Ruth Cross References - LEB

¹ And it happened in the days when _⌊the judges ruled_⌋,* there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem of Judah went _⌊to reside_⌋* in the countryside of Moab—he and his wife and his two sons. ² And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephraimites from Bethlehem in Judah. And they went to the countryside of Moab and remained there. ³ But Elimelech the husband of Naomi died and she was left behind with _⌊her two sons_⌋.* ⁴ And _⌊they took_⌋* for themselves Moabite wives. The name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other was Ruth. And they lived there about ten years. ⁵ But _⌊both_⌋* Mahlon and Kilion died, and the woman was left without her two sons and without her husband. ⁶ And she got up, she and her daughters-in-law, and returned from the countryside of Moab, because she had heard in the countryside of Moab that Yahweh had _⌊come to the aid of_⌋* his people to give food to them. ⁷ So she set out from the place _⌊where she was_⌋* and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. ⁸ But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, each of you return to her mother's house. May Yahweh _⌊show kindness to you_⌋* just as you did with the dead and with me. ⁹ May Yahweh _⌊grant that you_⌋* find a resting place, each in the house of her husband." And she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and cried. ¹⁰ And they said to her, "No, we want to return with you to your people." ¹¹ And Naomi said, "Return, my daughters. _⌊Why do you still want to go with me_⌋?* Are there sons _⌊in my womb_⌋* that may be husbands for you? ¹² Turn back, my daughters! Go, for _⌊I am too old to have a husband_⌋.* If I should think there is hope for me, even if I should have a husband this night, and even if I should bear sons, ¹³ would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore _⌊refrain from marrying_⌋?* No, my daughters, for it is far more bitter to me than to you. For the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me." ¹⁴ And they lifted up their voices and cried again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. ¹⁵ And she said, "Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law too." ¹⁶ But Ruth said, "_⌊Do not urge_⌋* me to leave you or to return from _⌊following you_⌋!* For where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God. ¹⁷ Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. So may Yahweh do to me, _⌊and even more, unless_⌋* death _⌊separates you and me_⌋!"* ¹⁸ When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, _⌊she said no more_⌋.* ¹⁹ So the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. _⌊And when they came_⌋* to Bethlehem, all of the town was stirred because of them. And they said, "Is this Naomi?" ²⁰ And she said to them, "You should not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for Shaddai* has _⌊caused me to be very bitter_⌋.* ²¹ I went away full, but Yahweh brought me back empty-handed! Why call me Naomi _⌊when Yahweh has testified against me_⌋* and Shaddai* has brought calamity upon me?" ²² So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, returning from the countryside of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the harvest of barley.

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to dwell as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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

¹ Now the famine in the land was severe.

¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron* and your land like copper.

²³ And your heavens that are over your heads shall be like bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be like iron. ²⁴ Yahweh will change the rain of your land to fine dust and to sand; from the heaven it shall come down upon you _⌊until you are destroyed_⌋.*

³⁸ "You shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little produce, for the locust shall devour it.

¹⁶ Then Yahweh raised up leaders,* and they delivered them from the hand of their plunderers. ¹⁷ But they did not listen to their leaders,* but lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned away quickly from the way that their ancestors* went, who had obeyed the commandment of Yahweh; they did not do as their ancestors. ¹⁸ And when Yahweh raised leaders* for them, Yahweh was with the leader,* and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the leader,* for Yahweh was moved by their groaning because of their persecutors and oppressors.

⁸ After him Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel.

⁸ And the man went from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to live as a foreigner* wherever he could find a place. And he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, to continue his journey.

¹ In those days there was no king in Israel; there was a man, a Levite, who dwelled as a foreigner* in the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim. And he took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. ² But his concubine felt repugnance toward him,* and she left him and went to her father's house, to Bethlehem in Judah; she was there some four months.

¹ There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David _⌊inquired of Yahweh_⌋,* and Yahweh said, "The bloodguilt is on Saul and on his household, because he killed the Gibeonites."

¹ Elijah the Tishbite from Tishbe of Gilead said to Ahab, "_⌊As Yahweh lives_⌋,* the God of Israel before whom I stand, there shall surely not be dew nor rain these years _⌊except by my command_⌋."* ² Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, ³ "Go from this place and turn to the east; you must hide yourself in the Wadi* Kerith _⌊which faces the Jordan_⌋.* ⁴ It shall be that you shall drink from the wadi,* and I have commanded the crows to sustain you there." ⁵ So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. He went and stayed in the Wadi* Kerith _⌊which faces the Jordan_⌋.* ⁶ The crows were bringing bread and meat in the morning for him and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the wadi.* ⁷ It happened _⌊after a while_⌋* that the wadi* dried up, because there was no rain in the land. ⁸ Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, ⁹ "Get up and go to Zarephath which belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman there, a widow, to sustain you." ¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath and came to the gate of the city. There was a widow woman gathering wood, so he called to her, and he said, "Please bring a little water for me in a vessel so that I can drink." ¹¹ She went to fetch it, and he called to her and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." ¹² She said, "_⌊As Yahweh your God lives_⌋,* surely I do not have a cake, _⌊but only a handful of flour_⌋* in the jar and a little olive oil in the jug. Here I am gathering a few pieces of wood, and I will go and prepare it for me and my son, that we might eat it and die."

² So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

¹ Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Get up and go, you and your household, and dwell as an alien wherever you can, for Yahweh has called for a famine, and it will come to the land for seven years." ² So the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God. She and her household went and dwelt as an alien in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

¹⁶ Then he called for a famine upon the land; he broke every _⌊supply_⌋* of bread.

³⁴ a fruitful land into a salty place, because of the evil of its inhabitants.

¹ That which came as the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah concerning the matter* of the severe drought.

¹³ "Son of man,* when a land sins against me by _⌊acting very unfaithfully_⌋,* then I will stretch out my hand against it, and I will break for it the _⌊supply of food_⌋,* and I will send against it famine, and I will cut it off, both human and animal.

²¹ For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "How much more when I send my four punishments—the evil sword, and famine, and a fierce animal, and a plague—to Jerusalem to cut it off, both human and animal!

¹⁰ The field is destroyed; the earth mourns because the grain is destroyed, the new wine dries up, the olive oil languishes. ¹¹ Be ashamed, farmers; Wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and over the barley, because the harvest of the field is ruined.

¹⁶ Is not food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness? ¹⁷ The seeds shrivel under their clods; the storehouses are desolate. The grain storage places are destroyed because grain has dried out. ¹⁸ How the beasts* groan; the herds of cattle wander around because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep are in distress. ¹⁹ To you, O Yahweh, I cry out, because fire has devoured the pastures of the desert, and flames* burned all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Also, the beasts of the field long for you, because the courses of water are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the desert.

⁶ "And I* in turn gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places. Yet you did not return to me," is the declaration of Yahweh.

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

¹ There was a certain man from Ramathaim Zophim, from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.*

²¹ Israel and the Philistines drew up in battle lines, _⌊one battle line against the other_⌋.*

² But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, too small to be among the clans of Judah, from you one will go out for me, to be ruler in Israel; and his origins are from of old, from ancient days.

¹ A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves.

¹⁹ Many are the distresses of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

⁶ For the Lord disciplines the one whom he loves, and punishes every son whom he accepts."*

¹⁰ For they disciplined us for a few days according to what seemed appropriate to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we can have a share in his holiness. ¹¹ Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

³ And you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to their son; and you shall not take his daughter for your son.*

³ An Ammonite or a Moabite may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none _⌊of his descendants_⌋* may come into the assembly of Yahweh _⌊forever_⌋,*

¹ King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, Hittite; ² from the nations which Yahweh had said to the _⌊Israelites_⌋,* "You shall not _⌊marry them_⌋,* and they shall not _⌊marry you_⌋.* They will certainly turn your heart after other gods." But Solomon clung to them to love.

⁵ and Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed became the father of Jesse,

³⁹ See, now, that I, even I am he, and there is not a god besides me; I put to death and I give life; I wound and I heal; there is not one who delivers from my hand!

³⁰ If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments, ³¹ if they defile* my statutes and do not keep my commandments, ³² then I will punish their transgression with a rod, and their guilt with wounds.

²¹ Then* you will say in your heart,
"Who has borne me these?" And, "I was bereaved and barren, exiled and thrust away; so* who raised these? Look at me! I was left alone; _⌊where have these come from_⌋?"*

¹⁹ Your wickedness will chastise you, and your apostasies will reprove you. Therefore know and see that it is evil and bitter, your forsaking of Yahweh, your God, and fear of me is not in you," _⌊declares_⌋* the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

²⁵ Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first died after* getting married, and because he* did not have descendants, he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ So also the second and the third, up to the seventh. ²⁷ And last of all the woman died.

¹² And as he approached the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, his mother's only son, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.

¹ And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised.

²⁰ And Jacob made a vow* saying, "If God will be with me and protect me on this way that I am going, and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear,

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph and said,
"The God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, walked, The God who shepherded me _⌊all my life_⌋* unto this day,

²⁵ Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here."

¹⁶ Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,* appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "I have carefully attended to you and what has been done to you in Egypt."

³¹ And the people believed when they heard that Yahweh had attended to the _⌊Israelites_⌋* and that he had seen their misery, and they knelt down and they worshiped.

⁴ And Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, I am going to rain down for you bread from the heavens, and the people will go out and gather enough for the day on its day; in that way I will test them: Will they go according to my law or not? ⁵ And then on the sixth day, they will prepare what they bring, and it will be twice over what they will gather every other day." ⁶ And Moses and Aaron said to all the _⌊Israelites_⌋,* "In the evening, you will know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt,

²¹ Yahweh took note of Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters, while the young man Samuel grew up with Yahweh.

¹⁴ who causes grass to grow for the cattle and herbs for the service of humankind, to bring forth food from the earth, ¹⁵ and wine that makes glad the heart of man, so that their faces shine from oil, and bread that strengthens the heart of man.

⁵ He gives food to those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.

¹⁵ I will bless its provisions abundantly; I will satisfy its poor with bread.

¹⁵ The eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due time,

⁷ who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food for the hungry. Yahweh sets prisoners free;

¹⁴ he makes your border peaceful; he satisfies you with the _⌊finest of wheat_⌋.*

⁸ Keep falsehood and a _⌊lying word_⌋* far from me; do not give me poverty or wealth; provide me with food only for my need.

¹⁰ For just as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and they do not return there except they have watered the earth thoroughly and cause it to bring forth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

¹⁰ For thus says Yahweh, '_⌊As soon as the time has passed_⌋,* seventy years* for Babylon, I will attend to you, and I will fulfill my good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

⁷ And it shall become a region for the remnant of the house of Judah; upon them they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening. For Yahweh their God shall be mindful of them, and he will restore their fortunes.

¹¹ Give us today our daily bread,

⁶⁸ "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited to help and _⌊has redeemed_⌋* his people,

⁴⁴ And they will raze you to the ground, you and your children within you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone within you, _⌊because_⌋* you did not recognize the time of your visitation."

⁸ But if we* have food and clothing, with these things we will be content.

¹² maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in the things in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.

²⁷ And Moses let his father-in-law go, and he went to his land.

¹⁰ And they said to her, "No, we want to return with you to your people."

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

³ It happened at the end of seven years that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went out to appeal to the king for her household and for her _⌊properties_⌋.*

¹⁵ But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors* served beyond the river,* or the gods of the Amorites* in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh." ¹⁶ And the people answered and said, "Far be it from us that we would forsake Yahweh to serve other gods, ¹⁷ for Yahweh our God brought us and our ancestors* from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and did these great signs before our eyes. He protected us along the entire way that we went, and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed. ¹⁸ And Yahweh drove out all the people before us, the Amorites* who live* in the land. We will serve Yahweh, for he is our God." ¹⁹ But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve Yahweh, for he is a holy and jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. ²⁰ If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster to you; he will destroy you after he has done good to you." ²¹ And the people said to Joshua, "No, we will serve Yahweh." ²² And Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves to serve Yahweh." And they said, "We are witnesses." ²³ He said, "Remove the foreign gods that are in your midst, and incline your hearts to Yahweh the God of Israel." ²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice." ²⁵ So Joshua _⌊made a covenant_⌋* with the people on that day, and he established for them a statute and a judgment at Shechem. ²⁶ Then Joshua wrote these words in a scroll of the law of God, and he took a large stone and set it up there under a large tree, which is at the shrine of Yahweh. ²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, "Look, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of Yahweh that he spoke with us. It will be as a witness against you, so that you do not deny your God." ²⁸ Then Joshua sent the people away to their inheritance.

⁵ But _⌊both_⌋* Mahlon and Kilion died, and the woman was left without her two sons and without her husband.

²⁰ And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by Yahweh, whose loyal love has not forsaken the living or the dead." And Naomi said to her, "The man is a close relative for us, he is one of our redeemers."

²⁵ Now large crowds were going along with him, and he turned around and* said to them, ²⁶ "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, _⌊he cannot be_⌋* my disciple. ²⁷ Whoever does not carry his own cross and _⌊follow_⌋* me _⌊cannot be_⌋* my disciple. ²⁸ For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down and* calculate the cost to see if he has enough* _⌊to complete it_⌋?* ²⁹ _⌊Otherwise_⌋* after* he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish it,* all who see it* will begin to ridicule him, ³⁰ saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!' ³¹ Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first and* deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand. ³² But if not, while* the other is still far away, he sends an ambassador and* asks _⌊for terms of_⌋* peace. ³³ In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all his own possessions _⌊cannot be_⌋* my disciple.

²² —wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,

² "Honor your father and mother" (which is the first* commandment with a promise), ³ "in order that it may be well with you, and you may _⌊live a long time_⌋* on the earth."*

¹⁸ But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; _⌊I am well supplied_⌋* because* I received from Epaphroditus _⌊what you had sent_⌋*, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God will fulfill your every need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

²⁴ because you* know that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. Serve* the Lord Christ.

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he refreshed me many times, and was not ashamed of my imprisonment, ¹⁷ but when he* was in Rome, he diligently sought me and found me. ¹⁸ May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord in that day! And how much he served me in Ephesus you know very well.

²⁷ And he drew near and kissed him. And he* smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said,
"Look, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed!

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

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And afterward his brothers spoke with him.

¹ Now Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not seek for you security that things may be good for you?

³⁷ And there was considerable weeping by all, and _⌊hugging_⌋* Paul, they kissed him,

³ With regard to the saints who are in the land, they are the noble ones in whom is all my desire.

⁶³ I am a companion of all who fear you and heed your precepts.

²³ Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'In those days ten men from _⌊all the nations of every language_⌋* will take hold of the hem of a Judean man,* saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you!" '"

¹¹ Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Stay a widow in your father's house until Shelah my son grows up," for _⌊he feared he would also die_⌋* like his brother. So Tamar went and stayed in the house of her father.

⁵ "When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a _⌊man of another family_⌋;* her brother-in-law _⌊shall have sex with her_⌋,* and he shall take her _⌊to himself_⌋* as a wife, and he shall perform his duty as a brother-in-law with respect to her.

¹⁷ And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, "_⌊Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old_⌋,* or _⌊can Sarah bear a child at ninety_⌋?"*

⁹ Let a widow be put on the list if she* is not less than sixty years old, the wife of one husband,

¹⁵ The hand of Yahweh was against them to root them out from the midst of the camp until they perished completely.

¹⁵ _⌊Whenever_⌋* they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them to harm them, just as Yahweh warned, and just as Yahweh had sworn to them. And _⌊they were very distressed_⌋.*

¹¹ So they sent and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines, and they said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel and let it return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people." For a _⌊deadly confusion_⌋* was throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

²¹ "Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.

⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into the dry heat of summer. Selah

² For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.

⁹ I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done it. ¹⁰ Remove from me your affliction. By the opposition of your hand I perish.

²⁸ And why did you not give me opportunity to kiss my grandsons* and my daughters goodbye? Now you have behaved foolishly by doing this.

⁵⁵ * And Laban arose early in the morning and kissed his grandsons* and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his homeland.

⁴ But you, the ones holding fast to Yahweh your God, are all alive _⌊today_⌋.*

²⁰ Yahweh your God, you shall revere him, you shall serve him, and to him you shall cling, and by his name you shall swear.

²⁰ Then he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will go after you." Then he said, "Go, return, for what I have done to you?"

¹⁷ The friend loves at all times*, but a brother is born for adversity.

²⁴ A man of many friends will come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

¹ But Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and he will again choose Israel and set them on their land, and the immigrant will join himself to them, and they will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

³⁷ The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

²² But when* the young man heard the statement, he went away sorrowful, because he was one who had many possessions.

²¹ And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing: Go, sell all that you have, and give the proceeds* to the poor—and you will have treasure in heaven—and come, follow me." ²² But he looked gloomy at the statement and* went away sorrowful, _⌊because he had_⌋* many possessions.

⁶⁶ For this reason many of his disciples _⌊drew back_⌋* and were not walking with him any longer. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go away also, do you?"* ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. ⁶⁹ And we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God."

³⁴ But some people* joined him and* believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman _⌊named_⌋* Damaris and others with them.

¹⁰ For Demas deserted me, because he* loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia; Titus went to Dalmatia.

³⁹ But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of our souls.

¹⁵ But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors* served beyond the river,* or the gods of the Amorites* in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."

¹⁹ But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve Yahweh, for he is a holy and jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

²⁴ Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gave you to possess? Whoever Yahweh our God has driven out before us, we will possess it.

¹⁹ The king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why are you also coming with us? Return and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner; moreover, you are an exile. _⌊You are far from your place_⌋.* ²⁰ Yesterday when you came and _⌊today_⌋,* I have caused you to wander by going with us. Now I am going to where I am going; return and let your brothers return. May loyal love and faithfulness be with you."

² Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for Yahweh has sent me up to Bethel." Elisha said, "_⌊As Yahweh lives_⌋* and _⌊as your soul lives_⌋,* I will certainly not leave you!" So they went down to Bethel.

³ The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight and to do good.

⁵ But regarding those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

⁶ and those who turned back from _⌊following_⌋* Yahweh, and who did not seek Yahweh, and did not inquire of him."

²⁰ And what was sown on the rocky ground—this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. ²¹ But he does not have a root in himself, but _⌊lasts only a little while_⌋,* and when* affliction or persecution happens because of the word, immediately he falls away.

²⁸ And they drew near to the village where they were going, and he acted as though he was going farther.

³⁸ But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul is not well pleased with him."*

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But they went out*, in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.

¹⁸ And Yahweh drove out all the people before us, the Amorites* who live* in the land. We will serve Yahweh, for he is our God."

¹¹ And Boaz answered and said to her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband was fully told to me. How you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and you went to a people that you did not know _⌊before_⌋.* ¹² May Yahweh reward your work and may a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you came to take refuge."

²¹ But Ittai answered the king and said, "_⌊As Yahweh lives_⌋* and _⌊my lord the king lives_⌋,* surely in the place wherever my lord the king shall be, if for death or if for life, surely there your servant will be."

² Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for Yahweh has sent me up to Bethel." Elisha said, "_⌊As Yahweh lives_⌋* and _⌊as your soul lives_⌋,* I will certainly not leave you!" So they went down to Bethel. ³ Then the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha, and they said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh is going to take your master _⌊from you_⌋* today?" He said, "I also know; be quiet!" ⁴ Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please stay here because Yahweh has sent me to Jericho." And he said, "_⌊As Yahweh lives_⌋* and _⌊as your soul lives_⌋,* I will certainly not leave you!" So they came to Jericho. ⁵ Then the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho came near to Elisha, and they said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh is going to take your master _⌊from you_⌋* today?" He said, "I also know; be quiet!" ⁶ Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, because Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "_⌊As Yahweh lives_⌋* and _⌊as your soul lives_⌋,* I will certainly not leave you!" So the two of them went on.

¹⁰ Hear, O daughter, and _⌊discern_⌋* and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house.

⁴⁷ The king answered Daniel and said, "_⌊Truly_⌋* your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings, and he reveals mysteries, for you are able to reveal this mystery."

²⁹ And from me _⌊is set forth_⌋* a decree that any people, nation, or language that may utter criticism against their God—the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego—will be broken into pieces and their* house will be made like ruins. _⌊For_⌋* there is not another God who is able to rescue like this God."

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the king of heaven, for all his works are truth,* and his ways are justice and that he is able to humble those who walk in pride."

⁴ I am Yahweh your God since* the land of Egypt; you know no god except me, and no one saves besides me.

¹⁹ And a scribe approached and* said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go!"

²⁸ And they drew near to the village where they were going, and he acted as though he was going farther. ²⁹ And they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening, and by this time the day is far spent." And he went in to stay with them.

³⁷ Peter said to him, "Lord, why am I not able to follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!"

¹³ Then Paul replied, "What are you doing weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus!"

¹⁶ And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,
"I will live in* them and will walk about among them, and I will be their God and they will be my people."* ¹⁷ Therefore "come out from their midst and be separate," says the Lord, "and do not touch what is unclean,* and I will welcome you,* ¹⁸ and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me,"* says the all-powerful Lord.

⁹ For they themselves report about us, what sort of welcome we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

⁴ These are those who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought from humanity as first fruits to God and to the Lamb,

¹⁷ And he said, "What is the message* that he spoke to you? Please do not conceal it from me. May God _⌊punish you severely_⌋* if you conceal anything from me of all the words that he told you."

²² _⌊May God severely punish the enemies of David_⌋* and again do thus if I leave behind _⌊anything that is his_⌋* until the morning, not even _⌊one male_⌋!"*

⁹ Thus _⌊may God punish Abner_⌋,* _⌊if I do not accomplish what Yahweh has sworn to David_⌋;*

³⁵ Then all the people came to give David food. Still on that day, David swore, "_⌊May God punish me_⌋* if I taste food or anything before the sun goes down."

¹³ To Amasa you shall say: 'Are you not my bones and my flesh? _⌊May God punish me_⌋* if you are not the commander of my army before me forever, in place of Joab.'"

²³ Then King Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, "Thus may God do to me and thus may he add, if Adonijah hasn't spoken this thing at the expense of his life.

² Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "Thus may the gods do to me, and may they add to it, surely at this time tomorrow I will make your life as the life of one of them!"

¹⁰ Then Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, "Thus may the gods do to me and thus may they add if the dust of Samaria is sufficient for the hollow of a hand for all of the people who are at my feet."

³¹ Then he said, "May God do to me and thus may he add, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today!"

²³ who, when he* arrived and saw the grace of God, rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with _⌊devoted hearts_⌋,*

²⁴ But I consider my* life as worth _⌊nothing_⌋* to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

⁴² And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers.

¹⁴ And because* he would not be persuaded, we remained silent, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."

¹⁰ Finally, become strong in the Lord and in the might of his strength.

⁷ _⌊Is this your exultant one_⌋,* her origin from the days of long ago? Her feet brought her to dwell afar as an alien.

¹⁵ They clap hands over you, all who pass along the way; they hiss and they shake their head, at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city of which it is said, "A perfection of beauty, a joy for all the earth?"

¹⁰ And when* he entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?"

¹ When* Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, "I am El-Shaddai;* walk before me and be blameless

¹⁴ And may El-Shaddai* grant you compassion before the man that he may release your other brother to you and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved."

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

¹⁷ "Look, happy is the human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

⁴ for the arrows of Shaddai are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

⁷ "Can you find out the essence of God, or can you find out _⌊the ultimate limits_⌋* of Shaddai?

⁶ know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me with his net.

¹⁴ And I have been plagued all day and rebuked _⌊every morning_⌋.*

¹⁵ I am afflicted and perishing from my youth. I bear your terrors. I am distraught.*

¹³ I lie down* until morning; like a lion, so he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.

¹ I am a man who has seen misery, under the rod of his wrath. ² He has driven me along, he brought darkness and not light. ³ Surely he has turned his hand against me, all day long. ⁴ He has worn out my flesh and skin, he has broken my bones. ⁵ _⌊He has besieged_⌋* and engulfed me with bitterness and hardship. ⁶ In darkness he has let me dwell like the dead of long ago. ⁷ He has built a wall around me, I cannot go out; he has made my bronze fetters heavy. ⁸ Though I cry out for help, he shuts out my prayers. ⁹ He has blocked my ways with dressed stones; he has made my paths crooked. ¹⁰ To me he is like a bear lying in wait, a lion in hiding. ¹¹ He has forsaken my way and torn me to pieces; he has caused me desolation. ¹² He has bent his bow and set me as the target for the arrow. ¹³ He shot _⌊the arrows of his quiver_⌋* into my kidneys. ¹⁴ I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long. ¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with wormwood. ¹⁶ He has broken my teeth on grit, he has trampled me down in ash. ¹⁷ My life has been removed from peace, I have forgotten goodness. ¹⁸ And I have said, "My glory is ruined, my expectation from Yahweh." ¹⁹ Remember my misery and bitterness, the wormwood* and venom! ²⁰ Surely my soul remembers and bows down within me.

¹¹ Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

⁸ I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, the one who is and the one who was and the one who is coming, the All-Powerful.

²² And I did not see a temple in it, for the Lord God All-Powerful is its temple, and the Lamb.

⁷ Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and also exalts. ⁸ He raises up the poor from the dust. From the ash heap he lifts up the needy, to cause them to sit with noble people and to cause them to inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth belong to Yahweh and he has set the inhabited world on them.

²¹ Then* he said, "Naked I came out from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. Yahweh gives, and Yahweh takes. Let Yahweh's name be blessed."

¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me, and you increase your vexation against me; _⌊relief forces_⌋* are against me.

²⁶ "Indeed, you* write bitter things against me, and you* make me reap the iniquities of my childhood.

⁸ Thus* you shriveled me up;* it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.

⁵ "Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear _⌊falsely_⌋,* and against the oppressors of the hired worker with his wages, the widow and the orphan, and _⌊the abusers of_⌋* the alien,* and yet do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.

³¹ And the flax and the barley were struck, because the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. ³² But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, because they are late-ripening.

²³ So she stayed close with the maidservants of Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

⁹ He gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they executed them on the mountain in the presence of Yahweh, and the seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest, at the beginning of the harvest of barley.