Genesis 20 Cross References - ACV

¹ And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar. ² And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. ³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou are but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou have taken, for she is a man's wife. ⁴ Now Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, will thou slay even a righteous nation? ⁵ Did he not himself say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this. ⁶ And God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou have done this. And I also withheld thee from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow thee to touch her. ⁷ Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shall live. And if thou do not restore her, know thou that thou shall surely die, thou, and all that are thine. ⁸ And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. And the men were exceedingly afraid. ⁹ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have thou done to us? And in what have I sinned against thee, that thou have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Thou have done deeds to me that ought not to be done. ¹⁰ And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did thou see, that thou have done this thing? ¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. ¹² And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife. ¹³ And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is thy kindness which thou shall show to me. At every place where we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. ¹⁴ And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored to him Sarah his wife. ¹⁵ And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee. Dwell where it pleases thee. ¹⁶ And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all who are with thee. And in regard to all thou are righted. ¹⁷ And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bore sons. ¹⁸ For LORD had closed up fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou go toward Gerar, to Gaza, as thou go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

¹ And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

⁷ And they returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, who dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.

¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no sons. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

⁷ And the agent of LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

¹⁴ Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹ And LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

⁶² And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi, for he dwelt in the land of the South.

¹ And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

⁶ And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

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

²⁶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

²⁶ And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh, and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

¹⁶ And when we cried to LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an agent, and brought us forth out of Egypt. And, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the outermost of thy border.

¹⁹ And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as LORD our God commanded us, and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

⁵¹ because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because ye did not sanctify me in the midst of the sons of Israel.

⁷ And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

¹³ And Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar. And there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves. For they were destroyed before LORD, and before his army. And they carried away very much booty. ¹⁴ And they smote all the cities round about Gerar. For the fear of LORD came upon them. And they despoiled all the cities. For there was much spoil in them.

⁸ The voice of LORD shakes the wilderness. LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

¹¹ And it came to pass, when he came near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou are a fair woman to look upon. ¹² And it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. ¹³ Say, I pray thee, thou are my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.

¹⁵ And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

¹² And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.

⁷ And the men of the place asked him of his wife. And he said, She is my sister. For he feared to say, My wife, Lest, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she was fair to look upon.

¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us, for thou are much mightier than we.

² And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should thou help the wicked, and love those who hate LORD? For this thing wrath is upon thee from before LORD.

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

³¹ However in the business of the ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

¹⁶ For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

²⁰ Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.

¹¹ But when Peter came to Antioch I opposed him to the face, because he was blameworthy. ¹² For before certain men came from James he ate together with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing men of circumcision.

²⁵ Therefore having put off falsehood, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, because we are body-parts of each other.

⁹ Do not lie to each other, having stripped off the old man with his practices,

⁷ Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shall live. And if thou do not restore her, know thou that thou shall surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

¹² And he dreamed, and, behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And, behold, the agents of God ascending and descending on it.

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

⁵ And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him yet the more.

⁹ And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers. And said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream again. And, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me.

⁸ And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no man who can interpret it. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, I pray you.

¹ And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed. And, behold, he stood by the river. ² And, behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, well-favored and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed grass. ³ And, behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other cows upon the brink of the river. ⁴ And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed cows ate up the seven well-favored and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke. ⁵ And he slept and dreamed a second time. And, behold, seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, fat and good. ⁶ And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. ⁷ And the thin ears swallowed up the seven fat and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. ⁸ And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men of it. And Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no man who could interpret them to Pharaoh. ⁹ Then the chief butler spoke to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day. ¹⁰ Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker. ¹¹ And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he, we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. ¹² And there was a young man with us there, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him. And he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream. ¹³ And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; he restored me to my office, and he hanged him. ¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph. And they brought him hastily out of the dungeon, and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in to Pharaoh. ¹⁵ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is no man who can interpret it. And I have heard say of thee, that when thou hear a dream thou can interpret it. ¹⁶ And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace. ¹⁷ And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river. ¹⁸ And, behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, fat-fleshed and well-favored, and they fed in the reed grass. ¹⁹ And, behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness. ²⁰ And the lean and ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows. ²¹ And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke. ²² And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good. ²³ And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them, ²⁴ and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no man who could declare it to me. ²⁵ And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one; what God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh. ²⁶ The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream is one. ²⁷ And the seven lean and ill-favored cows that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind, they shall be seven years of famine. ²⁸ That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh. ²⁹ Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, ³⁰ and there shall arise after them seven years of famine. And all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine shall consume the land. ³¹ And the plenty shall not be known in the land because of that famine which follows, for it shall be very grievous. ³² And because the dream was doubled to Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. ³³ Now therefore let Pharaoh look out for a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. ³⁴ Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful years. ³⁵ And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. ³⁶ And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land not perish through the famine.

¹² Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it. ¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed.

¹⁴ He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,

¹⁴ Again, when I say to the wicked man, Thou shall surely die, if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right, ¹⁵ if the wicked man restores the pledge, gives again that which he had taken by robbery, walks in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

⁴ And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

²⁰ But while he considered these things, behold, an agent of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take Mary to be thy wife, for that which was begotten in her is from the Holy Spirit.

¹² And divinely warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed into their own country by another way. ¹³ Now after they departed, behold, an agent of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, After rising, take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and thou be there until I tell thee, for Herod is going to seek the child to destroy it.

¹⁹ And while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, There is nothing for thee and that righteous man. For I suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.

²³ And Abraham drew near, and said, Will thou consume righteous men with wicked men? ²⁴ Perhaps there are fifty righteous men within the city. Will thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous men that are in it? ²⁵ That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

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

⁶ And God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou have done this. And I also withheld thee from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow thee to touch her.

¹⁷ And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bore sons. ¹⁸ For LORD had closed up fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

¹¹ How much more, when evil men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

¹⁷ And David said to God, Is it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? Even I it is who have sinned and done very badly. But these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be against me, and against my father's house, but not against thy people, that they should be plagued.

²² The Mighty One, God, LORD, the Mighty One, God, LORD, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against LORD (do not save us this day),

⁴ And as for thee, if thou will walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances,

³ Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly.

¹⁷ I know also, my God, that thou try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy thy people, who are present here, offer willingly to thee.

⁹ I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

⁸ LORD shall judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

⁴ He who has clean hands, and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee.

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass thine altar, O LORD,

¹³ Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

⁷² So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

³ The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

⁷ A righteous man who walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him.

²² My God has sent his agent, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, inasmuch as before him innocence was found in me. And also before thee, O king, I have done no harm.

¹² For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe,

¹³ the man who was formerly blasphemous, and a persecutor, and an aggressor. But I obtained mercy because I did it being ignorant in unbelief.

³ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, nor shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

¹⁸ For LORD had closed up fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

¹¹ And Abimelech ordered all the people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

⁷ And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

⁵ And they journeyed, and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

⁹ He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

²⁴ For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders. Neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou go up to appear before LORD thy God three times in the year.

² If a soul sins, and commits a trespass against LORD, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbor,

²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, as LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, since LORD has withheld thee from blood guiltiness, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

³⁴ For in very deed, as LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting thee, unless thou had hastened and come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one man-child.

⁴ Against thee, thee only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, that thou may be justified when thou speak, and may prevail when thou are criticized.

¹² So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

¹¹ For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

¹ The king's heart is in the hand of LORD as streams of water. He turns it wherever he will.

⁶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths. ⁷ And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. And she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.

¹ Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

¹⁷ Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says the Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you

⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he who restrains it until now will develop from the midst.

¹¹ And because of this God will send them the force of a delusion, for them to believe a lie,

¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eat of it thou shall surely die.

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

¹⁶ and he shall be thy spokesman to the people. And it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shall be to him as God.

¹ And LORD said to Moses, See, I have made thee as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

¹ And LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, ² This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. ³ Speak ye to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.

¹⁷ And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou do is not good.

⁴ then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

⁷ And the priest shall make atonement for him before LORD, and he shall be forgiven concerning whatever he does so as to be guilty by it.

³² and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that pertained to Korah, and all their goods. ³³ So they, and all that pertained to them, went down alive into Sheol. And the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

⁵ And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to LORD.

⁸ And the sons of Israel said to Samuel, Do not cease to cry to LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

¹⁹ And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for thy servants to LORD thy God that we not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask a king for us.

²³ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against LORD in ceasing to pray for you. But I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

¹⁷ And David spoke to LORD when he saw the agent who smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done perversely, but these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.

⁶ And the king answered and said to the man of God, Entreat now the favor of LORD thy God, and pray for me that my hand may be restored to me again. And the man of God entreated LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.

¹ And it came to pass after many days, that the word of LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth. ² And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria. ³ And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared LORD greatly; ⁴ for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) ⁵ And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the fountains of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the beasts. ⁶ So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it; Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. ⁷ And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him. And he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it thou, my lord Elijah? ⁸ And he answered him, It is I. Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here. ⁹ And he said, How have I sinned that thou would deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me? ¹⁰ As LORD thy God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek thee. And when they said, He is not here, he took an oath from the kingdom and nation that they did not find thee. ¹¹ And now thou say, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here. ¹² And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of LORD will carry thee where I know not. And so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will kill me. But I thy servant fear LORD from my youth. ¹³ Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of LORD, how I hid a hundred men of LORD's prophets by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? ¹⁴ And now thou say, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here, and he will kill me. ¹⁵ And Elijah said, As LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today. ¹⁶ So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. ¹⁷ And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel? ¹⁸ And he answered, I have not troubled Israel, but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of LORD, and thou have followed the Baalim. ¹⁹ Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table. ²⁰ So Ahab sent to all the sons of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to mount Carmel. ²¹ And Elijah came near to all the people, and said, How long do ye go limping between the two sides? If LORD be God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. ²² Then Elijah said to the people, I, even I only, am left a prophet of LORD, but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. ²³ Let them therefore give us two bullocks, and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under. And I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under. ²⁴ And call ye on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of LORD. And the God that answers by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken. ²⁵ And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first, for ye are many, and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under. ²⁶ And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped about the altar which was made. ²⁷ And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is meditating, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened. ²⁸ And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them. ²⁹ And it was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening oblation, but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. ³⁰ And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of LORD that was thrown down. ³¹ And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob to whom the word of LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name. ³² And with the stones he built an altar in the name of LORD. And he made a trench around the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. ³³ And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid it on the wood. And he said, Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood. ³⁴ And he said, Do it the second time, and they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time, and they did it the third time. ³⁵ And the water ran round about the altar, and he also filled the trench with water. ³⁶ And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening oblation, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou are God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. ³⁷ Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou, LORD, are God, and that thou have turned their heart back again. ³⁸ Then the fire of LORD fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. ³⁹ And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. And they said, LORD, he is God, LORD, he is God. ⁴⁰ and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them, and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. ⁴¹ And Elijah said to Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of abundance of rain. ⁴² So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, and he bowed himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees. ⁴³ And he said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. ⁴⁴ And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, a cloud rises out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say to Ahab, Make ready thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain not stop thee. ⁴⁵ And it came to pass in a little while, that the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. ⁴⁶ And the hand of LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

¹¹ But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought he will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.

² And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests (covered with sackcloth) to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. ³ And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy, for the sons have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth. ⁴ It may be that LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which LORD thy God has heard. Therefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

²² saying, Touch not my anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.

¹⁹ who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.

⁸ Now therefore, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams. And go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for him I will accept, that I not deal with you after your folly. For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

¹⁴ The friendship of LORD is with those who fear him, and he will show them his covenant.

⁹ which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac, ¹⁰ and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant, ¹¹ saying, To thee I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance, ¹² when they were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it. ¹³ And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people. ¹⁴ He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, ¹⁵ saying, Touch not my anointed men, and do my prophets no harm.

¹¹ And LORD said to me, Pray not for this people for good.

¹ Then LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

¹⁸ But if they are prophets, and if the word of LORD is with them, let them now make intercession to LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, not go to Babylon.

¹⁸ When I say to a wicked man, Thou shall surely die, and thou give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked man from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.

⁸ When I say to the wicked man, O wicked man, thou shall surely die, and thou do not speak to warn the wicked man from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.

¹⁴ Again, when I say to the wicked man, Thou shall surely die, if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right, ¹⁵ if the wicked man restores the pledge, gives again that which he had taken by robbery, walks in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die. ¹⁶ None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

⁴ He who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but he who prophesies builds up the congregation.

¹ God, who formerly spoke in many portions and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets, spoke to us in these last days by a Son,

⁴ Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

¹⁴ Is any man weak among you? Let him summon the elders of the congregation, and let them pray near him, having anointed him with olive oil in the name of the Lord. ¹⁵ And the prayer of faith will rescue him who is depressed, and the Lord will rouse him. And if he should be a man who has committed sins, they will be forgiven him. ¹⁶ Confess ye the trespasses to each other, and pray for each other so that ye may be healed. A working supplication of a righteous man is very powerful.

¹⁶ If any man may see his brother sinning a sin not toward death, he will ask, and he will give life to him, to those not sinning toward death. There is sin toward death. I do not say that he should make request about that.

⁵ And if any man wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if any man wants to harm them, he must be killed this way. ⁶ These men have authority to shut the sky, so that it may not rain the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they may desire.

¹⁸ And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou have done to me? Why did thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

¹⁰ And Abimelech said, What is this thou have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou would have brought guiltiness upon us.

⁷ And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.

²⁴ And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has played the harlot, and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to thee, that thou have brought a great sin upon them?

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

¹⁰ And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

²⁵ And Joshua said, Why have thou troubled us? LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

¹⁸ And he said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand? ¹⁹ Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be LORD who has stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering, but if it be the sons of men, cursed be they before LORD. For they have driven me out this day that I should not cling to the inheritance of LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.

⁵ And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, As LORD lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die.

¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. ¹¹ Thus says LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. And I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them to thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

¹² And she answered him, No, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Do not do thou this folly.

¹⁰ He who causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit. But the perfect shall inherit good.

¹¹ For there is no partiality with God.

¹¹ who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.

¹² And it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

¹² And he said, Do not lay thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him. For now I know that thou fear God, since thou have not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

¹⁸ And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live, for I fear God:

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me charged the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

²⁸ And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

⁴ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon LORD?

¹ The transgression of the wicked man says within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes. ² For he flatters himself in his own eyes, that his iniquity will not be found out and be hated. ³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. ⁴ He devises iniquity upon his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He does not abhor evil.

⁷ The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

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

¹³ The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

⁶ By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of LORD men depart from evil.

¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.

²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives to themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

¹³ Say, I pray thee, thou are my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.

²² Abstain from all appearance of evil.

¹ Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee.

⁹ And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

¹¹ And it came to pass, when he came near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou are a fair woman to look upon. ¹² And it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. ¹³ Say, I pray thee, thou are my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee. ¹⁴ And it came to pass, that, when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. ¹⁵ And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. ¹⁶ And he dealt well with Abram for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-donkeys, and camels. ¹⁷ And LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. ¹⁸ And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou have done to me? Why did thou not tell me that she was thy wife? ¹⁹ Why did thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore behold thy wife. Take her, and go thy way. ²⁰ And Pharaoh gave men command concerning him. And they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.

²¹ And Saul said, Blessed be ye of LORD, for ye have had compassion on me.

⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil purpose. They converse of laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them?

⁹ But Peter said to her, How is it that it was agreed by you to challenge the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who buried thy husband are at the door, and they will carry thee out.

³ And he said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and from thy kinfolk, and come into a land that I will show thee. ⁴ Then after coming out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran. And from there, after his father died, God resettled him in this land in which ye now dwell. ⁵ And he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep. And he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, although there was no child by him.

⁸ By faith Abraham, when called, obeyed to go out to the place that he was going to take for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

¹⁶ And he dealt well with Abram for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-donkeys, and camels.

² And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

⁹ Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. If the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if the right hand, then I will go to the left.

¹⁰ And ye shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you. Dwell and trade ye in it, and get possessions for you in it.

⁶ The land of Egypt is before thee. Make thy father and thy brothers to dwell in the best of the land; in the land of Goshen let them dwell. And if thou know any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

⁵ Did he not himself say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.

⁶⁵ And she said to the servant, What man is this who walks in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master. And she took her veil, and covered herself.

³ And Joab said, LORD make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel? ⁴ Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. ⁵ And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. And all those of Israel were a million and a hundred thousand men who drew a sword. And Judah was four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword. ⁶ But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

⁸ Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee. Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee. ⁹ Give opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

¹ He who loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is brutish.

¹² An earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

⁵ Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.

⁶ So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do thou mean, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we not perish.

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

³¹ And LORD saw that Leah was regarded inferior, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

¹¹ They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly discomfiture throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. ¹² And the men who did not die were smitten with the tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

¹⁰ that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did according as LORD commanded them, and LORD accepted Job. ¹⁰ And LORD turned back the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. And LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

²⁹ LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

¹¹ Thus says LORD, the Holy One of Israel and his maker: Ask me of the things that are to come concerning my sons. And command ye me concerning the work of my hands.

⁷ Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.

²² And all things, as many as ye may ask in prayer, believing, ye will receive.

²⁴ And also all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession, as many as spoke, also proclaimed these days.

⁶ Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankfulness make your requests known to God.

²⁵ Brothers, pray about us.

¹⁶ Confess ye the trespasses to each other, and pray for each other so that ye may be healed. A working supplication of a righteous man is very powerful.

² And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, LORD has restrained me from bearing. Go in, I pray thee, to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain sons by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

² And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, Am I in God's stead, who has withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

⁶ And her rival provoked her greatly, to make her fret, because LORD had shut up her womb.

¹⁰ So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.