Ruth Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now when the Judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man went from Bethlehem Juda to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. ² The man's name was Elimelech, and his wife's name was Noemin, and the names of his two sons, Maalon and Chelaion. They were Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. They went to the country of Moab, and while they were there, ³ Elimelech, the husband of Noemin, died, and she was left with her two sons. ⁴ And they took for themselves wives of the daughters of Moab, the name of the one was Orpha, and the name of the other Ruth. And when they had dwelt there about ten years, ⁵ both Maalon and Chelaion died, so that the woman was bereaved of her husband, and her two sons. ⁶ Whereupon she arose with her two daughters in law, and set out on her return from the country of Moab; for she had heard, in the country of Moab, that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread. ⁷ So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters in law. And when they had travelled some part of the way on their return to the land of Juda, ⁸ Noemin said to her two daughters in law, Go, I pray you, return each to her mother's house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have done with the dead, and with me. ⁹ The Lord grant, that you may find rest, each in the house of her husband. So she kissed them, and they wept aloud, ¹⁰ and said to her, We will go back with thee to thy people. ¹¹ But Noemin said, Return, I pray you, my daughters! for why should you go with me? Have I yet any more sons in my womb to be husbands for you? ¹² Return, I pray you, my daughters! For I am too old to have a husband; for should I say, I am in condition to marry, and should I bear sons, ¹³ would you wait for them till they grow up; or should you be restrained by them from having husbands? No, my daughters. Indeed it grieveth me much for your sakes, that the hand of the Lord hath gone forth against me. ¹⁴ And when they had raised their voice, and wept again, Orpha kissed her mother in law, and returned to her people; but Ruth followed her. ¹⁵ Then Noemin said to Ruth; Behold thy sister in law is gone back to her people, and to her gods, return thou also, I pray thee, after thy sister in law. ¹⁶ Whereupon Ruth said, Force me not to leave thee, nor to return from following thee; for whither soever thou goest, I will go; and wherever thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people; and thy God, my God; ¹⁷ and wherever thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if any thing but death shall part me and thee. ¹⁸ And when Noemin saw that she was steadfastly determined to go with her, she refrained from speaking to her any more. ¹⁹ So they both proceeded on till they came to Bethlehem. And when they arrived at Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Noemin? ²⁰ But she said to them, Call me not, I pray you, Noemin. Call me, Bitter: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full; but the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why therefore do you call me Noemin, seeing the Lord hath brought me low, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? ²² Thus Noemin returned, with Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law; and having returned from the country of Moab, they came to Bethlehem, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.

¹ Now there had been a famine in the land besides the former famine which happened in the time of Abraham. And Isaak went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

¹ Still the famine prevailed in the land.

¹⁹ and break the haughtiness of your pride.; I will make the heaven for you as iron, and your land as brass;

²³ And when the heaven over thy head shall be brass, and the earth under thy feet iron, ²⁴ may the Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust, so that dust from heaven may descend until it waste thee, and until it destroy thee speedily.

³⁸ There thou shalt carry out much seed into the field, and shalt bring little home, for the locust shall devour it;

¹⁶ But when he had afflicted them grievously, the Lord raised up Judges, and the Lord saved them out of the hands of those who spoiled them. ¹⁷ When they indeed hearkened not to the judges, because they went a whoring after other gods, and worshipped them, and turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers had walked; did not act in obedience to the commands of the Lord; ¹⁸ still because the Lord raised up judges for them, therefore the Lord was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, because the Lord was mollified by their groaning, by reason of them who oppressed them and afflicted them.

⁸ And after him, Abaissan of Bethlehem, judged Israel.

⁸ And this man went from Bethlehem, the city of Juda, to sojourn wherever he could find a place, and came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, with a view to proceed on in his journey.

¹ In those days when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, and he took him a concubine from Bethlehem Juda, ² and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem Juda. And when she had been there four months,

¹ In the days of David there was a famine three years, year after year successively; whereupon David applied to the Lord, and the Lord said, On Saul and on his house be the iniquity, by the death of his descendants, because he put to death the Gabaonites.

¹ And the prophet Elias the Thesbite, who was of Thesbon in Galaad, said to Achab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain for years but by the word of my mouth. ² Then a word of the Lord came to Elias, ³ Go hence eastward and hide thyself by the brook Chorrath which is before the Jordan; ⁴ and thou shalt have water from the brook to drink and I will command the ravens to feed thee there. ⁵ So Elias did according to the word of the Lord, and took up his abode by the brook Chorrath, fronting the Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens brought him bread in the morning and flesh in the evening, and he drank water from the brook. ⁷ And when he had been there a year, the brook dried up; for there was no rain in the land. ⁸ Thereupon a word of the Lord came to Elias, ⁹ Arise and go to Sarepta of Sidonia. Behold I have ordered a widow woman there to sustain thee. ¹⁰ So he arose and went to Sarepta, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold there was there a widow woman gathering sticks. And Elias cried after her, and said to her, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water that I may drink. ¹¹ And as she was going to fetch it, Elias called after her and said, Bring me I pray thee a morsel of bread in thy hand. ¹² Whereupon the woman said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake baked and only about a handful of barley meal in the jar and a little oil in the vessel; and behold I was picking up a few sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my children, that we may eat and die.

² Now when Elias went to shew himself to Achab there was a grievous famine in Samaria.

¹ Elisha having spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise and go thou and thy family and sojourn where thou canst; for the Lord hath called for a famine against this land, and it is come upon the land for seven years; ² the woman arose and did according to the word of Elisha, and both she and her family sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

¹⁶ When he called for a famine on the land; broke all the stay of bread,

³⁴ a fruitful country into barrenness: for the wickedness of them who dwell therein.

¹ There came also to Jeremias a word of the Lord concerning the drought.

¹³ when a country transgresseth against me, so as to incur ruin; and I stretch out my hand against it; and break the staff of bread, and send against it famine, and destroy out of it both man and beast;

²¹ Yet thus saith the Lord, Though I send these my four severe judgments sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence, against Jerusalem to destroy out of it man and beast,

¹⁰ because the fields are wasted. Let the land mourn: because the corn hath suffered grievously: wine is dried away; oil is diminished; ¹¹ husbandmen are parched up: Mourn, ye farms, for the wheat and barley, because the harvester is perished from the field.

¹⁶ Food is utterly destroyed before your eyes; joy and gladness, from the house of your God. ¹⁷ The heifers startled at their stalls. Stores are exhausted; wine lakes are gone to ruin, as the corn is blasted, ¹⁸ what shall we substitute for ourselves? The herds of cattle uttered mournful lowings, because there was no pasture for them; and the flocks of sheep are utterly destroyed. ¹⁹ To thee, Lord, let me cry for myself, because a fire hath consumed the pleasant places of the wilderness, and a flame hath blasted all the trees of the field. ²⁰ To thee indeed the cattle in the plain have looked up, because the springs of water are quite dry, and a fire hath devoured the pleasant places of the wilderness.

⁶ But as for me, I will give you gnashing of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places. When you returned not to me, saith the Lord,

¹⁹ And Rachel died and was buried in the race ground of Ephratha, which is Bethlehem.

¹ There was a man of Armathaim-Sipha, of mount Ephraim, whose name was Elkana, son of Jeremeel, son of Eliu, son of Thoke, at Nasib -Ephraim.

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² But as for thee, Bethlehem, thou house of Ephratha, art thou too little to be one of the chiliads of Juda? Out of thee one shall come forth for me to be the chief of Israel. His goings forth have been from the beginning; from the days of an age.

¹ When a woman, a widow, of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one who feared the Lord, and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his slaves,

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but out of them all the Lord will deliver them.

⁶ For whom the Lord loveth he reproveth, And chastiseth every son whom he receiveth.

¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days corrected us as they thought fit; but he for our advantage, that we may partake of his holiness. ¹¹ Now all correction seemeth, for the present, not to be matter of joy, but of grief; yet afterwards it produceth the peaceful fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised therewith.

³ nor contract marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son.

³ An Amorite, and a Moabite, shall not come into the congregation of the Lord: even to the tenth generation, they shall not come into the congregation of the Lord; nay; even for ever;

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:

⁵ and Salmon had Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz had Obed by Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse,

³⁹ See! See! that I am the Self existent, And that there is no Clod besides me; I kill, and I can cause to live, I can smite and I can heal, And none can rescue out of my hand:

³⁰ If his children forsake my law, and do not walk in my judgments; ³¹ If they profane my statutes; and do not keep my commandments: ³² I will visit their transgressions with a rod; and their iniquities with scourges.

²¹ Whereupon thou wilt say in thy heart, Who hath begotten these for me? I indeed was childless and a widow, Who then hath brought up these for me? I was abandoned and alone; whence then have I these?

¹⁹ Let this apostacy of thine correct thee. And thy wickedness work conviction in thee. And know and see how bitter a thing it is to forsake me, saith the Lord thy God.

²⁵ Now there were with us seven brothers. And the first married a wife and died; and having no children, he left his wife for his brother. ²⁶ In like manner also the second and the third, even to the seventh. ²⁷ And last of all, the woman also died:

¹² And as he approached the gate of the city, behold the people were carrying out a dead man to be buried; the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And there was a great multitude of the city with her.

¹ Now the Lord visited Sarah as he had said. And the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken,

²⁰ And Jacob made a vow saying, If the Lord God will be with me and watch over me in the way in which I am going and give me bread to eat and raiment to clothe me

¹⁵ And he blessed them and said, The God whom my fathers Abraham and Isaak worshipped; the God who hath fed me from my youth to this day;

²⁵ And Joseph adjured the children of Israel saying, In the visitation wherewith God will visit you, you shall carry my bones hence with you.

¹⁶ Go therefore and assemble the Senate of the children of Israel and say to them, The Lord, the God of our fathers hath appeared to me, even the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob saying, With watchfulness I have observed you and all that hath befallen you in Egypt.

⁴ Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, Behold I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go and gather it day by day, that I may try them whether they will walk in my law or not. ⁵ But on the sixth day they must be provident in respect to what they bring in. It shall be twice as much as they gather daily. ⁶ Then Moses and Aaron said to all the congregation of the Israelites, In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you out of the land of Egypt,

²¹ the Lord visited Anna, and she bore three sons more, and two daughters. But the lad Samuel grew up before the Lord.

¹⁴ Thou art he who causeth grass to grow for cattle; even verdant grass for the service of man. That he may bring food out of the earth: ¹⁵ wine cheereth the heart of man: that he might exhilarate his countenance with oil; the heart of man is strengthened with bread.

⁵ He hath given food to them that fear him: he will remember his covenant forever.

¹⁵ With blessings I will bless her provision; and satisfy her poor with bread.

¹⁵ The Lord upholdeth all that are falling, and raiseth up all who are broken down.

⁷ who keepeth truth forever, executing judgment for the aggrieved, giving food to the hungry.

¹⁴ He maketh thy borders peace, and feedeth thee with the finest wheat;

⁸ Give me neither riches nor poverty, but order for me things necessary and convenient;

¹⁰ For as the rain when it descendeth, or snow, from the heavens, doth not return thither, till it hath watered the earth, and caused it to generate and bloom and yield seed for the sower and bread for food;

¹⁰ For thus said the Lord, When seventy years shall be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you and establish my words for you by bringing back your people to this place.

⁷ and the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Juda. They shall feed upon them. In the houses of Ascalon they will lie clown in the evening for fear of the children of Juda. Because the Lord their God hath visited them; therefore he will bring back their captivity.

¹¹ give us to day our daily bread;

⁶⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; because he hath visited and delivered his people.

⁴⁴ and dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and not leave one stone on another; because thou didst not know the time of this thy visitation.

⁸ Having then food and raiment let us be content with these.

¹² let your behaviour among the nations be virtuous, that when they speak against you as evil doers, they who have been eye witnesses may from your good works glorify God in the day of visitation.

²⁷ then Moses gave his father in law leave to depart and he returned to his own land.

¹⁰ and said to her, We will go back with thee to thy people.

¹⁴ And when they had raised their voice, and wept again, Orpha kissed her mother in law, and returned to her people; but Ruth followed her.

³ And at the end of the seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines to the city, and went to apply to the king about her house and her fields.

¹⁵ But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers which were in beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord; for he is holy. ¹⁶ Upon this the people answered, and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods. ¹⁷ The Lord is our God. He is God. He hath brought up us and our fathers out of Egypt, and preserved us all the way we went, and among all the nations through which we passed, ¹⁸ and the Lord hath driven out from before us the Amorites, and all the nations who dwelt in this land; therefore we will serve none but the Lord; for he is our God. 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. ²⁰ When you forsake the Lord, and serve other gods, he will come and afflict you; and consume you, proportionally to the good he hath done you. ²¹ And the people said to Joshua, Nay, we will serve none but the Lord. ²² Then Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord to serve him. ²³ Now therefore put away the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord God of Israel. ²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, We will serve the Lord, and hearken to his voice. ²⁵ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and gave it to them as a law, and a solemn decision at Selo, before the tabernacle of the Lord God of Israel. ²⁶ And when he had written these words in the book of the laws of God, he took a great stone, and set it up under a fir tree which was over against the Lord, ²⁷ and Joshua said to the people, Behold this stone shall be among you for a witness, that it hath heard all that were said by the Lord, for he hath this day spoken to you; and this shall be among you for a witness in the latter days, whenever you prove false to the Lord my God. ²⁸ Then Joshua dismissed the people, and they departed every one to his place;

⁵ both Maalon and Chelaion died, so that the woman was bereaved of her husband, and her two sons.

²⁰ Noemin said to her daughter in law, Blessed is he of the Lord, because he hath not dropped his kindness to the living, nor to the dead. Then Noemin said to her, The man is near of kin to us. He is one of our nearest relations.

²⁵ As great multitudes were travelling with him, he turned to them and said, ²⁶ If any one cometh to me, and slighteth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, nay, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ And whosoever doth not take up his cross and follow me, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁸ Which of you, intending to build a tower, doth not first sit down and calculate the cost, to know whether he hath sufficient to finish it? ²⁹ Lest, having laid the foundation, and not being able to complete the work; he become the scoff of all who see it, ³⁰ who will say, This man began to build, but was not able to finish. ³¹ Or, what king marching out to encounter another in battle, doth not first sit down and consult, whether he with ten thousand men, is able to meet him who is coming against him with twenty thousand? ³² And if not: doth he not, while the other is yet at a great distance, send an embassy, and sue for peace? ³³ In like manner, therefore, let every one of you do. He who doth not give up all his possessions, cannot be my disciple.

²² Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord;

² Honour thy father and mother [this is the first commandment with a promise] ³ that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long on the earth.

¹⁸ Now I have all things and abound. I am fully supplied, having received your presents by Epaphroditus, a fragrant odour, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God will supply all your wants, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord.

²⁴ knowing that you will receive from the Lord the reward of the inheritance; for you are serving the Lord Christ,

¹⁶ The Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of this chain of mine; ¹⁷ but when he was at Rome, sought me out diligently and found me. ¹⁸ The Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord in that day! Indeed, on how many occasions he ministered to me at Ephesus, thou thyself knowest very well.

²⁷ And when he came near and kissed him; he smelled the smell of his raiment and blessed him and said, Behold the fragrance of my son is like the fragrance of a full field which the Lord hath blessed.

¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and raising his voice he wept

¹⁵ And Benjamin wept on his neck. And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And after that his brothers conversed with him.

¹ Then she abode at home with her mother in law. And Noemin her mother in law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek a rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

³⁷ And there was great weeping among them all; and they fell upon Paul's neck and kissed him,

³ By the hallowed things in this land of his he had marvellously displayed all his designs.

⁶³ I am a companion of all them who fear thee; and of them who keep thy commandments.

²³ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, If in those days ten men of all the tongues of the nations take hold, they must take hold of the skirt of a Jew, saying, We will go with thee, for we have heard that God is with you.

¹¹ Then Judas said to Thamar his daughter in law, Continue a widow in thy father's house till my son Selom grow up. For he said, Peradventure he also may die as his brothers did. So Thamar went and dwelt at her father's house.

⁵ When brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and hath no issue, the wife of him who died shall not marry a man abroad, who is not near of kin. The brother of her husband shall go in unto her, and take her to wife, and cohabit with her;

¹⁷ Upon this Abraham fell on his face and smiled, and said in his heart, To him who is in his hundredth year shall a son be born? and shall Sarah bring forth in her ninetieth year?

⁹ Let no widow under sixty years old be put on the list, Having been the wife of one man,

¹⁵ the hand of the Lord was upon them to destroy them from among the host until they had all fallen.

¹⁵ Wherever they went, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken, and as the Lord had solemnly denounced to them.

¹¹ So they sent and assembled the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it abide in its own place, and not kill us and our people.

²¹ Pity me, pity me, O my friends, for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.

⁴ Because day and night thy hand was heavy on me, I was reduced to misery by a piercing thorn.

² For in me thy shafts are deeply fixed; and on me thou hast heavily laid thy hand.

⁹ I was dumb and opened not my mouth: because thou art he who didst make me. ¹⁰ Remove thy scourges from me: by the blow of thy hand I fainted.

²⁸ But I have not been thought worthy to kiss my children and my daughters. Now therefore thou hast acted foolishly;

⁵⁵ And in the morning Laban arose and kissed his daughters and blessed them. And Laban departed and went to his place

⁴ But as for you who adhered to the Lord your God, you are all alive this day.

²⁰ Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and cleave to him, and swear by his name.

²⁰ Whereupon Elisha left the cattle and ran after Elias and said, Let me salute my father and I will follow thee. And Elias said, Return; for I have done with thee.

¹⁷ For every occasion have a friend; but in distress let brothers be assistant: for they are born for this purpose.

¹ but the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still make choice of Israel; and they shall rest in their own land; and the stranger shall be joined to them, and shall be added to the house of Jacob.

³⁷ He who loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me. And he who loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples if any one wisheth to follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

²² Upon hearing this word, the youth went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.

²¹ Then Jesus, looking stedfastly on him, loved him, and said to him, One thing is wanting to thee. Go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. Then come, and having taken up the cross, follow me. ²² At this word, he was grieved and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

⁶⁶ From this time many of his disciples withdrew and walked no more with him, ⁶⁷ therefore Jesus said to the twelve, Have you also a mind to go away? ⁶⁸ Whereupon Simon Peter answered him, Master, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of an everlasting life, ⁶⁹ and we believe and know that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

³⁴ But some men of rank adhered to him and believed, among whom was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus; also a woman of rank, named Damaris, and others with them.

¹⁰ For Demas, from a love for this world, hath forsaken me, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens, to Galatia; Titus, to Dalmatia.

³⁹ But we are not of them who draw back for perdition; but of them who believe for the attainment of life.

¹⁵ But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers which were in beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord; for he is holy.

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.

²⁴ If thy god Chamos were to put thee in possession of any places, wouldst thou not possess them? And shall not we succeed all those whom the Lord our God hath removed from before us?

¹⁹ And the king said to Ethi the Gethite, Why shouldst thou go with us? Return and dwell with the king; for thou art a stranger, and hast come as an exile from thy own place. ²⁰ As thou art come but yesterday, shall I to-day cause thee to move with us, and change thy abode? As for me, I will go where I can; but return thou and take back thy brethren with thee; and the Lord will deal mercifully and truly with thee.

² Now Elias had said to Elisha, Tarry here I pray thee, for God hath sent me to Baithel. But Elisha said, As the Lord liveth and thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went to Baithel.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He would not be wise to do good.

⁵ But them who turn aside into crooked ways, the Lord will drive away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

⁶ and them who turn aside from the Lord, and them who seek not the Lord, and them who cleave not to him.

²⁰ And that sown on rocky ground denoteth him, who, upon hearing the word, receiveth it at first with joy, ²¹ but not having it rooted in him, it is only temporary; and when tribulation and persecution cometh on account of the word, he is immediately stumbled.

²⁸ And when they drew near to the village to which they were going, he seemed as intending to go farther.

³⁸ now the just shall live because of faith; but if he, through fear, draw back; my soul hath no pleasure in him."

¹⁹ They went out from us; but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.

¹⁸ and the Lord hath driven out from before us the Amorites, and all the nations who dwelt in this land; therefore we will serve none but the Lord; for he is our God.

¹¹ And Boaz in reply said to her, I have been fully informed of all that thou hast done to thy mother in law after the death of thy husband; and how thou hast left thy father, and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, to come to a people whom thou knewest not heretofore. ¹² The Lord recompense thy work, and may a full reward be given thee by the Lord God of Israel, to whom thou art come, to put thy trust under his wings.

²¹ And Ethi answered the king, and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, whithersoever my lord goeth, whether to death or to life, there shall thy servant be.

² Now Elias had said to Elisha, Tarry here I pray thee, for God hath sent me to Baithel. But Elisha said, As the Lord liveth and thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went to Baithel. ³ And the sons of the prophets who were at Baithel, came to Elisha and said to him, Dost thou know that the Lord will take thy master to-day from over thy head? And he said, I know it. Hold your peace. ⁴ Then Elias said to Elisha, Tarry here I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, I will not forsake thee. So they went to Jericho. ⁵ And the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho, came to Elisha and said to him, Dost thou know that to-day the Lord will take away thy master from over thy head? And he said, I indeed know it; hold your peace. ⁶ Then Elias said to him, Tarry here I pray thee, for the Lord hath sent me to the Jordan. But Elisha replied, As the Lord liveth and thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they both proceeded on.

¹⁰ Hear, daughter, and behold, and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and thy father's house.

⁴⁷ And the king answered and said to Daniel, Of a truth, your God is the God of Gods, and the Lord of kings, the revealer of secrets; since thou hast been enabled to reveal this secret.

²⁹ therefore I issue this decree, "Every people, tribe, language, which shall utter any reproach against the God of Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, shall be devoted to destruction and their houses to plunder: for there is no other god who can deliver in this manner."

³⁷ Now therefore I Nabuchodonosar praise and extol and glorify the king of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are judgments and all them who walk in pride he can abase.

⁴ As for me, I the Lord thy God am he who established the heaven, and created the earth, whose hands have created all the host of heaven; but I did not display these to thee that thou shouldst go after them: as I have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt; therefore thou shalt acknowledge no God besides me. Indeed besides me there is no Saviour.

¹⁹ whereupon a certain scribe accosting him, said, Teacher, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

²⁸ And when they drew near to the village to which they were going, he seemed as intending to go farther. ²⁹ But they pressed him, saying, Stay with us; for it is towards evening. The day is far spent. So he went in to stay with them.

³⁷ Peter saith to him, Master, Why can not I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.

¹³ But Paul answered, Why make ye this ado, weeping and breaking my heart? As for me, I am ready, not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

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, ¹⁸ and be to you a father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

⁹ For they themselves relate concerning us what an entrance we had among you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the living and true God,

⁴ These are they who were not defiled with women, for they are pure as virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men; first fruits for God and the Lamb.

¹⁷ And he said, What was the word spoken to thee? Hide it not from me, I pray thee. God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me, of all that was spoken to thee in thy hearing.

²² God do so to David, and more also, if by to-morrow morning I leave of all that belong to Nabal one man;

⁹ God do so to Abenner and more also, if, as the Lord hath sworn to David, I do not do so to him,

³⁵ Now all the people had been assembled to bewail him; and when all the people came to induce David to eat the funeral bread while it was yet day, David sword, saying, God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread, or any thing else, till the sun is set.

¹³ And to Amessai you shall say, Art not thou my bone and my flesh? Now therefore, God do so to me and more also, if thou shalt not be captain general of the army before me continually, in the room of Joab.

²³ Then king Solomon sword by the Lord, saying, God do so to me and more also, if Adonias hath not spoken this against his own life.

² Jezabel sent to Elias, and said, As sure as thou art Elias, and I Jezabel, God do so to me and more also, if by this time to-morrow I do not make thy life like the life of one of them.

¹⁰ Son Ader sent to him saying, God do so to me and more also, if I do not make Samaria a jakes for all the people of my infantry.

³¹ And he said, God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha shall stand on him this day.

²³ And when he came and saw the grace of God, he was filled with joy and exhorted them all to adhere to the Lord with a firm determination of heart.

²⁴ But I make no account of any of these, nor is this life of mine so much my concern as to finish with joy my course; even the office which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the favour of God.

⁴² and continued stedfast in the doctrine of the apostles and in the community, and in the breaking of the loaf, and in prayers,

¹⁴ So, as he could not be prevailed on, we acquiesced, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

⁷ Was not she your boast of old, before she was delivered up?"

¹⁵ All that passed by clapped their hands for thee, they expressed the sound of pity and shaked their heads for the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this, say they, the city, the crown of joy of the whole earth!

¹⁰ And as he entered Jerusalem, all the city was in commotion, saying, Who is this?

¹ And when Abram was ninety nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am thy God. Be well pleasing in my sight, and be blameless

¹⁴ And may my God grant you favour in the sight of the man that he may send back your brother with Benjamin. As for me I am bereaved of children as I have been bereaved.

³ and I appeared to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob as their God. Though I did not clearly manifest to them my name Lord,

¹⁷ But happy the man whom the Lord correcteth. Therefore despise not thou the correction of the Almighty.

⁴ for the arrows of the Lord are in my body, the fury of which drinketh up my blood: when I attempt to speak they pierce me.

⁷ Canst thou trace the footsteps of the Lord? Or hast thou reached the extent of what the Almighty hath done?

⁶ Know then, That it is the Lord who hath terrified me, and raised his bulwark against me.

¹⁴ All the day long I have been scourged; and the accusation against me is renewed every morning.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and in troubles from my youth: though raised high I have been humbled and distressed.

¹³ In that day I was delivered up until morning as to a lion. So did he break to pieces all my bones. For from day to night I was delivered up.

¹ I am a man who have seen affliction by the rod of his wrath ² against me. He hath seized me and dragged me into darkness and there is no light. ³ But still he turned his hand against me all the day long. ⁴ He hath made my flesh and my skin old; he hath broken my bones. ⁵ He built up against me and encompassed my head and afflicted it with pain: ⁶ in dark mansions he placed me like the dead of old. ⁷ He built up against me so that I cannot get out. He made my chain heavy. ⁸ Though I scream and cry, he shut out my prayer. ⁹ He walled up my ways; he blocked up my paths; ¹⁰ he terrified me. He was as a bear lying in wait; to me he was like a lion in secret coverts. ¹¹ He pursued me when I fled and stopped me. He removed me quite out of sight. ¹² He bent his bow and set me up as a mark for his arrow. ¹³ He poured into my reins the darts of his quiver. ¹⁴ I became a subject of laughter to all my people; their song all the day long. ¹⁵ He glutted me with worm wood; he gave me a large draught of gall, ¹⁶ and broke my teeth with gravel. He drenched me with ashes. ¹⁷ He removed my soul far from peace. I forgot prosperity; ¹⁸ so my strength was destroyed and the hope which I had from the Lord. ¹⁹ I recollected because of mine affliction. When by reason of persecution, my bitterness and gall shall be remembered; ²⁰ then on myself will my soul meditate.

¹¹ Now all correction seemeth, for the present, not to be matter of joy, but of grief; yet afterwards it produceth the peaceful fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised therewith.

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end," saith the Lord, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."

²² And in it I saw no temple; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb is its temple.

⁷ The Lord impoverished, and maketh rich; He humbleth, and he exalteth on high. ⁸ He lifteth up the needy from the ground; And raiseth the beggar from a dunghill; To seat them among a people's princes; And he causeth them to possess a throne of glory.

²¹ and said, Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall depart hence. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. As it pleased the Lord so hath it come to pass. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

¹⁷ Renewing the examination against me, thou hast exercised against me great wrath; and hast brought against me tortures.

²⁶ For thou hast written evil things against me; and laid to my charge the inadvertencies of youth;

⁸ thou indeed hast fallen upon me. My lie is become a witness, and hath risen up against me; it hath answered me to my face.

⁵ And I will bring to judgment before you and be a swift witness against sorcerers, and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Almighty.

³¹ Now the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley had eared and the flax was in seed. ³² But the wheat and spelts were not smitten for they had been lately sown.

²³ So Ruth kept fast by the maids of Boaz, to glean till they finished the barley and wheat harvest.

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.