Genesis 26 Cross References - NSB

¹ There was another famine in the land besides the earlier one during the time of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar. ² Jehovah appeared to Isaac and said: »Isaac, stay away from Egypt! I will show you where I want you to go. ³ »You will live there as a foreigner. I will be with you and bless you. I will keep my promise to your father Abraham by giving this land to you and your descendants. ⁴ »I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all of this land. They will be a blessing to every nation on earth. ⁵ »This is because Abraham did everything I told him to do.« ⁶ Isaac moved to Gerar. ⁷ His wife Rebekah was very beautiful. He was afraid that someone might kill him to get her. So he told everyone that Rebekah was his sister. ⁸ After Isaac had been there a long time, King Abimelech looked out a window and saw Isaac intimately laughing and caressing Rebekah. ⁹ Abimelech called him in and said: »Rebekah must be your wife! Why did you say she is your sister?« »I thought someone would kill me,« Isaac answered. ¹⁰ »Do you know what you have done?« Abimelech shouted. »If someone had slept with her, you would have made our whole nation guilty!« ¹¹ So Abimelech charged all the people, saying: »He who touches this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.« ¹² Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. Jehovah blessed him. ¹³ He became rich, and continued to grow richer until he became very wealthy. ¹⁴ He possessed flocks and herds and a great household. The Philistines envied him. ¹⁵ The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with dirt. ¹⁶ Abimelech said to Isaac: »Go away from us. You are too powerful for us.« ¹⁷ Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar where he settled. ¹⁸ Then Isaac dug the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham. The Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He gave them the same names his father had given them. ¹⁹ Isaac’s servants dug in the valley (wadi) (torrent-valley) and found a well of running water. ²⁰ The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac. They said: »The water is ours!« So he named the well Esek, because they argued with him. ²¹ They dug another well. And they quarreled over that one too. So Isaac named it Sitnah (Accusation). ²² He moved on from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth (Roomy). He said: »Now Jehovah has made room for us. We will prosper in this land.« ²³ He went from there to Beer-sheba. ²⁴ That night Jehovah appeared to Isaac. Jehovah said: »I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, because I am with you. I will bless you and increase the number of your descendants for my servant Abraham’s sake.« ²⁵ Isaac built an altar there and worshiped Jehovah. Then he set up his camp. His servants dug another well. ²⁶ Abimelech came from Gerar with Ahuzzath, his friend (companion), and Phicol, the commander of his army, to see Isaac. ²⁷ Isaac asked: »Why have you now come to see me? You were so unfriendly to me before and made me leave your country.« ²⁸ They answered: »Now we know that Jehovah is with you. We think that there should be a solemn agreement between us. We want you to promise ²⁹ »that you will not harm us. We did not harm you. We were kind to you and let you go peacefully. Now it is clear that Jehovah has blessed you.« ³⁰ Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank. ³¹ Early the next morning each man made his promise and sealed it with a vow. Isaac said good-bye to them. They parted as friends. ³² That day Isaac’s servants told him about the well they dug. They said: »We have found water.« ³³ Isaac named the well Shibah. The town is still called Beer-sheba. ³⁴ When Esau was forty he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵ These two women brought a lot of grief to his parents, Isaac and Rebekah.

² The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. They married any of them they chose.

²⁰ Noah built an altar to Jehovah and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.

¹ Jehovah said to Abram: »Leave your country, your people, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

¹ Jehovah said to Abram: »Leave your country, your people, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you. ² »I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great. You will be a blessing.

² »I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great. You will be a blessing.

² »I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great. You will be a blessing. ³ »I will bless those who bless you. I will curse whoever curses you. All the people on earth will be blessed through you.« ⁴ So Abram left, just as Jehovah told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.

⁷ Jehovah appeared to Abram and said: »I will give this land to your offspring (seed).« He built an altar there to Jehovah, who had appeared to him.

⁷ Jehovah appeared to Abram and said: »I will give this land to your offspring (seed).« He built an altar there to Jehovah, who had appeared to him. ⁸ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent. Bethel was on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Jehovah and called on the name of Jehovah.

¹⁰ There was a famine in the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while, because the famine was severe.

¹³ »Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.«

¹⁶ He treated Abram well for her sake. Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

¹⁸ So Pharaoh summoned Abram. »What have you done to me?« he asked. »Why did you not tell me she was your wife? ¹⁹ »Why did you say: ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!«

² Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

⁴ This was where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of Jehovah.

¹⁵ »All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring (descendants) from generation to generation. ¹⁶ »I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust, your offspring could be counted. ¹⁷ »Go walk through the length and breadth of the land that I am giving to you.« ¹⁸ Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron. He built an altar to Jehovah there.

²² But Abram said to the king of Sodom: »I have sworn to Jehovah, God Most High, maker of heaven and earth:

¹ The word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision: »Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield. Your reward shall be very great.«

⁵ He brought him outside and said: »Look toward heaven and count the stars. Are you able to count them?« He continued: »So shall your descendants be.«

¹⁸ On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: »To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

¹ Abram was ninety-nine years old. Jehovah appeared to him and said: »I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

⁴ »This is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. ⁵ »You will no longer be called Abram (Exalted Father). Your name will be Abraham (means Father of Many). I have made you a father of many nations. ⁶ »I will make you very fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

⁶ »I will make you very fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. ⁷ »I will establish my covenant as a long lasting covenant between us. It will be for your descendants after you, for the generations to come. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

⁷ »I will establish my covenant as a long lasting covenant between us. It will be for your descendants after you, for the generations to come. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. ⁸ »The whole land of Canaan, where you are now a guest (alien) (foreigner) (stranger), I will give a long lasting possession to you and your descendants after you. I will be their God.«

⁸ »The whole land of Canaan, where you are now a guest (alien) (foreigner) (stranger), I will give a long lasting possession to you and your descendants after you. I will be their God.«

²³ On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.

¹ Jehovah appeared again to Abraham by the oak grove of Mamre. He was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.

¹⁰ He said: »Next year I will give you and Sarah a son.« (Sarah was listening in the tent door behind him.) ¹¹ Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. ¹² Therefore Sarah laughed within herself. She said to herself: »After I have grown old, shall I have a baby? My lord is old also.« ¹³ Jehovah said to Abraham: »Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?' ¹⁴ »Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life. Sarah shall have a son!« ¹⁵ Sarah denied saying: »I did not laugh!« She was afraid. He said: »But you did laugh!« ¹⁶ Then the men stood up from their meal and started in the direction of Sodom. Abraham went with them to send them on the way. ¹⁷ Jehovah said: »Shall I hide what I am doing from Abraham? ¹⁸ »Abraham will definitely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him.

¹⁸ »Abraham will definitely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him. ¹⁹ »I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household; and that they may remain in the righteous and just way of Jehovah. Jehovah will bring to Abraham what he told him.«

¹⁹ »I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household; and that they may remain in the righteous and just way of Jehovah. Jehovah will bring to Abraham what he told him.« ²⁰ Jehovah said: »Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave,

² »My lords,« he said, »come to my home to wash your feet, and be my guests for the night. You may get up in the morning as early as you like and be on your way again.« »Oh no,« they said, »We will spend the night out here in the city square.« ³ Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. He set a great feast before them, complete with fresh unleavened (unfermented) bread.

¹ Abraham moved from Mamre to the southern part of Canaan and lived between Kadesh and Shur. Later, while he was living in Gerar,

¹ Abraham moved from Mamre to the southern part of Canaan and lived between Kadesh and Shur. Later, while he was living in Gerar, ² he said that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

² he said that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him. ³ God appeared to the king in a dream and said: »You are going to die, because you have taken this woman. She is already married.«

⁵ »Abraham said that she was his sister. She said the same thing. I did this with a clear conscience. I have done no wrong!« ⁶ God said to him in a dream: »Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience. In fact, I kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

⁹ Then Abimelech called Abraham. He said to him: »What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you? You have brought a great sin on me and on my kingdom. You have done to me things that ought not to be done.« ¹⁰ Abimelech also asked Abraham: »What were you thinking when you did this?«

¹² »Besides, she is my sister. She is my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s. She is also my wife. ¹³ »When God had me leave my father’s home and travel around, I said to her: 'Do me a favor: Wherever we go, say that I am your brother.'«

⁸ The child grew and was weaned. Abraham held a big feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

¹⁴ Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a container of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her on her way. So she left and wandered around in the desert near Beer-sheba.

²² Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham. They said: »God is with you in all that you do.

²² Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham. They said: »God is with you in all that you do.

²² Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham. They said: »God is with you in all that you do. ²³ »Swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity. Consider the kindness that I have shown to you. Please show it to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.«

²³ »Swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity. Consider the kindness that I have shown to you. Please show it to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.«

²³ »Swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity. Consider the kindness that I have shown to you. Please show it to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.« ²⁴ Abraham said: »I swear it.« ²⁵ Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well of water that the servants of Abimelech had seized.

²⁵ Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well of water that the servants of Abimelech had seized. ²⁶ Abimelech said: »I do not know who has done this thing. You did not tell me, nor did I hear of it until today.« ²⁷ Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a covenant. ²⁸ Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. ²⁹ Abimelech asked Abraham: »What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?« ³⁰ He said: »You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well.«

³⁰ He said: »You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well.« ³¹ Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there the two of them took an oath.

³¹ Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there the two of them took an oath. ³² They made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.

³ Early the next morning Abraham saddled his donkey. He took two of his servants and his son Isaac with him. He had cut the wood for the burnt offering. Then he set out for the place that God had told him about.

⁹ They came to the place God had told him about. Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.

¹⁶ He said: »I am taking an oath on my own name, declares Jehovah, that because you have done this and have not refused to give me your son, your only son,

¹⁶ He said: »I am taking an oath on my own name, declares Jehovah, that because you have done this and have not refused to give me your son, your only son, ¹⁷ ‘»I will certainly bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of their enemies’ cities.

¹⁷ ‘»I will certainly bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of their enemies’ cities. ¹⁸ ‘»All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants. This is because you obeyed my command.’«

¹⁸ ‘»All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants. This is because you obeyed my command.’« ¹⁹ Abraham and Isaac went back to the servants who had come with him. They returned to Abraham’s home in Beer-sheba.

¹ By now Abraham was old, and Jehovah had blessed him in every way.

³ »I want you to swear by Jehovah God of heaven and earth that you will not get my son a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

¹² He said: »O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today. Show loving-kindness to my master Abraham.

¹⁶ The girl was a very attractive virgin. No man had ever had sexual intercourse with her. She went to the spring and filled her jar, and came back.

³¹ and said: »Come home with me. You are a man Jehovah has blessed. Why are you standing out here? I have a room ready for you in my house. There is a place for your camels.«

³⁵ »Jehovah has greatly blessed my master and made him a rich man. He has given him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, silver, gold, male and female slaves, camels, and donkeys.

⁴¹ »‘If my relatives do not give her to you, then you will be free from my oath.’«

¹¹ After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi. (The Well of the Living One, My Beholder).

³³ Jacob answered: »First make a vow that you will give me your birthright.« Esau made the vow and gave his rights as firstborn to Jacob.

² Jehovah appeared to Isaac and said: »Isaac, stay away from Egypt! I will show you where I want you to go. ³ »You will live there as a foreigner. I will be with you and bless you. I will keep my promise to your father Abraham by giving this land to you and your descendants.

³ »You will live there as a foreigner. I will be with you and bless you. I will keep my promise to your father Abraham by giving this land to you and your descendants. ⁴ »I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all of this land. They will be a blessing to every nation on earth.

¹¹ So Abimelech charged all the people, saying: »He who touches this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.« ¹² Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. Jehovah blessed him.

¹² Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. Jehovah blessed him.

¹⁴ He possessed flocks and herds and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

¹⁴ He possessed flocks and herds and a great household. The Philistines envied him. ¹⁵ The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with dirt. ¹⁶ Abimelech said to Isaac: »Go away from us. You are too powerful for us.«

²⁵ Isaac built an altar there and worshiped Jehovah. Then he set up his camp. His servants dug another well.

²⁸ They answered: »Now we know that Jehovah is with you. We think that there should be a solemn agreement between us. We want you to promise ²⁹ »that you will not harm us. We did not harm you. We were kind to you and let you go peacefully. Now it is clear that Jehovah has blessed you.«

⁴⁶ Rebekah said to Isaac: »I cannot stand Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.«

³ »Almighty God will bless your marriage and give you many children. You will become the father of many nations!

⁸ It was clear to Esau that his father despised the local Canaanite women. ⁹ So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.

¹³ Jehovah was standing above the stairway. He proclaimed: »I am Jehovah, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give the land on which you are lying to you and your descendants.

¹⁵ »Remember, I am with you. I will watch over you wherever you go. I will also bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I do what I have promised you.«

³⁰ »The little that you had before I came has grown to a large amount. Jehovah has blessed you wherever I have been. When may I do something for my own family?«

⁵ He said to them: »I have seen that your father’s attitude toward me is not as friendly as before. The God of my father has been with me.

⁴⁴ »Now, let us make an agreement (covenant) and let it stand as a witness between you and me.«

⁴⁹ and also Mizpah (Watchtower), because he said: »May Jehovah watch between you and me when we are unable to see each other. ⁵⁰ »If you mistreat my daughters or marry other women behind my back, remember that God stands as a witness between you and me.« ⁵¹ Laban also said to Jacob: »Here is the pile of stones. Here is the marker that I have set up between you and me. ⁵² »This pile of stones and this marker stand as witnesses that I will not go past the pile of stones to harm you, and that you will not go past the pile of stones or marker to harm me. ⁵³ »May the God of Abraham and Nahor the God of their father judge between us.« So Jacob swore this oath out of respect for his father Isaac. ⁵⁴ He offered a sacrifice on the mountain. He invited his relatives to eat the meal with him. They ate with him and spent the night on the mountain. ⁵⁵ Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban left and went back home.

²⁰ He set up an altar there and named it God, the God of Israel.

¹ God said to Jacob: »Go to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar to God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.«

² Esau selected his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

⁵ And Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

¹³ These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.

¹¹ Joseph’s brothers were jealous of him. His father kept thinking about the whole matter.

² Jehovah was with Joseph. Joseph became a successful man. He worked in the house of his Egyptian master.

⁵ Jehovah blessed the Egyptian’s household and everything he had in his house and in his fields because of Joseph.

²¹ Jehovah helped him and was good to him. He even made the jailer like Joseph so much that

⁵² He named the second son Ephraim, because God made him fruitful in the land where he had suffered.

¹ Jacob (Israel) packed up everything he owned and left for Egypt. On the way he stopped near the town of Beer-sheba and offered sacrifices to the God his father Isaac had worshiped.

⁷ The children of Israel had many children. They became so numerous and strong that the land was filled with them.

⁹ He said to his people: »There are too many Israelites! They are stronger than we are.

⁶ »I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.« Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

¹⁵ Moses built an altar. He named it: »Jehovah Gives Me Victory.«

¹³ »Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. You took an oath, swearing on yourself. You told them: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give to your descendants all the land I spoke of. It will be their long lasting possession.’«

¹⁶ »You might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might commit spiritual immorality (fornication) with their gods and cause your sons also to commit spiritual immorality with their gods.

³⁸ Nebo, Baal Meon whose names were changed, and Sibmah. These are the names they gave the cities they rebuilt.

⁷ Jehovah said to Joshua: »This day will I begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel. Now they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

⁷ Jephthah answered: »You hated me so much that you forced me to leave my father’s house. Why have you come to me now that you are in trouble?«

²⁸ »Sisera’s mother looked thru the window. From behind the lattice she looked. Why is his chariot so late in coming? She asked. Why are his horses so slow to return?

¹ The people of Israel came from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, as well as from the land of Gilead in the east. They were united in Jehovah’s presence at Mizpah.

³ David again said: »Your father has certainly known that I have found favor in your eyes.« He said: »Do not let Jonathan know this, that he not be grieved. And yet, as Jehovah lives, and you live, there is only a step between death and me.«

¹⁶ »May our promise to each other still be unbroken. If it is broken, Jehovah will punish you.« ¹⁷ Once again Jonathan made David promise to love him. Jonathan loved David as much as he loved himself.

¹⁵ »Will you lead me to those raiders?« David asked him. He answered, »I will if you promise me in God’s name that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master.«

²⁴ And all the people were with Saul. There were about twenty thousand men. The fight was general through all the mountains of Ephraim. Saul made a great error that day. He put the people under an oath, saying: »Let that man be cursed who eats any food before evening. I have taken vengeance on my enemies.« So the people did not eat.

⁹ He was jealous and suspicious of David from that day on.

¹ Solomon, son of David, strengthened his position over the kingdom. Jehovah (YHWH), his God, was with him and made him very powerful.

⁶ When Ahasuerus first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

³ He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, one thousand head of cattle, and five hundred donkeys. He also had a large number of servants. In fact he was the greatest (richest) of all the Orientals in the East!

² »To be sure anger kills a stubborn fool. And jealousy murders a gullible person.

¹² Jehovah blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.

¹ ([Psalm of David]) Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my trouble. Have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

⁴ Those who quickly pursue other gods multiply their sorrows. I will not pour out their sacrificial offerings of blood or use my lips to speak their names.

¹⁹ He brought me out to a wide-open place. He rescued me because he was pleased with me.

¹ ([Psalm of David]) Jehovah is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the stronghold of my life. Who is there to be afraid of? ² Evildoers accosted me to tear me to pieces. My opponents and enemies stumbled and fell. ³ Even though an army sets up camp against me, my heart will not be afraid. Even though a war breaks out against me, I will trust in Jehovah.

⁸ Jehovah says: »I will instruct you. I will teach you the way that you should go. I will advise you as my eyes watch over you.

¹ ([Psalm of David]) Do not be bothered by evildoers. Do not envy those who do wicked things. ² They will quickly dry up like grass and whither away like green plants. ³ Trust Jehovah and do good things. Live in the land, and practice being faithful.

³ Trust Jehovah and do good things. Live in the land, and practice being faithful. ⁴ Be happy with Jehovah and he will provide you with the desires of your heart. ⁵ Dedicate your life to Jehovah. Trust him, and he will act on your behalf. ⁶ He will cause your righteousness to shine like a light, your just cause like the noonday sun.

¹ ([Sons of Korah]) God is our refuge and strength, a ready help in times of trouble. ² Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change and though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea.

⁶ The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

¹⁶ There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field. ¹⁷ His name will endure forever. His name will continue as long as the sun shines. May all nations be blessed through him and call him blessed.

¹² »Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my fathers.

⁹ He made this covenant with Abraham and gave his oath to Isaac.

¹⁵ He said: »Do not touch my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.«

¹ Praise Jehovah! Blessed is the person who respects Jehovah and is happy to obey his commandments. ² His descendants will grow strong on the earth. The family of the upright will be blessed. ³ Wealth and riches will be in his home. His righteousness continues forever.

¹⁰ The wicked sees this and becomes angry. He angrily grits his teeth and disappears. The hope of the wicked will perish (be destroyed).

¹⁵ Jehovah, the maker of heaven and earth, will bless you.

¹⁷ I will bring a song of thanksgiving to you as a sacrifice. I will call on the name of Jehovah.

⁵ In my distress I called to Jehovah; he answered me and set me free.

¹ Blessed are all who reverence Jehovah and live his way. ² You will certainly eat what your own hands have provided. Blessings to you! May things go well for you! ³ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine inside your home. Your children will be like young olive trees around your table. ⁴ This is how Jehovah will bless the person who fears him. ⁵ May Jehovah bless you from Zion so that you may see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life. ⁶ May you live to see your children's children. Let there be peace in Israel!

¹³ Let our garners be full, furnishing every kind of produce, our flocks bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; ¹⁴ Let our cattle bear without mishap and without loss. Let there be no outcry in our streets!

⁴ Search for wisdom as if it were silver. Hunt for it as if it were hidden treasure! ⁵ If you do these things you will have respect for Jehovah and you will find the true knowledge of God!

¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed. Rejoice with the wife of your youth. ¹⁹ She is like a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Always be delighted with her love.

⁴ He becomes poor who deals with a lazy hand. The hand of the diligent makes rich.

²² The blessing of Jehovah makes rich and he adds no grief to it.

²⁹ He who has sex with another mans wife; anyone who embraces her will not be innocent.

⁶ I looked out the window of my house.

⁴ The lazy man desires and has nothing. The diligent man will be made rich.

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

²⁵ Fear of man brings a snare (trap). He who trusts in Jehovah will be safe.

⁴ I have learned why people work so hard to succeed. It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is vanity! It is like chasing the wind.

⁹ Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. That is your share in this life and in your labor under the sun.

⁶ In the morning sow your seed. In the evening do not withhold your hand. For you do not know which shall prosper. Whether they both will alike be good.

⁹ »My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks through the windows, gazing through the lattice.

¹⁵ »A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.«

² »Truly God is my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid. Jehovah… Jehovah is my strength and my song! He has become my salvation.«

¹ Jehovah created Jacob and formed Israel. Jehovah says: »Do not be afraid for I have reclaimed you. I have called you by my name. You are mine. ² »When you go through the sea, I am with you. When you go through rivers, they will not sweep you away. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not harm you.

² »When you go through the sea, I am with you. When you go through rivers, they will not sweep you away. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not harm you.

⁵ »Do not be afraid for I am with you. I will bring your descendants from the east and gather you from the west.

² »‘This is what Jehovah says, the one who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: ‘Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

⁷ »Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your hearts. Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults.

¹² »I, even I, am the one who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men? The sons of men are like grass!

¹⁰ »‘Do not fear for I am with you! Do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.’

¹³ »I AM JEHOVAH, YOUR GOD! I take hold of your right hand and say to you: Do not fear; I will help you. ¹⁴ »Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I will help you. This is the declaration of Jehovah, your Redeemer, and the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵ »See I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them. You will reduce the hills to chaff.

¹⁴ This is what Jehovah says: »The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and those tall Sabeans will come over to you and will be yours. They will walk behind you. They will come to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you. They will say: ‘God is with you and there is no other. There is no other god!’

¹⁴ »The sons of those who oppress you will bow in front of you. All who loathe you will bow at your feet. They will call you the city of Jehovah, Zion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

⁶ »You will be called the priests of Jehovah. You will be spoken of as ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of nations, you will boast in their riches.

⁹ »Then their offspring will be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples. All who see them will recognize them because they are the blessed offspring of Jehovah.«

⁵ »Your sons will marry you like a young man marries a woman. Your God will rejoice over the same way a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.

¹⁷ »For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no more be mentioned by their name.

²⁰ You will give truth to Jacob, and show loving-kindness (unchanging love) to Abraham. For you have sworn this to our fathers from the days of old.

⁸ »Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: ‘He sent me after glory! He sent me to the nations that plundered you. For he that touches you touches the pupil of his eye.’

¹² »There will be peace for the seed. The vine will give its fruit. The ground will yield its increase. The heavens will offer their dew and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things!

² Jehovah of Hosts declared: »I will remove the names of the idols from the land! They will no longer be remembered. I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to leave the land.

¹⁹ »Whoever disobeys even the least of the commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. On the other hand whoever obeys and teaches others to obey the Law will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

⁷ »Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened for you.

²⁴ »Everyone who hears my words, and does them is like a wise man that builds his house on a rock.

²⁸ »Do not fear those who kill the body. They are not able to take away your [everlasting] life. Instead, fear him who is able to destroy both life and body in the ever-burning fires. (Greek: Gehenna: continuously burning trash fires in the valley of Hinnom.)

⁸ »Some fell on good ground and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.

²³ »He that was sown upon the good ground hears the word, and understands it. He bears fruit, producing sometimes a hundredfold, sometimes sixty, and sometimes thirty.«

³² »God said: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living!«

⁸ »Others fell on good ground and yielded fruit. It grew up, increased and produced thirty fold, and sixty fold, and a hundred fold.«

³² »Do not fear little flock for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

¹⁰ Jesus answered: »If you know the gift of God and who asked you for a drink, you would have asked him to give you living water.« ¹¹ The woman said to him: »Sir, you do not have anything with which to draw water and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

³⁸ »Rivers of living water will flow from the innermost being of the man who believes in me. This is according to the scriptures.«

²⁵ »You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made with our fathers. He said to Abraham: ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed in your seed.’

²⁷ »The one who was treating his neighbor unjustly pushed him away, saying: ‘Who made you our ruler and judge?

³² »He said: I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and did not dare to look further.

³⁵ »This Moses whom they refused, saying: Who made you ruler and judge? God sent him to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.

⁹ »The family heads were jealous of Joseph and sold him as a slave into Egypt. However, God was with him.

¹⁴ »Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his family, seventy-five people.

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

¹⁸ When it is possible, be peaceable with all men.

⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth.

² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

²⁵ The secrets of his heart are made known. So falling down on his face he will worship God, and report, »God is truly among you.«

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable. Always have plenty to do in the work of the Lord, for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

¹⁰ The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness. ¹¹ You will be made rich in everything. And you can be generous on every occasion. This will cause thanksgiving to God through us.

⁸ The Scripture revealed ahead of time, that God justified the people of the nations by faith. He preached the good news beforehand to Abraham. He said: »In you will all the nations be blessed.«

¹⁶ The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He did not say to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to your seed, which is Christ.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision means anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

⁷ Do not be deceived. God is not mocked! A man will harvest what he sows. ⁸ He that sows to his own flesh will harvest corruption of the flesh. But he that sows to the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.

²⁵ Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it.

⁹ The things that you have learned, received, heard and saw in me; do these things and the God of peace will be with you.

⁹ Do not lie to one another, seeing that you got rid of the old self with its evil practices.

¹⁶ Men swear by someone greater then themselves: and an oath for confirmation to them puts an end to the problem. ¹⁷ When God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he confirmed it with an oath.

² God approved of the men of old because of their faith.

⁸ By faith, when Abraham was called, he obeyed. He went to a place that he was to receive for an inheritance. He went even though he did not know where he was going. ⁹ By faith he became an alien in the Promised Land. It was not his land. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob. They were heirs with him of the same promise.

¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. ¹⁴ Those who say such things declare that they are seeking a country of their own. ¹⁵ If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they came, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ They desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Because of this, God is not ashamed to be called their God. He has prepared a city for them!

¹⁴ Pursue peace and holiness with all people, for no man will see the Lord without it.

¹⁶ Let no one become immoral or unspiritual like Esau. He sold his birthright for a single meal!

⁵ You should be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have, for he has said: »I will not leave you. I will not forsake you.« ⁶ So that with good confidence (courage) we say: »Jehovah is my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do to me?« (Psalm 56:11)

²¹ Was Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

⁹ Be hospitable to one another without complaining.

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. He laid his right hand on me and said: »Do not fear. I am the first and the last:

⁹ »'I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, for they lie; I will make them come and bow down before your feet. They will know that I have loved you.