Proverbs 16 Cross References - LXX2012

² All the works of the humble [man] are manifest with God; but the ungodly shall perish in an evil day. ⁵ Every one that is proud in heart is unclean before God, and he that unjustly strikes hands with hand shall not be held guiltless. The beginning of a good way is to do justly; and it is more acceptable with God than to offer sacrifices. He that seeks the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness: and they that rightly seek him shall find peace. All of the works of the Lord [are done] with righteousness; and the ungodly [man] is kept for the evil day. ¹⁰ [There is] an oracle upon the lips of a king; and his mouth shall not err in judgment. ¹¹ The poise of the balance is righteousness with the Lord; and his works are righteous measures. ¹² An evil-doer is an abomination to a king; for the throne of rule is established by righteousness. ¹³ Righteous lips are acceptable to a king; and he loves right words. ¹⁴ The anger of a king is a messenger of death; but a wise man will pacify him. ¹⁵ The son of a king is in the light of life; and they that are in favor with him are as a cloud of latter rain. ¹⁶ The brood of wisdom is more to be chosen than gold, and the brood of prudence more to be chosen than silver. ¹⁷ The paths of life turn aside from evil; and the ways of righteousness are length of life. He that receives instruction shall be in prosperity; and he that regards reproofs shall be made wise. He that keeps his ways, preserves his own soul; and he that loves his life will spare his mouth. ¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction, and folly before a fall. ¹⁹ Better is a meek-spirited [man] with lowliness, than one who divides spoils with the proud. ²⁰ [He who is] skillful in business finds good: but he that trusts in God is most blessed. ²¹ [Men] call the wise and understanding evil: but they that are pleasing in speech shall hear more. ²² Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessors; but the instruction of fools is evil. ²³ The heart of the wise will discern the [things which proceed] from his own mouth; and on his lips he will wear knowledge. ²⁴ Good words are honeycombs, and the sweetness thereof is a healing of the soul. ²⁵ There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of hell. ²⁶ A man who labors, labors for himself, and drives from [him] his own ruin. ²⁷ But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips. ²⁸ A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends. ²⁹ A transgressor tries [to ensnare] friends, and leads them in ways [that are] not good. ³⁰ And the man that fixes his eyes devises perverse things, and marks out with his lips all evil: he is a furnace of wickedness. ³¹ Old age is a crown of honor, but it is found in the ways of righteousness. ³² A man slow to anger is better than a strong [man]; and he that governs [his] temper better than he that takes a city. ³³ All [evils] come upon the ungodly into [their] bosoms; but all righteous things [come] of the Lord.

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Who has given a mouth to man, and who has made the very hard of hearing, and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? have not I, God? ¹² And now go and I will open your mouth, and will instruct you in what you shall say.

¹⁵ And you shall speak to him; and you shall put my words into his mouth, and I will open your mouth and his mouth, and I will instruct you in what you⌃ shall do.

³¹ And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel: and they compassed him about to fight against him: and Josaphat cried out, and the Lord delivered him; and God turned them away from him.

²⁷ Blessed [be] the Lord God of our fathers, who has put it thus into the heart of the king, to glorify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;

¹¹ [Turn] not [away], I pray you, O Lord, but let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who desire to fear your name: and prosper, I pray you, your servant this day, and cause him to find mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was the king's cupbearer.

²¹ [There are] many thoughts in a man's heart; but the counsel of the Lord abides for ever.

²⁴ A man's goings are directed of the Lord: how then can a mortal understand his ways?

¹ As a rush of water, so is the king's heart in God's hand: he turns it wherever he may desire to point out.

⁷ And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child: for you shall go to all to whoever I shall send you, and according to all [the words] that I shall command you, you shall speak. ⁸ Be not afraid before them: for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord. ⁹ And the Lord stretched forth his hand to me, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put my words into your mouth.

²³ I know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.

²⁶ And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in mine ordinances, and to keep my judgments, and do [them].

¹³ And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed [are] you of the Lord: I have performed all that the Lord said. ¹⁴ And Samuel said, What then [is] the bleating of this flock in my ears, and the sound of the oxen which I hear?

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance, nor on his stature, for I have rejected him; for God sees not as man looks; for man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.

² For they shall soon be withered as the grass, and shall soon fall away as the green herbs.

²¹ For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.

²⁵ There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of hell.

² Every man seems to himself righteous; but the Lord directs the hearts.

¹² But if you should say, I know not this man; know that the Lord knows the hearts of all; and he that formed breath for all, he knows all things, who renders to every man according to his works.

¹² A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.

⁷ The way of the godly is made straight: the way of the godly is also prepared.

²² Though you should wash yourself with nitre, and multiply to yourself soap, [still] you are stained by your iniquities before me, says the Lord. ²³ How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold your ways in the burial-ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening:

¹⁰ I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.

²⁷ Thekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found lacking.

⁸ Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

²⁸ And he shall establish to you again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon your paths.

⁴ For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden. ⁵ My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

⁶ In all your ways acquaint yourself with her, that she may rightly direct your paths.

⁵ And [as for] the son of Aram, and the son of Romelias, forasmuch as they have devised an evil counsel, [saying], ⁶ We will go up against Judea, and having conferred with them we will turn them away to our side, and we will make the son of Tabeel king of it; ⁷ thus says the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass.

³⁰ For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.

⁷ [even] all who are called by my name: for I have prepared him for my glory, and I have formed him, and have made him:

²¹ my people whom I have preserved to tell forth my praises.

⁷ You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord your God will not acquit him that takes his name in vain.

¹² He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.

¹⁶ For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul. ¹⁷ The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;

¹³ The fear of the Lord hates unrighteousness, and insolence, and pride, and the ways of wicked men; and I hate the perverse ways of bad men.

²¹ He that unjustly strikes hands shall not be unpunished: but he that sows righteousness he shall receive a faithful reward.

¹¹ Woe to the transgressor! evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

¹¹ And Abraam said, Why I said, Surely there is not the worship of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

⁹ And I said, The thing which you⌃ do [is] not good; you⌃ will not so walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the Gentiles our enemies.

¹⁵ But as for the former acts of extortion wherein [those who were] before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty didrachmas for bread and wine; and the [very] outcasts of them exercised authority over the people: but I did not so, because of the fear of God.

¹ There was a certain man in the land of Ausis, whose name [was] Job; and than man was true, blameless, righteous, [and] godly, abstaining from everything evil. ² And he had seven sons and three daughters. ³ And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was [most] noble of the [men] of the east. ⁴ And his sons visiting one another prepared a banquet every day, taking with them also their three sisters to eat and drink with them. ⁵ And when the days of the banquet were completed, Job sent and purified them, having risen up in the morning, and offered sacrifices for them, according to their number, and one calf for a sin-offering for their souls: for Job said, Lest perhaps my sons have thought evil in their minds against God. Thus, then Job did continually. ⁶ And it came to pass on a day, that behold, the angels of God came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came with them. ⁷ And the Lord said to the devil, Whence are you come? And the devil answered the Lord, and said, I am come from compassing the earth, and walking up and down in the world. ⁸ And the Lord said to him, Hast you diligently considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a man blameless, true, godly, abstaining from everything evil?

²⁸ And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

¹⁰ For you are great, and do wonders: you are the only [and] the great God.

¹⁶ A wise man fears, and departs from evil; but the fool trusts in himself, and joins himself with the transgressor.

²⁷ The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; and it causes [men] to turn aside from the snare of death.

²⁸ Mercy and truth are a guard to a king, and will surround his throne with righteousness.

²⁷ the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy. ¹⁹ He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, [even] all our sins. ²⁰ He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraam, as you sware to our fathers, according to the former days.

⁴¹ And Esau was angry with Jacob because of the blessing, with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his mind, Let the days of my father's mourning draw near, that I may kill my brother Jacob.

⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and behold! he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him. ⁷ And Jacob was greatly terrified, and was perplexed; and he divided the people that was with him, and the cows, and the camels, and the sheep, into two camps.

²⁸ And he said to him, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name; for you have prevailed with God, and shall be mighty with men.

⁴ And Esau ran on to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they both wept.

¹⁰ And a terror of the Lord was upon all the kingdoms of the land round about Juda, and they made no war against Josaphat.

¹¹ Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before you in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for [their] good against the enemy.

¹⁶ For I said, Lest mine enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me.

¹⁶ Better is a small portion with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without the fear [of the Lord].

⁶ He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue pursues vanity [on] to the snares of death. ⁷ Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; for they refuse to do justly.

¹¹ The partridge utters her voice, she gathers [eggs] which she did not lay; [so is a man] gaining his wealth unjustly; in the midst of his days [his riches] shall leave him, and at his latter end he will be a fool.

¹⁰ [Is there] not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and [that] with the pride of unrighteousness?

³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly.

¹⁰ telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:

⁵ Why have you⌃ stolen my silver cup? is it not this out of which my lord drinks? and he divines augury with it; you⌃ have accomplished evil in that which you⌃ have done.

¹⁵ And Joseph said to them, What is this thing that you⌃ have done? know you⌃ not that a man such as I can surely divine?

¹⁸ And when he shall be established in his government, then shall he write for himself this repetition of the law into a book by the hands of the priests the Levites; ¹⁹ and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord your God, and to keep all these commandments, and to observe these ordinances: ²⁰ that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, that he depart not from the commandments on the right hand or on the left; that he and his sons may reign long in his dominion among the children of Israel.

³ The God of Israel says, A watchman out of Israel spoke to me a parable: I said among men, How will you⌃ strengthen the fear of the anointed? ⁴ And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, from the light of which the Lord passed on, and as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.

²⁸ and all Israel heard this judgment which the king judged, and they feared before the king; because they saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to execute judgment.

⁶ The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered: he uttered his voice, the earth shook. ⁷ The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper. Pause.

¹ (73) A Psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart! ² But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped. ³ For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners. ⁴ For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and [they have] firmness under their affliction.

⁴ Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with hymns; give thanks to him, praise his name.

¹² An evil-doer is an abomination to a king; for the throne of rule is established by righteousness. ¹³ Righteous lips are acceptable to a king; and he loves right words.

¹ For, behold, a righteous king shall reign, and princes shall govern with judgment. ² And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Sion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.

⁵ Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and understand, and shall execute judgment and righteousness on the earth. ⁶ In his days both Juda shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely: and this is his name, which the Lord shall call him, Josedec among the prophets.

⁴ and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions [as his] words? he will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.

⁷ [It is he] that executes judgment in the height [above], and he has established justice on the earth:

¹² For, behold, the Lord commands, and he will strike the great house with breaches, and the little house with rents.

³⁵ You⌃ shall not act unrighteously in judgment, in measures and weights and scales. ³⁶ There shall be among you just balances and just weights and just liquid measure. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

¹³ You shall not have in your bag various weights, a great and a small. ¹⁴ You shall not have in your house various measures, a great and a small. ¹⁵ You shall have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that you may live long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.

¹ False balances are an abomination before the Lord: but a just weight is acceptable to him.

¹⁰ A large and small weight, and various measures, are even both of them unclean before the Lord; and [so is] he that makes them.

²³ A double weight is an abomination to the Lord; and a deceitful balance is not good in his sight.

¹⁰ You⌃ shall have a just balance, and a just measure, and a just choenix for measure.

⁷ [As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.

⁵ saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?

¹¹ Shall the wicked be justified by the balanced, or deceitful weights in the bag,

¹⁶ For every one that does this [is] an abomination to the Lord your God, even every one that does injustice.

⁵ Slay the ungodly from before the king, and his throne shall prosper in righteousness.

⁹ He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even he has made his prayer abominable.

¹⁴ When a king judges the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for a testimony.

⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh. ⁶ I have become like a pelican of the wilderness; ⁷ I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.

³⁵ An understanding servant is acceptable to a king; and by his good behavior he removes disgrace.

¹¹ The Lord loves holy hearts, and all blameless persons are acceptable with him: a king rules with his lips.

³¹ And he said, God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisaie shall stand upon him this day. ³² And Elisaie was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and [the king] sent a man before him: before the messenger came to him, he also said to the elders, Do you⌃ see that this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? See, as soon as the messenger shall have come, shut the door, and forcibly detain him at the door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him? ³³ While he was yet speaking with them, behold, a messenger came to him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?

¹¹ Every bad man stirs up strifes: but the Lord will send out against him an unmerciful messenger.

¹² The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but as dew on the grass, so is his favor.

² The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; and he that provokes him sins against his own soul.

⁴ If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, leave not your place; for soothing will put an end to great offenses.

¹³ Then Nabuchodonosor in wrath and anger commanded to bring Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago: and they were brought before the king. ¹⁴ And Nabuchodonosor answered and said to them, Is it true, Sedrach, Misach, [and] Abdenago, that you⌃ serve not my gods, and worship not the golden image which I have set up? ¹⁵ Now then if you⌃ be ready, whenever you⌃ shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and lute, and harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made; [well]: but if you⌃ worship not, in the same hour you⌃ shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand? ¹⁶ Then answered Sedrach, Misach [and] Abdenago and said to king Nabuchodonosor, We have no need to answer you concerning this matter. ¹⁷ For our God whom we serve is in the heavens, able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will rescue us from your hands, O king. ¹⁸ But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we [will] not serve your gods, nor worship the image which you have set up. ¹⁹ Then Nabuchodonosor was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed toward Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago: and he gave orders to heat the furnace seven times [more than usual], until it should burn to the uttermost. ²⁰ And he commanded mighty men to bind Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast [them] into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then those men were bound with their coats, and caps, and hose, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace, ²² forasmuch as the king's word prevailed; and the furnace was made exceeding hot. ²³ Then these three men, Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, fell bound into the midst of the burning furnace, and walked in the midst of the flame, singing praise to God, and blessing the Lord. ²⁴ And Nabuchodonosor heard them singing praises; and he wondered, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? and they said to the king, Yes, O king. ²⁵ And the king said, But I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and there has no harm happened to them; and the appearance of the fourth is like the Son of God.

²³ As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they [waited for] my speech. ²⁴ Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe [it]; and the light of my face has not failed.

⁶ Many say, Who will show us good things? the light of your countenance, O Lord, has been manifested towards us.

⁶ But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and scorn of the people.

⁵ Into your hands I will commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

⁶ Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

³ After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know [him]:

¹ Ask you⌃ of the Lord rain in season, the early and the latter: the Lord has given bright signs, and will give them abundant rain, to every one grass in the field.

¹³ A mortal has not known its way, neither indeed has it been discovered among men. ¹⁴ The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me. ¹⁵ One shall not give fine gold instead of it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it. ¹⁶ Neither shall it be compared with gold of Sophir, with the precious onyx and sapphire. ¹⁷ Gold and crystal shall not be equalled to it, neither shall vessels of gold be its exchange. ¹⁸ Coral and fine pearl shall not be mentioned: but do you esteem wisdom above the most precious things. ¹⁹ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equalled to it; it shall not be compared with pure gold. ²⁰ Whence then is wisdom found? and of what kind is the place of understanding? ²¹ It has escaped the notice of every man, and has been hidden from the birds of the sky. ²² Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it. ²³ God has well ordered the way of it, and he knows the place of it. ²⁴ For he surveys the whole [earth] under heaven, knowing the things in the earth: ²⁵ all that he has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water. ²⁶ When he made [them], thus he saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the thunder. ²⁷ Then he saw it, and declared it: he prepared it [and] traced it out. ²⁸ And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

¹⁵ And she is more valuable than precious stones: no evil thing shall resist her: she is well known to all that approach her, and no precious thing is equal to her in value. ¹⁶ For length of existence and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left hand are wealth and glory: out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue. ¹⁷ Her ways are good ways, and all her paths are peaceful. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all that lay hold upon her; and she is [a] secure [help] to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.

¹⁰ Receive instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than tried gold. ¹¹ For wisdom is better than precious stones; and no valuable substance is of equal worth with it.

¹⁹ [It is] better to have my fruit than [to have] gold and precious stones; and my produce is better than choice silver.

¹² Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and [there is] an advantage [by it] to them that see the sun.

²⁴ Remove from you a froward mouth, and put far away from you unjust lips. ²⁵ Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids assent [to] just [things]. ²⁶ Make straight paths for your feet, and order your ways aright. ²⁷ Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, but turn away your foot from an evil way: [for God knows the ways on the right hand, but those on the left are crooked:] and he will make your ways straight, and will guide your steps in peace.

⁹ He that walks simply, walks confidently; but he that perverts his ways shall be known.

¹⁶ He that keeps the commandment keeps his own soul; but he that despises his ways shall perish.

⁸ There shall be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and there shall not pass by there any unclean person, neither shall there be there an unclean way; but the dispersed shall walk on it, and they shall not go astray.

⁵ And when Aman understood that Mardochaeus did not obeisance to him, he was greatly enraged,

⁶ And the king said to Aman, What shall I do to the man whom I wish to honor? And Aman said within himself, Whom would the king honor but myself?

¹⁰ So Aman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mardochaeus: and then the king's wrath was appeased.

² Wherever pride enters, there will be also disgrace: but the mouth of the lowly meditates wisdom.

¹⁹ A lover of sin rejoices in strifes;

¹² Before ruin a man's heart is exalted, and before honor it is humble.

²³ Pride brings a man low, but the Lord upholds the humble-minded with honor.

¹¹ For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;

¹⁰ Thus shall you⌃ say to Ezekias king of Judea, Let not your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians. ¹¹ Hast you not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done, how they have destroyed the whole earth? and shall you be delivered? ¹² Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, both Gozan, and Charrhan, and Rapheth, which are in the land of Theemath? ¹³ Where are the kings of Emath? and where [is the king of] Arphath? and where [is the king] of the city of Eppharuaim, [and of] Anagugana?

³⁸ And while he was worshipping Nasarach his country's god in the house, Adramelech and Sarasar his sons struck him with swords; and they escaped into Armenia: and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.

³⁰ In the same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor: and he was driven forth from men, and he ate grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hairs were grown like lions' [hairs], and his nails as birds' [claws]. ³¹ And at the end of the time I Nabuchodonosor lifted up mine eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised him that lives for ever, and gave [him] glory; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [lasts] to all generations: ³² and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand his power, and say to him, What has you done? ³³ At the same time my reason returned to me, and I came to the honor of my kingdom; and my [natural] form returned to me, and my princes, and my nobles, sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and more abundant majesty was added to me. ³⁴ Now therefore I Nabuchodonosor praise and greatly exalt and glorify the King of heaven; for all his works are true, and his paths are judgment: and all that walk in pride he is able to abase.

²² And you accordingly, his son, O Baltasar, has not humbled your heart before God: know you not all this?

²⁴ Therefore from his presence has been sent forth the knuckle of a hand; and he has ordered the writing.

³ Behold, I have made you small among the Gentiles: you are greatly dishonored. The pride of your heart has elated you, dwelling [as you do] in the holes of the rocks, [as one that] exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground? ⁴ If you should mount up as the eagle, and if you should make your nest among the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the Lord.

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils; I will satisfy my soul, I will destroy with my sword, my hand shall have dominion.

¹⁸ I will give thanks to you even in a great congregation: in an abundant people I will praise you.

⁶ The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t [attain] to it.

³ The multitude of the people which you have brought down in your joy, they shall even rejoice before you as they that rejoice in harvest, and as they that divide the spoil.

⁶ I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.

¹³ For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of [my] understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength. ¹⁴ And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me. ¹⁵ Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it? or shall the saw lift up itself without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? but it shall not be so;

¹² Therefore he shall inherit many, and he shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because his soul was delivered to death: and he was numbered among the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and was delivered because of their iniquities.

¹⁵ Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high for ever, Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted:

³⁸ And Pharao said to all his servants, Shall we find such a man as this, who has the Spirit of God in him? ³⁹ And Pharao said to Joseph, Since God has showed you all these things, there is not a wiser or more prudent man than you. ⁴⁰ You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be obedient to your word; only in the throne will I excel you.

²⁰ and they prevailed against them: and the Agaraeans were given into their hands, [they] and all their tents: for they cried to God in the battle, and he listened to them, because they trusted on him.

¹² Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you⌃ should perish from the righteous way: whenever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in him.

⁸ Let a snare which they know not come upon them; and the gin which they hid take them; and let them fall into the very same snare.

¹ (126) A Song of Degrees. When the Lord turned the captivity of Sion, we became as comforted ones.

⁵ Great is our Lord, and great is his strength; and his understanding is infinite.

³⁵ For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and [in them] is prepared favor from the Lord.

¹⁵ Sound discretion gives favor, and to know the law is the part of a sound understanding: but the ways of scorners tend to destruction.

² A wise servant shall have rule over foolish masters, and shall divide portions among brethren.

⁸ He that procures wisdom loves himself; and he that keeps wisdom shall find good.

¹⁹ That your hope may be in the Lord, and he may make your way known to you. ²⁰ And do you too repeatedly record them for yourself on the table of your heart, for counsel and knowledge.

³ A house is built by wisdom, and is set up by understanding. ⁴ By discretion the chambers are filled with all precious and excellent wealth. ⁵ A wise man is better than a strong man; and a man who has prudence than a large estate.

³ supporting truth, and keeping peace: for on you, O Lord, ⁴ they have trusted with confidence for ever, the great, the eternal God;

¹⁸ And the Lord will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore be exalted that he may have mercy upon you: because the Lord your God is a judge: blessed are they that stay themselves upon him.

⁷ But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord shall be. ⁸ And he shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place: he shall not fear when heat comes, and there shall be upon him shady branches: he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit.

¹⁹ And the king spoke with them; and there were not found out of them all any like Daniel, and Ananias and Misael, and Azarias: and they stood before the king. ²⁰ And in every matter of wisdom and knowledge wherein the king questioned them, he found them ten times wiser than all the enchanters and sorcerers that were in all his kingdom. ²¹ And Daniel continued till the first year of king Cyrus.

²⁸ And king Nabuchodonosor answered and said, Blessed be the God of Sedrach, Misach, [and] Abdenago, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants, because they trusted in him; and they have changed the king's word, and delivered their bodies to be burnt, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

²³ Then the king was very glad for him, and he commanded to bring Daniel out of the den. So Daniel was brought out of the den, and there was found no hurt upon him, because he believed in his God.

¹² behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have given you an understanding and wise heart: there has not been [any one] like you before you, and after you there shall not arise one like you.

² Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas.

⁸ A wise man in heart will receive commandments; but he that is unguarded in his lips shall be overthrown in his perverseness.

⁷ The lips of the wise are bound by discretion: but the hearts of the foolish are not safe.

²³ The heart of the wise will discern the [things which proceed] from his own mouth; and on his lips he will wear knowledge. ²⁴ Good words are honeycombs, and the sweetness thereof is a healing of the soul.

¹⁵ Son, if your heart be wise, you shall also gladden my heart;

⁹ The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes: but the soul is broken by calamities.

¹⁰ The Preacher sought diligently to find out acceptable words, and a correct writing, [even] words of truth.

⁴ The Lord [even] God gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word: he has appointed for me early, he has given me an ear to hear:

¹¹ [There is] a fountain of life in the hand of a righteous man; but destruction shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.

¹⁴ The law of the wise is fountain of life: but the man void of understanding shall die by a snare.

² The tongue of the wise knows what is good: but the mouth of the foolish tells out evil things.

²⁸ The hearts of the righteous meditate faithfulness; but the mouth of the ungodly answers evil things. The ways of righteous men are acceptable with the Lord; and through them even enemies become friends.

⁴ A word in the heart of a man is a deep water, and a river and fountain of life spring forth.

¹ (46) For the end, for the sons of Core; a Psalm concerning secret things. God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.

¹⁷ Incline your ear to the words of wise men: hear also my word, and apply your heart, ¹⁸ that you may know that they are good: and if you lay them to heart, they shall also gladden you on your lips.

² Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.

⁸ Then shall there be health to your body, and good keeping to your bones.

²² For they are life to those that find them, and health to all [their] flesh.

¹⁸ Some wound as they speak, [like] swords; but the tongues of the wise heal.

²³ A bad man will by no means attend to counsel; neither will he say anything seasonable, or good for the common [weal].

²⁶ An unrighteous thought is abomination to the Lord; but the sayings of the pure are held in honor.

¹⁶ and your lips shall converse with my lips, if they be right.

¹³ [My] son, eat honey, for the honeycomb is good, that your throat may be sweetened. ¹⁴ Thus shall you perceive wisdom in your soul: for if you find it, your end shall be good, and hope shall not fail you.

¹¹ [As] a golden apple in a necklace of sardius, so [is it] to speak a [wise] word. ¹² In an ear-ring of gold a precious sardius is also set; [so is] a wise word to an obedient ear.

¹¹ Your lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is as the smell of Libanus.

¹⁶ consume them; and your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart: for your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.

¹⁵ The ways of fools are right in their own eyes; but a wise man hearkens to counsels.

²⁶ A just arbitrator shall be his own friend; but mischief shall pursue sinners; and the way of ungodly men shall lead them astray.

¹² There is a way which seems to be right with men, but the ends of it reach to the depths of hell.

¹⁵ Because you⌃ have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected: ¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord, Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious [stone], for its foundations; and he that believes [on him] shall by no means be ashamed. ¹⁷ And I will cause judgment [to be] for hope, and my compassion shall be for [just] measures, and you⌃ that trust vainly in falsehood [shall fall]: for the storm shall by no means pass by you, ¹⁸ except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, you⌃ shall be beaten down by it. ¹⁹ Whenever it shall pass by, it shall take you; morning by morning it shall pass by in the day, and in the night there shall be an evil hope. Learn to hear,

¹² Son, if you be wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a [land] appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.

²³ With every one [who is] careful there is abundance: but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in lack.

⁷ All the labor of a man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite shall not be satisfied.

¹⁷ And now do you consider, and see what you will do; for mischief is determined against our lord and against his house; and he [is] a vile character, and one can’t speak to him.

¹ And there was a transgressor [so] called there, and his name was Sabee, a Benjamite, the son of Bochori: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we [any] inheritance in the son of Jessae: to your tents, O Israel, every one.

¹⁴ And he sent forth [his] weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them. ¹⁵ And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of your wrath.

² God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God. ³ They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one. ⁴ Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear:

⁴ Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

¹² A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.

¹⁴ [His] perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.

¹⁸ Woe [to them] that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke:

¹³ Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.

¹ And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed. Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman, Therefore has God said, Eat not of every tree of the garden? ² And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, ³ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, You⌃ shall not eat of it, neither shall you⌃ touch it, lest you⌃ die. ⁴ And the serpent said to the woman, You⌃ shall not surely die. ⁵ For God knew that in whatever day you⌃ should eat of it your eyes would be opened, and you⌃ would be as gods, knowing good and evil. ⁶ And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate. ⁷ And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them. ⁸ And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the afternoon; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden. ⁹ And the Lord God called Adam and said to him, Adam, where are you? ¹⁰ And he said to him, I heard your voice as you walked in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself. ¹¹ And God said to him, Who told you that you were naked, unless you have eaten of the tree concerning which I charged you of it alone not to eat? ¹² And Adam said, The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave me of the tree and I ate. ¹³ And the Lord God said to the woman, Why have you done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.

⁹ And David rose up [and went] after him out of the cave: and David cried after Saul, saying, [My] lord, [O] king! and Saul looked behind him, and David bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance to him.

¹⁹ An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.

¹⁸ A passionate man stirs up strife; but [he that is] slow to anger appeases even a rising one. A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels; but an ungodly man rather stirs [them] up.

⁹ He that conceals injuries seeks love; but he that hates to hide [them] separates friends and kindred.

⁸ Fear casts down the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate shall hunger.

²⁰ With much wood fire increases; but where there is not a double-minded man, strife ceases. ²¹ A hearth for coals, and wood for fire; and railing man for the tumult of strife. ²² The words of cunning knaves are soft; but they strike [even] to the inmost parts of the bowels.

²² A furious man stirs up strife, and a passionate man digs up sin.

³³ Milk out milk, and there shall be butter, and if you wing [one's] nostrils there shall come out blood: so if you extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strifes.

¹¹ And it came to pass in that night, that Saul sent messengers to the house of David to watch him, in order to kill him in the morning; and Melchol David's wife told him, saying, Unless you save your life this night, to-morrow you shall be slain.

¹⁷ And Saul said to Melchol, Why have you thus deceived me, and suffered my enemy to depart, and he has escaped? and Melchol said to Saul, He said, let me go, and if not, I will kill you.

⁷ And Saul said to his servants that stood by him, Hear now, you⌃ sons of Benjamin, will the son of Jessae indeed give all of you fields and vineyards, and will he make you all captains of hundreds and captains of thousands? ⁸ That you⌃ are conspiring against me, and there is no one that informs me, whereas my son has made a covenant with the son of Jessae, and there is no one of you that is sorry for me, or informs me, that my son has stirred up my servant against me for an enemy, as [it is] this day? ⁹ And Doec the Syrian who was over the mules of Saul answered and said, I saw the son of Jessae as he came to Nomba to Abimelech son of Achitob the priest.

¹⁹ And the Ziphites came up out of the dry country to Saul to the hill, saying, Behold, is not David hidden with us in Messara, in the narrows in Caene in the hill of Echela, which is on the right of Jessaemon? ²⁰ And now [according to] all the king's desire to come down, let him come down to us; they have shut him up into the hands of the king. ²¹ And Saul said to them, Blessed [be] you⌃ of the Lord, for you⌃ have been grieved on my account.

¹³ and Tobias and Sanaballat had hired against me a multitude, that I might be frightened, and do this, and sin, and become to them an ill name, that they might reproach me.

¹⁰ [My] son, let not ungodly men lead you astray, neither consent you [to them]. ¹¹ If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth: ¹² and let us swallow him alive, as Hades [would], and remove the memorial of him from the earth: ¹³ let us seize on his valuable property, and let us fill our houses with spoils: ¹⁴ but do you cast in your lot with us, and let us all provide a common purse, and let us have one pouch:

¹² to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully. ¹³ Alas [for those] who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness; ¹⁴ who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness; ¹⁵ whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

³¹ Procure not the reproaches of bad men, neither do you covet their ways.

¹² A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good. ¹³ And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers. ¹⁴ [His] perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.

¹⁰ He that winks with his eyes deceitfully, procures griefs for men; but he that reproves boldly is a peacemaker.

²⁷ But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips.

¹⁰ For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

³ they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks [a reward], and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul:

⁷ And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharao; and Jacob blessed Pharao. ⁸ And Pharao said to Jacob, How many are the years of the days of your life? ⁹ And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned. ¹⁰ And Jacob blessed Pharao, and departed from him.

³² You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and shall fear your God: I am the Lord your God.

² And now, behold, the king goes before you; and I am grown old and shall rest; and, behold, my sons [are] among you; and, behold, I have gone about before you from my youth to this day. ³ Behold, [here am] I, answer against me before the Lord and before his anointed: whose calf have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom of you have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, even [to] a sandal? bear witness against me, and I will make restitution to you. ⁴ And they said to Samuel, You have not injured us, and you have not oppressed us; and you have not afflicted us, and you have not taken anything from any one's hand. ⁵ And Samuel said to the people, The Lord [is] witness among you, and his anointed [is] witness this day, that you⌃ have not found anything in my hand: and they said, [He is] witness.

¹⁰ And king David blessed the Lord before the congregation, saying, Blessed are you, O Lord God of Israel, our Father, from everlasting and to everlasting. ¹¹ Your, O Lord, [is] the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the might: for you are Lord of all things that are in heaven and upon the earth: before your face every king and nation is troubled. ¹² From you [come] wealth and glory: you, O Lord, rule over all, the Lord of all dominion, and in your hand [is] strength and rule; and [you are] almighty with your hand to increase and establish all things. ¹³ And now, Lord, we give thanks to you, and praise your glorious name. ¹⁴ But who am I, and what [is] my people, that we have been able to be thus forward [in offering] to you? for all things [are] your, and of your own have we given you, ¹⁵ for we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as all our fathers [were]: our days upon the earth [are] as a shadow, and there is no remaining. ¹⁶ O Lord our God, as for all this abundance which I have prepared that a house should be built to your holy name, it is of your hand, and all [is] your. ¹⁷ And I know, Lord, that you are he that searches the hearts, and you love righteousness. I have willingly offered all these things in simplicity of heart; and now I have seen with joy your people here present, willingly offering to you. ¹⁸ O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, preserve these things in the thought of the heart of your people for ever, and direct their hearts to you. ¹⁹ And to Solomon my son give a good heart, to perform your commandments, and [to observe] your testimonies, and your ordinances, and to accomplish the building of your house. ²⁰ And David said to the whole congregation, Bless you⌃ the Lord our God. And all the congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and they bowed the knee and worshipped the Lord, and [did obeisance] to the king. ²¹ And David sacrificed to the Lord, and offered up whole burnt offerings to the Lord on the morrow after the first day, a thousand calves, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, and their drink-offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel. ²² And they ate and drank joyfully that day before the Lord: and they made Solomon the son of David king a second time, and anointed him king before the Lord, and Sadoc to the priesthood. ²³ And Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and was highly honored; and all Israel obeyed him. ²⁴ The princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons of king David his father, were subject to him. ²⁵ And the Lord magnified Solomon over all Israel, and gave him royal glory, such as was not upon any king before him.

⁶ And Elius the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and you⌃ are elder, therefore I kept silence, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge. ⁷ And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years [men] know wisdom:

¹ [My] son, forget not my laws; but let your heart keep my words: ² for length of existence, and years of life, and peace, shall they add to you.

⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men; and their fathers are the glory of children. The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; but the faithless not even a farthing.

²⁹ Wisdom is an ornament to young men; and grey [hairs] are the glory of old men.

¹³ Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, who knows not how to take heed any longer.

⁸ They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, to the place which you have founded for them.

²⁹ A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.

¹⁹ Better is a meek-spirited [man] with lowliness, than one who divides spoils with the proud.

¹¹ A merciful man is longsuffering; and his triumph overtakes transgressors.

²⁸ As a city whose walls are broken down, and which is unfortified, so is a man who does anything without counsel.

⁵⁵ The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families. ⁵⁶ You shall divide their inheritance by lot between the many and the few. ⁵⁷ And the sons of Levi according to their families; to Gedson, the family of the Gedsonites; to Caath, the family of the Caathites; to Merari, the family of the Merarites. ⁵⁸ These [are] the families of the sons of Levi; the family of the Lobenites, the family of the Chebronites, the family of the Coreites, and the family of the Musites; and Caath begot Amram. ⁵⁹ And the name of his wife [was] Jochabed, daughter of Levi, who bore these to Levi in Egypt, and she bore to Amram, Aaron and Moses, and Mariam their sister. ⁶⁰ And to Aaron were born both Nadab and Abiud, and Eleazar, and Ithamar. ⁶¹ And Nadab and Abiud died when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sina. ⁶² And there were according to their numbering, twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because they have no inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel. ⁶³ And this [is] the numbering of Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in Araboth of Moab, at Jordan by Jericho. ⁶⁴ And among these there was not a man numbered by Moses and Aaron, whom, [even] the children of Israel, they numbered in the wilderness of Sinai. ⁶⁵ For the Lord said to them, They shall surely die in the wilderness; and there was not left even one of them, except Chaleb the son of Jephonne, and Joshua the [son] of Naue.

¹⁴ And you⌃ shall all be gathered together by your tribes in the morning, and it shall come to pass that the tribe which the Lord shall show, you⌃ shall bring by families; and the family which the Lord shall show, you⌃ shall bring by households; and the household which the Lord shall show, you⌃ shall bring man by man.

⁵ And they came to him: and he divided to them seven portions, [saying], Juda shall stand to them a border southward, and the sons of Joseph shall stand to them northward.

¹⁰ And Joshua cast the lot for them in Selo before the Lord.

⁴¹ And Saul said, O Lord God of Israel, why have you not answered your servant this day? [is] the iniquity in me, or in Jonathan my son? Lord God of Israel, give clear [manifestations]; and if [the lot] should declare this, give, I pray you, to your people of Israel, give, I pray, holiness. And Jonathan and Saul are taken, and the people escaped. ⁴² And Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and my son Jonathan: whoever the Lord shall cause to be taken by lot, let him die: and the people said to Saul, This thing is not [to be done]: and Saul prevailed against the people, and they cast [lots] between him and Jonathan his son, and Jonathan is taken by lot.

¹ And the chiefs of the people lived in Jerusalem: and the rest of the people cast lots, to bring one of [every] ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities.

¹⁸ A silent [man] quells strifes, and determines between great powers.

²⁶ Many wait on the favor of rulers; but justice comes to a man from the Lord.

⁷ And each man said to his neighbor, Come, let us cast lots, and find out for whose sake this mischief is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas.