Numbers 24 Cross References - Leeser

¹ And when Bil’am saw that it was pleasing in the eyes of the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. 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. ³ And he took up his parable, and said, Thus saith Bil’am the son of Beor, and thus saith the man whose eyes are open; ⁴ Thus saith he who heareth the sayings of God, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, falling down, with unvailed eyes: ⁵ How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwelling, O Israel! ⁶ As streams are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as aloe-trees, which the Lord hath planted, as cedar-trees beside the waters. ⁷ Water runneth out of His buckets, that his seed may be moistened by abundance of water; and exalted above Agag shall be his king, and raised on high shall be his kingdom. ⁸ God, who brought him forth out of Egypt, is to him like the heights of the reem; he will devour nations, his oppressors, and their bones will he break, and pierce them through with his arrows. ⁹ He coucheth, he lieth down as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall make him rise up? They that bless thee be blessed, and they that curse thee be cursed. ¹⁰ And the anger of Balak was kindled against Bil’am, and he struck his hands together: and Balak said unto Bil’am, To denounce my enemies did I call thee, and, behold, thou hast even blessed them these three times. ¹¹ And now flee thou to thy place: I thought to honor thee greatly; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honor. ¹² And Bil’am said unto Balak, Did I not already speak to thy messengers, whom thou sentest unto me, saying, 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? ¹⁴ And now, behold, I am going unto my people: come, I will advise thee against what this people will do to thy people in the end of days. ¹⁵ And he took up his parable and said, Thus saith Bil’am the son of Beor, and thus saith the man whose eyes are open; 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. ²⁵ And Bil’am rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

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.

³ And Bil’am said unto Balak, Place thyself by thy burnt-offering; and I will go, peradventure the Lord will come to meet me, and whatsoever he may show me I will tell thee: and he went thoughtfully alone.

¹⁵ And he said unto Balak, Place thyself here by thy burnt-offering, while I will repair to yonder place.

²⁰ Behold, to bless I have received the word; and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

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.

²⁸ And Balak took Bil’am unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward the desert.

¹⁶ Behold, these chiefly were the cause unto the children of Israel, through the counsel of Bil’am, to commit the gross trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor; through which there was the plague among the congregation of the Lord.

²⁰ And now, behold, I know that thou wilt surely become king, and that the kingdom of Israel will stand firmly in thy hand.

² Then arose Saul, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, and with him were three thousand men chosen out of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

²⁵ Then said Saul to David, Blessed be thou my son David: thou wilt both do great things, and wilt also surely prevail. And David went then on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

² Every man by his own standard, by the ensign of their family division, shall the children of Israel pitch their tent; at some distance round about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they encamp. ³ And they, who encamp on the east, toward the rising of the sun, shall be those who belong to the standard of the camp of Judah according to their armies: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nachshon the son of ‘Amminadab. ⁴ And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were seventy and four thousand and six hundred. ⁵ And those that encamp next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar. ⁶ And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred. ⁷ Then the tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Chelon. ⁸ And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. ⁹ All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred thousand and eighty thousand and six thousand and four hundred, according to their armies: they shall first set forward. ¹⁰ The standard of the camp of Reuben shall be on the south side, according to their armies: and the prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. ¹¹ And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. ¹² And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of ‘Zurishaddai. ¹³ And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. ¹⁴ Then the tribe of Gad: and the prince of the sons of Gad shall be Elyassaph the son of Reuel. ¹⁵ And his host, and those who were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty. ¹⁶ All that were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, according to their armies; and as the second shall they set forward. ¹⁷ Then shall the tabernacle of the congregation, the camp of the Levites, set forward in the midst of the camps: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place after their standards. ¹⁸ The standard of the camp of Ephraim shall be on the west side, according to their armies: and the prince of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of ‘Ammihud. ¹⁹ And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred. ²⁰ And by him shall be the tribe of Menasseh; and the prince of the children of Menasseh shall be Gamliel the son of Pedahzur. ²¹ And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred. ²² Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gidoni. ²³ And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred. ²⁴ All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred thousand and eight thousand and one hundred, according to their armies; and as the third shall they set forward. ²⁵ The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side, according to their armies: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Achiezer the son of ‘Ammishaddai. ²⁶ And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were sixty and two thousand and seven hundred. ²⁷ And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of ‘Ochran. ²⁸ And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. ²⁹ Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Achira the son of ‘Enan. ³⁰ And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. ³¹ All those that were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred; the hindmost shall they set forward according to their standards. ³² These are those that were numbered of the children of Israel according to their family divisions: and all those that were numbered of the camps, according to their armies, were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. ³³ But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the Lord had commanded Moses. ³⁴ And the children of Israel did all just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so did they encamp by their standards, and so did they set forward every one after his family, by his division.

²⁵ And the Lord came down in a cloud and spoke unto him; and he took some of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men, the elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did not so any more. ²⁶ And there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of those that were written down, but they had not gone out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp. ²⁷ And there ran a young man, and told to Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp. ²⁸ And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses from his youth, answered and said, My Lord Moses, forbid them. ²⁹ And Moses said unto him, Art thou zealous for my sake? And oh that one might render all the people of the Lord prophets, that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!

⁹ For from the top of rocks I see him, and from hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone, and among the nations it shall not be reckoned. 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!

⁵ How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwelling, O Israel!

¹⁰ And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came suddenly over him, and he prophesied in the midst of them.

²⁰ And Saul sent messengers to take David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as superintendent over them: then came upon the messengers of Saul the spirit of God, and they also prophesied.

²³ And he went thither to Nayoth near Ramah: and there came upon him also the Spirit of God, and he went on, and prophesied as he went, until he came to Nayoth near Ramah.

¹ And as for ‘Azaryahu the son of ‘Oded—on him came the spirit of God;

⁴ Thou art beautiful, O my beloved, like Thirzah, comely like Jerusalem, terrible as armies encamped round their banners.

¹⁰ Who is this that shineth forth like the morning-dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as armies encamped round their banners?

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.

⁷ And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram did Balak send for me, the king of Moab, out of the mountains of the east, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

¹⁸ And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; bend hither thy ear unto me, son of Zippor!

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:

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.

¹² And when the sun was about going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror, dark and great, fell upon him.

⁶ And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet of your kind, I, the Lord, do make myself known unto him in a vision, in a dream do I speak with him.

²⁰ And God came unto Bil’am at night, and said unto him, If to call thee the men have come, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I shall speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.

²⁴ And he also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied himself before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore people are in the habit of saying, Is Saul too among the prophets?

^{19 (89:20)} Then spokest thou in a vision to thy pious servant, and saidst, “I have bestowed help to one that is mighty; I have exalted a youth out of the people;

²⁸ Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about: this was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one that spoke.

¹⁷ So he came close to where I stood: and when he came, I was terrified, and I fell upon my face; but he said unto me, Mark it well, O son of man; because for the time of the end is the vision. ¹⁸ Now as he was speaking with me, I fell down in amazement on my face to the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright where I had been standing.

²⁶ And the appearance of the evening and the morning which was spoken of is true: but do thou keep the vision closed up; ²⁷ And I Daniel grieved, and was sick several days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was depressed because of the appearance; but no one observed it.

¹⁵ And when he spoke unto me such words, I directed my face toward the ground, and I became dumb. ¹⁶ And, behold, something like the form of the sons of men touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and I spoke, and said unto him that stood opposite to me, O my lord, because of the appearance my pains suddenly overcame me, and I have retained no strength.

⁸ And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden to the eastward, and he put there the man whom he had formed. ⁹ And the Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ¹⁰ And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it was parted, and became four principal streams.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere; before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, till thou comest unto Zoar.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by rivulets of water, that yieldeth its fruit in its season, and the leaf of which doth not wither; and all that he may do shall prosper.

^{8 (45:9)} Of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia are fragrant all thy garments: out of palaces of ivory have they made thee joyful with the sound of music.

^{12 (92:13)} The righteous shall spring up like the palm-tree: like a cedar in Lebanon shall he grow high. ^{13 (92:14)} Planted in the house of the Lord, in the courts of our God shall they spring up. ^{14 (92:15)} They shall still flourish in high old age; they shall be vigorous and covered with foliage;

¹⁶ Full of sap are the trees of the Lord, the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted;

¹² A locked-up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked-up spring, a sealed fountain. ¹³ Thy sprouts are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, copher and spikenard; ¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all the trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief of spices; ¹⁵ A garden-spring, a well of living waters, and flowing down from Lebanon.—

¹¹ Into the nut-garden was I gone down, to look about among the plants of the valley, to see whether the vine had blossomed, whether the pomegranates had budded.

¹⁹ I will place in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine and the box-tree together;

¹¹ And the Lord will guide thee continually, and will satisfy thy soul in times of famine, and will strengthen thy bones; and thou shalt be like a well-watered garden, and like a spring of water, the waters of which will never deceive.

¹⁸ Let those be made ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be made ashamed: let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and strike them with a double breach.

^{12 (31:11)} And they shall come and sing on the height of Zion, and shall come together as a stream to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flocks and of the herds, and their soul shall be as a well-watered garden; and they shall not farther experience grief any more.

³ Behold, Asshur was a cedar in Lebanon beautiful in its boughs, and a shadowing thicket, and high in stature; and among the thick-boughed trees was its highest branch. ⁴ The waters made it great, the deep made it high, with its rivers it was flowing round the place where it was planted, and its ditches it sent forth unto all the trees of the field.

¹² And by the stream upon its banks, on this side and on that side, shall grow up all kinds of trees for food, the leaves of which shall not fade, and the fruit of which shall not come to an end, every month shall they bring forth new ripe fruit; because its water is that which issueth out of the sanctuary; and their fruit shall serve for food, and their leaves for remedies.

^{18 (4:18)} And it came to pass on that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the ravines of Judah shall flow with water; and a spring shall come forth out of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.

⁸ And he caught Agag the king of the ‘Amalekites alive, and all the people he devoted to the edge of the sword. ⁹ But Saul together with the people had pity on Agag, and on the best of the flocks, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the fat lambs, and all that was good, and they would not destroy them; but all the cattle that was of little value and weak, that they destroyed.

³² And Samuel said, Bring ye hither unto me Agag the king of the ‘Amalekites: and Agag came unto him cheerfully; and Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. ³³ And Samuel said, As thy sword did make women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women; and Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

¹² And David felt conscious that the Lord has established him as king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

^{21 (5:1)} And Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and as far as the boundary of Egypt, which brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

² And David felt conscious that the Lord had established him as king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, because of his people Israel.

²⁰ And that mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over all the countries beyond the river; and that tax, tribute, and toll was given unto them.

⁶ Saying, Yet have I appointed my king upon Zion my holy mount. ⁷ I will announce the decree, the Lord hath said unto me, “My son art thou: I have indeed this day begotten thee. ⁸ Ask it of me, and I will give thee nations for an inheritance, and for thy possession the uttermost ends of the earth. ⁹ Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; like a potter’s vessel shalt thou dash them in pieces.” ¹⁰ And now, O ye kings, be wise: take warning, ye judges of the earth.

^{43 (18:44)} Thou deliverest me from the contests of the people; thou appointest me to be the head of nations: a people that I know not shall serve me.

^{26 (68:27)} In assemblies bless ye God, praise the Lord, ye sprung from Israel’s fountain.

³ The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voice; the rivers lift up their waves. ⁴ But more than the noise of great waters, than the mighty billows of the sea, is the Lord excellent on high.

¹¹ Of the glory of thy kingdom shall they converse, and of thy might shall they speak: ¹² To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. ¹³ Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all eternities, and thy dominion subsisteth throughout all generations.

¹⁶ So will thy springs overflow abroad; and in the open streets will be thy rivulets of water; ¹⁷ They will be thy own only, and not those of strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Thy fountain will be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth,—

² And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be firmly established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and unto it shall flow all the nations.

^{7 (9:6)} For promoting the increase of the government, and for peace without end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to support it through justice and righteousness, from henceforth and unto eternity: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

¹ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the spring of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel,—not in truth, nor in righteousness.

¹³ O thou that dwellest upon many waters, great in treasures, thy end is come, the full measure of thy selfish robbery.

⁴⁴ But in the days of these kings will the God of heaven set up a kingdom: which shall to eternity not be destroyed, and its rule shall not be transferred to any other people; but it will grind up and make an end of all these kingdoms, while it will itself endure for ever.

⁹ Only against the Lord do ye not rebel; and then ye need not fear the people of the land; for they are our bread: their shadow is departed from them, while the Lord is with us; fear them not.

⁵ And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this miserable bread.

²² God, who brought them out of Egypt, is to them like the heights of the reem.

²⁴ Behold, it is a people, that shall rise up as a lioness, and as a lion shall it raise itself: it will not lie down until it have eaten the prey, and have drunk the blood of the slain.

¹ When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Emorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations, greater in number and mightier than thou;

²³ I will heap upon them miseries; all my arrows will I spend upon them.

⁴² I will make my arrows drunken with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; from the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the crushed head of the enemy.

⁹ Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; like a potter’s vessel shalt thou dash them in pieces.”

^{12 (21:13)} For thou wilt make them turn their back; upon thy bow-strings thou wilt make ready thy arrows against their face.

^{5 (45:6)} Thy sharpened arrows—people will fall down beneath thee—will enter into the heart of the king’s enemies.

¹³ I waited with patience till morning, whether as a lion, so would he break all my bones: from day until night wilt thou make an end of me.

⁹ For, lo, I will awaken and cause to come up against Babylon an assemblage of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in battle-array against her; from there shall she be captured: their arrows are as those of a skilful mighty one, none of which ever returneth in vain.

¹⁷ A scattered lamb is Israel; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria devoured him; and this last one broke his bones, even Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon.

^{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.

³ And I will bless those that bless thee, and him that curseth thee, will I curse; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

²⁹ Nations shall serve thee, and people bow down to thee; be lord over thy brethren, and thy mother’s sons shall bow down to thee; cursed be they that curse thee, and blessed be they that bless thee.

⁹ Like a lion’s whelp, O Judah, from the prey, my son, thou risest: he stoopeth down, he croucheth as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him up?

³⁹ Dost thou hunt for the lioness her prey? and suppliest thou the food for the young lions, ⁴⁰ When they are couched in their lairs, rest in the thicket, lying in wait?

^{10 (41:2)} None is so daring that he would stir him up: and who is there that will stand up before me?

¹² Do homage to the son, lest he be angry, and ye be lost on the way; for his wrath is so speedily kindled. Happy are all they that put their trust in him.

⁶ Pray ye for the peace of Jerusalem; may those that love thee prosper.

⁶ And now do but come, curse me this people; for it is too mighty for me; peradventure I may be able to smite it, that I may drive it out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

¹¹ Behold, there is the people that is come out of Egypt, and covereth the face of the earth: now come, denounce it for me; peradventure I shall be able to fight against it, and drive it away.

¹⁷ For I will honor thee greatly, and whatsoever thou mayest say unto me will I do: and only come, I pray thee, denounce me this people.

¹¹ And Balak said unto Bil’am, What hast thou done unto me? to denounce my enemies did I take thee, and, behold, thou hast even blessed them.

^{4 (23:5)} For the reason, that they met you not with bread and with water on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because he hired against thee Bil’am the son of Beor of Pethor in Mesopotamia, to curse thee; ^{5 (23:6)} But the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Bil’am; and the Lord thy God changed unto thee the curse into a blessing, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

⁹ Then Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel; and he sent and called Bil’am the son of Beor to curse you; ¹⁰ And I would not hearken unto Bil’am; but he had to bless you instead: and I delivered you out of his hand.

² Because they had not met the children of Israel with bread and with water, but had hired Bil’am against them, that he should curse them; although our God had changed the curse into a blessing.

²³ Men will clap their hands over him, and will hiss after him out of his place.

^{14 (21:19)} But thou, son of man, prophesy, and strike thy hands together, and let “The sword” be repeated the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great that are slain, which lieth in wait for them everywhere.

^{17 (21:22)} And I also,—I will strike my hands together, and I will cause my fury to be assuaged: I the Lord have spoken it.

¹³ And behold, I have struck my hands together at thy wrongful gain which thou hast acquired, and at thy blood-guilt which hath been in the midst of thee.

³⁷ And Balak said unto Bil’am, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to have thee called? wherefore camest thou not unto me? in truth, am I not able to honor thee?

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.

³⁸ And Bil’am said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee; have I now any power whatever to speak the least? the word that God may put in my mouth, that alone must I speak.

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.

¹ And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

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.

⁷ And they marched out against the Midianites, as the Lord had commanded Moses; and they slew every male. ⁸ And the kings of Midian they slew, besides the rest of their men that were slain; namely, Evi and Rekem, and Zur, and Chur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian; and Bil’am the son of Beor they slew with the sword. ⁹ And the children of Israel took captives the women of Midian, and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as spoil. ¹⁰ And all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their castles they burnt with fire. ¹¹ And they took all the spoil, and all the booty, both of men and of cattle. ¹² And they brought unto Moses, and to Elazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, the captives, and the booty, and the spoil, unto the camp, to the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho. ¹³ And Moses, and Elazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them, to without the camp. ¹⁴ And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, the captains over the thousands, and the captains over the hundreds, who had come from the war-campaign. ¹⁵ And Moses said unto them, Have ye allowed all the females to live? ¹⁶ Behold, these chiefly were the cause unto the children of Israel, through the counsel of Bil’am, to commit the gross trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor; through which there was the plague among the congregation of the Lord. ¹⁷ And now kill ye every male among the little ones, and every woman that hath known man by lying with him shall ye kill. ¹⁸ But all among the women-children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

²² And they shall be gathered in heaps, as prisoners, in the prison, and shall be shut up in the dungeon, and thus after many days shall they be punished.

⁴⁷ Yet will I bring back again the captivity of Moab in the end of days, saith the Lord. Thus far is the punishment of Moab.

³⁹ But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring back again the captivity of ‘Elam, saith the Lord.

²⁸ But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and he hath made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what is to be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy couch, were these.

¹⁴ Now am I come to make thee understand what is to befall thy people, in the latter days; for the vision is yet for the coming days.

⁵ After that will the children of Israel return, and seek for the Lord their God and David their king; and fearing will they hasten to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days,

⁵ O my people, do but remember what Balak the king of Moab resolved, and what Bil’am the son of Be’or answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, in order that ye may know the gracious benefits of the Lord.

³ And he took up his parable, and said, Thus saith Bil’am the son of Beor, and thus saith the man whose eyes are open; ⁴ Thus saith he who heareth the sayings of God, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, falling down, with unvailed eyes:

¹ And Job continued taking up his parable, and said,

¹ And these are the last words of David. Thus saith David the son of Jesse, and thus saith the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet singer of Israel: ² The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me, and his word was upon my tongue.

²⁵ And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Sheth [Seth]; for God said she hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. 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.

³ And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his likeness, after his image; and called his name Sheth. ⁴ And the days of Adam after he had begotten Sheth were eight hundred years; and he begat sons and daughters. ⁵ And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died. ⁶ And Sheth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enosh. ⁷ And Sheth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years; and he begat sons and daughters. ⁸ And all the days of Sheth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died. ⁹ And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan. ¹⁰ And Enosh lived after he had begotten Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years; and he begat sons and daughters. ¹¹ And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died. ¹² And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel. ¹³ And Kenan lived after he had begotten Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years; and he begat sons and daughters ¹⁴ And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died. ¹⁵ And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared. ¹⁶ And Mahalalel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years; and he begat sons and daughters. ¹⁷ And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and he died. ¹⁸ And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch. ¹⁹ And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years; and he begat sons and daughters. ²⁰ And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years; and he died. ²¹ And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methushelah. ²² And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years; and begat sons and daughters. ²³ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years. ²⁴ And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more; for God had taken him. ²⁵ And Methushelah lived a hundred eighty and seven years and begat Lemech. ²⁶ And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred eighty and two years; and he begat sons and daughters. ²⁷ And all the days of Methushelah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died. ²⁸ And Lemech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son. ²⁹ And he called his name Noach, [Noah,] saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.

¹⁰ The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet; until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

²⁹ Woe to thee, Moab! thou art lost, O people of Kemosh: he hath suffered his sons to become fugitives, and his daughters to go into captivity, unto the king of the Emorites, Sichon.

³⁸ And Saul said, Draw ye near hither all the chief of the people: and know and see through what this sin hath happened this day.

² And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, laying them down on the ground; and he measured with two lines to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became David’s servants, bringing presents.

⁵ And it came to pass, when Achab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

²⁶ And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to break through unto the king of Edom; but they could not. ²⁷ Then took he his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their land.

² And he smote Moab, and the Moabites became David’s servants, bringing presents.

²⁵ And well I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he will remain as the last after the creatures of the dust are passed away; ²⁶ And after my skin is cut to pieces will this be: and then freed from my body shall I behold God; ²⁷ Whom I shall myself behold to my happiness, and whom my eyes will see, and not as a stranger, when even my reins are consumed within my bosom.

^{6 (45:7)} Thy throne, given of God, endureth for ever and ever: the sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

⁸ And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. ⁹ Before him shall bend down those that dwell in the wilderness; and his enemies shall lick the dust. ¹⁰ The kings of Tharshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. ¹¹ Yea, there shall bow down before him all kings: all nations shall serve him.

⁷⁰ And he made choice of David his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds: ⁷¹ From following the ewes with young he brought him, to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. ⁷² And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and by the skilfulness of his hands did he lead them.

² The staff of thy strength will the Eternal stretch forth out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.

¹ The doom of Moab. Truly in a night is ‘Ar of Moab plundered, it is laid waste; truly in a night is Kir of Moab plundered, it is laid waste. ² It goeth up to the idol-house, and Dibon goeth up to the high-places to weep, on Nebo and on Medeba shall Moab wail: on all its heads there is baldness, and every beard is hewn off. ³ In its streets they are girded with sack-cloth, on its roofs, and in its public places every one shall wail, groan with weeping. ⁴ And loud crieth Cheshbon with El’aleh; as far as Yahaz is heard their voice: therefore the armed men of Moab shall howl; its soul is grieved for itself. ⁵ My heart will cry for Moab, whose fugitives are as far as Zo’ar, and the third ‘Eglarth; for the ascent of Luchith—with weeping is it ascended; for on the way to Choronayim they let resound the cry of defeat in battle. ⁶ For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for dry is the grass, gone are the herbs, and green things are no more. ⁷ Therefore the rest of their acquisitions and what they possess shall they carry away over the brook of the willows. ⁸ For the cry hath encompassed the boundary of Moab; up to Eglayim is heard its wail, and at Beer-elim is heard its wail. ⁹ For the waters of Dimon are filled with blood; for I will bring over Dimon armed bands; over the escaped of Moab cometh a lion, and over the remnant of the land.

¹ Send ye the lambs of the ruler of the land from Sela’, through the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. ² For it shall be, that, as a fugitive bird, as a chased nest, so shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of Arnon. ³ Bring counsel, execute justice; render like the night thy shadow in the midst of the noonday; conceal the outcasts; betray not the fugitive. ⁴ Let my outcasts sojourn with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the waster: till ceaseth the extortion, past be the wasting, and vanished be the oppressor out of the land. ⁵ And there shall be founded through kindness a throne; and there shall sit upon it in truthfulness in the tent of David a judge who seeketh justice, and is quick in righteousness. ⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; that he is very proud: of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath, his groundless lies. ⁷ Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail; for the strong walls of Kir-charesseth shall ye lament, deeply stricken. 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. ⁹ Therefore will I weep, when weeping for Ya’zer, for the vine of Sibmah: I will moisten thee richly with my tears, O Cheshbon, and El’aleh; for over the gathering of thy summer fruits and over thy harvest the battle-cry is fallen. ¹⁰ And thus are taken away joy and gladness out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards shall be no singing, shall be no joyful shout: in the presses shall the treader not tread out wine; I have stopped the harvest-call. ¹¹ Therefore my bowels shall groan for Moab like a harp, and my inward parts for Kir-charess. ¹² And it shall come to pass, that it shall be seen that Moab is weary on the high-places; and he will come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not accomplish aught. ¹³ This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab in former times. ¹⁴ But now hath the Lord spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired laborer, shall the glory of Moab be rendered mean with all this his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and inconsiderable.

⁴⁵ Under the shadow of Cheshbon stand still, deprived of strength, those that flee; but a fire cometh forth out of Cheshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sichon, and it devoureth the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the children of vaunting.

⁴ Out of him cometh forth the corner-stone, out of him the tent-nail, out of him the battle-bow, out of him every ruler of others together.

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.

⁴⁰ And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thy brother shalt thou serve; and it shall come to pass, that when thou shalt have the dominion, thou canst break his yoke from off thy neck.

³ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

¹⁴ And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord helped David whithersoever he went.

¹ To the chief musician upon Shushan’eduth, a Michtham of David, to teach, ^(60:2) When he fought with Aram-naharayim, and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Salt Valley twelve thousand men. ^(60:3) O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast made a breach in us, thou hast been displeased: restore now unto us thy favor.

^{8 (60:10)} Moab is my washpot; upon Edom will I cast my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou but over me. ^{9 (60:11)} Who will bring me into the fortified city? who will lead me as far as Edom? ^{10 (60:12)} Behold, it is thou, O God, who hast cast us off; and thou, O God, goest not forth with our armies. ^{11 (60:13)} Give us help against the assailant; for vain is the help of man. ^{12 (60:14)} Through God shall we do valiantly: and he it is that will tread down our assailants.

⁵ For my sword is sated in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people I have devoted to punishment.

¹ Who is this that cometh from Edom, dyed red in his garments from Bozrah? this—glorious in his apparel, moving along in the greatness of his strength? “I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

¹² In order that they may take possession of the remnant of Edom, and of all the nations, which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doth this.

¹ Wherefore do nations rage, and people meditate a vain thing? ² The kings of the earth raise themselves up, and rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed: ³ “Let us break asunder their bands, and cast away from us their cords.” ⁴ He who dwelleth in the heavens will laugh: the Lord will hold them in derision. ⁵ Then will he speak unto them in his anger, and in his displeasure will he terrify them. ⁶ Saying, Yet have I appointed my king upon Zion my holy mount. ⁷ I will announce the decree, the Lord hath said unto me, “My son art thou: I have indeed this day begotten thee. ⁸ Ask it of me, and I will give thee nations for an inheritance, and for thy possession the uttermost ends of the earth. ⁹ Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; like a potter’s vessel shalt thou dash them in pieces.” ¹⁰ And now, O ye kings, be wise: take warning, ye judges of the earth. ¹¹ Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. ¹² Do homage to the son, lest he be angry, and ye be lost on the way; for his wrath is so speedily kindled. Happy are all they that put their trust in him.

^{7 (21:8)} For the king trusteth in the Lord; and through the kindness of the Most High shall he not be moved. ^{8 (21:9)} Thy hand will reach all thy enemies: thy right hand will reach those that hate thee. ^{9 (21:10)} Thou wilt render them as a fiery oven at the time of thy anger: the Lord in his wrath will destroy them, and a fire will devour them. ^{10 (21:11)} Their fruit wilt thou cause to perish from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

¹⁰ And it shall happen on that day, that he of the root of Jesse, who shall stand as an ensign of the people, to him shall nations come to inquire: and his resting-place shall be glorious.

^{2 (5:1)} But thou, Beth-lechem Ephratah, the least though thou be among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from olden times, from most ancient days.

^{4 (5:3)} And he shall stand forward and feed Israel through the strength of the Lord, through the excellency of the name of the Lord his God: and they shall abide safely; for now shall he be great even unto the ends of the earth.

⁸ Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

¹⁴ And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens.

¹⁶ And he said, Because the Lord hath sworn on his throne, that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

³ And it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the ‘Amalekites, and the children of the east, and they went up against them;

⁴⁸ And he gathered an army, and he smote the ‘Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those that spoiled them.

³ Now go and smite ‘Amalek, and devote all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and lamb, camel and ass. ⁴ And Saul ordered the people to assemble, and he numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand of the men of Judah. ⁵ And Saul came to the city of ‘Amalek, and he fought in the valley. ⁶ And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from the midst of the ‘Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; whereas ye acted kindly with all the children of Israel, at their coming up out of Egypt. And the Kenites departed from the midst of the ‘Amalekites. ⁷ And Saul smote the ‘Amalekites from Chavilah until thou comest to Shur, that is before Egypt. ⁸ And he caught Agag the king of the ‘Amalekites alive, and all the people he devoted to the edge of the sword.

⁸ And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gizrites, and the ‘Amalekites; for these nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, till thou comest to Shur, and as far as the land of Egypt. ⁹ And David smote the land, and left not alive either man or woman, and took away the flocks, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

¹ And it came to pass when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the ‘Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burnt it with fire;

¹⁷ And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day; and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels, and fled.

⁴³ And they smote the rest of the ‘Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

¹ After these events did king Achashverosh make great Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and he advanced him; and he placed his seat above that of all the princes that were with him.

⁹ Then said Charbonah, one of the chamberlains, before the king, Behold, there is also the gallows, which Haman hath had made for Mordecai, who hath spoken well for the king, standing in the house of Haman, fifty cubits high. And the king said, Hang him thereon. ¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king was appeased.

¹⁴ And the king ordered that it should be done so; and the law was given out at Shushan; and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

¹⁹ The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

¹⁶ And the children of the Kenite, the father-in-law of Moses, went up out of the city of palm-trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is at the south of ‘Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people.

¹⁸ And I said then, “In the midst of my nest shall I depart hence, and like the sand shall I have many days.

¹¹ Out of that land went forth Asshur, and built Nineveh, and the city of Rechoboth, and Calach.

²² The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.

² Then came they near to Zerubbabel, and to the chiefs of the divisions, and said unto them, Let us build with you; for like you will we seek your God; and unto him do we sacrifice since the days of Essar-chaddon the king of Asshur, who hath brought us up hither.

^{8 (83:9)} Also Asshur is joined with them; they have become an arm unto the children of Lot. Selah.

^{3 (14:4)} Asshur shall not help us; upon horses will we not ride: and we will no more say, Ye are our gods, to the work of our hands; for in thee alone the fatherless obtaineth mercy.”

¹ And Na’aman, the captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man before his Lord, and highly honored; because by him had the Lord given victory unto Syria: and this man was valiant in war, but a leper.

² But who can sustain the day of his coming? and who can stand when he appeareth? for he is like the fire of the melter, and like the lye of the washers:

⁴ And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

²¹ But unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, were children born. ²² The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram. ²³ And the children of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. ²⁴ And Arpachshad begat Shelach; and Shelach begat Eber. ²⁵ And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

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.

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.

¹ The doom of Tyre. Wail, ye ships of Tharshish; for it is laid waste, without house, without entrance: from the land of Kittim hath it been revealed to them.

³⁵ Then were the iron, the clay, the copper, the silver, and the gold ground up together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, that no trace was found of them; and the stone that had stricken the image became a mighty mountain, and filled the whole earth.

⁴⁵ Whereas thou sawest that out of the mountain a stone tore itself loose, not through human hands, and that it ground up the iron, the copper, the clay, the silver, and the gold: the great God hath made known to the king what is to come to pass after this. And the dream is reliable, and its interpretation certain.

¹⁹ Then I desired what is certain concerning the fourth beast, which was different from all these others, exceedingly dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and whose nails of copper; which devoured, ground up, and stamped with its feet what was left; ²⁰ And concerning the ten horns that were in its head, and concerning the other which came up, and before which three fell down, even concerning that horn which had eyes, and a mouth which spoke presumptuous things, and whose appearance was greater than that of its companions.

²³ Thus said he, The fourth beast signifieth that a fourth kingdom will be upon earth, which is to be different from all kingdoms, and will devour all the earth, and will tread it down, and grind it up. ²⁴ And the ten horns out of this kingdom signify that ten kings will arise; and another will rise after them, and he will be different from the first, and three kings will he bring low. ²⁵ And he will speak words against the Most High, and the saints of the Most High will he oppress, and think to change the festivals and the law: and they will be given up into his hand until a time and times and half a time. ²⁶ But they will sit down to hold judgment, and they will take away his dominion, to destroy and to annihilate it unto the end.

⁵ And as I was looking attentively, behold, there came a shaggy, he-goat from the west over the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a sightly large horn between his eyes. ⁶ And he came as far as the ram that had two horns, that I had seen standing before the river, and ran at him with his furious power. ⁷ And I saw him coming close unto the ram, and he became bitterly enraged against him, and he struck the ram, and broke his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand forward before him: and he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him; and there was no one to deliver the ram out of his hand. ⁸ And the shaggy he-goat became very great: but when he was grown strong, the great horn was broken; and there came up four slightly large ones in its place toward the four winds of heaven.

²¹ And the shaggy he-goat is the king of Javan; and the great horn which is between his eyes is the first king.

²⁶ And after the sixty and two weeks will an anointed one be cut off without a successor to follow him: and the city and the sanctuary will the people of the prince that is coming destroy; but his end will come in a violent overthrow; but until the end of the war devastations are decreed against it. ²⁷ And he will make a strong covenant with the many for one week; and in the half of the week will he cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and this because of the prevalence of the abominations which bringeth devastation, and until destruction and what is decreed shall be poured out upon the waster.

²⁰ Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I am come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia; and as I am going forth, lo, the prince of Javan is coming.

³⁰ For there will come against him the ships of Kittim; and he will become faint-hearted, and return, and will rage against the holy covenant; and he will do it: and he will return, and have an understanding with those that forsake the holy covenant.

⁴⁵ And he will pitch the tents of his palace between seas and the glorious holy mountain; and he will come to his end, without one to help him.

¹¹ And now flee thou to thy place: I thought to honor thee greatly; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honor.

⁸ And the kings of Midian they slew, besides the rest of their men that were slain; namely, Evi and Rekem, and Zur, and Chur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian; and Bil’am the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

²² And Bil’am the son of Be’or, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among their slain.