Genesis 21 Cross References - Leeser

¹ And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. ² And Sarah conceived, and bore unto Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him. ³ And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. ⁴ And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, at eight days old, as God had commanded him. ⁵ And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. ⁶ And Sarah said, God hath made me joy, whoever heareth it will laugh concerning me. ⁷ And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarai should have given children suck? yet I have born a son in his old age. ⁸ And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had born unto Abraham, mocking. ¹⁰ Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bond-woman and her son; for the son of this bond-woman shall not be heir with my son, with Isaac. ¹¹ And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s eyes, because of his son. ¹² And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy eyes because of the lad, and because of thy bond-woman; in all that Sarah may say unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. ¹³ And also of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. ¹⁴ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it onto her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered astray in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. ¹⁵ And the water was spent from the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. ¹⁶ And she went, and seated herself down at some distance, a good way off, about a bow-shot; for she said, I cannot look on when the child dieth; so she sat at a distance, and lifted up her voice, and wept. ¹⁷ And God heard the voice of the lad; and an angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad, there where he is. ¹⁸ Arise, lift up the lad, and lay hold on him with thy hand; for I will make of him a great nation. ¹⁹ And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water: and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. ²⁰ And God was with the lad; and he grew up, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. ²¹ And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. ²² And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, spoke unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: ²³ Now therefore swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son; but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, shalt thou do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. ²⁴ And Abraham said, I will swear. ²⁵ And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. ²⁶ And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me; nor have I heard of it except this day. ²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. ²⁸ And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock, by themselves. ²⁹ And Abimelech said unto Abraham; What mean these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set by themselves? ³⁰ And he said, For these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take from my hand, that they may be a witness unto me that I have dug this well. ³¹ Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they swore, both of them. ³² Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. ³³ And Abraham planted an orchard in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the God of everlasting. ³⁴ And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

¹⁶ And I will bless her, and give thee also a son of her; yea I will bless her, and she shall become a mother of nations; kings of people shall spring from her.

¹⁹ And God said, Truly, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, for his seed after him.

²¹ But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

¹⁰ And he said, I will certainly return unto thee at this time next year: and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it at the door of the tent, which was behind him.

¹⁴ Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, at this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.

²⁴ And Joseph said unto his brothers, I shall die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he hath sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹⁶ Go, and assemble the elders of Israel, and say unto them, The Everlasting One, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, I have surely taken cognizance of you and of that which is done to you in Egypt:

³¹ And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

⁵ Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

⁶ Then did she arise with her daughters-in-law, and returned homeward from the fields of Moab; for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had thought of his people in giving them bread.

²¹ And truly the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the lad Samuel grew up before the Lord.

^{6 (12:7)} The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver refined in the crucible of earth, purified seven times.

⁴ Remember me, O Lord, when thou favorest thy people: oh visit me with thy salvation;

¹⁶ And he said, At this season, next year, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, No, my Lord, man of God, do not deceive thy hand-maid. ¹⁷ But the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season in the following year, as Elisha’ had spoken unto her.

⁶ And Sarah said, God hath made me joy, whoever heareth it will laugh concerning me.

¹² And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy eyes because of the lad, and because of thy bond-woman; in all that Sarah may say unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

² And he said: Take now thy son, thy only one, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I tell thee of.

³ And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and I led him throughout all the land of Canaan; and I multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

¹⁰ This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and between you, and between thy seed after thee: Every man-child among you shall be circumcised. ¹¹ And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and this shall serve as the token of the covenant between me and you. ¹² And at eight days old shall every man-child in your generations be circumcised among you, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, who is not of thy seed.

⁴⁸ And when a stranger sojourneth with thee, and will prepare the passover to the Lord, let his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and prepare it, and he shall be as one that is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

³ And on the eighth day shall the flesh of his foreskin be circumcised.

^{32 (13:1)} What thing soever I command you, even that shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, and thou shalt not diminish therefrom.

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

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

¹² Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord also being old! ¹³ And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, since I am old? ¹⁴ Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, at this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son. ¹⁵ Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid; but he said, Nay; indeed thou didst laugh.

²⁶ And she said, Pardon, my Lord, as thy soul liveth, my Lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, to pray unto the Lord.

⁹ He causeth the barren woman to dwell in the midst of her household, the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah.

² Then shall our mouth be filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then shall they say among the nations, Great things hath the Lord done for these.

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her sucking child, not to have mercy on the son of her body? yea, should these even forget, yet would I not forget thee.

²¹ And thou wilt say in thy heart, Who hath born me these, seeing I was bereft of my children, and was solitary, an exile, and outcast? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left entirely alone; these, where have they been?

¹ Sing, O barren one, that thou hast not born: break forth into song, and rejoice aloud, that thou hast not travailed; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in years; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. ¹² Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord also being old!

²³ For there is no enchantment in Jacob, nor is there any divination in Israel: at the proper time shall it be said to Jacob and to Israel, what God doth work.

³² For do but ask of former days, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of the heavens unto the other end of the heavens, whether there hath been the like of this great thing, or whether the like of it hath been heard. ³³ Hath ever a people heard the voice of a god, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and remained alive? ³⁴ Or hath a god essayed to go to take himself a nation from the midst of a nation, by proofs, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, like all that which the Lord your God hath done for you in Egypt before thy eyes.

⁸ There is none like unto thee among the Gods, O Lord; and there is nothing like thy works.

¹⁰ For great art thou, and doing wondrous things: thou art God by thyself alone.

⁸ Who hath heard the like? who hath seen such things? shall a land be made to travail in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? that Zion hath travailed, also brought forth her children?

³ And he pressed upon them greatly, and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they did eat.

³⁰ And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

²² And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

²⁰ And it came to pass on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief of the butlers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.

¹⁰ And his father went down unto the woman; and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

¹² And Samson said unto them, I will now propound unto you a riddle; if ye can in anywise tell it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then will I give you thirty shirts and thirty changes of garments;

²² But Hannah did not go up; for she said unto her husband, So soon as the child shall be weaned, then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and abide there for ever.

³⁶ And Abigayil came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, and he was exceedingly drunken; wherefore she told him not a word, either little or great, until the morning-light.

²⁰ And Abner came to David to Hebron, and with him were twenty men; and David made for Abner and for the men that were with him a feast.

¹⁵ And Solomon awoke, and, behold, it was a dream; and he went to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt-offerings, and prepared peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

³ That, in the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants, the army of Persia and Media, the nobles and the princes of the provinces who were near him:

² Surely I have pacified and stilled my soul, like the suckling on its mother’s breast: like a suckling is in me my soul.

⁸ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruchamah, she conceived, and bore a son.

¹ Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian handmaid, whose name was Hagar.

³ And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. ⁴ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became of little esteem in her eyes. ⁵ And Sarai said unto Abram, I suffer wrong through thee; I have placed my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I became of little esteem in her eyes; may the Lord judge between me and thee. ⁶ But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.

¹⁵ And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

²⁰ And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make of him a great nation.

²³ And he went up from there to Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and they mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, bald-head! go up, bald-head! 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.

¹⁰ And as the runners were passing from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Menasseh and as far as Zebulun, they were laughing them to scorn, and mocking at them.

¹⁶ But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scorned his prophets, until the fury of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

^{1 (3:33)} And it came to pass, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, that it displeased him, and he became very angry, and he mocked at the Jews. ^{2 (3:34)} And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will people suffer them to build? will they sacrifice? will they complete it in one day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, seeing that they have been burnt? ^{3 (3:35)} And Tobiyah the ‘Ammonite was near him, and he said, Even what they are building, if a fox were to run up, he would readily break through their stone wall. ^{4 (3:36)} Hear, O our God! how we are become a scorn; and bring their reproach back upon their own head, and give them up for prey in the land of captivity. ^{5 (3:37)} And cover not up their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have taunted us in the presence of the builders.

¹ But now they who are younger than I in years laugh at me, whose fathers I scorned to put as equals with the dogs of my flocks.

^{6 (22:7)} But I am a worm, and not a man, a reproach of men, and despised of people.

^{10 (42:11)} It is as death in my bones, when my assailants reproach me; when they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

^{13 (44:14)} Thou renderest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are round about us. ^{14 (44:15)} Thou renderest us a by-word among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.

¹¹ Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, whether his work will be pure, and whether it will be upright.

⁷ Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her magnificent things which have been in the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, with none to help her, the adversaries looked at her, they laughed at the cessation of her glory.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will slay me for the sake of my wife.

¹⁰ And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

⁶ But unto the sons of the concubines that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he was yet living, eastward, unto the east country.

¹⁹ And these are the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham: Abraham begat Isaac.

⁶ And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had gotten in the land of Canaan; and went into another country from the face of his brother Jacob. ⁷ For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land of their sojourning could not bear them, because of their cattle.

¹⁸ And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

¹ And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and he said unto him, Abraham, and he said, Behold, here am I. ² And he said: Take now thy son, thy only one, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I tell thee of.

^{33 (19:1)} And the king was much moved, and he went up to the upper chamber of the gate, and wept: and thus he said as he went, O my son Abshalom, my son, my son Abshalom! who would grant that I had died in thy stead, O Abshalom, my son, my son!

⁷ And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they may say unto thee; for not thee have they rejected, but me have they rejected, that I should not reign over them.

⁹ And now hearken unto their voice: nevertheless thou must still solemnly forewarn them, and tell them the manner of the king that will reign over them.

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:

¹⁰ And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

¹⁸ Arise, lift up the lad, and lay hold on him with thy hand; for I will make of him a great nation.

¹² Now theses are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore unto Abraham. ¹³ And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebayoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, ¹⁴ And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, ¹⁵ Chadad, and Tema, Yetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. ¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations. ¹⁷ And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, one hundred and thirty and seven years: and he departed this life and died; and was gathered unto his people. ¹⁸ And they dwelt from Chavilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: he dwelt in the presence of all his brethren.

⁷ And an angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

²⁷ And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord:

³¹ Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they swore, both of them.

³³ And Abraham planted an orchard in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the God of everlasting.

³ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and arose, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

¹⁹ And Abraham returned unto his young men; and they rose up, and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt in Beer-sheba.

⁵⁴ And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried the night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.

³¹ And they rose up betimes in the morning, and they swore one to the other; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

³³ And he called it Shibah: therefore is the name of the city Beer-sheba unto this day.

¹⁵ And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering astray in the field; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

¹ And Israel commenced his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

³ And when he saw this, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba’, which belongeth to Judah, and he left his young man there.

⁴ They wandered about in the wilderness, in the desert path; they could not find an inhabited city:

⁶⁰ I hastened, and delayed not to observe thy commandments.

¹⁴ When one saluteth his friend with a loud voice, when rising early in the morning, it will be counted a curse to him.

¹⁰ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do with thy might, that do; for there is no work, nor experience, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the nether world, whither thou goest.—

⁸ For the fields of Cheshbon are withered, the vine of Sibmah—the lords of nations have beaten down its branches, they did reach as far as Ya’zer, into the wilderness did they wander; its tendrils were stretched forth, they passed over the sea.

¹⁴ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it onto her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered astray in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

²² And Moses caused Israel to depart from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. ²³ And they came to Marah; but they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore they called its name Marah. ²⁴ And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? ²⁵ And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, which he cast into the waters, and the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them.

¹ And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeyings, by the order of the Lord; and they encamped in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. ² And the people quarrelled with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink; and Moses said unto them, Why will ye quarrel with me? why will ye tempt the Lord? ³ And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, For what purpose is it that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill me and my children and my cattle with thirst?

⁹ So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they took a circuitous route, a seven days’ journey; and there was no water for the camp, and for the cattle that followed in their train.

¹ A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. ^(63:2) O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry land, and it is faint without water.

¹² The iron-smith maketh an axe and worketh it in the coals, and with hammers he fashioneth it, and worketh it with his powerful arm; he also, when he is hungry, loseth his strength: when he drinketh no water, he becometh faint.

³ And their nobles have sent out their subordinates for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded, and cover their head.

³⁸ And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou then but one blessing, my father? bless me, also me, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

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

³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? I should perhaps be compelled to witness the evil which would come on my father.

⁴ And it came to pass, when the messenger of the Lord spoke these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

⁹ May the Lord grant unto you that ye may find rest, each one in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, When David had finished speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

⁴ And David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

²⁶ Then spoke the woman whose son was the living unto the king, for her love had become enkindled for her son, and she said, O pardon, my Lord, give her the living child, and only do not slay it; but the other said, Neither mine nor thine shall it be, hew it asunder.

⁶ For how could I endure to look on the evil that is to befall my people? and how could I endure to look on the extermination of my kindred?

¹⁰ But I will pour out over the house of David, and over the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they will look up toward me for every one whom they have thrust through, and they will lament for him, as one lamenteth for an only son, and weep bitterly for him, as one weepeth bitterly for the first-born.

¹ After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not Abram; I am thy shield, thy reward shall be exceedingly great.

⁹ And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

¹¹ And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and wilt bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

³ And he said, I am God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for a great nation will I make of thee there:

⁷ And the Lord said, I have truly seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard its cry by reason of its taskmasters; yea, I know its sorrows;

¹³ And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will do for you today; for as ye have seen the Egyptians today, ye shall not see them again any more for ever.

^{23 (22:22)} If thou afflict him in any wise; for if he cry at all unto me, I will surely hear his cry:

^{27 (22:26)} For it is his only covering, it is his raiment for his skin; wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

²³ And they called unto the children of Dan, who turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou hast called out thy people?

⁵ And, behold, Saul was coming after the herds out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the words of the men of Yabesh.

⁴ And Jehoachaz besought the Lord; and the Lord hearkened unto him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

²³ And the Lord became gracious unto them, and had mercy on them, and turned his regard unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he cast them not off from his presence even until now.

¹⁵ And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee,—and so wilt thou glorify me.”

^{2 (65:3)} O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee all flesh shall come.

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him: with him will I be in distress; I will deliver him, and grant him honor.

⁴ They wandered about in the wilderness, in the desert path; they could not find an inhabited city: ⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their soul within them fainted. ⁶ Then they cried unto the Lord when they were in distress, and out of their afflictions he delivered them.

¹ The doom of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the roofs?

¹⁰ Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I strengthen thee, yea, I help thee, yea, I uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

¹³ For I the Lord thy God lay hold of thy right hand; I am he who saith unto thee, Fear not, I help thee. ¹⁴ Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye few men of Israel: I myself help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

¹ But now thus hath said the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; mine art thou. ² Whenever thou passest through the waters, I am with thee; and through the rivers,—they shall not overflow thee: whenever thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be scorched; neither shall the flame burn on thee.

¹³ And also of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

²⁹ These are their generations: The first-born of Ishma’el, Nebayoth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, ³⁰ Mishma’, and Dumah, Massa, Chadad, and Thema, ³¹ Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishma’el.

³¹ Then the Lord opened the eyes of Bil’am, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head and prostrated himself on his face.

¹⁷ And Elisha’ prayed, and said, O Lord, open, I pray thee, his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man: and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha’. 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.

⁵ Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. ⁶ Then shall the lame leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and brooks in the desert.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.

¹² And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and in the presence of all his brethren shall he dwell.

²⁷ And the boys grew up: and Esau was an expert hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

³ Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and hunt for me some venison;

¹⁵ And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done what I have spoken to thee of.

² And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was thus in the house of his master the Egyptian. ³ And when his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord caused all that he did to prosper in his hand:

²¹ But the Lord was with Joseph, and caused him to find kindness, and gave him favor in the eyes of the superintendent of the prison.

²³ And they embittered his life, and they shot at him, and they hated him, the men of the arrows. ²⁴ But his bow abode in strength, and his arm and his hands remained firm; from the hands of the mighty God of Jacob, from there thou becamest the shepherd, the stone of Israel.

¹² And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.

²⁴ And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the child grew up, and the Lord blessed him. ²⁵ And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him in Machaneh-dan between Zor’ah and Eshtaol.

³ And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. ⁴ But unto my country, and to my birthplace shalt thou go, and take a wife unto my son, unto Isaac.

³⁴ And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri, the Hittite, and Bahsemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵ And they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

⁴⁶ And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife from the daughters of Heth, such as these, from the daughters of the land, what good will life do me?

¹² And the children of Israel set forward on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud halted in the wilderness of Paran.

¹⁶ And afterward the people removed from Chazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

³ And Moses sent them out from the wilderness of Paran by the order of the Lord: they all were men, who were heads of the children of Israel.

²⁶ And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and they brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

² And he went up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnathah of the daughters of the Philistines; and now take her to me for wife.

¹ And Samuel died; and all the Israelites assembled themselves together, and lamented for him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

² And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister; and Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

¹⁷ And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, so that they could bear children.

²⁶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Achuzzath his friend, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

²⁸ And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with thee; and we said, Let there be now an oath between us and thee; and we will make a covenant with thee;

²⁷ And Laban said unto him, If I could but find favor in thy eyes; I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake:

⁷ And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to make thee great in the eyes of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee.

¹ And Solomon the son of David strengthened himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and caused him to become exceedingly great.

¹⁰ Take counsel together, yet shall it come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand firm; for with us is God.

¹⁴ Thus hath said the Lord, The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of high stature, shall pass over unto thee, and thine shall they be: behind thee shall they walk; in chains shall they pass along, and unto thee shall they bow, unto thee shall they pray, saying Yea, only among thee is God; and there is no one else beside God.

²³ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, In those days it shall happen, that ten men out of all the languages of the nations shall take hold—yea, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, Let us go with you; for we have heard that God is with you.

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, ²³ That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine; lest thou shouldst say, I have made Abram rich:

¹⁴ And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored to him Sarah his wife.

³ And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

⁴⁴ And now, come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

⁵³ The God of Abraham and the God of Nachor shall judge between us, the God of their father; but Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

¹³ The Lord thy God shalt thou fear, and him shalt thou serve, and by his name shalt thou swear.

¹² And now swear, I pray you, unto me by the Lord, because I have shown you kindness, that ye will also, for your part, show kindness, unto my father’s house; and give me a sure token,

¹³ May the Lord do so to Jonathan and continue so yet farther, that, if it please my father to do thee evil, I will inform thee of it, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace; and may the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

¹⁷ And Jonathan caused David to swear again, by his love for him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

⁴² And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace: what we have sworn, both of us, in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord shall be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever, shall be kept. ^(21:1) And he arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

²¹ And now swear unto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s house. ²² And David swore unto Saul; and Saul went to his house; but David and his men went up into the strong-hold.

¹⁵ And David said to him, Wilt thou bring me down to this troop? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt not kill me, and that thou wilt not surrender me into the hand of my master, and then will I bring thee down to this troop.

² And if thou wilt swear, As the Lord liveth, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness: then shall nations bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glorify themselves.

¹³ And there came one that had escaped, and told it to Abram the Hebrew; but he dwelt in the grove of Mamre the Emorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner, and these were confederates of Abram.

⁷ And there arose a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle, and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

¹⁵ And all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, these the Philistines stopped, and filled them with earth. ¹⁶ And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go away from us; for thou hast become much mightier than we. ¹⁷ And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. ¹⁸ And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. ¹⁹ And the servants of Isaac dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. ²⁰ And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Essek; because they strove with him. ²¹ And they dug another well, and they strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. ²² And he removed from there, and dug another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rechoboth, and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall increase in the land.

⁸ And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, then do they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; and we water the sheep.

¹⁵ And Pharaoh heard this thing, and he sought to slay Moses; but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and tarried in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. ¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. ¹⁷ And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses arose and helped them, and watered their flock.

¹⁵ And she said unto him, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a dry land: give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

¹⁰ A reproof penetrateth more deeply into a wise man, than a hundred stripes into a fool.

⁹ Carry on thy cause with thy neighbor; but lay not open the secret of another:

⁵ Better is open reproof than concealed love.

²⁰ But Gechazi, the servant of Elisha’ the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Na’aman, this Syrian, in not receiving from his hand what he had brought; but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take some little thing from him. ²¹ So Gechazi hurried after Na’aman; and when Na’aman saw him running after him, he lighted doom from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? ²² And he said, all is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the mountain of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: do give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments. ²³ And Na’aman said, Give thy assent, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and he gave them unto his two young men, and they carried them before him. ²⁴ And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he dismissed the men, and they departed.

²⁸ And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with thee; and we said, Let there be now an oath between us and thee; and we will make a covenant with thee; ²⁹ That thou shalt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now one blessed of the Lord. ³⁰ And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. ³¹ And they rose up betimes in the morning, and they swore one to the other; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

³ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because of his loving him as his own soul.

⁸ As a precious stone appeareth a bribe in the eyes of him that obtaineth it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

¹⁶ A man’s gift maketh room for him, and before great men will it lead him.

²⁴ A man’s many companions are hurtful to him; but there is many a friend that cleaveth closer than a brother.

¹⁴ A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a bribe in the bosom, strong fury.

⁸ But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and he ever persisteth by liberal things.

¹³ And he took one of the royal seed, and made a covenant with him, and bound him with an oath; but the mighty of the land did he take away;

⁸ And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I have met? And he said, To find grace in the eyes of my lord.

²⁶ And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

¹⁴ And Samuel said, What is then this bleating of the flocks in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

⁴⁴ And now, come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. ⁴⁵ And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. ⁴⁶ And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap; and they ate there upon the heap. ⁴⁷ And Laban called it Yegar-sahadutha; but Jacob called it Galed. ⁴⁸ And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day; therefore called he its name Galed;

⁵² Witness be this heap and witness be this pillar, that I will not pass by this heap, and that thou shalt not pass unto me by this heap and this pillar, for evil.

²⁷ But it shall be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we may perform the service of the Lord before him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our, peace-offerings; and that your children may not say in time to come to our children, Ye have no portion in the Lord. ²⁸ And we said, that it shall be when they should say this to us and to our generations in time to come, that we may say, Behold the pattern of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.

²⁷ And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be among us as a witness; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spoke unto us: it shall be therefore as a witness against you, that ye may not deny your God.

²³ And he went up from there to Beer-sheba.

²⁸ And Chazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Bizyotheyah,

¹ Then went out all the children of Israel, and the congregation was assembled together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba’, with the land of Gil’ad, unto the Lord in Mizpah.

¹¹ But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba’, like the sand that is by the sea in multitude: while thou in thy own person goest into the fight.

^{25 (5:5)} And Judah and Israel dwelt in safety, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba’, all the days of Solomon.

¹⁴ And the Pethrussim, and Casluchin, out of whom came the Pelishtim, and the Caphtorim.

²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

⁸ And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, looked out at a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

¹⁴ And he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants; and the Philistines envied him.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh let the people go, that God did not lead them the way through the land of the Philistines, because it was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt.

¹ And the children of Israel did again the evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

²⁶ And to Sheth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

⁸ And he removed from there unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and ‘Ai on the east; and he built there an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.

²⁵ And he built there an altar, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched there his tent: and the servants of Isaac dug there a well.

²¹ Thou shalt not plant unto thyself a grove, any tree, near the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make unto thyself.

²⁷ Thy refuge is the eternal God, and here beneath, the everlasting arms; and he thrust out the enemy from before thee; and he said, Destroy.

⁷ And the children of Israel did thus the evil in the eyes of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Be’alim and the groves.

² Before yet the mountains were brought forth, or thou hadst ever produced the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

²⁸ Dost thou not know? hast thou not heard? The God of everlasting is the Lord, is the Creator of the ends of the earth; he will not be faint and weary; unsearchable is his understanding.

¹⁵ For thus hath said the high and lofty One, who inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy, In the high and holy place do I dwell, yet also with the contrite and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

¹⁰ But the Lord God is the truth, he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall quake, and nations cannot endure his indignation.

¹⁴ Those that swear by the guilt of Samaria, and say, As thy god liveth, O Dan; and, As liveth the worshipped idol of Beer-sheba’,—yea, they shall fall, and never rise up again.

¹ And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar.

¹⁵ For strangers are we before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: like a shadow are our days on the earth, and there is no hope of abiding.

^{12 (39:13)} Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears; for a stranger am I with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.