Numbers 24 Cross References - MLV

¹ And when Balaam saw that it pleased Jehovah to bless Israel, he did not go, as at the other times, to meet with omens, but he set his face toward the wilderness. ² And Balaam lifted up his eyes and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes and the Spirit of God came upon him.
³ And he took up his oracle and said, Balaam the son of Beor says and the man whose eye was closed says, ⁴ he says who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down and having his eyes open, ⁵ How good are your tents, O Jacob, your tabernacles, O Israel! ⁶ As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the river-side, as aloes which Jehovah has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters. ⁷ Water will flow from his buckets and his seed will be in many waters and his king will be higher than Agag and his kingdom will be exalted.
⁸ God brings him forth out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox. He will eat up the nations his adversaries and will break their bones in pieces and kill* them through with his arrows. ⁹ He couched, he lay down as a lion and as a lioness. Who will rouse him up? He who graces you is blessed, And he who curses you is cursed.
¹⁰ And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam and he struck his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times. ¹¹ Therefore now flee to your place. I thought to promote you to great honor, but behold, Jehovah has kept you back from honor.
¹² And Balaam said to Balak, Did I not also speak to your messengers that you sent to me, saying, ¹³ If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or bad of my own mind. What Jehovah speaks, that I will speak?
¹⁴ And now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days.
¹⁵ And he took up his oracle and said, Balaam the son of Beor says and the man whose eye was closed says, ¹⁶ he says who hears the words of God and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down and having his eyes open.
¹⁷ I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near. There will come out a star out of Jacob and a scepter will rise out of Israel and will kill* through the corners of Moab and break down all the sons of tumult. ¹⁸ And Edom will be a possession, Seir also will be a possession, who were his enemies, while Israel does valiantly.
¹⁹ And out of Jacob will come he who will have dominion and will destroy the remnant from the city. ²⁰ And he looked on Amalek and took up his oracle and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end will come to destruction. ²¹ And he looked on the Kenite and took up his oracle and said, Strong is your dwelling-place and your nest is set in the rock. ²² Nevertheless Kain will be wasted, until Asshur will carry you away captive.
²³ And he took up his oracle and said, Alas, who will live when God does this? ²⁴ But ships will come from the coast of Kittim and they will afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber and he also will come to destruction.
²⁵ And Balaam rose up and went and returned to his place and Balak also went his way.

¹³ And Balaam rose up in the morning and said to the rulers of Balak, Get into your* land, for Jehovah refuses to give me leave to go with you*.

³ And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering and I will go. Perhaps Jehovah will come to meet me and whatever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to a bare height.

¹⁵ And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet Jehovah yonder.

²⁰ Behold, I have received to bless. And he has blessed and I cannot reverse it.

²³ Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God worked!

²⁸ And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down upon the desert.

¹⁶ Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor and so the plague was among the congregation of Jehovah.

²⁰ And now, behold, I know that you will surely be king and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.

² Then Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

²⁵ Then Saul said to David, You are blessed, my son David. You will both do mightily and will surely prevail. So David went his way and Saul returned to his place.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there some holding-fast the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast an offense in the sight the sons of Israel, even to eat idol-sacrifices and to fornicate.

² The sons of Israel will encamp every man by his own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers' houses. They will encamp all around opposite the tent of meeting.
³ And those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise will be those of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Judah will be Nahshon the son of Amminadab. ⁴ And his army and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand and six hundred. ⁵ And those who encamp next to him will be the tribe of Issachar. And the ruler of the sons of Issachar will be Nethanel the son of Zuar. ⁶ And his army and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand and four hundred. ⁷ Then the tribe of Zebulun. And the ruler of the sons of Zebulun will be Eliab the son of Helon. ⁸ And his army and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand and four hundred.
⁹ All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred eighty-six thousand and four hundred, according to their armies. They will set forth first.
¹⁰ On the south side will be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Reuben will be Elizur the son of Shedeur. ¹¹ And his army and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand and five hundred. ¹² And those who encamp next to him will be the tribe of Simeon. And the ruler of the sons of Simeon will be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. ¹³ And his army and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand and three hundred. ¹⁴ Then the tribe of Gad. And the ruler of the sons of Gad will be Eliasaph the son of Reuel. ¹⁵ And his army and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
¹⁶ All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were a hundred fifty-one thousand and four hundred and fifty, according to their armies. And they will set forth second.
¹⁷ Then the tent of meeting will set forward, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so will they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards.
¹⁸ On the west side will be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Ephraim will be Elishama the son of Ammihud. ¹⁹ And his army and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred. ²⁰ And next to him will be the tribe of Manasseh. And the ruler of the sons of Manasseh will be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. ²¹ And his army and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand and two hundred. ²² Then the tribe of Benjamin. And the ruler of the sons of Benjamin will be Abidan the son of Gideoni. ²³ And his army and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand and four hundred.
²⁴ All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were a hundred eight thousand and a hundred, according to their armies. And they will set forth third.
²⁵ On the north side will be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Dan will be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. ²⁶ And his army and those who were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand and seven hundred. ²⁷ And those who encamp next to him will be the tribe of Asher. And the ruler of the sons of Asher will be Pagiel the son of Ochran. ²⁸ And his army and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred. ²⁹ Then the tribe of Naphtali. And the ruler of the sons of Naphtali will be Ahira the son of Enan. ³⁰ And his army and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand and four hundred.
³¹ All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were a hundred fifty-seven thousand and six hundred. They will set forth rearmost by their standards.
³² These are those who were numbered of the sons of Israel by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand and five hundred and fifty. ³³ But the Levites were not numbered among the sons of Israel, as Jehovah commanded Moses. ³⁴ Thus did the sons of Israel. According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards and so they set forward, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.

²⁵ And Jehovah came down in the cloud and spoke to him and took of the spirit that was upon him and put it upon the seventy elders. And it happened, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
²⁶ But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad and the name of the other Medad. And the spirit rested upon them. And they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the tent. And they prophesied in the camp. ²⁷ And a young man ran and told Moses and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. ²⁸ And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
²⁹ And Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all of Jehovah's people were prophets, that Jehovah would put his spirit upon them!

⁹ For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone and will not be reckoned among the nations. ¹⁰ Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his!

⁵ How good are your tents, O Jacob, your tabernacles, O Israel!

¹⁰ And when they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him. And the Spirit of God came mightily upon him and he prophesied among them.

²⁰ And Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul and they also prophesied.

²³ And he went there to Naioth in Ramah and the Spirit of God came upon him also and he went on and prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

¹ And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded.

⁴ You are fair, O my love, as Tirzah, becoming as Jerusalem, sublime as an army with banners.

¹⁰ Who is she who looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, sublime as an army with banners?

²² Many will be saying to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not: prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and practice many miracles in your name?

⁴ Simon the Canaanite
and Judas the Iscariot, who gave him up to the Jews.

⁸ Heal the sick; cleanse the lepers; cast out demons; freely you received, freely you give.

²⁰ However, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in the heavens.

⁴⁹ But a certain one out of them, Caiaphas, being the high-priest of that year, said to them, You know nothing, ⁵⁰ nor are you reasoning that it is advantageous for us that one man should die on behalf of the people and that the whole nation should not perish. ⁵¹ (Now he said this not from himself, but being high-priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation;

³¹ Then Jehovah opened the eyes of Balaam and he saw the messenger of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand. And he bowed his head and fell on his face.

⁷ And he took up his oracle and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, the King of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me and come, defy Israel.

¹⁸ And he took up his oracle and said, Rise up, Balak and hear. Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

⁴ he says who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down and having his eyes open,

¹⁶ he says who hears the words of God and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down and having his eyes open.

¹ After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.

¹² And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram. And behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

⁶ And he said, Hear now my words. If there is a prophet among you*, I Jehovah will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

²⁰ And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, If the men come to call you, rise up, go with them, but only the word which I speak to you, that will you do.

²⁴ And he also stripped off his clothes and he also prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

¹⁹ Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones and said, I have laid help upon a mighty man. I have exalted a chosen man out of the people.

²⁸ As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face and I heard a voice speaking.

¹⁷ So he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was frightened and fell upon my face. But he said to me, Understand, O son of man, for the vision belongs to the time of the end.
¹⁸ Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground, but he touched me and set me upright.

²⁶ And the vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true. But shut up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.
²⁷ And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick certain days. Then I rose up and did the king's business. And I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.

¹⁵ And when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground and was mute. ¹⁶ And behold, someone in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who stood before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have turned upon me and I retain no strength.

¹⁰ Now he became very hungry and wished to eat, but when those men were preparing the food, a trance fell upon him.

¹⁹ But when Peter was contemplating concerning the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, men are seeking you.

¹⁷ Now it happened to me, having returned to Jerusalem, and in my praying in the temple, I came to be in a trance,

¹ It is not advantageous for me to boast! For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. ² I know a man in Christ, who fourteen years before, (whether in the body, I do not know or outside of the body, I do not know; God knows), such a one was seized up to the third heaven. ³ And I know such a man (whether in the body or outside of the body, I do not know; God knows), ⁴ that he was taken away into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not legal for man to speak.

¹⁰ I became in the spirit on the Lord’s day and I heard behind me a loud voice, like that of a trumpet

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell like one dead at his feet. And he placed his right hand upon me, saying, Do not fear; I am the first and the last,

⁸ And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward in Eden and he put the man whom he had formed there.
⁹ And out of the ground Jehovah God made to grow every tree that is desirable to the sight and good for food; also in the midst of the garden the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
¹⁰ And a river went out of Eden to water the garden and from there it was divided and became four chief rivers.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere ( this was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

³ And he will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. And whatever he does will prosper.

⁸ All your garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

¹² A righteous man will flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. ¹³ Men who are planted in the house of Jehovah will flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁴ They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green

¹⁶ The trees of Jehovah are full, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted,

¹² A garden shut up is my sister, my bride, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. ¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants, ¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, cane and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices. ¹⁵ You are a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters and flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded and the pomegranates were in flower.

¹⁹ I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia and the myrtle and the oil tree. I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine and the box tree together,

¹¹ And Jehovah will guide you continually and satisfy your soul in dry places and make strong your bones. And you will be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.

¹⁸ Let them be put to shame who persecute me, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed. Bring upon them the day of evil and destroy them with double destruction.

¹² And they will come and sing in the height of Zion and will flow to the goodness of Jehovah, to the grain and to the new wine and to the oil and to the young of the flock and of the herd. And their soul will be as a watered garden and they will not sorrow any more at all.

³ Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a forest-like shade and of high stature and its top was among the thick branches. ⁴ The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. The rivers of it ran all around its plantation and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

¹² And every tree will grow for food by the river upon the bank of it, on this side and on that side, whose leaf will not wither, nor will the fruit of it fail. It will bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters of it goes forth out of the sanctuary. And the fruit of it will be for food and the leaf of it for healing.

¹⁸ And it will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine and the hills will flow with milk and all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters. And a fountain will come out from the house of Jehovah and will water the valley of Shittim.

⁸ And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. ⁹ But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the seconds and the lambs and all that was good and would not utterly destroy them. But everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

³² Then Samuel said, Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him cheerfully. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
³³ And Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

¹² And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.

²¹ And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

² And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, for his kingdom was exalted on high for his people Israel's sake.

²⁰ There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem who have ruled over all the country beyond the River and tribute, custom and toll, was paid to them.

⁶ Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. ⁷ I will tell of the decree. Jehovah said to me, You are my Son, this day I have fathered you. ⁸ Ask of me and I will give you the nations as your inheritance and the outermost parts of the earth as your possession. ⁹ You will smash them with a rod of iron, you will dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
¹⁰ Now therefore be wise, O you* kings. Be instructed, you* judges of the earth.

⁴³ You have delivered me from the strifes of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.

²⁶ Praise God in the congregations, the lord of the fountain of Israel.

³ The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their waves. ⁴ Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty.

¹¹ They will speak of the glory of your kingdom and talk of your power, ¹² to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and your dominion is throughout all generations.

¹⁶ Should your springs be dispersed abroad and streams of water in the streets? ¹⁷ Let them be for yourself alone and not for strangers with you.
¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed and rejoice in the wife of your youth:

² And it will happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house will be established on the top of the mountains and will be exalted above the hills and all nations will flow to it.

⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from hereafter until everlasting. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.

¹ Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Jehovah and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

¹³ O you who dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will the sovereignty of it be left to another people, but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it will stand forever.

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered and says to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.

¹⁰ in order that every knee should bow in the name of Jesus, those from the heavenly and earthly and subterranean places, ¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹⁵ And the seventh messenger sounded, and there became loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he will be reigning forevermore.

¹ And one out of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, Come-here. I will be showing you the judgment of the great prostitute who is sitting upon many waters;

¹⁵ And he says to me, The waters which you saw, where the prostitute is sitting, are peoples and crowds and nations and languages.

¹⁶ And he has upon his garment and upon his thigh a name has been written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

⁹ Only do not rebel against Jehovah, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them and Jehovah is with us. Fear them not.

⁵ And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you* brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread and there is no water and our soul loathes this light bread.

²² God brings them forth out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.

²⁴ Behold, the people rise up as a lioness and as a lion he lifts himself up. He will not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.

¹ When Jehovah your God will bring you into the land where you go to possess it and will cast out many nations before you, the Hittite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you,

²³ I will heap evils upon them. I will spend my arrows upon them,

⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword will devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.

⁹ You will smash them with a rod of iron, you will dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

¹² Because you will make them turn their back. You will make ready with your bowstrings against their face.

⁵ Your arrows are sharp. The peoples fall under you. They are in the heart of the king's enemies.

¹³ I quieted myself until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will you make an end of me.

⁹ For behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country and they will set themselves in array against her. From there she will be taken. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man; none will return in vain.

¹⁷ Israel is a hunted sheep, the lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

²⁴ And the king commanded and they brought those men who had accused Daniel and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their sons and their wives. And the lions had the mastery of them and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

³ And I will bless those who bless you and he who curses you I will curse. And all the families of the earth will be blessed in you.

²⁹ Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers and let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed is he who curses you and blessed is he who graces you.

⁹ Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion and as a lioness, who will rouse him up?

³⁹ Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions ⁴⁰ when they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

¹⁰ None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

¹² Kiss the Son, lest he is angry and you* perish in the way, because his wrath will soon be kindled. All those who take refuge in him are fortunate.

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They will prosper who love you.

⁴⁰ And when the King answers, he will say to them, Assuredly I am saying to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of these, my brethren, even the least, you did it to me.

⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, saying, Assuredly I am saying to you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of these, the least, neither did you do it to me.

⁵ But he said, Who are you, Lord?
But the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. It is harsh for you to kick the cattle-prods.
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⁶ Therefore, I beseech you, come now, curse this people for me, for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I will prevail, that we may kill* them and that I may drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed and he whom you curse is cursed.

¹¹ Behold, the people came out of Egypt, it covers the face of the earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I will be able to fight against them and will drive them out.

¹⁷ For I will promote you to very great honor and whatever you say to me I will do. Therefore, I beseech you, come curse this people for me.

¹¹ And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.

⁴ because they met you* not with bread and with water on the way, when you* came forth out of Egypt and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. ⁵ Nevertheless Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, but Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Jehovah your God loved you.

⁹ Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you*, ¹⁰ but I would not listen to Balaam. Therefore he blessed you* greatly. So I delivered you* out of his hand.

² because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them. However our God turned the curse into a blessing.

²³ Men will clap their hands at him and will hiss him out of his place.

¹⁴ You therefore, son of man, prophesy and kill* your hands together. And let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded. It is the sword of the great man who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.

¹⁷ I will also kill* my hands together and I will cause my wrath to rest. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

¹³ Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.

³⁷ And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?

²⁸ But Jesus said to them, Assuredly I am saying to you, that you who have followed me, whenever the Son of Man sits upon the throne of his glory in the regeneration, you will also sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹ And everyone who has left houses or brethren or sisters, or their father or mother or wife, or children or fields, because of my name, will be receiving a hundred-times that, and will be inheriting everlasting life. ³⁰ But many will be last who are first, and first who are last.

²⁰ But Peter said to him, May your silver together with you be sent into destruction, because you have thought to procure the gift of God through monies!

⁸ But therefore, I am also deeming all things indeed to be a forfeiture because of the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom, I forfeited all things, and am deeming them to be but trash, in order that I may gain Christ,

²⁴ In faith, Moses, having become great, denied to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; ²⁵ having selected for himself to be mistreated together with the people of God rather than to have temporary enjoyment of sin, ²⁶ having deemed the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking toward the reward.

² Shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising the oversight, not by compulsion, but willfully, nor covetously, but eagerly; ³ nor like one lording it over his inheritances, but by becoming examples to the flock.

⁸ Beware in yourselves, in order that you should not destroy the things which we have worked in you, but in order that we may receive a full reward.

¹⁸ And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah my God, to do less or more.

³⁸ And Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.

²⁸ And Moses said, Hereby you* will know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these works, for it is not of my own mind.

¹ And Jacob called to his sons and said, gather yourselves together, that I may tell you* what will befall you* in the latter days.

¹⁷ I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near. There will come out a star out of Jacob and a scepter will rise out of Israel and will kill* through the corners of Moab and break down all the sons of tumult.

⁷ And they warred against Midian as Jehovah commanded Moses and they killed every male. ⁸ And they killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. ⁹ And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones. And all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods, they took for a prey. ¹⁰ And all their cities in the places in which they dwelt and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
¹¹ And they took all the spoil and all the prey, both of man and of beast. ¹² And they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil, to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
¹³ And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp. ¹⁴ And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war. ¹⁵ And Moses said to them, Have you* saved all the women alive? ¹⁶ Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor and so the plague was among the congregation of Jehovah.
¹⁷ Now therefore kill every male among the little ones and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him. ¹⁸ But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

²² And they will be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit and will be shut up in the prison. And after many days they will be visited.

⁴⁷ Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Jehovah. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

³⁹ But it will happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, says Jehovah.

²⁸ but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets. And he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.
Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed, are these:

¹⁴ I have come now to make you understand what will befall your people in the latter days, for the vision is yet for many days.

⁵ Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God and David their king and will come with fear to Jehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.

⁵ O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him. Remember from Shittim to Gilgal, that you* may know the righteous acts of Jehovah.

¹⁷ God says, ‘And it will be in the last days, I will pour out from My Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters will prophesy and your young-men will see visions and your elderly-men will dream dreams.

¹ But know this, that grievous times will be present in the last days.

¹⁰ Let no one fear the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some from you into prison, in order that you may be tested and you will have affliction ten days. Become faithful to death and I will be giving you the crown of life.

³ And he took up his oracle and said, Balaam the son of Beor says and the man whose eye was closed says, ⁴ he says who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down and having his eyes open,

¹ And Job again took up his discourse and said,

³⁵ that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, ‘I will open my mouth in parables. I will be uttering things which have been hidden from the conception of the world.’

¹ Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says and the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob and the sweet psalmist of Israel:
² The Spirit of Jehovah spoke by me and his word was upon my tongue.

¹ Now concerning idol-sacrifices: we know that all have knowledge. Knowledge is arrogant, but love builds up.

² And if I have the gift of prophecy and if I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so-then to remove mountains, but if I do not have love, I am nothing.

²⁵ And Adam knew his wife again and she bore a son and called his name Seth. For, she said, God has appointed for me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain killed him. ²⁶ And to Seth, to him there was also born a son and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of Jehovah.

³ And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image and called his name Seth. ⁴ And the days of Adam were eight hundred years after he fathered Seth. And he fathered more sons and daughters. ⁵ And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years and he died.
⁶ And Seth lived a hundred and five years and fathered Enosh. ⁷ And Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he fathered Enosh and fathered more sons and daughters. ⁸ And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years and he died.
⁹ And Enosh lived ninety years and fathered Kenan. ¹⁰ And Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he fathered Kenan and fathered more sons and daughters. ¹¹ And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years and he died.
¹² And Kenan lived seventy years and fathered Mahalalel. ¹³ And Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he fathered Mahalalel and fathered more sons and daughters. ¹⁴ And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years and he died.
¹⁵ And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years and fathered Jared. ¹⁶ And Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he fathered Jared and fathered more sons and daughters. ¹⁷ And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years and he died.
¹⁸ And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years and fathered Enoch. ¹⁹ And Jared lived eight hundred years after he fathered Enoch and fathered more sons and daughters. ²⁰ And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years and he died.
²¹ And Enoch lived sixty-five years and fathered Methuselah. ²² And Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah and fathered more sons and daughters. ²³ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. ²⁴ And Enoch walked with God and he did not die, because God took him.
²⁵ And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty-seven years and fathered Lamech. ²⁶ And Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he fathered Lamech and fathered more sons and daughters. ²⁷ And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years and he died.
²⁸ And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years and fathered a son. ²⁹ And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.

¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and to him will the obedience of the peoples be.

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

³⁸ And Saul said, Draw near here, all you* chiefs of the people and know and see how this sin has been this day.

² And he killed* Moab and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground. And he measured two lines to put to death and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.

⁵ But it happened, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the King of Israel.

²⁶ And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too hard for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew sword to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not. ²⁷ Then he took his eldest son who should have reigned instead of him and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel and they departed from him and returned to their own land.

² And he killed* Moab and the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.

²⁵ But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives and at last he will stand up upon the earth. ²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I will see God, ²⁷ whom I, even I, will see on my side and my eyes will behold and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

⁶ Your throne, O God, is everlasting and forever. A scepter of straightness is the scepter of your kingdom.

⁸ He will also have dominion from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.
⁹ Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before him and his enemies will lick the dust.
¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles will render tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts. ¹¹ Yes, all kings will fall down before him. All nations will serve him.

⁷⁰ He also chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds. ⁷¹ He brought him from following the ewe-lambs that have their young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance.
⁷² So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

² Jehovah will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.

¹ The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. ² They have gone up to the house and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. On all their heads is baldness. Every beard is cut off. ³ In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth. On their housetops and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly. ⁴ And Heshbon cries out and Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. His soul trembles within him.
⁵ My heart cries out for Moab. Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For they go up with weeping by the ascent of Luhith. For they raise up a cry of destruction in the way of Horonaim. ⁶ For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, for the grass is withered away. The tender grass fails. There is no green thing.
⁷ Therefore the abundance they have gotten and what they have laid up, they will carry away over the brook of the willows. ⁸ For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab, the wailing of it to Eglaim and the wailing of it to Beer-elim. ⁹ For the waters of Dimon are full of blood. For I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon those of Moab who escape and upon the remnant of the land.

¹ Send you* the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. ² For it will be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
³ Give counsel, execute justice, make your shade as the night in the midst of the noonday. Hide the outcasts. Do not betray the fugitive. ⁴ Let my outcasts dwell with you. As for Moab, be a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
⁵ And a throne will be established in loving kindness and he will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and swift to do righteousness.
⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud, even of his arrogance and his pride and his wrath. His boastings are nothing. ⁷ Therefore Moab will wail for Moab, everyone will wail. You* will mourn for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth, utterly stricken. ⁸ For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches of it, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.
⁹ Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh. For upon your summer fruits and upon your harvest the battle shout has fallen. ¹⁰ And gladness is taken away and joy out of the fruitful field. And there will be no singing nor joyful noise in the vineyards. No treader will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the vintage shout to cease.
¹¹ Therefore my heart roars like a harp for Moab and my inward parts for Kir-heres. ¹² And it will happen, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon the high place and will come to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.
¹³ This is the word that Jehovah spoke concerning Moab in time past. ¹⁴ But now Jehovah has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude. And the remnant will be very small and of no account.

⁴⁵ Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon. For a fire has gone forth out of Heshbon and a flame from the midst of Sihon and has devoured the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

⁴ From him will come out the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.

¹⁰ And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they will look to me whom they have pierced. And they will mourn for him, as a man mourns for his only son and will be in bitterness for him, as a man who is in bitterness for his firstborn.

² saying, Where is he who has been born the King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east and have come to worship him. ³ Now when Herod the king heard it, he was disturbed and everyone in Jerusalem with him. ⁴ And having gathering together all the high-priests and scribes of the people, he inquired from them where the Christ should be born.
⁵ Now they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea; for thus it has been written through the prophet, ⁶ ‘And Bethlehem, a land of Judah, you are by no means least among the governors of Judah; for a leader will be coming forth from you, who will be shepherding my people Israel.’
⁷ Then Herod, having called the wise-men secretly, ascertained accurately from them the time of the star’s appearing. ⁸ And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, While you are traveling, probe out accurately the things concerning the young child. And whenever you have found him, report to me, that I may also come and may worship him. ⁹ Now having heard the king, they traveled away. And behold, the star, which they saw in the east, was preceding them until it came and stood above where the young child was.

³² He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest and the Lord God will be giving to him the throne of his father David, ³³ and he will be reigning over the house of Jacob forever, and there will be no end of his kingdom.

⁷⁸ through the heart of mercy of our God, in which the rising of light from on high has visited us,

⁸ But he says toward the Son, ‘Your throne, O God, is forevermore; the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.

¹⁹ And we have the steadfast prophetic word, (as to a lamp appearing in a dreary place, until the day should dawn and the morning-star might rise), to which you are doing well, and taking-heed in your hearts.

¹¹ Woe to them! Because they traveled in the way of Cain and poured themselves into the error of Balaam’s reward and perished in the dispute of Korah.

¹⁴ Now Enoch, seventh from Adam, also prophesied about these people, saying, Behold, the Lord came in among tens of thousands of his holy-ones, ¹⁵ to make a judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly of them, concerning all their works of ungodliness of which they did in ungodly ways and concerning all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

⁷ Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will be seeing him and those who stabbed him, and all the tribes of the earth will be grieving over him. Yes he comes, Amen.

¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent my messenger to testify to you these things in the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.

⁴⁰ And you will live by your sword and you will serve your brother. And it will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from your neck.

³ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

¹⁴ And he put garrisons in Edom. He put garrisons throughout all Edom and all the Edomites became servants to David. And Jehovah gave victory to David wherever he went.

¹ O God you have cast us off. You have broken us down. You have been angry. O restore us again.

⁸ Moab is my wash pot. I will cast my shoe upon Edom. Philistia, shout because of me. ⁹ Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?
¹⁰ Have you not, O God, cast us off? And you do not go forth, O God, with our armies. ¹¹ Give us help against the adversary, for vain is the help of man. ¹² Through God we will do valiantly, for he it is who will tread down our adversaries.

⁵ For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold, it will come down upon Edom and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, this who is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

¹² that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that are called by my name, says Jehovah who does this.

¹ Why do the nations rage and the peoples meditate vain things? ² The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against Jehovah and against his anointed, saying, ³ Let us break their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.
⁴ He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will mock them. ⁵ Then he will speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his great displeasure.
⁶ Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. ⁷ I will tell of the decree. Jehovah said to me, You are my Son, this day I have fathered you. ⁸ Ask of me and I will give you the nations as your inheritance and the outermost parts of the earth as your possession. ⁹ You will smash them with a rod of iron, you will dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
¹⁰ Now therefore be wise, O you* kings. Be instructed, you* judges of the earth. ¹¹ Serve Jehovah with fear and rejoice with trembling. ¹² Kiss the Son, lest he is angry and you* perish in the way, because his wrath will soon be kindled. All those who take refuge in him are fortunate.

⁷ Because the king trusts in Jehovah. And through the loving kindness of the Most High he will not be shaken.
⁸ Your hand will find out all your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. ⁹ You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath and the fire will devour them. ¹⁰ You will destroy their fruit from the earth and their seed from among the sons of men.

¹⁰ And there will be a root of Jesse in that day and he who arises to rule over the Gentiles. In him will the Gentiles hope and his resting place will be glorious.

² But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of you he will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from long-ago, from the days of everlasting.

⁴ And he will stand and will feed his flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God and they will abide. For now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

⁴⁶ And these will be going away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.

¹⁸ And Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to me in heaven and upon earth.

¹² Therefore he said: A certain noble man, traveled into a far away region, to receive a kingdom for himself and to return.

²⁷ However my enemies, those men who did not wish that I should reign over them, lead them here and slaughter them before me.

²⁵ For it is essential for him to reign, till whenever, he should place all his enemies under his feet.

²⁰ which he worked in the Christ, having raised him up from the dead and seated him by his right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹ up above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name that is being named, not only in this age, but also in the future age. \ulnone\nosupersub ²² And he subjected all things under his feet and gave him to be head above all things to the congregation of believers,

²² who is at the right hand of God, having traveled into heaven; with messengers and authorities and powers having been made subject to him.

⁸ Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

¹⁴ And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

¹⁶ And he said, Jehovah has sworn, Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

³ And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up and the Amalekites and the sons of the east, they came up against them.

⁴⁸ And he did valiantly and killed* the Amalekites and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.

³ Now go and kill* Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not, but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing-baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. ⁴ And Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.
⁵ And Saul came to the city of Amalek and laid wait in the valley. ⁶ And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, you* get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you* with them, for you* showed kindness to all the sons of Israel when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
⁷ And Saul killed* the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt. ⁸ And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

⁸ And David and his men went up and made a raid upon the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites, for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
⁹ And David killed* the land and saved neither man nor woman alive and took away the sheep and the oxen and the donkeys and the camels and the apparel and he returned and came to Achish.

¹ And it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid upon the South and upon Ziklag and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,

¹⁷ And David killed* them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. And there escaped not a man of them, except four hundred young men who rode upon camels and fled.

⁴³ And they killed* the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped and have dwelt there to this day.

¹ After these things king Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite and advanced him and set his seat above all the rulers that were with him.

⁹ Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were before the king said, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him on it.
¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

¹⁴ And the king commanded it so to be done. And a decree was given out in Shushan and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

¹⁹ the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite

¹⁶ And the sons of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the sons of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad and they went and dwelt with the people.

¹⁸ Then I said, I will die in my nest and I will multiply my days as the sand.

¹¹ He went forth out of that land into Assyria and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-ir and Calah

²² The sons of Shem were : Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

² then they drew near to Zerubbabel and to the heads of fathers and said to them, Let us build with you*, for we seek your* God, as you* do and we sacrifice to him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us up here.

⁸ Assyria also is joined with them; they have helped the sons of Lot. Selah.

³ Assyria will not save us. We will not ride upon horses, nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods. For in you the fatherless finds mercy.

¹ Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and honorable, because by him Jehovah had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

² But who can abide the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like launder's soap.

⁴ And the sons of Javan were : Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.

²¹ And to Shem, the father of all the sons of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were also born to him. ²² The sons of Shem were : Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram. ²³ And the sons of Aram were : Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash. ²⁴ And Arpachshad fathered Shelah and Shelah fathered Eber.
²⁵ And to Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg. For in his days the earth was divided. And his brother's name was Joktan.

¹³ And some man came who had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. And these were allies with Abram.

²⁰ And he looked on Amalek and took up his oracle and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end will come to destruction.

¹ The burden of Tyre. Howl, you* ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. It is revealed to them from the land of Kittim.

³⁵ Then the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold, was broken in pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. And the stone that killed* the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

⁴⁵ Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. And the dream is certain and the interpretation of it sure.

¹⁹ Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was different from all of them, exceedingly fearful, whose teeth were of iron and its nails of brass, which devoured, broke in pieces and stamped the residue with its feet, ²⁰ and concerning the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was greater than its fellows.

²³ Thus he said, The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and will tread it down and break it in pieces.
²⁴ And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise. And another will arise after them and he will be different from the former. And he will put down three kings. ²⁵ And he will speak words against the Most High and will wear out the holy ones of the Most High. And he will think to change the times and the law and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
²⁶ But the judgment will be set and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.

⁵ And as I was considering, behold, a male-goat came from the west over the face of the whole earth and did not touch the ground. And the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. ⁶ And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river and ran upon him in the fury of his power.
⁷ And I saw him come close to the ram. And he was moved with anger against him and killed* the ram and broke his two horns. And there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled upon him. And there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
⁸ And the male-goat magnified himself exceedingly. And when he was strong, the great horn was broken and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of heaven.

²¹ And the rough male-goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one will be cut off and will have nothing. And the people of the prince who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary and the end of it will be with a flood. And even to the end will be war; desolations are determined. ²⁷ And he will make a firm covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. And upon the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate. And even to the full end and that determined, wrath will be poured out upon the desolate.

²⁰ Then he said, Do you know why I have come to you? And now I will return to fight with the ruler of Persia. And when I go forth behold, the ruler of Greece will come.

³⁰ For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved and will return and have indignation against the holy covenant and will do his pleasure. He will even return and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.

⁴⁵ And he will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain, yet he will come to his end and none will help him.

¹⁵ Therefore, whenever you behold the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let the one who is reading perceive),

²⁴ Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription has it?
But they answered and said, Caesar’s.

²⁹ Because behold, the days are coming in which they will say, The fortunate ones are: barren and the wombs that did not give-birth and the breasts that did not nurse. ³⁰ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us, and to the hills, Hide us. ³¹ Because if they are doing these things in the green tree, what might happen in the dry?

⁴⁸ If we allow him to continue so; all will believe in him. And the Romans will be coming and taking away both our place and the nation.

² And he cried in a mighty voice, saying, Babylon the great has fallen and it has become a residence of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit and a prison of every unclean and having been hated bird. ³ Because out of the wine of the fury of her fornication all the nations have fallen, and the kings of the earth fornicated with her and the merchants of the earth were enriched from the power of her promiscuity.
⁴ And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, in order that you might not have fellowship together in her sins and in order that you might not receive out of her wounds, ⁵ because her sins were joined to her even up to heaven and God has remembered her wrongdoing. ⁶ Repay to her as she has also given to you and you do this double to her–double again according to her works; in the cup which she mingled, mingle to her double again. ⁷ In how-much she glorified herself and was promiscuous, give to her so-much more torment and mourning, because she says in her heart, I am sitting as a queen and I am no widow and may never see mourning. ⁸ Because of this, in one day her wounds will come–death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned in fire, because strong is the Lord God who judged her. ⁹ And the kings of the earth, who fornicated and were promiscuous with her, will weep and will grieve over her, whenever they look upon the smoke of her fire, ¹⁰ standing from afar because of their fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! Because in one hour your judgment has come. ¹¹ And the merchants of the earth will weep and will mourn over her, because no one is buying their cargo anymore; ¹² cargo of gold, silver, precious stone, pearl, fine-linen, purple, silk, scarlet, every citron wood thing, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made out of the most precious wood and from brass, iron and marble; ¹³ and cinnamon, spice, incenses, perfume, frankincense, wine, oil, fine-flour, grain, sheep, other animals, and of horses and of chariots and of bodies and souls of men. ¹⁴ And the autumn-fruits of lust of your soul have gone away from you and all things which were luxurious and bright have perished from you and you may never find them anymore. ¹⁵ The merchants of these things, who were enriched from her, will be standing from afar because of the fear of her torment, while weeping and mourning. ¹⁶ And they are saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she who has been dressed in fine-linen, and purple and scarlet and has been arrayed in gold, precious stone and pearls! ¹⁷ Because in an hour so-many riches was made desolate. And every helmsman and everyone who sails any place and sailors and as many as are working from the sea, stood from afar, ¹⁸ and were crying out, seeing the smoke of her fire, saying, What city is similar to the great city? ¹⁹ And they cast dirt upon their heads and were crying, weeping and mourning and saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were enriched out of her costliness! Because in one hour she was made desolate. ²⁰ Be joyous over her: heaven and the holy-ones and the apostles and the prophets, because God has judged your condemnation from her
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²¹ And a strong messenger took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, So Babylon, the great city, will be cast down, with a violent-impulse, and may never be found anymore. ²² And the voice of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters may never be heard in you anymore, and every craftsman of every craft may never be found in you anymore, and the voice of a millstone may never be heard in you anymore; ²³ and the light of a lamp may never appear in you anymore, and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride may never be heard in you anymore. Your merchants were the great-men of the earth, because all the nations were misled in your sorcery. ²⁴ And the bloods of prophets and of holy-ones and of all who have been slaughtered upon the earth was found in her.

¹¹ Therefore now flee to your place. I thought to promote you to great honor, but behold, Jehovah has kept you back from honor.

⁸ And they killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

²² The sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the enchanter, with the sword among the rest of their slain.