1 Kings 13 Cross References - Leeser

¹ And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth-el: while Jerobo’am was standing upon the altar to burn incense. ² And he called out against the altar by the word of the Lord, and he said, O altar, altar, thus hath said the Lord, Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice upon thee the priests of the high-places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee. ³ And he gave on the same day a token, saying, This is the token that the Lord hath spoken, Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes which are upon it shall be spilled about. ⁴ And it came to pass, when the king heard the word of the man of God, which he had called out against the altar in Beth-el, that Jerobo’am stretched forth his hand from off the altar, saying, Seize him. And his hand, which he had put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself. ⁵ The altar also was rent, and the ashes were spilled about from the altar, according to the token which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord. ⁶ And the king commenced and said unto the man of God, Offer but entreaty before the Lord thy God, and pray in behalf of me, that my hand may return to me again. And the man of God offered his entreaty before the Lord, and the king’s hand returned to him again, and became as it was before. ⁷ And the king spoke unto the man of God, Come home with me, and take some refreshment, and I will give thee a present. ⁸ But the man of God said unto the king, If thou wert to give me the half of thy house, I would not go in with thee, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place; ⁹ For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Thou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way that thou camest. ¹⁰ So he went by another way, and returned not by the way on which he was come to Beth-el. ¹¹ Now there dwelt a certain old prophet in Beth-el; and his son came and told him all the deed that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words also which he had spoken unto the king, these too they told to their father. ¹² And their father spoke unto them, What way did he go? His sons however had seen what way had gone the man of God, who had come from Judah. ¹³ And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass, and he rode away thereon, ¹⁴ And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under the oak; and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am. ¹⁵ Then said he unto him, Come with me home, and eat bread. ¹⁶ And he said, I cannot return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place; ¹⁷ For a command came to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt not eat bread nor drink water there; thou shalt not return to go by the way also by which thou camest. ¹⁸ And he said unto him, I also am a prophet like thee; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee unto thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. ¹⁹ So he returned with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water. ²⁰ And it came to pass, as they were sitting at the table, That the word of the Lord came unto the prophet who had brought him back; ²¹ And he called unto the man of God that was come from Judah, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the order of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God had commanded thee; ²² But didst return, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of which he had spoken to thee, Thou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water: thy dead body shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. ²³ And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back. ²⁴ And when he was gone, a lion met him on the way, and slew him; and his corpse remained cast down on the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the corpse. ²⁵ And, behold, men passed by, and saw the corpse cast down on the way, and the lion standing by the corpse; and they came and spoke of it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. ²⁶ And when the prophet that had brought him back from the way heard it, he said, It is the man of God who was disobedient unto the order of the Lord; wherefore the Lord hath given him up unto the lion, who hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him. ²⁷ And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him. ²⁸ And he went and found his corpse cast down on the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the corpse: the lion had not eaten the corpse, nor torn the ass. ²⁹ And the prophet took up the corpse of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet, to lament for, and to bury him. ³⁰ And he laid his corpse in his own sepulchre; and they lamented over him, “Alas, my brother!” ³¹ And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; beside his bones lay ye my bones; ³² For the thing which he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar which is in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high-places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely come to pass. ³³ After this event Jerobo’am returned not from his evil way; but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high-places: whosoever desired it, he consecrated, that he might become one of the priests of the high-places. ³⁴ And he became through this thing the cause of sin unto the house of Jerobo’am, and to cause that it was blotted out, and destroyed from off the face of the earth.

^{40 (17:5)} As a memorial unto the children of Israel, in order that no stranger, who is not of the seed of Aaron, should come near to burn incense before the Lord; that he become not as Korach, and as his company; as the Lord had spoken to him by the hand of Moses.

²² But the word of God came unto Shema’yah the man of God, saying,

³² And Jerobo’am made a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar; so did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he stationed at Beth-el the priests of the high-places whom he had made. ³³ So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had falsely devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast unto the children of Israel, and he went up to the altar, to burn incense.

⁵ The altar also was rent, and the ashes were spilled about from the altar, according to the token which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

⁹ For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Thou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way that thou camest.

²⁶ And when the prophet that had brought him back from the way heard it, he said, It is the man of God who was disobedient unto the order of the Lord; wherefore the Lord hath given him up unto the lion, who hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him.

³² For the thing which he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar which is in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high-places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely come to pass.

³⁵ And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his companion, By the word of the Lord, smite me, I pray thee. But the man refused to smite him.

¹⁷ Then said he, What kind of monument is that which I see? And the men of the city said to him, It is the grave of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things which thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.

²⁹ And the remainder of the acts of Solomon, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Achiyah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Ye’do the seer concerning Jerobo’am the son of Nebat.

¹⁸ And they stood forward against king ‘Uzziyahu, and they said unto him, It is not for thee, O ‘Uzziyahu, to burn incense unto the Lord, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; and it will not be for thy honor from the Lord God.

¹² Then let the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense; but they shall not save them in the least in the time of their distress.

³ From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon the king of Judah, even until this day, that is now three and twenty years, the word of the Lord hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.

²⁹ And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses upon the roofs of which they have offered incense unto Ba’al, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods, in order to provoke me to anger;

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even unto his going down my name is great among the nations; and in every place incense is burnt and there is offered unto my name, even a pure offering; for great is my name among the nations, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹ Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

¹ Eight years old was Josiah when he became king, and thirty and one years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Yedidah, the daughter of ‘Adayah of Bozkath. ² And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right or to the left.

¹⁵ So also the altar that was at Beth-el, the high-place which Jerobo’am the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin, had made,—also that altar and the high-place did he pull down; and he burnt the high-place, ground it small to powder, and burnt then the Asherah. ¹⁶ And Josiah turned about, and beheld the graves that were there in the mount, and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who had proclaimed these events. ¹⁷ Then said he, What kind of monument is that which I see? And the men of the city said to him, It is the grave of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things which thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el. ¹⁸ And he said, Let him rest: no man shall disturb his bones. So they saved his bones, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

¹ Eight years old was Josiah when he became king, and thirty and one years did he reign in Jerusalem.

⁴ And they broke down in his presence the altars of the Be’alim, and the sun-images, that were set above them, he cut down; and the Asherim, and the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and ground down, and strewed the same upon the graves of those that had sacrificed unto them. ⁵ And the bones of priests did he burn upon their altars; and he purified Judah and Jerusalem. ⁶ And so did he in the cities of Menasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even as far as Naphtali, with their mattocks, round about. ⁷ And when he had broken down the altars and had beaten the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and cut down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

² Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath spoken: Children have I nourished and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

⁹ The former things, behold, are come to pass; and new things do I announce; before they spring forth I let you hear of them.

²⁶ That fulfilleth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith of Jerusalem, It shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and their ruins will I raise up. ²⁷ That saith to the deep, Be dry, and thy rivers will I dry up; ²⁸ That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and all my pleasure shall he perform: even saying of Jerusalem, It shall be built; and the temple’s foundation shall be laid.

¹⁰ Declaring from the beginning the end, and from the earliest days the things that have not yet been done, saying, My counsel shall stand firm, and all my pleasure will I do:

⁵ And I declared it to thee from the beginning; before yet it came to pass did I let thee hear it: lest thou should say, My idol hath done these things, and my graven image, and my molten image, have ordained them. ⁶ Thou hast heard it; see it all now; and you—will you not declare it? I caused thee to hear new things, from this time, even hidden things which thou hadst not known. ⁷ Now are they created, and not from the beginning; and before the day that I announced them thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

¹ Cry with a full throat, spare not, like the cornet lift up thy voice, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

²⁹ O land, land, land! hear the word of the Lord.

¹ But thou, son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear ye the word of the Lord.

⁴ Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear ye the word of the Lord Eternal, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys, to the desolate ruins, and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about:

⁴ And I will derange thee, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in elegant attire, a great assemblage with bucklers and shields, all of them grasping swords.

³ And he said, Cast it on the ground; and he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. ⁴ And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thy hand, and grasp it by the tail; and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a staff in his hand. ⁵ In order that they may believe that there hath appeared unto thee the Everlasting One, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

⁸ And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. ⁹ And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, and will not hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou shalt take out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so, as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

^{1 (13:2)} If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he giveth thee a sign or a token, ^{2 (13:3)} And the sign or the token come to pass, whereof he spoke unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou dost not know, and let us serve them: ^{3 (13:4)} Then shalt thou not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye indeed love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

¹⁷ And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy eyes, then give me a sign that thou hast been speaking with me;

³⁴ And this shall be unto thee the sign, that shall happen on thy two sons, on Chophni and Phinehas: On one day shall they, both of them, die.

⁸ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What sign shall there be that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?

¹¹ Ask thee a sign from the Lord thy God; ask it in the depth, or high up above. ¹² But Achaz said, I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord. ¹³ And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that ye will weary also my God? ¹⁴ Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign: behold, this young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and she shall call his name ‘Immanu-el, God with us.

⁶ And out of the hand of the king of Assyria will I deliver thee and this city; and I will shield this city. ⁷ And this shall be unto thee the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing which he hath spoken: ⁸ Behold, I will cause the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down on the dial of Achaz by the sun, to return backward ten degrees. So the sun returned ten degrees, by the degrees which he was gone down.

²² And Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

²⁹ And this shall be unto you the sign, saith the Lord, that I will inflict punishment on you in this place, in order that ye may know that my words shall surely stand firm against you for evil:

¹¹ And the men that were at the entrance of the house they smote with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the entrance.

¹⁸ And when they came down to him, Elisha’ prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite, I pray thee, this people with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha’. ¹⁹ And Elisha’ said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will lead you to the man whom ye wish to seek. And he led them thus to Samaria. ²⁰ And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha’ said, Lord, open the eyes of these, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw, and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

¹⁰ Then became Assa incensed toward the seer, and put him in a prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Assa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

²⁵ And the king of Israel said, Take ye Michayhu, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son; ²⁶ And say ye, Thus hath said the king, Put this man in the prison, and feed him with sparing bread and with sparing water, until I return in peace. ²⁷ And Michayhu said, If thou return at all in peace, then hath the Lord not spoken through me. And he said, Hear it, O all ye nations!

¹⁵ Wherefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Amazyahu, and he sent unto him a prophet, who said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, that have not delivered their own people out of thy hand? ¹⁶ And it came to pass, as he was speaking unto him, that he said unto him, Have we ever appointed thee as a counsellor to the king? forbear this: why shouldst thou be smitten? Then did the prophet forbear; and he said, I know that God hath resolved to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

¹⁵ Saying, “Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm,”—

² Then smote Pashchur Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord. ³ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashchur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. And Jeremiah said unto him, Not Pashchur Fulness of Freedom hath the Lord called thy name, but Magor-missabib [Terror all around]. ⁴ For thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thy eyes shall see it; and all Judah will I give into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall lead them into exile to Babylon, and shall smite them with the sword. ⁵ And I will give up all the wealth of this city, and all its acquisitions, and all its precious things; and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them, and take them and carry them away to Babylon. ⁶ And thou, Pashchur, and all the inhabitants of thy house, shall go into captivity; and to Babylon shalt thou come, and there thou shalt die, and there shalt thou be buried, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied with falsehood.

⁸ And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. ⁹ Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, Like Shiloh shall this house be, and this city shall be ruined, left without an inhabitant? And all the people assembled themselves against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord. ¹⁰ But when the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house unto the house of the Lord, and sat down at the entrance of the new gate of the Lord’s house. ¹¹ Then said the priests and the prophets unto the princes and unto all the people, as followeth, This man deserveth the punishment of death; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your own ears.

²⁰ And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord, Uriyah the son of Shema’yahu of Kiryath-ye’arim, who prophesied against this city and against this land in accordance with all the words of Jeremiah; ²¹ And when king Jehoyakim, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriyahu heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and arrived in Egypt; ²² But king Jehoyakim sent some men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of ‘Achbor, and some men with him into Egypt: ²³ And they fetched Uriyahu out of Egypt, and brought him unto king Jehoyakim, who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body upon the graves of the common people.

⁴ Thereupon said the princes unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death; for the cause that he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that are yet left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words unto them; for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but their hurt. ⁵ Then said king Zedekiah, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not able to do any thing against you. ⁶ Then did they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malkiyahu the son of the king, that was in the court of the prison: and they let Jeremiah down with cords; but in the pit there was no water, but mire; so that Jeremiah sunk into the mire.

¹⁰ Then sent Amazyah, the priest of Beth-el, to Jerobo’am the king of Israel, saying, ‘Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. ¹¹ For thus hath ‘Amos said, By the sword shall Jerobo’am die, and Israel shall surely be led away into exile out of their own land. ¹² And Amazyah said unto ‘Amos, Seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and eat there thy bread, and there prophesy; ¹³ But at Beth-el prophesy not farther any more; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal residence. ¹⁴ Then answered ‘Amos, and said to Amazyah, I am no prophet, nor am I a prophet’s son; but I am a herdman, and a gatherer of wild figs; ¹⁵ But the Lord hath taken me away from behind the flocks, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. ¹⁶ And now hear thou the word of the Lord, Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and preach not against the house of Isaac. ¹⁷ Therefore thus hath said the Lord, Thy wife will play the harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided out by the line; and thou shalt die in an unclean land; and Israel shall surely be led forth into exile out of their land.

¹⁸ Behold, then will I let rain, about this time tomorrow, a very grievous hail, the like of which hath not been in Egypt since the day of its foundation even until now. ¹⁹ And now send, and bring under shelter thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for every man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought into the house, upon them shall the hail come down, and they shall die. ²⁰ He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses; ²¹ And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field. ²² And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth thy hand toward heaven, and there shall be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, in the land of Egypt. ²³ And Moses stretched forth his staff toward heaven; and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran down to the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. ²⁴ And there was hail, and fire was flaming up amidst the hail, very grievous, the like of which had not been in all the land of Egypt, since it had become a nation. ²⁵ And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and every herb of the field did the hail smite, and every tree of the field did it break.

²³ And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, ²⁴ Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you away from about the dwelling of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram. ²⁵ And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and there went after him the elders of Israel. ²⁶ And he spoke unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing which belongeth to them, lest ye be destroyed through all their sins. ²⁷ So they got away from the dwelling of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, standing boldly at the door of their tents, with their wives, and their sons, and their little ones. ²⁸ And Moses said, Through this shall ye know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these deeds; that I have not done them out of my own heart. ²⁹ If these men die as all men die, and if the visitation of all men be visited on them: then hath the Lord not sent me. ³⁰ But if the Lord do create a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertaineth unto them, and they go down alive into the pit: then shall ye understand that these men have provoked the Lord. ³¹ And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground that was under them was cloven asunder: ³² And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korach, and all their goods. ³³ And they went down, they, and all they that appertained to them, alive into the pit; and the earth closed over them, and they disappeared from the midst of the congregation. ³⁴ And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Perhaps the earth may swallow us up also. ³⁵ And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that had offered the incense.

²² That which the prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, and the thing do not happen and come not to pass—this is the word which the Lord hath not spoken; in presumption hath the prophet spoken it; thou shalt not be afraid of him.

³ And he gave on the same day a token, saying, This is the token that the Lord hath spoken, Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes which are upon it shall be spilled about.

²⁸ And Michayhu said, If thou return at all in peace, then hath the Lord not spoken through me. And he said, Hear it, O all ye nations!

³⁵ And the battle increased on that day; and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians; but he died in the evening: and the blood of the wound flowed down into the hollow of the chariot.

¹⁶ Therefore thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth: this year shalt thou die, because thou hast spoken rebellion against the Lord. ¹⁷ So Chananyah the prophet died in that same year, in the seventh month.

^{8 (8:4)} Then did Pharaoh call for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the Lord, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto the Lord.

^{12 (8:8)} And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried unto the Lord on account of the frogs which he had inflicted on Pharaoh. ^{13 (8:9)} And the Lord did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.

^{28 (8:24)} And Pharaoh said, I will surely let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Eternal your God in the wilderness; only do not go very far away: entreat for me.

²⁸ Entreat the Lord that there may be no more of the thunders of God, and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall no longer stay here.

¹⁷ And now forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me only this death.

³² Also your flocks and your herds take, as ye have spoken, and be gone; and bless me also.

¹³ And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, O God! do thou heal her, I beseech thee.

⁷ And the people then came to Moses, and they said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away from us the serpents. And Moses prayed for the people.

¹⁹ And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray in behalf of thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we may not die; for we have added unto all our sins yet this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.

²³ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray in behalf of you; but I will teach you the good and the right way:

³ And king Zedekiah sent Jehuchal the son of Shelemyah and Zephanyahu the son of Ma’asseyah the priest unto Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Pray now in our behalf unto the Lord our God.

² And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our humble supplication be accepted before thee, and pray in our behalf unto the Lord thy God, in behalf of all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as thy own eyes do see us: ³ That the Lord thy God may tell us the way whereon we should walk, and the thing that we should do. ⁴ Then said Jeremiah the prophet unto them, I have heard you: behold, I will pray unto the Lord your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the Lord will answer you, I will tell unto you; I will withhold not a word from you.

⁵ And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your heart, after that ye may pass on; since ye have once passed by your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast spoken.

¹⁵ And Manoach said unto the angel of the Lord, Let us, I pray thee, detain thee, and we will make a kid ready for thee.

²¹ So he brought him to his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and they ate and drank.

⁷ Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we should go, what shall we bring to the man? for the bread is spent out of our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we with us? ⁸ And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver; and I will give this to the man of God, that he may tell us our way.

¹⁵ And he returned to the man of God, he with all his camp, and came and stood before him, and said, Behold, now I know that there is no god on all the earth, but in Israel; and now, I pray thee, take a present from thy servant.

⁵ And as he did not yet turn about, he said, Go then back to Gedalyah the son of Achikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath appointed governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him in the midst of the people; or wheresoever it seemeth proper in thy eyes to go, go. And the captain of the guard gave him an allowance and a present, and then dismissed him.

¹⁰ Oh that there were some one among you that would lock up the doors of the sanctuary, that ye might not light up my altar for nought: I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept in favor an offering from your hand.

³ And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, a three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with the pestilence, or with the sword.

⁶ And Pharaoh commanded on the same day the taskmasters of the people, and its officers, saying,

² Thou shalt speak all that I shall command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send away the children of Israel out of his land.

¹⁸ And Bil’am answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the order of the Lord my God, to do a small or a great thing.

¹³ If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the order of the Lord, to do good or evil out of my own heart: what the Lord will speak, that must I speak?

¹⁶ And he said, I cannot return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place; ¹⁷ For a command came to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt not eat bread nor drink water there; thou shalt not return to go by the way also by which thou camest.

¹⁶ But he said, As the Lord liveth before whom I have stood, I will take none: and he urged him to take it; but he refused.

²⁶ And he said unto him, My mind was not gone, when the man turned round from his chariot to meet thee. Is it a time to take money, and to take garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants? ²⁷ May then the leprosy of Na’aman cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

²⁶ And he spoke unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing which belongeth to them, lest ye be destroyed through all their sins.

^{13 (13:14)} There have gone forth men, children of worthlessness, from the midst of thee, and have misled the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known: ^{14 (13:15)} Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be true, the thing is certain, such abomination hath been wrought in the midst of thee: ^{15 (13:16)} Then shalt thou smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, devoting it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, to the edge of the sword. ^{16 (13:17)} And all its spoil shalt thou gather into the midst of the market-place thereof, and thou shalt burn with fire the city, and all its spoil entirely, unto the Lord thy God; and it shall be a ruinous heap for ever: it shall not be built again. ^{17 (13:18)} And there shall not cleave to thy hand aught of the devoted things; in order that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and grant thee mercy, and have mercy upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; ^{18 (13:19)} When thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.

²² And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as much delight in burnt-offerings and in sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to attend more than the fat of the rams.

¹ And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth-el: while Jerobo’am was standing upon the altar to burn incense.

²¹ And he called unto the man of God that was come from Judah, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the order of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God had commanded thee; ²² But didst return, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of which he had spoken to thee, Thou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water: thy dead body shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

¹² From the commandment of his lips have I also not moved away: as a fixed statute for me have I treasured up the sayings of his mouth.

⁴ Permit not my heart to incline after any evil thing, to practise deeds in wickedness with men that are doers of wrong: and let me not eat of their dainties.

⁴ And God met Bil’am: and he said unto him, The seven altars have I made ready, and I have offered a bullock and a ram upon every altar. ⁵ And the Lord put a word in Bil’am’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

² And Bil’am lifted up his eyes, and when he saw Israel encamped according to their tribes, there came upon him the spirit of God.

¹¹ And it came to pass, when all that knew him before saw, that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then said the people one to another, What is this that hath happened to the son of Kish? is Saul also among the prophets?

²⁰ And it came to pass, as they were sitting at the table, That the word of the Lord came unto the prophet who had brought him back; ²¹ And he called unto the man of God that was come from Judah, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the order of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God had commanded thee;

²⁵ And, behold, men passed by, and saw the corpse cast down on the way, and the lion standing by the corpse; and they came and spoke of it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

¹⁸ And he said, Let him rest: no man shall disturb his bones. So they saved his bones, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

² Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto those that prophesy out of their own heart, Hear ye the word of the Lord:

¹⁶ Namely, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see for her a vision of peace, when there is no peace, saith the Lord Eternal.

²¹ And Bil’am rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

¹⁰ Ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and ye who walk on the way, utter praise!

⁴ And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass-colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Chavvoth-yair unto this day, which are in the land of Gil’ad.

^{26 (19:27)} And he answered, My Lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for thy servant said, I will saddle for me the ass, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because thy servant is lame.

²⁷ And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.

⁴ But he himself went forward into the wilderness a day’s journey, and he came and sat down under a certain broom-bush: and he requested for himself to die; and he said, It is enough, now, O Lord, take away my soul; for I am not better than my fathers.

¹ Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made; and he said unto the woman, Hath God indeed said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? ² And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; ³ But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

¹³ And Bil’am rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Go back to your land; for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you.

¹⁹ And now, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will farther speak with me.

⁸ But the man of God said unto the king, If thou wert to give me the half of thy house, I would not go in with thee, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place; ⁹ For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Thou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way that thou camest.

⁴ And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye will surely not die; ⁵ For God doth know, that, on the day ye eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.

³⁵ And the angel of the Lord said unto Bil’am, Go with the men; however, only the word which I will speak unto thee, that shalt thou speak: and Bil’am went with the princes of Balak.

¹¹ And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat down under the oak which was in ‘Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi’ezrite; and Gid’on his son was beating out wheat in the wine-press, to hide it from the Midianites. ¹² And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.

³ And there appeared an angel of the Lord unto the woman, and he said unto her, Behold, thou art barren, and hast not born; but thou wilt conceive, and bear a son.

^{15 (9:14)} The ancient and honorable is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies is the tail.

¹² They have denied the Lord, and said, “He existeth not; nor will evil come over us; and the sword and famine shall we not see.

³¹ The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so; but what will ye do in the end thereof?

¹⁴ But on the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing; they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that not one of these doth return from his wickedness: they are become unto me all of them as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

¹⁷ They say indeed unto those that incense me, The Lord hath spoken, Peace shall ye have; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart, they said, There shall come no evil upon you.

³² Behold, I am against those that prophesy with false dreams, saith the Lord, and do relate them, and mislead my people by their falsehoods, and by their vain boasting: while I have not sent them, nor commanded them; and they cannot bring the least profit to this people, saith the Lord.

¹⁵ Then said Jeremiah the prophet unto Chananyah the prophet, Hear now, Chananyah, The Lord did not send thee; but thou hast caused this people to trust on a falsehood. ¹⁶ Therefore thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth: this year shalt thou die, because thou hast spoken rebellion against the Lord.

⁹ And my hand shall be against the prophets that see false-hood, and that divine lies; in the secret council of my people shall they not be, and in the register of the house of Israel shall they not be written, and into the land of Israel shall they not come: and ye shall know that I am the Lord Eternal. ¹⁰ Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace,” when there was no peace: and my people build a protecting wall, and lo, they plaster it with unadhesive mortar.

²² Because ye grieve the heart of the righteous with falsehood, when I have not given him pain; and strengthen the hands of the wicked, so that he should not return from his wicked way, through which he might live.

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

^{1 (13:2)} If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he giveth thee a sign or a token,

^{3 (13:4)} Then shalt thou not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye indeed love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

^{5 (13:6)} And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken revolt against the Lord your God, who hath brought you out of the land of Egypt, and who hath redeemed you out of the house of bond-men, to mislead thee front the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk therein; and thou shalt put the evil away from the midst of thee.

²⁰ But the prophet, who may presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who may speak in the name of other Gods even that prophet shall die.

⁵ And the Lord put a word in Bil’am’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

¹⁶ And the Lord met Bil’am, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

⁴ Thus saith he who heareth the sayings of God, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, falling down, with unvailed eyes:

¹⁶ Thus saith he who heareth the sayings of God, and knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, falling down, with unvailed eyes: ¹⁷ I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; there steppeth forth a star out of Jacob, and there ariseth a sceptre out of Israel, and he pierceth the chiefs of Moab, and destroyeth all the children of Sheth. ¹⁸ And Edom shall be a conquest, and Seir shall be a conquest for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly. ¹⁹ And there shall rule the one from Jacob, and he shall destroy whatever escapeth out of the city. ²⁰ And he looked on Amalek, and he took up his parable, and said, The first of nations is Amalek; but his latter end shall be destruction for ever. ²¹ And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwelling-place, and placed on the rock is thy nest. ²² Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted: whither will Asshur carry thee away captive? ²³ And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doth appoint this one? ²⁴ But ships will come from the coast of Kittim, and will afflict Asshur, and will afflict ‘Eber; and he also will be given to destruction for ever.

⁷ And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they felt that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

³ Then said Moses unto Aaron, This is what the Lord hath spoken, saying, On those who are near unto me will I be sanctified, and before all the people will I be glorified: and Aaron held his peace.

¹² And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye have not confided in me, to sanctify me before the eyes of the children of Israel: therefore shall ye not bring this congregation into the land which I have given to them.

²⁴ Aaron shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my order at the waters of Meribah.

¹⁸ And it came to pass, when he mentioned the ark of God, that he fell from off the chair backward by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died; for the man was old, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

¹³ And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which he had commanded thee; for now would the Lord have established thy government over Israel for ever. ¹⁴ But now thy government shall not endure: the Lord hath sought out for himself a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath ordained him to be chief over his people; because thou hast not kept what the Lord had commanded thee.

¹⁹ Wherefore then didst thou not hearken unto the voice of the Lord, and didst fly upon the spoil, and didst the evil in the eyes of the Lord?

²² And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as much delight in burnt-offerings and in sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to attend more than the fat of the rams. ²³ For the sin of witchcraft is rebellion, and idolatry and image-worship, stubbornness; inasmuch as thou hast despised the word of the Lord, he hath also despised thee that thou shalt not be king. ²⁴ And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the will of the Lord, and thy words; because I feared the people, and I hearkened to their voice.

⁷ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against ‘Uzzah; and God smote him there for the error; and he died there by the ark of God.

⁹ Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord to do what is evil in his eyes? Uriyah the Hittite hast thou smitten with the sword, and his wife hast thou taken unto thee for wife; but him hast thou slain with the sword of the children of ‘Ammon. ¹⁰ And now, the sword shall not depart from thy house for ever; for the reason that thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriyah the Hittite to be thy wife. ¹¹ Thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will raise up against thee evil out of thy own house, and I will take away thy wives before thy eyes, and I will give them unto thy neighbor; and he shall lie with thy wives before the face of this sun.

¹³ So Gad came to David, and told it unto him; and he said unto him, Shall there come unto thee seven years of famine in thy land? or three months, that thou flee before thy enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be for three days a pestilence in thy land? now consider and see what word I shall bring back to him that hath sent me.

¹⁷ For a command came to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt not eat bread nor drink water there; thou shalt not return to go by the way also by which thou camest.

¹³ And Haman related to Zeresh his wife and to all his friends all that had befallen him: then said unto him his wise men and Zeresh his wife, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou wilt not prevail against him, but thou wilt surely fall before him.

¹⁹ Thy own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall correct thee; and thou shalt know and see that evil and bitter was thy forsaking the Lord thy God, while the dread of me was not upon thee, saith the Lord Eternal of hosts.

³⁰ And he laid his corpse in his own sepulchre; and they lamented over him, “Alas, my brother!”

¹³ And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for this one alone shall come of Jerobo’am’s family to the grave; because there hath been found in him some good thing toward the Lord the God of Israel in the house of Jerobo’am.

¹⁹ And it came to pass, from days to days, and when the fixed time was expired, after two years, that his bowels passed out from him by reason of his disease: so he died of evil diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning for his fathers. ²⁰ Thirty and two years old was he when he became king, and eight years did he reign in Jerusalem, and departed without joy: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

¹⁸ All the kings of nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own eternal house. ¹⁹ But thou—thou art cast out of thy grave like a discarded offshoot, as a garment of those that are slain, pierced by the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit, as a carcass trodden under foot. ²⁰ Thou shalt not be united with them in burial; because thy land hast thou destroyed, thy people hast thou slain: to eternity shall not be called the seed of evil-doers.

¹⁸ Therefore thus hath said the Lord concerning Jehoyakim the son of Josiah the king of Judah, They shall not lament for him, with, “Woe, my brother!” and, “Woe, sister!” they shall not lament for him, with “Woe, lord!” and, “Woe, to his glory!” ¹⁹ With the burial of an ass shall he be buried, dragged about and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

³⁶ Then said he unto him, Forasmuch as thou hast not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, when thou goest away from me, a lion shall slay thee. And he went away from him, when a lion found him, and slew him.

²⁴ And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord; and there came forth two she-bears out of the forest, and tore of them forty and two boys.

¹³ The slothful saith, There is a lion without, in the midst of the streets shall I be murdered.

¹³ The slothful saith, There is a leopard in the way: a lion is between the streets.

¹⁹ As if a man were to flee from a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he enter into the house, and lean his hand against the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

¹¹ Now there dwelt a certain old prophet in Beth-el; and his son came and told him all the deed that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words also which he had spoken unto the king, these too they told to their father.

¹⁰ And now, the sword shall not depart from thy house for ever; for the reason that thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriyah the Hittite to be thy wife.

¹⁴ Nevertheless, because thou hast given great cause to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme through this thing, the child also that hath been born unto thee shall surely die.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembleth shudderingly from dread of thee, and of thy decrees am I afraid.

³¹ Behold, the righteous is recompensed on the earth: how much more the wicked and the sinner.

⁶ The aged, youth, and virgin, and little children, and women shall ye slay and destroy; but come not near any man upon whom the mark is; and at my sanctuary shall ye begin. Then they began with the ancient men who were before the house.

² And there went out a fire from before the Lord, and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.

⁵ And they came near, and carried them in their coats to without the camp; as Moses had spoken.

⁴ And it shall be, that out of the brook shalt thou drink; and the ravens have I ordained to sustain thee there.

⁶ And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening: and out of the brook he used to drink.

¹¹ And said, Thus far mayest thou come, but no farther; and here shall be stayed thy strength in the pride of thy waves?

⁷ Praise the Lord from the earth, ye sea-monsters, and all deeps; ⁸ Fire, and hail, snow, and vapor; thou storm-wind that fulfillest his word;

²² Will ye not fear me? saith the Lord; will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand as a bound for the sea by an everlasting law, which it can never pass over? and though the waves thereof be upheaved, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it. ²³ But this people hath a stubborn and a rebellious heart: they have departed from the right and have gone their way.

²² Now, because the king’s command was so urgent, and the furnace exceedingly heated, the flame of the fire slew those men that carried up Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego.

²⁷ And the lieutenants, superintendents, and governors, and the king’s counsellors, being assembled together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had had no power, and the hair of whose head was not singed, whose mantles were not changed, and on whom there was not come the smell of fire. ²⁸ Then commenced Nebuchadnezzar, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that had trusted in him, and had transgressed the king’s word, and yielded up their bodies, that they might not worship no bow themselves to any god, except their own God.

^{22 (6:23)} My God sent his angel, and locked up the mouths of the lions, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, had I done nothing injurious. ^{23 (6:24)} Then was the king exceedingly glad within himself, and concerning Daniel he ordered to bring him up out of the den. So was Daniel brought up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he had trusted in his God. ^{24 (6:25)} And the king gave the order, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel treacherously, and they cast into the den of lions them, their children, and their wives; and they had not yet touched the bottom of the den when the lions had the mastery over them, and ground up all their bones.

¹⁸ Therefore thus hath said the Lord concerning Jehoyakim the son of Josiah the king of Judah, They shall not lament for him, with, “Woe, my brother!” and, “Woe, sister!” they shall not lament for him, with “Woe, lord!” and, “Woe, to his glory!”

¹⁰ Who can count the dust of Jacob, and number the fourth part of Israel? May my soul die the death of the righteous, and may my last end be like his!

⁹ Take not away with sinners my soul, nor with men of blood my life;

¹⁰ Then also did I see the wicked buried, who had gone to their rest; but those who had acted correctly had to go away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city. Also this is vanity.

³⁰ And I will destroy your high-places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; and my soul shall loath you.

²⁹ And he placed the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.

³¹ And he made a house of the high-places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

² And he called out against the altar by the word of the Lord, and he said, O altar, altar, thus hath said the Lord, Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice upon thee the priests of the high-places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.

²⁴ And he bought the mount Samaria, of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the mount, and called the name of the city which he had built, after the name of Shemer, the Lord of the mount, Samaria.

¹⁶ And Josiah turned about, and beheld the graves that were there in the mount, and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who had proclaimed these events. ¹⁷ Then said he, What kind of monument is that which I see? And the men of the city said to him, It is the grave of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things which thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el. ¹⁸ And he said, Let him rest: no man shall disturb his bones. So they saved his bones, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria. ¹⁹ And also all the houses of the high-places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made as provocations to anger, did Josiah remove, and did to them in accordance with all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

¹³ But the men of the band whom Amazyahu had sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, spread themselves about in the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-choron, and smote of them three thousand persons, and plundered much spoil.

¹⁰ And the rest of the nations whom the great and honored Assnapper had brought into exile, and settled in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and so forth.

⁴¹ And thou shalt clothe therewith Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and thou shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may be priests unto me.

⁵¹ And when the tabernacle is to be carried forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

¹⁰ And Aaron and his sons shalt thou instruct, that they shall guard well their priest’s office; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

^{5 (17:20)} And it shall come to pass, that the staff of the man whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will allay from around me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.

^{12 (17:27)} And the children of Israel said unto Moses, thus, Behold, we perish, we are lost, we are all lost. ^{13 (17:28)} Every one that cometh near at all unto the tabernacle of the Lord must die: shall we totally perish?

¹² And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and remained in the house of Micah.

³¹ And he made a house of the high-places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

¹⁵ And because he ordained for himself priests for the high-places, and for the evil spirits, and for the calves which he had made.

⁹ Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made yourselves priests like the people of the various lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams can become a priest to things that are no gods?

³⁴ When he slew them, then did they seek him, and they returned and inquired earnestly after God.

⁴ And the vessel that he was making became spoiled as happeneth with the clay in the hand of the potter; and he made again thereof another vessel, as it seemed good in the eyes of the potter to make it.

¹¹ For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

²⁶ And Jerobo’am said in his heart, Now may the kingdom return to the house of David:

³⁰ And this thing became a sin; and the people went before the one, as far as Dan.

¹⁰ Therefore, behold, will I bring evil upon the house of Jerobo’am, and will cut off from Jerobo’am every male, also the guarded and fortified in Israel; and I will sweep out after the house of Jerobo’am as one sweepeth away the dung till there be nothing left of it.

²⁹ And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jerobo’am; he left not any that breathed unto Jerobo’am, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servant Achiyah the Shilonite; ³⁰ Because of the sins of Jerobo’am which he had sinned, and through which he had induced Israel to sin, by his provoking wherewith he provoked the Lord the God of Israel to anger.

³¹ But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from the sins of Jerobo’am, who induced Israel to sin.

²¹ For Israel had torn themselves from the house of David, and they made Jerobo’am the son of Nebat king: and Jerobo’am misled Israel from following the Lord, and caused them to commit a great sin;

⁶ Righteousness keepeth him that is upright on his way; but wickedness perverteth the man of sin.