1 Kings 21 Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹ And it will be after these words, and a vineyard was to Naboth the Jezreelite which was in Jezreel, by the palace of Ahab king of Shomeron. ² And Ahab will speak to Naboth, saying, Wilt thou give to me thy vineyard? and it shall be to me for a garden of herbs, for it is near by my house: and I will give to thee in its stead a vineyard good above it; if good in thine eyes I will give thee silver the price of this. ³ And Naboth will say to Ahab, Far be it to me from Jehovah, my giving the inheritance of my fathers to thee. ⁴ And Ahab will come to his house rebellious and angry for the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spake to him: and he will say, I will not give to thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he will lie down upon his bed and turn away his face, and not eat bread. ⁵ And Jezebel his wife will come to him, and she will speak to him, What this thy spirit rebellious, and thou not eating bread? ⁶ And he will speak to her, Because I shall speak to Naboth the Jezreelite and say to him, Thou shalt give to me thy vineyard for silver; or if thou art willing, I will give to thee a vineyard in its stead. And he will say, I will not give to thee my vineyard. ⁷ And Jezebel his wife will say to him, Thou now wilt do the kingdom over Israel: arise, eat bread, and do thy heart good: I will give to thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. ⁸ And she will write letters in the name of Ahab, and seal with his seal; and she will send the letters to the old men, and to the nobles who were in his city dwelling with Naboth. ⁹ And she will write in the letters, Saying, Call a fast; set Naboth in the head of the people: ¹⁰ And set two men, sons of Belial, over against him, and they shall bear witness, saying, Thou didst praise God and the king. And they shall bring him forth and stone him, and he shall die. ¹¹ And the men of his city, the old men and the nobles, who were dwelling in his city, will do as Jezebel sent to them, according to what was written in the letters which she sent to them. ¹² They called a fast; they will set Naboth upon the head of the people. ¹³ And two men will come, sons of Belial, and they will set before him: and the men of Belial will testify against Naboth before the people, saying, Naboth praised Jehovah and the king. And they will bring him without the city, and stone him with stones, and he will die. ¹⁴ And they will send to Jezebel, saying, Naboth was stoned, and he will die. ¹⁵ And it will be when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and he will die, and Jezebel will say to Ahab, Arise, inherit the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give to thee for silver: for Naboth is not living, but dead. ¹⁶ And it will be when Ahab heard,that Naboth was dead, and Ahab will rise to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, and to possess it ¹⁷ And the word of Jehovah will be to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ¹⁸ Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Shomeron: behold, in the vineyard of Naboth where he went down there to possess it ¹⁹ And speak to him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Didst thou kill and also possess? And speak to him, saying, said Jehovah, In the place which the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick thy blood, also thine. ²⁰ And Ahab will say to Elijah, Didst thou find me, O mine enemy? And he will say I found: because thou didst sell thyself to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, ²¹ Behold me bringing evil to thee, and I took away after thee, and I cut off to Ahab him pissing against a wall and him shut up and left in Israel; ²² And I gave thy house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and as the house of Baasha, son of Ahijah, for the irritation which thou didst irritate, and thou wilt cause Israel to sin. ²³ And also to Jezebel spake Jehovah, saying, Dogs shall eat Jezebel in the fortification of Jezebel. ²⁴ Him dying to Ahab in the city shall dogs eat; and him dying in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat ²⁵ Only there was not as Ahab who was sold to do evil in the eves of Jehovah, whom Jezebel stimulated him. ²⁶ And he will cause abhorrence exceeding to go after blocks, according to all which the Amorites did whom Jehovah dispossessed from the face of the sons of Israel. ²⁷ And it will be when Ahab heard these words, and he will rend his garments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and he will fast and lie down in sackcloth, and go softly. ²⁸ And the word of Jehovah will be to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ²⁹ Thou sawest that Ahab humbled himself from before me. Because that he humbled. himself from before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: in the days of his sons I will bring the evil upon his house.

⁶ And the woman will see that the tree is good for food, and that it is a desire to the eyes, and a tree desired to make wise; and she will take from its fruit and will eat, and will give also to her man with her, and he will eat

¹¹ And he will say, Who showed to thee that thou art naked? Of the tree which I charged thee not to eat, didst thou eat from it?

⁵ And to Cain and to his offering he looked not: and Cain will be very angry, and his countenance will fall. ⁶ And Jehovah will say to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why does thy countenance fall? ⁷ If thou shalt do well thou shalt be lifted up; and if thou shalt not do well, sin lies at the entrance; and to thee his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. ⁸ And Cain will speak to Abel his brother; and it shall be in their being in the field, Cain will rise up against Abel his brother, and will kill him. ⁹ And Jehovah will say to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? and he will say, I know not: am I my brother's watcher? ¹⁰ And he will say, What didst thou? the voice of thy brother's bloods, crying out to me from the earth.

¹⁶ And the fourth generation they shall turn back hither: for the crime of the Amorite has not been completed till now.

⁶ And Abram will say to Sarai, Behold thy maid servant in thy hand; do to her the good in thine eyes. And Sarai shall afflict her, and she will flee from her face.

¹³ And the sons of Jacob will answer Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and will say, Because he defiled Dinah their sister. ¹⁴ And they will say to them, We shall not be able to do this word, to give our sister to a man which to him is uncircumcision; for this a reproach to us. ¹⁵ But in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we to circumcise to you every male; ¹⁶ And we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you and be one people. ¹⁷ And if ye will not listen to us to be circumcised, and we will take out daughter and depart

³⁴ And Jacob will rend his garments, and will put sackcloth upon his loins, and will mourn for his son many days.

⁷ And they will say to him, For what will my lord speak according to these words? far be it for thy servants to do according to this word.

¹⁷ And he will say, Far be it for me to do this: the man in whose band the cup being found, he shall be servant to me; and ye, go ye up in peace to your father.

¹⁷ And the midwives will fear God, and they did not according to what the king of Egypt said to them, and they will preserve alive the boys.

²¹ And it will be because the midwives will fear God, and he will make houses for them.

³ And Moses will come, and Aaron, to Pharaoh, and they will say to him, Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Until long didst thou refuse to humble thyself from before me. Send forth my people and they shall serve me.

⁵ Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me; ⁶ And doing kindness to thousands to them loving me and to them watching my commands.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not testify against thy friend for falsehood. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not desire thy friend's house, thou shalt not desire thy friend's wife, and his servant and his maid and his ox and his ass and all which is to thy friend.

²⁸ Thou shalt not make light of God, and thou shalt not curse the chiefs of thy people.

¹ Thou shalt not take up a false report: thou shalt not put thy hand with the unjust one to be a witness of wrong. ² Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice.

²⁵ And the land shall be defiled: and I will strike iniquity upon it, and the land shall vomit forth its inhabitants. ²⁶ And ye watched these my laws, and my judgments, and ye shall not do from all of these abominations, the native and the stranger sojourning in your midst: ²⁷ For all these abominations did the men of the land which were before you, and the land shall be defiled. ²⁸ And the land shall not vomit you forth in your defiling it, as it vomited forth the nations which were before you. ²⁹ For every one which shall do from all of these abominations, and the souls doing were cut off from the midst of their people ³⁰ And they watched my watches so as not to do from the laws of abomination which were done before you, and ye shall not be defiled in them: I am Jehovah your God.

¹⁵ Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

²² And ye watched all my laws, and all my judgments, and did them: and the land shall not vomit you forth, which I brought you there to dwell in it ²³ And ye shall not walk in the laws of the nations which I sent out from before you: for they did all these things and I shall be disgusted with them.

¹¹ And the son of the woman the Israelitess, will curse the name, and will vilify, and they will bring him to Moses: and his mother's name Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, to the tribe of Dan. ¹² And they placed him in watch, to declare distinctly to them by the mouth of Jehovah. ¹³ And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, ¹⁴ Bring him vilifying, without the camp; and all they hearing, placed their hands upon his head, and all the assembly stoned him. ¹⁵ And to the sons of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, When a man, a man shall curse his God and he bore his sin. ¹⁶ And he vilifying the name of Jehovah, dying, shall die; stoning, all the assembly shall stone him: as the stranger so the native, in his vilifying the name, he shall die.

²³ And the land shall not be sold to be cut off, for the land is to me; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

¹⁶ And Jehovah will say to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the old men of Israel, whom thou knewest that they were old men of the people, and their scribes; and take them to the tent of appointment, and they shall stand there with thee.

³⁵ And Jehovah will say to Moses, Dying, the man shall die: all the assembly stoned him with stones without the camp. ³⁶ And all the assembly shall bring him forth without the camp, and they shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

¹³ And Balaam will rise in the morning and will say to the leaders of Balak, Go to your land: for Jehovah refused to give me to go with you. ¹⁴ And the leaders will rise and go to Balak, and say, Balaam refused to come with us,

⁷ And the inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not remove from tribe to tribe; for the sons of Israel shall cleave each to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

²⁰ And thou shalt not speak false testimony against thy friend: ²¹ and thou shalt not desire thy friend's wife; and thou shalt not long for thy friend's house, his field, and his servant, and his maid, his ox and his ass, and all that is to thy friend.

¹⁰ For the land where thou goest in there to possess it, it is not as the land of Egypt, where ye came from there, when thou shalt sow thy seed, and thou wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of green things:

³¹ Thou shalt not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every abomination of Jehovah which he hated they did to their gods; for also their sons and their daughters they will burn in fire to their gods.

¹⁰ And stone him with stones and he died, for he sought to thrust thee away from Jehovah thy God, having brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants.

¹³ Men, sons of Belial went forth from the midst of thee, and they will thrust away the inhabitants of their city, saying, We will go and serve other gods which ye knew not;

¹⁸ Judges and scribes shall thou give to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee according to thy tribes: and they judged the people just judgment ¹⁹ Thou shalt not turn away Judgment; thou shalt not look upon and thou shalt not take a gift, for the gift will blind the eyes of the wise and will pervert the words of the just.

¹⁵ One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he shall sin; by the mouth of two witnesses or by the mouth of three witnesses the word shall be established. ¹⁶ If a witness of wrong shall rise up against a man to testify apostasy against him; ¹⁷ And the two men to whom is the contention stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; ¹⁸ And the judges sought out diligently; and behold, a witness of falsehood, the witness of falsehood testified against his brother; ¹⁹ And ye did to him as he purposed to do to his brother: and put away evil from the midst of thee ²⁰ And they remaining shall hear, and fear, and shall no more add to do according to this evil word in the midst of thee. ²¹ And thine eye shall not pity; soul for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot

¹ When there shall be found a wounded in the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, to possess it, fallen in the field, not knowing who smote him: ² And thy old men and thy judges shall come forth and measure to the cities which are round about him wounded: ³ And it was the the city being near to the wounded, and the old men of the city took a heifer of the kine which was not worked with, and drew not in the yoke: ⁴ And the old men of that city brought down the heifer to a perennial valley which shall not be worked in it, and shall not be sown, and they break there the neck of the heifer in the valley; ⁵ And the priests, the sons of Levi, came near, for in them Jehovah thy God chose to serve him and to bless in the name of Jehovah, and by their mouth shall be every controversy and every blow. ⁶ And all the old men of that city being near to him wounded, shall wash their hands over the heifer having her neck broken in the valley: ⁷ And they answered and said, Our hands poured not out this blood, and our eyes saw not ⁸ Expiate for thy people Israel whom thou didst redeem, O Jehovah, and thou shalt not give innocent blood in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood was expiated to them. ⁹ And thou shalt put away innocent blood from the midst of thee when thou shall do the right in the eyes of Jehovah.

²¹ And all the men of his city stoned him with stones, and he died: and put thou away evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear and shall fear.

²¹ And they brought the maiden to the door of the house of her father, and the men of her city stoned her with stones and she died; for she did folly in Israel to commit fornication in her father's house: and thou didst put away evil from the midst of thee.

²⁴ And ye brought out them two to the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they died; and the maiden for the word which she cried not in the city, and the man for the word which he humbled his neighbor's wife: and thou didst put away evil from the midst of thee.

³⁶ For Jehovah will judge his people, And upon his servants will he have compassion; When he shall see that the hand has failed, And nothing detained and left

²⁴ And Joshua will take Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the wide cloak, and the tongue of gold, and his sons and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep and his tent, and all which is to him, and all Israel with him, and they will bring them up to the valley of Achor. ²⁵ And Joshua will say, Why didst thou trouble us? Jehovah will trouble thee in this day, and all Israel will stone him with stone, and they will burn them in fire, and they will stone them with stones.

¹⁸ And their bound will be Jezreel and Chesulloth, and Shunem,

²⁹ Wo to us from him to rebel against Jehovah, and to turn back this day from after Jehovah to build an altar for burnt-offering, for a gift and for sacrifice beside the altar of Jehovah our God which is before his tent

¹⁶ An the people will answer and say, Woe to us forsaking Jehovah to serve other gods;

⁷ And lord Bezek will say, Seventy kings with the thumbs of their hands and their feet being cut off, were gathering under my table; as I did so God requited me. And they will bring him to Jerusalem, and he will die there.

³³ And all Midian and Amalek, and the sons of the east were gathered together, and they will pass over and they will encamp in the valley of Jezreel.

²² They doing good to their heart, and behold, the men of the city, men of the sons of Belial, encompassed the house, knocking upon the door; and they will say to the man, the lord of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man which came into thy house, and we will know him.

⁴ And all the old men of Israel will gather together and will come to Samuel to Ramah; .

⁶ And the word will be evil in the eyes of Samuel when they said, Give to us a king to judge us: and Samuel will pray to Jehovah.

¹⁴ And your fields and your vineyards, and your olive trees, the good he will take and give to his servants.

²³ Also I, far be it to me sinning against Jehovah ceasing to pray for you: and I taught you in the good and straight way.

¹⁷ And the king will say to the runners standing by him, Turn about and kill the priests of Jehovah, for their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not uncover his ear. And the king's servants would not stretch forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.

²⁰ And now, according to all the desire of thy soul, O king, to come down, come down; and for us to shut him up into the hand of the king.

⁶ And he will say to his men, Far be it to me from Jehovah if I shall do this word to my lord, to the Messiah of Jehovah, to stretch forth my hand against him, for he is the Messiah of Jehovah.

²² Thus will God do the enemies of David and thus will he add if I shall leave from all which is to him till the light of the morning, him pissing against the wall.)

³⁴ But yet Jehovah the God of Israel lives who withheld me from doing thee evil, for unless thou hastenedst and came to meet me, for if there was left to Nabal by the light of the morning him pissing against the wall.

⁹ And David will say to Abishai, Thou shalt not destroy him: for who stretching forth his hand against Jehovah's Messiah, and being innocent? ¹⁰ And David will say, Jehovah lives, for shall not Jehovah strike him? or his day shall come and he died; or he shall go down in the war and perish. ¹¹ Far be it to me from Jehovah stretching forth my hand against Jehovah's Messiah: and now, take now the spear which is at his head, and the cruse of water, and we will go for ourselves.

¹ And the rovers will gather together all their camp to Aphek: and Israel encamping by a fountain which is in Jezreel.

⁶ And Achish will call for David and say to him, Jehovah lives, for thou wert straight and good in mine eyes, thy going out and thy coming in with me in the camp, for I found not evil in thee from the day of thy coming to me even to this day: and in the eyes of the princes thou art not good.

¹³ And David will say to the youth announcing to him, From whence thou? and he will say, I the son of a man, a stranger, an Amalekite. ¹⁴ And David will say to him, How, wert thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy Jehoyah's Messiah? ¹⁵ And David will call to one of his youths and say, Come near, fall upon him. And he will strike him, and be will die. ¹⁶ And David will say to him, Thy bloods upon thy head, for thy mouth answered against thee, saying, I killed Jehovah's Messiah.

³¹ And David will say to Joab and to all the people which were with him, Rend your garments and gird you with sack-cloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David went after the litter.

⁹ And David will answer Rechab and Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and he will say to them, Jehovah lives who redeemed my soul from all straits, ¹⁰ When he announcing to me, saying, Behold, Saul died; and he was in his eyes as announcing good news; and I shall seize upon him and kill him in Ziklag, which I gave to him for the good news: ¹¹ Much more when wicked men killed a just man in his house upon his bed; and now shall I not seek out his blood from your hand and take you away from the earth? ¹² And David will command the boys and they will kill them and cut off their hands and their feet, and hang them over the pain Hebron. And the head of Ishbosheth they took and they will bury it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

¹⁴ And it will be in the morning, and David will write a letter to Joab, and send by the hand of Uriah.

¹⁴ And it will be in the morning, and David will write a letter to Joab, and send by the hand of Uriah. ¹⁵ And he will write in the letter: saying, Bring in Uriah to the front of the face of the strong battle, and turn ye back from after him, and he shall be smitten and die.

¹⁵ And he will write in the letter: saying, Bring in Uriah to the front of the face of the strong battle, and turn ye back from after him, and he shall be smitten and die. ¹⁶ And it will be in Joab's watching the city, and he will give Uriah to the place where he knew that strong men were there. ¹⁷ And the men of the city will go forth and fight with Joab: and there will fall of the people from the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite also will die. ¹⁸ And Joab will send and announce to David all the words of the war; ¹⁹ And be will command the messenger, saying, When thou finishest all the words of the war to speak to the king, ²⁰ And it being if the wrath of the king shall go up, and he say to thee, Wherefore drew ye near to the city to fight? did ye not know that they cast from above the wall? ²¹ Who struck Abimelech, son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast upon him a piece of the upper millstone from above the wall, and he will die in Thebez? Wherefore drew ye near to the wall? And say thou, Also thy servant, Uriah the Hittite died. ²² And the messenger will go, and come and announce to David all that for which Joab sent him. ²³ And the messenger will say to David, That the men were strengthened upon us, and they came out to us to the field, and they were upon them, even to the door of the gate. ²⁴ And they beholding, aimed at thy servants from above the wall: and from the servants of the king will die, and also thy servant, Uriah the Hittite died. ²⁵ And David will say to the messenger, Thus shalt thou say to Joab, This same word shall not be evil in thine eyes, as this, and as this, the sword shall consume: strengthen thy battle against the city and pull it down: and strengthen yourselves. ²⁶ And Uriah's wife will hear that Uriah her husband died, and she will mourn for her lord. ²⁷ And the mourning will pass over, and David will send and take her to his house, and she will be to him for wife, and bear to him a son. And the word which David did will be evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁹ Wherefore didst thou despise the word of Jehovah to do evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou didst strike with the sword, and his wife thou tookest to thee for a wife, and thou didst kill him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

¹¹ Thus said Jehovah, Behold me raising up evil against thee from thy house, and I took thy wives before thine eyes and gave to thy neighbor, and he lay with thy wives before the eyes of this sun.

¹⁶ And David will seek God for the boy, and fast a fast; and he came and passed the night and lay upon the earth. ¹⁷ And the old men of his house will rise to him to lift him up from the earth; and he would not, and he ate not bread with them.

² And Amnon will be pressed to be sick for sake of Tamar his sister, for she was a virgin; and it will be hard in the eyes of Amnon to do anything to her.

⁴ And he will say to him, Wherefore thou so weak, son of the king, in morning by morning? wilt thou not announce to me? and Amnon will say to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

¹⁵ And David will desire and say, Who will give me to drink waters from the well of the House of Bread, which is in the gate? ¹⁶ And the three mighty will break forth through the camp of the rovers, and draw waters from the well of the House of Bread, which is in the gate, and they will lift up and bring to David: and he would not drink them, and he will pour them out to Jehovah. ¹⁷ And he will say, Far be it to me, O Jehovah, my doing this the blood. of the men going with their souls: and he would not drink them. These did the three mighty.

¹ And king Solomon loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites; ² From the nations which Jehovah said to the sons of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, and they shall not come in to you: surely they will turn your heart after their gods: to these Solomon joined to love. ³ And there will be to him seven hundred chief wives, and three hundred concubines: and his wives will turn his heart ⁴ And it will be at the time of the old age of Solomon his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God as the heart of David his father.

³⁰ And this word will be for sin: and the people will go before the one, even to Dan.

³² For being, the word shall be which he cried by the word of Jehovah upon the altar which is in the house of God, and upon all the houses of the heights which are in the cities of Shomeron.

¹⁰ For this, behold me bringing evil to the house of Jeroboam, and I cut off to Jeroboam him pissing against the wall, the shut up and the forsaken in Israel, and I took away after the house of Jeroboam as dung shall be taken away till its finishing. ¹¹ Him dying to Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him dying in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat: for Jehovah spake.

¹⁶ And he will give up Israel on account of the sins of Jeroboam who sinned, and who caused Israel to sin.

¹² And he will take away the holy places from the land, and he will turn aside all the blocks which his fathers made.

²⁹ And it will be when he reigned, he struck all the house of Jeroboam; he left not any breathing to Jeroboam, till he destroyed him according to the word of Jehovah which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: ³⁰ For the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he caused Israel to sin, in his irritation which he irritated Jehovah the God of Israel.

³⁴ And he will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and he will go in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sins which he caused Israel to sin.

³ Behold me taking away after Baasha, and after his house; and I gave thy house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat ⁴ Him dying to Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him dying to him in the field, shall the birds of the heavens eat

¹¹ And it will be in his reigning, in his sitting upon the throne, he struck all the house of Baasha; he left not to him, him pissing against the wall, and his near relatives and his friends.

²⁶ And he will go in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and in his sins which he caused Israel to sin, to irritate Jehovah the God of Israel with their vanities.

³⁰ And Ahab son of Omri will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah above all which were before him.

³⁰ And Ahab son of Omri will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah above all which were before him. ³¹ And it will be light for him to go in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and he will take a wife, Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and he will go and serve Baal and worship to him.

³¹ And it will be light for him to go in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and he will take a wife, Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and he will go and serve Baal and worship to him. ³² And he will raise up an altar to Baal in the house of Baal which he built in Shomeron. ³³ And Ahab will make a statue; and Ahab will add to do to irritate Jehovah the God of Israel above all the kings of Israel which were before him.

⁴ And it will be in Jezebel's cutting off the prophets of Jehovah, and Obadiaha will take a hundred prophets, and hide fifty men in a cave, and he nourished them with bread and water.)

¹⁷ And it will be when Ahab saw Elijah, and Ahab will say to him, This thou, troubling Israel?

⁴⁵ And it will be even thus and even thus, and the heavens were darkened with clouds and wind, and there will be a great rain. And Ahab will ride and go to Jezrecl. ⁴⁶ And the hand of Jehovah was to Elijah; and he will bind up his loins, and he will run before Ahab, even to thy Coming to Jezreel.

² And Jezebel will send a messenger to Elijah, saying, Thus will God do and thus will he add that according to the time to-morrow I will set thy soul as the soul of one of them.

⁷ And the king of Israel will call for all the old men of the land, and he will say, Know now, and see that this seeks evil, for he sent to me for my wives and for my sons, and for my silver, and for my gold, and I withheld not from him.

³⁵ And a man, one of the sons of the prophets, said to his neighbor in the word of Jehovah, Strike me now. And the man refused to strike him. ³⁶ And he will say to him, Because thou heardst not to the voice of Jehovah, behold thee going from me, and the lion striking thee. And he will go from beside him, and the lion will find him and strike him. ³⁷ And he will find another man, and he will say, Strike me now. And the man will strike him, striking and wounding. ³⁸ And the prophet will go and stand by the king by the way; and he will be disguised with a bandage over his eyes. ³⁹ And it will be the king passing by, and he cried to the king, and he will say, Thy servant went forth into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and he will bring a man to me, and say, Watch this man: if missing, he shall be missed, and thy soul being instead of his soul, or thou shalt weigh a talent of silver. ⁴⁰ And it will be thy servant doing here and there, and he was not. And the king of Israel will say to him, Thus thy judgment; thou didst decide. ⁴¹ And he will hasten and remove the bandage from his eyes; and the king of Israel will know him that he is from the prophets. ⁴² And he will say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Because thou sentest away a man I devoted to destruction from thy hand, and thy soul being instead of his soul, and thy people instead of his people. ⁴³ And the king of Israel will go to his house, rebellious and angry; and he will come to Shomeron.

⁴³ And the king of Israel will go to his house, rebellious and angry; and he will come to Shomeron.

¹ And it will be after these words, and a vineyard was to Naboth the Jezreelite which was in Jezreel, by the palace of Ahab king of Shomeron. ² And Ahab will speak to Naboth, saying, Wilt thou give to me thy vineyard? and it shall be to me for a garden of herbs, for it is near by my house: and I will give to thee in its stead a vineyard good above it; if good in thine eyes I will give thee silver the price of this. ³ And Naboth will say to Ahab, Far be it to me from Jehovah, my giving the inheritance of my fathers to thee.

³ And Naboth will say to Ahab, Far be it to me from Jehovah, my giving the inheritance of my fathers to thee. ⁴ And Ahab will come to his house rebellious and angry for the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spake to him: and he will say, I will not give to thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he will lie down upon his bed and turn away his face, and not eat bread.

⁷ And Jezebel his wife will say to him, Thou now wilt do the kingdom over Israel: arise, eat bread, and do thy heart good: I will give to thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. ⁸ And she will write letters in the name of Ahab, and seal with his seal; and she will send the letters to the old men, and to the nobles who were in his city dwelling with Naboth. ⁹ And she will write in the letters, Saying, Call a fast; set Naboth in the head of the people: ¹⁰ And set two men, sons of Belial, over against him, and they shall bear witness, saying, Thou didst praise God and the king. And they shall bring him forth and stone him, and he shall die.

¹⁵ And it will be when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and he will die, and Jezebel will say to Ahab, Arise, inherit the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give to thee for silver: for Naboth is not living, but dead. ¹⁶ And it will be when Ahab heard,that Naboth was dead, and Ahab will rise to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, and to possess it

²⁰ And Ahab will say to Elijah, Didst thou find me, O mine enemy? And he will say I found: because thou didst sell thyself to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah,

²⁵ Only there was not as Ahab who was sold to do evil in the eves of Jehovah, whom Jezebel stimulated him.

⁸ And the king of Israel will say to Jehoshaphat, Yet one man to seek Jehovah from him, and I hated him, for he will not prophesy good concerning me, but evil, Micaiah, son of Imlah And Jehoshaphat will say, The king shall not say thus.

³⁸ And one will inundate the chariot in the pool of Shomeron; and the dogs will lick his blood; and the harlots washed, according to the word of Jehovah which he spake.

¹⁵ And the messenger of Jehovah will speak to Elijah, Go down with him: thou shalt not be afraid of his face. And he will rise and go down with him to the king. ¹⁶ And he will speak to him, Thus said Jehovah, Because thou didst send messengers to seek in Baal the fly god of Ekron, Is it because there is no God. in Israel to seek in his word? for this, the bed where thou wentest up there, thou shalt not come down from it, for dying, thou shalt die.

²⁶ And he will say to him, Went not my heart when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olive trees, and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and servants and maids?

³⁰ And it will be when the king heard the woman's words, and he will rend his garments; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people will see, and behold, sackcloth upon his flesh, from within.

⁷ And smite thou the house of Ahab thy lord, and I avenged the bloods of my servants the prophets, and the bloods of all the servants of Jehovah from the hand of Jezebel ⁸ And all the house of Ahab shall perish: and I out off to Ahab him pissing against the wall, and him shut up and left in Israel. ⁹ And I gave the house of Ahab as the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and as the house of Bassha son of Ahijah ¹⁰ And Jezebel shall the dogs eat in a part of Jezreel, and none to bury. And he will open the door and flee.

²⁵ And he will say to Bidkar the third, Lift up, cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for I remember I and thou riding in pairs after Ahab his father, and Jehovah lifted up upon him this lifting up. ²⁶ But the bloods of Naboth and the bloods of his sons did I not see yester-night, said Jehovah; and I requited to thee in this portion, said Jehovah. And now lift up, and cast him into the portion according to the word of Jehovah.

²⁶ But the bloods of Naboth and the bloods of his sons did I not see yester-night, said Jehovah; and I requited to thee in this portion, said Jehovah. And now lift up, and cast him into the portion according to the word of Jehovah. ²⁷ And Ahaziah king of Judah saw, and he will flee the way of the house of the garden. And Jehu will pursue after him, and he will say, Strike him also to the chariot in the ascent of Gur, which is with Ibleam. And he will flee to Megiddo, and die there.

³⁰ And Jehu will come to Jezreel, and Jezebel heard, and she will put her eyes in paint, and do her head good, and she will look through the window. ³¹ And Jehu came into the gate, and she will say, Was peace to Zimri, killing his lord? ³² And he will lift up his face to the window, and say, Who with me? who? and there will look towards him two, three eunuchs. ³³ And he will say, Throw her down. And they will throw her down, and there will be sprinkled of her blood upon the wall and upon the horses: and he will tread her under foot

³³ And he will say, Throw her down. And they will throw her down, and there will be sprinkled of her blood upon the wall and upon the horses: and he will tread her under foot ³⁴ And he will go in and eat and drink, and he will say, Review now this curse, and bury her, for she the daughter of a king. ³⁵ And they will go to bury her: and they found not of her but the skull and the feet, and the palms of the hands ³⁶ And they will turn back and announce to him, and he will say, This the word of Jehovah which he spake by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel, dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel. ³⁷ And the carcass of Jezebel was as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; that they shall not say this is Jezebel

¹ And to Ahab seventy sons in Shomeron. And Jehu will write letters and send to Shomeron to the chiefs of Jezreel, the old men, and to Ahab's nourishers, saying, ² And now when this letter comes to you, and with you your lord's sons, and with you chariots and horses, and a fortified city, and weapons; ³ And see the good and the straight of your lord's sons, and set upon the throne of his father, and war for the house of your lord. ⁴ And they will fear greatly, greatly, and say, Behold, two kings stood not before him, and how shall we stand. ⁵ And he over the house will send, and he over the city, and the old men, and the nourishers, to Jehu saying, We thy servants, and all which thou shalt say to us we will do; we will not make a man king: do thou the good in thine eyes. ⁶ And he will write to them a second letter, saying, If ye are for me and ye hear to my voice, take the heads of the men your lord's sons, and come to me according to the time to-morrow, to Jezreel. (And the king's sons seventy men with the great of the city growing up with them.) ⁷ And it will be when the letter came to them, and they will take the sons of the king and slaughter seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and send to him to Jezreel.

¹¹ And Jehu will strike all those being left to the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great, and all his acquaintance, and his priests, till he left to him nothing escaping.

¹¹ And Jehu will strike all those being left to the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great, and all his acquaintance, and his priests, till he left to him nothing escaping. ¹² And he will rise and come, and go to Shomeron. He in the house of binding of the shepherds in the way. ¹³ And Jehu found the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he will say, Who are ye? and they will say, We the brethren of Ahaziah; and we shall go down for the peace of the sons of the king and the sons of power. ¹⁴ And he will say, Seize them living. And they will seize them living, and they will slaughter them at the pit of the house of binding, forty and two men; and he left not a man of them.

¹⁷ And he will come to Shomeron, and he will strike all those remaining to Ahab in Shomeron till the destroying him according to the word of Jehovah which he spake to Elijah.

³⁰ And Jehovah will say to Johu, Because thou didst good to do the straight in mine eyes, according to all which was in my heart thou didst to the house of Ahab, thy son of the descendants of the fourth generation shall sit to thee upon the throne of Israel.

²⁶ For Jehovah saw the affliction of Israel exceedingly bitter, and none shut up, and none left, and no helper to Israel.

³ And he went in the way of the kings of Israel, and also he caused his son to pass through in fire, according to the abominations of the nations which Jehovah dispossessed them from the face of the sons of Israel.

¹² And they will serve blocks which Jehovah said to them, Ye shall not do this word.

¹⁷ And they will cause their sons and their daughters to pass through in fire, and divine divinations and enchantments, and they will be sold to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to Irritate him.

³⁷ And there came Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph reminding, to Hezekiah, their garments rent; and they will announce to him the words of Rabshakeh.

² And he will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, according to the abominations of the nations which Jehovah dispossessed from the face of the sons of Israel.

¹¹ Because Manasseh king of Judah did these abominations, doing evil above all which the Amorites did that were before him, and he will also cause Judah to sin with his blocks:

²⁵ And like him was there not a king before him who turned back to Jehovah 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 arose not like him.

¹⁹ And he will say, Far be it to me from my God from doing this: shall I drink the blood of these men with their souls? for with their souls they brought them. And he would not drink them. These did the three strong ones.

⁸ And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he strengthened himself, and he will put away the abominations from all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities which he took from mount Ephraim, and he will renew the altar of Jehovah which was before the porch of Jehovah.

⁷ And the king of Israel will say to Jehoshaphat, Yet one man to seek Jehovah from him: and I hated him, for he prophesies not to me for good, but all his days for evil: he is Micaiah son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat will say, The king shall not say thus.

¹⁷ And the king of Israel will say to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say to thee, He will not prophesy good to me, but for evil?

⁹ And he will seek Ahaziah, and they will take him, (and he being hid in Shomeron) and they will bring him to Jeku: and they will put him to death and bury him: For, they said, he is the son of Jehoshaphat who sought Jehovah with all his heart. And not to the house of Ahaziah to retain strength to the kingdom.

²¹ And they will conspire against him, and stone him with stone by the commands of the king in the enclosure of the house of Jehovah.

²² And in the time of straits to him and he will add to transgress against Jehovah: this the king Ahaz.

¹⁷ And he wrote letters to reproach to Jehovah God of Israel, and to say against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands who delivered not their people from my hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people from my hand.

² And he will do the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, as the abominations of the nations which Jehovah dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.

⁶ And he caused his sons to pass through in fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: and he practiced magic and used divination, and offered prayers, and made sorcerers and wizards: he multiplied to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to irritate him.

⁹ And Manasseh will cause Judah and those inhabiting Jerusalem to wander, to do evil more than the nations which Jehovah destroyed from before the sons of Israel

¹⁴ Also all the chiefs of the priests and the people multiplied to Transgress transgression according to all the abominations of the nations; and they will defile the house of Jehovah which he consecrated in Jerusalem.

⁷ And in the days of Arthasatha, wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues, to Arthasatha, king of Persia; and the writing of the letter' being written in Syriac, and being interpreted in Syriac. ⁸ Rehum, lord of judgment, and Shimshai, the scribe, wrote one epistle against Jerusalem to Arthasatha the king, thus:

¹¹ This the copy of the epistle that they sent to him to Arthasatha the king; thy servants the men beyond the river, and thus.

¹¹ Which thou didst command by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying, The land which ye are coming in to inherit it being a land of uncleanness in the uncleanness of the people of the lands in their abominations which filled it from mouth to mouth in their pollution. ¹² And now ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, and ye shall not take their daughters to your sons, and ye shall not seek their peace and their good even forever, so that ye shall be strong and eat the good of the land, and cause to your sons to inherit even forever. ¹³ And after all coming upon us for our evil deeds, and in our great guilt, for thou our God didst withhold below our iniquities, and didst give to us an escaping according to this. ¹⁴ Shall we turn back to break thy commands and to contract marriage with the people of these abonminations? Wilt thou not be angry with us even to finishing, for not a remaining and escaping.

² And the king will say to me, Wherefore thy face sad, and thou not being, sick? This nothing but sadness of heart. And I shall be very greatly afraid.

⁵ And Sanballat will send his young man to me according to this word the fifth time, and a letter opened in his hand;

¹² And the king's scribes will be called in the first month, in the thirteenth day in it, and it will be written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps and to the prefects, which were over province and province, and to the chiefs of people and people of province and province, according to its writing, and people and people according to their tongue; in the name of king Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king's signet ring. ¹³ { And the letters were sent by the hand of the runners to all the king's provinces, to cut off, to kill and to destroy, all the Jews, from the youth and even to the old man, the little ones and women, in one day, in the thirteenth to the twelfth month, (this the month Adar) and their spoil for plunder.} ¹⁴ A copy of the writing to be given an edict in every province and province, being manifested to all peoples to be ready for that day. ¹⁵ And they running went forth, being impelled by the word of the king, and the edict was given in Shushan the fortress. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; and the city Shushan was disquieted.

⁵ And Esther will call to Hatach from the king's eunuchs, whom he caused to stand before her, and she will give him a charge to Mordecai, to know what this, and for what this

⁹ And Haman went forth in that day being glad and good of heart: and when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, and he rose not up and moved not himself for him, and Haman will be filled with wrath against Mordecai. ¹⁰ And Haman will contain himself, and will go in to his house; and he will send and cause his friends to come, and Zeresh his wife. ¹¹ And Haman will recount to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all how the king magnified him, and how he lifted him up over the chiefs and servants of the king. ¹² And Haman will say also, Esther the queen caused none to come in with the king to the drinking which she made but me; and also to-morrow I am called to her with the king. ¹³ And all this was not an equivalent to me in all the time which I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king's gate. ¹⁴ And Zeresh his wife will say to him, and all his friends, Make ye a tree high fifty cubits, and in the morning say thou to the king, and they shall hang Mordecai upon it: and go thou in with the king to the drinking, being glad. And the word will be good before Haman; and he will make the tree.

¹² And Mordecai will turn back to the king's gate. And Haman hastened to his house, and the head covered.

¹⁰ And they will hang Haman upon the tree that he preps for Mordecai. And the wrath of the king subsided.

⁸ And write ye for the Jews as is good in your eyes, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's signet ring: for the writing which was written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's signet ring, none to turn back. ⁹ And the king's scribes will be called in that time in the third month, (this the month Sivan) in the three and twentieth in it; and it will be written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the prefects, and the chiefs of the provinces which are from India and even to Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces, province and province according to its writing, and people and people according to their tongue, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their tongue. ¹⁰ And he will write in the name of the king Ahasuerus, and seal with the king's signet ring; and he will send letters by the hand of runners on horses riding the courser, the mules, sons of mares: ¹¹ Which the king gave to the Jews which were in every city and city to gather together, and to stand for their soul, to cut off, and to kill and to destroy all the power of the people and province pressing upon them, little ones and women, and their spoil for booty, ¹² In one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, in the thirteenth to the twelfth month, this the month Adar. ¹³ The copy of the writing to be given an edict in every province and province, revealed to all the peoples, and for the Jews to be ready for this day to avenge themselves of their enemies.

⁵ And it will be that the days of drinking went round, and Job will send and consecrate them, and he rose early in the morning and brought up burnt-offerings for the number of them all: for Job said, Perhaps my sons sinned, and blessed God in their hearts. Thus did Job all the days.

¹¹ But send forth now thy band and tough upon all which is to him, if he will not bless thee upon thy face.

⁹ And his wife will say to him, Yet thou art holding fast upon thine integrity: praise God and die.

² For to the foolish, and anger will slay, and the simple will jealousy kill.

¹⁵ I sewed together sackcloth upon my skin, and I thrust my horn into the dust.

⁵ Far be it to me if I shall justify you: till I expire I will not remove my integrity from me.

¹⁵ He dug a pit, and he will dig it out, and he will fall into the pitfall he will make. ¹⁶ His trouble shall turn back upon his head, and his violence shall come down upon his crown.

¹² For he sought out bloods, be remembered them: he forget not the cry of the humble.

¹⁶ And Jehovah was known by the judgment he did: by the work of his hands the unjust was snared. Meditation. Silence.

⁴⁴ At the hearing of the ear they shall hear to me: sons of the stranger shall feign to me.

¹² Thou wilt not give me to the soul of him pressing me, for witnesses of falsehood rose up against me, and violence will blow.

¹¹ Witnesses of wrong will rise up; they will ask me what I knew not.

¹⁸ If thou sawest a thief, and thou wilt run with him, and thy portion with those committing adultery.

¹⁰ The just one shall rejoice as seeing vengeance: he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the unjust one. ¹¹ And man shall say, Truly, fruit to the just one: truly there is a God judging in the earth.

³ Say to God, How terrible thy works! in the multitude of thy strength thine enemies shall lie to thee.

³⁴ When he slew them and they sought him, and they turned back and sought for God. ³⁵ And they will remember that God is their Rock, and God the Most High redeemed them. ³⁶ And they will deceive with their mouth, and with their tongue they will lie to him. ³⁷ And their heart was not right with him, and they were not firm in his covenant

¹⁵ And thou, O Jehovah, art a God compassionate and merciful, and slow to anger and great of mercy and truth.

³⁵ And they will mingle with the nations, and they will learn their works. ³⁶ And they will serve their images, and they will be for a snare to them. ³⁷ And they will sacrifice their sons and their daughters to lords. ³⁸ And they will pour out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters which they sacrificed to the images of Canaan: and the land will be polluted with bloods. ³⁹ And they will be defiled with their works: and they will commit fornication in their doings.

¹⁰ My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in. ¹¹ If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously; ¹² We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit: ¹³ We shall find precious riches, we will fill our houses with spoil: ¹⁴ Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all: ¹⁵ My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths: ¹⁶ For their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out blood:

¹⁷ For they ate the bread of injustice, and they will drink the wine of violences:

¹⁹ A witness of falsehood, breathing out lies, and sending strife between brethren.

³⁰ A heart of healing, the life of the flesh: and jealousy the rottenness of the bones.

⁵ A witness of falsehoods shall not be unpunished, and he breathing out lies shall not escape.

⁹ A witness of falsehoods shall not be unpunished, and he breathing out lies shall perish.

¹⁴ The mouth of the strange woman a deep pit: and he cursing Jehovah shall fall there.

¹⁸ A mallet and a sword and an arrow sharpened, the man answering against his neighbor testimony of falsehood.

¹² A ruler listening to the word of falsehood, all serving him are unjust

²⁶ Many are seeking the face of the ruler, and from Jehovah a man's judgment

³¹ One girded in loins, or a he goat; and a king, no rising up with him.

⁵ I made to me gardens and pleasure grounds, and I planted in them a tree of all fruit

¹ And I turned back, and I shall see all the oppressions which are doing under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and none comforting to them; and from the hand of those oppressing them was power, and none comforting to them.

⁸ If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.

⁹ Good the sight of the eyes above the going of the soul. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit

⁸ Good the last of a word above its beginning: good slowness of spirit above pride of spirit ⁹ Thou shalt not be hastened in thy spirit to be angry, for anger shall rest in the bosom of fools.

²⁶ And I find bitter above death the woman that her heart it is snares and nets, her hands are bonds: the good one before God shall escape from her, and he sinning shall be taken by her.

⁴ Wheresoever the word of a king, it is powerful: and who shall say to him, What wilt thou do?

¹⁴ There is vanity which was done upon the earth; that there is the just which it comes upon them according to the work of the unjust: and there is the unjust, it comes upon them according to the work of the just. I said, Also this is vanity.

²⁰ Thou shalt not curse the king in thy consciousness, and in thy bed-chamber thou shalt not curse the rich for the bird of the heavens will bring the voice, and the possessor of wings shall announce the word.

¹⁵ A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters and flowings from Lebanon.

²¹ And passing through it, harshly oppressed and hungry; and it was when he shall be hungry, and they brake forth and cursed against their king and their God, and looked upwards.

¹³ And the people turned not back even to him smiting them, and Jehovah of armies they sought not

¹⁹ And thou wert east out of thy grave as a sprout abhorred, a garment of the slain thrust through with the sword, and going down to the stones of the pit as a corpse trodden down.

¹² And the Lord Jehovah of armies in that day will call to weeping and to wailing, and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:

²¹ For behold, Jehovah will come forth out of his place to review the iniquity of him dwelling in the earth upon him; and the earth uncovered her bloods, and she will no more cover over her slain.

¹⁵ He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;

¹⁵ What shall I speak? and he said to me, and he did: I shall go slowly all my years upon the bitterness of my soul.

¹ Thus said Jehovah, Where this writing of cutting off of your mother which I sent her away? or which of my creditors whom I sold you to him? Behold, in your iniquities ye sold yourselves, and in your transgressions your mother was sent away.

³ For thus said Jehovah, Ye sold yourselves gratuitously, and ye shall not be redeemed with silver.

²⁰ And the unjust as the tossed sea when it shall not be able to rest, and its waters will toss up mud and mire; ²¹ no peace, said God, to the unjust.

⁴ behold, for contention and strife ye will fast, and to strike with the fist of injustice: ye shall not fast as today to cause your voice to be heard on high. ⁵ Will this be the fast I shall choose? a day for a man to humble his soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and he will place sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast and a day of acceptance to Jehovah. ⁶ Is not this the fast I shall choose? to loose the bands of injustice, to shake off the bundles of the yoke, and to send away the broken free, and ye shall break every yoke? ⁷ Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry, and thou shalt bring the wandering poor to thy house? when thou shalt see the naked and cover him; and thou shalt not hide from thy flesh. ⁸ Then shall thy light break forth as the dawn, and thy healing shall spring forth quickly: and thy justice going before thee; the glory of Jehovah shall gather thee.

⁴ Dwelling among the graves, and they will lodge among the watchers, eating swine's flesh, and broth of unclean things in their vessels.

³ O Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon faithfulness? thou didst smite them, and they were not pained; thou didst consume them, they refused to take instruction: they made their faces firm above the rock; they refused to turn back.

¹⁷ Seest thou not what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

³ And I reviewed over them four kinds, says Jehovah: the sword to kill, and dogs to tear in pieces, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to consume and destroy.

¹⁸ And I requited first double their iniquity and their sin, for their defiling my land, with the carcasses of their abominable things, and their abominations they filled up mine inheritance.

¹⁷ For thine eyes and thy heart not but for thy plunder and for guiltless blood to pour out, and for oppression and for running, to do.

⁴ And I will send to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Now ye shall not do this abomination which I hated.

⁴⁷ And thou wentest not in their ways, and thou didst not their abominations: loathing as a little, and thou wilt be corrupted above them in all thy ways.

¹² Oppressing the poor and needy, stripping off plunder, he will not turn back the pledge, and he lifted up his eyes to the blocks, doing abomination,

⁴ And I cast thee down upon the earth, upon the face of the field will I throw thee, and I caused all the birds of the heavens to sit upon thee, and I satiated from thee the beasts of all the earth. ⁵ And I gave thy flesh upon the mountains, and I filled the valleys with thy height

¹⁰ And thou son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus ye said, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pining away in them, and how shall we live? ¹¹ Say to them, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if I shall delight in the death of the unjust; but in the turning back of the unjust one from his way, and he lived: turn back, turn back from your evil ways: and wherefore will ye die, O house of Israel?

¹⁸ The flesh of the strong shall ye eat, and the blood of the princes of the earth shall ye drink, rams, lambs and he goats, bullocks being fattened, of Bashan all of them. ¹⁹ And ye ate fat to satiety, and ye drank blood to drunkenness, from my sacrifice which I sacrificed for you. ²⁰ And ye were satiated at my table with horse and chariot, with the strong, and every man of war, says the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁸ And the prince shall not take of the inheritance of the people to oppress them, from their possession; from his possession he shall cause his sons to inherit, so that my people shall not be scattered each from his possession.

¹⁸ And if not, it shall be made known to thee, O king, that to thy gods we serve not, and to the image of gold that thou didst set up we will not prostrate ourselves: ¹⁹ In that time Nebuchadnezzar being filled with wrath, and the form of the visage was changed to him against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego: he answered and said to heat to the furnace one seven times above that it was seen to be heated. ²⁰ To the strong, the strong of strength that were in his army, he said to bind to Shadrach, Mesbach, and Abed-Nego, to cast into the furnace of flaming fire. ²¹ Then these men were bound in their wide trowsers, their tunics, and their mantles, and their clothing, and were cast into the midst of the furnace of flaming fire. ²² For this cause, as the word of the king being severe, and the furnace exceedingly heated, these men that took up to Shadrach, Meshach, and AbedNego, the flame of fire killed them. ²³ And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell into the midst of the furnace of flaming fire, bound. ²⁴ { At that time Nebuchadnezzar the king was grieved, and rose up in haste; he answered and said to the counselors, Did we not cast three men into the midst of the fire, bound? They answering and saying to the king, True, O king.} ²⁵ { He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose going about in the midst of the fire, and there is no hurt in them: and the aspect of the fourth like to the Son of God.}

¹⁹ And from the greatness that he gave to him, all peoples, nations and tongues, were trembling and fearing from before him: whom he was willing he killed; and whom he was willing, he was saving alive; and whom be was willing, he was setting up; and whom he willed he was humbling. ²⁰ And when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was strong for pride, he was brought down from the throne of his kingdom, and they took away his honor from him. ²¹ And he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made level with the beasts, and with wild asses his dwelling: they will feed him with the green herb as oxen, and from the dew of the heavens his body will be wet; till that he knew that God the Most High ruled in the kingdom of men, and to whom he will, he will set up over it.

⁴ And Jehovah will say to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little and I reviewed the bloods of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I caused the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. ⁵ And it was in that day and I broke the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

¹¹ Ephraim was oppressed, he was broken in judgment because he was willing to go after the command.

¹³ Be ye girded and lament, ye priests: wail, ye, serving the altar: come in, pass the night in sackcloth, ye serving God: for the gift and the libation were withheld from the house of your God.

¹⁰ They hated him setting right in the gate, and they will abhor the perfect word.

¹⁰ And Amaziah priest of the house of God, will send to Jeroboam, kind of Israel, saying, Amos conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will not be able to endure all his words.

¹² And thou shalt not look upon thy brother in the day of his calamity, and thou shalt not rejoice to the sons of Judah in the day of their perishing, and thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of straits. ¹³ Thou shalt not come in to the gate of my people in the day of their misfortune; also thou shalt not look upon his evil in the day of his misfortune, and thou shalt not stretch forth upon his wealth in the day of his misfortune ¹⁴ Thou shalt not stand upon the fork of the roads to cut off those of his escaping; and thou shalt not deliver up those remaining of his in the day of straits.

⁶ And the word will reach to the king of Nineveh, and he will rise from his throne, and he will take away his wide cloak from off him, and he will cover with sackcloth, and he will sit upon ashes.

¹ And it will be evil to Jonah, a great evil, and it will kindle to him.

⁹ And God will say to Jonah, Was it well to kindle to thee for the gourd? And he will say, It was well to kindle to me, even to death.

¹ Wo to them purposing vanity, and working evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they will do it because it is to the strength of their hand. ² And they desired fields, and they took by force; and houses, and they took away: and they oppressed a man and his house, and a man and his inheritance.

¹ And saying, Hear now, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment? ² Hating the good and loving the evil; plucking off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones. ³ And who ate the flesh of my people, and they stripp off their skin from off them; and they brake their bones in pieces, and separated as for the pot, and as flesh in the midst of the kettle. ⁴ Then shall they cry to Jehovah and he will not answer them, and he will hide his face from them in that time, as their doings were evil.

¹⁶ The laws of Omri will be observed, and all the work of the house of Ahab, and ye will go in their counsels; so that I shall give thee for a desolation, and her inhabitants for hissing, and ye shall bear the reproach of my People.

³ For doing evil with the hands to do well, the chief asking, and the judge, for peace; and the great one, he spake the mischief of his soul: and they will entangle it

¹⁸ Who is God as thee, lifting up iniquity and passing by transgression to the remnant of his inheritance? he held not his anger forever for he delighted in mercy.

⁹ Wo! to him plundering an evil plunder to his house, to set his nest on high, to deliver from the hand of evil.

⁹ Wo! to him plundering an evil plunder to his house, to set his nest on high, to deliver from the hand of evil.

⁹ Wo! to him plundering an evil plunder to his house, to set his nest on high, to deliver from the hand of evil. ¹⁰ Thou wilt counsel shame to thy house, cutting off many peoples, and causing thy soul to sin.

¹⁰ Thou wilt counsel shame to thy house, cutting off many peoples, and causing thy soul to sin. ¹¹ For the stone from the wall shall cry out, and the cross-beam from the wood shall answer it.

¹¹ For the stone from the wall shall cry out, and the cross-beam from the wood shall answer it. ¹² Wo! to him building a city with bloods, and preparing a city by iniquity.

¹² Wo! to him building a city with bloods, and preparing a city by iniquity.

⁵ And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.

⁸ And having sent them to Bethlehem, he said, Having gone, examine thoroughly concerning the child; and when ye should find, announce ye to me, so that I also, having gone, will worship him.

¹² And having received intimation of the divine will in a dream not to turn back to Herod, by another way they went back to their own country.

¹⁶ Then Herod, seeing he was deluded by the magi, was very angry, and having sent, destroyed all the children which in Bethlehem, and in all its bounds, from two years and under, according to the time he examined thoroughly of the magi.

² For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye measure, it shall be repaid to you.

³ And behold, certain of the scribes said in themselves, This defames.

¹³ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in.

⁵⁹ And the chief priests, and the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death; ⁶⁰ And they found not: and many false witnesses having come near, they found not. ⁶¹ And afterwards two false witnesses, having come near, said, This said, I can loosen the temple of God, and after three days build it. ⁶² And the chief priest, having risen, said to him, Answerest thou nothing? what do these witness against thee? ⁶³ But Jesus was silent. And the chief priest having answered, said to him, I cause thee to swear by the living God, that thou tell us, if thou art Christ, the Son of God. ⁶⁴ And Jesus says to him, Thou hast said: but I say to you, from henceforth ye shall see the Son of man, sitting from the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. ⁶⁵ Then the chief priest tore his garments, saying, That he blasphemed: what further need have we of witnesses? see, now ye have heard his blasphemy. ⁶⁶ What seems to you? And they having answered, said, He is liable to the penalty of death.

¹⁷ For this Herod, having sent, took John, and bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife: for he married her. ¹⁸ For John said to Herod, That it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. ¹⁹ And Herodias had a grudge against him, and desired to kill him; and could not: ²⁰ For Herod feared John, knowing him a just and holy man, and he observed him: and having heard him, did many things, and heard him cheerfully. ²¹ And a convenient day having come, when Herod in the festivities of his birthday made a supper to his leading persons,, and to the captains of thousands, and to the first of Galilee; ²² And the daughter of this Herodias, having come in, and danced, and pleased Herod and those reclining together at table, the king said to the little girl, Ask me whatever thou wishest, and I will give thee. ²³ And he swore to her, That whatever thou shouldest ask, I will give thee, even to half my kingdom. ²⁴ And she having come out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Immerser. ²⁵ And having come quickly with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I wish that thou wouldest give me by itself, upon a board, the head of John the Immerser. ²⁶ And the king having been sorely grieved on account of the oaths and those reclining at table together, wished not to refuse her. ²⁷ And quickly the king, having sent a scout, commanded his head to be brought:

¹² And they sought to seize him, and they feared the crowd: for they knew that he spake this parable against them: and having let him go they went away.

⁵⁶ For many testified falsely against him, and the testimonies were not alike. ⁵⁷ And certain having risen up testified falsely against him, saying, ⁵⁸ That we heard him saying, That I will abolish this temple made with hands, and in three days will I build another, made without hands. ⁵⁹ And neither so was their testimony alike.

⁴⁴ And having turned to the woman, he said to Simon, Thou seest this woman? I came into thy house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: and she wet my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

¹⁵ And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.

⁴⁷ Who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence pray at great length; these shall receive more abundant judgment.

² And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a King.

³³ The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and that thou, being man, makest thyself God.

²⁸ Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the pretorium: and it was early morning; and they came not into the pretorium, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the pascha.

¹² From this Pilate sought to loose him: and the Jews cried out, saying, If thou loose this, thou art not Caesar's friend: every one making himself a king speaks against Caesar.

¹⁹ And Peter and John having answered to them, said, If it is just before God to hear you rather than God, judge ye.

²⁹ And Peter having answered, and the sent, said, We must obey God rather than men.

¹¹ Then they put under men, saying, That we have heard him speaking defaming words against Moses, and God. ¹² And they roused together the people, and elders, and scribes, and having stood against, they seized him, and brought to the council, ¹³ And set false witnesses, saying, This man ceases not speaking defaming words against this holy place, and the law:

⁵⁷ And having cried with a great voice, they held fast their ears, and rushed unanimously upon him, ⁵⁸ And having cast out of the city, they stoned: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul. ⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, calling upon, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

² And the unbelieving Jews excited and trained up the souls of the nations against the brethren.

⁵ For having found this man a scourge, and moving sedition to all Jews in the habitable globe, and standing in the first rank of the sect of Nazarites:

³² Who knowing the justice of God, that they doing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve those doing.

⁴ Or the abundance of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering dos thou despise; not knowing that the goodness of God brings thee to repentance?

⁴ It may not be: and let God be true, and every man a liar; as has been written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest conquer in thy being judged.

⁶ It may not be: for how shall God judge the world

³¹ Therefore shall we leave the law inactive by faith It may not be: but we should establish the law.

² It may not be. We who died to sin, shall we yet live in it?

¹⁵ What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace It may not be.

¹⁹ (I speak as man through the weakness of your flesh:) for as ye presented your members to uncleanness and iniquity; so now present ye your members servants to justice for consecration.

⁷ What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire.

¹³ Was then good death to me? It may not be. But sin, that it might appear sin, by the good working death in me; that sin might be sinful to excess by the command. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual: and I am fleshly, sold under sin.

¹⁵ Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? having taken the members of Christ, shall I make members of a harlot? It may not be.

¹⁶ Have I then been your enemy, speaking truth to you

¹⁴ And it may not be to me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁹ Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching.

²⁷ Neither give place to the accuser.

⁹ And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.

⁹ And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition. ¹⁰ For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

¹⁴ And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed.

¹⁴ And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed. ¹⁵ So then lust conceiving, brings forth sin: and sin performed, produces death.

² Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not. ³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures. ⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God. ⁵ Or think ye that the writing says vainly, That the spirit longs for envy, which dwelt in us? ⁶ And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. ⁷ Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you.

³ For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

¹⁵ Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;

⁹ The Lord puts not off the solemn promise, as some deem slowness; but is lonsuffering to us, not willing any to perish, but all should have room for repentance.

¹⁰ And they dwelling upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and shall be gladdened, and shall send gifts to one another; for these two prophets tortured them dwelling upon the earth.

¹⁸ That ye might eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains of thousands, and the flesh of the strong, and the flesh of horses, and of them sitting upon them, and the flesh of all, free and servants, and of small and great.

⁸ But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,