Ruth Cross References - ACV

¹ And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. ² And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there. ³ And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left, and her two sons. ⁴ And they took wives for them of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth, and they dwelt there about ten years. ⁵ And Mahlon and Chilion died, both of them, and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband. ⁶ Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab how that LORD had visited his people in giving them bread. ⁷ And she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. ⁸ And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house. LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. ⁹ LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept. ¹⁰ And they said to her, No, but we will return with thee to thy people. ¹¹ And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Why will ye go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? ¹² Turn again, my daughters. Go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope. If I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons, ¹³ would ye therefore delay till they were grown? Would ye therefore stay from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of LORD has gone forth against me. ¹⁴ And they lifted up their voices, and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. ¹⁵ And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Return thou after thy sister-in-law. ¹⁶ And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for where thou go, I will go, and where thou lodge, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. ¹⁷ Where thou die, I will die, and there I will be buried. LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts thee and me. ¹⁸ And when she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her. ¹⁹ So those two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they came to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and the women said, Is this Naomi? ²⁰ And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full, and LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do ye call me Naomi, seeing LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me? ²² So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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.

¹ And the famine was severe in the land.

¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your power. And I will make your sky as iron, and your earth as brass,

²³ And thy sky that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. ²⁴ LORD will make the rain of thy land powder and dust. From the sky it shall come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

³⁸ Thou shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

¹⁶ And LORD raised up judges who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them. ¹⁷ And yet they did not hearken to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of LORD. They did not do so. ¹⁸ And when LORD raised up judges for them, then LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For LORD regretted because of their groaning because of those who oppressed them and vexed them.

⁸ And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

⁸ And the man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place. And he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

¹ And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah. ² And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem-judah, and was there the space of four months.

¹ And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of LORD. And LORD said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. ² And the word of LORD came to him, saying, ³ Get thee from here, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan. ⁴ And it shall be, that thou shall drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. ⁵ So he went and did according to the word of LORD, for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook. ⁷ And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up because there was no rain in the land. ⁸ And the word of LORD came to him, saying, ⁹ Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee. ¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel that I may drink. ¹¹ And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. ¹² And she said, As LORD thy God lives, I do not have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse. And, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it, and die.

² And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.

¹ Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wherever thou can sojourn, for LORD has called for a famine, and it shall also come upon the land seven years. ² And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God. And she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

¹⁶ And he called for a famine upon the land. He broke the whole staff of bread.

³⁴ a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

¹ The word of LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

¹³ Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,

²¹ For thus says the lord LORD: How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

¹⁰ The field is laid waste; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes. ¹¹ Be confounded, O ye husbandmen. Wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field is perished.

¹⁶ Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? ¹⁷ The seeds rot under their clods. The garners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down. For the grain is withered. ¹⁸ How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture, yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. ¹⁹ O LORD, to thee do I cry. For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Yea, the beasts of the field pant to thee, for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

⁶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places, yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.

¹⁹ And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

¹ Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill-country of Ephraim. And his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

²¹ And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

² But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

¹ Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bondmen.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but LORD delivers him out of them all.

⁶ For whom the Lord loves he chastens. And he whips every son whom he receives.

¹⁰ For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

³ Neither shall thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall thou take to thy son.

³ An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of LORD, even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter into the assembly of LORD forever,

¹ Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites, ² of the nations concerning which LORD said to the sons of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods. Solomon clave to these in love.

⁵ and Salmon begot Boaz from Rahab, and Boaz begot Obed from Ruth, and Obed begot Jesse,

³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

³⁰ If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances, ³¹ if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, ³² then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes,

²¹ Then thou shall say in thy heart, Who has begotten these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were they?

¹⁹ Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, LORD of hosts.

²⁵ Now there were with us seven brothers. And the first having married perished. And having no seed left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ Likewise also the second, and the third, until the seventh. ²⁷ And last of all, the woman also died.

¹² Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, an only begotten son who died was being carried out for his mother. And she was a widow, and a considerable crowd of the city was with her.

¹ And LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.

²⁰ And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

²⁵ And Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from here.

¹⁶ Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

³¹ And the people believed. And when they heard that LORD had visited the sons of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

⁴ Then LORD said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. ⁵ And it shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. ⁶ And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, At evening, then ye shall know that LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt,

²¹ And LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before LORD.

¹⁴ He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herbage for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth, ¹⁵ and wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.

⁵ He has given food to those who fear him. He will ever be mindful of his covenant.

¹⁵ I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait for thee, and thou give them their food in due season.

⁷ who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. LORD releases the prisoners.

¹⁴ He makes peace in thy borders. He fills thee with the finest of the wheat.

⁸ Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

¹⁰ For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and returns not there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

¹⁰ For thus says LORD, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you in causing you to return to this place.

⁷ And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They shall feed their flocks upon it. In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening. For LORD their God will visit them, and bring back their captivity.

¹¹ Give us this day the bread sufficient for us.

⁶⁸ Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, because he came to help, and made ransom for his people.

⁴⁴ And they will raze thee and thy children within thee. And they will not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou knew not the time of thy visitation.

⁸ but having food and covering we will be content with these.

¹² Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

²⁷ And Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

¹⁰ And they said to her, No, but we will return with thee to thy people.

¹⁴ And they lifted up their voices, and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

³ And it came to pass at the end of seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to serve LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve LORD. ¹⁶ And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake LORD, to serve other gods. ¹⁷ For LORD our God, he it is who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed. ¹⁸ And LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who dwelt in the land. Therefore we also will serve LORD, for he is our God. ¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgression nor your sins. ²⁰ If ye forsake LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good. ²¹ And the people said to Joshua, No, but we will serve LORD. ²² And Joshua said to the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen for you, LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. ²³ Now therefore, he said, put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to LORD, the God of Israel. ²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, we will serve LORD our God, and we will hearken to his voice. ²⁵ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. ²⁶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God. And he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of LORD. ²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of LORD which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God. ²⁸ So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

⁵ And Mahlon and Chilion died, both of them, and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.

²⁰ And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of LORD who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said to her, The man is near of kin to us, one of our near kinsmen.

²⁵ Now many multitudes went with him, and having turned, he said to them, ²⁶ If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ And whoever does not bear his cross, and come behind me, cannot be my disciple. ²⁸ For which of you wanting to build a tower, does not, having first sat down, count the cost whether he has the things for completion? ²⁹ So that perhaps, having laid its foundation, and not being able to finish, all those who see begin to ridicule him, ³⁰ saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. ³¹ Or what king going to encounter another king in war, will not, having first sat down, consult whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³² And if not, while he is still far off, having sent a delegation, he asks the things about peace. ³³ So therefore every man of you who does not renounce all things being possessed by him, cannot be my disciple.

²² Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

² Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, ³ so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.

¹⁸ But I receive all things, and I abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice well-pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God will fill your every need according to his wealth in glory in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in the Lord.

²⁴ knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain. ¹⁷ But when he happened to be in Rome he sought me more diligently and found me ¹⁸ (may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord in that day), and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, thou know very well.

²⁷ And he came near, and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that LORD has blessed.

¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers, and wept upon them. And after that his brothers talked with him.

¹ And Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

³⁷ And there developed considerable weeping of all. And having fallen on Paul's neck, they kissed him much,

³ As for the sanctified who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

⁶³ I am a companion of all those who fear thee, and of those who observe thy precepts.

²³ Thus says LORD of hosts: In those days, ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

¹¹ Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up, for he said, Lest he also die, like his brothers. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

⁵ If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

¹⁷ Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

⁹ Let no widow be enrolled under sixty years old, having become the wife of one man,

¹⁵ Moreover the hand of LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

¹⁵ Wherever they went out, the hand of LORD was against them for evil, as LORD had spoken, and as LORD had sworn to them. And they were exceedingly distressed.

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.

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.

² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely.

⁹ I was mute. I opened not my mouth, because thou did it. ¹⁰ Remove thy stroke away from me. I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

²⁸ and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou have done foolishly.

⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.

⁴ But ye who clung to LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.

²⁰ Thou shall fear LORD thy God. Him thou shall serve, and to him thou shall cling, and by his name thou shall swear.

²⁰ And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him, Go back again, for what have I done to thee?

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

²⁴ He who makes many friends does it to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

¹ For LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. And the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cling to the house of Jacob.

³⁷ He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man wants to come behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

²² But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sorrowing, for he was having many possessions.

²¹ And having looked at him, Jesus loved him, and said to him, One thing thou lack. Go thou, sell as many things as thou have, and give to the poor, and thou will have treasure in heaven. And after taking up the cross, come, follow me. ²² But having become somber at the saying, he went away sorrowing, for he was a man who has many possessions.

⁶⁶ From this, many of his disciples went back at these things, and walked no more with him. ⁶⁷ Jesus said therefore to the twelve, Do ye not also want to go? ⁶⁸ Simon Peter therefore answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? Thou have sayings of eternal life. ⁶⁹ And we have believed and know that thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

³⁴ But some men, having joined with him, believed, among whom was also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

¹⁰ for Demas forsook me having loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

³⁹ But we are not of retreat for destruction, but of faith for the preservation of the soul.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to serve LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve LORD.

¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgression nor your sins.

²⁴ Will thou not possess that which Chemosh thy god gives thee to possess? So whomever LORD our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

¹⁹ Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why do thou also go with us? Return, and abide with the king, for thou are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to thine own place. ²⁰ Whereas thou came but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us, seeing I go where I may? Return thou, and take back thy brothers. Mercy and truth be with thee.

² And Elijah said to Elisha, Remain here, I pray thee, for LORD has sent me as far as Bethel. And Elisha said, As LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

⁵ But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, LORD will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

⁶ and those who are turned back from following LORD, and those who have not sought LORD, nor inquired after him.

²⁰ And that which was sown upon the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and straightaway receiving it with joy, ²¹ yet he has no root in himself, instead it is temporary. And when tribulation or persecution develops because of the word, straightaway he is caused to stumble.

²⁸ And they came near to the village where they were going, and he pretended to go further.

³⁸ But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him.

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have continued with us, but-so that they might be made known, that they are not all of us.

¹⁸ And LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who dwelt in the land. Therefore we also will serve LORD, for he is our God.

¹¹ And Boaz answered and said to her, It has been fully shown me all that thou have done to thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband, and how thou have left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and have come to a people that thou knew not formerly. ¹² LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings thou have come to take refuge.

²¹ And Ittai answered the king, and said, As LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there thy servant will also be.

² And Elijah said to Elisha, Remain here, I pray thee, for LORD has sent me as far as Bethel. And Elisha said, As LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel. ³ And the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said to him, Do thou know that LORD will take away thy master from thy head today? And he said, Yes, I know it; hold ye your peace. ⁴ And Elijah said to him, Elisha, remain here, I pray thee, for LORD has sent me to Jericho. And he said, As LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho. ⁵ And the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, Do thou know that LORD will take away thy master from thy head today? And he answered, Yes, I know it; hold ye your peace. ⁶ And Elijah said to him, Remain here, I pray thee, for LORD has sent me to the Jordan. And he said, As LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. And the two went on.

¹⁰ Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house.

⁴⁷ The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since thou have been able to reveal this secret.

²⁹ Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill, because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways justice. And he is able to abase those who walk in pride.

⁴ Yet I am LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shall know no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

¹⁹ And a certain scholar having come, he said to him, Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou may go.

²⁸ And they came near to the village where they were going, and he pretended to go further. ²⁹ And they constrained him, saying, Remain with us, because it is toward evening, and the day has declined. And he went in to remain with them.

³⁷ Peter said to him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.

¹³ And Paul answered, What are ye doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I fare ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁶ And what mutual agreement has a temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God, just as God said, I will dwell in them, and will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they will be a people to me. 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 ¹⁸ and will be for a Father to you, and ye will be for sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.

⁹ For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and true God,

⁴ These are men who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were purchased by Jesus, out of men, a first fruit to God and to the Lamb.

¹⁷ And he said, What is the thing that LORD has spoken to thee? I pray thee, hide it not from me. God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to thee.

²² God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertains to him by the morning light so much as one man-child.

⁹ God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as LORD has sworn to David, I do not even so to him,

³⁵ And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day, but David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, till the sun is down.

¹³ And say ye to Amasa, Are thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou not be captain of the army before me continually in the place of Joab.

²³ Then king Solomon swore by LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

² Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

¹⁰ And Ben-hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

³¹ Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

²³ who, having arrived, and having seen the grace of God, rejoiced. And he encouraged all, with purpose of heart, to remain in the Lord.

²⁴ But I make nothing of the matter, nor do I hold my life precious to myself, so as to fully complete my course with joy, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly testify the good news of the grace of God.

⁴² And they were continuing steadfastly in the apostles doctrine, and in fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and the prayers.

¹⁴ And since he was not persuaded, we were quiet, having said, May the will of the Lord happen.

¹⁰ Finally my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

⁷ Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?

¹⁵ All who pass by clap their hands at thee. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

¹⁰ And when he entered into Jerusalem, all the city was shaken, saying, Who is this?

¹ And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect.

¹⁴ And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my sons, I am bereaved.

³ And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but I was not known by them by my name LORD.

¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

⁷ Can thou find out God by searching? Can thou find out the Almighty to perfection?

⁶ know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.

¹⁴ for all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.

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

¹ I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. ² He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. ³ Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day. ⁴ He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones. ⁵ He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail. ⁶ He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead. ⁷ He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy. ⁸ Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹ He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked. ¹⁰ He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places. ¹¹ He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate. ¹² He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. ¹⁴ I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. ¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood. ¹⁶ He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes. ¹⁷ And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. ¹⁸ And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD. ¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ²⁰ My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

¹¹ But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

⁸ I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord, the God who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.

²² And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is the temple of it, and the Lamb.

⁷ LORD makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. ⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with rulers, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.

²¹ And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.

¹⁷ Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.

²⁶ For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.

⁸ And thou have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.

⁵ And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says LORD of hosts.

³¹ And the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom. ³² But the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up.

²³ So she kept close by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest. And she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

⁹ And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites. And they hanged them in the mountain before LORD, and they fell all seven together. And they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.