2 Chronicles 16 Cross References - LITV

¹ In the thirty sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha the king of Israel came up against Judah. And he built Ramah, so as not to permit any going out and coming in to Asa the king of Judah. ² And Asa brought out silver and gold from the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and from the king's house; and he sent to Ben-hadad the king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying, ³ A covenant shall be between me and you, and between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha the king of Israel, and he shall go away from me. ⁴ And Ben-hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies to the cities of Israel. And they struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali. ⁵ And it happened, when Baasha heard, he stopped building Ramah and let his work rest. ⁶ And Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its wood, with which Baasha had built. And he built Geba and Mizpah with them. ⁷ And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa the king of Judah and said to him, Because you leaned on the king of Syria, and you have not leaned on Jehovah your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand. ⁸ Did not the Cushites and the Lubim become a very great army for multitude, for chariots and for horsemen? And when you leaned on Jehovah, He gave them into your hand. ⁹ For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro in all the earth in order to be strong for those with their heart perfect toward Him. You have acted foolishly in this. For this reason, from now on there shall be wars with you. ¹⁰ And Asa was angry with the seer; and he gave him up to the house of stocks. For he was in a rage with him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time. ¹¹ And, behold, the acts of Asa, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. ¹² And Asa was diseased in his feet in the thirty ninth year of his reign, until his disease was severe. And also in his disease he did not seek Jehovah, but among the healers. ¹³ And Asa lay with his fathers, and died in the forty first year of his reign. ¹⁴ And they buried him in his grave which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odors and kinds of aromatic herbs, with a mixture of ointments by art. And they burned a great burning for him.

²⁷ if this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people shall turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam the king of Judah, and they will kill me and go again to Rehoboam the king of Judah.

¹⁶ And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. ¹⁷ And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, to keep anyone from going out and coming in to Asa the king of Judah. ¹⁸ And Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and gave them into his servants' hand; and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, the king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying, ¹⁹ A treaty between you and me, between my father and your father! Behold, I have sent you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha the king of Israel, that he go up from me. ²⁰ And Ben-hadad listened to king Asa, and sent his army commanders against the cities of Israel. And he struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. ²¹ And it happened, when Baasha heard, he ceased building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah. ²² And king Asa proclaimed to all Judah (no one was exempt) and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber with which Baasha had built. And king Asa built with it Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

¹³ And the priests and the Levites in all Israel stationed themselves by him, out of all their territory. ¹⁴ For the Levites had abandoned their pasture land and their property. And they came to Judah and to Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out from acting as priests to Jehovah. ¹⁵ And he made stand priests for himself for the high places, and for goats, and for the calves that he made. ¹⁶ And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who gave their heart to seek Jehovah the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Jehovah, the God of their fathers. ¹⁷ And they made the kingdom of Judah stronger, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon stronger, for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.

⁵ And in those days there was no peace to him going out, or to him coming in, for much tumult was on all the inhabitants of the lands.

⁹ And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon. For they had fallen to him in abundance from Israel when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him.

¹⁸ And Joash the king of Judah took all the dedicated things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own dedicated things, and all the gold found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and of the house of the king, and sent to Hazael the king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.

⁸ And Ahaz took the silver and the gold which was found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent to the king of Assyria a bribe.

¹⁵ And Hezekiah gave all the silver that was found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the house of the king.

²¹ though Ahaz had taken a lot from the house of Jehovah and from the house of the king, and from the rulers, and had given to the king of Assyria; yet it was no help to him.

⁹ And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What have you done to us? And in what have I offended you that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to me that ought not to be done. ¹⁰ And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did you see that you have done this thing?

²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to you that you have made to come on them a great sin?

¹⁹ And all the leaders said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Jehovah the God of Israel; and now we cannot touch them. ²⁰ We shall do this to them, and shall keep them alive, and wrath shall not be on us because of the oath which we have sworn to them.

² And you, you shall cut no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars. Yet you have not listened to My voice. What is this you have done?

² And the king called for the Gibeonites and said to them (as to the Gibeonites, they were not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them) and Saul sought to strike them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah.

³ And Ahab the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he said to him, As I am, so are you; and as your people, so my people, even with you in battle.

² And Jehu the son of Hanani, the seer, went out before him and said to king Jehoshaphat, Do you love to help the bad one, and those who hate Jehovah, and by this bring wrath on you from the face of Jehovah?

⁴ In his eyes, the reprobate has been despised, but he honors those who fear Jehovah: He has sworn to his hurt, and will not change it.

¹ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and lean on horses, and trust on chariotry, because it is great; and in horsemen because they are very strong! But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek Jehovah. ² And He also is wise, and brings evil, and will not turn aside His words, but will rise against the house of evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. ³ And Egypt is a man, and not God. And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And Jehovah stretches out His hand, and both he who helps shall fall, and he who is helped shall fall; and they shall all cease together.

¹⁸ And he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And, behold, he had given his hand, and he has done all these things. ¹⁹ So the Lord Jehovah says this: As I live, surely My oath that he has despised, and My covenant that he has broken, I will even give it on his head.

³¹ without discernment, perfidious, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful, ³² who knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also applaud those practicing them .

¹⁶ And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God, even as God said, "I will" dwell in them and "walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people." Lev. 26:12; Ezek. 37:27

³ without natural feeling, unyielding, slanderers, without self-control, savage, haters of good,

¹⁴ And when Abram heard that his brother was captured, even then he led out his trained men, born of his household, three hundred and eighteen. And they pursued as far as Dan.

¹¹ And they put over them slave-masters in order to afflict them with their burdens. And he built store cities for Pharaoh: Pithon and Raamses.

²⁸ And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no business with any men. And it was in the valley which is beside Beth-rehob. And they built the city and lived in it. ²⁹ And they called the name of the city, Dan, by the name of their father Dan, who was born to Israel. And yet Laish was the name of the city at first.

¹ And all the sons of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, and the land of Gilead, to Jehovah at Mizpeh.

¹⁹ and all the store cities which Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

²⁰ And Ben-hadad listened to king Asa, and sent his army commanders against the cities of Israel. And he struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

⁶ and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all the desire of Solomon that he wanted to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

¹² And Jehoshaphat went on to be greater, exceedingly. And he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils, by means of which some having lusted after it were seduced from the faith, and they themselves pierced through by many pains.

¹⁵ forsaking a straight path, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

³⁸ and Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,

²⁴ and Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni and Gaba; twelve cities and their villages; ²⁵ Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, ²⁶ and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

⁶ And they were gathered to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured out before Jehovah. And they fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel judged the sons of Israel in Mizpah.

¹⁶ And He went from year to year, traveling a circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all these places.

¹⁷ And Samuel called the people to Jehovah, to Mizpah.

²² And king Asa proclaimed to all Judah (no one was exempt) and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber with which Baasha had built. And king Asa built with it Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

⁶⁰ And out of the tribe of Benjamin was Geba and its open lands; and Alemeth and its open lands; and Anathoth and its open lands. All their cities in their families were thirteen cities.

¹⁷ and they came up into Judah and broke into it, and captured all the substance that was found at the king's house, and also his sons, and his wives; and there was not left to him a son except Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.

²⁹ They have crossed the ford; they have bedded down at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

¹⁰ All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. And it shall rise and dwell in its place, from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananeel to the king's winepresses.

¹ And the word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

⁵ He trusted in Jehovah the God of Israel, and after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him;

²⁰ And they were helped against them. And the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them. For they cried to God in the battle, and He was entreated for them, because they trusted in Him.

¹⁸ And the sons of Israel were humbled at that time, and the sons of Judah were strong. For they leaned on Jehovah the God of their fathers.

³⁴ And the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, which were taken up in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

⁷ Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid nor be cast down before the face of the king of Assyria, and before the face of all the multitude with him, for with us are more than with him. ⁸ With him is an arm of flesh, and with us is Jehovah our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people were supported by the words of Hezekiah the king of Judah.

³ Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, for there is no salvation in him. ⁴ His breath will go out, he returns to the earth; his thoughts perish in that day. ⁵ Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob in his help; his hope is on Jehovah his God; ⁶ who made the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

¹ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and lean on horses, and trust on chariotry, because it is great; and in horsemen because they are very strong! But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek Jehovah.

² And a man shall be a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place; like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

⁵ So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and who makes flesh his arm, and who turns aside his heart from Jehovah. ⁶ For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.

¹² for us to be to the praise of His glory, the ones who had previously trusted in Christ; ¹³ in whom also you, hearing the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also believing you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

³ He came with a thousand and two hundred chariots, and with sixty thousand horsemen. And there was no counting the people who came with him out of Egypt: Lubim, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.

¹⁶ And the sons of Israel fled from the face of Judah, and God gave them into their hand.

⁹ And Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a thousand thousands, and three hundred chariots. And he came to Mareshah. ¹⁰ And Asa went out before him and they set the battle in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. ¹¹ And Asa called to Jehovah his God, and said, O Jehovah, it is nothing to You to help between the mighty and him with no strength. Help us, O Jehovah our God; for we rest on You, and in Your name we come against this host. O Jehovah, You are our God. Do not let man hold out against You. ¹² And Jehovah struck the Cushites before Asa and before Judah. And the Ethiopians fled.

⁷ And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa the king of Judah and said to him, Because you leaned on the king of Syria, and you have not leaned on Jehovah your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.

⁹ Jehovah also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of distress. ¹⁰ And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, Jehovah, have not forsaken those who seek You.

³⁹ But the salvation of the righteous is from Jehovah; He is their strength in the time of distress. ⁴⁰ And Jehovah helps them and delivers them; He shall deliver them from the wicked and save them, because they trust in Him.

¹³ And Samuel said to Saul, You have acted foolishly that you have not kept the command of Jehovah your God which He commanded you. For now Jehovah would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

⁷ And Nathan said to David, You are the man! So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, I anointed you as king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. ⁸ And I gave you the house of your master, and your master's wives into your bosom. And I gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if that were too little, then I would have added to you these and those things . ⁹ Why have you despised the word of Jehovah, to do the evil in His eyes? You have stricken Uriah the Hittite by the sword, and you have taken his wife to yourself for a wife. And you have killed him by the sword of the sons of Ammon. ¹⁰ And now the sword shall not turn aside from your house continually, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wile of Uriah the Hittite to be a wife to you. ¹¹ So says Jehovah, Behold, I shall raise up evil against you out of your house, and shall take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor. And he shall lie with your wives in the sight of the sun. ¹² For you acted in secret, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.

³² And there was war between Asa and Baasha the king of Israel all their days.

³ I pray to You, O Jehovah, please remember how I have walked always before your face in truth, and with a perfect heart, and I have done the good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

⁸ And David said to God, I have sinned exceedingly in that I have done this thing; and now, I pray You to cause the iniquity of Your servant to pass away, for I have acted very foolishly.

²⁰ for Your eyes shall be open toward this house by day and by night, toward the place that You have said to put Your name there, to listen to the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

¹⁷ Yet the high places were not removed from Israel. Only, the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

¹⁸ who says to a king, O worthless one; to nobles, O evil one? ¹⁹ How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor; for all of them are the work of His hands.

²¹ For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees all his steps.

¹⁵ The eyes of Jehovah are on the righteous; and His ears are open to their cry.

³⁷ Watch the perfect and behold the upright one; for the end of that man is peace.

⁶ Who humbles Himself to consider all in the earth and the heavens!

²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and He ponders all his tracks.

³ The eyes of Jehovah are in every place watching the evil and the good.

²¹ Now hear this, O foolish people, even you without heart, who have eyes and do not see. who have ears and do not hear.

¹⁷ For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face; their iniquity is not hidden from My eyes.

¹⁹ He is great in counsel and mighty in work. For Your eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give to each man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

¹⁰ For who has despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet stone in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven are the eyes of Jehovah; they run to and fro through all the earth.

²² But I say to you, Everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be liable to the Judgment. And whoever says to his brother, Raca, shall be liable to the sanhedrin; but whoever says, Fool! shall be liable to be thrown into the fire of Hell.

²⁰ But God said to him, Fool! This night they demand your soul from you; and that which you prepared, to whom will it be?

³⁶ Foolish one! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

¹ O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, to whom before your eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed among you, crucified?

¹³ and there is no creature unrevealed before Him; but all things are naked and laid open to His eyes, with whom is our account.

¹² because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against any doing evil things." LXX-Psa. 33:13-17; MT-Psa. 34:12-16

⁴ And David sent messengers and took her. And she came to him, and he lay with her. And she purified herself from uncleanness, and she returned to her house.

¹³ And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said to David, Jehovah also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

³¹ And he brought out the people in it, and put them to the saw, and to sharp tools of iron, and to axes of iron. And he caused them to go over into the brick kiln. And so he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

¹⁰ And after he had numbered the people, the heart of David struck him. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. And now, O Jehovah, I pray, take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly. ¹¹ And David rose up in the morning; and the word of Jehovah came to Gad the prophet, David's seer, saying, ¹² Go and you shall speak to David, So says Jehovah, I am setting up three things for you; you choose one of them and I will do it for you. ¹³ And Gad came in to David and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee before your foes three months, and they pursue you? Or shall three days' plague come into your land? Now consider, and see what I shall take back to Him who sent word to me. ¹⁴ And David said, Because of this I am in great distress. Let us fall now into the hand of Jehovah, for many are His mercies; and do not let me fall into the hand of man.

²⁶ And you shall say, So says the king. Put this one in prison and cause him to eat the bread of pain, and the water of pain, until my return in peace.

¹⁶ And it happened, as he spoke with him, that he said to him, Have we appointed you a counselor to the king? Stop! Why should they strike you? And the prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has counseled to destroy you because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.

¹⁹ And Uzziah was angry, and in his hand was a censer to burn incense; and when he was angry with the priests, the leprosy rose in his forehead, before the priests, in the house of Jehovah, beside the altar of incense.

¹⁹ For he crushed and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.

⁵ Let the righteous strike me; it is a mercy; and he rebuking me, it is oil of the head, let not my head refuse it; for yet my prayer also shall be against their evils.

⁷ He who reproves a scorner gets shame to himself; and he who rebukes a wicked man gets his own blot. ⁸ Do not reprove a scorner, that he not hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. ⁹ Give to a wise one, and he will be more wise; teach a just one, and he will increase in learning.

²³ But I will put it into the hand of those oppressing you, who have said to your soul, Bow down that we may cross, and Put your back as the ground, and as the street to those who cross.

² then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks in the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of Jehovah.

²⁶ Jehovah has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be officers in the house of Jehovah, over every raving man who prophesies, that you should put him into the stocks and into the torture collar.

³⁴ Nebu-chadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has devoured us. He has crushed us. He has made us an empty vessel. He has swallowed us like a jackal. He has filled his belly with delicacies. He has thrown me out.

³⁴ to crush all the prisoners of earth under His feet,

³ For seizing John, Herod bound him and put him into prison, because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip. ⁴ For John said to him, It is not lawful for you to have her.

²⁰ he also added this above all, he even shut up John in the prison.

²³ And laying on them many stripes, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them securely, ²⁴ who, receiving such a charge, threw them into the inner prison, and locked their feet in the stocks.

²³ And the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah? Only, at the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. ²⁴ And Asa lay with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.

²⁹ And the rest of the acts of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

¹⁵ And the acts of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer as to genealogy? And the wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam lasted all their days.

²⁶ And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, the first and the last, behold, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?

²² And the rest of the acts of Uzziah, the first and the last, Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, has written.

⁷ And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his battles, and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

³² And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his godly deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, and in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

¹⁸ And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has given a book to me; and Shaphan read it before the king.

²⁷ And his acts, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

² And Joseph commanded the physicians, his servants, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

¹⁴ and did not inquire of Jehovah. Then He killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

⁹ For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro in all the earth in order to be strong for those with their heart perfect toward Him. You have acted foolishly in this. For this reason, from now on there shall be wars with you.

²² And in the time of his distress he added to act slyly against Jehovah, this king Ahaz;

⁴ But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers.

²² Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of My people not come?

⁵ So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and who makes flesh his arm, and who turns aside his heart from Jehovah.

² for with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured again to you.

¹² But Jesus hearing, He said to them, The ones who are strong have no need of a physician, but the ones who are sick.

¹⁷ And hearing, Jesus said to them, Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who have illness. I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.

²⁶ and who had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all things that she had, and gaining nothing, but rather coming to worse,

³⁷ Judge not, and in no way be judged. Do not condemn, and in no way you will be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. ³⁸ Give, and good measure will be given to you, pressed down and shaken together, and running over, they will give into your bosom. For the same measure which you measure, it will be measured back to you.

¹⁴ Luke the beloved physician greets you, also Demas.

¹⁹ I, as many "as I love, I rebuke and I chasten." Be zealous, then, and repent. Prov. 3:12

²⁴ And Asa lay with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.

²⁵ And you shall make it an oil of holy anointing, ointment compound, the work of a perfumer, an oil of holy anointing it shall be. ²⁶ And you shall anoint with it the tabernacle of the congregation and the ark of the testimony, ²⁷ and the table and all its vessels and the altar of incense, ²⁸ and the altar of burnt offering, and all its vessels, and the laver and its base. ²⁹ And you shall sanctify them, and they shall become most holy; everything touching them shall become holy. ³⁰ And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and you shall consecrate them to minister as priests to Me. ³¹ And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil for Me for your generations. ³² It shall not be poured on the flesh of man, and you shall not make any like it in its proportion; it is holy. It shall be holy to you. ³³ If a man prepares any like it, or who gives from it to a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people. ³⁴ And Jehovah said to Moses, Take perfumes for yourself, spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, spices, and pure frankincense, a part shall be for a part. ³⁵ And you shall make it incense, an ointment, a work of a perfumer, salted, pure and holy. ³⁶ And you shall grind some of it fine, and put some of it in front of the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I meet you. It shall be most holy to you. ³⁷ And the incense which you make, in its proportion, you shall not make for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for Jehovah.

¹⁹ and it happened, from days to days, and as the time went out, the end of two years of days, his bowels went out because of his sickness; so he died of painful diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

²⁴ And his servants passed him out from the chariot, and caused him to ride in a second chariot of his, and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the graves of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem were mourning for Josiah.

¹ As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink and ferment; so a little foolishness is heavier than wisdom and than honor.

¹⁶ What is to you here? And who is here to you, that you have carved a tomb for yourself here, as one having cut out his tomb on high, having carved out a home for himself in the rock?

⁵ You shall die in peace. And as the burnings of spices for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they shall burn spices for you, saying, Ah, lord! They will wail for you. For I have spoken the word, says Jehovah.

¹ And the sabbath passing, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices, so that coming they might anoint Him.

³⁹ And Nicodemus also came, the one coming at first to Jesus by night, bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. ⁴⁰ Then they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linens, with the spices, as is usual with the Jews in burying. ⁴¹ And there was a garden in the place where He was crucified, and a new tomb in the garden, in which no one yet ever had been placed. ⁴² There, then, because of the Preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near, they put Jesus.