, that the purpose of God may be remaining as a choice, not out of acts, but of Him Who is calling, ¹² it was declared to her that "The greater shall be slaving for the inferior, ¹³ According as it is written, "Jacob I love, yet Esau I hate."

¹⁹ how that God was in Christ, conciliating the world to Himself, not reckoning their offenses to them, and placing in us the word of the conciliation."

¹⁶ Now to Abraham the promises were declared, and to his Seed. He is not saying "And to seeds,as of many, but as of One: And to "your Seed,which is Christ."

⁴ Now when the full time came, God delegates His Son, come of a woman, come under law, " ⁵ that He should be reclaiming those under law, that we may be getting the place of a son."

²⁵ Husbands, be loving your wives according as Christ also loves the ecclesia, and gives Himself up for its sake, ²⁶ that He should be hallowing it, cleansing it in the bath of the water (with His declaration), ²⁷ that He should be presenting to Himself a glorious ecclesia, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it may be holy and flawless."

²⁰ and through Him to reconcile all to Him (making peace through the blood of His cross), through Him, whether those on the earth or those in the heavens." ²¹ And you, being once estranged and enemies in comprehension, by wicked acts, yet now He reconciles" ²² by His body of flesh, through His death, to present you holy and flawless and unimpeachable in His sight, ²³ since surely you are persisting in the faith, grounded and settled and are not being removed from the expectation of the evangel which you hear which is being heralded in the entire creation which is under heaven of which I, Paul, became the dispenser."

¹⁶ And avowedly great is the secret of devoutness, which was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by messengers, heralded among the nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory."

¹⁷ May it not be reckoned against them! Yet the Lord stood beside me, and He invigorates me, that through me the heralding may be fully discharged, and all the nations should hear; and I am rescued out of the mouth of the lion."

²² The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit! Grace be with you! Amen!

¹⁴ Who gives Himself for us, that He should be redeeming us from all lawlessness and be cleansing for Himself a people to be about Him, zealous for ideal acts."

¹⁴ For it is taken for granted that our Lord has risen out of Judah, to which tribe Moses speaks nothing concerning priests,

²⁵ Whence, also, He is able to save to the uttermost those coming to God through Him, always being alive to be pleading for their sake." ²⁶ For such a Chief Priest also became us, benign, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and coming to be higher than those of the heavens,

⁵ Wherefore, entering into the world, He is saying, Sacrifice and approach present Thou dost not will, Yet a body dost Thou adapt to Me."

⁷ By faith Noah, being apprized concerning that which is not as yet being observed, being pious, constructs an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemns the world, and became an enjoyer of the allotment of the righteousness which accords with faith." ⁸ By faith Abraham, being called, obeys, coming out into the place which he was about to obtain to enjoy as an allotment, and came out, not versed in where he is coming."

¹¹ By faith Sarah herself also obtained power for the disruption of seed, and brought forth beyond the period of her prime, since she deems the Promiser faithful;"

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when undergoing trial, has offered Isaac, and he who receives the promises offered the only-begotten, ¹⁸ he to whom it was spoken that "In Isaac shall your seed be called,

²⁴ By faith Moses, becoming great, disowns the term "son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ preferring rather to be maltreated with the people of God than to have a temporary enjoyment of sin, ²⁶ deeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked away to the reward." ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the fury of the king, for he is staunch as seeing the Invisible." ²⁸ By faith he has the passover made and the pouring of blood against the door jambs, lest the exterminator of the first-born may come into contact with them." ²⁹ By faith they crossed the Red Sea as through dry land, attempting which, the Egyptians were swallowed up." ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fall, being surrounded on seven days." ³¹ By faith Rahab, the prostitute, perished not with the stubborn, receiving the spies with peace."

³¹ By faith Rahab, the prostitute, perished not with the stubborn, receiving the spies with peace."

²¹ Abraham, our father, was he not justified by works when offering up his son Isaac on the altar? ²² You are observing that faith worked together with his works, and by works was faith perfected." ²³ And fulfilled was the scripture which is saying, Now "Abraham believes God, and it is reckoned to him for righteousness,and he was called "the friend of God." ²⁴ You see that by works a man is being justified, and not by faith only." ²⁵ Now likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when entertaining the messengers and ejecting them by a different way?

²⁵ Now likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when entertaining the messengers and ejecting them by a different way? ²⁶ For even as the body apart from spirit is dead, thus also faith apart from works is dead."

⁷ Yet if we should be walking in the light as He is in the light, we are having fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, is cleansing us from every sin."

¹ My little children, these things am I writing to you that you may not be sinning. And if anyone should be sinning, we have an Entreater with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Just." ² And He is the propitiatory shelter concerned with our sins, yet not concerned with ours only, but concerned with the whole world also."

⁵ And you are aware that He was manifested that He should be taking away our sins, and in Him is no sin."

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the Faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Suzerain of the kings of the earth. To Him Who is loving us and looses us from our sins by His blood" ⁶ and makes us a kingdom and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and might for the eons of the eons! Amen!"

⁵ out of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand are sealed; out of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand;

¹⁴ And I have declared to him: "My lord, you are aware.And he said to me, "These are those coming out of the great affliction. And they rinse their robes, and they whiten them in the blood of the Lambkin."

¹⁷ for God imparts to their hearts to form His opinion, and to form one opinion, and to give their kingdom to the wild beast, until the words of God shall be accomplished."

¹⁶ I, Jesus, send My messenger to testify these things to you in the ecclesias. I am the root and the race of David, the resplendent morning star."