Genesis 19 Cross References - LITV

¹ And the two angels came into Sodom at evening. And Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw, and he rose up to meet them and bowed his face to the earth. ² And he said, Behold, now, my lords, please turn into your servant's house and lodge, and wash your feet; and rise early and go to your way. And they said, No, for we will lodge in the street. ³ And he much urged them, and they turned into him and came into his house. And he made a feast for them. And he baked unleavened cakes, and they ate. ⁴ Before they had laid down, even the men of the city, the men of Sodom, circled the house; from the young to the aged, all the people from its limits. ⁵ And they called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them. ⁶ And Lot went out to them, to the door, and he closed the door behind him. ⁷ And he said, My brothers, please do not act evilly. ⁸ Behold, now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please let me bring them out to you and do to them as you see fit; only do not do a thing to these men, because on account of this they came into the shade of my roof. ⁹ And they said, Stand back! And they said, This one came into visit, and must he always judge? Now we will do evil to you rather than to them. And they pressed on the man, upon Lot violently, and drew near to break the door. ¹⁰ But the men put out their hands and pulled Lot to them, into the house, and shut the door. ¹¹ And they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, from the small to the great; and they struggled to find the door. ¹² And the men said to Lot, Who still is here to you? Bring out of this place your sons and your sons-in-law and your daughters, and whoever belongs to you in the city. ¹³ For we are about to destroy this place, for the cry of them is great before Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it. ¹⁴ And Lot went out to speak to his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters. And he said, Rise up, go out from this place, for Jehovah is about to destroy the city. And he seemed as one joking to his sons-in-law. ¹⁵ And when the dawn rose, then the angels urged Lot, saying, Rise up, take your wife and your two daughters who are found, lest you be cut off in the depravity of the city. ¹⁶ And he lingered. And the men lay hold of his hand and his wife's hand, and on the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah having mercy on him. And they caused him to go out, and they put him down outside the city. ¹⁷ And it happened as they led them outside, he said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay in all the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away. ¹⁸ And Lot said to them, Oh no, Lord! ¹⁹ Behold, now, Your servant has found grace in Your sight, and You have magnified Your mercy which You have shown to me in saving my life. And I am not able to escape to the mountain lest some evil overtake me and I die. ²⁰ Behold, now, this city is near, to flee there, and it is a little one. Please let me escape there! Is it not a little thing, that my soul may live? ²¹ And He said to him, See, I have lifted up your face also as to this thing, without overthrowing the city for which you have spoken. ²² Hurry, escape there, for I am not able to do anything until you have come there. So the name of the city was called Zoar. ²³ The sun had risen on the earth, and Lot came into Zoar. ²⁴ And Jehovah rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from Jehovah out of the heavens. ²⁵ And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all those living in the cities, and the produce of the ground. ²⁶ And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. ²⁷ And Abraham started up early in the morning, going to the place where he had stood there before Jehovah. ²⁸ And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain. And he saw. And, behold, the smoke of the country went up like the smoke of a furnace. ²⁹ And it happened when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham; and He sent Lot out from the overthrow when overturning the cities in which Lot lived. ³⁰ And Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the mount. And his two daughters were with him. For he feared to live in Zoar. And he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters. ³¹ And the first born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us as is the way of all the earth. ³² Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him, that we may keep alive seed of our father. ³³ And they caused their father to drink wine that night. And the first born went in and lay with her father. And he did not know when she lay down nor when she rose up. ³⁴ And on the next day it happened, the first born said to the younger, Behold, I lay with my father last night. Let us cause him to drink wine tonight also. And you go in and lie with him, so that we may keep alive seed of our father. ³⁵ And they caused their father to drink wine that night also. And the younger rose up and lay with him. And he did not know when she lay down, nor when she rose up. ³⁶ And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. ³⁷ And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of Moab to this day. ³⁸ And the younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.

¹ And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he was sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day. ² And he lifted up his eyes and looked; and, behold, three men were standing by him. And he saw, and he ran to meet them from the entrance of the tent. And he bowed to the ground. ³ And he said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, I beg You, do not leave from near Your servant. ⁴ Please allow a little water to be taken and You wash Your feet, and rest under the tree. ⁵ And I will bring a bite of bread and will sustain Your heart. Then You may pass on, for this is why You have passed over to Your servant. And they said, Do so, as you have said.

²² And the men faced around from there and went toward Sodom. And Abraham was still standing before Jehovah.

³² the stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler;

² Do not forget hospitality, for by this some unknowingly took in angels as guests.

⁴ Please allow a little water to be taken and You wash Your feet, and rest under the tree.

¹⁷ And the lifted up his eyes and saw the man, the traveler, in a broad place of the city. And the aged man said, Where are you going, and where do you come from? ¹⁸ And he said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem-judah to the other side of the hills of Ephraim. I am from there, and I am going to Bethlehem-judah. And I am going to the house of Jehovah. Yet there is no man to take me into the house. ¹⁹ But there is straw and food for our asses, and also there is bread and wine for me, and for your slave girl, and for the young man with your servants; there is no lack of anything. ²⁰ And the old man said, Peace to you. Only, all that you lack shall be on me. Only, do not spend the night in the open. ²¹ And he brought him to his house, and mixed fodder for the asses. And they washed their feet and ate and drank.

²⁸ And they drew near to the village where they were going, and He seemed to be going further. ²⁹ And they constrained Him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening, and the day has declined. And He went in to stay with them.

¹⁵ And as she and her household were baptized, she entreated Paul, saying, If you have judged me to be believing in the Lord, entering into my house, remain. And she strongly urged us.

⁶ And Abraham ran into the tent to Sarah and said, Hurry, prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it and make cakes. ⁷ And Abraham ran to the herd and brought a son of the herd, tender and good, and gave it to a youth. And he hurried to prepare it . ⁸ And he took curds and milk and the son of the herd which he had prepared, and he set before them. And he stood by them under the tree. And they ate.

⁸ And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

¹⁵ You shall eat unleavened bread seven days. Indeed, on the first day you shall cause leaven to cease from your houses. For anyone eating anything leavened, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.

³⁹ And they baked the dough which they brought out from Egypt into unleavened cakes. For it was not leavened, because they were driven out from Egypt, and they were not able to delay. And also they had not prepared food for a journey for themselves.

¹⁹ And Gideon went in and prepared a kid of the goats, and unleavened bread of an ephah of flour. He put the flesh in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot. And he brought it out to Him, under the oak, and offered it .

²⁴ And the woman had a fat calf in the house. And she hurried and slaughtered it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened cakes of it.

⁸ And the day came that Elisha crossed over to Shunem. And a great woman was there. And she lay hold on him to eat bread. And it happened, as often as he passed by, he turned aside there to eat bread.

²⁹ And Levi made a great feast for Him in his house. And there was a crowd of many tax collectors reclining, and of others who were with them.

⁸ I say to you, even if rising up he will not give to him because he is a friend, yet because of his shameless insisting, rising up he will give him as many as he needs.

²³ And the lord said to the slave, Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.

² Then they made Him a supper there, and Martha served. But Lazarus was one of those reclining with Him.

⁸ So let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and of evil, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constrains us, having judged this, that if One died for all, then the all died;

¹³ And the men of Sodom were evil and sinners before Jehovah, exceedingly so.

²⁰ And Jehovah said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is exceedingly heavy.

² And all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.

² You shall not run after many to gain evil things. And you shall not testify as to a lawsuit, to turn aside after many in order to pervert justice .

¹⁶ For they do not sleep if they have done no evil, and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.

¹⁸ a heart that plots evil plans, feet hurrying to run to mischief,

¹ Roam around in Jerusalem's streets and see now, and know, and seek in her plazas if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her. ² And though they say, As Jehovah lives, surely they swear falsely. ³ O Jehovah, are not Your eyes for the truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You consumed them, yet they refused to take correction. They made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return. ⁴ So I said, Surely they are poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of Jehovah, the ordinance of their God. ⁵ I will go up for myself to the great men and will speak to them. For they have known the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God. Surely these have joined in breaking the yoke; they have torn off the bonds. ⁶ On account of this a lion out of the forest shall strike them; a wolf of the desert shall destroy them; a leopard is watching over their cities. Everyone who goes out from them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many; their apostasies are multiplied.

³¹ The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their hands; and My people love it so. And what will you do at the end of it?

³ Both palms are on evil, to do it well. The ruler is asking for a bribe, also the judge. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; he acts, and they weave it together.

²⁰ But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds, that they should ask for Barabbas, and to destroy Jesus. ²¹ And answering, the governor said to them, From the two, which do you wish that I release to you? And they said, Barabbas. ²² Pilate said to them, What then should I do to Jesus called Christ? They all said to him, Let him be crucified. ²³ But the governor said, For what wrong did he do? But they the more cried out, saying, Let him be crucified. ²⁴ And seeing that nothing is gained, but rather an uproar occurs, taking water, Pilate washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just one; you will see. ²⁵ And answering, all the people said, His blood be on us and on our children.

¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood;

²² And you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is a perversion.

¹³ And a man who lies with a male as one lies with a woman, both of them have done a detestable thing; they shall certainly be put to death; their blood shall be on them.

²² They were making their hearts merry. And, behold, men of the city, sons of worthless men, went around the house, beating on the door. And they spoke to the old man, the house-master, saying, Bring out the man who has come into your house, and we shall know him.

⁹ Except Jehovah of hosts had left a remnant for us, a few, we would be as Sodom; we would be as Gomorrah.

⁹ The look of their faces witnesses against them; they have declared their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it . Woe to their soul! For they have dealt evil to themselves.

³ And the showers are withheld, and there has been no latter rain. And the forehead of a woman, a harlot was to you; you refused to be ashamed.

¹⁵ Were they ashamed when they made an abomination? They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. At the time I visit them, they shall be cast down, says Jehovah.

⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and her daughters. Also, she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

⁵¹ And Samaria has not sinned as much as half your sins, but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.

²³ And you, Capernaum, who "have been exalted to the heaven, you will be thrown down to Hades." For if the powerful acts happening in you had taken place in Sodom, it would remain until today. Isa. 14:13, 15 ²⁴ But I say to you, It will be more bearable for the land of Sodom in Judgment day than for you.

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. ²⁴ Because of this, God gave them up to impurity in the lusts of their hearts, their bodies to be dishonored among themselves,

²⁶ Because of this, God gave them up to dishonorable passions, for even their females changed the natural use to that contrary to nature. ²⁷ And likewise, the males also forsaking the natural use of the female burned in their lust toward one another, males with males working out shamefulness, and receiving back within themselves the reward which was fitting for their error.

⁹ Or do you not know that unjust ones will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

¹⁰ for fornicators, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and if any other thing opposes sound doctrine,

¹³ But evil men and pretenders will go forward to worse, leading astray and being led astray.

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, committing fornication, and going away after other flesh, laid down an example before-times, undergoing vengeance of everlasting fire.

²³ And the man, the house-master, went out to them and said to them, No, my brothers, please do not do evil, since this man has come into my house; do not do this grave sin.

⁴ Before they had laid down, even the men of the city, the men of Sodom, circled the house; from the young to the aged, all the people from its limits.

¹⁷ There shall be no prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a homosexual among the sons of Israel.

²³ And David said, You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Jehovah has given to us. And He has protected us, and has given the troop which came against us into our hand. ²⁴ And who will listen to you in this thing? For as the portion of him who goes down to battle, so shall be his share who remains by the baggage. They shall share together.

²⁶ And He made every nation of men of one blood, to live on all the face of the earth, ordaining fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,

²⁴ Because of this, God gave them up to impurity in the lusts of their hearts, their bodies to be dishonored among themselves,

⁹ Or do you not know that unjust ones will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous ones, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor plunderers shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And some were these things, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

⁵ And I will bring a bite of bread and will sustain Your heart. Then You may pass on, for this is why You have passed over to Your servant. And they said, Do so, as you have said.

³¹ And the first born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us as is the way of all the earth. ³² Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him, that we may keep alive seed of our father. ³³ And they caused their father to drink wine that night. And the first born went in and lay with her father. And he did not know when she lay down nor when she rose up. ³⁴ And on the next day it happened, the first born said to the younger, Behold, I lay with my father last night. Let us cause him to drink wine tonight also. And you go in and lie with him, so that we may keep alive seed of our father. ³⁵ And they caused their father to drink wine that night also. And the younger rose up and lay with him. And he did not know when she lay down, nor when she rose up. ³⁶ And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. ³⁷ And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of Moab to this day. ³⁸ And the younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.

³⁷ And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, You may kill my two sons if I do not bring him to you. Give him into my hand, and I will return him to you.

²² And Aaron said, Let not anger of my lord glow. You know the people, that it is in evil.

¹⁵ And the bramble bush said to the trees, If you truly anoint me king over you, come seek refuge in my shade. And if not, let fire come out of the bramble bush and burn up the cedars of Lebanon.

²⁴ Behold, my daughter, a virgin, and his concubine. Please let me bring them out, and you humble them. And do to them that which is good in your eyes but do not do this wicked thing to this man.

⁷ Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, that you should bring the wandering poor home? When will you see the naked and cover him; and you will not hide yourself from your flesh?

⁶ For he did not know what to say, for they were very fearful.

⁸ And not (as we are wrongly accused, and as some report us to say), Let us do bad things so that good things may come, the judgment of whom is just.

⁶ And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and the lip one to all of them, and this they are beginning to do, and now all which they have purposed to do will not be restrained from them.

¹² And Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the circuit, and tented as far as Sodom.

¹⁴ And he said, Who appointed you as a man, a ruler and a judge over us? Are you saying to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.

¹⁶ And if the man said to him, Let the fat be made to smoke as the day, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give now. And if not, I will take it by force.

⁴⁴ And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the field.

¹⁷ And now, know and consider what you should do; for evil has been determined against our lord, and on all his house. And he is a son of worthlessness, no one can speak to him.

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.

¹⁶ The wise fears and departs from evil, but the fool rages and is sure.

¹² Let a bear bereaved of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his foolishness.

³ A stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool's anger is heavier than both.

³ This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart throughout their lives; and after that, they go to the dead.

¹³ the beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his mouth is evil madness.

⁵ who say, Keep to yourself! Do not come near me, for I am holier than you! These are a smoke in My nose, a fire burning all the day.

¹² Were they ashamed when they had done hateful things? They were not even at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. In the time of their punishment they will stumble, says Jehovah.

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke and commanded to heat the furnace seven times more than it was usual to heat it. ²⁰ And he commanded mighty men of valor in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to throw them into the burning, fiery furnace. ²¹ Then these men were tied up in their slippers, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were thrown into the middle of the burning, fiery furnace. ²² Then, because the king's command was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

⁶ Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before the pigs, that they should not trample them with their feet, and turning they may tear you.

²⁶ And on the following day he appeared to them while fighting. And he urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another? ²⁷ But the one wronging the neighbor thrust him away, saying, "Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ Do you not want to do away with me in the way you did away with the Egyptian yesterday?" Ex. 2:14

⁷ And He delivered righteous Lot, who had been oppressed by the behavior of the lawless in lustfulness. ⁸ For that righteous one living among them day after day, in seeing and in hearing, his righteous soul was tormented with their lawless deeds.

²⁸ Jehovah shall strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart. ²⁹ And you shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness. And you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be always oppressed and plundered all the days; and there will be no one to save.

¹⁸ And they came down to it, and Elisha prayed to Jehovah and said, I beg You, strike this nation with blindness. And he struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.

¹⁵ The labor of fools wearies him, because he does not know how to go to the city.

¹⁰ You were wearied in the length of your way; you did not say, Despair! You found the life of your hand, so you were not sick.

³⁶ Why do you go about so much to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

¹¹ And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun until a time. And instantly a mist and darkness fell on him, and going about he sought some to lead him by the hand.

¹ And Jehovah said to Noah You and all your house come into the ark, for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation.

¹⁴ And Lot went out to speak to his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters. And he said, Rise up, go out from this place, for Jehovah is about to destroy the city. And he seemed as one joking to his sons-in-law.

¹⁷ And it happened as they led them outside, he said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay in all the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away.

²² Hurry, escape there, for I am not able to do anything until you have come there. So the name of the city was called Zoar.

²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Please turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything that they have, lest you be consumed in all their sins.

²² And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the house of the woman, the harlot, and bring the woman out from there, and all whom she has, as you have sworn to her. ²³ And the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all whom she had; yea, they brought all her family, and set them outside the camp of Israel.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me all the days, for good to them and to their sons after them.

⁷ And He delivered righteous Lot, who had been oppressed by the behavior of the lawless in lustfulness.

⁹ But the Lord knows to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unjust for a day of judgment, being punished,

⁴ And I heard another voice out of Heaven saying, My people, come out of her, that you may not share in her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues;

¹⁵ And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. And as he was destroying, Jehovah saw, and repented as to the evil, and said to the destroying angel, Enough! Now stay your hand. And the angel of Jehovah stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ¹⁶ And David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem; and David and the elders fell on their faces, covered with sackcloth.

⁵ Jehovah tries the righteous, but His soul hates the wicked and the lover of violence. ⁶ He shall rain snares on the wicked; fire and brimstone and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! For the evil, the doing of his hand will be done to him.

¹⁰ And now have I come up against this land to destroy it without Jehovah? Jehovah said to me, Go up to this land and destroy it.

³⁶ Then the Angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning; and, behold! They were all dead corpses.

⁵ And He said to those in my hearing, Pass over in the city after him and strike. Do not let your eye spare, and do not have pity. ⁶ Slay old men, choice men, and virgins, and children, and women, all to destruction. But to every man who has the mark on him, do not come near. And begin from My sanctuary. And they began with the old men who were before the house.

⁴¹ The Son of man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all the offenses, and those who practice lawlessness. ⁴² And they will throw them into the furnace of fire; there will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

⁴⁹ So it will be in the end of the age: the angels will go out and will separate the wicked from the midst of the righteous, ⁵⁰ and will throw them into the furnace of fire; there will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

²³ And instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give the glory to God. And having been eaten by worms, his soul went out.

⁸ And not (as we are wrongly accused, and as some report us to say), Let us do bad things so that good things may come, the judgment of whom is just. ⁹ What then? Do we excel? Not at all! For we have charged both Jews and Greeks before, all with being under sin;

⁴ Behold, the wages of the workmen who have reaped your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of the ones who have reaped have entered "into the ears of the Lord of Hosts." Isa. 5:9

¹ And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels: Go and pour out the bowls of the anger of God onto the earth. ² And the first went away and poured out his bowl onto the earth. And it became a bad and evil sore onto the men, the ones having the mark of the beast, and the ones worshiping its image. ³ And the second angel poured out his bowl onto the sea. And it became blood, as of a dead one, and every soul of life died in the sea. ⁴ And the third angel poured out his bowl onto the rivers, and onto the fountains of the waters; and it became blood. ⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying, You are righteous, Lord, the One who is, and who was, and who will be, because You judged these things, ⁶ since they poured out the blood of the saints and of the prophets; and You gave blood to them to drink, for they were deserving. ⁷ And I heard another out of the altar saying, Yes, Lord God Almighty, Your judgments are true and righteous. ⁸ And the fourth angel poured out his bowl onto the sun. And it was given to him to burn men with fire. ⁹ And men were burned with great heat. And they blasphemed the name of God, the One having authority over these plagues and they did not repent to give Him glory. ¹⁰ And the fifth angel poured out his bowl onto the throne of the beast. And its kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues from the pain. ¹¹ And they blasphemed the God of Heaven, from their pains and from their sores. And they did not repent of their works. ¹² And the sixth angel poured out his bowl onto the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up so that might be prepared the way of the kings from the rising of the sun.

²¹ And the one who did not set his heart on the word of Jehovah left his slaves and his livestock in the field.

³¹ And he called Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Arise, go out from the midst of my people, both you and the sons of Israel. And go serve Jehovah according to your word.

²¹ separate yourselves from the midst of this company, and I will consume them in a moment.

⁴⁵ Get away from the midst of this company, and I shall consume them in a moment; and they fell on their faces.

¹⁰ And the runners passed from city to city in the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, even to Zebulun. And they were laughing at them, and mocking them.

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets until the wrath of Jehovah went up against His people, until there was no healing.

¹ A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.

²² So, then, do not be mockers, that your bonds not be made strong. For I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of Hosts that a full end is decreed on all the earth.

¹² They have lied against Jehovah and said, It is not He; and, No evil shall come on us; and, We shall not see sword or famine. ¹³ And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them; so it shall be done to them. ¹⁴ So Jehovah God of Hosts says this: Because you spoke this word, behold! I will make My words fire in your mouth, and these people wood; and it shall consume them.

⁷ O Jehovah, You have deceived me; yea, I was deceived. You are stronger than I, and You have prevailed. I am in derision all the day; everyone laughs at me.

⁶ Flee out of the middle of Babylon; yea, each man deliver his soul. Do not be silenced in her iniquity, for the time of the vengeance of Jehovah is here; He will give her a just reward.

⁴⁹ Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! They are saying of me, Does he not speak in parables?

¹⁸ And the birth of Jesus Christ was this way (for His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph) before they came together, she was discovered to be pregnant in womb by the Holy Spirit.

²⁴ Jesus said to them, Go back, for the little girl has not died, but she sleeps. And they laughed at Him.

⁴² But as he was yet coming up, the demon tore him and violently convulsed him . But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the child, and gave him back to his father.

²⁸ And likewise, as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; ²⁹ but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed all. ³⁰ Even so it will be in the day the Son of man is revealed.

¹¹ And their words seemed like foolishness to them, and they did not believe them.

³² And hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some indeed ridiculed, but said, We will hear you again concerning this.

³ For when they say, Peace and safety! Then suddenly destruction comes upon them, like travail to the pregnant woman, and they shall not at all escape.

⁴ And I heard another voice out of Heaven saying, My people, come out of her, that you may not share in her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues; ⁵ because her sins joined together, even up to Heaven, and God remembered her unjust deeds. ⁶ Give back to her as also she gave back to you, and double to her double, according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double. ⁷ By what things she glorified herself, and luxuriated, by so much give back to her torment and mourning. Because she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all. ⁸ Because of this, in one day her plagues shall come: death, and mourning, and famine; and she will be consumed with fire, for the Lord God judging her is strong.

²⁴ Speak to the congregation, saying, You get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. ²⁵ And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel went after him. ²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Please turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything that they have, lest you be consumed in all their sins. ²⁷ And they got away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out, standing at the door of their tents, and their wives, their sons, and their infants.

⁴ Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids. ⁵ Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hand of a hunter, and as a bird from the fowler's hand.

²⁴ Labor to enter in through the narrow gate, for I say to you that many will seek to enter in and will not have strength. ²⁵ From the time the Master of the house shall have risen up, and He shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. And answering, He will say to you, I do not know you. From where are you?

² For He says, "In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time! Behold, now is the day of salvation! Isa. 49:8

⁷ Because of this, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear His voice, ⁸ do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

⁶ And Jehovah passed by before his face and called out: Jehovah! Jehovah God! Merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and great in goodness and truth,

¹⁸ Jehovah is slow to anger, and of great mercy, bearing away iniquity and transgression; and by no means will clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, on the third and on the fourth generation .

³¹ For Jehovah your God is a merciful God. He will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

²² And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the house of the woman, the harlot, and bring the woman out from there, and all whom she has, as you have sworn to her.

³⁴ Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.

¹² Who is the man who desires life, who loves days in order to see good?

⁵ For You, O Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all who call on You.

¹⁵ But You, O God, are God, full of pity; and gracious, longsuffering and rich in mercy and truth.

⁸ Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and of much mercy. ⁹ He will not always chasten, nor will He keep His anger forever. ¹⁰ He has not done to us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

¹³ As the pity of a father over his sons, so Jehovah pities those who fear Him.

¹ Praise Jehovah! Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.

⁸ But He saved them for His name's sake, to make known His might.

¹ Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.

⁴ He has made a memorial for His wonders; Jehovah is gracious and full of pity.

¹ Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; because His mercy endures forever.

⁶⁰ I hurried and delayed not to keep Your commands.

¹ O give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.

⁹ In all their affliction, He was not a foe; and the Angel of his Face saved them. In His love and in His pity He redeemed them. And He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

²² It is by the kindnesses of Jehovah that we are not consumed, for His mercies are not ended.

¹⁸ Who is a God like You, forgiving iniquity and passing by the transgression of the remnant of His possession? He does not make strong His anger forever, for He delights in grace. ¹⁹ He will return to show us compassion; He will trample our iniquities. Yea, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be much; and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the unthankful and evil ones. ³⁶ Therefore, be merciful, even as your Father also is merciful.

¹³ And standing at a distance, the tax collector would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but smote on his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, the sinner!

⁴⁴ No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

¹⁵ For He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will pity whomever I will pity." Ex. 33:19 ¹⁶ So, then, it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of the One showing mercy, of God.

¹⁸ So, then, to whom He desires, He shows mercy. And to whom He desires, He hardens.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions and God of all comfort,

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even we being dead in sins, He made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are being saved),

⁵ not by works in righteousness which we had done, but according to His mercy, He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the circuit of Jordan, that it was well-watered before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you come to Zoar.

¹⁴ And Lot went out to speak to his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters. And he said, Rise up, go out from this place, for Jehovah is about to destroy the city. And he seemed as one joking to his sons-in-law. ¹⁵ And when the dawn rose, then the angels urged Lot, saying, Rise up, take your wife and your two daughters who are found, lest you be cut off in the depravity of the city.

²⁶ And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

¹¹ And Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. And his wife Michal told David, saying, If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.

³ And he saw, and rose up and went for his life, and came to Beersheba of Judah, and left his young man there;

¹ A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills; from where shall my help come?

⁶ Flee! Save your lives, and be like a naked thing in the wilderness.

⁷ But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

¹⁶ then let those in Judea flee on the mountains; ¹⁷ the one on the housetop, let him not come down to take anything out of his house; ¹⁸ and the one in the field, let him not turn back to take his garment.

⁶² But Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand on the plow, and looking at the things behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.

³¹ In that day, he who will be on the housetop, let him not come down to take his goods from the house. And likewise, he in the field, let him not return to the things behind. ³² Remember Lot's wife.

¹³ Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind, and stretching forward to those things before, ¹⁴ I press on after the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? Which having received a beginning to be spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by the ones hearing,

²⁶ And He said, Send me away, for the dawn has ascended. And he said, I will not let you go unless You bless me.

¹¹ And Naaman was angry, and went on, and said, Behold, I said, He will certainly come out to me and will stand and call on the name of Jehovah his God, and will wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper. ¹² Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Shall I not wash in them and he clean? And he turned and went on in fury.

¹¹ So says Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and the One who formed him, Do you ask Me of the things to come? Do you give command to Me about My sons, and about the work of My hands?

⁶ He then came to Simon Peter. And that one said to Him, Lord, do You wash my feet? ⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, What I am doing, you do not yet know. But you will know after these things. ⁸ Peter said to Him, You may in no way wash my feet to the age. Jesus answered him, Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.

¹³ And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many bad things he did to Your saints in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ But Peter said, Not at all, Lord, because I never did eat anything common or unclean.

¹³ Please say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me for your sake, and my soul shall live because of you.

¹⁷ And My anger shall burn against them in that day, and I shall forsake them and hide My face from them. And it shall be consumed, and many evils and distresses shall find this people . And it shall say in that day, Is it not because my God is not in my midst, that these evils have found me?

¹ And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. Nothing is better for me than that I speedily escape to the land of the Philistines. And Saul will despair of me, to still seek me in all the border of Israel. And I shall escape out of his hand.

⁹ And they shall say, Because they have forsaken Jehovah their God, who brought their fathers out from the land of Egypt, and they laid hold on other gods and bowed themselves to them and served them. On account of this Jehovah has brought in upon them all this evil.

¹ To the chief musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke the words of this song to Jehovah in the day that Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his foes, and from the hand of Saul. And he said: I love You, O Jehovah, my strength. ² Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress and my deliverer; my God, my Rock; I seek refuge in Him; He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. ³ I will call on Jehovah, who is to be praised; and I shall be saved from my enemies. ⁴ The cords of death hemmed me in; yea, the floods of ungodly men overwhelmed me; ⁵ cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me. ⁶ In my distress I called on Jehovah and I cried to my God; He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry went before Him, into His ears. ⁷ Then the earth shook and trembled; and the foundations of the mountains moved and were shaken, because it angered Him. ⁸ A smoke went up out of His nostrils, and fire devoured out of His mouth; coals were kindled from it. ⁹ He bowed the heavens also and came down, and darkness was under His feet; ¹⁰ and He rode on a cherub, and He flew; yea He soared on the wings of the wind; ¹¹ He made darkness His covering, His pavilion all around Him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. ¹² Out of the brightness before Him, His dark clouds passed through, hailstones and coals of fire. ¹³ Jehovah also thundered in the heavens; and the Highest uttered His voice, hailstones and coals of fire. ¹⁴ Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He shot out lightnings and confounded them. ¹⁵ Then the stream beds of waters were seen, and the foundations of the earth were bared at Your rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils. ¹⁶ He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters; ¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from my haters; for they were stronger than I. ¹⁸ They went before my face in my day of calamity, but Jehovah was my support. ¹⁹ And He brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me; ²⁰ Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands, He has repaid me. ²¹ For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²² For all His judgments were before me, and I did not turn away His statutes from me. ²³ For I was upright with Him, and kept myself from my guilt. ²⁴ And Jehovah has returned to me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes. ²⁵ With the merciful, You reveal Yourself as merciful; with an upright man, You reveal yourself as upright; ²⁶ with the pure, You reveal Yourself as pure; and with the crooked, You appear perverse; ²⁷ for You will save an afflicted people, but will bring down haughty eyes. ²⁸ For You will light my lamp; Jehovah my God will make my darkness light. ²⁹ For through You I can run through a troop; and through my God I have leaped over a wall. ³⁰ As for God, His way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is purified; He is a shield to all who seek refuge in Him. ³¹ For who is God besides Jehovah? Or who is a Rock except our God? ³² It is God who girds me with strength and gives my way to be perfect; ³³ setting my feet like the deer, and making me stand on my high places; ³⁴ teaching my hands to war, so that a bow of bronze is bent by my arms. ³⁵ You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; and Your right hand holds me up; and Your condescension has made me great. ³⁶ You have made a wide place under me for my steps, so that my ankles have not slipped. ³⁷ I have pursued my enemies and have overtaken them; nor did I turn till they were consumed. ³⁸ I have shattered them, and they cannot rise up; they fell under my feet. ³⁹ And You have girded me with strength for the battle; You have bowed under me those rising against me. ⁴⁰ And you have given me the neck of my enemies, that I might cut off my haters. ⁴¹ They cried, but no one is there to save; to Jehovah, but He did not answer them. ⁴² And I crushed them like the dust before the wind; I emptied them out like the mire of the streets. ⁴³ You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; You have made me head of the nations; a people I have not known shall serve me. ⁴⁴ At the hearing of the ear they listen to me; the sons of foreigners shall bow down to me. ⁴⁵ The sons of foreigners shall faint and come trembling out of their strongholds. ⁴⁶ Jehovah lives! And blessed be my Rock! And let the God of my salvation be exalted! ⁴⁷ He is the God who avenges me, and speaks to people under me. ⁴⁸ He delivers me from my enemies; yea, You lift me up from among those rising up against me. You have delivered me from the violent man. ⁴⁹ On account of this I will extol You, O Jehovah, among the nations. and I will sing praises to Your name, ⁵⁰ magnifying salvations to His king, and working mercy to His anointed, to David and to his seed forever.

¹ To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. Waiting I have waited on Jehovah; and He bowed to me and heard my cry. ² And He drew me up from the pit of tumult, out of the miry clay; He set my feet on a rock; He directed my steps. ³ And He put a new song of praise to our God in my mouth; many shall see and shall fear and shall trust in Jehovah. ⁴ Blessed is the man who sets Jehovah as his trust, and does not turn to the proud, or to those who turn to a lie. ⁵ Many things have You done, O Jehovah my God; Your works of wonder and Your purposes toward us; there is none to set in order to You; I will declare and I will speak; they are more than can be counted. ⁶ Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; You have opened ears to Me. You have not asked burnt offering and sin offering. ⁷ Then I said, Lo, I come, in the roll of the Book it is written of Me; ⁸ I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your law is within My inmost soul . ⁹ I have announced righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I will not restrain My lips; O Jehovah You know. ¹⁰ I have not concealed Your righteousness in My heart; I speak Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I have not hidden Your loving-kindness and Your truth for the great assembly. ¹¹ Do not withhold Your tender mercies from Me, O Jehovah; let Your lovingkindness and Your truth always watch over Me. ¹² For evils have surrounded me until there is no number; my iniquities have taken hold on me and I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me. ¹³ Be pleased to deliver me, O Jehovah; hasten to my help. ¹⁴ Let be ashamed and humbled together those seeking my soul, to destroy it; let those delighting in my evil be driven back and disgraced. ¹⁵ Let them be desolate until it is the reward for their shame; for they are saying to me, Aha! Aha! ¹⁶ Let all who are seeking You be glad in You and always say, May Jehovah be magnified, those loving Your salvation. ¹⁷ But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

⁷ Will the lord cast off forever; and will He not add to be pleased any more? ⁸ Is His mercy gone forever? Has His word failed for all generations? ⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious; has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah. ¹⁰ And I said, This is my sickness, the years of the right hand of the Most High; ¹¹ I will remember the works of Jehovah; surely I will remember Your wonders of old.

¹ Of David. Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all within me, bless His holy name. ² Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and forget not all His rewards; ³ who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases; ⁴ who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with kindness and tender mercies; ⁵ who satisfies your desire with good; your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ⁶ Jehovah works righteousness and judgments for all the oppressed. ⁷ He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the sons of Israel. ⁸ Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and of much mercy. ⁹ He will not always chasten, nor will He keep His anger forever. ¹⁰ He has not done to us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. ¹¹ For as the heavens are above the earth, so is His mercy mighty over those who fear Him. ¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. ¹³ As the pity of a father over his sons, so Jehovah pities those who fear Him. ¹⁴ For He knows how we are made, remembering that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass; as the flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is not; and its place never knows it again. ¹⁷ But the mercy of Jehovah is from everlasting, even to everlasting, on those who fear Him; yea, His righteousness is to the sons of sons; ¹⁸ to those who keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments, to do them. ¹⁹ Jehovah has prepared His throne in Heaven; and His kingdom rules over all. ²⁰ Bless Jehovah, O angels of His; mighty in strength; doing His word; listening to the voice of His word. ²¹ Bless Jehovah, all His hosts, ministers of His, doing His will. ²² Bless Jehovah, all His works in all the places of His dominion; bless Jehovah, O my soul.

¹ Praise Jehovah! Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. ² Who can express the mighty deeds of Jehovah, or cause all His praise to be heard? ³ Blessed are those keeping judgment, he who does righteousness in every season. ⁴ Remember me, Jehovah, with the favor of Your people; O visit me with Your salvation, ⁵ to see the good of Your chosen ones to rejoice in the joy of Your nation, to glory with Your inheritance. ⁶ We have sinned with our fathers; we did iniquity; we did wrong. ⁷ Our fathers did not understand Your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember Your many mercies, and they rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Reeds. ⁸ But He saved them for His name's sake, to make known His might. ⁹ And He rebuked the Sea of Reeds; and it dried up; and He made them go through the depths as through the wilderness. ¹⁰ And He saved them from the hand of the hater, and ransomed him from the hand of the enemy; ¹¹ and waters covered their enemies; not one of them was left. ¹² Then they believed His words; they sang His praise. ¹³ They hurried and forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel; ¹⁴ and they greedily lusted in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert. ¹⁵ And He gave their request to them, but sent wasting into their soul. ¹⁶ And they were jealous of Moses the saint of Jehovah in the camp of Aaron; ¹⁷ the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; and covered the company of Abiram. ¹⁸ And a fire burned in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. ¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and fell down before the casted image; ²⁰ and they changed their Glory into the image of an ox eating grass. ²¹ They forgot God their deliverer, doing great things in Egypt; ²² wonders in the land of Ham; awesome things by the Sea of Reeds. ²³ And He said to destroy them; except Moses His chosen one had stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath from destroying them . ²⁴ They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His word. ²⁵ And they murmured in their tents, not listening to the voice of Jehovah; ²⁶ and He lifted up His hand to them, to make them fall in the wilderness; ²⁷ to make their seed fall also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. ²⁸ They also were joined to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead; ²⁹ and provoked Him with their deeds; and a plague broke out among them. ³⁰ Then Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was stayed; ³¹ and it was counted to him for righteousness to generation and generation, forever. ³² And they angered Him at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill for Moses because of them; ³³ for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips. ³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah said to them, ³⁵ but mixed with the nations, and learned their works. ³⁶ And they served their idols, and they became a snare to them. ³⁷ Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; ³⁸ and they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. And the land was defiled with the blood. ³⁹ And they were unclean with their works, and went whoring in their acts. ⁴⁰ And the anger of Jehovah burned against His people; and He detested His inheritance. ⁴¹ And He gave them into the hand of the nations; and those who hated them ruled over them. ⁴² And their enemies oppressed them and they were humbled under their hand. ⁴³ Many times He delivered them, but they rebelled in their plans, and sank in their iniquities. ⁴⁴ And He looked on their affliction when He heard their shout; ⁴⁵ He remembered His covenant for them, and breathed a sigh, according to His many mercies. ⁴⁶ And He gave them to tender mercies before all their captors. ⁴⁷ Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, to give thanks to Your holy name, to exult in Your praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed is Jehovah God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen! Praise Jehovah!

¹ I love Jehovah because He hears my voice, my prayers. ² Because He has bowed His ear to me, I will also call in my days. ³ The cords of death hemmed me in; and the pains of Sheol found me; I find distress and sorrow; ⁴ then I call on the name of Jehovah: O Jehovah, I beseech You, deliver my soul! ⁵ Jehovah is gracious and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. ⁶ Jehovah keeps the simple; I was low, but He saved me. ⁷ Return to your rest, O soul; for Jehovah has blessed you. ⁸ For You have delivered my soul from death, my eye from tears, my feet from stumbling. ⁹ I will walk before the face of Jehovah in the lands of the living. ¹⁰ I believed; so I speak; I was greatly afflicted; ¹¹ I said in my alarm, All men are liars. ¹² What shall I return to Jehovah for His benefits to me? ¹³ I will lift up the cup of salvation, and I will call on the name of Jehovah. ¹⁴ I will pay my vows to Jehovah now in the presence of all His people. ¹⁵ Precious in the eyes of Jehovah is the death of His saints. ¹⁶ O Jehovah, truly I am Your servant now; I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid; You have loosed my bonds. ¹⁷ I will sacrifice to You the sacrifice of thanks and will call on the name of Jehovah. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows to Jehovah now in the presence of all His people, ¹⁹ in the courts of the house of Jehovah; in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise Jehovah!

²⁵ And coming near, His disciples awakened Him, saying, Lord, save us! We are perishing. ²⁶ And He said to them, Why are you afraid, little-faiths? Then rising up, He rebuked the winds and the sea. And there was a great calm.

¹⁹ And answering them, He said, O unbelieving generation! How long will I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him to Me.

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

¹⁴ But the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. ¹⁶ But for this reason I received mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for an example to those being about to believe on Him to everlasting life.

³⁰ And Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the mount. And his two daughters were with him. For he feared to live in Zoar. And he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.

¹⁷⁵ Let my soul live and it will praise You; and let Your judgments help me.

⁵ Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding; ⁶ In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. ⁷ Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

³ Bend your ear and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will cut a covenant everlasting with you, the faithful mercies of David.

⁶ If a ram's horn is blowing in a city, will the people not also tremble? If there is a calamity in a city, has Jehovah not even done it ?

⁷ If you do well, is there not exaltation? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is toward you; but you should rule over it.

² And I will make of you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great; and you will be a blessing.

²⁴ Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city; is it so You will cut off and will not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones that are within it?

⁸ And now take for you seven young bulls and seven rams and go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And My servant Job will pray for you. Surely I will lift up his face so as not to do with you according to your folly, in that you have not spoken the right about Me, as My servant Job. ⁹ And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as Jehovah spoke to them. And Jehovah lifted the face of Job.

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

¹⁷ He will turn to the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their prayer.

¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of the ones who fear Him; and He will hear their cry and save them.

¹⁰ So says Jehovah to this people: So they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; therefore, Jehovah does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity and punish their sins.

²⁰ A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not quench, until He bring forth judgment to victory." Isa. 42:1 -3

¹⁷ For this reason He ought by all means to become like His brothers, that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the things respecting God, in order to make propitiation for the sins of His people.

¹⁵ For we do not have a high priest not being able to sympathize with our weaknesses but One having been tried in all respects according to our likeness, apart from sin. ¹⁶ Therefore, let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and we may find grace for help in time of need.

² They made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

²⁵ And He saw that He had not prevailed against him. And He touched on his hip socket, and Jacob's hip socket was unhinged as he wrestled with Him. ²⁶ And He said, Send me away, for the dawn has ascended. And he said, I will not let you go unless You bless me. ²⁷ And He said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. ²⁸ And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, because you have wrestled with God and with men, and have prevailed.

¹⁰ And now leave Me alone that My anger may glow against them, that I may consume them. And I will make you a great nation.

¹⁴ Let Me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide in the shade of the Almighty. ² I will say to Jehovah: My Refuge and my Fortress, my God; I will trust in Him. ³ For He delivers you from the fowler's trap, from destruction's plague. ⁴ With His feathers He will cover you, and under His wings you shall seek refuge; His truth is a shield and buckler. ⁵ You shall not fear the terror of night, of the arrow that flies by day; ⁶ of the plague that walks in darkness, of the destruction laying waste at noonday. ⁷ A thousand shall fall by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; it shall not come near you. ⁸ Only with your eyes you shall look, and see the reward of the wicked. ⁹ Because You, O Jehovah, are My refuge; if you make the Most High your habitation, ¹⁰ no evil shall happen to You, nor shall any plague come near Your tent.

⁵ My heart shall cry to Moab; her fugitives to Zoar, a heifer of three years; he goes up the ascent of Luhith with weeping, for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of ruin.

⁸ So says Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it; so I will do for the sake of My servants, not to destroy the whole.

³⁴ From the city of Heshbon to Elealeh, to Jahaz, they have given their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, like a heifer three years old. For the waters of Nimrim also shall be desolate.

⁵ And He could do no work of power there, except He performed healing on a few infirm ones, laying on His hands.

¹³ if we are unfaithful, that One remains faithful; He is not able to deny Himself.

² on hope of eternal life which the God who does not lie promised before the eternal times,

²³ The whole land shall be burned with brimstone and salt; it shall not be sown, nor shall it sprout; nor shall there be any herb in it. It shall be like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in His anger and in His fury.

¹⁵ What is not his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone is scattered on his home.

⁶ He shall rain snares on the wicked; fire and brimstone and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

¹⁹ And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

¹⁶ And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew and did not repent. And let him hear a cry in the morning and the shouting at noontime;

¹⁸ As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and its neighbor, declares Jehovah, no man shall remain there, a son of man shall not live in it.

⁴⁰ As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, states Jehovah, so no man shall live there, nor shall a son of man stay in it.

⁶ And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is heaped more than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were spun on her.

⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and her daughters. Also, she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ Also, they were haughty and did abomination before My face, so I turned them away as I saw fit .

⁸ How shall I give you up, Ephraim? Shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? Shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart has turned within Me; My compassions are kindled together.

¹¹ I have overthrown among you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked out of the burning; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah.

⁹ So as I live, declares Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and a pit of salt, and a ruin forever. The remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the rest of the nation shall possess them.

²⁸ And likewise, as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; ²⁹ but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed all.

⁶ and covering the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with ashes, He condemned them with an overthrow, setting an example to men intending to live ungodly.

³ All these were joined together to the valley of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea.

³⁴ a fruitful land to a salty desert; because of the wickedness of those who live in it.

³⁸ the fire-pans of these sinners against their own souls. And they shall make of them spreadout plates, a covering for the altar, for they have brought them near before Jehovah, and they are holy. And they shall become a sign to the sons of Israel.

¹⁴ The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, but a good man from himself.

³⁸ "But the just shall live by faith;" "and if he draws back," "My soul is not pleased in him." Hab. 2:4

²² And the men faced around from there and went toward Sodom. And Abraham was still standing before Jehovah. ²³ And Abraham drew near and said Is it so? Will You cut off the righteous with the wicked? ²⁴ Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city; is it so You will cut off and will not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones that are within it? ²⁵ Far be it from You to act in this way, to put to death the righteous with the wicked. Far be it from You. The Judge of all the earth, shall He not do right? ²⁶ And Jehovah said, If I find fifty righteous within the city, in Sodom, then I will spare all the place because of them. ²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold, I pray, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, and I am dust and ash. ²⁸ Perhaps there will be lacking five from the fifty righteous, will You destroy all the city for the five? And He said, If I find forty five there, I will not destroy. ²⁹ And he continued still to speak to Him and said, Perhaps forty will be found there. And He said I will not do it because of the forty. ³⁰ And he said, Please do not my Lord be angry, that I may speak; perhaps thirty will be found there. And He said, I will not do it if I find thirty there. ³¹ And he said, Behold, I pray, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord; perhaps twenty will be found there. And He said I will not destroy because of the twenty. ³² And he said, I pray, let not my Lord be angry that I may speak only this time; perhaps ten will be found there. And He said, I will not destroy because of the ten. ³³ And when Jehovah had finished speaking to Abraham, then Abraham returned to his place.

³ You will hear my voice in the morning, O Jehovah, I will set myself for You in the morning, and I will look up.

¹ I will stand on my guard and set myself on the tower, and watch to see what He will say against me, and what I shall return on my rebuke.

¹ For this reason we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things heard, that we should not slip away at any time.

² And he opened the pit of the abyss. And smoke went up out of the pit, like smoke of a great furnace. And the sun was darkened, and the air, by the smoke of the pit.

¹⁰ he also shall drink of the wine of the anger of God having been mixed undiluted in the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented by fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before the Lamb. ¹¹ And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. And those worshiping the beast and its image have no rest night and day, even if anyone receives the mark of its name.

⁹ And the kings of the earth will weep for her, and will wail over her, those having fornicated and having luxuriated with her, when they see the smoke of her burning;

¹⁸ and cried out, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What is like the great city?

³ And secondly they said, Hallelujah! Also her smoke goes up forever and ever.

⁸ But for the cowardly and unbelieving, and those having become foul, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the lying ones, their part will be in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

¹ And God remembered Noah and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

²² And God remembered Rachel; and God listened to her and opened her womb.

⁵ It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you go to possess their land. But Jehovah your God is expelling them from before you because of the wickedness of these nations; and in order to establish the word which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹⁴ Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds which I have done for the house of my God, and in its keeping.

²² And I commanded the Levites that they should be cleansing themselves, and they should come guarding the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. O my God, remember me for this also and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy.

⁷ Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my transgressions. According to Your mercy, remember me, for Your goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

⁸ He has remembered His covenant forever; the word He commanded to a thousand generations;

⁴² For He remembered His holy word and His servant Abraham;

⁴ Remember me, Jehovah, with the favor of Your people; O visit me with Your salvation,

²³ who remembered us in our low estate; for His mercy endures forever;

²⁰ Jehovah watches over all who love Him; but He destroys all the wicked.

³¹ And you will remember your evil ways and your doings that were not good, and you will despise yourselves in your own eyes for your iniquities and for your abominations. ³² Let it be known to you that I am not doing this for your sake, states the Lord Jehovah. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, the most high God, the possessor of Heaven and earth,

¹⁹ Behold, now, Your servant has found grace in Your sight, and You have magnified Your mercy which You have shown to me in saving my life. And I am not able to escape to the mountain lest some evil overtake me and I die.

⁴ Like bubbling water you shall not excel, for you went up to the bed of your father; then you defiled it; he went up to my couch.

³ and the Negeb, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, to Zoar.

³⁶ Why do you go about so much to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria. ³⁷ Yes, you shall go out from this place, and your hands on your head. For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

⁸ he is a double-souled man, not dependable in all his ways.

¹ And the man knew his wife Eve. And she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah.

⁴ The giants were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore to them; they were heroes which existed from ancient time, the men of name.

² And Sarai said to Abram, See, now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing; go in now to my slave-girl; perhaps I may be built up from her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

⁴ And he went in to Hagar and she conceived; and she saw that she had conceived, and her mistress was despised in her eyes.

²⁸ And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain. And he saw. And, behold, the smoke of the country went up like the smoke of a furnace.

⁸ And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and marry her, and raise up seed to your brother. ⁹ And Onan knew that the seed would not be his. And it happened when he went into his brother's wife, he wasted his semen to the ground, not giving seed to his brother.

¹⁴ And she took off her widow's robes from her, and veiled herself with a veil, and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him for a wife. ¹⁵ And Judah saw her. And he thought her to be a harlot, because she had veiled her face. ¹⁶ And he turned aside to her by the roadway, and said, Come now, let me come in to you. For he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me that you may come in to me? ¹⁷ And he said, I will send a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Will you give me a pledge until you send it ? ¹⁸ And he said, What pledge shall I give to you? And she said, Your signet ring, and your bracelet and your staff in your hand. And he gave to her, and came in to her. And she conceived by him. ¹⁹ And she rose up and left, and took off her veil from her face. And she put on her widow's robes. ²⁰ And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand. And he did not find her. ²¹ And he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the harlot that was at Enaim, by the roadway? And they said, There was no harlot here. ²² And he returned to Judah and said, I have not found her. And also the men of the place said, There was no harlot here. ²³ And Judah said, Let her take them for herself, that we not become a laughing stock. See, I sent this kid, and you did not find her. ²⁴ And after three months, it happened. It was told to Judah, saying, Your daughter-in-law Tamar has committed adultery, and also, behold, she is pregnant by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her out and let her be burned. ²⁵ She was being brought out, and she sent to her father-in-law, saying, I am pregnant by a man to whom these belong . And she said, Note now whose are these, the signet ring, the bracelet, and the staff? ²⁶ And Judah knew and said, She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to my son Shelah. And he never knew her again. ²⁷ And in the time of her bearing, behold, it happened! Twins were in her womb. ²⁸ And in her bearing, it happened that one put forth a hand, and the midwife took it and tied crimson on his hand, saying, This one came out first. ²⁹ And it happened as he withdrew his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, How have you broken a break for yourself? And one called his name Pharez. ³⁰ And then his brother came out, on whose hand was the crimson. And one called his name Zarah.

⁵ If brothers live together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not go outside to a strange man; her brother-in-law shall go in to her, and take her to himself for a wife, and shall perform the duty of the levirate;

¹ And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothing, only let your name be called on us; collect our shame.

²¹ And he drank from the wine, and was drunk. And he uncovered himself inside his tent.

³ And each one said to his neighbor, Come, let us make brick, and burning burn them. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

⁶ None of you shall draw near to any relative of his flesh to uncover their nakedness; I am Jehovah. ⁷ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

³¹ Do not look at the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly, ³² at its last it bites like a snake, and it stings like a basilisk. ³³ Your eyes shall look on strange women, and your heart shall speak perverse things;

¹⁵ Woe to him who causes his friend to drink, pouring out your wineskin, and also making him drunk, so as to look upon their nakedness! ¹⁶ You are filled with shame instead of glory; you drink also, and will be seen as uncircumcised. The cup of the right hand of Jehovah shall turn on you, and disgrace shall be your glory.

¹⁹ Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a brother of anyone should die and leave behind a wife, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed to his brother. Deut. 25:5

¹ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is stirring, and each one straying by it is not wise.

²⁹ Who has woe, who sorrow? Who has contentions, who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of eyes? ³⁰ those who stay long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine. ³¹ Do not look at the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly, ³² at its last it bites like a snake, and it stings like a basilisk. ³³ Your eyes shall look on strange women, and your heart shall speak perverse things; ³⁴ yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on the top of a mast, ³⁵ saying, They struck me! I was not sick! They beat me, yet I did not know. When I awaken I will add to it, I will still seek it.

³ O Jehovah, are not Your eyes for the truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You consumed them, yet they refused to take correction. They made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.

⁴ what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man, that You visit him?

¹⁶ for a just one falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked shall stumble into evil.

²⁶ and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets; her hands are like bands. He who is good before God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be captured by her.

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves that your hearts not be loaded down with headaches, and drinking, and anxieties of life, and that day come suddenly upon you

¹¹ And all these things happened to those as examples, and it was written for our warning, on whom the ends of the ages have come. ¹² So that he that thinks to stand, let him be careful that he not fall.

⁷ But the end of all things has drawn near. Be of sound mind, then, and be sensible to prayers;

⁸ Behold, now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please let me bring them out to you and do to them as you see fit; only do not do a thing to these men, because on account of this they came into the shade of my roof.

⁷ And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to be gathering scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

³³ And Samuel said, As your sword has bereaved women of children, so shall your mother be bereft among women. And Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

¹⁵ Woe to him who causes his friend to drink, pouring out your wineskin, and also making him drunk, so as to look upon their nakedness!

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

²⁹ Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.

¹ And the sons of Israel pulled up stakes and camped on the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan, by Jericho. ² And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. ³ And Moab greatly feared because of the people, for it was many. And Moab was vexed by the presence of the sons of Israel. ⁴ And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now this assembly is licking up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. ⁵ And he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor which is beside the River of the land of the sons of his people, to call for him, saying, Behold! A people has come out of Egypt. Behold! it has covered the face of the earth, and it is setting next to me. ⁶ And now please come, curse this people for me, for it is stronger than I. Perhaps I will prevail, that we may strike them, that I may drive them out from the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed. ⁷ And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian left with the rewards of the seer in their hand. And they came to Balaam and spoke the words of Balak to him. ⁸ And he said to them, Stay here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, even as Jehovah may speak to me. And the leaders of Moab stayed with Balaam. ⁹ And God came to Balaam and said, Who are these men with you? ¹⁰ And Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab has sent to me, ¹¹ saying, Behold, a people has come out of Egypt which covers the eye of the earth. Now come, curse them for me; perhaps I will be able to overcome it and drive it out. ¹² And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for it is blessed. ¹³ And Balaam rose in the morning and said to the leaders of Balak. Go to your land, for Jehovah has refused to allow me to go with you. ¹⁴ And the leaders of Moab rose up and came to Balak. And they said, Balaam refuses to come with us. ¹⁵ And Balak sent yet again, more leaders and more honorable than they. ¹⁶ And they came to Balaam and said to him, So says Balak the son of Zippor, Please do not be hindered from coming to me, ¹⁷ for I will honor you with very much honor; and all that you say to me I will do. And please come, curse this people for me. ¹⁸ And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give to me his house full of gold and silver, I could not go beyond the mouth of Jehovah my God, to do anything, small or great. ¹⁹ And now you also please stay here tonight. And I shall know what more Jehovah may speak to me. ²⁰ And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them and say only the thing that I speak to you; it you shall do. ²¹ And Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass and went with the leaders of Moab. ²² And the anger of God glowed because he went. And the Angel of Jehovah set Himself in the road, as an enemy against him. And he was riding on his ass, and two of his young men with him. ²³ And the ass saw the Angel of Jehovah standing in the road, and His sword was drawn in His hand. And the ass turned out of the road and went into a field. And Balaam struck the ass, to turn it back into the road. ²⁴ And the Angel of Jehovah stood in a narrow path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side and a wall on that. ²⁵ And the ass saw the Angel of Jehovah, and she pushed herself to the wall and crushed the foot of Balaam against the wall. And again he struck her. ²⁶ And again the Angel of Jehovah passed on and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn, either to the right or to the left. ²⁷ And the ass saw the Angel of Jehovah, and she lay down under Balaam. And the anger of Balaam glowed, and he struck the ass with his staff. ²⁸ And Jehovah opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you that you have struck me these three times? ²⁹ And Balaam said to the ass, Because you have insulted Me. if only there were a sword in my hand now I would kill you. ³⁰ And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever known to do so to you? And he said, No. ³¹ And Jehovah opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the Angel of Jehovah standing in the road with His sword drawn in His hand. And he bowed and fell on his face. ³² And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Why have you struck your ass these three times? Behold, I have come out as an enemy because your way is contrary to Me. ³³ And the ass saw Me and turned aside before Me these three times. If she had not turned aside surely now I would have killed you and saved her alive. ³⁴ And Balaam said to the Angel of Jehovah, I have sinned, for I did not know that You stood against me in the way. Now if evil is in Your eyes, I will turn back by myself. ³⁵ And the Angel of Jehovah said to Balaam, Go with the men. But only the word that I speak to you, it you shall speak. And Balaam went with the leaders of Balak. ³⁶ And when Balak heard that Balaam had come, and had gone out to meet him, to a city of Moab which is on the border of Arnon, which is in the outermost border, ³⁷ then Balak said to Balaam, Sending, did I not send to you, to call for you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not truly able to honor you? ³⁸ And Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you. Now am I able to speak anything at all? The word which God puts in my mouth, that I will speak. ³⁹ And Balaam went with Balak. And they came to Kirjath-huzoth. ⁴⁰ And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam and to the leaders who were with him. ⁴¹ And it happened in the morning, and Balak took Balaam and caused him to go up to the high places of Baal. And from there he saw the edge of the people.

¹ And Balaam saw that it pleased Jehovah to bless Israel, and he did not go, as at other times to seek spells. And he set his face toward the wilderness. ² And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping, by its tribes. And the Spirit of God was on him. ³ And he took up his parable and said, The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, and the saying of the man whose eyes have been opened; ⁴ the saying of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, fallen down, yet with open eyes: ⁵ How good are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel! ⁶ They are spread out like valleys, like gardens by a river; and Jehovah has planted aloes, as cedars beside the water. ⁷ He makes water flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters; his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom exalted. ⁸ God who has brought him out of Egypt is for him like the lofty horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations that are his foes, and shall break their bones in pieces, and shall pierce them through with his arrows. ⁹ He has crouched; he has lain down like a lion, and like a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed is everyone that blesses you, and cursed is everyone that curses you. ¹⁰ And Balak's anger glowed against Balaam, and he struck his palms together. And Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies; and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times. ¹¹ And now, flee to your place. I thought to honor you with great honor, but, behold, Jehovah has kept you back from honor. ¹² And Balaam said to Balak, Did I not speak to your messengers that you sent to me, saying, ¹³ If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the mouth of Jehovah, to do good or bad of my own heart. What Jehovah speaks, that I will speak. ¹⁴ And now, behold, I go to my people. Come, and I will counsel you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days. ¹⁵ And he took up his parable and said, The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, and the saying of the man whose eyes are opened; ¹⁶ the saying of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, yet with open eyes: ¹⁷ I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not near. A star shall come forth out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel and shall dash the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of tumult. ¹⁸ And Edom shall be a possession; and Seir shall be a possession, for his foes; but Israel shall do mightily. ¹⁹ And one out of Jacob shall rule, and will destroy the survivors from Ar. ²⁰ And he looked upon Amalek, and took up his parable and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end is to destruction forever. ²¹ And he looked upon the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Your dwellingplace may be enduring, and your nest may be set in a rock. ²² But the Kenites shall be consumed, until Assyria shall carry you away. ²³ And he took up his parable and said, Alas! Who shall live when God puts out? ²⁴ And ships shall come from the coast of Cyprus, and they shall humble Assyria, and they shall humble Eber, and he also shall come to destruction forever. ²⁵ And Balaam rose up and left, and returned to his place; and Balak also went on his way.

⁹ And Jehovah said to me, Do not besiege Moab, nor stir yourself up against them in battle, for I will not give their land to you for a possession. For I have given Ar as a possession to the sons of Lot.

¹⁹ and you shall draw near, across from the sons of Ammon. You shall not besiege them nor be stirred up against them, for I have not given of the land of the sons of Ammon to you for a possession. For I have given it for a possession to the sons of Lot.

³ An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none of them enter into the assembly of Jehovah, perpetually;

¹ And these are the nations which Jehovah left in order to test Israel by them, all who did not know all the wars of Canaan; ² only that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, only those who did not before know them: ³ five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that lived in Mount Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to the entering of Hamath. ⁴ And they existed to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commands of Jehovah, which He had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. ⁵ And the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ⁶ And they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods. ⁷ And the sons of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgot Jehovah their God, and served the Baals and the Asherahs. ⁸ And the anger of Jehovah glowed against Israel. And He gave them over into the hand of Chushanrishathaim, and the sons of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years. ⁹ And when the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, Jehovah raised up a deliverer to the sons of Israel, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, who saved them. ¹⁰ And the Spirit of Jehovah was put on him, and he judged Israel. And he went out to war, and Jehovah gave Chushan-rishathaim the king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand had power against Chushanrishathaim. ¹¹ And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died. ¹² And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of Jehovah. And Jehovah made Eglon the king of Moab strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of Jehovah. ¹³ And he gathered to him the sons of Ammon and Amalek, and went and struck Israel. And they possessed the city of palm trees. ¹⁴ And the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. ¹⁵ And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, even Jehovah raised up a deliverer to them, Ehud the son of Gera, a son of the Benjamite, a man with his right hand impeded. And the sons of Israel sent a present by his hand to Eglon the king of Moab. ¹⁶ And Ehud made a sword for himself, and it had two edges, a cubit in length. And he girded it under his long robe, on his right thigh. ¹⁷ And he brought the present to Eglon the king of Moab; and Eglon was a very fat man. ¹⁸ And it happened, when he had finished offering the present, he sent away the people, the bearers of the present. ¹⁹ And he himself turned back from the carved images at Gilgal, and said, I have a secret word for you, O king. And he said, Be silent! And all those standing beside him went out from him. ²⁰ And Ehud came to him. And he was sitting by himself in the cool roof room which was his. And Ehud said, I have a word from God to you. And he rose out of his seat. ²¹ And Ehud put out his left hand and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon's belly. ²² And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade; for he did not draw the sword out of his belly. And it came out behind. ²³ Then Ehud went out to the porch, and shut the doors of the roof room on him, and locked them. ²⁴ And when he had gone out, his servants came. And they looked, and, behold, the doors of the roof room were locked. And they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the cool roof room. ²⁵ And they waited until they were ashamed. And, behold! He did not open the doors of the room. So they took the key and opened them. And, behold, their master had fallen down to the earth dead. ²⁶ And Ehud escaped while they waited. And he had passed by the images, and had slipped away to Seirath. ²⁷ And it happened, when he had come, he blew a horn in the hills of Ephraim. And the sons of Israel came down with him from the hills, and he before them. ²⁸ And he said to them, Follow me, for Jehovah has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites. And they did not allow a man to pass over. ²⁹ And they struck about ten thousand men of Moab at that time, every lusty man, all mighty men. And not a man escaped. ³⁰ So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years. ³¹ And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. And he also delivered Israel.

¹⁰ And also Ruth of Moab, the wife of Mahlon, I have bought for myself for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance. And the name of the dead shall not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.

¹ And it happened afterward, David struck the Philistines, and humbled them. And David took the Bridle of the Metropolis out of the hand of the Philistines. ² And he struck Moab, and measured them with a line; making them to lie down on the ground. And he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites were slaves to David, bearers of a gift. ³ And David struck Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the River. ⁴ And David captured from him seventeen hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen. And David hamstrung all of the chariot horses; he only left a hundred chariots of them. ⁵ And the Syrians of Damascus came to give help to Hadadezer the king of Zobah. And David struck twenty two thousand men of Syria. ⁶ And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus. And the Syrians became servants to David, bearers of tribute. And Jehovah helped David in all places in which he went. ⁷ And David took the shields of gold which were on Hadadezer's servants and bore them to Jerusalem. ⁸ And king David took very much bronze from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer. ⁹ And Toi the king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer. ¹⁰ And Toi sent his son Joram to king David to ask of his peace, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him. For Hadadezer had been a man of wars against Toi. And in his hand were silver articles, and golden articles, and bronze articles. ¹¹ King David also dedicated them to Jehovah, with the silver and the gold which he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued: ¹² from Syria, and from Moab, and from the sons of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek, and from the plunder of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah. ¹³ And David made a name for himself when he returned, after he had struck the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, eighteen thousand men . ¹⁴ And he put garrisons in all Edom; and all Edom became servants to David. And Jehovah helped David in all places in which he went. ¹⁵ And David reigned over all Israel, and David executed justice and righteousness to all his people. ¹⁶ And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the historian; ¹⁷ and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests; and Seraiah was scribe; ¹⁸ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were priests.

¹ And Jehoram the son of Ahab reigned over Israel in Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah; and he reigned twelve years. ² And he did that which was evil in the eyes of Jehovah; only not like his father and his mother. For he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made. ³ But he clung to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. He did not turn aside from it. ⁴ And Mesha the king of Moab was a sheepmaster. And he paid a hundred thousand lambs to the king of Israel and a hundred thousand rams with wool. ⁵ And it happened when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. ⁶ And king Jehoram went out in that day from Samaria, and called up all Israel. ⁷ And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up. I am as you; my people as your people; my horses as your horses. ⁸ And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom. ⁹ And the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom. And they made a circuit of seven days' journey. And there was no water for the army, and for the livestock that were at their feet. ¹⁰ And the king of Israel said, Alas, that Jehovah has called these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab! ¹¹ And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah, that we may inquire of Jehovah by him? And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah. ¹² And Jehoshaphat said, The word of Jehovah is with him. And the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom went down to him. ¹³ And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother. And the king of Israel said to him, No, for Jehovah has called these three kings in order to give them into the hand of Moab. ¹⁴ And Elisha said, As Jehovah of hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely, if I did not regard the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah I would not look toward you, nor see you. ¹⁵ And now, bring a minstrel to me. And it happened when the minstrel played, the hand of Jehovah was on him. ¹⁶ And he said, So says Jehovah, Make this valley full of ditches. ¹⁷ For so says Jehovah, You shall not see wind nor shall you see rain. Yet that stream bed shall be filled with water, so that you may drink, both you and your livestock, and your animals. ¹⁸ But this is a light thing in the eyes of Jehovah; He also has given Moab into your hand. ¹⁹ And you shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city. And you shall fell every good tree, and you shall stop all the fountains of water. And you shall mar every good lot with stones. ²⁰ And it happened in the morning, when the food offering was caused to go up, behold, water came by the way of Edom; and the country was filled with water. ²¹ And all Moab had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. And they were called together, everyone able to gird on a girdle, and upward. And they stood by the border. ²² And they rose up early in the morning. And the sun was shining on the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the opposite side as red as blood. ²³ And they said, This is blood. The kings surely have fought one another, and they each man struck his neighbor. And now to the plunder, Moab! ²⁴ And they came to the camp of Israel. And the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites. And they fled from before them. And striking they struck Moab. ²⁵ And they broke down the cities; and they each man cast his stone on every good piece of land, and filled it. And they stopped every fountain of water. And they felled every good tree, until there was left only Kirharaseth with its stones. But the slingers surrounded it and struck it. ²⁶ And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him, then he took with him seven hundred men who drew swords to break through to the king of Edom. And they were not able. ²⁷ And he took his son, the firstborn who would reign in his place and caused him to go up for a burnt offering on the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel. And they left him and returned to the land.

⁶ And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah again, and served the Baals, and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook Jehovah and did not serve Him. ⁷ And the anger of Jehovah glowed against Israel. And He sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hand of the sons of Ammon. ⁸ And they crushed and oppressed the sons of Israel in that year, for eighteen years, all the sons of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. ⁹ And the sons of Ammon crossed over the Jordan to fight against Judah also, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim. And Israel was greatly distressed. ¹⁰ And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against You, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals. ¹¹ And Jehovah said to the sons of Israel, Did I not save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, and from the sons of Ammon, and from the Philistines? ¹² And the Sidonians, and Amalek, and Maon have oppressed you, and you cried to Me, and I saved you out of their hand. ¹³ Yet you have forsaken Me, and served other gods; therefore, I did not save you again. ¹⁴ Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress. ¹⁵ And the sons of Israel said to Jehovah, We have sinned. Do to us whatever may be good in Your eyes; only please deliver us his day. ¹⁶ And they removed the gods of the alien from among them, and served Jehovah. And His soul was grieved with the misery of Israel. ¹⁷ And the sons of Ammon were called together, and camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel were gathered, and camped in Mizpeh ¹⁸ And the people said, The chief men of Gilead, each man to his neighbor, Who will be the man who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall be head over all the people of Gilead.

⁶ And they said to Jephthah, Come, and you shall be our commander, that we may fight against the sons of Ammon. ⁷ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Have you not hated me? Yea, you threw me out from my father's house. Why have you come to me when you are in distress? ⁸ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, For this reason we have come back to you now; and you shall go with us and fight against the sons of Ammon. And you shall be our head, to all the people of Gilead. ⁹ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you take me back to fight against the sons of Ammon, and Jehovah gives them up before me, shall I be your head? ¹⁰ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Jehovah shall be witness between us; surely we will do according to your word. ¹¹ And Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people appointed him head over them, and as commander. And Jephthah spoke all his words before Jehovah in Mizpeh. ¹² And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, What have you to do with me, that you have come in to me to fight in my land? ¹³ And the king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took my land when he came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. And now, restore them in peace. ¹⁴ And Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, ¹⁵ and said to him, So says Jephthah, Israel did not take the land of Moab, and the land of the sons of Ammon. ¹⁶ For when they came up out of Egypt, Israel went in the wilderness to the Sea of Reeds, and came in at Kadesh. ¹⁷ And Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Please let me pass on through your land, and the king of Edom did not listen. And Israel sent also to the king of Moab, and he was not willing. And Israel remained in Kadesh. ¹⁸ And he went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came in at the rising of the sun to the land of Moab. And they camped beyond Arnon, and did not come into the border of Moab, for Arnon was the border of Moab. ¹⁹ And Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites the king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, Please let us pass on through your land, to my place. ²⁰ And Sihon did not trust Israel to pass on through his border. And Sihon gathered all his people and they camped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel. ²¹ And Jehovah the God of Israel gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. And Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that land. ²² And they took possession of all the border of the Amorites from Arnon and to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness, and to the Jordan. ²³ And now, Jehovah the God of Israel has expelled the Amorite from before His people Israel. And would you possess it? ²⁴ Whatever Chemosh your god causes you to possess, do you not possess it? And all that which Jehovah our God has expelled from before us, we will possess! ²⁵ And now, are you at all any better than Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab? Did he indeed ever strive with Israel? Did he ever fight against them? ²⁶ When Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and in its towns, in all the cities by the sides of Arnon three hundred years, then why have you not delivered them in that time? ²⁷ So I have not sinned against you, and you are doing me wrong to fight against me. Jehovah the Judge shall judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon. ²⁸ And the king of the sons of Ammon did not listen to he words of Jephthah which he sent to him. ²⁹ And the Spirit of Jehovah was on Jephthah. And he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and passed through Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed on to the sons of Ammon. ³⁰ And Jephthah vowed a vow to Jehovah, and said, If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand, ³¹ then it shall be that anything which comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Amnion, it shall belong to Jehovah; and I will offer it instead of a burnt offering. ³² And Jephthah passed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them. And Jehovah delivered them into his hand. ³³ And he struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to the meadow of the vineyards, a very great destruction. And the sons of Ammon were humbled before the sons of Israel. ³⁴ And Jephthah came to Mizpeh to his house. And, behold his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels, and with choruses. And she only, she alone; there was no other son or daughter to him. ³⁵ And it happened when he saw her, he tore his garments, and said, Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those making me low. And surely I have opened my mouth to Jehovah, and I am not able to take it back. ³⁶ And she said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to Jehovah. Do to me whatever has gone out of your mouth, since Jehovah has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, on the sons of Ammon. ³⁷ And she said to her father, Let this thing be done to me. Leave me alone two months, and let me go and descend on the mountains. And I will weep for my virginity, my friends and I. ³⁸ And he said, Go. And he sent her away two months. And she went, she and her friends. And she wept for her virginity on the mountains. ³⁹ And it happened at the end of two months, she returned to her father. And he did to her his vow which he had vowed. And she never knew a man. And it is a fixed custom in Israel, ⁴⁰ from days to days, the daughters of Israel go to tell again of the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.

¹ And Nahash the Ammonite went up and camped against Jabesh-gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Cut a covenant for us, and we will serve you. ² And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, With this I will cut a covenant for you, when all the right eye is dug out for you; and I will make it a reproach on all Israel. ³ And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Slack off from us seven days, and we will send messengers in all the boundary of Israel. And if there is no deliverer for us, then we will come out to you. ⁴ And the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul. And they spoke the words in the ears of the people. And all the people lifted up their voice and wept. ⁵ And, behold, Saul came behind the oxen from the field. And Saul said, What is it to the people, that they weep? And they related to him the words of the men of Jabesh. ⁶ And the Spirit of God came powerfully on Saul when he heard these words, and his anger glowed greatly. ⁷ And he took the team of oxen and cut them in pieces, and he sent them into all the boundary of Israel, by the hand of the messengers, saying, Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, so it shall be done to his oxen. And the fear of Jehovah fell on the people. And they came out as one man. ⁸ And he mustered them in Bezek, and the sons of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah, thirty thousand. ⁹ And they said to the messengers who came, So you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead. Tomorrow there shall be deliverance for you, in the heat of the sun. And the messengers came and related this to the men of Jabesh; and they rejoiced. ¹⁰ And the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you do to us according to all the good in your eyes. ¹¹ And it was on the next day Saul put the people in three heads, and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and they struck Ammon until the heat of the day. And it was, the ones left were scattered; in them were not two left together. ¹² And the people said to Samuel, Who is he saying, Shall Saul reign over us? Give the men and we will put them to death. ¹³ And Saul said, Not a man shall be put to death on this day, for today Jehovah worked deliverance in Israel. ¹⁴ And Samuel said to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there. ¹⁵ And all the people went to Gilgal and made Saul to reign there in Gilgal, before the face of Jehovah. And they offered Sacrifices of peace offerings there before Jehovah. And Saul and all the men of Israel greatly rejoiced there.

¹ And it happened afterward, the king of the Ammonites died. And his son Hanun reigned in his place. ² And David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me. And David sent to comfort him concerning his father by the hand of his servants. And David servants came into the land of the sons of Ammon. ³ And the leaders of the sons of Ammon said to their lord Hanun. Is David honoring your father in your eyes, because he has sent comforters to you? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it? ⁴ And Hanun took David's servants and shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their long robes in the center, to their buttocks; and he sent them away. ⁵ And they told David, and he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Remain in Jericho until your beard grows; then you shall return. ⁶ And the sons of Ammon saw that they were odious to David. And the sons of Ammon sent and hired Syrians from Beth-rehob, and Syrians from Zobah, twenty thousand footmen; and the king of Maacah with a thousand men; and the men of Tob with twelve thousand men. ⁷ And David heard, then he sent Joab and all the army, the mighty men. ⁸ And the sons of Ammon came out and set the battle in order at the opening of the gate. And the Syrians of Zobah, and Rehob, and the men of Tob, and Maacah were by themselves in the field. ⁹ And Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind. And he chose from all the chosen in Israel, and set them in order to meet the Syrians. ¹⁰ And the rest of the people he gave into the hand of his brother Abishai, and he set in order to meet the sons of Ammon. ¹¹ And he said, If the Syrians are stronger than I, then you shall be for me; and if the sons of Ammon are stronger than you, then I will come to help you. ¹² Be strong, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God. And may Jehovah do that which seems good in His eyes. ¹³ And Joab and the people with him drew near to battle against the Syrians. And they fled before him. ¹⁴ And the sons of Ammon saw that the Syrians fled, and they fled before Abishai, and went into the city. And Joab returned from the sons of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And Syria saw that it was stricken before Israel. And they assembled. ¹⁶ And Hadarezer sent and brought out the Syrians which were beyond the River. And they came to Helam, and Shobach was the commander of the army of Hadarezer before them. ¹⁷ And it was told to David. And he gathered all Israel, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in order to meet David. And they fought with him. ¹⁸ And the Syrians fled before Israel. And David killed from Syria seven hundred in chariots, and forty thousand horsemen. And he struck Shobach the commander of the army, and he died there. ¹⁹ And all the kings, the servants of Hadarezer, saw that they had been stricken before Israel. And they made peace with Israel, and served them. And Syria feared to help the sons of Ammon any more.

¹ On that day they read in the Book of Moses in the ears of the people. And it was found written in it that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God forever, ² because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them. But our God turned the curse to a blessing. ³ And it happened, when they had heard the Law, they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

²³ In those days I also saw Jews who had dwelt with women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. ²⁴ And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and to them there was no respecting to speak Jewish, but according to the language of each people. ²⁵ And I contended with them, and put a curse on them, and struck some of them, and I plucked their hair. And I made them swear by the name of God, saying, You shall not give your daughter to their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons, or for yourselves. ²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved by his God; and God made him king over Israel. But women from other lands caused even him to sin. ²⁷ Shall we then listen to you, to do this great evil, to sin against our God in living with foreign women? ²⁸ And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I chased him from me.

⁴ They have said, Come, and we will cut them off from being a nation; and, The name of Israel will not be recalled again. ⁵ For they plotted to together with one heart; they have cut a covenant against You; ⁶ even the tents of Edom, and of the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites; ⁷ Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. ⁸ Also Assyria has joined with them; they were an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.

¹⁴ But they shall fly onto the shoulder of the Philistines to the west; together they shall plunder the sons of the east, the stretching of the hand on Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon; they will obey them.