Numbers 25 Cross References - Thomson

¹ While Israel abode at Sattin, the people profaned themselves to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, ² who invited them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols, ³ and Israel consecrated himself to Belphegor. Whereupon the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel; ⁴ and the Lord said to Moses, Take all those leaders of the people and make a public example of them, for the Lord, in the face of the sun; so shall the wrath of the Lord be turned away from Israel. ⁵ Then Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Kill ye, every one, him of his family, who hath consecrated himself to Belphegor. ⁶ And behold there came a man of the children of Israel, who conducted his brother to a Madianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and before all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. ⁷ Upon seeing this, Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, started up from among the congregation, and taking a javelin in his hand, ⁸ went after the man; the Israelite, into the bed chamber, and ran them both through, the man, the Israelite, quite through, and the woman into her belly. Whereupon the plague stopped from the children of Israel. ⁹ Now they who had died of the plague were twenty four thousand. ¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, ¹¹ Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath stayed my wrath from Israel, by shewing a zeal for me among them, so that in my jealousy I have not utterly consumed the children of Israel. ¹² Therefore say, Behold I give him the covenant of peace. ¹³ It shall be to him, and to his seed after him, an everlasting covenant of the priests' office, because he shewed a zeal for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel. ¹⁴ Now the name of the man; the Israelite, who was slain with the Madianitish woman, was Zambri, son of Salmon, the chief of the patriarchal house of the Symeonites; ¹⁵ and the name of the Madianitish woman, who was slain, was Chasbi, a daughter of Sour, the chief of the clan of Ommath, which is the head family of Madiam. Num 25:l6 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁷ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, Treat as enemies the Madianites, and smite them, ¹⁸ for they are acting as enemies against you, with craftiness, in all their attempts to beguile you by means of Phogor, and by means of Chasbi, the daughter of a prince of Madiam, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague, on account of Phogor.

¹⁵ And Moses said to them, Why have you saved all the women alive? ¹⁶ For they, by the direction of Balaam, were the cause of Israel's apostatizing, and transgressing the commands of the Lord, for the sake of Phogor: and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord.

⁴⁹ And when they were encamped on the Jordan, from Aisimoth to Belsa, which is on the west of Moab,

¹ Now Joshua son of Nave had sent from Sat tin two young men to spy, saying, Go up, and take a view of the land, and particularly of Jericho. And the two young men, having set out, entered Jericho, and went to the house of a harlot, whose name was Rahab, and lodged there.

¹ Thereupon Joshua arose early next morning, and removed from Sattin; and having come to the Jordan, they halted there some time before they crossed.

²⁶ That bitterer than death is that whole class of women who are prostitutes. Though their heart is nets and their hands chains, he who is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from them; but a sinner shall be taken by them.

⁵ my people call now to remembrance what counsel Balak king of Moab took against thee; and what answer was made him by Balaam son of Beor, That from Schoinon the righteousness of the Lord may be made known to Galgal.

⁸ Nor let us commit fornication as some of them did, and there fell in one day twenty three thousand:

¹⁴ Nevertheless I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

⁵ thou shalt not worship them; nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a zealous God, retributing to them who hate me the sins of fathers upon children to the third and fourth generation;

²⁴ Thou shalt not worship their gods nor serve them. Thou shalt not do according to their works; but destroy utterly and break in pieces their pillars

¹⁵ Peradventure, shouldst thou make a covenant with those settled in that land, when they go a whoring after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and invite thee thou mayst eat with them; ¹⁶ and shouldst thou take their daughters for thy sons and give some of thy daughters to their sons, thy daughters may go a whoring after their gods and thy sons may go a whoring after their gods.

³⁸ The fat of those sacrifices you ate And drank the wine of their libations? Let them arise and help you, And let them be your protectors.

¹⁷ Is the sin of Phogor a small matter to you? Because we have not been cleansed from it even to this day, though there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord;

⁷ That you may have no fellowship with those nations which are left, the names of their gods must not be mentioned among you; nor shall you perform religious service to them, nor worship them;

¹⁶ when you transgress the covenant of the Lord our God, which he hath commanded us, and go and serve other gods and worship them.

¹ Now king Solomon was immoderately fond of women. He had seven hundred wives, princesses; and three hundred concubines; and he took for wives strange women besides Pharao's daughter, women of Moab and Ammon, Syrians, Idumeans, Chettites and Amorites. ² To those of the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the Israelites, You shall not go in unto them nor shall they come in unto you, lest they turn your hearts after their idols; to these Solomon was attached by love: ³ For when his strange wives had turned his heart after their gods, ⁴ so that when he grew old his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been. ⁵ [Omitted] ⁶ [Omitted] ⁷ then Solomon built high places for Chamos the idol of Moab, and for their king the idol of the Ammonites, and for Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians: ⁸ and thus he did for all his strange wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their idols.

¹⁸ But thou shalt leave in Israel seven thousand men, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which hath not worshipped him.

²⁸ When they consecrated themselves to Belphegor; and ate the sacrifices offered to dead men;

¹⁰ [J] I found Israel as a bunch of grapes in a wilderness; and I saw their fathers like an early watcher in a fig orchard. They went to Belphagor and abandoned themselves to shame, and became abominable, compared with the beloved.

²⁰ No. I only say, that what the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. Now, I would not have you to be partakers in the worship of the demons.

²⁷ And if any of the disbelievers invite you to an entertainment, and you chuse to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience sake. ²⁸ But if any one say to you, This was sacrificed to an idol, eat not of it for the sake of him who gave the information; and for conscience sake; for the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.

¹⁶ And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God hath said, "Because I will dwell among them and walk about among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people; ¹⁷ therefore come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you,

⁵ Then Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Kill ye, every one, him of his family, who hath consecrated himself to Belphegor.

³ Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did because of Beelphegor; that as for every man who went after Beelphegor; him the Lord our God destroyed from among you. ⁴ But as for you who adhered to the Lord your God, you are all alive this day.

¹⁴ the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers, who spoiled them, and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

²⁰ then was the anger of the Lord kindled against Israel, and he said, Because this nation have forsaken my covenant, which I gave in charge to their fathers, and have not hearkened to my voice,

¹¹ whoever knoweth the power of thine anger, be taught, on the account of the terror of thy wrath,

²⁸ When they consecrated themselves to Belphegor; and ate the sacrifices offered to dead men; ²⁹ and provoked him with their devices; and the plague was raging among them:

⁴ [Omitted]

²⁵ And when Moses had chosen able men from among all Israel and made them rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens,

¹¹ Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath stayed my wrath from Israel, by shewing a zeal for me among them, so that in my jealousy I have not utterly consumed the children of Israel.

¹⁴ Now the name of the man; the Israelite, who was slain with the Madianitish woman, was Zambri, son of Salmon, the chief of the patriarchal house of the Symeonites; ¹⁵ and the name of the Madianitish woman, who was slain, was Chasbi, a daughter of Sour, the chief of the clan of Ommath, which is the head family of Madiam. Num 25:l6 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁸ for they are acting as enemies against you, with craftiness, in all their attempts to beguile you by means of Phogor, and by means of Chasbi, the daughter of a prince of Madiam, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague, on account of Phogor.

³ Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did because of Beelphegor; that as for every man who went after Beelphegor; him the Lord our God destroyed from among you.

⁶ And if thy brother, the son of thy father, or of thy mother, or thine own son, or daughter, or the wife in thy bosom, or a friend who is as thine own soul, speak privately to thee saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; ⁷ any of the gods of the nations around you, of those near thee, or those far distant from thee, from one end of the earth to the other; ⁸ thou shalt not consent, nor hearken to him; neither shall thine eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare him, nor conceal him. ⁹ Thou shalt surely inform against him, and thy hands shall be upon him, among the foremost, to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the whole people.

¹³ there are wicked men gone forth among you, who have seduced all the inhabitants of their land, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you know not;

¹⁵ thou shalt surely destroy all the inhabitants of that land, with the slaughter of the sword. With an Anathema thou shalt devote to destruction, it and all that are in it.

¹⁷ nor shall any thing of what is devoted to destruction cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his wrath, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion on thee, and multiply thee, in the manner he solemnly promised thy fathers,

²³ his body shall not remain on the gibbet; but you shall bury it the same day. Because every one who is hanged on a gibbet is accursed of God; therefore you shall not defile the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possesion.

²⁵ Joshua said to Achar, Why hast thou destroyed us? The Lord destroy thee, as at this day! Then all Israel stoned him with stones. ²⁶ And when they had raised over him a great heap of stones, the Lord ceased from the fierceness of his anger. For this cause he called that place Emek-Achor, which is its name at this day.

² convoked all the sons of Israel, their senate, and their chiefs, and their judges, and their under officers, and said to them, I am grown old, and am far advanced in years.

⁶ Give us seven men of his sons, and let us crucify to the Lord at Gabaon those of Saul who are the choice of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

⁹ and delivered them into the hands of the Gabaonites, and they crucified them on the mount before the Lord. So these seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest of first fruits, in the beginning of the barley harvest.

⁹ Then Bugathan one of the chamberlains said to the king, Behold Hainan hath prepared a gallows for Mordecai who spoke for the king. There is at Haman's house a gallows actually erected fifty cubits high. Thereupon the king said, Let him be hanged thereon. ¹⁰ So Haman was hanged on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king's anger was appeased.

³ Thou hast caused all thine anger to cease: thou hast turned away from thy fierce wrath. ⁴ Turn us, God of our salvation, and turn away thy wrath from us.

⁹ "Who knoweth but God will relent and turn away from his fierce wrath, so that we may not perish.

²¹ but look out for thyself from among all the people, for able, pious men, men of integrity who hate pride; and set these over them as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens;

²⁵ And when Moses had chosen able men from among all Israel and made them rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, ²⁶ with orders to administer justice to the people on all occasions, and that they should lay before him the matter which was too high for them; but the causes easily determined they themselves should decide;

²⁰ He who sacrificeth to any god save to the Lord alone shall be destroyed by death.

²⁷ Then Moses said to them, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Gird ye every man his sword on his thigh and pass through and wheel about from gate to gate through the camp and slay every man his brother and every man his neighbour and every one him who is nearest of kin to him. ²⁸ And the children of Levi did as Moses spoke to them and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

⁶ And if thy brother, the son of thy father, or of thy mother, or thine own son, or daughter, or the wife in thy bosom, or a friend who is as thine own soul, speak privately to thee saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known;

⁹ Thou shalt surely inform against him, and thy hands shall be upon him, among the foremost, to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the whole people.

³ and they have gone, and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or the moon, or any of the whole host of heaven, which he hath not commanded thee, ⁴ and information be given thee, and thou hast made strict inquiry, and behold the thing hath been actually done, and such an abomination hath been committed in Israel, ⁵ thou shalt bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, till they die.

⁴⁰ Then Elias said to the people, Seize the prophets of Baal. Let none of them escape. So they seized them and brought them to Elias, down to the brook Kison and slew them there.

³⁰ But if any person, whether a native or a proselyte, shall presumptuously transgress, he provoketh God; that person shall be cut off from among his people. ³¹ Because he hath despised the statute of the Lord, and hath broken his commandments, that person shall be blotted out: his sin shall be upon him.

⁴ and said to the Senate of Madiam, Now will this congregation lick up all around us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. Now Balak, son of Sepphor, was at that time king of Moab,

² Avenge the cause of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and afterward thou shalt be gathered to thy people.

⁹ And having taken for a prey the women of the Madianites, and their furniture, and their cattle, and all their goods, and spoiled their army, ¹⁰ and burned all their cities in which they dwelt, and all their sheepcots, with fire, ¹¹ and taken all the prey thereof, and all the spoils thereof, both of man and beast, ¹² they brought to Moses, and Eleazar, and to all the Israelites, the captives, and the spoils, and the prey, to the camp at Araboth-Moab, on the Jordan, over against Jericho. ¹³ And when Moses went out, accompanied with Eleazar the priest, and all the chiefs of the congregation, to meet them without the camp, ¹⁴ Moses was angry at the officers of the army; at the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, who came from the war.

¹⁹ Now in case any one shall hear the words of this curse, and bless himself in his heart, saying, Good luck betide me! I will walk in the error of my own heart, that the sinner may not involve the guiltless in ruin with himself. ²⁰ God will not be propitious to him, but most assuredly the anger of the Lord, and his indignation, will then be kindled against that man; and all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book, shall cleave to him; and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ The Lord will indeed separate him, from all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book of the law.

⁴ And when the messenger of the Lord had spoken these words to all the children of Israel, the people wept aloud.

¹ When these things were done, the chiefs came to me and said, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the. neighbouring tribes. In their abominations, the Ethites, the Pherezites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and the Moserites, and the Amorites, are the same with the Chananites. ² For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves, and their sons; and the holy seed is mingled with the tribes of the neighbouring regions. And the hand of the chiefs is principally concerned in this transgression. ³ And when I heard this I rent my garments, and started up and tore the hair of my head and my beard. Then I sat down mourning. ⁴ And there assembled to me every one who, in the defection of the captivity, continued to follow the word of the God of Israel: but as for me, I continued sitting disconsolate, till the evening sacrifice.

⁶ Esdras went from the house of God to the treasury office of Joanan, son of Elisab. Though he went there, he neither ate bread nor drank water, for he mourned for the transgression of the captivity. ⁷ And they issued a proclamation through Juda and Jerusalem, to all the children of the captivity to assemble at Jerusalem, ⁸ and that whoever did not come within three days, according to the order of the chiefs and the elders, all his substance should be anathematised, and he himself should be excommunicated from the congregation of the captivity. ⁹ Accordingly all the men of Juda and Benjamin, assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was now the ninth month. On the twentieth of this month all the people sat in the street of the house of God, because of their consternation at the decree, and because of the weather.

¹² Though the Lord of hosts, on that day, called for mourning, and lamentation, and for shaving of hair and girding with sackcloth,

³ and retained many shepherds for a stumbling block to thyself: yet with the face of a harlot and behaving indecently before them all,

¹² [Omitted]

²³ So as Judin read three or four folds, he cut them off with the secretary's knife and4 threw them into the fire in the grate, till the whole roll was consumed in the fire.

¹⁵ Then hear the word of the Lord, Thus said the Lord, If you set your face for Egypt, and go there to make your abode; ¹⁶ the sword of which you are afraid shall find you in the land of Egypt; and the famine which you wish to avoid shall follow and overtake you in Egypt, and there you shall die. ¹⁷ For all the men even all the strangers who have set their faces towards the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall perish by the sword and by famine, and not one of them shall escape from those evils which I bring upon them. ¹⁸ For thus said the Lord, As my wrath was poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured out upon you, if you go to Egypt; and you shall be wasted and made slaves, and be for an execration and reproach; and shall never see this land again.

⁴ So Joanan and all the generals of the army and all the people hearkened not to the voice of the Lord to dwell in the land of Juda. ⁵ And Joanan and all the generals of the army took all the remnant of Juda, who had returned to dwell in the land, ⁶ the men fit for war, and the women and the children which were left and the king's daughters, even all the souls which Nabusardan had left with Godolias son of Achikam, including Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch son of Nerias, and went to Egypt. ⁷ Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, therefore when they came to Taphnas,

¹⁶ In regard to this word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, ¹⁷ we will not hearken to thee; for we will continue to perform every word which shall proceed from our mouth to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her; as we and our fathers and our kings and our chiefs did in the cities of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem; for we had then plenty of bread and were in happy circumstances and saw no evils:

⁴ and said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem and put a mark on the forehead of those men who are sighing and sorrowing for all the transgressions which are committed among them; ⁵ and to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye after him into the city and smite and spare not with your eyes nor shew compassion. ⁶ Destroy utterly old men and young, virgins and infants and married women; but go not near any of those who have the mark on them. Begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the men the elders who were in the house.

¹⁷ At the foot of the altar, let the priests who minister to the Lord, weep, and say, Spare, Lord, thy people; and give not up thy heritage to reproach; for the nations to rule over them. That they may not say among the nations, "Where is their God?"

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sin; ensnaring unstable souls; having a heart practised in greediness; an execrable race; ¹⁵ having forsaken the right road they have gone quite astray, following the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity,

¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the gloom of everlasting darkness.

²⁵ And Eleazar the son of Aaron had taken to wife one of the daughters of Phoutiel, and she bore to him Phineas. These were the heads of the patriarchal family of the Levites according to their genealogies.

³⁰ When Phineas the priest, and all the chief's of the congregation of Israel who were with him, heard the words which the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, had spoken, they were pleased. ³¹ And Phineas the priest said to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, This day we perceive that the Lord is with us, because you have not committed a trespass before the Lord, and because you have delivered the Israelites out of the hand of the Lord.

²⁸ and Phineas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, stood before it in those days. And the children of Israel inquired of the Lord saying, Shall we proceed again to go out to battle against the children of Benjamin our brethren? And the Lord said, Go up. To-morrow I will deliver them into your hands.

¹⁰ [Omitted] ¹¹ [Omitted]

⁹ But the evil spirit from God came upon Saul when he was sitting in his house, with his spear in his hand, and while David's hands were engaged in playing,

³⁰ Phineas stood up and made atonement; and the plague was stayed:

⁴⁶ Whereupon they fell on their face. And Moses said to Aaron, Take the censer, and put therein fire from the altar, and throw incense on it, and carry it with all haste to the camp, and make atonement for them; for wrath is gone forth from the presence of the Lord, and hath begun to slay the people. ⁴⁷ So Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran into the congregation; [Now the destruction among the people had already begun] and he threw on the incense, and made atonement for the people, ⁴⁸ and stood between the dead and the living; and the plague ceased.

²⁵ And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered whole burnt offerings and peace offerings. Now Solomon afterwards enlarged this altar; for at first it was small. Thus the Lord was entreated for the land, and the slaughter was stopped from Israel.

²² And David said to Orna, Grant me the place of this threshing floor of thine, that I may build thereon an altar to the Lord; grant it to me for its worth in money, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

²⁹ and provoked him with their devices; and the plague was raging among them: ³⁰ Phineas stood up and made atonement; and the plague was stayed: ³¹ and it was counted to him for righteousness to all generations forever.

³⁷ Now the men who spoke ill against the land were struck dead before the Lord,

⁴⁹ Now they who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on the account of Kore. ⁵⁰ When Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and the plague had ceased,

⁴ and the Lord said to Moses, Take all those leaders of the people and make a public example of them, for the Lord, in the face of the sun; so shall the wrath of the Lord be turned away from Israel. ⁵ Then Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Kill ye, every one, him of his family, who hath consecrated himself to Belphegor.

¹⁶ For they, by the direction of Balaam, were the cause of Israel's apostatizing, and transgressing the commands of the Lord, for the sake of Phogor: and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord.

⁵ If any man cause a field or a vineyard to be eaten and shall send out his cattle to feed upon the field of another, with the produce of his own field he shall make restitution; and if he shall cause a whole field to be eaten up; with his choicest field or his choicest vineyard he shall make compensation.

¹⁴ For you must not worship other gods; for the Lord God, a zealous name, is a zealous God.

²⁴ for the Lord thy God is a consuming fire; a zealous God.

²⁰ God will not be propitious to him, but most assuredly the anger of the Lord, and his indignation, will then be kindled against that man; and all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book, shall cleave to him; and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

¹⁶ They exasperated me with strange gods, With their abominations they provoked me,

²¹ They have provoked me by what is not God; Have exasperated me with their idols; I therefore will provoke them by what is not a nation, By a foolish nation I will vex them.

¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You may not be able to serve the Lord, because he is the Holy God, and will be zealous. He will not bear with your sins and your iniquities.

¹⁴ And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan, and the bones of them who were crucified, in the land of Benjamin, on the one side, in the tomb of his father Kis. And when they had done all that the king commanded, God, after that, hearkened to the land.

²² Roboam did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him with all those things which their fathers had done, with all the sins which they had committed.

⁵⁸ They provoked him with their mounts, and with their graven images moved him to jealousy.

²³ whereupon he spake of destroying them, had not his chosen Moses stood before him in the breach, to turn him from his fierce indignation, that he might not utterly destroy.

³⁸ And I will punish thee with the punishment of an adulteress, and involve thee in the blood of wrath and jealousy;

² God is zealous. The Lord is about to take vengeance: the Lord is about to take vengeance with wrath: the Lord is about to take vengeance on his adversaries, and to destroy utterly his enemies, himself.

¹⁸ . And their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of the indignation of the Lord. By the fire of his zeal the whole land shall be consumed, for he will bring speedy destruction on all the inhabitants of this land.

⁸ [J] On that very account, wait thou for me, saith the Lord, until the day of my resurrection for a testimony. For this judgment of mine is for the assemblies of nations; to admit kings, to pour out all the fury of my wrath on them. For by the fire of my zeal all this land shall be utterly destroyed,

³⁶ He who believeth in the son, hath an everlasting life; but he who disbelieveth the son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God will abide on him.

²² Are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

² for I am jealous of you with a godly jealousy. For I fitted you for one husband only, that I might present you as a chaste virgin to the Christ;

²⁹ and the Amalekites dwell in the land to the south, and the Chettites, and the Evites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, inhabit the hilly country; and the Chananites dwell on the sea shore, and along the river Jordan;

¹⁰ and that thy hills should no more be moved; so my kindness for thee shall not fail, nor shall the covenant of thy peace ever be changed: for he said for thee, Be appeased, Lord."

²⁵ and with this David I will make a covenant of peace, and remove the wild beasts entirely out of the land; so that they may dwell in the desert and sleep in the Woods.

⁴ Now you must know, since I sent this command to you to be my covenant with the Levites, saith the Lord Almighty, ⁵ that my covenant of life and peace was with him; and I gave it to him that I might be greatly feared and that he might be awed at my name.

¹ Behold I am about to send my messenger and he will examine the way before me. And the Lord whom ye seek; even the angel of the covenant whom you desire will come suddenly to his temple. Behold he is coming, saith the Lord Almighty.

⁹ and gird them with girdles and put the tiaras on them. And the office of serving me as priests shall be theirs for ever. Then thou shalt consecrate the bands of Aaron, and the bands of his sons;

³⁰ And on the following day Moses said to the people, You have committed a great sin, now therefore I will go up to God that I may appease him for this sin of yours.

¹⁵ and anoint them as thou didst their father and they shall serve me as priests. And this unction of the priesthood shall belong to them forever throughout their generations.

⁴⁶ Whereupon they fell on their face. And Moses said to Aaron, Take the censer, and put therein fire from the altar, and throw incense on it, and carry it with all haste to the camp, and make atonement for them; for wrath is gone forth from the presence of the Lord, and hath begun to slay the people.

¹² therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before the face of their enemies. They shall turn back before their enemies, because they are become devoted. I will no more be with you, unless you remove the Anathema from among you.

³⁰ For this cause, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, I said, Thy house, and the house of thy father, shall go out before me for ever; but now the Lord saith, Far be this from me; for I will honour them only who honour me. And he who despiseth me shall be despised.

³ So king David sent for the Gabaonites, and said to them, What shall I do for you; and by what means can I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord?

²⁷ So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being the priest of the Lord, so that the word of the Lord was fulfilled, which he spoke against the house of Eli at Selom.

¹⁰ To which he replied, I have been very zealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel hath forsaken thee. They have demolished thy altars and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I alone am left and they seek my life to take it.

¹⁴ To which Elias replied, I have been very zealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant. They have demolished thy altars and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it.

⁴ Eleazar begot Phineas; and Phineas begot Abisu; ⁵ Abisu begot Bokki, and Bokki begot Ozi; ⁶ Ozi begot Zaraia; and Zaraia begot Mariel; ⁷ Mariel begot Amaria; and Amaria begot Achitob; ⁸ Achitob begot Sadok; and Sadok begot Achimaas; ⁹ Achimaas begot Azarias; and Azarias begot Joanan; ¹⁰ Joanan begot Azarias who officiated as priest in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem. ¹¹ And Azarias begot Amaria, and Amaria begot Achitob; ¹² and Achitob begot Sadok; and Sadok begot Achimaas; and Achimaas begot Azarias; and Azarias begot Amarias; and Amarias begot Sadok; and Sadok begot Salom; ¹³ and Salom begot Chelkias; and Chelkias begot Azarias; ¹⁴ and Azarias begot Saraias; and Saraias begot Josadak; ¹⁵ and Josadak went into captivity with Juda and Jerusalem by the hand of Nabuchodonosar.

⁵⁰ And these were the sons of Aaron, Eleazar his son, Phineas his son, Abisu his son, ⁵¹ Bokki his son, Ozi his son, Saraia his son, ⁵² Mariel his son, Amaria his son, Achitob his son, ⁵³ Sadok his son, Achimaas his son.

⁹ For my zeal for thy house hath consumed me; and on me have fallen the reproaches of them, who reproached thee.

³¹ and it was counted to him for righteousness to all generations forever.

¹³⁹ My zeal for thee hath consumed me; because mine enemies forgot thy words.

⁶ But you shall be called priests of the Lord, ministers of God. You shall eat the wealth of nations and for their riches be admired.

¹⁷ Then did his disciples remember that it was written, "My zeal for thy house hath consumed me."

³ I indeed am a Jew, born at Tarsus, in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, instructed accurately at the feet of Gamaliel in the law of our fathers, being a zealous worshipper of God as you all are at this day; ⁴ one who persecuted this sect to death, binding and delivering into custody both men and women, ⁵ as even the chief priest and the whole Sanhedrim can witness for me; from whom when I had received letters to the brethren at Damascus, I went with a design to bring those also who were there, in chains to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.

² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For being ignorant of the righteousness of God's appointment, and seeking to establish a righteousness of their own, they did not submit themselves to God's righteousness. ⁴ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one who believeth:

¹⁷ whence it behoved him to be made like his brethren in all things; that he might be a merciful and faithful chief priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

¹¹ Again, if perfectness had been by the Levitical priesthood [for it was for this that the people received the law] what further need was there of saying that another priest should be raised up after the order of Melchisedek, and not after the order of Aaron?

¹⁷ For he testifieth, saying, "Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedek." ¹⁸ Here then is a disannulment of a preceding commandment on account of its weakness and inutility,

⁵ and you yourselves as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ;

⁹ but you being a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people peculiarly set apart that you may publish the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light

² and he is an atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world.

⁶ and made us kings and priests to God, even his father to him be the glory and dominion for the ages of the ages. Amen.

²³ on the review of them, of the tribe of Symeon, were fifty nine thousand three hundred.

¹⁴ These communities of Symeon, from the muster of them, were twenty two thousand two hundred.

⁷ Now therefore let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Keep watch and do your duty; for with the Lord our God there is no injustice, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

⁸ and in the slaughter they slew the kings of Madian, Evin, and Rokon, and Sur, and Ur, and Robok, the five kings of Madian. They slew also Balaam, son of Beor, with the sword among their slain.

²¹ even all the cities of Misor, and all the kingdom of Seon king of the Amorites, whom Moses slew, and with him the leaders of Madiam, Evi, and Robok, and Sour, and Our, and Kobe, the chief; at the rifling of Sion, when the Israelites slew the inhabitants of Sion, and in the route,

¹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² Avenge the cause of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and afterward thou shalt be gathered to thy people. ³ Whereupon Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm men from among you and array them before the Lord, against Madian, to pour vengeance from the Lord on Madian;

⁶ render to her as she hath rendered to you and requite her double according to her works. In the cup in which she mingled, mingle for her a double portion.

¹³ And the Lord God said to the woman, "Why hast thou done this?" And the woman said, "The serpent seduced me and I ate."

¹⁰ And Abimelech said to him, Why hast thou dealt thus with us? In a little while some person of my family might have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought guilt upon us through ignorance.

²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to thee, that thou hast brought upon them this great sin?

³⁵ Now when the Lord had smitten the people for making the bull which Aaron had made,

³ but I am afraid lest by some means as the serpent by his subtilty deceived Eve, so your affections should be corrupted from their singleness for the Christ.

¹⁸ For uttering, with a solemn tone, swelling words of vanity, they by the lusts of the flesh. by acts of lasciviousness, ensnare them who are indeed flying from those conversant in error;