Matthew Cross References - LITV

¹ The Book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham: ² Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers. ³ And Judah fathered Pharez and Zarah out of Tamar, and Pharez fathered Hezron, and Hezron fathered Aram, ⁴ and Aram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, and Nahshon fathered Salmon, ⁵ and Salmon fathered Boaz out of Rahab, and Boaz fathered Obed out of Ruth, and Obed fathered Jesse, ⁶ and Jesse fathered David the king. And David the king fathered Solomon out of her who had been the wife of Uriah, ⁷ and Solomon fathered Rehoboam, and Rehoboam fathered Abijah, and Abijah fathered Asa, ⁸ and Asa fathered Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat fathered Jehoram, and Jehoram fathered Uzziah, ⁹ and Uzziah fathered Jotham, and Jotham fathered Ahaz, and Ahaz fathered Hezekiah, ¹⁰ and Hezekiah fathered Manasseh, and Manasseh fathered Amon, and Amon fathered Josiah, ¹¹ and Josiah fathered Jehoiachin and his brothers, at the deportation of Babylon. ¹² And after the deportation of Babylon, Jehoiachin fathered Shealtiel, and Shealtiel fathered Zerubbabel, ¹³ and Zerubbabel fathered Abiud, and Abiud fathered Eliakim, and Eliakim fathered Azor, ¹⁴ and Azor fathered Sadoc, and Sadoc fathered Achim, and Achim fathered Eliud, ¹⁵ and Eliud fathered Eleazar, and Eleazar fathered Matthan, and Matthan fathered Jacob, ¹⁶ and Jacob fathered Joseph, the husband to be of Mary, out of whom Jesus was born, the One called Christ. ¹⁷ So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon until the Christ, fourteen generations. 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. ¹⁹ But her husband to be Joseph being just, and not willing to make her a public example, he purposed to put her away secretly. ²⁰ And as he was thinking about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord was seen by him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For that in her is fathered by the Holy Spirit. ²¹ And she will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins. ²² And all this happened so that might be fulfilled that spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, ²³ "Behold! The virgin will conceive in her womb and will bear a son, and they will call His name Emmanuel" (which translated is, God with us). Isa. 7:14 ²⁴ And being aroused from sleep, Joseph did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife, ²⁵ and did not know her until she bore her son, the First-born. And he called His name Jesus.

⁴ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that Jehovah God was making earth and heavens.

¹ This is the book of the generations of Adam: In the day that God created man. He made him in the likeness of God.

³ And I will bless those who bless you, and curse the one despising you. And in you all families of the earth shall be blessed.

¹⁸ And in your Seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because you have obeyed My voice.

³ Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands. And I will cause to rise My oath which I swore to your father Abraham. ⁴ And I will increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give to your seed all these lands. And all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves in your seed, ⁵ because Abraham listened to My voice and heeded My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.

¹³ And, behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, I am Jehovah the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, I will give it to you and to your seed. ¹⁴ And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed.

¹² When your days are fulfilled, and you lie with your fathers, then I shall raise up your seed after you, who shall come out from your bowels, and I shall establish his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house for My Name, and I shall establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ¹⁴ I shall be a father to him, and he shall be a son to Me. When he sins, then I will chasten him with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of men. ¹⁵ But My mercy shall not be taken from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. ¹⁶ And your house shall be established, and your kingdom before you forever. Your throne shall be established forever.

³⁶ His seed shall be forever, and his throne as the sun before Me.

¹¹ Jehovah has sworn to David in truth; He will not turn from it; I will set one of the fruit of your body on the throne for you.

⁶ For a Child is born; to us a Son is given; and the government is on His shoulder; and His name is called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. ⁷ There is no end to the increase of His government and of peace on the throne of David, and on His kingdom, to order it, and to sustain it with justice and with righteousness, from now and forever. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts will do this.

¹ And a Shoot goes out from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch will bear fruit out of his roots.

⁸ He was taken from prison and from justice; and who shall consider His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; from the transgression of My people, the stroke was to Him.

⁵ Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and act wisely, and shall do justice and righteousness in the earth.

¹⁵ In those days, and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. And He shall do judgment and righteousness in the land. ¹⁶ In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell in safety. And this is the name that shall be called on her: JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. ¹⁷ For so says Jehovah, Not a man sitting on the throne of the house of Israel will be cut off to David.

²⁶ then I also will reject the seed of Jacob, and My servant David, not to take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will bring back their captivity and have pity on them.

¹¹ In that day I will raise up the booth of David that has fallen, and I will wall up its breaks. And I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as the days of old;

⁸ In that day Jehovah shall protect around the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And it will be, he who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of Jehovah before them.

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.

¹ And when Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men arrived from the east to Jerusalem, ² saying, Where is He born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.

¹⁶ And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water. And, behold! The heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God coming down as a dove, and coming upon Him.

²⁷ And Jesus passing on from there, two blind ones followed Him, crying and saying, Have pity on us, Son of David.

²² And, behold, a woman of Canaan coming forth from those borders cried out to Him, saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is vilely demon-possessed.

⁴² saying, What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He? They say to Him, David's. ⁴³ He said to them, Then how does David in Spirit call Him Lord, saying, ⁴⁴ "The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on My right until I place Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet?" LXX-Psa. 109:1; MT-Psa. 110:1 ⁴⁵ Then if David calls Him Lord, how is He his son?

³¹ And behold! You will conceive in your womb and bear a Son, and you will call His name Jesus. ³² This One will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.

⁶⁹ And He raised up a Horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David; ⁷⁰ even as He spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from the age before :

²³ And Jesus Himself was beginning to be about thirty years old, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Heli, ²⁴ the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janna, the son of Joseph, ²⁵ the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, ²⁶ the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semei, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, ²⁷ the son of Joannas, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, ²⁸ the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er, ²⁹ the son of Joses, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, ³⁰ the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, ³¹ the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, ³² the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, ³³ the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Pharez, the son of Judah, ³⁴ the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, ³⁵ the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Salah, ³⁶ the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, ³⁷ the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan; ³⁸ son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

⁴² Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was? Mic. 5:2

³⁰ Being a prophet, then, and knowing that God swore with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loin, as concerning flesh, to raise the Christ to sit on his throne, see Psa. 132:11

²² And removing him, He raised up to them David for a king, to whom He also said, witnessing, "I found David" the son of Jesse " to be a man according to My own heart, who will do all My will." 1 Samuel 13:14; Psa. 89:20; LXX-Isa. 44:28 ²³ Of the seed of this one, according to promise, God raised up to Israel a Savior, Jesus;

³ concerning His Son who came of the seed of David according to flesh,

¹³ For the promise was not through law to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be the heir of the world, but through a righteousness of faith.

⁵ whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to flesh, He being God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

¹⁶ But the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his Seed (it does not say, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," which is Christ). Gen. 12:7, 13:15; 17:7, 8; 24:7

¹⁶ I, Jesus, sent My angel to testify these things to you over the churches. I am the Root and Offspring of David, the bright and morning Star.

² And Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the time appointed, that which God had spoken with him. ³ And Abraham called the name of the son who was born to him, whom Sarah had borne to him, Isaac. ⁴ And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, a son of eight days, as God had commanded him. ⁵ And Abraham was a son of a hundred years when his son Isaac was born to him.

²⁶ And afterward his brother came out, and his hand was holding to the heel of Esau; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was a son of sixty years when she bore them.

³² And Leah conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Reuben; for she said, Surely Jehovah has looked on my affliction, for now my husband will love me. ³³ And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Surely Jehovah has heard that I am hated and has given this one to me also. And she called his name Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceived again and bore a son. And she said, Now, this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne to him three sons. So his name was called Levi. ³⁵ And she conceived again and bore a son. And she said, This time I praise Jehovah. So she called his name Judah. And she ceased from bearing.

⁵ And Bilhah conceived and bore a son to Jacob. ⁶ And Rachel said, God has judged and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son. So she called his name Dan. ⁷ And Bilhah, Rachel's slave-girl, conceived again, and bore a second son to Jacob. ⁸ And Rachel said, With struggles of God I have struggled with my sister; yea, I have been able. And she called his name Naphtali. ⁹ And Leah saw that she had ceased from bearing. And she took Zilpah, her slave-girl, and gave her to Jacob for a wife. ¹⁰ And Leah's slave-girl Zilpah bore a son to Jacob. ¹¹ And Leah said, With fortune. And she called his name Gad. ¹² And Zilpah, Leah's slave-girl, bore a second son to Jacob. ¹³ And Leah said, In my happiness; for the daughters shall call me happy. And she called his name Asher. ¹⁴ And in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went out and found love-apples in the field. And he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Please give to me from the love-apples of your son. ¹⁵ And she said to her, is your taking my husband a little thing? Will you also take my son's love-apples? And Rachel said, So he shall be with you tonight, for your son's love apples. ¹⁶ And Jacob came in from the field at evening. And Leah went out to meet him. And she said, You must come in to me, for surely I have hired you with my son's love-apples. And he lay with her during that night. ¹⁷ And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob. ¹⁸ And Leah said, God has given my hire; I gave my slave-girl to my husband. And she called his name Issachar. ¹⁹ And Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob. ²⁰ And Leah said, God has given me a good present. This time my husband will live with me, because I have borne six sons to him. And she called his name Zebulun.

¹⁶ And they pulled up stakes from Bethel. And there was yet a length of land to come to Ephrath. And Rachel bore; and she had hard labor in her bearing. ¹⁷ And it happened, when she had hard labor in her bearing, even the midwife said to her, Do not fear, for this also is a son for you. ¹⁸ And it happened, when her soul was going forth (for she died) even she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin. ¹⁹ And Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, it is Bethlehem.

⁸ And these were the names of the sons of Israel, those coming into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: the first born of Jacob was Reuben. ⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. ¹⁰ And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanitess. ¹¹ And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ¹² And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah. And Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez: Hezron, and Hamul. ¹³ And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. ¹⁴ And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. ¹⁵ These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-aram, and his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty three. ¹⁶ And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. ¹⁷ And the sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. ¹⁸ These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore these to Jacob, sixteen souls. ¹⁹ The sons of Rachel the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, bore to him. ²¹ And the sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, and Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. ²² These were the sons of Rachel which were born to Jacob; all the souls were fourteen. ²³ And the son of Dan was Hushim. ²⁴ And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. ²⁵ These were the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel; and she bore these to Jacob, all the souls were seven. ²⁶ All the souls belonging to Jacob coming into Egypt, those springing from his loins, besides the wives of the sons of Jacob, all the souls were sixty six. ²⁷ And the sons of Joseph which were born to him in Egypt, two souls. All the souls belonging to the house of Jacob coming into Egypt were seventy.

⁸ Judah, may your brothers praise you, your hand be on the neck of your enemies. May the sons of your father bow themselves to you. ⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp. My son, you have risen up from the prey; he stoops, he crouches like a lion; and like a lioness, who can rouse him? ¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawmaker from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and the obedience of the peoples to him. ¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine, he washes his clothing in wine, and his covering in the bloods of grapes. ¹² His eyes shall be dark from wine and his teeth white from milk.

² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, ³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, ⁴ Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. ⁵ And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls, Joseph being in Egypt.

² And Joshua said to all the people, So says Jehovah the God of Israel, Your fathers have in the past lived Beyond the River (Terah the father of Abraham and father of Nahor) and they served other gods. ³ And I took your father Abraham from Beyond the River, and caused him to go through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave Isaac to him. ⁴ And I gave Jacob and Esau to Isaac. And I gave Mount Seir to Esau, to possess it. And Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

²⁸ The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

³⁴ And Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel.

¹ These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, ² Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ³ The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him from the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the first-born of Judah, was evil in Jehovah's sight, and He killed him. ⁴ And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All Judah's sons were five. ⁵ The sons of Pharez: Hezron and Hamul. ⁶ And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; all of them were five. ⁷ And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who sinned in the cursed thing. ⁸ And the son of Ethan was Azariah,

¹ And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but since he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be counted according to the birthright; ² for Judah prevailed among his brothers, and from him was the chief ruler, but the birthright was Joseph's)

⁸ But you Israel are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen; the seed of My friend Abraham;

² Look to your father Abraham, and to Sarah who bore you. For he being but one, I called him and blessed him and increased him.

² I have loved you, says Jehovah. But you say, In what way have You loved us? Was not Esau the brother to Jacob? Yet Jehovah declares, I loved Jacob, ³ and I have hated Esau and have made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance to be for the jackals of the wilderness.

³³ the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Pharez, the son of Judah, ³⁴ the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

⁸ And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision; and so he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

⁷ nor because they are Abraham's seed are all children, but "In Isaac a Seed shall be called to you." Gen. 21:12 ⁸ That is: Not the children of flesh are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted for a seed. ⁹ For the word of promise is this, According to this time I will come, and a son will be to Sarah. Gen. 18:10 ¹⁰ And not only so, but also Rebekah conceiving of one, our father Isaac, ¹¹ for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of the One calling, ¹² it was said to her, "The greater shall serve the lesser;" Gen. 25:23 ¹³ even as it has been written, "I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau." Mal. 1:2, 3

¹⁴ For it is clear that our Lord has risen out of Judah, as to which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

¹¹ Also by faith Sarah herself received power for conceiving seed even beyond the time of age, and gave birth; since she deemed the One having promised to be faithful.

¹⁷ By faith, being tested, Abraham offered up Isaac; and he receiving the promises was offering up the only begotten, ¹⁸ as to whom it was said, "In Isaac your Seed shall be called;" Gen. 21:12

⁵ Out of the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand having been sealed. Out of the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand having been sealed. Out of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand having been sealed.

⁶ And Judah took a wife for his first born, Er, and her name, Tamar.

¹¹ And Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, Live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah is grown. For he said, Lest he also die like his brothers. And Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

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.

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.

¹² And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah. And Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez: Hezron, and Hamul.

²⁰ And the sons of Judah by their families: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites; of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites. ²¹ And the sons of Pharez: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites of Hamul the family of the Hamulites.

¹⁸ And these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez fathered Hezron; ¹⁹ and Hezron fathered Ram; and Ram fathered Amminadab; ²⁰ and Amminadab fathered Nahshon; and Nahshon fathered Salmon; ²¹ and Salmon fathered Boaz; and Boaz fathered Obed; ²² and Obed fathered Jesse; and Jesse fathered David.

¹ These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, ² Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ³ The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him from the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the first-born of Judah, was evil in Jehovah's sight, and He killed him. ⁴ And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All Judah's sons were five. ⁵ The sons of Pharez: Hezron and Hamul. ⁶ And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; all of them were five. ⁷ And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who sinned in the cursed thing. ⁸ And the son of Ethan was Azariah, ⁹ and the sons of Hezron, who were born to him, were Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai. ¹⁰ And Ram fathered Amminadab; and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, chief of the sons of Judah. ¹¹ And Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz, ¹² and Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse. ¹³ And Jesse fathered his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third, ¹⁴ Nethaneel the fourth, and Raddai the fifth, ¹⁵ Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.

¹ The sons of Judah were Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

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

³³ the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Pharez, the son of Judah,

⁷ of Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;

³ And those who encamp on the east side, toward the sunrising, are of the standard of Judah's camp, according to their armies, the ruler of the sons of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

¹² And he who brought his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;

¹⁷ and for the sacrifice of the peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five yearling he lambs. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

¹⁴ And in the front, the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah pulled up stakes, by their armies. And over its army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

¹⁹ and Hezron fathered Ram; and Ram fathered Amminadab; ²⁰ and Amminadab fathered Nahshon; and Nahshon fathered Salmon;

¹⁰ And Ram fathered Amminadab; and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, chief of the sons of Judah. ¹¹ And Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz, ¹² and Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse.

³² the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

¹ And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men out of Shittim to spy secretly, saying, Go look over the land, and Jericho. And they went and came into the house of a woman, a harlot; and her name was Rahab. And they lay down there. ² And it was reported to the King of Jericho saying, Behold, men have come here tonight from the sons of Israel, to search the land. ³ And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring out the men who have come in to you, who have come into your house. For they have come in to search out all the land. ⁴ And the woman took the two men and hid them, and said, This way the men came in to me, but I did not know from where they were. ⁵ And it happened as the gate was to be shut at dark, even the men went out. I do not know where they have gone. You go after them, and hurry, for you may overtake them. ⁶ But she made them go up on the roof, and hid them with stalks of flax, which she arranged on the roof. ⁷ And the men went after them the way of the Jordan, by the fords. And they shut the gate afterwards, when the pursuers had gone after them. ⁸ And before they had laid down, she came up to them on the roof. ⁹ And she said to the men, I know that Jehovah has given the land to you, and that your terror has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted before you. ¹⁰ For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Sea of Reeds before you, as you were going out of Egypt; also that which you have done to two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan; to Sihon, and to Og, whom you destroyed. ¹¹ And we have heard, and our heart has melted, and there not still rises spirit in any man, because of you. For Jehovah your God, He is God in the heavens above, and in the earth below. ¹² And now, please swear by me by Jehovah, since I have dealt with you in kindness, that you will also deal with my father's house in kindness, and shall give to me a true token; ¹³ and shall keep alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they own and shall deliver our souls from death. ¹⁴ And the men said to her, Our life is yours. If you do not tell this business of ours, then it shall be, when Jehovah gives this land to us that we shall deal with you in kindness and truth. ¹⁵ Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was in the side of the wall, and she lived in the wall. ¹⁶ And she said to them, Go to the mountain lest the pursuers come upon you. And you shall hide there three days until the pursuers return; and afterward you shall go on your way. ¹⁷ And the men said to her, We will be guiltless from this oath of yours which you made us swear. ¹⁸ Behold, we are coming into the land; you shall bind this scarlet thread of line in the window by which you have let us down. And you shall gather your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's house to you, to the house. ¹⁹ And it shall be, anyone who goes outside from the doors of your house his blood shall be on his head, and we shall be innocent. And anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him. ²⁰ But if you reveal this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless from your oath which you make us swear. ²¹ And she said, Let it be according to your words. And she sent them away. And they went. And she bound the line of scarlet thread in the window. ²² And they departed and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. And the pursuers searched in all the way, but did not find 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. 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. ²⁴ And they burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they gave the silver and the gold, and the vessels of bronze, and of iron, to the treasury of the house of Jehovah. ²⁵ And Joshua kept alive Rahab the harlot, and the house of her father, and all whom she had. And she lives in the midst of Israel to this day. For she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

⁴ And they took wives to themselves, women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the second, Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.

¹⁶ And Ruth said, Do not beg me to leave you, to turn back from following you. For where you go, I will go. And where you stay, I will stay. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. ¹⁷ Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Jehovah do to me, and more so, if anything but death part you and me.

²² And Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the fields of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.

²¹ and Salmon fathered Boaz; and Boaz fathered Obed;

³¹ By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those disobeying, having received the spies with peace.

²⁵ But in the same way Rahab the harlot was also justified out of works, having received the messengers, and sending them out by another way.

²² and Obed fathered Jesse; and Jesse fathered David.

¹ And Jehovah said to Samuel, Until when will you mourn for Saul, for I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have seen a king for Me among his sons.

¹¹ And Samuel said to Jesse, Are these all the young men? And he said, There yet remains the youngest; and behold, he is tending the flock. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and bring him, for we will not sit until he comes here. ¹² And he sent and brought him in. And he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and good form. And Jehovah said, Rise up, anoint him, for this is he. ¹³ And Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon David from that day and onward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

¹² And David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem-Judah named Jesse. And to him were eight sons. And the man was old among men in the days of Saul.

⁵⁸ And Saul said to him, Whose son are you, boy? And David said, The son of your servant Jesse, the Bethlehemite.

³⁰ And the anger of Saul glowed against Jonathan. And he said to him, Son of a perverse rebelliousness! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of your mother? ³¹ For as long as the son of Jesse lives on earth you shall not be established, you and your kingdom. And now send and bring him to me, for he is a son of death.

⁸ that all of you have conspired against me, and no one was revealing in my ear when my son cut a covenant with the son of Jesse? And not one of you is sorry for me, even to reveal in my ear that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.

³ And David sent and asked about the woman. And one said, Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

²⁶ And Uriah's wife heard that her husband Uriah was dead. And she mourned for her husband. ²⁷ And the mourning time passed by. And David sent and gathered her to his house; and she became his wife, and bore a son to him. And the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

²⁴ And David comforted his wife Bathsheba. And he went into her, and lay with her. And she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And Jehovah loved him, ²⁵ and sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Jedidiah, because of Jehovah.

¹ And these are the last words of David, the saying of David the son of Jesse, and the saying of the man raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet singer of Israel:

³⁹ Uriah the Hittite; thirty seven in all.

¹¹ And Nathan spoke to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, saying, Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and our lord David does not know? ¹² And now, come, please let me counsel you with counsel, and save your life, and the life of your son Solomon. ¹³ Go up and go in to king David. And you shall say to him, My lord, O king, have you not sworn to your handmaid, saying, Surely your son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? And why does Adonijah reign? ¹⁴ Behold, while you are speaking with the king, then I will come in after you and will confirm your words. ¹⁵ And Bathsheba came in to the king, to the inner room. And the king was old, and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king. ¹⁶ And Bathsheba bowed and knelt before the king. And the king said, What shall I do for you? ¹⁷ And she said to him, My lord, you have sworn to your handmaid by Jehovah your God, saying, Surely your son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.

²⁸ And king David replied and said, Call Bathsheba for me. And she came in before the king, and stood before the king. ²⁹ And the king swore and said, As Jehovah lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all distress, ³⁰ surely as I swore to you by Jehovah, the God of Israel, saying, Surely your son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; surely so I will do this day. ³¹ And Bathsheba bowed her face to the earth, even bowing to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.

⁵ For David did that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and did not turn aside from all that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

¹⁵ Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.

⁵ And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four to Bathsheba the daughter of Ammiel;

⁴¹ Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

⁴ And these were the names of the children who were to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,

⁵ And of all my sons, for Jehovah has given me many sons, He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah, over Israel.

²⁰ The prayers of David the son of Jesse have ended.

³ For the law being powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

⁴³ and Solomon lay with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

³¹ And Rehoboam lay with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.

⁸ And Abijam lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place. ⁹ And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel Asa reigned over Judah. ¹⁰ And he reigned forty one years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom. ¹¹ And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, like his father David. ¹² And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers made. ¹³ And he also removed his mother Maachah from being queen, in that she made a horrid thing for Asherah. And Asa cut down her horrid thing and burned it by the torrent Kidron. ¹⁴ But they did not remove the high places. Only the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all the days. ¹⁵ And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated and his holy things, into the house of Jehovah, silver and gold and vessels. ¹⁶ And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. ¹⁷ And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, to keep anyone from going out and coming in to Asa the king of Judah. ¹⁸ And Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and gave them into his servants' hand; and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, the king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying, ¹⁹ A treaty between you and me, between my father and your father! Behold, I have sent you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha the king of Israel, that he go up from me. ²⁰ And Ben-hadad listened to king Asa, and sent his army commanders against the cities of Israel. And he struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. ²¹ And it happened, when Baasha heard, he ceased building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah. ²² And king Asa proclaimed to all Judah (no one was exempt) and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber with which Baasha had built. And king Asa built with it Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. ²³ And the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah? Only, at the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

¹⁰ And Solomon's son was Rehoboam; Abijah his son; Asa his son; Jehoshaphat his son; ¹¹ Joram his son; Ahaziah his son, Joash his son; ¹² Amaziah his son; Azariah his son; Jotham his son; ¹³ Ahaz his son; Hezekiah his son; Manasseh his son; ¹⁴ Amon his son; Josiah his son.

³¹ And Solomon lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

¹ And it happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was settled, and when he was strong, he forsook the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him.

⁷ And vain men gathered to him, sons of worthlessness, and they made themselves strong against Rehoboam the son of Solomon; and Rehoboam was a youth and tender of heart, and could not be strong against them.

¹ And Abijah lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years. ² And Asa did the good and the right in the eyes of Jehovah his God. ³ And he removed the altars of the alien, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherahs. ⁴ And he commanded Judah to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. ⁵ And he removed the high places and the images out of all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was quiet before him. ⁶ And he built fenced cities in Judah, for the land had quiet. And there was no war with him in these years, because Jehovah had given him rest. ⁷ And he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and walls around them, and towers, two leaved gates, and bars, while the land is before us, because we have sought Jehovah our God. We have sought, and He has given rest to us all around. And they built and prospered. ⁸ And Asa had an army bearing bucklers and spears three hundred thousand out of Judah, and two hundred eighty thousand out of Benjamin, bearing shields and drawing bows; all these were mighty men of valor. ⁹ And Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a thousand thousands, and three hundred chariots. And he came to Mareshah. ¹⁰ And Asa went out before him and they set the battle in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. ¹¹ And Asa called to Jehovah his God, and said, O Jehovah, it is nothing to You to help between the mighty and him with no strength. Help us, O Jehovah our God; for we rest on You, and in Your name we come against this host. O Jehovah, You are our God. Do not let man hold out against You. ¹² And Jehovah struck the Cushites before Asa and before Judah. And the Ethiopians fled. ¹³ And Asa and the people with him pursued them even to Gerar. And all of the Cushites fell, for there was not one left alive to them; because they had broken before Jehovah, and before His army. And they carried away very much plunder. ¹⁴ And they struck all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of Jehovah had come on them. And they plundered all the cities, for there was much booty in them. ¹⁵ And also they struck the tents of cattle, and they captured sheep and camels in abundance. And they returned to Jerusalem.

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

² And it happened in the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. ³ And the king of Israel said to his servants, Have you known that Ramoth-gilead is ours? And we remain still from taking it from the king of Syria's hand. ⁴ And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go to battle with me, to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you, my people as your people; my horses as your horses. ⁵ And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire at the word of Jehovah today. ⁶ And the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, that the Lord may give it into the hand of the king. ⁷ And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah besides, that we might inquire of him? ⁸ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Yet one man, to seek Jehovah by him. But I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil, Micaiah the son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat said, let not the king say so. ⁹ And the king of Israel called to a certain eunuch and said, Cause Micaiah the son of Imlah to hurry. ¹⁰ And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah each was sitting on his throne having put on their robes, in a grain-floor in the entrance of the gate of Samaria. And all the prophets prophesied before them. ¹¹ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself. And he said, So says Jehovah, With these you shall push the Syrians until you have consumed them. ¹² And all the prophets were prophesying so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper. For Jehovah shall give it into the king's hand. ¹³ And the messenger that had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets with one mouth are good to the king. Please let your word be as the word of one of them, and speak good. ¹⁴ And Micaiah said, As Jehovah lives, Surely that which Jehovah says to me, that I will speak. ¹⁵ And he came in to the king. And the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to battle to Ramoth-gilead, or shall we forbear? And he said to him, Go up, and prosper, and Jehovah shall give it into the king's hand. ¹⁶ And the king said to him, How many times have I adjured you that you shall speak nothing to me but truth in the name of Jehovah? ¹⁷ And he said, I have seen all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep that have no shepherd. And Jehovah said, These have no ruler; they shall each return to his house in peace. ¹⁸ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say to you, He will not prophesy good of me, but evil? ¹⁹ And he said, Therefore, hear the word of Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting on His throne, and all the host of Heaven were standing by Him, on His right and on His left. ²⁰ And Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab, and he shall go up and fall in Ramoth-gilead? And this one said this, and this one said that. ²¹ And a spirit came forth and stood before Jehovah, and said, I surely will entice him. ²² And Jehovah said to him, By what means? And he said, I will go out and shall be a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets. And He said, You shall entice him, and also you are able. Go out and do so. ²³ And now, behold, Jehovah has put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all these prophets of yours; and Jehovah has spoken evil as to you! ²⁴ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Where did the Spirit of Jehovah pass over from me to speak with you? ²⁵ And Micaiah said, Behold, You shall see on that day when you go into the innermost room to be hidden. ²⁶ And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the ruler of the city, and to Joash the king's son, ²⁷ and say, So says the king, Put this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat the bread of oppression, and the water of oppression, until I come in peace. ²⁸ And Micaiah said, If you at all return in peace, Jehovah has not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, O people, all of them. ²⁹ And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. ³⁰ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself and enter into the battle. But you put on your robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle. ³¹ And the king of Syria commanded the thirty two commanders of the chariots, saying, You shall not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel. ³² And it happened when the commanders of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Surely he is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight with him. And Jehoshaphat cried out. ³³ And it happened when the commanders of the chariots saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from following him. ³⁴ And a man drew a bow in his simplicity, and he struck the king of Israel between the joints and the breastplate. And he said to his charioteer, Turn your hand and take me out from the battle, for I have been wounded. ³⁵ And on that day the battle went on, and the king was caused to stand up in the chariot against Syria. And he died in the evening, and the blood of the wound poured out into the middle of the chariot. ³⁶ And the cry passed through the camp when the sun went, saying, Each to his city, and each to his land. ³⁷ And the king died, and came to Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria. ³⁸ And they rinsed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood when they had washed the armor, according to the word of Jehovah that He spoke. ³⁹ And the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the house of ivory that he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel? ⁴⁰ And Ahab lay with his fathers. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place. ⁴¹ And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa reigned over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab the king of Israel. ⁴² He was a son of thirty five years when he began to reign. And he reigned twenty five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. ⁴³ And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from it, doing right in the eyes of Jehovah. But the high places were not taken away; the people offered and burned incense yet in the high places. ⁴⁴ And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. ⁴⁵ And the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah? ⁴⁶ And he took out of the land the rest of the sodomites which remained in the days of his father Asa. ⁴⁷ No king was in Edom; a deputy was king. ⁴⁸ Jehoshaphat had ten ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold. But they did not go, for the ships were broken at Eziongeber. ⁴⁹ Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat was not willing. ⁵⁰ And Jehoshaphat lay with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.

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.

¹⁶ And in the fifth year of Jehoram the son of Ahab the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, reigned.

²¹ And all the people of Judah took Azariah (and he was a son of sixteen years), and they made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

¹ In the twenty seventh year of Jeroboam the king of Israel Azariah the son of Amaziah the king of Judah began to reign. ² He was a son of sixteen years when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty two years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Jecholiah of Jerusalem. ³ And he did the right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah did; ⁴ however, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. ⁵ And Jehovah touched the king, and he was a leper to the day of his death; and he lived in a separate house, and Jotham the son of the king was over the house, judging the people of the land. ⁶ And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

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

¹ And his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place. And he made himself strong against Israel. ² And he put an army in all the fortified cities in Judah, and placed command posts in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim which his father Asa had captured. ³ And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the first ways of his father David; and he did not seek to the Baals. ⁴ For he sought to the God of his father, and he walked in His commands, and not according to the deeds of Israel. ⁵ And Jehovah confirmed the kingdom in his hand. And all of Judah gave a present to Jehoshaphat. And he had riches and honor in abundance. ⁶ And his heart was exalted in the ways of Jehovah. And he again removed the high places and the Asherahs out of Judah. ⁷ And in the third year of his reign, he sent for his leaders, for Benhail, and for Obadiah, and for Zechariah, and for Nethaneel, and for Michaiah, in order to teach in the cities of Judah. ⁸ And with them were the Levites: Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites. And with them were Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. ⁹ And they taught in Judah; and with them was the book of the law of Jehovah. And they went around to all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people. ¹⁰ And the fear of Jehovah was on all the kingdoms of the lands around Judah; and they did not fight with Jehoshaphat. ¹¹ And from the Philistines, they were bringing in a present to Jehoshaphat, and silver as tribute. Also, the Arabians were bringing flocks to him, seven thousand, seven hundred rams; and seven thousand, seven hundred he goats. ¹² And Jehoshaphat went on to be greater, exceedingly. And he built fortresses and store cities in Judah. ¹³ And there was much work for him in the cities of Judah. And the men of war, mighty men of valor, resided in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And these were their numbers, for the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the commanders of thousands, Adnah the chief, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor. ¹⁵ And on his hand, Jehohanan the chief, and two hundred and eighty thousand with him. ¹⁶ And on his hand, Amasiah the son of Zichri, who volunteered himself to Jehovah; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor. ¹⁷ And of Benjamin, Eliada a mighty man, and two hundred thousand armed men with bow and shield with him. ¹⁸ And on his hand, Jehozabad; and with him a hundred and eighty thousand ready for war. ¹⁹ These waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities in all Judah.

¹ And Jehoshaphat lay with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.

¹ And all the people of Judah took Uzziah; and he was a son of sixteen years; and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. ² He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after the king lay with his fathers. ³ Uzziah was a son of sixteen years when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty two years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. ⁴ And he did the right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah did. ⁵ And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God; and in the days he sought Jehovah, God made him prosper. ⁶ And he went out and fought with the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities around Ashdod, and among the Philistines. ⁷ And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal, and the Meunim. ⁸ And the Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah; and his name spread abroad to the entrance of Egypt; for he became exceedingly strong. ⁹ And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, and at the Valley Gate, and at the Turning, and fortified them. ¹⁰ And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had many cattle, both in the low country and in the plain; also he had farmers and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the earth. ¹¹ And Uzziah had an army making war, going out to the battle by troops, according to the number of their account by the. hand of Jeiel the scribe, and Maaseiah the superintendent under the hand of Hananiah, of the king's leaders. ¹² The whole number of the heads of the fathers of the mighty men was two thousand, six hundred. ¹³ And under their hand was a powerful army, three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. ¹⁴ And Uzziah prepared for them, for all the army, shields and spears and helmets, and breastplates, and bows, even to stones for the slings. ¹⁵ And he made engines in Jerusalem, the inventions of skillful men, to be on the towers and on the corners, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was wonderfully helped until he was strong. ¹⁶ And when he became strong, his heart was lifted up to act corruptly; and he trespassed against Jehovah his God, and went in to the temple of Jehovah to burn incense on the altar of incense. ¹⁷ And Azariah the priest went in after him, and eighty priests of Jehovah with him, sons of valor; ¹⁸ and they stood up against Uzziah the king, and said to him, It is not for you, O Uzziah, to burn incense to Jehovah, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are sanctified to burn incense; go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed; and it is not to your honor from Jehovah God. ¹⁹ And Uzziah was angry, and in his hand was a censer to burn incense; and when he was angry with the priests, the leprosy rose in his forehead, before the priests, in the house of Jehovah, beside the altar of incense. ²⁰ And Azariah the head priest and all the priests turned toward him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead. And they hurried him from there, and he also himself hurried to leave, for Jehovah had touched him. ²¹ And Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house as a leper, for he had been cut off from the house of Jehovah; and his son Jotham was over the king's house, judging the people of the land. ²² And the rest of the acts of Uzziah, the first and the last, Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, has written. ²³ And Uzziah lay with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burying place that the kings had; for they said, He is a leper. And his son Jotham reigned in his place.

⁷ And Azariah lay with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David. And his son Jotham reigned in his place.

³² In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, began to reign.

¹ And it happened in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah the king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz the king of Judah began to reign. ² He was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty nine years; and the name of his mother was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. ³ And he did the right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father David did; ⁴ he took away the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherah, and beat to bits the bronze serpent that Moses made (for in those days it was that the sons of Israel burned sacrifices to it and called it Nehushtan). ⁵ He trusted in Jehovah the God of Israel, and after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him; ⁶ and he clung to Jehovah; he did not turn aside from following Him, and kept His commands that Jehovah commanded Moses. ⁷ And Jehovah was with him. He acted prudently every place he went. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him. ⁸ He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the Watch Tower to the fortified city. ⁹ And it happened, in the fourth year of king Hezekiah (it was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah the king of Israel) Shalmaneser the king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. ¹⁰ And they captured it at the end of three years; in the sixth year of Hezekiah (it was the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Israel) Samaria was conquered; ¹¹ and the king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, ¹² because they did not listen to the voice of Jehovah their God, and transgressed His covenant, all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded; yea, they did not listen nor obey. ¹³ And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib the king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and captured them. ¹⁴ And Hezekiah the king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria, to Lachish, saying, I have offended, turn back from me; that which you put on me I will bear. And the king of Assyria laid on Hezekiah the king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah gave all the silver that was found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the house of the king. ¹⁶ At that time Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of Jehovah, and the pillars that Hezekiah the king of Judah had overlaid, and gave them to the king of Assyria. ¹⁷ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan, and the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the cupbearers from Lachish, to king Hezekiah with a heavy force, to Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they went up and came in and stood by the conduit of the upper pool that was in the highway of the Fuller's Field. ¹⁸ And they called to the king, and Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder went out to them. ¹⁹ And the chief of the cupbearers said to them, Now say to Hezekiah, So says the great king, the king of Assyria, What is this hope in which you have trusted? ²⁰ Do you say that a mere word of the lips is counsel and strength for battle; now, on whom have you trusted that you have rebelled against me?

¹¹ Joram his son; Ahaziah his son, Joash his son; ¹² Amaziah his son; Azariah his son; Jotham his son; ¹³ Ahaz his son; Hezekiah his son; Manasseh his son;

²¹ And Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house as a leper, for he had been cut off from the house of Jehovah; and his son Jotham was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.

¹ Jotham was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. ² And he did the right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah did; only, he did not come into the temple of Jehovah; and the people continued to do wickedly. ³ He built the Upper Gate of the house of Jehovah, and he built very much in the wall of Ophel; ⁴ and he built cities in the hills of Judah, and in the forests he built palaces and towers. ⁵ He also fought with the king of the sons of Ammon, and. prevailed over them. And the sons of Ammon gave to him in that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley; this the sons of Ammon turned over to him in the second year and in the third. ⁶ And Jotham made himself strong, for he had prepared his ways before Jehovah his God. ⁷ And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his battles, and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. ⁸ He was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁹ And Jotham lay with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.

¹ Ahaz was a son of twenty years when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do right in the eyes of Jehovah, as his father David, ² but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made casted images for the Baals. ³ And he himself burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah drove out from before the sons of Israel; ⁴ and sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree. ⁵ And Jehovah his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, and they struck him, and captured from him a great captivity, and brought them to Damascus. And he also was given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he struck him with a great destruction. ⁶ And Pekah the son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all sons of valor, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers. ⁷ And Zichri, a mighty one of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, and Azrikam the leader of the house, and Elkanah, second to the king. ⁸ And the sons of Israel captured two hundred thousand of their brothers, wives, sons and daughters, and also they seized from them much spoil, and they brought the spoil to Samaria. ⁹ And a prophet of Jehovah was there, Oded his name; and he went out before the army that had come in to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, in the fury of Jehovah, the God of your fathers, against Judah, He has given them into your hand, and you have slain among them in rage. It has touched to the heavens. ¹⁰ And now you are planning to tread down the sons of Judah and Jerusalem for male slaves, and for girl slaves to yourselves; but are not with you causes of guilt, solely yours, before Jehovah your God? ¹¹ And now, hear me, and return the captives you have seized from your brothers, for the heat of the anger of Jehovah is on you. ¹² And men of the leaders of the Ephraimites: Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah, Meshillemoth's son, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, rose up against those coming in from the army. ¹³ And they said to them, You shall not bring the captives here, for guilt against Jehovah is on us; you are planning to add to our sin and to our guilt, for plenty of guilt is ours, and the glow of anger on Israel. ¹⁴ And the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the leaders and all the congregation. ¹⁵ And the men who had been called by name rose and took the captives, and they clothed all the naked ones from the spoil; yea, they clothed them and shod them, and made them eat and drink, and anointed them, and led them out on asses, even every feeble one, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palms, near their brothers, and returned to Samaria. ¹⁶ At that time king Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him. ¹⁷ And again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and had seized a captivity. ¹⁸ And the Philistines had raided against the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and captured Beth-shemesh and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho and its daughter villages, and Timnah and its daughter villages, and Gimzo and its daughter villages, and dwelt there. ¹⁹ For Jehovah had humbled Judah because of Ahaz the king of Israel, for he loosed immorality in Judah, and dealt treacherously against Jehovah. ²⁰ And Tilgathpilneser the king of Assyria came against him and distressed him, but did not help him, ²¹ though Ahaz had taken a lot from the house of Jehovah and from the house of the king, and from the rulers, and had given to the king of Assyria; yet it was no help to him. ²² And in the time of his distress he added to act slyly against Jehovah, this king Ahaz; ²³ and he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus who had struck him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria are helping them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me. But they were to cause him and all Israel to stumble. ²⁴ And Ahaz gathered all the utensils of the house of God, and he cut up the utensils of the house of God and shut the doors of the house of Jehovah. And he made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem. ²⁵ And in every city, even the cities of Judah, he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and angered Jehovah the God of his fathers. ²⁶ And the rest of his acts, and all his ways, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. ²⁷ And Ahaz lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, but did not bring him to the graves of the kings of Israel. and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

¹ Hezekiah was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty nine years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. ² And he did the right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father David did. ³ In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Jehovah and repaired them. ⁴ And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and he gathered them to the plaza on the east. ⁵ And he said to them, Hear me, O Levites, now consecrate yourselves. And consecrate the house of Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and bring out the uncleanness from the holy place. ⁶ For our fathers have acted slyly and did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah our God, and they have forsaken Him and turned their faces away from the temple of Jehovah, and have given their backs. ⁷ And they have shut the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and they have not burned incense, and have not offered burnt offering in the sanctuary to the God of Israel. ⁸ And the wrath of Jehovah is on Judah and Jerusalem, and He has given them for a trembling, for a horror, and for hissing, as you see with your eyes. ⁹ For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in exile for this. ¹⁰ Now it is in my heart to cut a covenant with Jehovah, the God of Israel, and the glow of His anger shall turn back from us. ¹¹ Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for Jehovah has chosen you to stand before His face, to serve Him and to be ministers and incense burners for Him. ¹² And the Levites rose up: Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah; ¹³ and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah; ¹⁴ and of the sons of Heman, Jehiel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. ¹⁵ And they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and came in, according to the commandment of the king in the matters of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah. ¹⁶ And the priests went into the inner part of the house of Jehovah to clean, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Jehovah to the court of the house of Jehovah; and the Levites received and took it out to the torrent Kidron outside. ¹⁷ And they began to sanctify on the first of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of Jehovah; and they sanctified the house of Jehovah in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they had finished. ¹⁸ And they came inside to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of Jehovah, and the altar of the burnt offering, and all its vessels, and the table of the Bread of Arrangement, and all its utensils; ¹⁹ and all the utensils that king Ahaz cast aside in his reign, in his treachery, we have prepared and sanctified; and behold, they are before the altar of Jehovah. ²⁰ And Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the heads of the city, and went up to the house of Jehovah. ²¹ And they brought in seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven young he goats for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the holy place, and for Judah. And he commanded the sons of Aaron, the priests, to offer on the altar of Jehovah. ²² And they killed the oxen, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. And they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. And they killed the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar. ²³ And they brought the he goats of the sin offering before the king and the congregation, and they lay their hands on them; ²⁴ and the priests slaughtered them, and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to atone for all Israel; for the king said, The burnt offering and the sin offering are for all Israel. ²⁵ And he made stand the Levites in the house of Jehovah with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres, by the command of David, and of Gad, the seer of the king, and of Nathan the prophet; for the command was by the hand of Jehovah, by the hand of His prophets. ²⁶ And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. ²⁷ And Hezekiah commanded to offer burnt offering on the altar; and at the time the burnt offering began, the song of Jehovah began, and of the trumpets, even by the hand of the instruments of David the king of Israel. ²⁸ And all the congregation were bowing, and the singers singing, and the trumpeters blowing; all until the completion of the burnt offering. ²⁹ And at the completion of the offering the king and all those found with him bowed and worshiped. ³⁰ And Hezekiah the king and the leaders commanded the Levites to give praise to Jehovah in the words of David, and of Asaph the seer; and they praised with joy, and they bowed and worshiped. ³¹ And Hezekiah answered and said, Now you have consecrated your hand to Jehovah; come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of Jehovah. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and every willing hearted one brought burnt offerings. ³² And the number of the burnt offerings that the congregation brought was seventy oxen, a hundred rams, two hundred lambs; all these for a burnt offering to Jehovah.

¹ And it happened in the days of Ahaz: the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but were not able to do battle against it. ² And the house of David was told, saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim, and his heart and the heart of his people shook, as the trees of the forest shake from the wind. ³ And Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shearjashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, to the highway of the Fuller's Field. ⁴ And say to him, Be on guard and be calm. Do not fear nor be timid of heart because of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. ⁵ Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying, ⁶ Let us go up against Judah and make her to dread, and break her for ourselves, and set a king in her midst, the son of Tabeal. ⁷ So says the Lord Jehovah, It shall not rise, nor shall it happen. ⁸ For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty five years Ephraim shall be broken from being a people. ⁹ And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you will not be established. ¹⁰ And Jehovah spoke again to Ahaz:, saying, ¹¹ Ask a sign from Jehovah your God; make deep the request, or make it high above. ¹² But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I tempt Jehovah. ¹³ And He said, Hear now, O house of David, is it too little that you weary men, but will you also weary my God?

¹ And it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. ² And the king of Assyria sent the chief of the cupbearers from Lachish to Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the Fuller's Field. ³ And Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Asaph's son Joah, the recorder, came out to him. ⁴ And the chief of the cupbearers said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, The great king says this, the king of Assyria, What trust is this in which you trust? ⁵ I say, Are only words of the lips counsel and strength for war? Now, in whom have you trusted that you rebelled against me? ⁶ Behold, you trust on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it goes into his palm and pierces it; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. ⁷ But if you say to me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is it not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed? And He said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar. ⁸ Now, then, please exchange pledges with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to set riders on them for you. ⁹ How then will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariotry and horsemen? 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. ¹¹ And Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the chief of the cupbearers, Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we hear. But do not speak to us in Judean, in the ears of the people on the wall. ¹² But the chief of the cupbearers said, Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words? Is it not on the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink the water of their feet with you? ¹³ And the chief of the cupbearers stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean, and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. ¹⁴ So says the king, Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to save you. ¹⁵ And let not Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely save us; this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. ¹⁶ Do not listen to Hezekiah. For the king of Assyria says this, Make peace with me and come out to me. Then let each eat of his own vine, and each of his own fig tree, and each drink the waters of his own well, ¹⁷ until I come and take you to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. ¹⁸ Let not Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Have the gods of he nations delivered a man of his land from the king of Assyria's hand? ¹⁹ Where are the gods of Hamath, and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? ²⁰ Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah should keep Jerusalem out of ny hand? ²¹ But they were silent, and did not answer him a word; for this was the king's order, saying, Do not answer him. ²² And Eliakim, Hilkiah's son who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Asaph's son Joah, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their garments torn. And they reported to him the words of the chief of cupbearers.

² And he cried against the altar, by the word of Jehovah, and said, Altar! Altar! So says Jehovah, Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, his name Josiah, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you, and they shall burn the bones of man on you.

²¹ And Hezekiah lay with his fathers. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.

²¹ and walked in all the way that his father walked, and served the idols that his father served, and bowed himself to them. ²² And he forsook Jehovah, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Jehovah. ²³ And the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house. ²⁴ And the people of the land killed all those who conspired against king Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place. ²⁵ And the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah? ²⁶ And they buried him in his grave in the garden of Uzza. And his son Josiah reigned in his place.

²¹ And the king commanded all the people, saying, Prepare a Passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant. ²² Surely none has been prepared like this Passover from the days of the Judges who judged Israel even to all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Judah; ²³ but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, this Passover was prepared to Jehovah in Jerusalem. ²⁴ And also the mediums and the soothsayers and the family gods, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away in order to fulfill the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of Jehovah. ²⁵ And there was no king before him like him, who turned to Jehovah with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and after him none rose up like him. ²⁶ However, Jehovah did not turn away from the fury of His great anger with which His anger glowed against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. ²⁷ And Jehovah said, I will also turn away Judah from My face, as I turned away Israel, and I will reject this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I have said, My name shall be there. ²⁸ And the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah? ²⁹ In his days Pharaoh-necho the king of Egypt came up against the king of Assyria by the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went out to meet him, and he killed him in Megiddo, when he saw him. ³⁰ And his servants made him ride dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his own grave. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.

³ Only, at the mouth of Jehovah, this came upon Judah, to remove them from His presence for the sins of Manasseh, according to all he did, ⁴ and also the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

¹³ Ahaz his son; Hezekiah his son; Manasseh his son; ¹⁴ Amon his son; Josiah his son. ¹⁵ And the sons of Josiah were the first-born Johanan; the second, Jehoiakim; the third, Zedekiah; the fourth, Shallum.

³³ And Hezekiah lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the uppermost of the graves of the sons of David; and all Judah and the people of Jerusalem honored him at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.

² to whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. ³ It also came in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

³¹ Jehoahaz was a son of twenty three years when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

¹¹ And the rest of the people, those left in the city, and those that had fallen away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners exiled.

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

¹ And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem. ² Jehoahaz was a son of twenty three years when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ³ And the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. ⁴ And the king of Egypt made his brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned about his name to Jehoiakim; and Necho took his brother Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt. ⁵ Jehoiakim was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah his God. ⁶ Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in bronze fetters to take him away to Babylon. ⁷ And Nebuchadnezzar brought some of the vessels of the house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple in Babylon. ⁸ And the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his evil deeds that he did, and that which was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.

¹⁰ And at the turn of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of the house of Jehovah, and made his kinsman Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

²⁰ And he removed to Babylon those who were left of the sword; and they were slaves to him and to his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia;

¹⁰ For go to the isles of Kittim and see, and send to Kedar, and carefully consider and see if there is any like this. ¹¹ Has a nation changed its gods, and they were not gods? But My people have changed their Glory without it having profit. ¹² Be amazed at this, O heavens, and be horrified; be completely desolated, declares Jehovah. ¹³ For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water. ¹⁴ Is Israel a servant? Or is he a servant of the house? Why has he become a prey? ¹⁵ The young lions roared against him; they gave their voice. And they made his land a waste; his cities are ruined, without inhabitant. ¹⁶ Also the sons of Noph and Tahpanhes have fed on your crown. ¹⁷ Have you not done this to yourself by your forsaking Jehovah your God when He led you by the way? ¹⁸ And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? ¹⁹ Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your apostasies shall reprove you. Know, then, and see that your forsaking Jehovah your God is evil and bitter; and My fear is not in you, declares the Lord Jehovah of hosts. ²⁰ For long ago you broke your yoke and tore up your bonds. And you said, I will not transgress, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a harlot. ²¹ Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me? ²² Though you wash yourself with potash, and multiply soap for yourself, your iniquity is stained before Me, declares the Lord Jehovah. ²³ How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after Baals? See your way in the valley; know what you have done! You are a swift camel crossing her ways; ²⁴ a wild ass used to the wilderness. In the passion of her desire she snuffs up the wind in her time. Who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her. ²⁵ Withhold your foot from being bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, It is hopeless! For I love strangers, and after them I will go. ²⁶ As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed. They, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets are ²⁷ saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You gave us birth. For they turned their back to Me, and not the face. But in the time of their evil, they will say, Arise, and save us! ²⁸ But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your evil; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.

²⁰ which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.

⁹ Then the rest of the people who remained in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to him, even the rest of the people who remained, Nebu-zaradan, the chief of the executioners, exiled to Babylon.

¹¹ And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah. And the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters and carried him to Babylon. And he put him in prison until the day of his death. ¹² And in the fifth month, in the tenth of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebu-chadnezzar of Babylon, Nebu-zaradan, the chief of the executioners, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem. ¹³ And he burned the house of Jehovah and the king's house. And he burned all the houses of Jerusalem with fire, and all the houses of the great ones. ¹⁴ And all the army of the Chaldeans with the chief of the executioners broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. ¹⁵ Then Nebu-zaradan, the chief of the executioners, exiled some of the poor of the people, and the rest of the people who remained in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

²⁸ This is the people whom Nebu-chadnezzar exiled: In the seventh year, three thousand and twenty three Jews; ²⁹ in the eighteenth year of Nebu-chadnezzar, eight hundred thirty souls from Jerusalem; ³⁰ in the twenty third year of Nebu-chadnezzar, Nebu-zaradan, the chief of the executioners, exiled seven hundred forty five souls of the Jews. All the souls were four thousand and six hundred.

² And the Lord gave Jehoiakim, king of Judah, into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. And he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

²⁷ And it happened in the thirty seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty seventh of the month, Evil-merodach the king of Babylon, in the year he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin the king of Judah out of the prison,

¹⁷ And the sons of Jeconiah were Assir, and Shealtiel his son,

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

² Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel in order to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

² Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build the house of God in Jerusalem. And with them were the prophets of God helping them.

¹ And these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

²⁴ As I live, says Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah were the signet on My right hand, yet I would tear you out of there!

²⁸ Is this man Coniah a despised, broken jar, or a vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they hurled, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they do not know?

¹ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah; and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying:

¹² Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Jehovah their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him. And the people feared before Jehovah.

¹⁴ And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,

² Now speak to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

²³ In that day, says Jehovah of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, My servant, the son of Shealtiel, says Jehovah, and will make you like a signet; for I have chosen you, declares Jehovah of hosts.

²⁷ the son of Joannas, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

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. ¹⁹ But her husband to be Joseph being just, and not willing to make her a public example, he purposed to put her away secretly. ²⁰ And as he was thinking about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord was seen by him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For that in her is fathered by the Holy Spirit. ²¹ And she will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins. ²² And all this happened so that might be fulfilled that spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, ²³ "Behold! The virgin will conceive in her womb and will bear a son, and they will call His name Emmanuel" (which translated is, God with us). Isa. 7:14 ²⁴ And being aroused from sleep, Joseph did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife, ²⁵ and did not know her until she bore her son, the First-born. And he called His name Jesus.

¹³ And they having departed, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph by a dream, saying, Rise up! Take the child and His mother with you, and flee into Egypt. And be there until I shall tell you. For Herod is about to look for the child in order to destroy Him.

¹⁷ Then they, having been assembled, Pilate said to them, Whom do you wish I may release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus called Christ?

²² Pilate said to them, What then should I do to Jesus called Christ? They all said to him, Let him be crucified.

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

²⁷ to a virgin who had been betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mariam.

³¹ And behold! You will conceive in your womb and bear a Son, and you will call His name Jesus. ³² This One will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. ³³ And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of His kingdom there will be no end. ³⁴ But Mariam said to the angel, How will this be since I do not know a man? ³⁵ And answering, the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and for this reason that Holy One being born of you will be called Son of God.

⁴ And Joseph also went from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and family of David, ⁵ to be registered with Mariam, she having been betrothed to him as wife, she being pregnant.

⁷ And she bore her son, the First-born. And she wrapped Him and laid Him in the manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

¹⁰ And the angel said to them, Do not fear. For, behold, I announce good news to you, a great joy, which will be to all people, ¹¹ because today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born to you in the city of David.

⁴⁸ And seeing Him, they were astounded. And His mother said to Him, Child, why did You do so to us? Behold, Your father and I were looking for You, greatly distressed.

²³ And Jesus Himself was beginning to be about thirty years old, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,

²² And all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words coming out of His mouth. And they said, Is this not the son of Joseph?

²⁵ The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming, the One called Christ. When that One comes, He will announce to us all things.

¹⁴ And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the leaders, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained except the poorest sort of the people of the land.

¹¹ and Josiah fathered Jehoiachin and his brothers, at the deportation of Babylon. ¹² And after the deportation of Babylon, Jehoiachin fathered Shealtiel, and Shealtiel fathered Zerubbabel,

² But hearing in the prison of the works of Christ, sending two of his disciples,

⁴¹ This one first found his own brother Simon and tells him, We have found the Messiah (which being translated is, the Christ).

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

⁴ Who gives a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

¹⁴ What is man that he should be clean? And he born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹ The Book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham:

²⁵ So has the Lord done to me in the days in which He looked on me to take away my reproach among men.

²⁷ to a virgin who had been betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mariam. ²⁸ And entering, the angel said to her, Hail, one having received grace! The Lord is with you. You are blessed among women! ²⁹ And seeing this, she was disturbed at his word, and considered what kind of greeting this might be. ³⁰ And the angel said to her, Do not fear, Mariam, for you have found favor from God. ³¹ And behold! You will conceive in your womb and bear a Son, and you will call His name Jesus. ³² This One will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. ³³ And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of His kingdom there will be no end. ³⁴ But Mariam said to the angel, How will this be since I do not know a man? ³⁵ And answering, the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and for this reason that Holy One being born of you will be called Son of God. ³⁶ And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth! She also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren; ³⁷ for nothing shall be impossible with God. ³⁸ And Mariam said, Behold, the slave of the Lord! May it be to me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.

⁴ But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, having come into being out of a woman, having come under Law, ⁵ that He might redeem the ones under law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

²⁶ For such a High Priest was fitting for us: holy, harmless, undefiled, and separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens;

⁵ For this reason, coming into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You prepared a body for Me.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah, a righteous man, had been perfected among his family. Noah walked with God.

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.

²⁰ And when a man lies with a woman with semen, and she is a slave-girl, betrothed to a man, and not truly redeemed, and freedom not having been given to her, there shall be an inquest; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

¹⁰ And a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, the adulterer and the adulteress are surely to be put to death.

²¹ then they shall bring out the girl to the door of her father's house. And the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die; for she has done folly in Israel, to commit fornication in her father's house. And you shall put away the evil from among you. ²² If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. And you shall put away the evil from Israel. ²³ If there is a girl that is a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her, ²⁴ then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city. And you shall stone them with stones so that they die, the girl because she did not cry out, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. And you shall put away the evil from among you.

¹ When a man has taken a wife and married her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found a thing of uncleanness in her, and he writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; ² and if she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife, ³ and the latter husband hates her, and writes her a bill of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house or if the latter husband who took her to be his wife dies; ⁴ her former husband who sent her away is not to take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled. For it is a hateful thing before Jehovah, and you shall not cause the land to sin which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance.

⁴ Light rises in the darkness to the upright; he is gracious and full of pity, and of righteousness. ⁵ Good is a man showing favor and lending; he will nourish his matters with equity.

²⁰ For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a holy and just man, and kept him safe. And hearing him, he did many things, and gladly heard from him.

⁴ And they said, Moses allowed "to write a bill of divorce, and to put away." Deut. 24:1

²⁵ And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. And this man was righteous and devout, eagerly expecting the Consolation of Israel. And the Holy Spirit was upon him.

⁴ they said to Him, Teacher, this woman was taken in the very act, committing adultery. ⁵ And in the Law, Moses commanded that such should be stoned. You, then, what do you say?

²² And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a just man and one fearing God, and being testified to by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear words from you.

¹¹ And the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, Jacob! And I said, Behold me.

³ And He said, I am God, the God of your fathers. Do not fear to go down into Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.

⁶ And He said, Now hear My words, If your prophet is of Jehovah, I shall make Myself known to him in an appearance; I will speak to him in a dream.

³ And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold now, you are barren and have not borne. But you shall conceive and bear a son.

⁸ Then Manoah prayed to Jehovah, and said, O my Lord, the Man of God whom You sent, please let Him come again to us and direct us what we shall do to the boy being born. ⁹ And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the Angel of God came again to the woman. And she was sitting in a field; and her husband Manoah was not with her.

¹³ And Elijah said to her, Do not fear, go, do according to your word, only first make me a little cake of it, and bring to me and afterward prepare for you and for your son.

¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, ¹⁴ fear and trembling met me, and made my many bones dread. ¹⁵ Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up; ¹⁶ it stood still, but I could not discern its form; an image was before my eyes; there was silence; then I heard a voice:

¹⁵ In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men; while they slumber on the bed, ¹⁶ then He opens the ear of men and seals their instruction, ¹⁷ that He may turn man from his deed; that He might conceal pride from man.

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah; therefore He will teach sinners in the way. ⁹ He will guide the meek in justice; and He will teach the meek His way.

¹⁹ In the multitude of my inward thoughts, Your comforts delight my soul.

¹²⁵ I am Your servant; make me consider and I will know Your testimonies.

⁸ Cause me to hear Your mercy in the morning, for I do trust in You; cause me to know the way I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You.

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.

⁵ The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

² And the house of David was told, saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim, and his heart and the heart of his people shook, as the trees of the forest shake from the wind.

¹³ And He said, Hear now, O house of David, is it too little that you weary men, but will you also weary my God?

³ You will keep in perfect peace the mind stayed on You, for he trusts in You.

²¹ And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, this is the way, walk in it, when you go right, or when you go left.

⁷ Hear Me, knowers of righteousness, the people of My law in their heart; do not fear the reproach of man, and do not be bowed from their blasphemings.

²² Until when will you turn to and fro, O faithless daughter? For Jehovah has created a new thing in the land: a woman shall enclose a man.

⁹ And Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, saying, Do not fear to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

²⁸ And it shall be afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

¹⁹ But Herod having expired, behold, an angel of the Lord appears to Joseph by a dream in Egypt,

²² But hearing that Archelaus reigned over Judea in place of his father Herod, he feared to go there. And being warned by a dream, he departed into the parts of Galilee.

⁵ But answering, the angel said to the women, You must not fear, for I know that you seek Jesus who has been crucified.

¹⁰ And all the multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense. ¹¹ And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right of the altar of incense. ¹² And seeing this, Zacharias was troubled, and fear fell on him. ¹³ But the angel said to him, Do not fear, Zacharias, because your prayer was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear a son to you, and you shall call his name John.

¹⁹ And answering, the angel said to him, I am Gabriel, who stands before God, and I was sent to speak to you and to announce to you the good news of these things.

²⁶ And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,

⁴ And Joseph also went from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and family of David,

⁸ And shepherds were in the same country living in the fields and keeping guard over their flock by night. ⁹ And, behold, an angel of the Lord came on them. And the glory of the Lord shone around them. And they feared with a great fear. ¹⁰ And the angel said to them, Do not fear. For, behold, I announce good news to you, a great joy, which will be to all people, ¹¹ because today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born to you in the city of David. ¹² And this is a sign to you: You will find a babe having been wrapped, lying in the manger. ¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, ¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will among men.

¹⁹ And God said, Your wife Sarah truly shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I have established My covenant with him for a perpetual covenant with his seed after him.

²¹ And I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.

¹⁰ And He said, I will certainly return to you at the time of life; and, Behold! A son shall be to your wife Sarah. And Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, and it was behind Him.

¹⁶ And he said, At this season, according to the time of life you shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your handmaid. ¹⁷ And the woman conceived and bore a son, at this season, according to the time of life that Elisha spoke of to her.

⁷ Let Israel hope to Jehovah, for with Jehovah is mercy, and with Him is abundant redemption; ⁸ and He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

¹ And in that day you shall say, O Jehovah, I will thank You. Though You were angry with me, turn away Your anger and You shall comfort me. ² Behold, God is my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid, for my strength and song is Jah Jehovah; yea, He has become my salvation.

²¹ Declare and bring near; yea, let them consult together. Who has revealed this of old; who has told it from then? Is it not I, Jehovah? And there is no God other than Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none except Me. ²² Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

⁶ In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is His name by which He shall be called, Jehovah our Righteousness.

¹⁶ In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell in safety. And this is the name that shall be called on her: JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

²⁵ Then I will sprinkle clean waters on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your defilement and from all your idols. ²⁶ And I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments and do them . ²⁸ And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be a people to Me, and I will be God to you. ²⁹ I will also save you from all your defilements, and I will call for grain and increase it, and I will not put a famine on you.

²⁴ Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people, and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous and victorious, lowly, and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the son of an ass.

¹³ But the angel said to him, Do not fear, Zacharias, because your prayer was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear a son to you, and you shall call his name John.

³¹ And behold! You will conceive in your womb and bear a Son, and you will call His name Jesus.

³⁵ And answering, the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and for this reason that Holy One being born of you will be called Son of God. ³⁶ And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth! She also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;

¹¹ because today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born to you in the city of David.

²¹ And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child His name was called Jesus, the name called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

²⁹ On the morrow, John sees Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold! The Lamb of God, taking away the sin of the world!

²⁶ Having raised up His child Jesus, God sent Him first to you, blessing you in turning away each one from your iniquities.

¹² and there is salvation in no other One, for neither is there any other name under Heaven having been given among men by which we must be saved.

³¹ This One God has exalted as a Ruler and Savior to His right hand, to give to Israel repentance and remission of sins.

²³ Of the seed of this one, according to promise, God raised up to Israel a Savior, Jesus;

³⁸ Then let it be known to you, men, brothers, that through this One remission of sin is announced to you. ³⁹ And everyone believing in this One is justified from all things which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up on its behalf, ²⁶ that He might sanctify it, cleansing it by the washing of the water in the Word, ²⁷ that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such things, but that it be holy and without blemish.

²⁰ and through Him making peace by the blood of His cross, to reconcile all things to Himself; through Him, whether the things on the earth, or the things in the heavens. ²¹ And you then being alienated and enemies in your mind by evil works, yet now He reconciled ²² in the body of His flesh, through death, to present you holy and without blemish and without charge before Him, ²³ if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled and not being moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

¹⁴ who gave Himself on our behalf, "that He might redeem us from all iniquity" "and purify" "a people" "for His own possession," zealous of good works. Psa. 130:8; Eze. 37:23; Deut. 14:2

²⁵ From this also He is able to save to perfection those who come to God through Him, ever living to intercede on their behalf.

⁷ But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of His Son Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.

¹ My little children, I write these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. ² And He is the propitiation relating to our sins, and not relating to ours only, but also relating to all the world.

⁵ And you know that He was revealed that He might take away our sins, and sin is not in Him.

⁵ even from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the First-born out of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him loving us and washing us from our sins by His blood, ⁶ and made us kings and priests to God, even His Father. To Him is the glory and the might forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁴ And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation; and they washed their robes and whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁵ And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of Israel, who spoke by His mouth with my father David, and by his hand has fulfilled it, saying,

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

¹ And in the first year of Cyrus King of Persia, so that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he made a proclamation in all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,

¹⁵ And he was there until the end of Herod, that might be fulfilled that spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I have called My Son." Hos. 11:1

²³ And coming, he lived in a city called Nazareth, so as to fulfill that spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. No OT passage

¹⁷ Do not think that I came to annul the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to annul, but to fulfill.

¹⁷ so that it might be fulfilled that spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "He took upon Himself our weaknesses, and bore our sicknesses." Isa. 53:4

¹⁷ So that might be fulfilled that spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

²¹ but has no root in himself, but is temporary, and tribulation, or persecution occurring because of the Word, he is at once offended.

³⁵ so that was fulfilled that spoken through the prophet, saying: "I will open My mouth in parables; I will say things hidden from the foundation of the world." Psa. 78:2

²² For these are days of vengeance when all things that have been written are to be fulfilled.

⁴⁴ And He said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you yet being with you, that must be fulfilled all the things having been written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, concerning Me.

³⁵ If He called those gods with whom the Word of God was, and the Scripture cannot be broken,

³⁸ so that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, "Lord, who has believed our report? And the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed?" Isa. 53:1 ³⁹ Because of this they could not believe, because Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes" and "has hardened their heart," "that they might not see with the eyes" and "understand with the heart," "and be converted," "and I should heal them." Isa. 6:10

²⁵ But that may be fulfilled the Word that has been written in their Law, "They hated Me without a cause." Psa. 69:4

¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name; I guarded those whom You gave to Me, and not one of them was lost, except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

⁹ (that the Word might be fulfilled which He said, " Of those whom You gave to Me, I lost not one of them)."

³⁶ For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "Not a bone of Him shall be broken." Ex. 12:46; Psa. 34:20 ³⁷ And again, a different Scripture says, "They shall look at Him whom they have pierced." Zech. 12:10

¹⁸ But what things God before announced through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He fulfilled in this manner.

²⁷ For those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known this One, and the voices of the prophets being read throughout every sabbath, condemning Him, they fulfilled the Scriptures . ²⁸ And finding not one cause of death, they asked Pilate to do away with Him. ²⁹ And when they finished all the things having been written concerning Him, taking Him down from the tree, they laid Him in a tomb.

¹⁷ For God gave into their hearts to do His mind, and to act in one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

⁷ Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is a refuge for us. Selah.

¹¹ Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is a refuge for us. Selah.

¹⁴ So, The Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold! The virgin will conceive and will bring forth a son; and she shall call His name Immanuel.

⁸ And he shall pass through Judah. He shall overflow and go over. He shall reach to the neck; and his wings will be stretching out, filling the breadth of your land, O Immanuel. ⁹ O peoples, suffer evil, and be broken! And listen, all from the far places of the earth; gird yourselves, and be broken. Gird yourselves and be broken! ¹⁰ Counsel a counsel, and it is frustrated; speak a word, and it shall not rise; for God is with us.

² Behold, God is my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid, for my strength and song is Jah Jehovah; yea, He has become my salvation.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you all the days until the completion of the age. Amen.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, glory as of an only begotten from the Father, full of grace and of truth.

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul through a vision in the night, Do not fear, but speak, and do not keep silence;

³ concerning His Son who came of the seed of David according to flesh, ⁴ who was marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;

¹⁹ whereas God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not charging their trespasses to them, and putting the word of reconciliation in us.

¹⁶ And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in flesh, was justified in Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood with me and gave me power, that through me the preaching might be fulfilled, and all the nations might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

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

²² And Noah did so, according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

⁵ And Noah did according to all that Jehovah commanded him.

² And He said, Now take your son, Isaac, your only one whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. And there offer him for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will say to you. ³ And Abraham started up early in the morning and saddled his ass, and he took two of his youths with him, and his son Isaac. And he split wood for a burnt offering, and rose up and went to the place which God had said to him.

¹⁶ And Moses did so, according to all Jehovah commanded him; so he did.

¹⁹ And he spread out the tent over the tabernacle. And he put the cover of the tent over it from above, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

²⁵ And he set up the lamps before Jehovah, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

²⁷ And he burned on it incense of fragrant spices, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

³² As they came into the tabernacle of the congregation, and as they drew near to the altar, they would wash, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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. ¹³ And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had spoken a great thing to you would you not do it ? How much rather then when he says to you, Wash, and be clean? ¹⁴ And he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God. And his flesh returned like the flesh of a little boy, and he was clean.

⁵ His mother said to the servants, Whatever He says to you, do. ⁶ And there were six stone waterpots standing, according to the purification of the Jews, each containing two or three measures. ⁷ Jesus said to them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them to the top. ⁸ And He said to them, Now draw out and carry to the master of the feast. And they carried it.

¹⁴ You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

⁷ Being warned by God about the things not yet having been seen, moved with fear, by faith Noah prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness according to faith. ⁸ Having been called out by faith, Abraham obeyed to go forth to a place which he was going to receive for an inheritance; and he went out not understanding where he went.

²⁴ Having become great, Moses by faith refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ having chosen rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than for a time to have enjoyment of sin; ²⁶ having counted the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king; for he kept on as seeing the Invisible One . ²⁸ By faith he made the Passover, and the sprinkling of blood, that the destroyer of the first-born might not touch them. ²⁹ By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as through dry land; by which attempt the Egyptians taking, they were swallowed up. ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, having been circled during seven days. ³¹ By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those disobeying, having received the spies with peace.

²¹ Was not our father Abraham justified by works offering up his son Isaac on the altar? Gen. 22:9 ²² You see that faith worked with his works; and out of the works the faith was made perfected. ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled, saying, "And Abraham believed God, and it was counted for righteousness to him;" and he was called, Friend of God. Gen. 15:6; Isa. 41:8 ²⁴ You see, then, that a man is justified out of works, and not out of faith only. ²⁵ But in the same way Rahab the harlot was also justified out of works, having received the messengers, and sending them out by another way. ²⁶ For as the body is dead apart from the spirit, so also faith is dead apart from works.

² Set apart to Me every first-born, the one Opening the womb among the sons of Israel, among men and among livestock; they shall be Mine.

²⁹ You shall not delay giving your harvest and your vintage. You shall give to Me the first born of your sons.

²¹ And she will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.

²⁹ because whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.