Genesis 20 Cross References - MSTC

¹ And Abraham departed thence toward the south country and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar. ² And Abraham said of Sara his wife, that she was his sister. Then Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and fetched Sara away. ³ And God came to Abimelech by night in a dream and said to him, "See, thou art but a dead man for the woman's sake which thou hast taken away, for she is a man's wife." ⁴ But Abimelech had not yet come nigh her, and therefore said, "LORD, wilt thou slay righteous people? ⁵ Said not he unto me, that she was his sister? Yea, and said not she herself that he was her brother? With a pure heart and innocent hands have I done this!" ⁶ And God said unto him in a dream, "I know it well that thou didst it in the pureness of thy heart: And therefore I kept thee that thou shouldest not sin against me, neither suffered I thee to come nigh her. ⁷ Now, therefore, deliver the man his wife again, for he is a prophet. And let him pray for thee that thou mayest live. But and if thou deliver her not again, be sure that thou shalt die the death, with all that thou hast." ⁸ Then Abimelech rose up betimes in the morning and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears, and the men were sore afraid. ⁹ And Abimelech called Abraham and said unto him, "What hast thou done unto us, and what have I offended thee, that thou shouldest bring on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done." ¹⁰ And Abimelech said moreover unto Abraham, "What sawest thou that moved thee to do this thing?" ¹¹ And Abraham answered, "I thought that peradventure the fear of God was not in this place, and that they should slay me for my wife's sake: ¹² yet in very deed she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not of my mother: and became my wife. ¹³ And after God caused me to wander out of my father's house, I said unto her, 'This kindness shalt thou show unto me in all places where we come, that thou say of me, how that I am thy brother.'" ¹⁴ Then took Abimelech sheep and oxen, menservants and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and delivered him Sara his wife again. ¹⁵ And Abimelech said, "Behold, the land lieth before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee best." ¹⁶ And unto Sara he said, "See, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, behold this thing shall be a covering to thine eyes unto all that are with thee and unto all men and an excuse." ¹⁷ And so Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidens, so that they bare. ¹⁸ For the LORD had closed to all the matrices of the house of Abimelech, because of Sara, Abraham's wife.

¹⁹ And the coasts of the Canaanites were from Sidon till thou come to Gerar and to Gaza, and till thou come to Sodom, Gomorrah, Adma, Zeboiim: even unto Lasha.

¹ Then Abram departed out of Egypt; both he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him unto the south.

⁷ And then turned they and came to the well of judgment which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwell in Hazezon-Tamar.

¹ Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children. But she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

⁷ And the Angel of the LORD found her beside a fountain of water in the wilderness: even by a well in the way to Shur.

¹⁴ Wherefore she called the well, "the well of the living that seeth me" which well is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹ And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.

⁶² And Isaac was a coming from the well of the living and seeing, for he dwelt in the south country,

¹ And there fell a dearth in the land, passing the first dearth that fell in the days of Abraham. Wherefore Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.

⁶ And Isaac dwelled in Gerar.

²⁰ And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." Then called he the well Esek, because they strove with him.

²⁶ Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar; and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol his chief captain.

²⁶ And they went and came to Moses and Aaron and unto all the multitude of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran: even unto Kadesh, and brought them word and also unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

¹⁶ Then we cried unto the LORD and he heard our voices, and sent an angel and hath fetched us out of Egypt. And behold, we are in Kadesh, a city hard by the borders of thy country:

¹⁹ And then we departed from Horeb and walked through all that great and terrible wilderness, as ye have seen along by the way that leadeth unto the hills of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us, and came to Kadesh Barnea.

⁵¹ For ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of strife, at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin: because ye sanctified me not among the children of Israel.

⁷ And Saul slew the Amalekites from Havilah to Shur that lieth before Egypt,

¹³ And Asa, and the people that was with him, followed after them as far as Gerar. And the black Moors were overthrown, that there bode none alive of them, but were destroyed of the LORD and of his Host. And they carried away a mighty great prey. ¹⁴ And they smote all the cities round about Gerar. For the fear of the LORD came upon them. And they robbed all the cities, for there was exceeding much to be robbed in them.

⁸ the voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; yea, the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

¹¹ And when he was come nigh for to enter into Egypt, he said unto Sarai his wife, "Behold, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon. ¹² It will come to pass, therefore, when the Egyptians see thee, that they will say, 'she is his wife.' And so shall they slay me and save thee. ¹³ Say, I pray thee therefore, that thou art my sister; that I may fare the better by reason of thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake."

¹⁵ And Pharaoh's lords saw her also, and praised her unto Pharaoh, so that she was taken into Pharaoh's house;

¹² yet in very deed she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not of my mother: and became my wife.

⁷ And the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he said that she was his sister: for he feared to call her his wife lest the men of the place should have killed him for her sake, because she was beautiful to the eye.

¹⁶ Then said Abimelech unto Isaac, "Get thee from me, for thou art mightier than we a great deal."

² And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went out against him and said to king Jehoshaphat, "Oughtest thou to help the wicked, and to love them that hate the LORD? In this verily is the wrath of the LORD upon thee.

³⁷ And Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works." And the ships were broken that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

³¹ But when the ambassadors of the lords of Babylon were sent to him to enquire of the wonder that chanced in the land, God left him: to tempt him, that all that was in his heart might be known.

¹⁶ For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; but the ungodly fall into wickedness.

²⁰ For there is not one just upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

¹¹ And when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him in the face, for he was worthy to be blamed. ¹² For yer that certain came from James, he ate with the gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision,

²⁵ Wherefore, put away lying, and speak every man truth unto his neighbor, forasmuch as we are members one of another.

⁹ Lie not one to another, that the old man with his works be put off,

⁷ Now, therefore, deliver the man his wife again, for he is a prophet. And let him pray for thee that thou mayest live. But and if thou deliver her not again, be sure that thou shalt die the death, with all that thou hast."

¹² And he dreamed: and behold there stood a ladder upon the earth, and the top of it reached up to heaven. And see, the angels of God went up and down upon it.

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Sirian in a dream by night, and said unto him, "Take heed to thyself, that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good."

⁵ Moreover, Joseph dreamed a dream and told it his brethren: wherefore they hated him yet the more.

⁹ And he dreamed yet another dream and told it his brethren, saying, "Behold, I have had one dream more: me thought the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me."

⁸ They answered him, "We have dreamed a dream, and have no man to declare it." And Joseph said unto them, "Interpreting belongeth to God, but tell me yet."

¹ And it fortuned, at two years' end, that Pharaoh dreamed; and thought that he stood by a river's side, ² and that there came out of the river seven goodly cows and fat fleshed, and fed in a meadow. ³ And him thought that seven other cows came up after them out of the river; evil favored and lean fleshed and stood by the other upon the brink of the river. ⁴ And the evil favored and lean fleshed cows ate up the seven well favored and fat cows: and he awoke therewith. ⁵ And he slept again and dreamed the second time, that seven ears of corn grew upon one stalk, rank and goodly. ⁶ And that seven thin ears, blasted with the wind, sprang up after them: ⁷ and that the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And then Pharaoh awaked: and see, here is his dream. ⁸ When the morning came, his spirit was troubled. And he sent and called for all the soothsayers of Egypt and all the wise men thereof, and told them his dream: but there was none of them that could interpret it unto Pharaoh. ⁹ Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, "I do remember my fault this day. ¹⁰ Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put in ward in the chief marshal's house both me and the chief baker. ¹¹ And we dreamed both of us in one night and each man's dream of a sundry interpretation. ¹² And there was with us a young man, an Hebrew-born servant unto the chief marshal. And we told him, and he declared our dreams to us according to either of our dreams. ¹³ And as he declared them unto us, even so it came to pass. I was restored to mine office again, and he was hanged." ¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph. And they made him haste out of prison. And he shaved himself and changed his raiment, and went in to Pharaoh. ¹⁵ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream and no man can interpret it, but I have heard say of thee that as soon as thou hearest a dream, thou dost interpret it." ¹⁶ And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace without me." ¹⁷ Pharaoh said unto Joseph, "In my dream, me thought I stood by a river's side, ¹⁸ and there came out of the river seven fat fleshed and well favored cows, and fed in the meadow. ¹⁹ And then seven other cows came up after them, poor and very evil favored and lean fleshed: so that I never saw their like, in all the land of Egypt, in evil favoredness. ²⁰ And the seven lean and evil favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows. ²¹ And when they had eaten them up, a man could not perceive that they had eaten them: for they were still as evil favored as they were at the beginning. And I awoke. ²² And I saw again in my dream seven ears spring out of one stalk, full and good, ²³ and seven other ears, withered, thin and blasted with wind, spring up after them. ²⁴ And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I have told it unto the soothsayers, but no man can tell me what it meaneth." ²⁵ Then Joseph said unto Pharaoh, "Both Pharaoh's dreams are one. And God doth show Pharaoh what he is about to do. ²⁶ The seven good cows are seven years: and the seven good ears are seven years also, and is but one dream. ²⁷ Likewise, the seven thin and evil favored cows that came out after them, are seven years: and the seven empty and blasted ears shall be seven years of hunger. ²⁸ This is that which I said unto Pharaoh, that God doth show Pharaoh what he is about to do. ²⁹ "Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenteousness throughout all the land of Egypt. ³⁰ And there shall arise after them seven years of hunger. So that all the plenteousness shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt. And the hunger shall consume the land: ³¹ so that the plenteousness shall not be once a seen in the land, by reason of that hunger that shall come after, for it shall be exceeding great. ³² And as concerning that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh the second time, it betokeneth that the thing is certainly prepared of God, and that God will shortly bring it to pass. ³³ Now therefore, let Pharaoh provide for a man of understanding and wisdom, and set him over the land of Egypt. ³⁴ And let Pharaoh make officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years ³⁵ and let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up corn under the power of Pharaoh: that there may be food in the cities, ³⁶ and there let them keep it: that there may be food in store in the land, against the seven years of hunger which shall come in the land of Egypt, and that the land perish not through hunger."

¹² "And unto me came the word secretly, and mine ear hath received a little thereof. ¹³ In the fantasies and thoughts of the visions of the night, when sleep cometh on men:

¹⁵ In dreams and visions of the night season - When slumbering cometh upon men, that they fall a sleep in their beds -

¹⁴ He suffered no man to hurt them, but reproved even kings for their sakes,

¹⁴ Again; If I say unto the wicked, 'Thou shalt surely die,' and so he turn from his sins, and do the thing that is lawful and right: ¹⁵ Insomuch that the same wicked man giveth the pledge again, restoreth that he had taken away by robbery, walketh in the commandments of life, and doth no wrong: Then shall he surely live, and not die.

⁴ And Jonah went to and entered into the city even a day's journey, and cried, saying, "There shall not pass forty days but Nineveh shall be overthrown."

²⁰ While he thus thought, Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: For that which is conceived in her is of the holy ghost.

¹² And after they were warned of God in a dream that they should not go again to Herod, they returned into their own country another way. ¹³ When they were departed, Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying,. "Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt, and abide there till I bring thee word: For Herod will seek the child to destroy him."

¹⁹ When he was set down to give judgment, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have thou nothing to do with that just man, I have suffered many things this day in a dream about him."

²³ and drew near and said, "Wilt thou destroy the righteous with the wicked? ²⁴ If there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt thou destroy it and not spare the place for the sake of fifty righteous that are therein? ²⁵ That be far from thee, that thou shouldest do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked: that be far from thee. Should not the Judge of all the world do according to right?"

²⁴ Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,

⁶ And God said unto him in a dream, "I know it well that thou didst it in the pureness of thy heart: And therefore I kept thee that thou shouldest not sin against me, neither suffered I thee to come nigh her.

¹⁷ And so Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidens, so that they bare. ¹⁸ For the LORD had closed to all the matrices of the house of Abimelech, because of Sara, Abraham's wife.

¹¹ And how much more ought I to deal with wicked men that have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? Now therefore think ye that I will not require his blood of your hands and take you from the earth?"

¹⁷ And David said unto God, "Is it not I that commanded to number the people? And I am he that have sinned and done evil in deed. But what have these sheep done? Let thine hand therefore O LORD God be on me and on my father's house, and not on thy people to destroy them."

²² "The mighty God Jehovah, he knoweth, and Israel shall know if; it be to rebel or transgress against the LORD, then the LORD save us not this day.

⁴ And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in pureness of heart and plainness, to do all that I have commanded thee, and shalt keep mine ordinances and customs:

³ "Oh LORD, remember yet how I have walked before thee truly and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight," and wept a great pace.

¹⁷ I know my God, that thou provest the heart and hast pleasure in plainness. And in plainness of mine heart I have willingly given all this. And now I see thy people, which are here in gladness to offer willingly to thee.

⁹ 'I am clean without any fault, I am innocent, and there is no wickedness in me.

⁸ The LORD shall judge the people; give sentence with me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to the innocence that is in me.

⁴ Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart, and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.

²¹ Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me, for my hope hath been in thee.

⁶ I wash my hands with innocency, O LORD, and so will I go to thine altar,

¹³ and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?

⁷² So he fed them with a faithful and true heart, and ruled them with all the diligence of his power.

³ The innocent dealing of the just shall lead them; but the unfaithfulness of the despisers shall be their own destruction.

⁷ Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life; happy shall his children be whom he leaveth behind him.

²² My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lions' mouths, so that they might not hurt me. For why? Mine unguiltiness is found out before him. And as for thee, O king, I never offended thee."

¹² Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness — and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God — we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

¹³ when before I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a tyrant. But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly, through unbelief:

³ but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, said God, see that ye eat not, and see that ye touch it not: lest ye die."

¹⁸ For the LORD had closed to all the matrices of the house of Abimelech, because of Sara, Abraham's wife.

¹¹ Then Abimelech charged all his people saying, "He that toucheth this man or his wife, shall surely die for it."

⁷ And your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not to hurt me.

⁵ And they departed. And the fear of God fell upon the cities that were round about them, that they durst not follow after the sons of Jacob.

⁹ He himself is not greater in the house than I, and hath kept nothing from me, but only thee because thou art his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, for to sin against God?"

²⁴ for I will cast out the nations before thee and will enlarge thy coasts, so that no man shall desire thy land, while thou goest up to appear before the face of the LORD thy God, thrice in the year.

² "When a soul sinneth and trespasseth against the LORD, and denied unto his neighbour that which was taken him to keep, or that was put under his hand, or that which he hath violently taken away, or that which he hath deceived his neighbour of with subtlety,

²⁶ And now my lord as sure as the LORD liveth and as thy soul liveth, the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood and from avenging thyself with thine own hand. Furthermore, I pray God that thine enemies and they that intend to do my lord evil, may be as Nabal.

³⁴ For in very deed — as sure as the LORD God of Israel liveth which hath kept me back from hurting thee — except thou hadst hasted and met me, there had not been left Nabal, by the dawning of the day, a pisser against the wall."

⁴ Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and clear when thou shalt judge.

¹² So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and let them follow their own imaginations.

¹¹ For the LORD God is a light and defense; the LORD will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life.

¹ The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like as are the rivers of water; he may turn it whithersoever he will.

⁶ "But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps: ⁷ and though she run after her lovers, yet shall she not get them: she shall seek them, but not find them. Then shall she say, 'Well, I will go turn again to my first husband, for at that time was I better at ease, than now.'

¹ As concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man, not to touch a woman.

¹⁷ Wherefore, "Come out from among them, and separate yourselves," saith the Lord, "and touch none unclean thing: so will I receive you,

⁷ For the mystery of that iniquity doth he already work, which only looketh, till he be taken out of the way

¹¹ And therefore God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe lies:

¹⁷ But of the tree of knowledge of good and bad see that thou eat not: For even the same day thou eatest of it, thou shalt surely die.

¹⁷ But God plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

¹⁶ And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: he shall be thy mouth, and thou shalt be his God:

¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Behold, I have made thee Pharaoh's God, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

¹ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, ² "This month shall be your chief month: even the first month of the year shall it be unto you. ³ Speak ye unto all the fellowship of Israel, saying that they take, the tenth day of this month, to every household: a sheep.

¹⁷ And his father-in-law said unto him, "It is not well that thou doest.

⁴ Then when he hath sinned or trespassed, he shall restore again that he took violently away, or the wrong which he did, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

⁷ And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD, and it shall be forgiven him in whatsoever thing it be that a man doth and trespasseth therein."

³² and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their houses and all the men that were with Korah and all their goods. ³³ And they and all that pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.

⁵ Then said Samuel, "Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, that I may pray for you unto the LORD."

⁸ and said to Samuel, "Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he may save us out of the hands of the Philistines."

¹⁹ Then said all the people unto Samuel, "Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have sinned in asking us a king, beside all the sins that ever we did."

²³ Moreover, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in leaving praying for you and to show you the good and right way.

¹⁷ Then spake David unto the LORD when he saw the Angel that smote the people, and said, "Lo, it is I that have sinned, and I that have done wickedly. But these sheep what have they done? Let I pray thee thine hand be on me and on my father's house."

⁶ And the king answered and said unto the man of God, "Oh pray unto the LORD thy God and make intercession for me, that my hand may be restored me again." And the man of God besought the LORD, and his hand came to him again as well as before.

¹ And at the last, the word of the LORD came to Elijah the third year, saying, "Go show thyself unto Ahab, that I may send rain upon the earth." ² And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab, for there was a great famishment in Samaria. ³ Wherefore Ahab called Obadiah the governor of his house — which Obadiah feared God greatly, ⁴ insomuch that when Jezebel destroyed the Prophets of the LORD, he took a hundred of the Prophets and hid them, fifty in one cave and fifty in another, and provided bread and water for them. ⁵ And Ahab said unto Obadiah, "Walk through the land, unto all fountains of water and unto all brooks, to see whether any grass may be found that we may save the horses and the mules, that we destroy not the beasts." ⁶ And they divided the land between them to walk through it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another by himself. ⁷ And it chanced, as Obadiah went in the way, that Elijah met him. And Obadiah knew him and fell on his face and said, "Art not thou my lord Elijah?" ⁸ And he said unto him, "I am he. Go and tell Ahab that Elijah is here." ⁹ And the other answered, "What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver me unto the hand of Ahab, to slay me? ¹⁰ As surely as the LORD thy God liveth there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent, to seek thee. And when they said thou wast not there, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, because he found thee not. ¹¹ And now thou sayest, 'Go and tell thy Lord Elijah is here.' ¹² And as soon as I am gone from thee, the spirit of the LORD shall carry thee away, whither I shall not know: and then when I have gone and told Ahab, and then he can not find thee, he shall slay me. And yet I thy servant have feared the LORD from my young age. ¹³ Was it not told my lord what I did, when Jezebel slew the Prophets of the LORD? How I hid a hundred of the LORD's Prophets, fifty in one cave and as many in another, and provided them of bread and water? ¹⁴ And yet now thou sayest, "Go show thy lord that Elijah is here, that he should slay me." ¹⁵ Then Elijah said, "As truly as the LORD of Hosts liveth, before whom I stand: I will show myself unto him this day." ¹⁶ And thereupon Obadiah went to Ahab and told him. And Ahab went against Elijah. ¹⁷ And when Ahab saw Elijah, he said unto him, "Art thou he that troubleth Israel?" ¹⁸ And he said, "It is not I that trouble Israel, but thou and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and hast followed Baal. ¹⁹ But now send and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel; and the Prophets of Baal, four hundred and fifty; and the Prophets of the groves; four hundred, which eat of Jezebel's table. ²⁰ And Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and gathered the Prophets unto mount Carmel. ²¹ And Elijah came unto all the people and said, "Why halt ye between two opinions? If the LORD be very God, follow him: or if Baal be he, follow him." And the people answered him not one word. ²² Then said Elijah unto the people, "I only remain of the LORD's Prophets, and Baal's Prophets are four hundredth and fifty. ²³ Let two oxen be given us, and let them choose the one and cut him in pieces and lay him on wood, and put no fire under. And I will dress the other and put him on wood, and will put no fire under. ²⁴ And call ye on the name of your God, and I will call on the name of the LORD. And then the God that answereth by fire, he is the very God." And all the people said, "It is well spoken." ²⁵ Then said Elijah unto the Prophets of Baal, "Choose you an ox and dress him first — for ye are many — and call on the name of your God, but put no fire under." ²⁶ And they took the ox that was given them and dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning to noon saying, "O Baal, hear us!" But there was no voice nor answer. And they leapt about the altar that they had made. ²⁷ And at noon Elijah mocked them, and said, "Call loud, for he is a god: but he is talking, or occupied, or in the way, or haply he sleepeth, that he may awake!" ²⁸ And they cried loud and cut themselves, as their manner was, with knives and lances, till the blood flowed on them. ²⁹ And when midday was passed, they prophesied until it was time to offer. But there was neither voice nor answer nor any that regarded them. ³⁰ Then Elijah said to all the folk, "Come to me." And all the people came to him. And he mended the altar of the LORD that was broken. ³¹ And he took twelve stones according to the number of the twelve tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came saying, "Israel shall be thy name." ³² And with the stones he made an altar in the name of the LORD. And he made a gutter round about the altar, able to receive two pecks of corn. ³³ And he put the wood in order, and hewed the ox in pieces, and put him on the wood, ³⁴ and said, "Fill four pitchers with water and pour it on the sacrifice and on the wood." And he said, "Do so again." And they did so again. Then he said, "Do it the third time." And they did so the third time. ³⁵ And the water ran round about the altar, and the gutter was full of water also. ³⁶ And when offering time was come, Elijah the prophet went to and said, "LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and of Israel, let it be known this day, that thou art the God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I do all these things at thy commandment. ³⁷ Hear me, O LORD; hear me, that this people may know, that thou LORD, art the God, and that thou hast turned their hearts backward." ³⁸ And there fell fire from the LORD and consumed the sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the gutter. ³⁹ And when all the people saw that, they fell on their faces and said, "The LORD, he is God, the LORD, he is God." ⁴⁰ Then said Elijah unto them, "Lay hands on the Prophets of Baal — let not one of them escape." And when they had taken them, Elijah brought them down unto the brook Kishon, and slew them there. ⁴¹ Then Elijah said unto Ahab, "Get thee up and eat and drink, for there is a sound of much rain." ⁴² And when Ahab went up to eat and to drink, Elijah went up to the top of mount Carmel; and bowed himself to the earth, and put his face between his knees, ⁴³ and said to his servant, "Go up and look toward the sea." And he went up and looked, and said, "Here is nothing." And he said, "Go again seven times." ⁴⁴ And the seventh time he said, "Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like the palm of a man's hand." Then he said, "Go and say to Ahab, 'Put the horses in the chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.'" ⁴⁵ And within a little while, heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel. ⁴⁶ And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab, till they came to Jezreel.

¹¹ And Naaman was wroth and went away, and said, "Behold, I thought in myself, he would have come out, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and put his hand on the place of the disease, and so take away the leprosy.

² Furthermore he sent Eliakim, steward of the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed in sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. ³ And they said to him, "Thus sayeth Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of tribulation, rebuking and railing. Even as when the children are ready to be born, and the mothers have no power to be delivered. ⁴ O that the LORD thy God would hear all the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to rail on the living God, and to rebuke him with words which the LORD thy God hath heard. Wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left."

²² 'Touch not mine anointed, nor do my Prophets any harm.'

¹⁹ 'Ungodly men are ye.' He hath none respect unto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the rich more than the poor. For they be all the work of his hands.

⁸ Therefore take seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, offer up also for yourselves a burnt offering: and let my servant Job pray for you. Him will I accept, and not deal with you after your foolishness: in that ye have not spoken the thing which is right, like as my servant Job hath done."

¹⁴ The secret of the LORD is among them that fear him, and he showeth them his covenant.

⁹ even the covenant that he made with Abraham, and the oath that he sware unto Isaac, ¹⁰ and appointed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament; ¹¹ saying, "Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance." ¹² When there was yet but a few of them — and they strangers in the land - ¹³ what time as they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another. ¹⁴ He suffered no man to hurt them, but reproved even kings for their sakes, ¹⁵ "Touch not mine anointed, do my prophets no harm."

¹¹ Yea, even thus said the LORD unto me, "Thou shalt not pray to do this people good.

¹ Then spake the LORD unto me, and said, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet have I no heart to this people. Drive them away, that they may go out of my sight.

¹⁸ But if they be true Prophets in very deed, and if the word of the LORD be committed unto them, then let them pray the LORD of Hosts that the remnant of the ornaments, which are in the house of the LORD, and remain yet in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, be not carried to Babylon also.

¹⁸ If I say unto thee, concerning the ungodly man, that without doubt he must die: and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest unto him, that he may turn from his evil way, and so to live - Then shall the same ungodly man die in his own unrighteousness, but his blood will I require of thine hand.

⁸ If I say unto the wicked: thou wicked, thou shalt surely die: and thou givest him not warning, that he may beware of his ungodly way: then shall the wicked die in his own sin, but his blood will I require of thy hand.

¹⁴ Again; If I say unto the wicked, 'Thou shalt surely die,' and so he turn from his sins, and do the thing that is lawful and right: ¹⁵ Insomuch that the same wicked man giveth the pledge again, restoreth that he had taken away by robbery, walketh in the commandments of life, and doth no wrong: Then shall he surely live, and not die. ¹⁶ Yea the sins that he hath done, shall never be thought upon: For insomuch as he doth now the thing that is lawful and right, he shall live.

⁴ He that speaketh with tongues, profiteth himself: he that prophesieth, edifieth the congregation.

¹ God, in time past, diversely and many ways, spake unto the fathers by prophets:

⁴ Let wedlock be had in price in all points, and let the chamber be undefiled: for whore keepers and adulterers God will judge.

¹⁴ If any be diseased among you, let him call for the elders of the congregation, and let them pray over him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord: ¹⁵ and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. ¹⁶ Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.

¹⁶ If any man see his brother sin a sin that is not to death, let him ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death, for which say I not that a man should pray.

⁵ And if any man will hurt them, fire shall proceed out of their mouths, and consume their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, this wise must he be killed. ⁶ These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophesying: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all manner plagues, as often as they will.

¹⁸ Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, "Why hast thou thus dealt with me? Wherefore toldest thou me not that she was thy wife?

¹⁰ Then said Abimelech, "Why hast thou done this unto us? One of the people might lightly have lain by thy wife and so shouldest thou have brought sin upon us."

⁷ And the sons of Jacob came out of the field as soon as they heard it, for it grieved them, and they were not a little wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel, in that he had lain with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.

²⁴ And it came to pass that after three months, one told Judah, saying, "Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the whore, and with playing the whore is become great with child." And Judah said, "Bring her forth and let her be burnt."

²¹ And then Moses said unto Aaron, "What did this people unto thee that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?"

³⁵ And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf; which Aaron made.

¹⁰ He that breaketh wedlock with another man's wife shall die for it, because he hath broke wedlock with his neighbour's wife, and so shall she likewise.

²⁵ And Joshua said, "Inasmuch as thou hast troubled us: the LORD shall trouble thee this day." And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burnt them with fire, and overwhelmed them with stones.

¹⁸ And he said thereto, "Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in mine hand? ¹⁹ Now hear therefore, my lord king, the words of thy servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, he shall smell the savour of sacrifice. But and if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD. For they have cast me out from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Hence and go serve other gods.'

⁵ And David was exceeding wroth with the man, and said to Nathan, "As surely as the LORD liveth, the fellow that hath done this thing is the child of death

¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me and taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to be thy wife.' ¹¹ Thus sayeth the LORD, 'Behold, I will stir up evil against thee even of thine own house and will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, which shall sleep with them in the sight of the sun.

¹² And she answered him, "Nay, my brother, do not force me, for it ought not to be so in Israel. Do not this folly.

¹⁰ Whoso leadeth the righteous in to an evil way, shall fall into his own pit; but the just shall have the good in possession.

¹¹ For there is no partiality with God:

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped, which pervert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, because of filthy lucre.

¹² It will come to pass, therefore, when the Egyptians see thee, that they will say, 'she is his wife.' And so shall they slay me and save thee.

¹² And he said, "Lay not thy hands upon the child, neither do anything at all unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God, in that thou hast not kept thine only son from me."

¹⁸ And Joseph said unto the third day, "This do and live, for I fear God.

¹⁵ For the old captains that were before me, had been chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, and forty sicles of silver: yea and their servants had oppressed the people. But so did not I, and that because of the fear of God.

¹ In the land of Uz, there was a man called Job: an innocent and virtuous man, such a one as feared God, and eschewed evil.

²⁸ And unto man he said, 'Behold, to fear the LORD is wisdom: and to forsake evil, is understanding.'"

⁴ Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the LORD?

¹ {To the Chanter, of David the servant of the Lord} My heart showeth me the wickedness of the ungodly, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. ² For he flattereth himself in his own sight, until his abominable sin be found out. ³ The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit; he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good. ⁴ He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way; neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil.

⁷ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

⁵ then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

¹³ With me is the fear of the LORD, and the eschewing of evil. As for pride, disdain, and evil way, and a mouth that speaketh wicked things, I utterly abhor them.

⁶ With loving mercy and faithfulness, sins be forgiven; and whoso searcheth the LORD eschewth evil.

¹⁸ "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took them wives. Abram's wife was called Sarai. And Nahor's wife, Milcah the daughter of Haran; which was father of Milcah and of Iscah.

¹³ Say, I pray thee therefore, that thou art my sister; that I may fare the better by reason of thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake."

²² Abstain from all suspicious things.

¹ Then the LORD said unto Abram, "Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred; and out of thy father's house, into a land which I will show thee.

⁹ And then Abram departed and took his journey southward.

¹¹ And when he was come nigh for to enter into Egypt, he said unto Sarai his wife, "Behold, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon. ¹² It will come to pass, therefore, when the Egyptians see thee, that they will say, 'she is his wife.' And so shall they slay me and save thee. ¹³ Say, I pray thee therefore, that thou art my sister; that I may fare the better by reason of thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake." ¹⁴ As soon as he came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very fair. ¹⁵ And Pharaoh's lords saw her also, and praised her unto Pharaoh, so that she was taken into Pharaoh's house; ¹⁶ which entreated Abram well for her sake, so that he had sheep, oxen and he-asses, men servants, maid servants, she-asses and camels. ¹⁷ But God plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife. ¹⁸ Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, "Why hast thou thus dealt with me? Wherefore toldest thou me not that she was thy wife? ¹⁹ Why saidest thou that she was thy sister, and causedest me to take her to my wife? But now, lo, there is thy wife: take her and be walking." ²⁰ Pharaoh also gave a charge unto his men over Abram, to lead him out, with his wife and all that he had.

²¹ Then said Saul, "Blessed are ye in the LORD: for ye have compassion on me.

⁵ They have devised mischief, and communed among themselves how they may lay snares. "Tush," say they, "Who shall see them?"

⁹ Then Peter said unto her, "Why have ye agreed together, to tempt the spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out."

³ and said unto him, 'Come out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show unto thee.' ⁴ Then came he out of the land of Chaldea and dwelt in Haran. And after that, as soon as his father was dead, he brought him into this land, in which ye now dwell, ⁵ and he gave him none inheritance in it — no, not the breadth of a foot — But promised that he would give it to him to possess and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

⁸ By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out into a place which he should afterward receive to inheritance, and he went out, not knowing whither he should go.

¹⁶ which entreated Abram well for her sake, so that he had sheep, oxen and he-asses, men servants, maid servants, she-asses and camels.

² And Abraham said of Sara his wife, that she was his sister. Then Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and fetched Sara away.

¹¹ And Abraham answered, "I thought that peradventure the fear of God was not in this place, and that they should slay me for my wife's sake:

⁹ Is not all the whole land before thee? Depart, I pray thee, from me. If thou wilt take the lefthand, I will take the right: or if thou take the righthand I will take the left."

¹⁰ and dwell with us, and the land shall be at your pleasure; dwell and do your business, and have your possessions therein."

⁶ The land of Egypt is open before thee: In the best place of the land make both thy father and thy brethren dwell. And even in the land of Goshen let them dwell. Moreover, if thou know any men of activity among them, make them rulers over my cattle."

⁵ Said not he unto me, that she was his sister? Yea, and said not she herself that he was her brother? With a pure heart and innocent hands have I done this!"

⁶⁵ and said unto the servant, "What man is this that cometh against us in the field?" And the servant said, "It is my master." And then she took her mantle, and put it about her.

³ And Joab answered, "The LORD make thy people a hundred times so many more as they be. But my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why then doth my lord require this thing? Why should my lord be a cause of trespass to Israel?" ⁴ Neverthelater, the king's words prevailed against Joab. And Joab took his way and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem ⁵ and gave the number of the count of the people unto David. And all Israel were in number a thousand, thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword. ⁶ But the Levites and Benjamin he counted not among them. For the king's deed seemed abominable to Joab.

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he owe thee evil will: but rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ⁹ Give a discrete man but an occasion, and he will be the wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase.

¹ Whoso loveth wisdom, will be content to be reformed; but he that hateth to be reproved, is a fool.

¹² The correction of the wise is, to an obedient ear, a golden chain and a Jewel of gold.

⁵ An open rebuke is better than secret love.

⁶ And the master of the ship came to him and said unto him, "Why slumberest thou? Up! And call unto thy god, that God may think on us, that we perish not."

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be fervent therefore and repent.

³¹ When the LORD saw that Lea was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren.

¹¹ Then they sent and fetched all the lords of the Philistines unto them and said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go home again unto his own place, that it slay us not with our people." For there was a plague of death throughout all the city, and the hand of God was exceeding sore there, ¹² insomuch that they which died not, were smitten with the hemorrhoids: so that the cry of the city went up to heaven.

¹⁰ that they may offer sweet savours unto the God of heaven; and pray for the king's life, and for his children.

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went their way, and did according as the LORD commanded them. The LORD also accepted the person of Job, ¹⁰ and the LORD turned him unto Job, when he prayed for his friends: Yea, the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had afore.

⁸ The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.

²⁹ The LORD is far from the ungodly; but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

¹¹ Thus sayeth the LORD, even the holy one and maker of Israel: Ask me of things for to come, concerning my sons; and put me in remembrance, as touching the works of my hands.

⁷ "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

²² And whatsoever thing ye shall ask in your prayers if ye believe, ye shall receive it."

²⁴ Also all the prophets from Samuel, and thenceforth, as many as have spoken, have in likewise told of these days.

⁶ Be not careful: but in all things show your petition unto God in prayer and supplication with giving of thanks.

²⁵ Brethren, pray for us.

¹⁶ Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.

² Wherefore she said unto Abram, "Behold the LORD hath closed me, that I can not bear. I pray thee go in unto my maid, peradventure I shall be multiplied by means of her." And Abram heard the voice of Sarai.

² Then was Jacob wroth with Rachel saying, "Am I in God's stead which keepeth from thee the fruit of thy womb?"

⁶ And thereto her enemy Peninnah vexed her a good in casting her in the teeth how the LORD had made her barren.

¹⁰ Then they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And as soon as the ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out saying, "They have brought the ark of the God of Israel unto us: to slay us and our people."