1 Samuel 23 Cross References - BBE

¹ And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors. ² So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands. ³ And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines? ⁴ Then David put the question to the Lord again, and the Lord answering said, Up! go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hands. ⁵ So David and his men went to Keilah, and had a fight with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and put them to the sword with great destruction. So David was the saviour of the people of Keilah. ⁶ Now when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, went in flight to David, he came down to Keilah with the ephod in his hand. ⁷ And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in. ⁸ And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men. ⁹ And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod. ¹⁰ Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me. ¹¹ And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down. ¹² Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up. ¹³ Then David and his men, about six hundred of them, went out of Keilah, and got away wherever they were able to go. And Saul, hearing that David had got away from Keilah, did not go there. ¹⁴ And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands. ¹⁵ And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh. ¹⁶ And Saul's son Jonathan went to David in Horesh, and made his hands strong in God; ¹⁷ And said to him, Have no fear, for Saul my father will not get you into his power; and you will be king of Israel, and I will be by your side, and my father Saul is certain of this. ¹⁸ And the two of them made an agreement before the Lord: and David went on living in Horesh, and Jonathan went back to his house. ¹⁹ Then the Ziphites came up to Gibeah to see Saul, and said, Is not David living secretly among us in the strong places in Horesh, in the hill of Hachilah to the south of the waste land? ²⁰ So now, O king, have your soul's desire and come down, and we, for our part, will give him up into the king's hands. ²¹ And Saul said, The Lord's blessing will be yours, for you have had pity on me. ²² Go now, and take more steps, and see where he is living: for they say that he is expert in deceit. ²³ So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah. ²⁴ And they went back and came to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the waste land of Maon, in the dry land south of the waste land. ²⁵ And Saul and his men went in search of him. And David had word of it, so he came down to the rock in the waste land of Maon. And Saul, hearing of this, went after David into the waste land of Maon. ²⁶ And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them. ²⁷ But a man came to Saul saying, Be quick and come; for the Philistines have made an attack on the land. ²⁸ So turning back from going after David, Saul went against the Philistines: so that place was named Sela-hammah-lekoth. ²⁹ And from there, David went up and took cover in the safe place of En-gedi.

⁷ Then they came back to En-mishpat which is Kadesh, making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

²⁴ If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men?

¹⁴ And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.

³ And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.

⁹ Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.

³⁰ And in the bag you are to put the Urim and Thummim, so that they may be on Aaron's heart whenever he goes in before the Lord; and Aaron may have the power of making decisions for the children of Israel before the Lord at all times. ³¹ The robe which goes with the ephod is to be made all of blue;

¹⁶ This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

³⁶ And when it came to rest, he said, Take rest, O Lord, and give a blessing to the families of Israel.

²¹ He will take his place before Eleazar the priest, so that he may get directions from the Lord for him, with the Urim: at his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in, he and all the children of Israel.

²⁸ But give my orders to Joshua, comforting him and making him strong; for he is to go over Jordan at the head of this people, and he will give them this land which you will see for their heritage.

⁶ And if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from any town in all Israel where he is living to the place marked out by the Lord;

³³ The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

⁵¹ He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

³⁶ For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.

⁷ Then you will get up from your secret position and take the town, for the Lord your God will give it up into your hands.

¹⁴ And the men took some of their food, without requesting directions from the Lord.

²⁴ Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth;

⁴⁴ And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine towns with their unwalled places.

⁵⁵ Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah;

⁶² And Nibshan, and the Town of Salt, and En-gedi; six towns with their unwalled places.

¹ Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites?

⁴ And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.

¹¹ Now the angel of the Lord came and took his seat under the oak-tree in Ophrah, in the field of Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was crushing grain in the place where the grapes were crushed, so that the Midianites might not see it.

³⁹ Then Gideon said to God, Do not be moved to wrath against me if I say only this: let me make one more test with the wool; let the wool now be dry, while the earth is covered with dew.

⁷ And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place.

⁸ And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.

² And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death. ³ And Samson was there till the middle of the night; then he got up, and took a grip on the doors of the town, pulling them up, together with their two supports and their locks, and put them on his back and took them up to the top of the hill in front of Hebron.

² And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver which were taken from you, about which you took an oath and said in my hearing, I have given this silver to the Lord from my hand for myself, to make a pictured image and a metal image: see, I have the silver, for I took it: so now I will give it back to you. And his mother said, May the blessing of the Lord be on my son.

³ And Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, who had the ephod. And the people had no idea that Jonathan had gone.

¹⁸ And Saul said to Ahijah, Let the ephod come here. For he went before Israel with the ephod at that time.

³⁶ And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, attacking them till the morning, till there is not a man of them living. And they said, Do whatever seems right to you. Then the priest said, Let us come near to God. ³⁷ And Saul, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go down after the Philistines? will you give them up into the hands of Israel? But he gave him no answer that day.

³ Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David.

¹² So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away.

¹² And Jonathan said to David, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be witness; when I have had a chance of talking to my father, about this time tomorrow, if his feelings to David are good, will I not send and give you the news? ¹³ May the Lord's punishment be on Jonathan, if it is my father's pleasure to do you evil and I do not give you word of it and send you away so that you may go in peace: and may the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father. ¹⁴ And may you, while I am still living, O may you be kind to me, as the Lord is kind, and keep me from death! ¹⁵ And let not your mercy ever be cut off from my family, even when the Lord has sent destruction on all David's haters, cutting them off from the face of the earth. ¹⁶ And if it comes about that the name of Jonathan is cut off from the family of David, the Lord will make David responsible. ¹⁷ And Jonathan again took an oath to David, because of his love for him: for David was as dear to him as his very soul.

³¹ For while the son of Jesse is living on the earth, your position is unsafe and your kingdom is in danger. So make him come here to me, for it is certainly right for him to be put to death.

³⁸ And Jonathan went on crying out after the boy, Be quick, do not keep waiting about, go quickly. And Jonathan's boy got the arrow and came back to his master.

⁴² And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, for we two have taken an oath, in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord will be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed for ever. Then David went away, and Jonathan went into the town.

² And everyone who was in trouble, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, came together to him, and he became captain over them: about four hundred men were joined to him.

⁷ Then Saul said to his servants who were there about him, Give ear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give to every one of you fields and vine-gardens, will he make you all captains of hundreds and captains of thousands; ⁸ That all of you have made designs against me, and not one of you gave me word when my son made an agreement with the son of Jesse, and not one of you has pity for me or has made my eyes open to the fact that my servant has been moved by my son against me, as at this day?

⁸ That all of you have made designs against me, and not one of you gave me word when my son made an agreement with the son of Jesse, and not one of you has pity for me or has made my eyes open to the fact that my servant has been moved by my son against me, as at this day?

¹⁹ And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep. ²⁰ And Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, got away and went in flight after David;

⁴ Then David put the question to the Lord again, and the Lord answering said, Up! go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hands.

⁶ Now when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, went in flight to David, he came down to Keilah with the ephod in his hand. ⁷ And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in. ⁸ And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men. ⁹ And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod. ¹⁰ Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me. ¹¹ And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down. ¹² Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.

¹² Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.

¹⁴ And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands. ¹⁵ And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh.

²⁰ So now, O king, have your soul's desire and come down, and we, for our part, will give him up into the king's hands.

²³ So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.

²⁶ And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.

²⁸ So turning back from going after David, Saul went against the Philistines: so that place was named Sela-hammah-lekoth.

¹ Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.

⁴ And David's men said to him, Now is the time when the Lord says to you, I will give up your hater into your hands to do with him whatever seems good to you. Then David, getting up, took the skirt of Saul's robe in his hand, cutting off the end of it without his knowledge. ⁵ And later, David was full of regret for cutting off Saul's skirt. ⁶ And David said to his men, Before the Lord, never let it be said that my hand was lifted up against my lord, the man of the Lord's selection, for the Lord's holy oil has been put on him.

²⁰ And now I am certain that you will be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be made strong under your authority.

² Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.

¹³ And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.

¹ And the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, and said, Is not David waiting secretly near us in the hill of Hachilah, before the waste land?

³ And Saul put up his tents on the hill of Hachilah, which is in front of the waste land on the road. But David was in the waste land, and he saw that Saul was coming after him.

⁸ Then Abishai said to David, God has given up your hater into your hands today; now let me give him one blow through to the earth with his spear, and there will be no need to give him a second. ⁹ And David said to Abishai Do not put him to death; for who, without sin, may put out his hand against the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil?

¹ And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.

⁶ And when Saul went for directions to the Lord, the Lord gave him no answer, by a dream or by the Urim or by the prophets.

⁶ And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God. ⁷ And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Come here to me with the ephod. And Abiathar took the ephod to David. ⁸ Then David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go after this band? will I be able to overtake them? And in answer he said, Go after them, for you will certainly overtake them, and get back everything. ⁹ So David went, and his six hundred men went with him, and they came to the stream Besor. ¹⁰ And David, with four hundred men, went on: but two hundred of them were overcome with weariness, and not able to go across the stream.

²¹ And Abner said to David, Now I will go, and make all Israel come to my lord the king, so that they may make an agreement with you, and your kingdom may be as wide as your heart's desire. Then David sent Abner away and he went in peace.

¹⁹ And David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands.

²³ And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees.

¹ And David said, Is there still anyone of Saul's family living, so that I may be a friend to him, because of Jonathan?

¹⁴ And David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Come, let us go in flight, or not one of us will be safe from Absalom: let us go without loss of time, or he will overtake us quickly and send evil on us, and put the town to the sword.

²⁰ It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.

¹¹ But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them. ¹² Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life. ¹³ And if he has gone into some town, then let all Israel take strong cords to that town, and we will have it pulled into the valley, till not one small stone is to be seen there.

²¹ Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you. ²² So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.

⁷ But the king did not give up Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the Lord's oath made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.

¹⁰ By the life of the Lord your God, there is not a nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent in search of you; and when they said, He is not here; he made them take an oath that they had not seen you.

¹¹ So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them. ¹² They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people. ¹³ And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death. ¹⁴ And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.

¹⁸ And this will be only a small thing to the Lord: in addition he will give the Moabites into your hands.

⁵ So the controller of the king's house, with the ruler of the town, and the responsible men, and those who had the care of Ahab's sons, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants and will do all your orders; we will not make any man king; do whatever seems best to you. ⁶ Then he sent them a second letter, saying, If you are on my side, and if you will do my orders, come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow, with the heads of your master's sons. Now the king's seventy sons were with the great men of the town, who had the care of them. ⁷ And when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and put them to death, all the seventy, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.

⁹ And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, he sent representatives to Hezekiah again, saying,

¹⁰ And David, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? and will you give them into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up; for I will give them into your hands.

¹³ Then the Philistines again went out in every direction in the valley.

² And they came to Jehoshaphat with the news, saying, A great army is moving against you from Edom across the sea; and now they are in Hazazon-tamar which is En-gedi.

¹² O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

¹⁸ Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.

¹⁷ Then came the Levites, Rehum, the son of Bani. By his side was working Hashabiah, ruler of half the division of Keilah, for his division. ¹⁸ After him were working their brothers, Bavvai, the son of Henadad, ruler of half the division of Keilah.

⁶ But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

³ Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong; ⁴ He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.

¹¹ Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place; ¹² Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes. ¹³ He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

¹³ He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly. ¹⁴ In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night. ¹⁵ But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

⁵ I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

⁵ That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

³ For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

¹ For the chief music-maker. Of David. In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

¹ For the chief music-maker. Of David. In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain? ² See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart. ³ If the bases are broken down, what is the upright man to do?

⁹ From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

¹¹ They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

¹² A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

¹⁶ Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

¹ Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me? ² When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame. ³ Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

⁸ And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

²² And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

⁷ You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. Selah. ⁸ I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

³² The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death. ³³ The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song. God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble. ² For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea;

¹⁵ Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

¹ To the chief music-maker; on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David. When the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Is not David keeping himself secret among us? Let your name be my salvation, O God; let my cause be judged by your strength. ² Let my prayer come before you, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. ³ For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. Selah.

³ For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. Selah.

³ For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. Selah. ⁴ See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul.

⁴ See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul. ⁵ Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith. ⁶ Freely will I make my offerings to you; I will give praise to your name, O Lord, for it is good. ⁷ Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.

¹ To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David. My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my salvation.

¹⁰ For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs, ¹¹ Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.

¹ Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High; ² Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

¹⁰ The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

³ The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

⁸ It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in man.

¹¹ They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down. ¹² They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down. ¹³ I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, take me out of the power of the evil man; keep me safe from the violent man: ² For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war. ³ Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. Selah. ⁴ O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall. ⁵ The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. Selah. ⁶ I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer. ⁷ O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight. ⁸ O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. Selah. ⁹ As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

¹⁶ For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

⁵ Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support. ⁶ In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

¹⁶ For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

²³ The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.

²⁶ For him in whose heart is the fear of the Lord there is strong hope: and his children will have a safe place.

²¹ A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.

³⁰ Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.

⁹ Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

¹⁷ Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.

¹⁵ Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

¹² If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.

²⁶ The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.

⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work. ¹⁰ And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper. ¹¹ So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself? ¹² And two attacked by one would be safe, and three cords twisted together are not quickly broken.

¹⁴ There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it. ¹⁵ Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.

¹⁴ My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

¹⁵ Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

³ Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees. ⁴ Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.

¹⁰ Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

¹⁴ Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁷ No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

⁵ Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.

²³ O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.

¹⁸ And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings. ¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

⁵ If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?

³ Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.

²⁶ And the king gave orders to Jerahmeel, the king's son, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord kept them safe.

²² Because with your false words you have given pain to the heart of the upright man when I had not made him sad; in order to make strong the hands of the evil-doer so that he may not be turned from his evil way and get life:

¹⁰ And fishermen will take up their places by it: from En-gedi as far as En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching out of nets; the fish will be of every sort, like the fish of the Great Sea, a very great number.

¹¹ Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

² And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

¹⁵ You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

⁷ Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you: ⁸ Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

¹ It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:

¹⁰ And Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, so that he might give him up to them. ¹¹ And hearing what he said, they were glad, and gave him their word to make him a payment of money. And he took thought how he might best give him up to them.

³² Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

⁴³ For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, ⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

³² But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

⁴³ And an angel from heaven came to him, to give him strength.

² And Judas, who was false to him, had knowledge of the place because Jesus went there frequently with his disciples. ³ So Judas, getting a band of armed men and police from the chief priests and Pharisees, went there with lights and with arms.

³⁹ But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.

²⁴ But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death:

⁶ Having got news of it, they went in flight to the towns of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the country round about:

¹⁶ But Paul's sister's son had word of their design, and he came into the army building and gave news of it to Paul. ¹⁷ And Paul sent for a captain and said, Take this young man to your chief, for he has news for him. ¹⁸ So he took him to the chief captain and said, Paul, the prisoner, made a request to me to take this young man to you, for he has something to say to you.

¹⁶ And when we came into Rome, they let Paul have a house for himself and the armed man who kept watch over him.

¹⁵ Their feet are quick in running after blood; ¹⁶ Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

³¹ What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

²⁴ Whenever I go to Spain for it is my hope to see you on my way, and to be sent on there by you, if first I may in some measure have been comforted by your company--

⁸ For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

¹⁰ Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

¹ So then, my child, be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.

¹¹ My punishments and pain; the things which came to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the cruel attacks made on me: and the Lord made me free from them all.

¹⁷ But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion. ¹⁸ The Lord will keep me safe from every evil work and will give me salvation in his kingdom in heaven: to whom be glory for ever and ever. So be it.

¹³ And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

¹² For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong, ¹³ And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.

⁶ So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

¹⁶ And the earth gave help to the woman, and with open mouth took up the river which the dragon sent out of his mouth.

⁹ And they went up over the face of the earth, and made a circle about the tents of the saints, and the well loved town: and fire came down out of heaven for their destruction.