1 Samuel 12 Cross References - Leeser

¹ And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and I have set a king over you. ² And now, behold, the king is walking before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and my sons, behold, they are with you; and I have walked before you from my youth even until this day. ³ Behold, here am I; testify against me in the presence of the Lord, and in the presence of his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received any ransom so that I withdrew my eyes from him? and I will restore it you. ⁴ And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor hast thou oppressed us, and thou hast not taken from any man’s hand the least. ⁵ And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found in my hand the least: and they answered, He is witness. ⁶ And Samuel said unto the people, It is the Lord who did wonders through Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. ⁷ And now stand up, that I may hold judgment with you before the Lord concerning all the benefits of the Lord, which he hath done to you and to your fathers. ⁸ When Jacob was come into Egypt, then did your fathers cry unto the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and they brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and caused them to dwell in this place. ⁹ And when they forgot the Lord their God, he sold them into the hand of Sissera, the chief of the host of Chazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they made war against them. ¹⁰ And they cried then unto the Lord, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served the Be’alim and the ‘Ashtaroth; and now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee. ¹¹ And the Lord sent Yerubba’al, and Bedan, and Yiphthach, and Samuel, and he delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, so that ye dwelt safely. ¹² But when ye saw that Nachash the king of the children of ‘Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, No; but a king shall reign over us: when the Lord your God is your king. ¹³ And now here is the king whom ye have chosen, whom ye have asked for! and, behold, the Lord hath set over you a king. ¹⁴ If ye will fear the Lord, and serve him, and obey his voice, and will not rebel against the will of the Lord: then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the Lord your God. ¹⁵ But if ye will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, and rebel against the will of the Lord: then will the hand of the Lord be against you, as it was against your fathers. ¹⁶ And now stand up and see this great thing, which the Lord is about doing before your eyes. ¹⁷ Is there not wheat-harvest today? I will call unto the Lord, and he will send thunders and rain; and ye will thus perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done, in the eyes of the Lord, to ask for yourselves a king. ¹⁸ And Samuel called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunders and rain on that day: and all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel. ¹⁹ And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray in behalf of thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we may not die; for we have added unto all our sins yet this evil, to ask for ourselves a king. ²⁰ And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not; ye have indeed done all this evil: yet turn not aside from following the Lord, and serve ye the Lord with all your heart; ²¹ And turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; because they are vain. ²² For the Lord will not forsake his people for the sake of his great name; because it hath pleased the Lord to make you a people unto himself. ²³ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray in behalf of you; but I will teach you the good and the right way: ²⁴ Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for see what great things he hath done with you. ²⁵ But if ye will in any wise do wickedly, both ye yourselves as also your king shall perish.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and between thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant: to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

⁷ And now restore the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for thee, that thou mayest live; and if thou restore her not, know thou, that thou shalt surety die, thou and all that are thine.

⁵ And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. ⁶ And they took their cattle and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt; Jacob, and all his seed with him: ⁷ His sons, and his son’s sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed he brought with him into Egypt.

²³ And it came to pass in this long time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their complaint came up unto God by reason of the bondage. ²⁴ And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

⁹ Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. ¹⁰ And now then go, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, and thou shalt bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

¹⁴ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is there not Aaron, thy brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well; and also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. ¹⁵ And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and I will teach you what ye shall do. ¹⁶ And he shall speak for thee unto the people; and he shall be, yea he shall be to thee as a mouth, and thou shalt be to him as a God.

²⁷ And the Lord said to Aaron, Go to meet Moses, into the wilderness; and he went and met him by the mount of God, and kissed him. ²⁸ And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord wherewith he had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him. ²⁹ And Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the children of Israel: ³⁰ And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses; and he did the signs before the eyes of the people. ³¹ And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

²⁶ These are Aaron and Moses, to whom the Lord said, Bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.

²³ And Moses stretched forth his staff toward heaven; and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran down to the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. ²⁴ And there was hail, and fire was flaming up amidst the hail, very grievous, the like of which had not been in all the land of Egypt, since it had become a nation. ²⁵ And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and every herb of the field did the hail smite, and every tree of the field did it break.

²⁸ Entreat the Lord that there may be no more of the thunders of God, and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall no longer stay here.

¹⁷ And now forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me only this death.

¹³ And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and there shall be no plague against you to destroy, when I smite others in the land of Egypt.

⁵¹ And it came to pass on the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

¹³ And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will do for you today; for as ye have seen the Egyptians today, ye shall not see them again any more for ever.

³⁰ Thus the Lord saved Israel on that day out of the land of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the shore of the sea. ³¹ And Israel saw that great power which the Lord had shown on the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and then believed in the Lord, and in Moses his servant.

³¹ And Israel saw that great power which the Lord had shown on the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and then believed in the Lord, and in Moses his servant.

⁵ Now therefore, if you will truly obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be unto me a peculiar treasure above all nations; for all the earth is mine: ⁶ And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation; these are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s.

¹⁹ And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die. ²⁰ And Moses said unto the people, Fear not; for in order to prove you, did God come, and in order that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

^{4 (22:3)} If the thing stolen be actually found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double.

⁸ And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blindeth the clear-sighted, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

¹² Wherefore should the Egyptians say thus, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to destroy them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent thee of the evil decreed against thy people.

^{4 (5:23)} Then shall it be, when he hath sinned and is conscious of his guilt, that he shall restore what be hath taken violently away, or the wages which he hath withheld, or that which was delivered to him to keep, or the lost thing which he hath found,

¹ And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, ² And to the children of Israel shalt thou say, Whatsoever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech, shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. ³ And I will set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from among his people; because of his seed hath he given unto Molech, in order to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. ⁴ And if the people of the land should in any way hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, so as not to kill him: ⁵ Then will I set my face against that man, and against his family, and I will cut him off, and all that go astray after him, to go astray after Molech, from among their people. ⁶ And the person that turneth unto such as have familiar spirits, and unto wizards, to go astray after them,—then will I set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people. ⁷ Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am the Lord your God. ⁸ And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord who sanctify you. ⁹ For every one whatever that curseth his father or his mother shall be put to death: his father or his mother hath he cursed, his blood shall be upon him. ¹⁰ And if there be a man that committeth adultery with a man’s wife, whoever it be that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife: then shall the adulterer be put to death, together with the adulteress. ¹¹ And a man that lieth with his father’s wife, hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ¹² And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death: they have committed an unnatural deed; their blood shall be upon them. ¹³ And if a man lie with a male, as they lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

¹⁴ But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; ¹⁵ And if my statutes ye despise, and if my ordinances your soul loath, so as not to do all my commandments, in that ye break my covenant: ¹⁶ Then will I also do this unto you, and I will inflict on you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart; and ye shall sow in vain your seed, for your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷ And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be struck down before your enemies: and they that hate you shall bear rule over you; and ye shall flee while there is no one pursuing you. ¹⁸ And if with these things even ye will not yet hearken unto me: then will I chastise you yet more, sevenfold for your sins. ¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as copper: ²⁰ And in vain shall your strength be spent; for your land shall not yield her products, and the tree of the land shall not yield its fruit. ²¹ And if ye walk yet contrary unto me, and if you refuse to hearken unto me: then will I bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold according to your sins. ²² And I will send out against you the beasts of the field, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and diminish yourselves; so that your roads shall be desolate. ²³ And if notwithstanding these things ye will not be reformed by me, and walk contrary unto me: ²⁴ Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and I also will punish you, sevenfold for your sins. ²⁵ And I will bring over you the sword, avenging the quarrel of my covenant, so that ye shall be gathered together within your cities; and then will I send the pestilence among you, that ye shall deliver yourselves into the hand of the enemy; ²⁶ When I break unto you the staff of bread; and ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. ²⁷ And if notwithstanding this ye will not hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me: ²⁸ Then will I also walk contrary unto you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you, sevenfold for your sins. ²⁹ And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. ³⁰ And I will destroy your high-places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; and my soul shall loath you.

¹³ And Moses said unto the Lord, But when the Egyptian hear, from the midst of whom thou hast brought up in thy might this people;— ¹⁴ And when they tell to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Lord, art in the midst of this people, that face to face thou, Lord, art seen, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that in a pillar of cloud thou goest before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;— ¹⁵ That thou hast killed this people as one man: then will the nations that have heard thy fame, say in this manner, ¹⁶ That because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he had sworn unto them, hath he slain them in the wilderness. ¹⁷ And now, I beseech thee, let the greatness of the power of the Lord be made manifest, as thou hast spoken, saying, ¹⁸ The Eternal is long-suffering, and abundant in beneficence, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. ¹⁹ Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy beneficence, and as thou hast been indulgent to this people, from Egypt even until hitherto.

¹⁵ And this displeased Moses greatly, and he said unto the Lord, Have no respect unto their offering: I have not taken away an ass of any one of them, nor have I done wrong to any one of them.

¹⁵ How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt many days; and the Egyptians did evil to us, and to our fathers:

²¹ He hath not beheld any wrong in Jacob, nor hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glory of the king dwelleth among him.

¹⁷ Who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as a flock which have no shepherd.

⁷ Not because ye are more in number than all the nations, did the Lord desire you and make choice of you; for ye are the fewest of all the nations; ⁸ But on account of the love of the Lord for you, and because he keepeth the oath which he hath sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bond-men, out of the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt.

⁵ Not for thy righteousness, nor for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations doth the Lord thy God drive them out from before thee, and in order that he may fulfill the word which the Lord hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

²¹ He is thy praise, and he is thy God, who hath done for thee these great and fearful things, which thy own eyes have seen.

¹⁶ Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

² For a holy people art thou unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath made choice of thee to be unto himself a peculiar nation above all the nations that are upon the face of the earth.

¹⁹ Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, and thou shalt not take a bribe; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

¹ And it shall come to pass, if thou wilt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee highest above all nations of the earth. ² And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee; because thou wilt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. ³ Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. ⁴ Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flocks. ⁵ Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-through. ⁶ Blessed shalt thou be at thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be at thy going out. ⁷ The Lord will cause thy enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: on one way shall they come out against thee, and on seven ways shall they flee before thee. ⁸ The Lord will command upon thee the blessing in thy storehouse, and in all the acquisitions of thy hand; and he trill bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. ⁹ The Lord will raise thee up unto himself as a holy people, as he hath sworn unto thee; if thou wilt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ And all the nations of the earth shall see, that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee. ¹¹ And the Lord will make thee pre-eminent for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord swore unto thy fathers to give unto thee. ¹² The Lord will open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow. ¹³ And the Lord will constitute thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt only be uppermost, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou wilt hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day to observe and to do; ¹⁴ And thou wilt not go aside from all the words which I command thee this day, to the right, or to the left, to go after strange gods, to serve them. ¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day: that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of the flocks. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be at thy coming in, and cursed shalt thou be at thy going out. ²⁰ The Lord will send out against thee misfortune, confusion, and failure, in all the occupation of thy hand which thou mayest engage in; until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, that thou hast forsaken me. ²¹ The Lord will cause the pestilence to cleave unto thee, until it have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. ²² The Lord will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou be lost. ²³ And thy heavens that are over thy head shall be copper, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. ²⁴ The Lord will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ²⁵ The Lord will cause thee to be smitten before thy enemies: on one way shalt thou go out against them, and on seven ways shalt thou flee before them; and thou shalt become a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And thy carcass shall become food unto all the fowls of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth, but with no one to scare them away. ²⁷ The Lord will smite thee with the inflammatory disease of Egypt, and with the hemorrhoids, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou shalt not be able to be healed. ²⁸ The Lord will sinite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with confusion of heart; ²⁹ And thou shalt grope about at noonday, as the blind gropeth about in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed all the days, but with no one to help. ³⁰ A wife wilt thou betroth, and another man shall lie with her; a house wilt thou build, and thou shalt not dwell therein; a vineyard wilt thou plant, and thou shalt not redeem it. ³¹ Thy ox shall be slain before thy eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thy ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be brought back to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thy enemies, without any one to help thee. ³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thy eyes shall look on, and fail with longing for them all the day long; but without any power in thy hand. ³³ The fruit of thy soil, and all thy exertion, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt only be oppressed and crushed all the days. ³⁴ And thou shalt become mad from the sight of thy eyes which thou wilt see. ³⁵ The Lord will smite thee with a sore inflammation upon the knees, and upon the legs, of which thou shalt not be able to be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. ³⁶ The Lord will drive thee, and thy king whom thou wilt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and thou wilt serve there strange gods, of wood and stone.

³⁶ The Lord will drive thee, and thy king whom thou wilt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and thou wilt serve there strange gods, of wood and stone. ³⁷ And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all the nations whither the Lord will lead thee. ³⁸ Much seed wilt thou carry out into the field, yet but little shalt thou gather in; for the locust shall consume it. ³⁹ Vineyards wilt thou plant and dress; but wine shalt thou not drink nor lay up; for the worms shall eat them. ⁴⁰ Olive-trees wilt thou have throughout all thy borders; but with the oil shalt thou not anoint thyself; for thy olive shall cast the fruit. ⁴¹ Sons and daughters wilt thou beget; but they shall not remain thine: for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the cricket strip bare. ⁴³ The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall get up above thee higher and higher; but thou shalt come down lower and lower; ⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall become the head, and thou shalt become the tail. ⁴⁵ And there shall come upon thee all these curses, and they shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he hath commanded thee; ⁴⁶ And they shall remain on thee for a sign and for a token, and on thy seed, for ever. ⁴⁷ For the reason that thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, while there was an abundance of all things; ⁴⁸ Therefore shalt thou serve thy enemies whom the Lord will send out against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of every thing; and they will put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until they have destroyed thee. ⁴⁹ The Lord will bring up against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle rusheth down; a nation whose tongue thou wilt not understand; ⁵⁰ A nation of a fierce countenance, that will not have respect for the old, nor show favor to the young; ⁵¹ And it will eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy soil, until thou be destroyed; so that it will not leave unto thee corn, wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flocks, until it have ruined thee. ⁵² And it will besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls come down, wherein thou trustest, throughout all thy land; and it will besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee. ⁵³ And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thy enemy will distress thee. ⁵⁴ The man that is the most tender among thee, and who is very delicate,—his eye shall look enviously toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he may spare; ⁵⁵ So as not to give to any of them of the flesh of his children which he may eat; because there is nothing left unto him, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thy enemy will distress thee in all thy gates. ⁵⁶ The woman, the most tender among thee, and the most delicate, who hath never adventured to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,—her eye shall look enviously toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, ⁵⁷ And toward her young one that is come from between her feet, and toward her children which she hath born; for she shall eat them for want of every thing secretly, in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thy enemy will distress thee in thy gates. ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book; to fear this glorious and fearful name, the Lord thy God: ⁵⁹ Then will the Lord render peculiar thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, plagues great, and of long continuance, and sicknesses sore, and of long continuance. ⁶⁰ And he will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, of which thou wast afraid; and they shall cleave unto thee. ⁶¹ Also every sickness, and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ⁶² And ye shall be left but few in number, instead of that ye once were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. ⁶³ And it shall come to pass, that, as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so will the Lord rejoice over you to bring you to nought, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord will scatter thee among all the nations, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there wilt thou serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall not be any rest for the sole of thy foot: and the Lord will give thee there a trembling heart, and a failing of eyes, and a faintness of soul. ⁶⁶ And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt be in dread day and night, and thou shalt have no confidence of thy life; ⁶⁷ In the morning thou wilt say, Who would but grant that it were only evening! and at evening thou wilt say, Who would but grant that it were only morning! from the dread of thy heart which thou wilt experience, and from the sight of thy eyes which thou wilt see. ⁶⁸ And the Lord will bring thee back to Egypt in ships, by the way whereof I have spoken unto thee, Thou shalt no more see it again: and there will ye offer yourselves for sale unto your enemies for bond-men and bond-women, without any one to buy you.

¹⁷ And my anger shall be kindled against them on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be given to be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall overtake them; and they will say on that day, Is it not, because my God is not in the midst of me, that these evils have overtaken me?

²⁹ For I know that after my death ye will to a surety become corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and that the evil will befall you in the latter days, when ye do the evil in the eyes of the Lord, to incense him through the work of your hands.

¹⁵ Thus did Yeshurun grow fat, and he kicked; thou art grown fat, thick, fleshy;and then he forsook the God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. ¹⁶ They incensed him with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger. ¹⁷ They sacrificed unto evil spirits, things that are not god, gods that they know not, new ones lately come up, which your fathers dreaded not. ¹⁸ Of the Rock that begat thee thou wast unmindful, and forgottest the God that had brought thee forth.

¹⁸ Of the Rock that begat thee thou wast unmindful, and forgottest the God that had brought thee forth. ¹⁹ And the Lord saw this, and he was angry; because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters. ²⁰ And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be; for a perverse generation are they, children in whom there is no faith. ²¹ They have moved me to wrath with things that are not god; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I too will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a worthless nation.

²¹ They have moved me to wrath with things that are not god; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I too will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a worthless nation. ²² For a fire is kindled in my anger, and it burneth unto the lowest deep; and it consumeth the earth with her products, and it setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains. ²³ I will heap upon them miseries; all my arrows will I spend upon them. ²⁴ They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter deadly disease; also the tooth of beasts will I let loose against them, with the poison of serpents that crawl in the dust. ²⁵ Without shall the sword destroy, and terror within the chambers, both the young man and the virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs. ²⁶ I said, I would drive them into one corner, I would cause their remembrance to cease from among men:

²⁶ I said, I would drive them into one corner, I would cause their remembrance to cease from among men: ²⁷ Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their oppressors should mistake the truth, lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not wrought all this.

²⁷ Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their oppressors should mistake the truth, lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not wrought all this. ²⁸ For a nation void of counsel are they, and there is no understanding in them. ²⁹ If they were but wise, they would understand this, they would consider their latter end! ³⁰ How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had delivered them up?

³⁰ How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had delivered them up? ³¹ For not as our Rock is their rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. ³² For from the vine of Sodom is their vine, and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, they bear bitter clusters. ³³ The poison of serpents is their wine, and the deadly venom of asps. ³⁴ Behold! this is laid up in store with me, it is sealed up among my treasures! ³⁵ Mine are vengeance and recompense, at the time that their foot shall slip; for nigh draweth the day of their calamity, and the future speedeth along for them. ³⁶ For the Lord will espouse the cause of his people, and bethink himself concerning his servants: when he seeth that their power is gone, and the guarded and fortified axe no more. ³⁷ Then will he say, Where are their gods, the rock in whom they trusted, ³⁸ They that ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them arise and help you, let them be a protection over you. ³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he, ard there is no god with me: I alone kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and no one can deliver out of my hand. ⁴⁰ For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. ⁴¹ When I whet my glittering sword, and my hand taketh hold on judgment: I will render vengeance unto my enemies, and those that hate me will I requite. ⁴² I will make my arrows drunken with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; from the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the crushed head of the enemy. ⁴³ Speak aloud, O ye nations, the praises of his people; for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and vengeance will he render to his adversaries, and forgive his land, and people. ⁴⁴ And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

² Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, pass over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, to the children of Israel. ³ Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. ⁴ From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your boundary.

⁶ Be strong and of a good courage; for thou shalt divide for an inheritance unto this people the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give to them.

¹⁰ And Joshua said, Hereby shall ye know that the living God is in the midst of you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Emorites, and the Jebusites. ¹¹ Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into the Jordan. ¹² And now take yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man each out of every tribe. ¹³ And it shall come to pass, that as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, namely, the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand up as a wall.

⁹ And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, they will environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?

¹² Then spoke Joshua to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered up the Emorites before the children of Israel, and he said before the eyes of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gib’on; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ayalon.

⁶ But be ye very steadfast to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so as not to turn aside therefrom to the right or to the left;

¹⁴ Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

²⁰ If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then will he again do ye evil, and consume ye, after that he hath done you good.

¹³ And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and ‘Ashtaroth. ¹⁴ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of spoilers who spoiled them, and he sold them into the hand of their enemies round about, and they were not able any longer to stand before their enemies.

⁷ And the children of Israel did thus the evil in the eyes of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Be’alim and the groves.

⁷ And the children of Israel did thus the evil in the eyes of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Be’alim and the groves. ⁸ Wherefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rish’athayim the king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan-rish’athayim eight years. ⁹ And the children of Israel cried then unto the Lord, and the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, namely, ‘Othniel the son of Kenaz, the younger brother of Caleb.

¹² And the children of Israel did again the evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord strengthened ‘Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done the evil in the eyes of the Lord.

¹⁵ But the children of Israel cried then unto the Lord; and the Lord raised up unto them a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera a Benjamite, a man who was lamed in his right hand; and the children of Israel sent by him a present unto ‘Eglon the king of Moab.

³¹ And after him was Shamgar the son of ‘Anath, who smote of the philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad; and he also delivered Israel.

² And the Lord sold them into the hand of Yabin the king of Canaan, that reigned in Chazor; and the captain of his army was Sissera, who dwelt in Charosheth-hagoyim. ³ And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he oppressed the children of Israel with might twenty years.

⁶ And she sent and called Barak the son of Abino’am out of Kedesh-naphtali; and she said unto him, Behold, the Lord the God of Israel hath commanded, Go and lead on toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun.

¹¹ Urged on by the voice of those who divide the flocks between the watering wells, there shall they rehearse the benefits of the Lord, the benefits toward his open towns in Israel; for now go down again to the gates the people of the Lord.

⁷ And it came to pass, when the children of Israel had cried unto the Lord because of the Midianites,

¹⁴ And the Lord turned toward him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: behold, I have sent thee.

³² And the people called him on that day Yerubba’al, saying, Let Baal contend against him, because he hath overthrown his altar.

²³ And Gid’on said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the Lord shall rule over you.

²⁹ And Yerubba’al the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

³⁵ Neither showed they kindness to the house of Yerubba’al, namely, Gid’on, in accordance with all the good which he had done unto Israel.

¹⁸ While ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)

⁵⁶ Thus did God compensate the evil of Abimelech, which he had done unto his father, in slaying his seventy brothers: ⁵⁷ And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God bring back upon their own head; and there came upon them the curse of Yotham the son of Yerubba’al.

⁷ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of ‘Ammon.

¹⁰ And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, saying, We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Be’alim.

¹⁵ And the children of Israel said unto the Lord, We have sinned: do thou unto us entirely as it seemeth good in thy eyes; only deliver us, we pray thee, this time. ¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from their midst, and served the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the trouble of Israel.

¹ Now Yiphthach the Gil’adite was a mighty man of valor, but he was the son of a harlot; and Gil’ad had begotten Yiphthach. ² And the wife of Gil’ad also bore him sons; and when the sons of the wife were grown up, they drove away Yiphthach, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in the house of our father: for the son of another woman art thou. ³ And Yiphthach fled away from his brothers, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and there gathered themselves to Yiphthach idle men, and they went out with him. ⁴ And it came to pass after some time, that the children of ‘Ammon made war against Israel. ⁵ And it was so, when the children of ‘Ammon made war against Israel, that the elders of Gil’ad went to fetch Yiphthach out of the land of Tob. ⁶ And they said unto Yiphthach, Come, and become a leader unto us, that we may fight with the children of ‘Ammon. ⁷ And Yiphthach said unto the elders of Gil’ad, Did ye not hate me, and drive me away out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now, when ye are in distress? ⁸ And the elders of Gil’ad said unto Yiphthach, Therefore are we now come back to thee, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of ‘Ammon; and thou shalt become unto us a head, unto all the inhabitants of Gil’ad. ⁹ And Yiphthach said unto the elders of Gil’ad, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of ‘Ammon, and the Lord give them up before me, shall I remain your head? ¹⁰ And the elders of Gil’ad said unto Yiphthach, The Lord shall be a hearer between us, if we do not so according to thy word. ¹¹ Then went Yiphthach with the elders of Gil’ad, and the people appointed him over them as head and as leader; and Yiphthach spoke all his words before the Lord in Mitzpah. ¹² And Yiphthach sent messengers unto the king of the children of ‘Ammon, saying, What have I to do with thee, that thou art come unto me to fight against my land? ¹³ And the king of the children of ‘Ammon said unto the messengers of Yiphthach, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Yabbok, and unto the Jordan: and now restore these lands again in peace. ¹⁴ And Yiphthach again sent messengers unto the king of the children of ‘Ammon; ¹⁵ And he said unto him, Thus hath said Yiphthach, Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of ‘Ammon; ¹⁶ For when they came up out of Egypt, Israel walked through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh; ¹⁷ And Israel then sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me pass, I pray thee, through thy land; but the king of Edom would not hearken; and also to the king of Moab they sent; but he would not consent: and Israel remained in Kadesh. ¹⁸ Then they wandered through the wilderness, and traveled round the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came from the rising of the sun to the land of Moab, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon: but they came not within the border of Moab; for the Arnon is the boundary of Moab. ¹⁹ And Israel sent messengers unto Sichon the king of the Emorites, the king of Cheshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land unto my place. ²⁰ But Sichon trusted not Israel to let them pass through his territory; and Sichon assembled all his people, and encamped in Yahaz, and fought against Israel. ²¹ and the Lord the God of Israel delivered Sichon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them; and Israel took possession of all the land of the Emorites, the inhabitants of that country. ²² And they took possession of all the territory of the Emorites, from the Arnon even unto the Yabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan. ²³ So now the Lord the God of Israel hath dispossessed the Emorites from before his people Israel, and shouldst thou possess it? ²⁴ Truly! that which Kemosh thy god may give thee to possess, even that canst thou possess; but whatsoever the Lord our God hath driven out from before us, even that will we possess. ²⁵ And now art thou then any better than Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them? ²⁶ And while Israel hath dwelt in Cheshbon and in its towns, and in ‘Ar’or and in its towns, and in all the cities that are along the margins of the Arnon, three hundred years: why did ye not recover them within that time? ²⁷ Whereas I myself have not sinned against thee, and thou doest me wrong to war against me: may the Lord, the Judge, decide this day between the children of Israel and the children of ‘Ammon. ²⁸ Nevertheless the king of the children of ‘Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Yiphthach which he had sent to him. ²⁹ Then came upon Yiphthach the spirit of the Lord, and he passed through Gil’ad and Menasseh, and passed through Mitzpeh of Gil’ad, and from Mitzpeh of Gil’ad he passed over unto the children of Ammon. ³⁰ And Yiphthach made a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of ‘Ammon into my hand, ³¹ Then shall it be, that whatsoever cometh forth out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of ‘Ammon, shall belong to the Lord, and I will offer it up for a burnt-offering. ³² So Yiphthach passed over unto the children of ‘Ammon to fight against them: and the Lord delivered them into his hand. ³³ And he smote them from ‘Aro’er, even till thou comest to Minnith, twenty cities, and unto Abel-keramin, with a very great defeat; and the children of ‘Ammon were humbled before the children of Israel.

¹ And the children of Israel did again the evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

¹ And the children of Israel did again the evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. ² And there was a certain man of Zor’ah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoach; and his wife was barren, and did not bear. ³ And there appeared an angel of the Lord unto the woman, and he said unto her, Behold, thou art barren, and hast not born; but thou wilt conceive, and bear a son. ⁴ And now do beware, and drink neither wine nor strong drink, and eat not any thing unclean. ⁵ For, lo, thou wilt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for a Nazarite of God shall the lad be from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. ⁶ And the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his appearance was like the appearance of an angel of God, very terrible; but I asked him not whence he might be, and his name he did not tell me. ⁷ And he said unto me, Behold, thou wilt conceive, and bear a son; and now thou must drink neither wine nor strong drink, and not eat anything unclean; for the child shall be a Nazarite of God from the womb until the day of his death. ⁸ And Manoach entreated the Lord, and said, Hear me, O Lord, let the man of God, whom thou didst send, come again unto us, and instruct us what we shall do unto the child that is to be born. ⁹ And God hearkened to the voice of Manoach; and the angel of God came again unto the woman, as she was sitting in the field; and Manoach her husband was not with her. ¹⁰ And the woman made haste, and ran, and informed her husband; and she said unto him, Behold, there hath appeared unto me the man, that came unto me the other day. ¹¹ And Manoach arose, and went after his wife; and he came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spokest unto the woman? and he said, I am. ¹² And Manoach said, If now thy words come to pass, what shall be our proceeding with the child, and what shall be done unto him? ¹³ And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoach, Of all that I have said unto the woman must she beware. ¹⁴ Of any thing that cometh of the grape-vine she may not eat, and wine or strong drink she may not drink, and any thing unclean she may not eat: all that I commanded her must she observe. ¹⁵ And Manoach said unto the angel of the Lord, Let us, I pray thee, detain thee, and we will make a kid ready for thee. ¹⁶ And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoach, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; but if thou wilt offer a burnt-offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord; for Manoach knew not that he was an angel of the Lord.

²² Now ‘Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons were in the habit of doing unto all Israel; and how they would lie with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

²⁹ Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at my meat-offering, which I have commanded in my habitation? and why honoredst thou thy sons above me, to fatten yourselves with the first of every offering of Israel my people?

¹³ And I tell him that I will judge his house for ever; for the iniquity that he knew that his sons were drawing a curse on themselves, and he restrained them not.

¹⁶ But ‘Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he said, Here am I.

¹⁹ And Samuel grew up, and the Lord was with him, and he did not let fall any one of all his words to the ground. ²⁰ And thus knew all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba’ that Samuel was accredited as a prophet of the Lord.

⁹ And it happened, after they had removed it, that the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great confusion; and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had hemorrhoids in their secret parts.

² And it came to pass, from the time the ark remained in Kiryath-ye’arim, and the time was long, and it was twenty years: that all the house of Israel followed anxiously after the Lord.

⁵ And Samuel said, Assemble all Israel together at Mizpah, and I will pray in your behalf unto the Lord.

⁸ And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Do not abstain, so as not to cry for us unto the Lord our God, that he may help us out of the hand of the Philistines. ⁹ And Samuel took one sucking lamb, and offered it for an entire burnt-offering unto the Lord: and Samuel cried unto the Lord in behalf of Israel; and the Lord answered him. ¹⁰ And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but the Lord thundered with a loud noise on that day over the Philistines, and brought them into confusion, and they were smitten before Israel.

¹³ So were the Philistines humbled, and they came no more into the territory of Israel; and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

¹ And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he appointed his sons judges over Israel.

³ But his sons walked not in his ways, and they inclined after their own advantage, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

⁵ And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons have not walked in thy ways: now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.

⁵ And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons have not walked in thy ways: now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.

⁵ And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons have not walked in thy ways: now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations. ⁶ But the thing was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.

⁶ But the thing was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord. ⁷ And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they may say unto thee; for not thee have they rejected, but me have they rejected, that I should not reign over them.

⁷ And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they may say unto thee; for not thee have they rejected, but me have they rejected, that I should not reign over them.

⁷ And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they may say unto thee; for not thee have they rejected, but me have they rejected, that I should not reign over them. ⁸ In accordance with all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even until this day, when they forsook me, and served other gods: so do they also unto thee.

¹⁹ Nevertheless the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No; but a king shall be over us;

¹⁹ Nevertheless the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No; but a king shall be over us; ²⁰ That we also may ourselves be like all the nations: and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

²⁰ That we also may ourselves be like all the nations: and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

²⁰ That we also may ourselves be like all the nations: and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. ²¹ And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he spoke them before the ears of the Lord. ²² And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and appoint them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.

²⁰ And as for thy asses that were lost unto thee this day three days ago, do not set thy heart on them; for they have been found. And to whom belongeth all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not to thee, and to all thy father’s house?

¹ And Samuel took a flask of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Behold, it is because the Lord hath anointed thee over his inheritance as chief.

¹⁸ And he said unto the children of Israel, Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, I brought up Israel from Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you; ¹⁹ And ye for your part have this day rejected your God, he who hath saved you out of all your misfortunes and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nevertheless, thou must set a king over us: and now present yourselves before the Lord according to your tribes, and according to your thousands.

²⁴ And Samuel said to all the people, Have ye seen him whom the Lord hath made choice of, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, Long live the king.

¹ Then came up Nachash the ‘Ammonite, and encamped against Yabesh-gil’ad: and all the men of Yabesh said unto Nachash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee. ² And Nachash the ‘Ammonite said unto them, On this condition will I make it with you, that ye all have put out the right eye, that I may lay it as a reproach upon all Israel.

¹⁴ And Samuel said to the people, Come and let us go to Gilgal, and renew there the choice of the king. ¹⁵ And all the people went to Gilgal; and they appointed there Saul as king before the Lord in Gilgal; and they sacrificed there sacrifices of peace-offerings before the Lord; and Saul with all the men of Israel rejoiced there very greatly.

¹⁵ And all the people went to Gilgal; and they appointed there Saul as king before the Lord in Gilgal; and they sacrificed there sacrifices of peace-offerings before the Lord; and Saul with all the men of Israel rejoiced there very greatly.

⁵ And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found in my hand the least: and they answered, He is witness. ⁶ And Samuel said unto the people, It is the Lord who did wonders through Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. ⁷ And now stand up, that I may hold judgment with you before the Lord concerning all the benefits of the Lord, which he hath done to you and to your fathers.

⁹ And when they forgot the Lord their God, he sold them into the hand of Sissera, the chief of the host of Chazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they made war against them.

²³ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray in behalf of you; but I will teach you the good and the right way:

¹⁶ And Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord said to me this night: and he said unto him, Speak.

⁶ And he said unto his men, Far be it from me for the Lord’s sake, that I should do this thing unto my master, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch forth my hand against him; because he is the anointed of the Lord.

⁹ But David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who hath stretched forth his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and remained guiltless?

¹ Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and there fell down many slain on mount Gilboa’. ² And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines smote Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malkishua’, the sons of Saul. ³ And the battle was heavy against Saul, and he was found by the archers, the men with bows; and he was greatly in dread of the archers. ⁴ And Saul said unto his armor-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and wantonly ill-use me. But his armor-bearer would not; for he was greatly afraid; wherefore Saul took the sword, and fell upon it. ⁵ And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, then fell he likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

¹⁴ And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thy hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed? ¹⁵ And David called one of the young men, and said, Come near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died. ¹⁶ And David said unto him, Thy blood is upon thy own head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I myself have slain the Lord’s anointed.

¹³ And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.

³⁶ Then do thou hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel; for thou wilt teach them the good way wherein they should walk; and give then rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

¹⁴ And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and give them up into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with an entire heart and with a willing soul; for all hearts doth the Lord search, and every imagination of the thoughts doth he understand; if thou seek him, he will let himself be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

²⁷ Then do thou hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel; for thou wilt direct them unto the good way, wherein they should walk; and give then rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

² And he went out to meet Assa, and said unto him, Hear me, O Assa, and all Judah and Benjamin, The Lord is with you, while ye remain with him; and if ye seek him, he will let himself be found by you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

¹³ And after all that is come over us for our evil deeds, and for our great guiltiness, seeing that thou our God hast spared us punishing us less than our iniquities deserved, and hast given us such deliverance as this: ¹⁴ Should we again make void thy commandments, and make marriage with these people of abominations? wouldst thou not be angry with us even to make an end of us, so that there would not be any remnant or escape?

⁹ Then were all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered together unto Jerusalem within three days: it was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the open place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and by reason of the showers of rain.

⁹ And thou didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry didst thou hear by the Red Sea; ¹⁰ And thou didst display signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they had dealt presumptuously against them; and thou didst thus make thyself a name, as it is this day. ¹¹ And the sea didst thou divide before them, so that they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land; and their pursuers didst thou throw into the deeps, like a stone in mighty waters. ¹² And by a pillar of cloud didst thou lead them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night, to give light unto them on the way whereon they should go. ¹³ Also on mount Sinai camest thou down, and spokest with them from heaven; and thou gavest them upright ordinances, and truthful laws, good statutes and commandments; ¹⁴ And thy holy sabbath madest thou known unto them, and commandments, statutes, and a law didst thou enjoin on them, by the hand of Moses thy servant.

²⁸ And he said unto man, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to eschew evil is understanding.

³⁵ Oh who will bring me one that would hear me! behold, here is my plea; may the Almighty answer me; and any record which my opponent may have written,— ³⁶ Surely upon my shoulder would I carry it: I would bind it as a crown unto me. ³⁷ The number of my steps would I tell him: as to a prince would I go near unto him.— ³⁸ If my land ever cried out because of me, or if its furrows wept together; ³⁹ If I ever consumed its strength without payment, or caused the soul of its owners to grieve: ⁴⁰ Then may instead of wheat, thorns come forth, and instead of barley, cockle. (Here end the words of Job.)

⁷ And it came to pass, after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Themanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; because ye have not spoken of me properly, like my servant Job. ⁸ And now take unto yourselves seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up a burnt-offering in your behalf; and my servant Job shall pray for you; for him alone will I receive favorably, so as not to deal with you after your folly; because ye have not spoken of me properly, like my servant Job.

³ Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast thought of me in the night; thou hast refined me—thou couldst find nothing: my purpose doth not pass beyond the words of my mouth.

^{11 (34:12)} Come, ye children, hearken unto me: the fear of the Lord will I teach you.

⁵ Commit thy way unto the Lord, and trust in him: and he will accomplish it. ⁶ And he will bring forth as the light thy righteousness, and the justice of thy cause as the noonday.

^{4 (40:5)} Happy is the man that maketh the Lord his trust, and turneth not unto the proud, nor such as stray aside unto lies.

¹ To the chief musician, for the sons of Korach, a Maskil. ^(44:2) O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, deeds which thou hadst done in their days, in times of old. ^{2 (44:3)} Thou, with thy hand, didst indeed drive out nations, and plant them; thou didst ill-treat people, and cause them to spread out. ^{3 (44:4)} For not by their sword did they obtain possession of the land, and their own arm brought them no victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst given them thy favor.

¹⁸ Therefore also even in old age, and when I am grayheaded, O God, forsake me not: until I have told of thy strength unto this generation, to every one that may come of thy might.

¹² Since thou God art my King from olden days, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

^{19 (77:20)} Through the sea led thy way, and thy path was through mighty waters, and thy footsteps could not be known. ^{20 (77:21)} Thou didst lead like a flock thy people by means of Moses and Aaron.

¹² In the presence of their fathers did he do wonders, in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zo’an. ¹³ He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters stand upright as a wall. ¹⁴ And he led them with the cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire. ¹⁵ He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the mighty deep. ¹⁶ And he brought forth running streams out of the rock, and caused water to run down like rivers. ¹⁷ But they repeated to sin yet more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert. ¹⁸ And they tempted God in their heart, by asking food for their desire. ¹⁹ Yea, they spoke against God: they said, Will God be able to set in order a table in the wilderness? ²⁰ Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed: shall he also be able to give bread? or can he provide flesh for his people? ²¹ Therefore, when the Lord heard this, he became wroth: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also ascended against Israel, ²² Because they had not believed in God, and had not trusted in his salvation. ²³ Then he ordained the skies from above, and the doors of heaven he opened; ²⁴ And he let rain down upon them manna to eat, and the corn of heaven gave he unto them. ²⁵ Angels’ bread did man eat: he sent them provision to satisfaction. ²⁶ He caused an east wind to pass along the heavens; and he led forth by his strength the south wind. ²⁷ And he let rain upon them flesh as plentiful as the dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea; ²⁸ And he let them fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. ²⁹ And they ate, and were greatly satisfied, and what they longed for he brought unto them.

²⁹ And they ate, and were greatly satisfied, and what they longed for he brought unto them. ³⁰ They were not estranged from their longing, yet was their food in their mouth:

³⁰ They were not estranged from their longing, yet was their food in their mouth: ³¹ When the wrath of God ascended against them, and he slew some of the fattest of them, and the young men of Israel did he strike down.

³¹ When the wrath of God ascended against them, and he slew some of the fattest of them, and the young men of Israel did he strike down. ³² With all this they sinned again, and believed not in his wonders. ³³ Therefore he caused their days to come to an end in nought, and their years in dread. ³⁴ When he slew them, then did they seek him, and they returned and inquired earnestly after God.

³⁴ When he slew them, then did they seek him, and they returned and inquired earnestly after God. ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock, and the most high God their redeemer.

³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock, and the most high God their redeemer. ³⁶ Nevertheless they prayed insincerely to him with their mouth, and with their tongue they lied unto him. ³⁷ For their heart was not firm with him, and they were not faithful in his covenant. ³⁸ But he, being merciful, forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not awaken all his fury. ³⁹ And he remembered that they are but flesh, a spirit that passeth away, and returneth not again. ⁴⁰ How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, grieve him in the desert! ⁴¹ Yea, they once more tempted God, and set limits to the Holy One of Israel. ⁴² They remembered not his hand, the day when he ransomed them from the adversary; ⁴³ When he displayed in Egypt his signs, and his wonderful tokens in the fields of Zo’an. ⁴⁴ And he changed their rivers into blood; and their running streams, that they could not drink of them. ⁴⁵ He sent out among them various wild beasts, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. ⁴⁶ And he gave unto the cricket their products, and their labor unto the locust. ⁴⁷ He slew with hail their vines, and their sycamore-trees with ice-bolts. ⁴⁸ And he surrendered to the hail their cattle, and their herds to the lightning’s flashes. ⁴⁹ He let loose against them the fierceness of his anger, wrath and indignation, and distress, a host of angels of misfortune. ⁵⁰ He leveled a path for his anger; he withheld not from death their soul, and their life he surrendered to the pestilence; ⁵¹ And he smote all the first-born in Egypt; the first of their strength in the tents of Ham; ⁵² But he caused his own people to depart like flocks, and guided them like a drove in the wilderness. ⁵³ And he led them in safety, so that they felt no dread; but the sea covered over their enemies. ⁵⁴ And he brought them to his holy territory, even to this mount, which his right hand had acquired.

⁵⁴ And he brought them to his holy territory, even to this mount, which his right hand had acquired. ⁵⁵ And he drove out from before them nations, and divided them by the measuring-line as an inheritance, and he caused to dwell in their tents the tribes of Israel.

⁵⁵ And he drove out from before them nations, and divided them by the measuring-line as an inheritance, and he caused to dwell in their tents the tribes of Israel. ⁵⁶ Yet they tempted and rebelled against the most high God, and his testimonies they kept not; ⁵⁷ But swerved aside, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers; they turned about like a deceitful bow. ⁵⁸ And they provoked him to anger with their high-places, and with their graven images they moved him to jealousy. ⁵⁹ God heard this, and he became wroth, and felt greatly disgusted with Israel; ⁶⁰ And he cast off the dwelling at Shiloh, the tabernacle where he had dwelt among men; ⁶¹ And he gave up his strength unto captivity, and his glory into the adversary’s hand. ⁶² And he surrendered his people unto the sword; and with his inheritance was he wroth. ⁶³ His young men the fire devoured; and his virgins were not demanded in marriage. ⁶⁴ His priests fell by the sword; and his widows did not weep. ⁶⁵ Then awoke the Lord as one that sleepeth, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. ⁶⁶ And he smote his enemies backward: a perpetual disgrace on them. ⁶⁷ Yet was he disgusted with the tent of Joseph, and of the tribe of Ephraim he made not choice; ⁶⁸ But he chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. ⁶⁹ And he built like high mountains his sanctuary, like the earth which he hath founded for ever. ⁷⁰ And he made choice of David his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds: ⁷¹ From following the ewes with young he brought him, to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. ⁷² And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and by the skilfulness of his hands did he lead them.

^{12 (81:13)} So I let them go in the stubbornness of their own hearts: and they walked in their own counsels. ^{13 (81:14)} Oh that my people would hearken unto me, that Israel would walk in my ways! ^{14 (81:15)} In a little while would I subdue their enemies, and against their adversaries would I turn my hand. ^{15 (81:16)} The haters of the Lord should offer flattery unto him; but their time should endure for ever.

¹⁴ For the Lord will not cast off his people, and his inheritance will he not forsake.

⁶ Moses and Aaron were among his priests, and Samuel among those that call on his name; they called on the Lord, and he answered them.

³ I will not set before my eyes a godless thing; to commit a departure from righteousness do I hate; it shall not cleave to me.

²⁶ He sent Moses his servant, Aaron also whom he had made choice of.

⁴¹ He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out: they ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴⁴ And he gave them the lands of nations; and the labor of people they obtained as an inheritance:

⁸ Nevertheless he saved them for the sake of his name, to make known his might.

¹² Then believed they in his words, they sang his praise. ¹³ Speedily they forgot his works, they waited not for his counsel;

²¹ They forgot God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,

⁴⁴ Nevertheless he looked on when they were in distress, when he heard their entreaty.

¹⁰ The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord; a good understanding have all that fulfill his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

⁴ Their idols are sliver and gold, the work of the hands of man. ⁵ A mouth they have, but speak not; eyes they have, but see not; ⁶ Ears they have, but hear not; a nose they have, but smell not. ⁷ They have hands, but they touch not; they have feet, but they walk not: nor do they give any utterance by their throat. ⁸ Like them are those that make them, every one that trusteth in them.

⁸⁰ Let my heart be entire in thy statutes, in order that I may not be put to shame.

⁵ But as for those who turn aside unto their crooked ways, them will the Lord drive away with the workers of wickedness; but peace shall be upon Israel.

² Then shall our mouth be filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then shall they say among the nations, Great things hath the Lord done for these. ³ Great things would the Lord have done for us, whereat we should be joyful.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools alone despise.

¹¹ In the way of wisdom have I instructed thee: I have led thee in the tracks of uprightness.

¹ As snow is in summer, and as rain in harvest: so is honor not seemly to a fool.

¹⁰ Koheleth sought to find out acceptable words, and that which would be written down uprightly, even words of truth.

¹³ The end of the matter is, let us hear the whole: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins should be as scarlet, they shall become white as the snow; though they should be red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, by the sword shall ye be devoured; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

¹⁰ Say ye to the righteous, that he hath done well; for the fruit of their doings shall they eat. ¹¹ Woe unto the wicked who doeth evil; for the recompense of his hands shall be bestowed on him.

³ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. ⁴ What more was to be done to my vineyard, that I had not done in it? Why then did I hope that it should bring forth grapes, while it brought forth worthless fruit?

¹² And there are harp and psaltery, tambourine and flute, and wine at their drinking-feasts; but the deeds of the Lord they regard not, and the works of his hands they behold not.

¹⁶ Lord, in trouble have they sought thee, they poured out earnest prayers when thy chastening was upon them.

²² For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

³⁵ And I will shield this city to save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.

¹⁷ The poor and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue is dried up with thirst: I the Lord will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

²³ Tell the events that are to happen hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be astonished, and see it together. ²⁴ Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work less than a breath: he that is an abomination alone chooseth you.

²⁹ Behold, they all are naught; their works are nothing: wind and vanity are their molten images.

¹⁶ And I will cause the blind to walk on a way that they have not known; on paths that they have not known will I lead them: I will change darkness before them into light, and crooked places into plains. These are the things which I will do, and not leave them unfulfilled.

²⁵ I, it is I that blot out thy transgressions for my own sake, and thy sins I will not remember.

⁹ The makers of graven images are all vanity; and their costly idols cannot profit; and they are their own witnesses, that they see not and know not, in order that they may be ashamed. ¹⁰ Who hath formed a god, or cast an image that profiteth nothing?

²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye escaped fugitives of the nations! They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

³ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are borne by me from their birth, who are carried from the womb; ⁴ And even unto old age I am the same; and even unto the time of hoary hairs will I bear: l have done it, and I will carry you; even I will bear, and deliver you.

⁷ They carry him, upon the shoulder they bear him, and set up him in his spot, and he remaineth standing, from his place he doth not move: yea, though one should cry unto him, he cannot answer, out of his trouble he cannot help him.

¹¹ For my own sake will I do it: for how would my name be dishonored? and my glory will I not give unto another.

¹ Thus hath said the Lord, Where is your mother’s bill of divorcement, wherewith I have sent her away? or who of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother sent away. ² Why did I come and no man was there, did I call, with none to answer? hath my hand become too short for redeeming? or is there no power in me to deliver? behold, through my threatening I can dry up the sea, I can change the rivers into a wilderness: their fish stink for want of water, and die for thirst.

⁷ The kindnesses of the Lord will I mention, the praises of the Lord, in accordance with all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the abundant goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and the abundance of his kindnesses. ⁸ And he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie; and he became to them a Saviour. ⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and he carried them all the days of old. ¹⁰ But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit; and he changed himself to become their enemy, and he fought against them.

¹⁰ But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit; and he changed himself to become their enemy, and he fought against them. ¹¹ Then remembered his people the ancient days of Moses, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put within him his holy Spirit? ¹² That displayed by the right hand of Moses his glorious arm; that divided the water before them, to make unto himself an everlasting name? ¹³ That led them through the deeps, as a horse through the wilderness, that they should not stumble? ¹⁴ As a beast goeth down into the valley, so did the spirit of the Lord bring them to rest; thus didst thou guide thy people, to make unto thyself a glorious name.

⁵ Thus hath said the Lord, What fault did your fathers find in me, that they went away far from me, and walked after vanity, and became vain?

¹³ For two evils have my people committed: me have they forsaken, the source of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.

³² Can a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her decorations? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

¹ One could say, Behold, if a man send away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, can he return unto her again? would not that land be greatly polluted? and thou hast played the harlot with many companions, and wilt yet return to me, saith the Lord.

¹⁶ Thus hath said the Lord, Place yourselves on the ways, and see, and ask after the ancient paths, where is the way which is good, that ye may walk thereon, and find rest for your soul. But they said, We will not walk thereon.

⁸ But at once shall they be shown to be brutish and foolish: it is a doctrine of vanities, it concerneth but wood.

¹⁵ They are vanity, the work of deception; in the time of their punishment shall they vanish.

⁷ If our iniquities testify against us, O Lord, do thou act for the sake of thy name; for our backslidings are many; against thee have we sinned.

²¹ Do not cast us off, for the sake of thy name, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. ²² Are there any among the vanities of the nations those that bestow rain? or can the heavens give forth showers? Behold, thou art this, O Lord our God, and we will hope in thee; for thou hast done all these things.

¹ And the Lord said unto me, If Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my favor would still not be toward this people: send them away out of my sight, that they may go forth.

¹⁹ O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge on the day of trouble, unto thee shall nations come from the ends of the earth, and say, Nothing but falsehood had our fathers inherited, vanity, wherein there is no profit.

²⁴ Hast thou not observed what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord hath made choice of, even these hath he rejected: and they thus have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. ²⁵ Thus hath said the Lord, If my covenant be not with day and night, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth: ²⁶ Then also will I reject the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so as not to take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

³¹ For the Lord will not cast off for ever; ³² But though he have caused grief, yet will he have mercy according to the abundance of his kindnesses.

²⁰ Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time?

²⁵ Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equitable: hear now, O house of Israel, Is not my way equitable? is it not your ways which are not equitable? ²⁶ When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and doth wrong, and dieth therefore: through his wrong which he hath done must he die. ²⁷ Again, when the wicked turneth away from his wickedness which he hath committed, and executeth justice and righteousness: he shall indeed preserve his soul alive. ²⁸ Because he hath considered, and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die. ²⁹ Yet say the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equitable: are not my ways equitable, O house of Israel? is it not your ways which are not equitable? ³⁰ Therefore will I judge you, every one according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord Eternal: return ye, and cause others to return from all your transgressions, that iniquity may not become your stumbling-block.

⁹ But I acted for the sake of my name, so as not to profane it before the eyes of the nations, in the midst of whom they were; because I had made myself known unto them before their eyes, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ But I acted for the sake of my name, so as not to profane it before the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them forth.

^{4 (6:5)} Then sought the presidents and lieutenants to find a pretext against Daniel on account of the management of the kingdom; but they were not able to find any pretext or fault, forasmuch as he was faithful, and no kind of error or fault was to be found on him.

³ For now will they say, We have no king; because we fear not the Lord: and the king—what can he do for us?

^{13 (12:14)} And by a prophet did the Lord bring Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he guarded.

¹⁰ Where then is now thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, since thou saidst, Give me a king, and princes? ¹¹ I give thee a king in my anger, and take him away in my wrath.

^{8 (2:9)} They that guard false vanities forsake the source of their kindness.

¹ Do but hear now what the Lord saith, Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. ² Hear ye, O mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and ye strong foundations of the earth! for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and with Israel will he plead. ³ O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherewith have I wearied thee? testify against me. ⁴ Although I had brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bond-men; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

⁴ Although I had brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bond-men; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. ⁵ O my people, do but remember what Balak the king of Moab resolved, and what Bil’am the son of Be’or answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, in order that ye may know the gracious benefits of the Lord.

¹⁸ What profiteth the graven image that its maker hath graven it? the molten image, and a teacher of falsehood? that the maker of his image trusteth therein, while making dumb idols?

² I have loved you, so hath said the Lord: yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Is not Esau brother to Jacob? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob;

⁹ And now, I pray you, beseech the presence of God that he may be gracious unto us; from your hand hath this thing come: will he receive one of you with favor? saith the Lord of hosts.