Judges 16 Cross References - YLT

¹ And Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her; ² it is told to the Gazathites, saying, `Samson hath come in hither;' and they go round and lay wait for him all the night at the gate of the city, and keep themselves silent all the night, saying, `Till the light of the morning—then we have slain him.' ³ And Samson lieth down till the middle of the night, and riseth in the middle of the night, and layeth hold on the doors of the gate of the city, and on the two side posts, and removeth them with the bar, and putteth on his shoulders, and taketh them up unto the top of the hill, which is on the front of Hebron.
⁴ And it cometh to pass afterwards that he loveth a woman in the valley of Sorek, and her name is Delilah, ⁵ and the princes of the Philistines come up unto her, and say to her, `Entice him, and see wherein his great power is, and wherein we are able for him—and we have bound him to afflict him, and we—we give to thee, each one, eleven hundred silverlings.' <sup>6</sup> And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Declare, I pray thee, to me, wherein thy great power is, and wherewith thou art bound, to afflict thee.' ⁷ And Samson saith unto her, `If they bind me with seven green withs which have not been dried, then I have been weak, and have been as one of the human race.' <sup>8</sup> And the princes of the Philistines bring up to her seven green withs which have not been dried, and she bindeth him with them. <sup>9</sup> And the ambush is abiding with her in an inner chamber, and she saith unto him, `Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he breaketh the withs as a thread of tow is broken in its smelling fire, and his power hath not been known. ¹⁰ And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Lo, thou hast played upon me, and speakest unto me lies; now, declare, I pray thee, to me, wherewith thou art bound.' <sup>11</sup> And he saith unto her, `If they certainly bind me with thick bands, new ones, by which work hath not been done, then I have been weak, and have been as one of the human race.' ¹² And Delilah taketh thick bands, new ones, and bindeth him with them, and saith unto him, `Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and the ambush is abiding in an inner chamber, and he breaketh them from off his arms as a thread. <sup>13</sup> And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Hitherto thou hast played upon me, and dost speak unto me lies; declare to me wherewith thou art bound.' And he saith unto her, `If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.' <sup>14</sup> And she fixeth it with the pin, and saith unto him, `Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and journeyeth with the pin of the weaving machine, and with the web. ¹⁵ And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power is .' <sup>16</sup> And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death, <sup>17</sup> that he declareth to her all his heart, and saith to her, `A razor hath not gone up on my head, for a Nazarite to God I am from the womb of my mother; if I have been shaven, then hath my power turned aside from me, and I have been weak, and have been as any of the human race.'
¹⁸ And Delilah seeth that he hath declared to her all his heart, and she sendeth and calleth for the princes of the Philistines, saying, `Come up this time, for he hath declared to me all his heart;' and the princes of the Philistines have come up unto her, and bring up the money in their hand. <sup>19</sup> and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him; <sup>20</sup> and she saith, `Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `I go out as time by time, and shake myself;' and he hath not known that Jehovah hath turned aside from off him. <sup>21</sup> And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house.
<sup>22</sup> And the hair of his head beginneth to shoot up, when he hath been shaven, <sup>23</sup> and the princes of the Philistines have been gathered together to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; and they say, `Our god hath given into our hand Samson our enemy.' ²⁴ And the people see him, and praise their god, for they said, `Our god hath given in our hand our enemy, and he who is laying waste our land, and who multiplied our wounded.' <sup>25</sup> And it cometh to pass, when their heart is glad, that they say, `Call for Samson, and he doth play before us;' and they call for Samson out of the prison-house, and he playeth before them, and they cause him to stand between the pillars. ²⁶ And Samson saith unto the young man who is keeping hold on his hand, `Let me alone, and let me feel the pillars on which the house is established, and I lean upon them.' <sup>27</sup> And the house hath been full of men and of women, and thither are all the princes of the Philistines, and on the roof are about three thousand men and women, who are looking on the playing of Samson. <sup>28</sup> And Samson calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Lord Jehovah, remember me, I pray Thee, and strengthen me, I pray Thee, only this time, O God; and I am avenged—vengeance at once—because of my two eyes, on the Philistines.' ²⁹ And Samson turneth aside to the two middle pillars, on which the house is established, and on which it is supported, to the one with his right hand, and one with his left; ³⁰ and Samson saith, `Let me die with the Philistines,' and he inclineth himself powerfully, and the house falleth on the princes, and on all the people who are in it, and the dead whom he hath put to death in his death are more than those whom he put to death in his life. ³¹ And his brethren come down, and all the house of his father, and lift him up, and bring him up, and bury him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the burying-place of Manoah his father; and he hath judged Israel twenty years.

¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanite is from Sidon, in thy coming towards Gerar, unto Gaza; in thy coming towards Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, unto Lasha.

¹⁶ and he turneth aside unto her by the way, and saith, `Come, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee,' (for he hath not known that she is his daughter-in-law); and she saith, `What dost thou give to me, that thou mayest come in unto me?' ¹⁷ and he saith, `I—I send a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she saith, `Dost thou give a pledge till thou send it ?' ¹⁸ and he saith, `What is the pledge that I give to thee?' and she saith, `Thy seal, and thy ribbon, and thy staff which is in thy hand;' and he giveth to her, and goeth in unto her, and she conceiveth to him;

⁴⁷ Ashdod, its towns and its villages, Gaza, its towns and its villages, unto the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, and its border.

¹ And at the completion of these things, drawn nigh unto me have the heads, saying, `The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, even the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite, ² for they have taken of their daughters to them, and to their sons, and the holy seed have mingled themselves among the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the heads and of the seconds have been first in this trespass.'

¹⁸ and he thirsteth exceedingly, and calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Thou—Thou hast given by the hand of Thy servant this great salvation; and now, I die with thirst, and have fallen into the hand of the uncircumcised.'

¹¹ And Saul sendeth messengers unto the house of David to watch him, and to put him to death in the morning; and Michal his wife declareth to David, saying, `If thou art not delivering thy life to-night—tomorrow thou art put to death.'

²⁶ And Saul goeth on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain, and David is hastened to go from the face of Saul, and Saul and his men are compassing David and his men, to catch them.

¹⁰ All nations have compassed me about, In the name of Jehovah I surely cut them off. ¹¹ They have compassed me about, Yea, they have compassed me about, In the name of Jehovah I surely cut them off. ¹² They compassed me about as bees, They have been extinguished as a fire of thorns, In the name of Jehovah I surely cut them off.

³⁸ and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;

¹ And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death;

²⁴ and their counsel against him was known to Saul; they were also watching the gates both day and night, that they may kill him,

¹⁵ now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'

³² In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me, ³³ and through a window in a rope basket I was let down, through the wall, and fled out of his hands.

¹⁶ For He hath broken doors of brass, And bars of iron He hath cut.

¹ `Who is this coming from Edom? With dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is honourable in his clothing, Travelling in the abundance of his power?' —`I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.' ² `Wherefore is thy clothing red? And thy garments as treading in a wine fat?' <sup>3</sup> —`A wine-press I have trodden by myself, And of the peoples there is no one with me, And I tread them in mine anger, And I trample them in my fury, Sprinkled is their strength on my garments, And all my clothing I have polluted. ⁴ For the day of vengeance is in my heart, And the year of my redeemed hath come. ⁵ And I look attentively, and there is none helping, And I am astonished that there is none supporting, And give salvation to me doth mine own arm. And my wrath—it hath supported me.

¹³ Gone up hath the breaker before them, They have broken through, Yea, they pass through the gate, Yea, they go out through it, And pass on doth their king before them, And Jehovah at their head!

²⁴ whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

¹ And king Solomon hath loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, and of the Hittites,

²⁶ `By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel—even him did the strange women cause to sin.

¹⁴ A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.

¹¹ As a dog hath returned to its vomit, A fool is repeating his folly.

²² If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things—with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

⁶ and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

¹⁶ And turn back on that day doth Esau on his way to Seir;

¹⁷ for very greatly I honour thee, and all that thou sayest unto me I do; and come, I pray thee, pierce for me this people.' ¹⁸ And Balaam answereth and saith unto the servants of Balak, `If Balak doth give to me the fulness of his house of silver and gold, I am not able to pass over the command of Jehovah my God, to do a little or a great thing;

³ from Sihor which is on the front of Egypt, and unto the border of Ekron northward, to the Canaanite it is reckoned, five princes of the Philistines, the Gazathite, and the Ashdothite, the Eshkalonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite, also the Avim.

³ five princes of the Philistines, and all the Canaanite, and the Zidonian, and the Hivite inhabiting mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-Hermon unto the entering in of Hamath;

¹⁵ And it cometh to pass, on the seventh day, that they say to Samson's wife, `Entice thy husband, that he declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and the house of thy father with fire; to possess us have ye called for us? is it not?'

² and he saith to his mother, `The eleven hundred silverlings which have been taken of thine, and of which thou hast sworn, and also spoken in mine ears; lo, the silver is with me, I have taken it;' and his mother saith, `Blessed is my son of Jehovah.'

⁶ And Achish calleth unto David, and saith unto him, `Jehovah liveth, surely thou art upright, and good in mine eyes is thy going out, and thy coming in, with me in the camp, for I have not found in thee evil from the day of thy coming in unto me till this day; and in the eyes of the princes thou art not good;

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings, ¹⁷ Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten. ¹⁸ For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths. ¹⁹ None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth, ⁴ And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths. ⁵ Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. ⁶ The path of life—lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths—thou knowest not. ⁷ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. ⁸ Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, ⁹ Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, ¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

²⁴ To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. ²⁵ Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids. ²⁶ For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

²¹ She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him. ²² He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, ²³ Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.
²⁴ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths, ²⁶ For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones. ²⁷ The ways of Sheol—her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

³ On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking—also the judge—for recompence, And the great—he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

¹⁵ `What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you?' and they weighed out to him thirty silverlings,

¹⁵ Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? let it be not! ¹⁶ have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be—saith He—the two for one flesh.' ¹⁷ And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit; ¹⁸ flee the whoredom; every sin—whatever a man may commit—is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

⁹ and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, ¹⁰ for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

² Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

²⁶ For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

²¹ She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

²⁸ A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

² Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones. ³ And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah! ⁴ Each of his friend—beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk, ⁵ And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

² Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men—there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net.

⁵ Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.

¹⁰ And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Lo, thou hast played upon me, and speakest unto me lies; now, declare, I pray thee, to me, wherewith thou art bound.'

¹⁷ And Saul saith unto Michal, `Why thus hast thou deceived me—that thou dost send away mine enemy, and he is escaped?' and Michal saith unto Saul, `He said unto me, Send me away: why do I put thee to death?'

² And David saith to Ahimelech the priest, `The king hath commanded me a matter, and he saith unto me, Let no man know anything of the matter about which I am sending thee, and which I have commanded thee; and the young men I have caused to know at such and such a place; ³ and now, what is there under thy hand? five loaves give into my hand, or that which is found.'

¹⁰ And Achish saith, `Whither have ye pushed to-day?' and David saith, `Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelite, and unto the south of the Kenite.'

¹⁹ The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment—a tongue of falsehood.

⁷ Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.

⁸ and not, as we are evil spoken of, and as certain affirm us to say—`We may do the evil things, that the good ones may come?' whose judgment is righteous.

⁷ Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow—that also he shall reap,

⁹ Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

²⁶ And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

⁹ Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

⁷ And Samson saith unto her, `If they bind me with seven green withs which have not been dried, then I have been weak, and have been as one of the human race.'

¹³ And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Hitherto thou hast played upon me, and dost speak unto me lies; declare to me wherewith thou art bound.' And he saith unto her, `If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.'

¹⁵ And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power is .' <sup>16</sup> And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death, <sup>17</sup> that he declareth to her all his heart, and saith to her, `A razor hath not gone up on my head, for a Nazarite to God I am from the womb of my mother; if I have been shaven, then hath my power turned aside from me, and I have been weak, and have been as any of the human race.'

⁷ For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart is not with thee. ⁸ Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.

²⁸ Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.

³¹ And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee—My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

⁴⁸ and Jesus said to him, `Judas, with a kiss the Son of Man dost thou deliver up?'

¹³ And they speak to him, saying, No, but we certainly bind thee, and have given thee into their hand, and we certainly do not put thee to death;' and they bind him with two thick bands, new ones, and bring him up from the rock.

³ Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips—ruin to him!

⁵ A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.

²⁵ Fear of man causeth a snare, And the confident in Jehovah is set on high.

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

¹³ `And after all that hath come upon us for our evil works, and for our great guilt (for Thou, O our God, hast kept back of the rod from our iniquities, and hast given to us an escape like this), ¹⁴ do we turn back to break Thy commands, and to join ourselves in marriage with the people of these abominations? art not Thou angry against us—even to consumption—till there is no remnant and escaped part?

⁴³ Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

²⁰ and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.

⁵ and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

¹⁶ And Samson's wife weepeth for it, and saith, `Thou hast only hated me, and hast not loved me; the riddle thou hast put forth to the sons of my people—and to me thou hast not declared it;' and he saith to her, `Lo, to my father and to my mother I have not declared it —and to thee I declare it!'

¹³ And Samuel cometh in unto Saul, and Saul saith to him, `Blessed art thou of Jehovah; I have performed the word of Jehovah.' <sup>14</sup> And Samuel saith, `And what is the noise of this flock in mine ears—and the noise of the herd which I am hearing?'

¹⁷ And Absalom saith unto Hushai, `This thy kindness with thy friend! why hast thou not gone with thy friend?'

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth, ⁴ And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths. ⁵ Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. ⁶ The path of life—lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths—thou knowest not. ⁷ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. ⁸ Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, ⁹ Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, ¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, ¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, ¹³ And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear. ¹⁴ As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.

²⁶ Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

⁶ Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings are burnings of fire, a flame of Jah! ⁷ Many waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it away. If one give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down—they tread upon it.

¹⁵ `If ye love me, my commands keep,

²¹ he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.' ²² Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?' <sup>23</sup> Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make; ²⁴ he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

¹⁰ if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, ¹⁵ and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

¹⁵ Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, ¹⁶ because all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life—is not of the Father, but of the world,

³ for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

⁴ I—to man is my complaint? and if so, wherefore May not my temper become short?

²¹ She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him. ²² He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, ²³ Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.

⁹ And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me—unto death.'

²⁴ and he said to them, `This is my blood of the new covenant, which for many is being poured out;

⁸ `I say to you, even if he will not give to him, having risen, because of his being his friend, yet because of his importunity, having risen, he will give him as many as he doth need;

⁵ yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'

² `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When a man or woman doeth singularly, by vowing a vow of a Nazarite, to be separate to Jehovah;

⁵ `All days of the vow of his separation a razor doth not pass over his head; till the fulness of the days which he doth separate to Jehovah he is holy; grown up hath the upper part of the hair of his head.

⁵ for, lo, thou art conceiving and bearing a son, and a razor doth not go up on his head, for a Nazarite to God is the youth from the womb, and he doth begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.'

²³ A prudent man is concealing knowledge, And the heart of fools proclaimeth folly.

¹² A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers are wicked.

¹⁸ And Paul having remained yet a good many days, having taken leave of the brethren, was sailing to Syria—and with him are Priscilla and Aquilas—having shorn his head in Cenchera, for he had a vow;

⁷ And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian go, and divinations in their hand, and they come in unto Balaam, and speak unto him the words of Balak,

⁵ and the princes of the Philistines come up unto her, and say to her, `Entice him, and see wherein his great power is, and wherein we are able for him—and we have bound him to afflict him, and we—we give to thee, each one, eleven hundred silverlings.'

²⁰ And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found—because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

⁹ Only—vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.

⁸ The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.

⁴ Each of his friend—beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk, ⁵ And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured. ⁶ thy dwelling is in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁵ for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

¹⁰ for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

³³ Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things. ³⁴ And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.

⁹ only, against Jehovah rebel not ye: and ye, fear not ye the people of the land, for our bread they are; their defence hath turned aside from off them, and Jehovah is with us; fear them not.'

⁴² go not up, for Jehovah is not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies; ⁴³ for the Amalekite and the Canaanite are there before you, and ye have fallen by the sword, because that ye have turned back from after Jehovah, and Jehovah is not with you.'

³⁰ How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not—that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up?

¹² and the sons of Israel have not been able to stand before their enemies; the neck they turn before their enemies, for they have become a devoted thing; I add not to be with you—if ye destroy not the devoted thing out of your midst.

³ And Samson lieth down till the middle of the night, and riseth in the middle of the night, and layeth hold on the doors of the gate of the city, and on the two side posts, and removeth them with the bar, and putteth on his shoulders, and taketh them up unto the top of the hill, which is on the front of Hebron.

⁹ And the ambush is abiding with her in an inner chamber, and she saith unto him, `Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he breaketh the withs as a thread of tow is broken in its smelling fire, and his power hath not been known.

¹⁴ And she fixeth it with the pin, and saith unto him, `Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and journeyeth with the pin of the weaving machine, and with the web.

¹⁴ And the Spirit of Jehovah turned aside from Saul, and a spirit of sadness from Jehovah terrified him;

¹² And Saul is afraid of the presence of David, for Jehovah hath been with him, and from Saul He hath turned aside;

¹⁴ And he saith to her, `What is his form?' and she saith, `An aged man is coming up, and he is covered with an upper robe;' and Saul knoweth that he is Samuel, and boweth—face to thee earth—and doth obeisance.
¹⁵ And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Why hast thou troubled me, to bring me up?' And Saul saith, `I have great distress, and the Philistines are fighting against me, God hath turned aside from me, and hath not answered me any more, either by the hand of the prophets, or by dreams; and I call for thee to let me know what I do.' ¹⁶ And Samuel saith, `And why dost thou ask me, and Jehovah hath turned aside from thee, and is thine enemy?

² and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, `Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah is with you—in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you;

²⁴ Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not Jehovah—He against whom we sinned? Yea, they have not been willing in His ways to walk, Nor have they hearkened to His law.

¹ Lo, the hand of Jehovah Hath not been shortened from saving, Nor heavy his ear from hearing. ² But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you—from hearing.

²³ Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches, ²⁴ But—in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I am Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁹ Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled itself on him, And he hath not known.

¹⁶ and I brought him near to thy disciples, and they were not able to heal him.'

²⁰ And Jesus said to them, `Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,

⁵ not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,

⁵ and every first-born in the land of Egypt hath died, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the maid-servant who is behind the millstones, and all the first-born of beasts;

⁷ And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and bindeth him with brazen fetters, and they bring him to Babylon.

¹¹ and Jehovah bringeth in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur hath, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with brazen fetters, and cause him to go to Babylon.

¹⁰ Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron, ¹¹ Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised. ¹² And He humbleth with labour their heart, They have been feeble, and there is no helper.

⁸ To bind their kings with chains, And their honoured ones with fetters of iron,

¹⁹ None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

²² His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

¹⁴ From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man—from his fruits.

² Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.

⁴¹ two women shall be grinding in the mill, one is received, and one is left.

⁴⁴ and also even this, in their being in the land of their enemies, I have not rejected them, nor have I loathed them, to consume them, to break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God; —

³⁶ For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth—the going away of power, And none is restrained and left.

⁴⁴ And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry, ⁴⁵ And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

¹³ And they cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distresses He saveth them. ¹⁴ He bringeth them out from the dark place, And death-shade, And their bands He draweth away.

² and the Philistines take the ark of God and bring it into the house of Dagon, and set it near Dagon. ³ And the Ashdodites rise early on the morrow, and lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of Jehovah; and they take Dagon, and put it back to its place. ⁴ And they rise early in the morning on the morrow, and lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of Jehovah, and the head of Dagon, and the two palms of its hands are cut off at the threshold, only the fishy part hath been left to him; ⁵ therefore the priests of Dagon, and all those coming into the house of Dagon, tread not on the threshold of Dagon, in Ashdod, till this day.

¹⁰ and put his weapons in the house of their gods, and his skull they have fixed in the house of Dagon.

⁹ And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword. ¹⁰ They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.

¹⁵ And—in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased; ¹⁶ With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.

¹⁷ In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,

¹¹ Hath a nation changed gods? (And they are no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

⁵ For all the peoples do walk, Each in the name of its god—and we, We do walk in the name of Jehovah our God, To the age and for ever.

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles. ²⁴ Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves; ²⁵ who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen.

⁴ Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one; ⁵ for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth—as there are gods many and lords many—

²⁰ no, but that the things that the nations sacrifice—they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

²⁷ If not—the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know—Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.

⁸ And he smiteth them hip and thigh—a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.

¹⁶ And Samson saith, `With a jaw-bone of the ass—an ass upon asses—with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men.'

⁹ and they cut off his head, and strip off his weapons, and send into the land of the Philistines round about, to proclaim tidings in the house of their idols, and among the people;

⁹ and strip him, and bear away his head, and his weapons, and send into the land of the Philistines round about to proclaim tidings to their idols and the people,

²⁰ And now, Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth do know that Thou art Jehovah, Thyself alone.'

¹⁴ And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them forth.

⁴ they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

²³ and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand is thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.

¹⁶ Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them is his portion fertile, and his food fat.

¹⁰ and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these—the two prophets—did torment those dwelling upon the land.'

²⁷ and go out into the field, and gather their vineyards, and tread, and make praises, and go into the house of their god, and eat and drink, and revile Abimelech.

²⁰ And the heart of the priest is glad, and he taketh the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and goeth into the midst of the people,

⁶ And they sit and eat both of them together, and drink, and the father of the young woman saith unto the man, `Be willing, I pray thee, and lodge all night, and let thy heart be glad.'

⁹ And the man riseth to go, he and his concubine, and his young man, and his father-in-law, father of the young woman, saith to him, `Lo, I pray thee, the day hath fallen toward evening, lodge all night, I pray thee; lo, the declining of the day! lodge here, and let thine heart be glad—and ye have risen early to-morrow for your journey, and thou hast gone to thy tent.'

²⁸ And Absalom commandeth his young men, saying, `See, I pray thee, when the heart of Amnon is glad with wine, and I have said unto you, Smite Amnon, that ye have put him to death; fear not; is it not because I have commanded you? be strong, yea, become sons of valour.'

¹² And it cometh to pass at the hearing of this word—and he is drinking, he and the kings, in the booths—that he saith unto his servants, `Set yourselves;' and they set themselves against the city.

¹⁵ The runners have gone forth, hastened by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace, and the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan is perplexed.

¹² Those sitting at the gate meditate concerning me, And those drinking strong drink, Play on instruments.

²⁶ For they have pursued him Thou hast smitten, And recount of the pain of Thy pierced ones.

¹⁷ In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful, ¹⁸ Lest Jehovah see, and it be evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

¹³ And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

² Belshazzar hath said—while tasting the wine—to bring in the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple that is in Jerusalem, that drink with them may the king, and his great men, his wives, and his concubines. ³ Then they have brought in the vessels of gold that had been taken out of the temple of the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and drunk with them have the king and his great men, his wives and his concubines;

⁸ Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me. ⁹ The indignation of Jehovah I do bear, For I have sinned against Him, Till that He doth plead my cause, And hath executed my judgment, He doth bring me forth to the light, I look on His righteousness. ¹⁰ And see doth mine enemy, And cover her doth shame, Who saith unto me, `Where is Jehovah thy God?' Mine eyes do look on her, Now she is for a treading-place, As mire of the out-places.

⁶ But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod, ⁷ whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask.

⁶⁷ Then did they spit in his face and buffet him, and others did slap, ⁶⁸ saying, `Declare to us, O Christ, who he is that struck thee?'

²⁹ and having plaited him a crown out of thorns they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand, and having kneeled before him, they were mocking him, saying, `Hail, the king of the Jews.'

³⁹ and those passing by were speaking evil of him, wagging their heads, ⁴⁰ and saying, `Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building it, save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.' <sup>41</sup> And in like manner also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said, <sup>42</sup> `Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him; ⁴³ he hath trusted on God, let Him now deliver him, if He wish him, because he said—Son of God I am;' ⁴⁴ with the same also the robbers, who were crucified with him, were reproaching him.

³⁶ and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;

⁸ `When thou buildest a new house, then thou hast made a parapet to thy roof, and thou dost not put blood on thy house when one falleth from it.

⁸ And—before they lie down—she hath gone up unto them on the roof,

⁵¹ and a strong tower hath been in the midst of the city, and thither flee do all the men and the women, and all the masters of the city, and they shut it behind them, and go up on the roof of the tower.

² and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance,

³¹ So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him are As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.

¹² `O our God, dost Thou not execute judgment upon them? for there is no power in us before this great multitude that hath come against us, and we know not what we do, but on Thee are our eyes.'

¹⁵ And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

¹⁰ The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked. ¹¹ And man saith: `Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

¹⁸ Remember this—an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name. ¹⁹ Give not up to a company, The soul of Thy turtle-dove, The company of Thy poor ones forget not for ever. ²⁰ Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence. ²¹ Let not the oppressed turn back ashamed, Let the poor and needy praise Thy name, ²² Arise, O God, plead Thy plea, Remember Thy reproach from a fool all the day. ²³ Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, The noise of Thy withstanders is going up continually!

¹⁵ He doth call Me, and I answer him, I am with him in distress, I deliver him, and honour him.

⁴ And in the name of Jehovah I call: I pray Thee, O Jehovah, deliver my soul,

¹² And in Thy kindness cuttest off mine enemies, And hast destroyed all the adversaries of my soul, For I am Thy servant!

¹⁵ Thou, Thou hast known, O Jehovah, Remember me, and inspect me, And take vengeance for me of my pursuers, In Thy long-suffering take me not away, Know—I have borne for Thee reproach.

³¹ For the Lord doth not cast off to the age. ³² For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.

¹ And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish. ² And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

⁷ In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; may the Lord repay to him according to his works,

³² And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets,

¹⁰ and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'

¹⁵ and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee—the head, and thou dost bruise him—the heel.'

¹⁹ And the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and he goeth down to Ashkelon, and smiteth of them thirty men, and taketh their armour, and giveth the changes to those declaring the riddle; and his anger burneth, and he goeth up to the house of his father;

¹⁵ and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it—a thousand men.

⁵ That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

³ Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?

³ Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down.

¹² For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

²⁵ for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it,

³⁸ for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark, ³⁹ and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.

²⁴ but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

¹³ and Paul answered, `What do ye—weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;'

⁸ and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death—death even of a cross,

¹⁷ but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,

³⁰ because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me.

¹⁵ having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly—having triumphed over them in it.

² for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

¹⁴ Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death—that is, the devil— ¹⁵ and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,

¹ Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, ² looking to the author and perfecter of faith—Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him—did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down; ³ for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.
⁴ Not yet unto blood did ye resist—with the sin striving;

⁴¹ and the border of their inheritance is Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-Shemesh,

² And there is a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danite, and his name is Manoah, his wife is barren, and hath not borne;

²⁵ and the Spirit of Jehovah beginneth to move him in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

²⁰ And he judgeth Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

³⁹ and Nicodemus also came—who came unto Jesus by night at the first—bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, as it were, a hundred pounds. ⁴⁰ They took, therefore, the body of Jesus, and bound it with linen clothes with the spices, according as it was the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial; ⁴¹ and there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet laid; ⁴² there, therefore, because of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was nigh, they laid Jesus.