Genesis 19 Cross References - CAB

¹ And the two angels came to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat by the gate of Sodom. And Lot, having seen them, rose up to meet them, and he worshipped with his face to the ground, and said, ² Lo! My lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning you shall depart on your journey. And they said, No, but we will lodge in the street. ³ And he constrained them, and they turned aside to him, and they entered into his house, and he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened cakes for them, and they did eat. ⁴ But before they went to sleep, the men of the city, the Sodomites, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people together. ⁵ And they called out Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that came to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may be with them. ⁶ And Lot went out to them to the porch, and he shut the door after him, ⁷ and said to them, By no means, brethren, do not act so wickedly. ⁸ But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and use them as it may please you, only do no injury to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shelter of my roof. ⁹ And they said to him, Stand back! You came here to sojourn, was it also to judge? Now then we would harm you more than them. And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and they drew near to break down the door. ¹⁰ And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shut the door of the house. ¹¹ And they struck the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they were wearied with seeking the door. ¹² And the men said to Lot, Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, or sons or daughters, or if you have any other friend in the city, bring them out of this place. ¹³ For we are going to destroy this place; for their cry has been raised up before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it. ¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters, and said, Rise up, and depart out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city; but he seemed to be speaking absurdly before his sons-in-law. ¹⁵ But when it was morning, the angels urged Lot, saying, Arise and take your wife, and your two daughters whom you have, and go forth; lest you also be destroyed with the iniquities of the city. ¹⁶ And they were troubled, and the angels laid hold on his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him. ¹⁷ And it came to pass when they brought them out, that they said, Save your own life by all means; look not round to that which is behind, nor stay in all the country round about, escape to the mountain, lest perhaps you be overtaken together with them. ¹⁸ And Lot said to them, I pray, my lords, ¹⁹ since your servant has found mercy before you, and you have magnified your righteousness, in what you do towards me that my soul may live, — but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, lest perhaps the calamity overtake me and I die. ²⁰ Behold, this city is near for me to escape to, which is a small one, and there shall I be preserved, is it not little? And my soul shall live because of you. ²¹ And he said to him, Behold, I have had respect to you also about this thing, that I should not overthrow the city about which you have spoken. ²² Hurry, therefore, to escape there, for I shall not be able to do anything until you arrive there; therefore he called the name of that city, Zoar. ²³ The sun was risen upon the earth, when Lot entered into Zoar. ²⁴ And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. ²⁵ And He overthrew these cities, and all the country round about, and all that dwelt in the cities, and the plants springing out of the ground. ²⁶ And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. ²⁷ And Abraham rose up early to go to the place where he had stood before the Lord. ²⁸ And he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and towards the surrounding country, and saw, and behold, a flame went up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace. ²⁹ And it came to pass, that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot dwelt. ³⁰ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, he and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him. ³¹ And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth who shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth. ³² Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raise up seed from our father. ³³ So they made their father drink wine in that night, and the elder went in and lay with her father that night, and he knew not when he slept and when he rose up. ³⁴ And it came to pass on the next day, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept last night with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and you go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father. ³⁵ So they made their father drink wine in that night also, and the younger went in and slept with her father, and he knew not when he slept, nor when he arose. ³⁶ And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father. ³⁷ And the elder bore a son and called his name Moab, saying, He is of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day. ³⁸ And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Ammon, saying, The son of my family. This is the father of the Ammonites to this present day.

¹ And God appeared to him by the oak of Mamre, as he sat by the door of his tent in the heat of the day. ² And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood before him; and having seen them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and bowed himself to the ground. ³ And he said, Lord, if indeed I have found grace in Your sight, pass not by Your servant. ⁴ Let water now be brought, and let them wash your feet, and refresh yourselves under the tree. ⁵ And I will bring bread, and you shall eat, and after this you shall depart on your journey, on account of which refreshment you have turned aside to your servant. And he said, So do, as you have said.

²² And the men, having departed from there, came to Sodom; and the Lord stood before Abraham.

³² for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to everyone that came:)

² Do not forget hospitality, for through this some have unwittingly entertained angels.

⁴ Let water now be brought, and let them wash your feet, and refresh yourselves under the tree.

¹⁷ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw a traveler in the street of the city; and the old man said to him, Where are you going, and where do you come from? ¹⁸ And he said to him, We are passing by from Bethlehem Judah to the sides of Mount Ephraim: I am from there, and I went as far as Bethlehem Judah, and I am going home, and there is no man to take me into his house. ¹⁹ Although we have both straw and food for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and my handmaid and the young man with your servants; there is no lack of anything. ²⁰ And the old man said, Peace be unto you; however let all your needs be upon me, and by no means lodge in the street. ²¹ And he brought him into his house, and made room for his donkeys; and they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

²⁸ Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He made as though He was going farther. ²⁹ But they constrained Him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent." And He went in to stay with them.

¹⁵ And when she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." So she persuaded us.

⁶ And Abraham hastened to the tent to Sarah, and said to her, Quickly, knead three measures of fine flour, and make cakes. ⁷ And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a young calf, tender and good, and gave it to his servant, and he hastened to prepare it. ⁸ And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had prepared; and he set them before them, and they did eat, and he stood by them under the tree.

⁸ And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast the day that his son Isaac was weaned.

¹⁵ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and from the first day you shall utterly remove leaven from your houses: whoever shall eat leaven, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.

³⁹ And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt, unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened; for the Egyptians cast them out, and they could not remain, neither did they prepare provision for themselves for the journey.

¹⁹ And Gideon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened bread from an ephah of fine flour; and he put the flesh in the basket, and poured the broth into the pot, and brought them forth to Him under the terebinth tree, and drew near.

²⁴ And the woman had a fat heifer in the house; and she hastened and killed it. And she took meal and kneaded it, and baked unleavened cakes.

⁸ Now it happened one day that Elisha passed over to Shunem, and there was a great lady there, and she constrained him to eat bread. And it came to pass as often as he went into the city, that he turned aside to eat there.

²⁹ Then Levi made a great banquet for Him in his own house. And there was a great number of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them to eat.

⁸ I say to you, even if he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, yet on account of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

²³ Then the master said to the servant, 'Go out into the roads and hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.

² Then they made for Him a supper there; and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of those reclining to eat with Him.

⁸ So then let us observe the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ compels us, having concluded this: that if One died for all, then all died;

¹³ But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.

²⁰ And the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has been increased towards Me, and their sins are very great.

² all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron.

² You shall not associate with the multitude for evil. You shall not join yourself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.

¹⁶ For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.

¹⁸ a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, are hateful to God.

¹ Run about in the streets of Jerusalem and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you can find one, if there is anyone that executes judgment, and seeks faithfulness, and I will pardon them, says the Lord. ² The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely? ³ O Lord, Your eyes are upon faithfulness. You have scourged them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them; but they would not receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return. ⁴ Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God. ⁵ I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God. But, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds. ⁶ Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them, even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities. All that go forth from them shall be hunted, for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their backslidings.

³¹ the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands, and My people have loved it! And what will you do for the future?

³ They prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a reward, and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul;

²⁰ But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas, but they should destroy Jesus. ²¹ The governor answered and said to them, "Which of the two do you wish me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!" ²² Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let Him be crucified!" ²³ Then the governor said, "Why, what evil did He do?" But they cried out all the more, saying, "Let Him be crucified!" ²⁴ And Pilate, seeing that nothing was being gained, but rather a riot was starting, taking water, he washed his hands clean in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just Man. You see to it." ²⁵ And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us and on our children."

¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood;

²² And you shall not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.

¹³ And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination; let them die the death, they are guilty.

²² And they were comforting their heart, when behold, the men of the city, sons of transgressors, surrounded the house, knocking at the door. And they spoke to the old man, the owner of the house, saying, Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.

⁹ And if the Lord of Sabaoth had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.

⁹ Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

³ And you retained many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself. You had a whore's face; you became shameless toward all.

¹⁵ They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who were truly ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace; therefore shall they utterly fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, says the Lord.

⁴⁹ Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom — pride. She and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread and in abundance; this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy.

⁵¹ Also Samaria has not sinned according to half of your sins; but you have multiplied your iniquities beyond them, and you have justified your sisters in all your iniquities which you have committed.

²³ And you, Capernaum, the one having been exalted to heaven, you will be brought down to Hades; because if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. ²⁴ But I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you."

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles. ²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of the own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,

²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for even their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature, ²⁷ and likewise also the males, having forsaken the natural use of the female, were inflamed by their lust for one another, males with males, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error.

⁹ Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,

¹⁰ for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is opposed to sound doctrine,

¹³ But evil men and impostors shall advance worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to fornication and having gone after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

²³ And the master of the house came out to them, and said, No, brothers, I beg you, do not act so wickedly, seeing this man has come into my house; do not commit this outrage.

⁴ But before they went to sleep, the men of the city, the Sodomites, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people together.

¹⁷ There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a fornicator of the sons of Israel; there shall not be an idolatress of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be an initiated person of the sons of Israel.

²³ And David said, You shall not do so, after the Lord has delivered the enemy to us, and guarded us, and the Lord has delivered into our hands the troop that came against you. ²⁴ And who will hearken to these your words? For they are not inferior to us; for according to the portion of him that went down to the battle, so shall be the portion of him that abides with the baggage; they shall share alike.

²⁶ And He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, and He ordained their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of the own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,

⁹ Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor covetous, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor abusive people, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you! But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

⁵ And I will bring bread, and you shall eat, and after this you shall depart on your journey, on account of which refreshment you have turned aside to your servant. And he said, So do, as you have said.

³¹ And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth who shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth. ³² Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raise up seed from our father. ³³ So they made their father drink wine in that night, and the elder went in and lay with her father that night, and he knew not when he slept and when he rose up. ³⁴ And it came to pass on the next day, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept last night with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and you go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father. ³⁵ So they made their father drink wine in that night also, and the younger went in and slept with her father, and he knew not when he slept, nor when he arose. ³⁶ And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father. ³⁷ And the elder bore a son and called his name Moab, saying, He is of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day. ³⁸ And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Ammon, saying, The son of my family. This is the father of the Ammonites to this present day.

³⁷ And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; give him into my hand, and I will bring him back to you.

²² And Aaron said to Moses, Be not angry, my lord, for you know the impulsiveness of this people.

¹⁵ And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me to reign over you, come, stand under my shadow; and if not, let fire come out from me and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

²⁴ Behold my daughter is a virgin, and the man's concubine is here as well: I will bring them out, and humble them, and do to them that which is good in your eyes; but to this man do not do such a vile thing!

⁷ Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house; if you see one naked, clothe him, and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed.

⁶ for he did not know what he should say, for they were terrified.

⁸ And why not say, "Let us do evil so that good may come"?--just as we are slandered, and just as some affirm that we say. The judgment of whom is just.

⁶ And the Lord said, Behold, there is one race, and one language of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they have undertaken to do.

¹² And Lot dwelt in a city of the neighboring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.

¹⁴ And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Will you slay me as you slew the Egyptian yesterday? Then Moses was alarmed, and said, If it be thus, this matter has become known.

¹⁶ And if the man that sacrificed said, First let the fat be burned, as it is fit, and take for yourself of all things which your soul desires. Then he would say, No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not I will take it by force.

⁴⁴ And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth.

¹⁷ And now consider what you will do; for mischief is determined against our lord and against his house; and he is a vile character, and one cannot speak to him.

⁷ He that reproves evil men shall get dishonor to himself, and he that rebukes an ungodly man shall disgrace himself. ⁸ Rebuke not evil men, lest they should hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

¹⁶ A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool trusts in himself, and joins himself with the transgressor.

¹² Care may befall a man of understanding, but fools will meditate evils.

³ A stone is heavy and sand cumbersome, but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.

³ There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that they go to the dead.

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, and the end of his talk mischievous madness.

⁵ who say, Depart from me, draw not near to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke of My wrath, a fire burns with it continually.

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¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. And he gave orders to heat the furnace seven times more than usual, until it should burn to the uttermost. ²⁰ And he commanded mighty men to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then those men were bound with their coats, caps, and trousers, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace, ²² forasmuch as the king's word prevailed; and the furnace was made exceedingly hot.

⁶ Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.

²⁶ And on the next day he appeared to them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them to peace, saying, 'Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong one another?' ²⁷ "But the one wronging his neighbor pushed him away, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ 'Do you desire to kill me in the way that you did the Egyptian yesterday?'

⁷ and He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the indecent conduct of lawless men ⁸ (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, tormented his righteous soul by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)--

²⁸ The Lord shall smite you with insanity, and blindness, and astonishment of mind. ²⁹ And you shall grope at midday, as a blind man gropes in the darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and then you shall be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.

¹⁸ And they came down to him; and he prayed to the Lord, and said, Strike this people, I pray, with blindness. And He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.

¹⁵ The labor of fools will afflict them, as that of one who knows not to go to the city.

¹⁰ You have wearied yourself with your many ways; yet you said not, I will cease to strengthen myself; for you have done these things; therefore you have not supplicated Me.

³⁶ For you have been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat your ways; but you shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

¹¹ And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season." And immediately a mistiness and darkness fell upon him, and going about, he sought someone to lead him by the hand.

¹ And the Lord God said to Noah, Enter therefore, you and all your family, into the ark, for I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.

¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters, and said, Rise up, and depart out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city; but he seemed to be speaking absurdly before his sons-in-law.

¹⁷ And it came to pass when they brought them out, that they said, Save your own life by all means; look not round to that which is behind, nor stay in all the country round about, escape to the mountain, lest perhaps you be overtaken together with them.

²² Hurry, therefore, to escape there, for I shall not be able to do anything until you arrive there; therefore he called the name of that city, Zoar.

²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these stubborn men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest you be consumed with them in all their sin.

²² And Joshua said to the two young men who had acted as spies, Go into the house of the woman, and bring her out from there, and all that she has. ²³ And the two young men who had spied out the city entered into the house of the woman, and brought out Rahab the harlot, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and her kindred, and all that she had; and they set her outside the camp of Israel.

³⁹ And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear Me continually, and that for good to them and their children after them.

⁷ and He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the indecent conduct of lawless men

⁹ then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and how to keep the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

⁴ And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you participate in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.

¹⁵ And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. And as he was destroying, the Lord saw, and relented of the disaster, and said to the angel that was destroying, Let it suffice; withhold your hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ¹⁶ And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord, standing between earth and heaven, and his sword was drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. And David and the elders clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

⁵ The Lord tests the righteous and the ungodly: and he that loves unrighteousness hates his own soul. ⁶ He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup.

¹¹ Woe to the transgressor! Evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

¹⁰ And now, Have we come up against this land to fight against it without the Lord? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

³⁶ And the angel of the Lord went forth, and killed out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand; and they arose in the morning and found all these bodies dead.

⁵ And He said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and strike: and let not your eyes spare, neither have mercy. ⁶ Utterly slay old man and youth, and virgin and infants and women: but do not go near any on whom is the mark: begin at My sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.

⁴¹ The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who work iniquity, ⁴² and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁴⁹ Thus it shall be at the end of the age: the angels shall go forth and separate the evil from among the righteous, ⁵⁰ and cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

²³ Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And becoming eaten by worms, he died.

⁸ And why not say, "Let us do evil so that good may come"?--just as we are slandered, and just as some affirm that we say. The judgment of whom is just. ⁹ What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

⁴ Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

¹ Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth." ² So the first went off and poured out his bowl on the earth, and a bad and malignant ulcer came upon the men having the mark of the beast, and those who worshipped his image. ³ Then the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died. ⁴ Then the third one poured out his bowl into the rivers and into the springs of water, and it became blood. ⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying: "You are righteous, the One who is, and who was, holy, because You have judged these things. ⁶ Because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and You gave them blood to drink. They deserve it." ⁷ And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments." ⁸ Then the fourth one poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was granted to him to burn men with fire. ⁹ And men were burned with severe burns, and men blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent to give Him glory. ¹⁰ Then the fifth one poured out his bowl on the throne of the Beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues from the pain. ¹¹ They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their ulcers, and they did not repent of their works. ¹² Then the sixth one poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.

²¹ And he that did not attend in his mind to the word of the Lord left the cattle in the fields.

³¹ And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron by night, and said to them, Rise and depart from my people, both you and the children of Israel. Go and serve the Lord your God, even as you say.

²¹ Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once.

⁴⁵ Depart out of the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once. And they fell upon their faces.

¹⁰ So the posts went through from city to city in Mount Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun; and they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

¹⁶ Nevertheless they sneered at His messengers, and despised His words, and mocked His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against His people, till there was no remedy.

¹ A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man, for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.

²² Therefore do not rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which He will execute upon all the earth.

¹² have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine. ¹³ Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them. ¹⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty: Because you have spoken this word, behold, I have made My words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

⁷ You have deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived. You have been strong, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing stock, I am continually mocked every day.

⁶ Flee from the midst of Babylon, and deliver everyone his soul; and be not overthrown in her iniquity; for it is the time of her retribution from the Lord. He is rendering to her a recompense.

⁴⁹ And I said, Not so, O Lord God! They say to me, Is not this that is spoken a parable?

¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

²⁴ He said to them, "Make room, for the girl has not died, but she is sleeping." And they were ridiculing Him.

⁴² And as he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and gave him back to his father.

²⁸ Likewise also as it happened in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; ²⁹ but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ In the same way it shall be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

¹¹ And their words seemed like nonsense before them, and they disbelieved them.

³² But when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some were scoffing, but others said, "We will hear you again concerning this."

³ For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, just as labor pains upon the woman that is pregnant, and they shall by no means escape.

⁴ And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you participate in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. ⁵ Because her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes. ⁶ Give back to her as also she gave back, and pay back double as also she did, and according to her works. In her cup which she mixed, mix for her a double portion. ⁷ In as many things as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give to her torment and sorrow; because she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am not a widow, and I shall by no means see sorrow.' ⁸ "On account of this her plagues will come in one day--death, sorrow, and famine. And she shall be burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who has judged her.

²⁴ Speak to the congregation, saying, Depart from the company of Korah round about. ²⁵ And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and all the elders of Israel went with him. ²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these stubborn men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest you be consumed with them in all their sin. ²⁷ And they stood aloof from the tent of Korah round about; and Dathan and Abiram went forth and stood by the doors of their tents, and their wives and their children and their store.

⁴ Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber with your eyelids; ⁵ that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.

²⁴ Strive to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. ²⁵ When once the Master of the house has risen up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open for us,' and answering He will say to you, 'I do not know you, where you are from.'

² For He says: "In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

⁷ Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice, ⁸ Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

⁶ And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, gracious and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true,

¹⁸ The Lord is longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and He shall by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

³¹ Because the Lord your God is a merciful God; He will not forsake you, nor destroy you; He will not forget the covenant of your fathers, which the Lord swore to them.

²² And Joshua said to the two young men who had acted as spies, Go into the house of the woman, and bring her out from there, and all that she has.

³⁴ Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, and His mercy endures forever.

¹² What man is there that desires life, loving to see good days?

⁵ For You, O Lord, are kind and gentle, and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon You.

¹⁵ But You, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and true.

⁸ The Lord is compassionate and gracious, longsuffering, and full of mercy. ⁹ He will not always be angry; neither will He be wrathful forever. ¹⁰ He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor recompensed us according to our iniquities.

¹³ As a father pities his children, the Lord pities them that fear Him.

¹ Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.

⁸ Yet He saved them for His name's sake, that He might cause His mighty power to be known.

¹ Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.

⁴ He has caused His wonderful works to be remembered; the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

¹ Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.

⁶⁰ I prepared myself, (and was not terrified) to keep Your commandments.

¹ Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord: for He is good: for His mercy endures forever.

⁹ out of all their affliction; not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but He Himself saved them, because He loved them and spared them; He Himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.

²² ( { η}) HETH. It is through the mercies of the Lord that He has not failed me, because His compassions are not exhausted. Pity us, O Lord, early every month: for we are not brought to an end, because His compassions are not exhausted.

¹⁸ Who is a God like You, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of His inheritance? And He has not kept His anger for a testimony, for He delights in mercy. ¹⁹ He will return and have mercy upon us; He will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, even all our sins.

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping to receive nothing back; and your reward shall be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. ³⁶ Therefore be compassionate, just as your Father also is compassionate.

¹³ And the tax collector, standing far away, would not so much as lift his eyes towards heaven, but beat on his chest, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!'

⁴⁴ No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me should draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

¹⁵ For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion." ¹⁶ So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God who shows mercy.

¹⁸ So then He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

⁵ not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁰ And Lot, having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about the Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until you come to Zoar.

¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters, and said, Rise up, and depart out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city; but he seemed to be speaking absurdly before his sons-in-law. ¹⁵ But when it was morning, the angels urged Lot, saying, Arise and take your wife, and your two daughters whom you have, and go forth; lest you also be destroyed with the iniquities of the city.

²⁶ And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

¹¹ And it came to pass in that night, that Saul sent messengers to the house of David to watch him, in order to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, Unless you save your life this night, tomorrow you shall be slain.

³ And Elijah feared, and rose, and departed for his life. And he came to Beersheba, to the land of Judah, and he left his servant there.

¹ A Song of Degrees. I lifted up my eyes to the mountains — from where my help shall come.

⁶ Flee, and save your lives, and you shall be as a wild donkey in the desert.

⁷ But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

¹⁶ then let those who are in Judea flee upon the mountains. ¹⁷ Let the one on the housetop not go down to take the things out of his house. ¹⁸ And let the one in the field not turn back to take his clothes.

⁶² But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

³¹ In that day, he who shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise he who is in the field, let him not turn back for the things left behind. ³² Remember Lot's wife.

¹³ Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, ¹⁴ I press toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which in the beginning was spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

²⁶ And He said to him, Let Me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let You go, except You bless me.

¹¹ But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, Behold, I said to myself, He will by all means come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of his God, and lay his hand upon the place, and heal the leprosy. ¹² Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not go and wash in them, and be cleansed? And he turned and went away in a rage.

¹¹ For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who has formed the things that are to come, Inquire of Me concerning My sons, and concerning the works of My hands, ask of Me.

⁶ Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, "Lord, do You wash my feet?" ⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you shall know after this." ⁸ Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me."

¹³ But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many wicked things he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem;

¹⁴ But Peter said, "By no means, Lord! For never did I eat anything common or unclean."

¹³ Say, therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on account of you, and my soul shall live because of you.

¹⁷ And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn My face away from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and afflictions shall come upon them, and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.

¹ And David said in his heart, Now shall I be one day delivered for death into the hands of Saul; and there is nothing better for me unless I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul should cease from seeking me through every coast of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.

⁹ And men shall say, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought out their fathers from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and they attached themselves to strange gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore the Lord has brought this evil upon them.

¹ For the end, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord; the words which he spoke to the Lord, even the words of this song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out the hand of all his enemies, and out the hand of Saul. And he said: I will love You, O Lord, my strength. ² The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in Him; He is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper. ³ I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from my enemies. ⁴ The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly. ⁵ The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me. ⁶ And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: He heard my voice out of His holy temple, and my cry shall enter before Him, into His ears. ⁷ Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them. ⁸ There went up a smoke in His wrath, and fire burst into a flame at His presence; coals were kindled at it. ⁹ And He bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under His feet. ¹⁰ And He rode upon a cherub and flew; He flew on the wings of the wind. ¹¹ And He made darkness His secret place; round about Him was His tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air. ¹² At the brightness before Him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire. ¹³ The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered His voice. ¹⁴ And He sent forth His weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them. ¹⁵ And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of Your wrath. ¹⁶ He sent from on high and took me, He drew me to Himself out of many waters. ¹⁷ He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I. ¹⁸ They prevented me in the day of my affliction: but the Lord was my support against them. ¹⁹ And He brought me out into a wide place; He shall deliver me, because He has pleasure in me. ²⁰ And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands shall He recompense me. ²¹ For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²² For all His judgments were before me, and His ordinances departed not from me. ²³ And I shall be blameless before Him, and shall keep myself from my iniquity. ²⁴ And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before His eyes. ²⁵ With the holy, You shall be holy; and with the blameless, You shall be blameless. ²⁶ And with the excellent, You shall be excellent; and with the perverse, You shall be shrewd. ²⁷ For You shall save the lowly people, and shall humble the eyes of the proud. ²⁸ For You, O Lord, shall light my lamp: my God, You shall lighten my darkness. ²⁹ For by You shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my God I will pass over a wall. ³⁰ As for my God, His way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; He is a protector of all them that hope in Him. ³¹ For who is God but the Lord? And who is a God except our God? ³² It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless; ³³ who strengthens my feet as hare's feet, and sets me upon high places. ³⁴ He instructs my hands for war; and You have made my arms as a bronze bow. ³⁵ And You have made me secure in my salvation; and Your right hand has helped me, and Your correction has upheld me to the end; yea, Your correction itself shall instruct me. ³⁶ You have made room for my goings under me, and my footsteps did not fail. ³⁷ I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed. ³⁸ I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet. ³⁹ For You have girded me with strength for war; You have beaten down under me all that rose up against me. ⁴⁰ And You has made my enemies turn their backs before me; and You have destroyed them that hated me. ⁴¹ They cried, but there was no deliverer: even to the Lord, but He hearkened not to them. ⁴² I will grind them as the mud of the streets; and I will beat them small as dust before the wind. ⁴³ Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people; You shall make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me, ⁴⁴ at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me. ⁴⁵ The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness. ⁴⁶ The Lord lives; and blessed be my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. ⁴⁷ It is God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me; ⁴⁸ my deliverer from angry enemies; You shall set me on high above them that rise up against me; You shall deliver me from the unrighteous man. ⁴⁹ Therefore shall I confess to You, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing unto Your name. ⁵⁰ God magnifies the deliverances of His king; and deals mercifully with David His anointed, and His seed, forever.

¹ For the end, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and He attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication. ² And He brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. ³ And He put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God; many shall see it and fear, and shall hope in the Lord. ⁴ Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has not regarded vanities, nor turned aside to lies. ⁵ O Lord my God, You have multiplied Your wonderful works, and in Your thoughts there is none who shall be likened to You; I declared and spoke of them; they exceeded in number. ⁶ Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; but a body You have prepared for me; whole burnt offering and sacrifice for sin You did not require. ⁷ Then I said, Behold, I have come; in the volume of the book it is written of me, ⁸ I desired to do Your will, O my God, and Your law in the midst of my heart. ⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, You know my righteousness. ¹⁰ I have not hid Your truth within my heart, and I have declared Your salvation; I have not hid Your mercy and Your truth from the great congregation. ¹¹ But You, O Lord, remove not Your compassion far from me; Your mercy and Your truth have helped me continually. ¹² For innumerable evils have encompassed me; my transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; they are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; and my heart has failed me. ¹³ Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw near to help me. ¹⁴ Let those that seek my soul, to destroy it, be ashamed and confounded together; let those that wish me evil be turned backward and put to shame. ¹⁵ Let those that say to me, Aha, aha, quickly receive shame for their reward. ¹⁶ Let all those that seek You, O Lord, exalt and rejoice in You; and let them that love Your salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified! ¹⁷ But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take care of me; You are my helper, and my defender, O my God; do not delay.

⁷ Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be well pleased no more? ⁸ Will He cut off His mercy forever, even forever and ever? ⁹ Will God forget to pity? Or will He shut up His compassions in His wrath? Pause. ¹⁰ And I said, Now I have begun; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High. ¹¹ I remembered the works of the Lord; for I will remember Your wonders from the beginning.

¹ A Psalm of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name. ² Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His praises; ³ who forgives all your transgressions, who heals all your diseases; ⁴ who redeems your life from corruption; who crowns you with mercy and compassion; ⁵ who satisfies your desire with good things; so that your youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle. ⁶ The Lord executes mercy and judgment for all that are injured. ⁷ He made known His ways to Moses, and His will to the children of Israel. ⁸ The Lord is compassionate and gracious, longsuffering, and full of mercy. ⁹ He will not always be angry; neither will He be wrathful forever. ¹⁰ He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor recompensed us according to our iniquities. ¹¹ For as the heaven is high above the earth, the Lord has so increased His mercy toward them that fear Him. ¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. ¹³ As a father pities his children, the Lord pities them that fear Him. ¹⁴ For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more. ¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is from generation to generation upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children; ¹⁸ to them that keep His covenant, and remember His commandments, to do them. ¹⁹ The Lord has prepared His throne in the heaven; and His kingdom rules over all. ²⁰ Bless the Lord, all you His angels, mighty in strength, who do His bidding, ready to hearken to the voice of His words. ²¹ Bless the Lord, all you His hosts; you ministers of His that do His will. ²² Bless the Lord, all His works, in every place of His dominion; bless the Lord, O my soul.

¹ Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. ² Who shall tell the mighty acts of the Lord? Who shall cause all His praises to be heard? ³ Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times. ⁴ Remember us, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people; visit us with Your salvation; ⁵ that we may behold the good of Your elect, that we may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that we may glory with Your inheritance. ⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, we have transgressed, we have done unrighteously. ⁷ Our fathers in Egypt understood not Your wonders, and remembered not the multitude of Your mercy; but provoked Him as they went up by the Red Sea. ⁸ Yet He saved them for His name's sake, that He might cause His mighty power to be known. ⁹ And He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; so He led them through the deep as through the wilderness. ¹⁰ And He saved them out of the hand of them that hated them, and redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy. ¹¹ The water covered those that oppressed them; there was not one of them left. ¹² Then they believed His words, and celebrated His praise. ¹³ They made haste, they forgot His works; they waited not for His counsel. ¹⁴ And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the dry land. ¹⁵ And He gave them their request, and sent fullness into their souls. ¹⁶ They provoked Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord. ¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and closed upon the congregation of Abiram. ¹⁸ And a fire was kindled in their congregation, and a flame burned up the sinners. ¹⁹ And they made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the graven image, ²⁰ and they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that feeds on grass. ²¹ They forgot God that saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt; ²² wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things at the Red Sea. ²³ So He said that He would have destroyed them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn Him away from the fierceness of His anger, so that He should not destroy them. ²⁴ Moreover they despised the desirable land, and did not believe His word. ²⁵ And they murmured in their tents; they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord. ²⁶ So He lifted up His hand against them, to cast them down in the wilderness; ²⁷ and to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries. ²⁸ They were joined also to Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. And they provoked Him with their deeds; ²⁹ and destruction was multiplied among them. ³⁰ Then Phinehas stood up and made atonement, and the plague ceased. ³¹ And it was counted to him for righteousness, to all generations forever. ³² They provoked Him also at the Water of Strife, and Moses was hurt for their sakes; ³³ for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. ³⁴ They destroyed not the nations which the Lord told them to destroy; ³⁵ but were mingled with the heathen, and learned their works. ³⁶ And they served their graven images; and it became an offense to them. ³⁷ And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, ³⁸ and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood, ³⁹ and was polluted with their works; and they went a whoring by their own deeds. ⁴⁰ So the Lord was very angry with His people, and He abhorred His inheritance. ⁴¹ And He delivered them into the hands of their enemies; and they that hated them ruled over them. ⁴² Ands their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought down under their hands. ⁴³ Many a time He delivered them; but they provoked Him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities. ⁴⁴ You the Lord looked upon their affliction, when You heard their petition. ⁴⁵ And He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the multitude of His mercy. ⁴⁶ And He caused them to be pitied in the sight of all who carried them captive. ⁴⁷ Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting; and all the people shall say, Amen, Amen.

¹ Alleluia. I am well pleased, because the Lord will hearken to the voice of my supplication. ² Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore will I call upon Him while I live. ³ The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me; I found affliction and sorrow. ⁴ Then I called on the name of the Lord — O Lord, deliver my soul. ⁵ The Lord is merciful and righteous; yea, our God has pity. ⁶ The Lord preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He delivered me. ⁷ Return to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. ⁸ For He has delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. ⁹ I shall be well-pleasing before the Lord in the land of the living. Alleluia. ¹⁰ I believed, therefore I have spoken; but I was greatly afflicted. ¹¹ And I said in my amazement, Every man is a liar. ¹² What shall I render to the Lord for all the things in which He has rewarded me? ¹³ I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. ¹⁴ I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all His people. ¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. ¹⁶ O Lord, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, and the son of Your handmaid; You have burst my bonds. ¹⁷ I will offer to You the sacrifice of praise, and will call upon the name of the Lord. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the presence of all His people, ¹⁹ in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem.

²⁵ Then the disciples came and awoke Him, saying, "Lord, save us! We are perishing!" ²⁶ But He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then having risen, He rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

¹⁹ He answered him and said, "O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me."

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord superabounded with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful is this word, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am first. ¹⁶ However, because of this I was shown mercy, so that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, as a pattern for those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.

³⁰ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, he and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.

¹⁷⁵ My soul shall live, and shall praise You; and Your judgments shall help me.

⁵ Trust in God with all your heart; and be not exalted in your own wisdom. ⁶ In all your ways acquaint yourself with her, that she may rightly direct your paths. ⁷ Be not wise in your own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil.

³ Give heed with your ears, and follow My ways; hearken to Me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the sure mercies of David.

⁶ Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? Shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

⁷ Have you not sinned if you have brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? Be still, to you shall be his submission, and you shall rule over him.

² And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.

²⁴ Should there be fifty righteous in the city, will You destroy them? Will You not spare the whole place for the sake of the fifty righteous, if they be in it?

⁸ Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And My servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you have not spoken the truth against My servant Job. ⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and He pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayer;

¹⁷ He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition.

¹⁹ He will perform the desire of them that fear Him: and He will hear their supplication, and save them.

¹⁰ Thus says the Lord to this people: They have loved to wander, and they have not spared, therefore God has not prospered them; now will He remember their iniquity.

²⁰ A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoldering wick He shall not quench, till He bring forth justice to victory;

¹⁷ Therefore He was obligated to become like His brothers in all respects, in order that He might become a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, in order that He might make propitiation for the sins of the people.

¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but having been tempted in all respects in quite the same way as we are, yet without sin. ¹⁶ Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

² made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, and with Shinab, king of Adamah, and with Shemeber king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela, (that is, Zoar).

²⁵ And He saw that He prevailed not against him; and He touched the broad part of his thigh, and the broad part of Jacob's thigh was numbed in his wrestling with Him. ²⁶ And He said to him, Let Me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let You go, except You bless me. ²⁷ And He said to him, What is your name? And he answered, Jacob. ²⁸ And He said to him, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name; for you have prevailed with God, and shall be mighty with men.

¹⁰ Now therefore let Me alone, and I will be very angry with them and consume them, and I will make you a great nation.

¹⁴ And now I shall utterly destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

¹ Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven. ² He shall say to the Lord, You are my helper and my refuge; my God; I will trust in Him. ³ For He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, from every troublesome matter. ⁴ He shall overshadow you with His shoulders, and You shall trust under His wings; His truth shall cover you with a shield. ⁵ You shall not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day; ⁶ nor of the evil thing that walks in darkness; nor of calamity, and the evil spirit at noonday. ⁷ A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. ⁸ Only with your eyes shall you observe and see the reward of sinners. ⁹ For You, O Lord, are my hope; You, my soul, have made the Most High your refuge. ¹⁰ No evils shall come upon you, and no scourge shall draw near to your dwelling.

⁵ The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Segor; for it is as a heifer of three years old; and on the Ascent of Luith they shall go up to you weeping by the way of Aroniim; she cries, Destruction, and trembling.

⁸ Thus says the Lord: As the new wine shall be found in the cluster, and they shall say, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it; so will I do for the sake of him that serves Me, for his sake I will not destroy them all.

³⁴ From the cry of Heshbron even to Elealeh their cities uttered their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, and their tidings as a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nimrim shall be dried up.

⁵ and He could do no miracle there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

¹³ If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

² in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time itself,

²³ brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His wrath and anger) —

¹⁵ It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

⁶ He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup.

¹⁹ And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

¹⁶ Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon;

¹⁸ As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, and they that sojourned in her, says the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.

⁴⁰ As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities bordering upon them, says the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.

⁶ ( { ε}) VAU. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodom, the city that was overthrown very suddenly, and none labored against her with their hands.

⁴⁹ Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom — pride. She and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread and in abundance; this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ And they boasted, and worked iniquities before Me: so I cut them off as I saw fit.

⁸ How shall I deal with you, O Ephraim? How shall I protect you, O Israel? What shall I do with you? I will make you as Adamah, and as Zeboiim; My heart is turned at once, My repentance is powerfully excited.

¹¹ I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you became as a brand plucked out of the fire; yet not even then did you return to Me, says the Lord.

⁹ Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah; and Damascus shall be left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate forever: and the remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My nations shall inherit them.

²⁸ Likewise also as it happened in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; ²⁹ but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

⁶ and reducing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, He condemned them to destruction, having made them an example who were to be ungodly,

³ All these met with one accord at the Salt Valley; this is now the Salt Sea.

³⁴ a fruitful land into saltness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

³⁸ of these sinners against their own souls, and make for them hammered plates as a covering for the altar, because they were brought before the Lord and hallowed; and they became a sign to the children of Israel.

¹⁴ A stout-hearted man shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man with his own thoughts.

³⁸ But the just shall live by faith, and if he withdraws, My soul has no pleasure in him."

²² And the men, having departed from there, came to Sodom; and the Lord stood before Abraham. ²³ And Abraham drew near and said, Would You destroy the righteous with the wicked, and shall the righteous be as the wicked? ²⁴ Should there be fifty righteous in the city, will You destroy them? Will You not spare the whole place for the sake of the fifty righteous, if they be in it? ²⁵ Far be it from You to do such at thing, so as to destroy the righteous with the wicked, so the righteous shall be as the wicked: far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? ²⁶ And the Lord said, If there should be in Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole city, and the whole place for their sakes. ²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am but dust and ashes. ²⁸ But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, will You destroy the whole city because of the five that are lacking? And He said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five. ²⁹ And he continued to speak to Him still, and said, But if there should be found there forty? And He said, I will not destroy it for the forty's sake. ³⁰ And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I shall speak? But if there be found there thirty? And He said, I will not destroy it for the thirty's sake. ³¹ And he said, Since I am able to speak to the Lord, what if there should be found there twenty? And He said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there twenty. ³² And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I speak yet once more? But if there should be found there ten? And He said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake. ³³ And the Lord departed, when He left off speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

³ In the morning You shall hear my voice: in the morning will I wait upon You, and will look up.

¹ I will stand upon my watch, and mount upon the rock, and watch to see what He will say by me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

¹ On account of this we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

² And he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a burning furnace. And the sun was darkened, and the air, from the smoke of the shaft.

¹⁰ then he shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out undiluted in the cup of His wrath. And they shall be tormented with fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before the Lamb. ¹¹ And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, those who worship the Beast and his image, and anyone who receives the mark of his name."

⁹ "The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her shall weep and mourn over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

¹⁸ and were crying out, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, 'Who is like this great city?'

³ And a second one said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever!"

⁸ But the cowardly, and unbelieving, and sinners, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all who are false shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

¹ And God remembered Noah, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water subsided.

²² And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and He opened her womb.

⁵ Not for your righteousness, nor for the holiness of your heart, do you go in to inherit their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations, the Lord shall destroy them from before you, and that He may establish the covenant, which the Lord swore to our fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

¹⁴ Remember me, O God, in this, and let not my kindness be forgotten which I have wrought in regard to the house of the Lord God.

²² And I told the Levites who were purifying themselves, and came and kept the gates, that they should sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me, O God, for these things, and spare me according to the abundance of Your mercy.

⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my sins of ignorance; remember me according to Your mercy, for Your goodness' sake, O Lord.

⁸ He has remembered His covenant forever, the word which He commanded for a thousand generations;

⁴² For He remembered His holy word, which He promised to Abraham His servant.

⁴ Remember us, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people; visit us with Your salvation;

²³ For the Lord remembered us in our low estate; for His mercy endures forever;

²⁰ The Lord preserves all that love Him: but all sinners He will utterly destroy.

³¹ And you shall remember your evil ways and your practices that were not good, and you shall be hateful in your own sight for your transgressions and for your abominations. ³² Not for your sakes do I do this, says the Lord God, as it is known to you; be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I will stretch out my hand to the Lord, the Most High God, who made the heaven and the earth,

¹⁹ since your servant has found mercy before you, and you have magnified your righteousness, in what you do towards me that my soul may live, — but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, lest perhaps the calamity overtake me and I die.

⁴ You were insolent like water, burst not forth with violence, for you went up to the bed of your father; then you defiled the couch, whereupon you went up.

³ and the wilderness, and the country round about Jericho, the city of palm trees, to Zoar.

³⁶ For you have been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat your ways; but you shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria. ³⁷ For you shall go forth from here also with your hands upon your head; for the Lord has rejected your hope, and you shall not prosper in it.

⁸ he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

¹ And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God.

^{4 (6:5)} Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.

² And Sarai said to Abram, Behold, the Lord has restrained me from bearing, go therefore in to my maid, that I may get children for myself through her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

⁴ And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived, and saw that she was with child, and her mistress was dishonored before her.

²⁸ And he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and towards the surrounding country, and saw, and behold, a flame went up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace.

⁸ And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife, and marry her as her brother-in-law, and raise up seed to your brother. ⁹ And Onan, knowing that the seed would not be his — and it came to pass when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it upon the ground, so that he should not give seed to his brother's wife.

¹⁴ And having taken off the garments of her widowhood from her, she put on a veil, and ornamented her face, and sat by the gates of Aenan, which is in the way to Timna, for she saw that Shelah was grown; but she was not given to him as a wife. ¹⁵ And when Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she covered her face, and he did not recognize her. ¹⁶ And he went out of his way to her, and said to her, Let me come in to you; for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law; and she said, What will you give me if you should come in to me? ¹⁷ And he said, I will send you a kid of the goats from my flock. And she said, Well, if you will give me a pledge, until you send it. ¹⁸ And he said, What is the pledge that I shall give you? And she said, Your ring, and your bracelet, and the staff in your hand; and he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him. ¹⁹ And she arose and departed, and took off her veil, and put on the garments of her widowhood. ²⁰ And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his shepherd the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman; but he did not find her. ²¹ And he asked the men of the place, Where is the harlot who was in Aenan by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot here. ²² And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and the men of the place say, There is no harlot here. ²³ And Judah said, Let her have them, but let us not be ridiculed; I sent this kid, but you have not found her. ²⁴ And it came to pass after three months, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar your daughter-in-law has grievously played the harlot, and behold she is with child by harlotry; and Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned. ²⁵ And as they were bringing her, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, I am with child by the man whose these things are; and she said, See whose ring this is, and bracelet and staff. ²⁶ And Judah acknowledged them, and said, Tamar is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son: and he never knew her again. ²⁷ And it came to pass when she was in labor, that she also had twins in her womb. ²⁸ And it came to pass as she was bringing forth, one thrust forth his hand, and the midwife, having taken hold of it, bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This one shall come out first. ²⁹ And when he drew back his hand, then immediately came forth his brother; and she said, Why has the barrier been cut through because of you? And she called his name Perez. ³⁰ And after this came forth his brother, on whose hand was the scarlet thread; and she called his name, Zerah.

⁵ And if brothers should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out of the family to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her.

¹ And seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothes; only let your name be called upon us, and take away our reproach.

²¹ And he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and was naked in his house.

³ And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was asphalt.

⁶ No man shall draw near to any of his near kindred to uncover their nakedness; I am the Lord. ⁷ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, or the nakedness of your mother, for she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

³¹ For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle. ³² But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent. ³³ Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things.

¹⁵ Woe to him that gives his neighbor to drink the thick lees of wine, and intoxicates him, that he may look upon their secret parts. ¹⁶ Drink also your fill of disgrace instead of glory: shake, O heart, and quake, the cup of the right hand of the Lord has come round upon you, and dishonor has gathered upon your glory.

¹⁹ "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies and leaves behind a wife and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

¹ Wine is a mocker, and strong drink full of violence; but every fool is entangled with them.

²⁹ Who has woe? Who has trouble? Who has quarrels? And who complains and disputes? Who has bruises without a cause? Whose eyes are livid? ³⁰ Are not those of them that stay long at wine? Are not those of them that haunt the places where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse with them openly. ³¹ For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle. ³² But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent. ³³ Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things. ³⁴ And you shall lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm. ³⁵ And you shall say, They struck me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?

³ O Lord, Your eyes are upon faithfulness. You have scourged them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them; but they would not receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

⁴ What is man, that You are mindful of him? Or the son of man, that You visit him?

¹⁶ For a righteous man will fall seven times, and rise again, but the ungodly shall be without strength in troubles.

²⁶ And I find her to be, and I will pronounce to be more bitter than death, the woman which is a snare, and her heart nets, who has a band in her hands. He that is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.

³⁴ "But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

¹¹ Now all these things happened to those people as examples, and they were written for our instruction, to whom the ends of the ages have come. ¹² So then, let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he should fall!

⁷ Now the end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound mind and self-controlled in your prayers.

⁸ But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and use them as it may please you, only do no injury to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shelter of my roof.

⁷ And Adoni-Bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I therefore have done, so God has recompensed me: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

³³ And Samuel said to Agag, As your sword has bereaved women of their children, so shall your mother be made childless among women. And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

¹⁵ Woe to him that gives his neighbor to drink the thick lees of wine, and intoxicates him, that he may look upon their secret parts.

² For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with what measure you measure, it will be measured back to you.

²⁹ Woe to you, Moab! You are lost, O people of Chemosh! Their sons are sold for preservation, and their daughters are captives to Sihon king of the Amorites.

¹ And the children of Israel departed, and encamped on the west of Moab by the Jordan toward Jericho. ² And when Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel did to the Amorites, ³ then Moab feared the people exceedingly because they were many; and Moab was grieved before the face of the children of Israel. ⁴ And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now shall this assembly lick up all that are round about us, as a calf would lick up the green herbs of the field. And Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. ⁵ And he sent ambassadors to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is on a river of the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people have come out of Egypt, and behold, they have covered the face of the earth, and have encamped close to me. ⁶ And now come here, and curse this people for me, for they are stronger than us. Perhaps we may be able to smite some of them, and cast them out of the land; for I know that whomsoever you bless, they are blessed, and whomsoever you curse, they are cursed. ⁷ And the elders of Moab went, and the elders of Midian, and their divining instruments were in their hands; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak. ⁸ And he said to them, Tarry here the night, and I will answer you the things which the Lord shall say to me. And the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. ⁹ And God came to Balaam, and said to him, Who are these men with you? ¹⁰ And Balaam said to God, Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent them to me, saying, ¹¹ Behold, a people has come forth out of Egypt, and has covered the face of the land, and they have encamped near to me; and now come, curse them for me, if indeed I shall be able to smite them, and cast them out of the land. ¹² And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them, neither shall you curse the people, for they are blessed. ¹³ And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Depart quickly to your lord; God does not permit me to go with you. ¹⁴ And the princes of Moab rose, and came to Balak, and said, Balaam will not come with us. ¹⁵ And Balak yet again sent more princes, and more honorable than they. ¹⁶ And they came to Balaam, and they said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: I beseech you, delay not to come to me. ¹⁷ For I will greatly honor you, and will do for you whatsoever you shall say; come then, curse this people for me. ¹⁸ And Balaam answered and said to the princes of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord God, to make it little or great in my mind. ¹⁹ And now, you also tarry here this night, and I shall know what the Lord will yet say to me. ²⁰ And God came to Balaam by night, and said to him, If these men have come to call you, rise and follow them; nevertheless the word which I shall speak to you, this shall you do. ²¹ And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab. ²² And God was very angry because he went. And the Angel of the Lord rose up to withstand him. Now he had mounted his donkey, and his two servants were with him. ²³ And when the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord standing opposite in the way, and His sword drawn in His hand, then the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey with his staff to direct her in the way. ²⁴ And the Angel of the Lord stood in the avenues of the vines, a fence being on this side and that. ²⁵ And when the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord, she thrust herself against the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall, and he struck her again. ²⁶ And the Angel of the Lord went farther, and came and stood in a narrow place where it was impossible to turn to the right or the left. ²⁷ And when the donkey saw the Angel of God, she lay down under Balaam. And Balaam was angry, and struck the donkey with his staff. ²⁸ And God opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me this third time? ²⁹ And Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me; and if I had a sword in my hand, I would now have killed you. ³⁰ And the donkey said to Balaam, Am not I your donkey on which you have ridden since your youth till this day? Did I ever do thus to you, utterly disregarding you? And he said, No. ³¹ And God opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the Angel of the Lord withstanding him in the way, and His sword drawn in His hand, and he stooped down and worshipped on his face. ³² And the Angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you struck your donkey this third time? And behold, I came out to withstand you, for your way is unseemly before Me. And when the donkey saw Me, she turned away from Me this third time. ³³ And if she had not turned out of the way, surely now, I would have killed you, and would have saved her alive. ³⁴ And Balaam said to the Angel of the Lord, I have sinned, for I did not know that You were standing opposite in the way to meet me; and now, if it shall not be pleasing to You for me to go on, I shall return. ³⁵ And the Angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men: nevertheless the word which I shall speak to you, you shall take heed to speak. And Balaam went with the princes of Balak. ³⁶ And when Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him, to a city of Moab, which is on the borders of the Arnon, which is on the extreme part of the borders. ³⁷ And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not send to you to call you? Why have you not come to me? Shall I not indeed be able to honor you? ³⁸ And Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have now come to you: shall I be able to say anything? The word which God shall put into my mouth, that I shall speak. ³⁹ And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to the cities of streets. ⁴⁰ And Balak offered sheep and calves, and sent to Balaam and to his princes who were with him. ⁴¹ And it was morning; and Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to the pillar of Baal, and showed him from there the extent of the people.

¹ Now when Balaam saw that it pleased God to bless Israel, he did not go according to his custom, to seek to use sorcery, but turned his face toward the wilderness. ² And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and beheld Israel encamped by their tribes. And the Spirit of God came upon him. ³ And he took up his parable and said, The utterance of Balaam son of Beor, the man whose eyes are truly open says, ⁴ he who hears the oracle of the Mighty One, who saw a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were opened: ⁵ How wonderful are your tents, O Jacob, and your dwellings, O Israel! ⁶ As shady groves, and as gardens by a river, and as tents which God pitched, and as cedars by the waters. ⁷ There shall come a man out of his seed, and he shall rule over many nations; and the kingdom of God shall be exalted, and his kingdom shall be increased. ⁸ God led him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn. He shall consume the nations of his enemies, and he shall drain their marrow, and with his darts he shall shoot through the enemy. ⁹ He lies down, he rests as a lion; and as a young lion, who shall rouse him? Those that bless you are blessed, and those that curse you are cursed. ¹⁰ And Balak was angry with Balaam, and clapped his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemy, and behold you have decidedly blessed him this third time. ¹¹ Now therefore flee to your place. I said, I will honor you, but now the Lord has deprived you of glory. ¹² And Balaam said to Balak, Did I not speak to your messengers also whom you sent to me, saying, ¹³ If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to transgress the word of the Lord to make it good or bad by myself; whatsoever things God shall say, them will I speak. ¹⁴ And now, behold, I return to my place; come, I will advise you of what this people shall do to your people in the last days. ¹⁵ And he took up his parable and said, The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eyes are truly open, ¹⁶ hearing the oracles of God, receiving knowledge from the Most High, and having seen a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were opened. ¹⁷ I will point to Him, but not now; I bless Him, but He draws not near: a Star shall arise out of Jacob, a Man shall spring forth out of Israel; and shall crush the princes of Moab, and shall spoil all the sons of Seth. ¹⁸ And Edom shall be an inheritance, and Esau his enemy shall be an inheritance of Israel, and Israel does valiantly. ¹⁹ And One shall arise out of Jacob, and destroy out of the city him that escapes. ²⁰ And having seen Amalek, he took up his parable and said, Amalek is the first of the nations; yet his seed shall perish. ²¹ And having seen the Kenite, he took up his parable and said, Your dwelling place is strong; yet though you should put your nest in a rock, ²² and though Beor should have a skillfully contrived hiding place, the Assyrians shall carry you away captive. ²³ And he looked upon Og, and took up his parable and said, Alas, who shall live, when God shall do these things? ²⁴ And one shall come forth from the hands of the Cyprians, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict the Hebrews, and they shall perish together. ²⁵ And Balaam rose up and departed and returned to his place, and Balak went to his own home.

⁹ And the Lord said to me, Do not quarrel with the Moabites, and do not engage in war with them; for I will not give you of their land for an inheritance, for I have given Ar to the children of Lot, to inherit.

¹⁹ and you shall draw near to the children of Ammon: do not quarrel with them, nor wage war with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for an inheritance, because I have given it to the children of Lot for an inheritance.

³ The Ammonite and Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even until the tenth generation he shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even forever;

¹ And these are the nations which the Lord left, that He might test Israel by them, that is, all that had not known the wars of Canaan. ² Only for the sake of the generations of Israel, to teach them war, only the men before them knew them not. ³ The five lordships of the Philistines, and every Canaanite, and the Sidonian, and the Hivite who dwelt in Lebanon from the mount of Hermon to Hamath. ⁴ And this was done in order to test Israel by them, to know whether they would obey the commands of the Lord, which He charged their fathers by the hand of Moses. ⁵ And the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ⁶ And they took their daughters for wives to themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. ⁷ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served Baalam and the groves. ⁸ And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hand of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Syria of the rivers: and the children of Israel served Cushan-Rishathaim eight years. ⁹ And the children of Israel cried to the Lord; and the Lord raised up a deliverer to Israel, and he delivered them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. ¹⁰ And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war against Cushan-Rishathaim. And the Lord delivered into his hand Cushan-Rishathaim king of Syria of the rivers, and his hand prevailed against Cushan-Rishathaim. ¹¹ And the land was quiet forty years; and Othniel the son of Kenaz died. ¹² And the children of Israel continued to do evil before the Lord. And the Lord strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil before the Lord. ¹³ And he gathered to himself all the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and struck Israel, and took possession of the City of Palm Trees. ¹⁴ And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. ¹⁵ And the children of Israel cried to the Lord; and He raised up to them a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man who used both hands alike: and the children of Israel sent gifts by his hand to Eglon king of Moab. ¹⁶ And Ehud made himself a two-edged dagger of a span long, and he secured it under his cloak upon his right thigh. ¹⁷ And he went, and brought the presents to Eglon king of Moab. And Eglon was a very handsome man. ¹⁸ And it came to pass when Ehud had made an end of offering his gifts, that he dismissed those that brought the gifts. ¹⁹ And he himself returned from the quarries that are by Gilgal. And Ehud said, I have a secret message for you, O king! And Eglon said to him, Be silent. And he sent away from his presence all who waited upon him. ²⁰ And Ehud went in to him; and he sat alone in his own upper summer chamber. And Ehud said, I have a message from God for you, O king. And Eglon rose up from his throne near to him. ²¹ And it came to pass as he arose, that Ehud stretched forth his left hand, and took the dagger off his right thigh, and plunged it into his belly; ²² and drove in also the handle after the blade, and the fat closed in upon the blade, for he did not draw the dagger out of his belly. ²³ And Ehud went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed guards, and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked them. ²⁴ And he went out. And Eglon's servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked. And they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber? ²⁵ And they waited till they were ashamed, and behold, there was no one that opened the doors of the upper chamber; and they took the key, and opened them. And behold, their master was fallen down dead upon the ground. ²⁶ And Ehud escaped while they were in a tumult, and no one paid attention to him; and he passed the quarries, and escaped to Seirah. ²⁷ And it came to pass when Ehud came into the land of Israel, that he blew the horn in Mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came down with him from the mountain, and he was before them. ²⁸ And he said to them, Come down after me, for the Lord God has delivered our enemies, even Moab, into our hand. And they went down after him, and seized on the fords of the Jordan before Moab, and he did not allow a man to pass over. ²⁹ And they struck Moab on that day about ten thousand men, every lusty person and every mighty man; and not a man escaped. ³⁰ So Moab was humbled in that day under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest eighty years; and Ehud judged them till he died. ³¹ And after him rose up Shamgar the son of Anath, and struck the Philistines to the number of six hundred men with a plow share such as is drawn by oxen; and he too delivered Israel.

¹⁰ Moreover I have bought for myself for a wife Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance; so the name of the dead shall not be destroyed from among his brothers, and from the tribe of his people: you are witnesses this day.

¹ And it came to pass after this, that David attacked the Philistines, and put them to flight, and David took the tribute from out of the hand of the Philistines. ² Then David attacked Moab, and measured them out with lines, having laid them down on the ground. And there were two lines for slaying, and two lines he kept alive. And Moab became servants to David, yielding tribute. ³ Then David attacked Hadadezer the son of Rehob king of Zobah, as he went to extend his power to the River Euphrates. ⁴ And David took a thousand of his chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David hamstrung all his chariot horses, but he reserved for himself a hundred chariots. ⁵ And Syria of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, and David struck down twenty-two thousand of the Syrians. ⁶ And David placed a garrison in Syria near Damascus, and the Syrians became servants and tributaries to David. And the Lord preserved David wherever he went. ⁷ And David took the golden bracelets which were on the servants of Hadadezer king of Zobah, and brought them to Jerusalem. And Susakim king of Egypt took them, when he went up to Jerusalem in the days of Rehoboam son of Solomon. ⁸ And King David took from Metebac, and from the choice cities of Hadadezer, very much brass; with that Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the lavers, and all the furniture. ⁹ And Toi the king of Hemath heard that David had defeated all the armies of Hadadezer. ¹⁰ And Toi sent Joram his son to King David, to ask him of his welfare, and to congratulate him on his fighting against Hadadezer and smiting him, for he was an enemy to Hadadezer: and in his hands were vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass. ¹¹ And these King David consecrated to the Lord, with the silver and with the gold which he consecrated out of all the cities which he conquered, ¹² out of Edom and out of Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amelek, and from the spoils of Hadadezer son of Rehob king of Zobah. ¹³ And David made himself a name. And when he returned he struck Edom in Gebelem to the number of eighteen thousand. ¹⁴ And he set garrisons in Edom, even in all Edom: and all the Edomites were servants to the king. And the Lord preserved David wherever he went. ¹⁵ And David reigned over all Israel: and David brought about judgment and justice over all his people. ¹⁶ And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was keeper of the records. ¹⁷ And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was the scribe, ¹⁸ and Benaiah son of Jehoida was counselor, and the Cherethite and the Pelethite and the sons of David were princes of the court.

¹ Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign in Israel in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned twelve years. ² And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, only not as his father, nor as his mother; and he removed the pillars of Baal which his father had made. ³ Only he adhered to the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin; he departed not from it. ⁴ And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepbreeder, and he rendered to the king of Israel in the beginning of the year, a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with the wool. ⁵ And it came to pass, after the death of Ahab, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. ⁶ And King Jehoram went forth in that day out of Samaria, and numbered Israel. ⁷ And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with me against Moab to war? And he said, I will go up: you are as I am, and I am as you; as my people, so are your people, as my horses, so are your horses. ⁸ And he said, What way shall I go up? And he said, The way of the Wilderness of Edom. ⁹ And the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they marched on that roundabout route for seven days; and there was no water for the army, and for the cattle that went with them. ¹⁰ And the king of Israel said, Alas! That the Lord should have called the three kings on their way, to give them into the hand of Moab. ¹¹ And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire of the Lord by him? And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, There is here Elisha son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah. ¹² And Jehoshaphat said, He has the word of the Lord. And the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and the king of Edom went down to him. ¹³ And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and the prophets of your mother. And the king of Israel said to him, Has the Lord called the three kings to deliver them into the hands of Moab? ¹⁴ And Elisha said, As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, unless I regarded the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not have looked on you, nor seen you. ¹⁵ And now fetch me a harpist. And it came to pass, as the harpist played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him. ¹⁶ And he said, Thus says the Lord: Make this valley full of trenches. ¹⁷ For thus says the Lord: You shall not see wind, neither shall you see rain, yet this valley shall be filled with water, and you and your flocks and your cattle shall drink. ¹⁸ And this is a light thing in the eyes of the Lord: I will also deliver Moab into your hand. ¹⁹ And you shall smite every strong city, and you shall cut down every good tree, and you shall stop all wells of water, and spoil every good piece of land with stones. ²⁰ And it came to pass in the morning, when the sacrifice was offered, that behold, waters came from the way of Edom, and the land was filled with water. ²¹ And all Moab heard that the three kings had come up to fight against them. And they cried out on every side, even all that were girded with a belt, and they said, Lo! And stood upon the border. ²² And they rose early in the morning, and the sun rose upon the waters, and the Moabites saw the water on the opposite side red as blood. ²³ And they said, This is the blood of the sword; and the kings have fought, and each man has killed his neighbor; now then to the spoils, O Moab! ²⁴ And they entered into the camp of Israel; and Israel arose and attacked the Moabites, and they fled from before them; and they went on and attacked Moab as they went. ²⁵ And they razed the cities, and cast every man his stone on every good piece of land and filled it; and they stopped every well, and cut down every good tree, until they left only the stones of the wall cast down; and the slingers surrounded the land, and attacked it. ²⁶ And the king of Moab saw that the battle prevailed against him; and he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to cut through to the king of Edom, and they could not. ²⁷ And he took his eldest son whom he had designed to reign in his place, and offered him up for a whole burnt offering on the walls. And there was a great indignation against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their land.

⁶ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalam, and Ashtoreth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the Lord, and did not serve Him. ⁷ And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon. ⁸ And they afflicted and bruised the children of Israel at that time eighteen years, all the children of Israel beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorite in Gilead. ⁹ And the children of Ammon went over the Jordan to fight with Judah, and Benjamin, and with Ephraim; and the children of Israel were greatly afflicted. ¹⁰ And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, We have sinned against You, because we have forsaken God, and served Baalam. ¹¹ And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Did I not save you from Egypt and from the Amorite, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, ¹² and from the Sidonians, and Amalek, and Midian, who afflicted you? And you cried to Me, and I saved you out of their hand? ¹³ Yet you forsook Me and served other gods; therefore I will not save you anymore. ¹⁴ Go, and cry to the gods whom you have chosen to yourselves, and let them save you in the time of your affliction. ¹⁵ And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We have sinned: do unto us according to all that is good in Your eyes; only deliver us this day. ¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and His soul was pained for the trouble of Israel. ¹⁷ And the children of Ammon went up, and encamped in Gilead; and the children of Israel were gathered together and encamped on the hill. ¹⁸ And the people, the princes of Gilead,said every man to his neighbor, Who is he that shall begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall even be head over all that dwell in Gilead.

⁶ And they said to Jephthah, Come, and be our head, and we will fight with the sons of Ammon. ⁷ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Did you not hate me, and cast me out of my father's house, and banish me from you? And why have you come to me now when you want me? ⁸ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore have we now turned to you, that you should go with us, and fight against the sons of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. ⁹ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you turn me back to fight with the children of Ammon, and the Lord should deliver them before me, then will I be your head. ¹⁰ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we shall not do according to your word. ¹¹ And Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and ruler over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord in Mizpah. ¹² And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have I to do with you, that you have come against me to fight in my land? ¹³ And the king of the children of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took my land when he went up out of Egypt, from Arnon to Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now then return them peaceably and I will depart. ¹⁴ And Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, ¹⁵ and said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel took not the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon; ¹⁶ for in their going up out of Egypt Israel went in the wilderness as far as the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh. ¹⁷ And Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, I will pass, if it please you, by your land; and the king of Edom would not consent. And Israel also sent to the king of Moab, and he did not consent; and Israel sojourned in Kadesh. ¹⁸ And they journeyed in the wilderness, and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab. And they came by the east of the land of Moab, an encamped in the country beyond Arnon, and did not enter the borders of Moab, for Arnon is the border of Moab. ¹⁹ And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorite, king of Hesbron, and Israel said to him, Let us pass through your land to our place. ²⁰ And Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; and Sihon gathered all his people, and they encamped at Jahaz; and he set the battle in array against Israel. ²¹ And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck him; and Israel inherited all the land of the Amorite who dwelt in that land, ²² from Arnon and to Jabbok, and from the wilderness to the Jordan. ²³ And now the Lord God of Israel has removed the Amorite from before His people Israel, and shall you inherit his land? ²⁴ Will you not inherit those possessions which Chemosh your god shall cause you to inherit; and shall not we inherit the land of all those whom the Lord our God has removed from before you? ²⁵ And now are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he indeed fight with Israel, or indeed make war with him, ²⁶ when Israel dwelt in Hesbron and in its coasts, and in the land of Aroer and in its coasts, and in all the cities by the Jordan, three hundred years? And why did you not recover them in that time? ²⁷ And now I have not sinned against you, but you wronged me in preparing war against me: may the Lord, the Judge, render judgment this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon. ²⁸ But the king of the children of Ammon did not heed the words of Jephthah, which he sent to him. ²⁹ And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed by the watchtower of Gilead to the other side of the children of Ammon. ³⁰ And Jephthah vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If You will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, ³¹ then it shall come to pass that whosoever shall first come out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, he shall be the Lord's: I will offer him up for a whole burnt offering. ³² And Jephthah advanced to meet the sons of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hand. ³³ And he smote them from Aroer till one comes to Arnon, twenty cities in number, and as far as Abel-Keramim, with a very great destruction. And the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. ³⁴ And Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house; and behold, his daughter came forth to meet him with timbrels and dances; and she was his only child, for he had no other son or daughter. ³⁵ And it came to pass when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, Ah, ah, my daughter, you have indeed troubled me, and you are the cause of my trouble; and I have opened my mouth against you to the Lord, and I shall not be able to return from it. ³⁶ And she said to him, Father, have you opened your mouth to the Lord? Do to me accordingly as the word went out of your mouth, in that the Lord has worked vengeance for you on your enemies of the children of Ammon. ³⁷ And she said to her father, Let my father now do this thing: let me alone for two months, and I will go up and down on the mountains, and I will lament my virginity, I and my companions. ³⁸ And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months. And she went, and her companions, and she lamented her virginity on the mountains. ³⁹ And it came to pass at the end of the two months that she returned to her father; and he performed upon her his vow which he vowed; and she knew no man. ⁴⁰ And it was an ordinance in Israel, That the daughters of Israel went from year to year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days in a year.

¹ And it came to pass about a month after this, that Nahash the Ammonite went up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash the Ammonite, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you. ² And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On these terms will I make a covenant with you, that I will put out all your right eyes, and I will lay a reproach upon Israel. ³ And the men of Jabesh say to him, Allow us seven days, and we will send messengers into all the coasts of Israel. If there should be no one to deliver us, we will come out to you. ⁴ And the messengers came to Gibeah to Saul, and they spoke the words into the ears of the people; and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept. ⁵ And behold, Saul came out of the field after the early morning. And Saul said, Why do the people weep? And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh. ⁶ And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled against them. ⁷ And he took two cows, and cut them in pieces, and sent them into all the coasts of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Whosoever does not come forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall they do to his oxen. And a transport from the Lord came upon the people of Israel, and they came out to battle as one man. ⁸ And he reviewed them at Bezek in Bama, every man of Israel six hundred thousand, and the men of Judah seventy thousand. ⁹ And he said to the messengers that came, Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh, Tomorrow you shall have deliverance when the sun is hot. And the messengers came to the city, and told the men of Jabesh, and they rejoiced. ¹⁰ And the men of Jabesh said to Nahash the Ammonite, Tomorrow we will come forth to you, and you shall do to us what seems good in your sight. ¹¹ And it came to pass on the next day, that Saul divided the people into three companies, and they went into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and they killed the children of Ammon until the heat of the day. And it came to pass that those who were left were scattered, and there was not left two together among them. ¹² And the people said to Samuel, Who has said that Saul shall not reign over us? Give up the men, and we will put them to death. ¹³ And Saul said, No man shall die this day, for today the Lord has wrought deliverance in Israel. ¹⁴ And Samuel spoke to the people, saying, Let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there. ¹⁵ And all the people went to Gilgal, and Samuel anointed Saul there to be king before the Lord in Gilgal, and there he offered grain offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. And Samuel and all Israel rejoiced exceedingly.

¹ And it came to pass after this that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. ² And David said, I will show mercy to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt mercifully with me. And David sent to comfort him concerning his father by the hand of his servants; and the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon. ³ And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Is it to honor your father before you that David has sent comforters to you? Has not David rather sent his servants to you that they should search the city, and spy it out and examine it? ⁴ And Hanun took the servants of David, and shaved their beards, and cut off their garments in the midst as far as their haunches, and sent them away. ⁵ And they brought David word concerning the men; and he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly dishonored. And the king said, Remain in Jericho till your beards have grown, and then you shall return. ⁶ And the children of Ammon saw that the people of David were ashamed; and the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, and Rehob, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Amelek with a thousand men, and Ish-Tob with twelve thousand men. ⁷ And David heard, and sent Joab and all of his army, even the mighty men. ⁸ And the children of Ammon went forth, and set the battle in array by the door of the gate. Those of Syria — Zobah, Rehob, Ish-Tob, and Amelek, being by themselves in the field. ⁹ And Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him from that which was opposed in front and from behind, and he chose out some of all the young men of Israel, and they set themselves in array against Syria. ¹⁰ And the rest of the people he gave into the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set the battle in array opposite to the children of Ammon. ¹¹ And he said, If Syria is too strong for me, then shall you help me: and if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then will we be ready to help you. ¹² Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the sake of the cities of our God, and the Lord shall do that which is good in His eyes. ¹³ And Joab and his people with him advanced to battle against Syria, and they fled from before him. ¹⁴ And the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, and they fled from before Abishai, and entered into the city. And Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And the Syrians saw that they were defeated before Israel, and they gathered themselves together. ¹⁶ And Hadadezer sent and gathered the Syrians from the other side of the River Halamak, and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer was at their head. ¹⁷ And it was reported to David, and he gathered all Israel and went over the Jordan, and came to Helam; and the Syrians set the battle in array against David, and fought with him. ¹⁸ And Syria fled from before Israel, and David destroyed of the Syrians seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and he struck Shobach the captain of his army, and he died there. ¹⁹ And all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, and they went over to Israel, and served them: and Syria was afraid to help the children of Ammon anymore.

¹ In that day they read in the Book of Moses in the ears of the people; and it was found written in it, that the Ammonites and Moabites should not enter into the congregation of God forever; ² because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them, but our God turned the curse into a blessing. ³ And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they were separated, even every alien in Israel.

²³ And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab. ²⁴ And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak in the Jewish language. ²⁵ And I strove with them and cursed them; and I struck some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, and you shall not take of their daughters to your sons. ²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin thus? Yet there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women turned him aside. ²⁷ So we will not hearken to you to do all this evil, to break covenant with our God, to marry strange wives. ²⁸ And Elishub the high priest, one of the sons of Joiada, son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, I chased away from me.

⁴ They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more. ⁵ For they have taken counsel together with one consent; they have made a confederacy against You; ⁶ even the tents of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; ⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. ⁸ Yea, Assyria too has come with them; they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.

¹⁴ And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines; they shall at the same time spoil the sea, and them that come from the east, and Edom; and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey them.