Judges 16 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Sampson went to Gaza, and saw there a woman; a harlot, and went in to her. ² And when the Gazites were told that Sampson was come there, they surrounded him, and lay in wait for him the whole night, at the gate of the city. They indeed kept quiet all the night, saying, When the dawn appeareth we shall kill him. ³ But when Sampson had lain till midnight, he arose in the middle of the night, and took the doors of the city gate with the two posts, and lifted them up with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and went up to the top of the mountain which looked towards Chebron, and deposited them there. ⁴ And after this he loved a woman at Alsorach, whose name was Dalida; ⁵ and the chiefs of the Philistines went up to her and said to her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may prevail over him, and bind him so as to humble him; and we will give thee, every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. ⁶ Upon this Dalida said to Sampson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and with what thou couldst be bound so as to be humbled. ⁷ And Sampson said to her, Were they to bind me with seven thongs, wet, but not rotten, I should lose my strength, and be as other men. ⁸ So the chiefs of the Philistines brought her seven thongs, wet, but not rotten, and she bound him with them. ⁹ Now she had men lying in wait in her chamber. Then she said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson. Upon which he broke the thongs, as one would break a thread of tow, when it is touched with fire. So his strength was not known. ¹⁰ Then Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast deceived me and told me lies. Now therefore tell me with what thou canst be bound. ¹¹ And he said to her, Were they to bind me with new ropes which have never been used, I should lose my strength, and be like other men. ¹² So Dalida took new ropes, and bound him with them, and the men in ambush came out of the chamber and she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson! Where upon he broke them from his arms like a thread. ¹³ Then Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast deceived me and told me lies. Tell me, I pray thee, with what thou canst be bound. And he said to her, If thou wert to weave these seven locks of my head with the woof, and fasten them into the wall with that pin, I should be as weak as other men. ¹⁴ So when he went to sleep, Dalida took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the woof, and fastened them with the pin to the wall, and said, The Philistines are upon thee Sampson! Whereupon he roused from his sleep, and pulled the pin of the web out of the wall. ¹⁵ Then Dalida said to Sampson, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? These three times thou hast deceived me, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. ¹⁶ And as she continued to afflict him daily with her speeches, and press him, and tired him even to death, ¹⁷ he at length told her all his heart, and said to her; There hath never come a razor on my head, because I am consecrated to God from my mother's womb. If therefore I were shaven, my strength would depart from me, and I would become weak, and be like all other men. ¹⁸ When Dalida saw that be bad told her all his heart, she sent for two chiefs of two Philistines, and said, Come up this once more, for be hath told me all his heart. So two chiefs of two Philistines went up to her, and carried the money in their hands. ¹⁹ And when Dalida had lulled Sampson to sleep on her knees, she sent for a man, and be shaved off two seven locks of his bead, and began to humble him; for his strength was gone from him. ²⁰ And when Dalida said, The Philistines are upon thee Sampson! He awoke from his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times heretofore, and rouse myself. He indeed did not know that the Lord had departed from him. ²¹ Then the Philistines seized him and put out his eyes, and carried him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he was kept grinding in the prison house. ²² Now when the hairs of his head began to grow as when he was shaven, ²³ the chiefs of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to rejoice. And they said; God hath delivered Sampson, our great enemy into our hand. ²⁴ And when the people saw him, they sung praises to their god, saying, Our god hath delivered our enemy into our hands; him who wasted our land, and multiplied the number of our slain. ²⁵ Now when their heart was elated with joy, they said, Call Sampson from the prison, and let him make sport for us; so they called Sampson from the prison, and be made sport for them; and when they bad beaten him with rods, they set him between two pillars. ²⁶ Then Sampson said to the young man who had hold of his hand, Let go, that I may feel the pillars on which the house resteth, and lean upon them. ²⁷ Now the house was full of men and women; and all the chiefs of the Philistines were there; and on the top of the house there were about three thousand men and women looking at Sampson's sports. ²⁸ Then Sampson wept before two Lord, and said, Adonaie, Lord, remember me, I beseech thee, and strengthen me yet this once more, my God, that I may take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes. ²⁹ Then Sampson took bold of the two pillars, on which the house rested, and by which it was supported. And having taken hold of one with his right band, and of the other with his left, ³⁰ be said, Let me die with the Philistines, and strained with all his might, and the house fell upon the chiefs and on all the people in it. So that those whom Sampson slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain during his life. ³¹ And his brethren, and the house of his father, went down, and took him, and came up and buried him between Saraa and Esthaol in the tomb of his father Manoe. Now he had judged Israel twenty years.[The Idolatry of the house of Micah and of the Danites.]

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman; and between thy seed and her seed. He will wound thy head, and thou wilt wound his heel."

¹⁹ And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon extending to Gerara and Gaza, thence extending to Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboin even to Dasa.

²⁰ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they appeared to him as a few days, because he loved her.

¹⁶ So Esau set out that day on his return to Seir

¹⁶ and he did not know her. So he turned aside to her and said to her, Let me come in unto thee. For he did not know that she was his daughter in law. And she said, What wilt thou give me if thou come in unto me? ¹⁷ To which he replied, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? ¹⁸ And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy ring and bracelet and the staff in thy hand. So he gave them to her, and went in unto her, and she conceived by him.

⁵ and every first born in the land of Egypt shall die: from the first born of Pharao who sitteth on the throne, to the first born of the female slave who is at the grinding mill, including also the first born of all the cattle.

⁴⁴ [as I did not, when they were in their enemies' country, wholly overlook them, nor abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, for breaking my covenant which I made with them, for I am the Lord their God]

² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When a man or a woman shall make a solemn vow to preserve the strictest purity for the Lord,

⁵ such a one shall abstain all the days of the purification. A razor shall not come upon his head, until the days which he hath vowed to the Lord be fulfilled. Being hallowed, he shall let the hair of his head grow

⁹ Only rebel not against the Lord, and you need not be afraid of the people of the land, for they are food for us. For their time is over, and the Lord is with us. Fear them not.

⁴² Do not go up, for the Lord is not with you. You will therefore fall before the face of your enemies. ⁴³ Because the Amalekites and the Chananites are there before you, you will therefore fall by the sword. Because you have turned back, and disobeyed the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be among you.

⁷ So the ambassadors of Moab, and the ambassadors of Madiam, went with the rewards of divination in their hands, and when they came to Balaam, and rehearsed to him the words of Balak,

¹⁷ for I will promote thee to great honour, and do for thee whatever thou sayest; therefore come, curse this people for me. ¹⁸ In reply to which Balaam said to the princes of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot transgress the word of the Lord God, to do any thing, small or great, of my own mere will.

⁵ And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole understanding, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole might.

⁸ When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou mayst not occasion death by thy house, by any one's falling from it.

²⁷ Had it not been for the temper of enemies; That the adversaries might not out live them; That they might not fall upon them at once; Lest they should say, Our own high hand, And not the Lord, hath done all this.

³⁰ How could one man chase a thousand, And two put myriads to flight, Had not God cast them off; Had not the Lord delivered them up?

³⁶ Because the Lord will judge his people; When he shall be appeased for his servants, [For he saw that they were enfeebled, Made faint by hostile invasions and dejected]

⁸ So when the pursuers were gone after them, she went up to the men, on the top of the house, before they had gone to sleep,

¹² therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before the face of their enemies. They shall turn back before their enemies, because they are become devoted. I will no more be with you, unless you remove the Anathema from among you.

³ and the Chananites. The land from the desart which is before Egypt, to the borders of Akkaron, on the left of the Chananites, is set out to the five Satrapies of the Philistines, the Gazites and the Azotians, and the Askalonites, and the Getthites, and the Akkaronites, comprehending the Evaites.

⁴⁷ Asiedoth, and the sheepcots thereof, Gaza, and the villages thereof, and its sheepcots, to the brook of Egypt; and the great sea is the boundary.

⁴¹ and their borders were Sarath, and Asa, and the cities Sammaus,

³ namely the five Satrapies of the Philistines, and all the Chananites, and the Sidonians, and the Evites who inhabited Libanus from mount Aermon to Laboemath.

³¹ So perish all thine enemies, Lord, But let them who love thee be like The going forth of the Sun in his might. So the land had rest forty years.

²⁷ and went out into the fields, and gathered their vintage, and trod out their grapes, and uttered the usual shouts of joy, and carried offerings to the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

⁵¹ But there was a strong tower in the midst of the city, and all the men and the women of the city fled thither, and shut the gate after them, and went up to the top of the tower.

² Now there was a man of Saraa, a community of the Danites, whose name was Manoe; and his wife was barren, and never had a child.

⁵ For behold thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and on his head a razor shall not come; for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb. And he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

²⁵ and the Spirit of the Lord began to go out with him, at the camp of Dan, between Saraa and Esthaol.

¹⁵ And when in the course of three days they could not explain the riddle, they on the fourth day said to Sampson's wife, Ask we pray thee thy husband, and get him to explain the riddle to thee, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire. Have you invited us to do us an injury? ¹⁶ So Sampson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and hast not loved me; for thou hast not told me the riddle which thou hast propounded to the children of my people. And Sampson said to her, If I have not told it to my father and my mother, should I tell thee?

¹⁹ Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ascalon, and slew of them thirty men, and took their garments, and gave the suits to them who had expounded the riddle. And Sampson was filled with wrath, and went up to his father's house,

⁸ So he smote them in combat with a great slaughter, and went down and dwelt in a hollow of the rock Etam.

¹³ And they said to him, No; we will only bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hands; but we will not put thee to death. So they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

¹⁵ and he found the jaw bone of an ass lying there; so he stretched forth his hand, and took it up, and with it smote a thousand men. ¹⁶ And Sampson said, With the jaw of an ass I have utterly routed them; for with the jaw of an ass I have slain a thousand men.

¹⁸ And being very thirsty he wept before the Lord and said, Thou hast vouchsafed this great deliverance to the hand of thy servant; but now I must die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.

²⁰ Now when he had judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years,

³ But when Sampson had lain till midnight, he arose in the middle of the night, and took the doors of the city gate with the two posts, and lifted them up with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and went up to the top of the mountain which looked towards Chebron, and deposited them there.

⁵ and the chiefs of the Philistines went up to her and said to her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may prevail over him, and bind him so as to humble him; and we will give thee, every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

⁷ And Sampson said to her, Were they to bind me with seven thongs, wet, but not rotten, I should lose my strength, and be as other men.

⁹ Now she had men lying in wait in her chamber. Then she said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson. Upon which he broke the thongs, as one would break a thread of tow, when it is touched with fire. So his strength was not known. ¹⁰ Then Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast deceived me and told me lies. Now therefore tell me with what thou canst be bound.

¹³ Then Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast deceived me and told me lies. Tell me, I pray thee, with what thou canst be bound. And he said to her, If thou wert to weave these seven locks of my head with the woof, and fasten them into the wall with that pin, I should be as weak as other men. ¹⁴ So when he went to sleep, Dalida took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the woof, and fastened them with the pin to the wall, and said, The Philistines are upon thee Sampson! Whereupon he roused from his sleep, and pulled the pin of the web out of the wall. ¹⁵ Then Dalida said to Sampson, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? These three times thou hast deceived me, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. ¹⁶ And as she continued to afflict him daily with her speeches, and press him, and tired him even to death, ¹⁷ he at length told her all his heart, and said to her; There hath never come a razor on my head, because I am consecrated to God from my mother's womb. If therefore I were shaven, my strength would depart from me, and I would become weak, and be like all other men.

² and he said to his mother, With regard to the eleven hundred pieces of silver which thou hadst taken for thyself, and for which thou didst lay me under a curse, and speak in my hearing, behold the money is in my possession. I took it. And his mother said, Blessed of the Lord is my son.

²⁰ And the priest's heart was delighted. So he took the ephod, and the theraphin, and the graven, and the molten image, and went into the midst of1 the people.

⁶ So they two sat down, and eat and drank together, and the father of the young woman said to the man, Come I pray thee, stay all night and let thy heart be merry.

⁹ And when they two had eaten, and the man arose to depart, with his concubine and his servant, his father in law; the young woman's father said to him, Behold the day is spent till near afternoon, lodge here to-night, and let thy heart be merry, and set out on your journey early in the morning, and thou wilt reach thy home.

² And the Philistines took the Ark of the Lord, and carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside Dagon. ³ But when the Azotians arose in the morning, and went into the temple of Dagon, they looked, and lo! Dagon had fallen on its face before the ark of God. Thereupon they raised up Dagon, and set him in his place. But the hand of the Lord was heavy on the Azotians; and he afflicted them, and smote them in the hinder parts, throughout Azotus and its territories. ⁴ And when they arose early next morning, behold Dagon was fallen prostrate before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the head of Dagon, and both his hands, had been hurled away in front of the Amapheth, and the palms of both his hands had fallen on the threshold, so that nothing but the trunk of Dagon was left. ⁵ For this cause the priests of Dagon, and every one who goeth into the temple of Dagon, do not, even at this day, tread on the threshold of the temple of Dagon, at Azotus, but step over it.

¹³ And when Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him, Blessed art thou of the Lord. I have performed all that the Lord hath spoken. ¹⁴ Whereupon Samuel said, But what bleating of flocks is this in my ears? and what is this lowing of cattle which I hear?

¹⁴ And the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul; and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him.

¹² And Saul became afraid of David,

¹¹ Saul sent messengers that night to David's house, to watch him, with an intent to put him to death in the morning. But Melchol, David's wife, told him, and said, Unless thou save thy life this night, to-morrow thou wilt be put to death.

¹⁷ Whereupon Saul said to Melchol, Why hast thou thus deceived me, and sent away my enemy, so that he hath escaped? And Melchol said to Saul, He said, Let me go, else I will put thee to death.

² Thereupon David said to the priest, The king hath given me to-day a business in charge, and said to me, Let none know the business on which I send thee, and with which I have charged thee; therefore I appointed my servants to meet me at the place called Faith of God Phellani Maemoni. ³ Now therefore hast thou fives loaves at hand? Give me what thou hast ready.

²⁶ And Saul and his men marched on one side of the mountain, while David and his men were on the other side of the mountain. But David was protected in escaping from the presence of Saul. For while Saul and his men were encamping against David and his men, to take them,

¹⁰ And when Angchus said to David, Upon whom have you fallen? David said to Angchus, Towards the south of Judea, and towards the south of Jesmega, and towards the south of Kenezi.

¹⁴ And he said to her, What didst thou discover? And she said to him, An erect man coming up out of the earth, and he had a mantle thrown around him. So Saul knew that this was Samuel, and he bowed down on his face to the ground, and made obeisance to him. ¹⁵ And Samuel said, Why hast thou troubled me, that I should come up? And Saul said, I am in great affliction. The Philistines are making war on me, and God hath departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by the agency of prophets, nor by dreams. Now therefore I have called thee, to let me know what I shall do. ¹⁶ And Samuel said, Why dost thou ask me, seeing the Lord is departed from thee, and is with thy neighbour?

⁶ Then Angchus called David, and said to him. As the Lord liveth, Thou art good, and upright in my eyes, and so is thy going out and thy coming in with me in the army. Indeed I have not found any thing amiss in thee from the day of thy coming to me even to this day. But thou art not in favour with the lords.

⁹ And they treated him scornfully, and stripped off his armour, and sent it to the land of the Philistines, proclaiming the good news all around to their idols, and to the people.

² And it happened, that one afternoon, David arose from his couch, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and from the top of the house he saw a woman bathing, and she was very beautiful.

²⁸ And Abessalom made a banquet like that of the king. And Abessalom gave a charge to his servants saying, Observe when the heart of Amnon is elated with wine, and I say to you, Smite Amnon; then put him to death. Be not afraid, for it is I who command you. Acquit yourselves like men, and be sons of valour.

¹⁷ Whereupon Abessalom said to Chousi, Is this thy kindness for thy friend? Why hast thou not gone with thy friend?

¹ Now king Solomon was immoderately fond of women. He had seven hundred wives, princesses; and three hundred concubines; and he took for wives strange women besides Pharao's daughter, women of Moab and Ammon, Syrians, Idumeans, Chettites and Amorites.

¹² When this answer was delivered him, it happened that he and all the kings with him were drinking in tents, thereupon he said to his servants, Build up a mount. And when they had erected a mount against the city,

²⁰ And Achab said to Elias, Hast thou found me, my enemy? To which he replied, I have found thee. Because thou hast sold thyself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to wrath,

⁷ And when he had slain his sons before his eyes, he put out the eyes of Sedekias and bound him with chains, and carried him to Babylon.

⁹ And when they had stripped him, they took his head and his armour, and sent them to the land of the Philistines round about, to proclaim the good news to their idols, and to the people. ¹⁰ And having deposited his armour in the house of their god, they fixed up his head, in the house of Dagon.

² and he went out to meet Asa and all Juda and Benjamin, and said, Hear me Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, while you are with him. And if you seek him, he will be found by you. But if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

¹² Lord our God, wilt thou not judge them? Because we have not power to withstand this great multitude which is coming against us, and do not know what to do with them, we can only have our eyes on thee.

¹¹ the Lord brought against them the chiefs of the army of the king of Asur, and they took Manasses, and having bound him with chains and fetters they carried him to Babylon.

¹ When these things were done, the chiefs came to me and said, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the. neighbouring tribes. In their abominations, the Ethites, the Pherezites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and the Moserites, and the Amorites, are the same with the Chananites. ² For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves, and their sons; and the holy seed is mingled with the tribes of the neighbouring regions. And the hand of the chiefs is principally concerned in this transgression.

¹³ Now after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for this our great transgression; though there is no God like our God; though thou hast blotted out our iniquities and given us deliverance; ¹⁴ yet we have returned to break thy commandments, and to intermarry with the people of these regions. Be not provoked against us to our utter destruction, so that not a remnant may escape.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by doing so? Though among many nations there was not a king like him? Though he was beloved by God, and God had made him king over all Israel, yet strange women led him astray.

¹⁵ And when the business was despatched at Susoi, the king and Haman sat down to revel, but the city was struck with consternation.

⁵ But the mirth of the wicked is sudden ruin, and the joy of transgressors, destruction,

⁴ What! is my pleading with man? Or, why shall I not be inflamed with indignation?

⁹ But now I am become their song: and they have me for their by-word: ¹⁰ and have abhorred me and stood at a distance: and have not spared to spit in my face.

³ And what, alas! the lasting portion on high? "Destruction is for the wicked and banishment for transgressors."

² They spoke vanities one to another: their lips are deceitful, they spoke with a double heart:

¹⁵ But against me they rejoiced and gathered together; for me, scourges were collected and I did not know: they were split; and they had no compunction. ¹⁶ They tortured me; with scoffs they derided me; they gnashed their teeth at me.

¹⁵ Then call on me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver thee and thou shalt praise me."

⁹ Before your bramble bush can make its prickles felt; it will devour you as it were alive, as with wrath. ¹⁰ The righteous will rejoice when he seeth the punishment of the wicked; he will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. ¹¹ And man will say, Since there is indeed a reward for the righteous, there is a God who judgeth those on the earth.

³ How long will you set yourselves against a man? You are all committing murder, as with a bended wall and a rampart pushed down.

⁹ But as for the vain sons of men; the lying sons of men; Even in an unfair balance they are altogether vanity.

¹² they who sat in the gate spoke against me; and they who drank wine, made me their song.

²⁶ Because him, whom thou smotest, they persecuted, and have added to the pains of my Wounds;

¹⁸ Remember this creation of thine. An enemy hath reproached the Lord; a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name. ¹⁹ Deliver not up to the wild beasts a soul which praiseth thee. Forget not forever the souls of thy afflicted people. ²⁰ Have respect to thy covenant, because the dark places of this land have been filled with habitations of iniquity; ²¹ let not him who hath been humbled and shamed be utterly scorned: let the afflicted and needy praise thy name. ²² Arise, God, plead thine own cause: remember the reproaches cast on thee, all day long, by a fool. ²³ Forget not the voice of thy suppliants: let the pride of them, who hate thee, ascend continually before thee.

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him: I am with him in affliction: I will deliver him and honour him.

⁴³ many a time did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel. When they were humbled for their iniquities; ⁴⁴ the Lord beheld when they were afflicted. When he heard their supplication, ⁴⁵ he remembered his covenant and according to the multitude of his mercies;

¹⁰ As for them who sat in darkness and the shadow of death; bound with affliction and irons; ¹¹ because they rebelled against the oracles of God; and contemned the counsel of the Most High: ¹² when their heart was brought low by troubles; when they were weak and there was no helper: ¹³ then they cried to the Lord in their affliction; and he saved them from their distresses; ¹⁴ and brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death; and burst their chains asunder.

¹⁶ for he hath dashed to shivers the gates of brass, and broken asunder the bars of iron.

⁴ thereupon I invoked the name of the Lord; Lord deliver my soul.

¹⁰ All the nations compassed me about: but by the name of the Lord I was avenged of them. ¹¹ Compassing me about they beset me, but by the name of the Lord I was avenged of them. ¹² They encompassed me as bees do a honey comb: and blazed furiously like fire among thorns; but by the name of the Lord I was avenged of them.

¹² and in thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul; for I am thy servant.

⁸ To bind their kings with fetters; and their nobles with chains of iron:

¹⁶ and estrange thee from a just determination.

¹⁶ and estrange thee from a just determination. ¹⁷ My son, let not evil counsel, who hath forsaken the discipline of youth and hath forgotten the divine covenant, take hold of thee. ¹⁸ For she hath placed her house near death; and her wheels with the earth born near the mansion of the dead. ¹⁹ None who walk by her direction can ever return; nor ever recover the right paths.

¹⁹ None who walk by her direction can ever return; nor ever recover the right paths.

³ for honey droppeth from the lips of a harlot, which for a while pleaseth thy palate;

³ for honey droppeth from the lips of a harlot, which for a while pleaseth thy palate; ⁴ but in the end thou wilt find it bitterer than gall, and sharper than a two edged sword.

⁴ but in the end thou wilt find it bitterer than gall, and sharper than a two edged sword. ⁵ For the feet of folly lead them, who indulge themselves with her, down with death to the mansion of the dead. Her steps indeed are not established,

⁵ For the feet of folly lead them, who indulge themselves with her, down with death to the mansion of the dead. Her steps indeed are not established, ⁶ for she walketh not in the ways of life. Her paths are slippery and not easily known.

⁶ for she walketh not in the ways of life. Her paths are slippery and not easily known. ⁷ Now therefore, my son, hearken to me and slight not my words.

⁷ Now therefore, my son, hearken to me and slight not my words. ⁸ Remove thy way far from her, go not near the doors of her house;

⁸ Remove thy way far from her, go not near the doors of her house; ⁹ That thou mayst not give thy life to others, and thy substance to the cruel:

⁹ That thou mayst not give thy life to others, and thy substance to the cruel: ¹⁰ that strangers may not be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours go into the houses of strangers,

¹⁰ that strangers may not be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours go into the houses of strangers, ¹¹ and thou at last be grieved. When the flesh of thy body is consumed,

¹¹ and thou at last be grieved. When the flesh of thy body is consumed, ¹² then thou wilt say, "How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof! ¹³ I hearkened not to the voice of him who instructed me and taught me; nor have I inclined mine ear. ¹⁴ I have been almost in all evil, in the midst of the assembly and congregation."

²² Iniquities hunt a man; but every one is caught by the cords of his own sins.

²⁴ to keep thee from a married woman; and from the flattering tongue of a strange woman. ²⁵ Let not a lust for beauty overcome thee: be not captivated by thine eyes, nor ensnared by her eyelids. ²⁶ For the price of a harlot is scarce that of a single loaf; but an adulteress hunteth for the precious lives of men.

²⁶ For the price of a harlot is scarce that of a single loaf; but an adulteress hunteth for the precious lives of men.

²¹ So with much fawning discourse she led him astray; and with the flattery of her lips inveigled him.

²¹ So with much fawning discourse she led him astray; and with the flattery of her lips inveigled him.

²¹ So with much fawning discourse she led him astray; and with the flattery of her lips inveigled him. ²² And he is gone after her, attracted by her; as an ox is led to slaughter, or as a dog to be chained: or like a deer pierced through the liver with a dart.

²² And he is gone after her, attracted by her; as an ox is led to slaughter, or as a dog to be chained: or like a deer pierced through the liver with a dart. ²³ And he hasteth like a bird to a snare; not knowing that he is running the risk of his life.

²³ And he hasteth like a bird to a snare; not knowing that he is running the risk of his life. ²⁴ Now therefore ray son hearken to me; and attend to the words of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thy heart turn aside to her ways: ²⁶ for she hath wounded and brought down many; and innumerable are they whom she hath slain. ²⁷ Her house is the highway to Hades, leading down to the chambers of death.

¹⁹ True lips establish testimony: but a hasty witness hath an unrighteous tongue.

²³ A prudent man is a throne of knowledge: but the heart of fools will encounter curses.

³ He who guardeth his mouth preserveth his life; but he who is rash with his mouth, shall bring on himself terror.

⁵ A righteous man hateth a false word; but the wicked is shamed and shall not have confidence.

¹⁴ A bold hearted man will be satisfied with his own ways; but a good man, with his intentions.

⁷ Faithful lips will not harmonize with a fool; nor lying lips with a righteous man.

⁸ Fear depresseth the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate shall suffer want.

¹⁴ The mouth of a transgressor is a deep ditch; and he who is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. There are bad ways before a man and he loveth not to avoid them: but he ought to avoid a crooked and bad way.

⁷ for he eateth and drinketh as one swallowing a hair. Neither invite him to thy house, nor eat thy morsel with him: ⁸ for it will cause him to vomit and he will blame thy kind invitations.

²⁶ My son, give me thy heart; and let thine eyes observe my ways. ²⁷ For a strange house is a hogshead full of holes: and a strange well is narrow.

³³ When thine eyes behold a strange woman; then will thy mouth speak perversely. ³⁴ And thou wilt lie as in the midst of the sea: and like a pilot in a mighty storm.

¹⁷ If thine enemy fall rejoice not over him; nor be elated at his stumbling:

¹⁷ If thine enemy fall rejoice not over him; nor be elated at his stumbling: ¹⁸ for the Lord will see and it will displease him, and he will turn away his wrath.

²⁸ Be not a false witness against thy fellow citizen, nor give a loose to thy lips.

¹¹ As a dog becometh odious when he returneth to his vomit; so is a fool for his wickedness, when he returneth to his sin. There is a shame which leadeth to sin: and a shame which procureth glory and honour.

²⁸ A lying tongue hateth truth; and a flattering mouth Worketh ruin.

²² Though thou shouldst whip a fool publickly and disgrace him: thou canst not take away his folly.

¹² When a king hearkeneth to falsehood, all under him are transgressors.

²⁵ They who fear and reverence men have been supplanted: but he whose trust is in the Lord shall be gladdened. Impiety causeth a man to fall: but he who trusteth in the Lord shall be safe.

²⁶ That bitterer than death is that whole class of women who are prostitutes. Though their heart is nets and their hands chains, he who is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from them; but a sinner shall be taken by them.

¹² That man indeed no more knoweth his time than the fishes which are enclosed in an evil dredge, or than birds which are caught in a net. Like them the sons of men are drawn into an evil time when it cometh upon them suddenly.

⁶ set me as a seal on thy heart as a seal on thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy inflexible as Hades: its wings are wings of fire its flames; ⁷ Much water cannot quench love; nor can floods drown it. Though a man give all his substance for love, he may be thoroughly despised.

¹³ yet they indulged themselves in joy and gladness, slaying oxen and sacrificing sheep, that they might eat flesh and drink wine, saying, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

²⁰ therefore they destroyed them. But now, Lord, our God, save us out of their hands that every kingdom of the earth may know, that thou alone art God."

²⁴ for which he hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to them who plundered him. Hath not God, against whom they sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey;

² Take a millstone and grind corn. Doff thy veil; uncover thy grey locks. Make bare thy leg: wade through rivers.

¹ It is not that the hand of the Lord is unable to save; nor that his ear is grown dull to hear; ² but your sins make a separation between you and your God; and on account of your sins he hath turned away his face from you that he may not exercise compassion.

¹ [c] Who is this who is coming from Edom? What redness of mantles from Bosor! He so magnificent in apparel? He marcheth with majesty! [M] I proclaim righteousness and the judgment of salvation. ² [c] Why are thy garments red and thy clothing, as from a trodden wine vat? ³ [M] I am full of a country trodden down; and of the nations there is not a man with me. I have trodden them down in my wrath, and crumbled them like dust and shed their blood on the earth. ⁴ For the day of retribution came upon them and the year of redemption is at hand. ⁵ When I looked and there was no helper and observed that none upheld; then mine own arm delivered them. Mine indignation indeed was roused,

¹¹ have nations changed their Gods, though they are no Gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which will not profit them.

² O that I had a remote lodging in the wilderness, that I might leave my people and go away from them! [J] Because they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men, ³ and have bent their tongue like a bow; lying and infidelity prevailed in the land; because they have proceeded from evils to evils, and have not known me, saith the Lord; ⁴ be upon your guard every man against his neighbour, and in your own brothers place no confidence; for every brother will supplant, and every friend walk deceitfully;

⁴ be upon your guard every man against his neighbour, and in your own brothers place no confidence; for every brother will supplant, and every friend walk deceitfully; ⁵ every one will treat his friend with contempt. They cannot speak truth; their tongue hath learned to speak lies. They have done injustice, and have not stopped to rectify it.

⁵ every one will treat his friend with contempt. They cannot speak truth; their tongue hath learned to speak lies. They have done injustice, and have not stopped to rectify it. ⁶ There is usury upon usury, deceit upon deceit; they refused to know me, saith the Lord:

²³ [J] Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom: nor the mighty man boast of his strength; neither let the rich man boast of his riches: ²⁴ but let him who boasteth, boast of this only, that he understandeth and knoweth, that I am the Lord, who exercise mercy and judgment and justice on the earth: that in these things is my delight, saith the Lord.

¹⁵ [p] O Lord, remember me and visit me and save me from them, who are persecuting me past forbearance. Consider how I have for Thy sake borne reproach from them who despise my words.

³¹ because the Lord will not cast off forever; ³² because he who hath humbled will have compassion, even according to the multitude of his mercies.

¹⁴ But I acted so that my name should not be altogether profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them out:

³¹ They come to thee as people assemble; and they sit before thee and hear thy words, but will not do them, because there is a lie in their mouth, and their heart goeth after their pollutions;

² And as he was drinking, Baltasar gave an order upon tasting the wine, to bring the vessels of gold and silver which Nabuchodonosar his father had brought out of the temple at Jerusalem; and that the king and his nobles, and his concubines and his wives should drink out of them. ³ Accordingly the vessels of gold and silver which had been taken out of the temple of God at Jerusalem were brought, and the king and his nobles and his concubines and his wives drank out of them. ⁴ And having drunk wine they praised the gods of gold and silver and brass and wood and stone.

²³ Yet thou hast exalted thyself against the Lord God of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles and thy concubines and thy wives have drunk wine out of them, and thou hast praised the gods of gold and silver and brass and iron and wood and stone which neither see nor hear, nor understand: but the God in whose hand is thy breath and all thy ways; him thou hast not glorified.

⁹ Strangers devoured his strength and he did not know it; grey hairs grew upon him and he did not perceive it.

¹ And when out of the belly of the great fish, Jonas prayed to the Lord his God, ² and said, In my affliction I cried to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me: thou didst hear my cry from the womb of Hades: thou didst hearken to my prayer:

⁷ When my soul was fainting I remembered the Lord; let my prayer now come to thee into thy holy temple.

⁹ And God said to Jonas, Art thou very sorry] for the colocynthis. And he said I am sorry even to death.

¹³ They have broken through and passed the gate; they are gone through it and their king is gone out before them; and the Lord will be their leader,

⁵ because all the people will walk every one in his own way, let us therefore walk in the name of the Lord our God until that age and beyond it.

² that the pious is perished from the land, and among men there is not an upright man left! [J] They are all indicted for capital crimes: they grievously afflict every man his neighbour: ³ they are preparing their hands for evil. The chief asketh and the judge hath spoken words of peace! He is entirely at his devotion;

⁵ Trust not in friends, nor confide in rulers, against the wife of thy bosom be on thy guard; to trust nothing to her:

⁸ Rejoice not over me, mine enemy, because I have fallen. I shall rise again, for though I sit in darkness the Lord will give me light. ⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him; until he vindicate my cause. He will do me justice and bring me out into light; ¹⁰ and shame shall cover her who saith, "Where is thy God?" Mine eyes shall see her. She shall now be trodden down like dirt in the streets.

¹⁶ therefore he will sacrifice to his net and burn incense to his dredge. Because by these he made his mess rich and his food delicious,

⁶ But when Herod's birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod. ⁷ Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask.

²⁵ For whoever wisheth to save his life shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

¹⁶ I brought him to thy disciples, but they could not cure him.

²⁰ And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief. For verily I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to that mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it would remove; and nothing would be impossible to you:

³⁸ But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come let us kill him and keep possession of his inheritance.

³⁸ For as in those days, before the deluge, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, till Noe entered the ark; ³⁹ and they did not know till the flood came and swept them all away; so will this coming of the son of man be.

⁴¹ Two women will be grinding at the mill, the one is taken and the other left.

¹⁵ and said, What will you give me, and I will deliver him up to you. And they weighed to him thirty shekels of silver:

⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists,68 and smote him with staves, saying, ⁶⁸ Prophesy to us Christ. Who is he that smote thee?

¹ Now early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to have him put to death.

²⁹ and having platted a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and falling on their knees before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail king of the Jews.

³⁹ And they who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, ⁴⁰ and saying, Thou the demolisher of the temple and the rebuilder of it in three days, save thyself. If thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross. ⁴¹ In like manner also the chief priests, and the Scribes, and the elders, deriding him, said, ⁴² He saved others; cannot he save himself? If he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and We will believe him. ⁴³ He trusted in God; let him now deliver him, if he delighteth in him: for, he said, I am the Son of God. ⁴⁴ Nay, even the robbers, who were crucified with him, upbraided him in the same manner.

²⁴ Then he said to them, This is my blood; that of the new covenant; that shed for many.

⁸ I say to you, though he will not rise and give him on account of being his friend; yet on account of his importunity he will rise and give him what he wanteth.

⁵ yet because this widow giveth me trouble, I will do her justice, that she may not, by coming perpetually, torment me.

⁴⁸ Whereupon Jesus said to him, Judas, dost thou deliver up the son of man with a kiss?

¹⁵ If you love me keep my commandments,

²¹ He who hath my commandments and keepeth them; he. it is who loveth me. And he who loveth me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. ²² Judas [not the Iscariot] saith to him, Master, How is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus in reply, said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word and my Father will love him; and we will come to him and make an abode with him. ²⁴ He who doth not love me, doth not keep my words. Now the word which you hear is not mine only, but the Fathers who sent me.

¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you shall continue in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments and continue in his love.

³⁹ And Nicodemus, he who formerly came to Jesus by night, came also with a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. ⁴⁰ So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it up in linen swathings with the spices, according to the Jewish custom of embalming. ⁴¹ Now at the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. ⁴² Therefore on account of the preparation of the Jews, they laid Jesus there, because the tomb was nigh at hand.

²⁴ Him God hath raised up, having loosed the bonds of death, as it was not possible that he could be holden by it:

²⁴ and Saul was apprized of their plot. As they were watching the gates day and night to murder him,

¹⁸ After this Paul having continued there a considerable time longer, took leave of the brethren and sailed to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquilas, having shaved his head at Cenchrea, for he had a vow:

²⁴ But I make no account of any of these, nor is this life of mine so much my concern as to finish with joy my course; even the office which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the favour of God.

¹³ But Paul answered, Why make ye this ado, weeping and breaking my heart? As for me, I am ready, not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁵ Now therefore do you with the Sanhedrim make application to the commander that he may bring him down to you to morrow, as being about to examine his affair more minutely. And as for us, before he come near, we are prepared to kill him.

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for an image representing coruptible man, and birds, and four footed beasts, and reptiles; ²⁴ therefore God delivered them up, by the desires of their own hearts, to impurity, that by themselves their own bodies might be dishonoured. ²⁵ They changed the truth of God for a falsity, and worshipped and served the creature, and not the creator who is blessed forever, Amen:

⁸ And will you, [as we are calumniated and as some affirm that we] say, that we should do evil that good may come, you whose condemnation is just?

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members 'of Christ? Shall I then take the members of the Christ, and make them members of a harlot? Surely no. ¹⁶ Do you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body with her? For the scripture saith, "They two shall be one flesh." ¹⁷ Now he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. ¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every other sin, which a man committeth, is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.

⁴ Therefore in respect to the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world: and that there is no other God but one. ⁵ for though there are nominal gods both in heaven and on earth, as there are many gods and many lords;

⁶ Now these things were examples for us, that we may not lust after evil things as they did.

²⁰ No. I only say, that what the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. Now, I would not have you to be partakers in the worship of the demons.

⁵ not that we are of ourselves sufficient to reckon any thing as proceeding from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

¹⁴ For the love of the Christ urgeth us on, judging this, that if one died for all then indeed were they all dying, ¹⁵ and that he died for all to the end that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and was raised up for them.

³² At Damascus the governor under king Aretas posted guards in the city of the Damascenes, with a design to seize me, ³³ whereupon I was let down in a basket, through a window in the wall, and escaped his hands.

⁷ Be not deceived. God is not to be imposed on; for whatever a man soweth, that he shall reap.

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away all falsehood, speak truth, every one to his neighbour. Because we are members one of another,

⁵ For this you know that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor lewd libertine, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

⁸ and found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death, even the death of a cross;

¹⁷ but can if I am even poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your belief, rejoice and congratulate with you all.

³⁰ because he was on the brink of death, for the work of the Christ, having exposed his life that he might supply the want of your religious service for me.

¹⁵ having divested himself of the principalities and the powers, he exposed them to public view- when he triumphed over them on it.

⁹ Lie not one to another. Having put off the old man, with his deeds,

² for you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord cometh as a thief at night.

⁹ But they who determine to be rich, fall headlong into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful desires, which plunge men into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil; to gratify which, some have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil; to gratify which, some have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith hath lodged many false accusations against me. Let the Lord reward him according to his works:

¹⁴ As the children therefore were partakers of flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same in order that he might, by his death, put a stop to the operation of him who hath the power of death, that is the devil; ¹⁵ and deliver from bondage them who were all their lives liable to the fear of death.

³² And what shall I say more? For the time would fail me to speak of Gideon, and Barak, and Sampson, and Jephthae of David and Samuel, and the prophets,

³⁶ and others received the trial of mockings, and scourgings, besides bonds and imprisonments.

¹ As we therefore are encompassed with such a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which easily entangleth us, and let us run without intermission the race set before us, ² looking forward to Jesus, the leader and perfecter of this faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Consider him who bore such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you may not grow weary, nor faint in your minds. ⁴ You have not yet in your contest with sin resisted to blood.

¹⁵ Love not the world nor the things in the world. If any one loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pomp of this life are not of the Father, but are of the world.

³ for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments. Now his commandments are not grievous,

¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O sovereign, the holy one and the true, dost thou defer judging and avenging our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?"

¹⁰ And they who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and be glad, and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented them who dwelt on the earth.